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Buck: buck.throckmorton at protonmail.com
CBD: cbd at cutjibnewsletter.com
joe mannix: mannix2024 at proton.me
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J.J. Sefton: sefton at cutjibnewsletter.com
Chavez the Hugo 2020
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Rickl 2019
Joffen 2014
AoSHQ Writers Group
A site for members of the Horde to post their stories seeking beta readers, editing help, brainstorming, and story ideas. Also to share links to potential publishing outlets, writing help sites, and videos posting tips to get published.
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Sunday Overnight Open Thread - October 19, 2025 [Doof]
—Open Blogger
The Sunday ONT is here. And so are you. As are the gray boxes. Content is MoMe focused, but this is an open thread, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?
Lots of discussion in the gun thread about TxMoMeX. Let's keep that conversation going here, too!
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Here's what the horses at the ranch think of our little get-together on THEIR turf.
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Perhaps you left Corsicana late in the day and this is your goal as you travel westward
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Two RV parks I spotted in my post-MoMe travels. One is perfect for me, and one for my fellow ONT COB.
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MoMe appropriate song titles. Also fitting for any evening at Club ONT.
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'Ette Couture (Courtesy of Piper)
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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MoMe 2025– Fashion Fiesta
By Piper
October 19, 2025 – Somewhere Near Corsicana
Forget Milan’s runways and Cannes red carpet. Instead, imagine the AoSHQ comment section in 3D, stomping through a field like it’s the last stand at a Buc-ee’s. From tragic tees to trucker-hat triumphs, here’s the lowdown on who wore what at MoMe 2025. Spoiler: No one wore enough sunscreen, and the collective fedora count hit critical mass. Let's dive in and dissect the looks, shall we?
Sock Puppet : Tragedy
Sock Puppet, the elusive poster, emerged from his lair in what can only be described as post-apocalyptic dadcore. His fit? A faded black Ace of Spades HQ tour tee with more holes than a bad alibi, tucked haphazardly into bootcut jeans . Topped with a trucker hat emblazoned with "Moron Monarch" in bedazzled rhinestones, it was definitely something and that something was not good.
Verdict: 5/10 for commitment to the brand, docked points for the untucked shirttail that screamed "I give up on society and laundry." Sock Puppet, if you're reading this, your posts are bangers, but this outfit was not.
Ride’em Cowgirl: Stunning
REC rode in like a Lone Star goddess who could outwit a troll and outcook a Food Network star. She rocked denim in a way that screamed “I wrangle cattle and your feelings,” cinched with a leather belt wide enough to block traffic. Her turquoise choker was so massive it could’ve sunk the Titanic, it definitely gave a “Texas Forever” charm. She glided through the crowd and the dance floor with the grace of a woman who’s navigated the negative nellies in the comments unscathed.
Verdict: 10/10. REC is MoMe’s style queen, elegant and ready to send a liberal to therapy with one arched brow.
Esthetician and Her Glitter Posse: Swirls and Shenanigans
Enter Ester (last name redacted to protect the innocent), the undisputed champion of "What Happens at MoMe Stays at MoMe... Except This Outfit." She strutted in like she owned the Alamo, rocking a top that boldly declared "Triggered? Good." In swirly script. The real MVPs? Chunky white sneakers caked in what we pray is mud (but suspect is brisket grease) and a fanny pack slung crossbody, stuffed with ammo, a Celcius and enough sass to crash a server farm. Her posse mirrored the chaos: one in a tie dye tee, psychedelic swirls clashing gloriously with acid-wash shorts, another in a star-spangled sundress screaming “Betsy Ross, but make it viral,” this gang turnt up, it was absolute fire.
Verdict: 9/10 for unhinged energy. They’re the fashion equivalent of a Roman candle—bright, reckless, and banned in blue states.
Let’s call him “Tiki Torch Ted” : Because Bob from NSA is too obvious.
From his suspiciously tinted Suburban, to his blue polo shirt and khakis pressed sharp enough to cut steak, Bob’s, um, Ted’s vibe screamed “Federale” The real giveaway? Aviator sunglasses he never took off, even during the square dance, and a Bluetooth earpiece blinking like the Fourth of July. Bob, I mean Ted, tried to play it cool, asking, “So, what’s your sign?” while taking notes on a napkin.
Verdict: 3/10. Points docked because Bob, um, Ted, you’re fooling nobody. Your outfit’s so “undercover” it’s basically glowing neon.
Paolo: Putting the Wild in Wildcard
Paolo, the MoMe’s resident Rico Suave, swaggered in like he’d just escaped an Enrique Iglesias concert. His look? A purple silk shirt unbuttoned to the navel, flashing a serious chest hair situation, paired with red leather pants —because Texas heat doesn’t give a darn about your color wheel, apparently. The straw cowboy hat perched on his head screamed “I’m here to party, not parse.” He was spotted double-fisting Shiners and arguing about tax policy with a fence post.
Verdict: 6.5/10 for a style as colorful as some of his takes. Paolo’s the guy you call when you are in desperate need for a piña colada after getting caught in the rain.
The Lurkers: Dressed Like They Got Lost on the Way
Then there’s the lurker squad, those comment-section phantoms who crawl out of their digital caves once a year, squinting like they’ve never seen sunlight. “Lurker Len” (name changed, but he knows who he is) sported a plain gray Hanes tee, cargo shorts with more pockets than a Ponzi scheme, and Crocs so beat they looked like they’d survived a zombie apocalypse. His only flair? A lanyard with the words “I showed up, don’t make me talk” etched out in red sharpie. Joining along was “i don’t know a niC,” rocking a windbreaker straight out of a 1985 Sears catalog, stretchy jeans, and a trucker hat blaring “Keep Texas Red” in …neon yellow. I know, right?
Verdict: 4/10. They’re MoMe’s unsung agents—zero effort, and wardrobes that say, “I’m here for the tri tip, not the spotlight.”
The Takeaway: Style’s a Mess, But It’s Our Mess
The morons came, they conquered, they got sauce on their shirts, and they did it with a middle finger to the fashion elite. Trends to steal? Plaid’s your wingman, trucker hats are your tiara, and if your t-shirt doesn’t make a liberal rage TikTok in their car, you’re slacking.
Next year, we're petitioning for a red carpet.
Piper’s your weekly style slayer, serving takes on the AoSHQ horde’s hottest (and nottest) looks. Some or all of the above may have been completely made up. Complaints directly to Doof
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Thanks, Piper! Just remember - as you are well aware, I know how to delegate responsibility. Complaint handling is no different!
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Weekly commenter stats for week of 10-19-2025
AoSHQ Commenter Statistics:
Number of posts: 96
Number of comments: 21982
Number of unique hashes: 1924
Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
1 [240 names] 'I'll Add Austedo!' [34.09 unique names/day]
2 [177 names] 'David French'
3 [65 names] 'Miklos pronounces it Green-which, like sammich'
4 [43 names] 'Mullah Miklos'
5 [42 names] 'Duncanthrax'
6 [42 names] 'Quarter Twenty '
7 [41 names] 'mindful webworker - in the room of requirement'
8 [30 names] 'gKWVE'
9 [30 names] 'I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper'
10 [30 names] 'Art Garfunkel '
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Tonight's ONT brought to you by the perfect woman?
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Comments or questions? Suggestions for content? Inappropriate social media reels to share? Fun tales of furloughed Feds? Do the email thing at doof2112 at proton dot me.
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 Post-Texas MoMe Edition? Please use this thread to discuss your TXMoMe X experience!
With that, step into the dojo and let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?
Wow! Another Texas Mome in the books. And the 10th TXMome at that! A great time was definitely had by yours truly. A special thanks to all those who spent tireless hours putting on the show, and an especially bigly thanks to Ben Had, Cow Horse Queen and Rancher Bob! We love you!!
Please discuss your 2025 Texas Mome experience in the comments!
Please note the new and improved protonmail account gunthread at protonmail dot com. An informal Gun Thread archive can be found HERE. Future expansion plans are in the works for the site Weasel Gun Thread. If you have a question you would like to ask Gun Thread Staff offline, just send us a note and we'll do our best to answer. If you care to share the story of your favorite firearm, send a picture with your nic and tell us what you sadly lost in the tragic canoe accident. If you would like to remain completely anonymous, just say so. Lurkers are always welcome!
That's it for this week - have you been to the range?
Yes, yes, I know. Grilling and barbecuing is always preferable to cooking in the oven. Except that isn't really the case, especially when it is spitting rain and windy and altogether unpleasant.
Can I grill or smoke or barbecue in the rain? Yes.
Do I enjoy it? No.
And when there are excellent recipes for such standards as pulled pork or barbecued chicken that work quite well in the oven...why not give them a try?
Last night I made chicken thighs. Yup! Plain old chicken thighs, and not from the fancy end of the display case. No, these were the commodity thighs that were minimally trimmed. And that's how I like them, because I get a bounty of several ounces of chicken fat and skin that is just perfect for a small portion of chicken cracklins, or in Chez Dildo...Gribenes.
To be fair to my very good local supermarket, their commodity chicken is miles better than the big chains' versions. But still, fancy it ain't!
I salted the thighs a couple of hours before cooking them, then dusted them with my own dry rub (sound familiar? I wrote about the grill version a couple of weeks ago) and put them on a rack in a baking sheet, then into a 300 degree oven for about an hour. Sort of a reverse sear! Then out, painted with my own barbecue sauce (thank you again, Bluebell), and into a 425 degree oven for 10 minutes or so, just until they got nice and brown.
The advantage of the outdoor grill and smoker is obvious...all of that delicious smoke and byproducts of fat combustion that flavors the meat. But the oven version is solid, with the advantage of being able to control the temperature very easily. From summer to winter I'll bet my grill high-end temperature varies by 100 degrees!
The law Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Monday applies to businesses with at least 20 locations. They will have to disclose ingredients including milk, eggs, shellfish and tree nuts when they know or "reasonably should know" that they are in their products.
Wow...of course it is California, and if this new law doesn't sound like a gift to the plaintiff's bar, I'm not sure what else the legislature could do to make California even more sue-happy.
I am confident that there are people, somewhere, probably in California, who are allergic to every food known to man. With eight billion people on the planet, I am sure that there are lawyers in California who will dig them up!
I despair of a generation of Americans who need to be told this sort of thing. Did nobody pay attention to what their mothers and grandmothers were doing in the kitchen?
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Something from the archives...10 and a half years ago! Where did the time go?
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Tall drinks are often watered down and tasteless, and the worst offender is often the venerable Gin & Tonic. But with a little care and some reasonably good gin (but don't splurge on the expensive stuff....it's a waste) it can be a grand and glorious drink; just perfect for that first day of spring when you sit in your lounge chair on the patio and tell your kids how to clean up the yard after this long, dark winter.
The Muddled Gin & Tonic
2 limes -- room temperature
8 ounces good gin. I use Broker's, but any good London Dry gin will work.
16 ounces tonic. There are fancy (expensive) ones that are, unfortunately, really good. But Schweppes or Canada Dry are fine. Just make sure to use a fresh bottle...flat tonic is disgusting and will give you warts.
Roll the limes a bit to loosen the juices up. Slice them into quarters, and drop them into two pint glasses.
Using a muddler or the handle of a heavy wooden spoon (a hammer will work too), press the limes into the bottom of the glass, making sure that you press on both sides of each chunk. The goal is to express the juice and get some of the aromatic oils out of the skin. Just don't press too hard and break the glass!
Add a handful of ice, then four ounces of gin to each glass.
Carefully pour eight ounces of tonic into the glasses, trying to preserve as much carbonation as possible.
Top off with ice and drink immediately.
The ratio of 2:1 tonic:gin is a guideline. If you like yours more or less tonic-y, play with the ratio until you get it just right for your palate.
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Well, I was discussing Jambalaya and how it differs from Gumbo, so why not? Hank Williams is great, so really, any excuse to listen to his music is good!
”After a century in media, Betty Crocker has become a fully vested American symbol of family, hearth, and home that many generations treasure and look up to," says Margaret J. King, Ph.D., director of Cultural Studies & Analysis, a think tank that advises businesses on their fit with culture and cultural values. "Her image is solidly emblematic of the middle-class, productivity, and women as homemakers."
Oh...shut up. You sound like an over-educated retard.
Betty Crocker is an advertising symbol. Yes, it represents an old and possibly respected brand, but inculcating "her" with magical cultural properties is silly.
I thought France would have good garlic, but the Frogs seem to have the same problem we have in the U.S. At least they don't import filthy garlic from China. Pork is great here, but no game, so send all of your extra antelope to: cbd dot aoshq at gmail dot com.
Who are those poor deluded souls We know who shakes their Manhattans! These are the same people who drink fine bourbon with coke, and probably shake red wine with ice too.
$1,200 for a bottle of bourbon is just stupid, insulting, and a ghastly affront to most people's palates and wallets. 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!
Hex, Torx, Slotted, Phillips, Square, and there are others! I think I have a Tri-Wing driver from about 10 years ago when I was pretending to repair a laptop.
The number of different fasteners is bad enough, but keeping the various wrenches and drivers in some sort of order is impossible.
Gun and gun accessories might be the worst offenders. I think every scope I have uses different size Hex or Torx bolts! And the makers helpfully provide a wrench! But...throw it out, knowing that I probably have seven just like it?
No! That is wasteful. I'll put them in one of the 83 small containers I save for just this eventuality!
Can Religious Morality Be Coherent Without Belief?
—CBD
Charles Murray of "The Bell Curve and "Losing Ground" fame, has written a book called Taking Religion Seriously.
That, in and of itself is a good thing, as the examples of the failures of societies that move away from religion are piling up. You know...the West! But his take seems to suggest an intellectual approach to religion, rather than the more common belief-based one. And that is immensely appealing to me, because regardless of the significant scholarship of Judaism, the intellectual analysis of Christianity is many times larger and more comprehensive.
Taking Religion Seriously is Murray's autobiographical account of the decades-long evolution in his stance toward the idea of God in general and Christianity in particular. He argues that religion is something that can be approached as an intellectual exercise. His account moves from the improbable physics of the Big Bang to recent discoveries about the nature of consciousness, from evolutionary psychology to hypotheses about a universal Moral Law. His exploration of Christianity delves into the authorship of the Gospels, the reliability of biblical texts, and the scholarship surrounding the resurrection story.
No matter one's religion...no matter one's belief or lack thereof, the intellectual and moral structure of Christianity has had a profound effect on the world. We live in a country founded by deeply devout men who also appreciated their religion for its ethical constructs. We are the product of Western culture that is based heavily on the teachings of the Bible (yes, both the Jewish and the Christian bibles) and the extrapolation of its teachings to an entire world.
And that is separate from the also vitally important belief in God, and his influence on us. What makes Murray's take so important is that in our current post-religious world, it is possible to construct a coherent moral framework from the teachings of Christianity. Is it ideal? No...absolutely not. Eventually it will fail in the absence of God, but perhaps as a bridge to a world in which there is a renewed sense of faith and religiosity (and there are signs that it is coming) it is a worthwhile endeavor.
Howdy Readers! Welcome to the Reading Thread, your Sunday morning source for the insightful, lively and spirited discussion of books 'n stuff. I'm filling in for a while as this space re-invents itself under new management so please set your near-term expectations accordingly low.
What do we have this week? Why, it's none other than Pride and Prejudice, written by Jane Austen and published in 1813. As I mentioned in the other editions of the Reading Thread you may not always get such fabulous selections as this.
Anyhoo, feel free to discuss reading and books in general and share your thoughts on this week's selection if you're so inclined.
I know you're just as excited as I am, so just jump below the fold to get started!
New procedure for clicking - rather than opening a PDF, a link now takes you to the Gutenberg Project web page for the book with multiple download options.
Also, prescient. This article was posted ten days ago.
Aptera listed on NASDAQ last week with a share price around $20.
Three days later it's trading below $6.
Aptera has spent 19 years and an untold amount of money - something like $150 million - trying to build what has been unkindly but accurately described as an electric tricycle, and all it has to show for its efforts is a handful of shiny prototypes.
Though given how similar the protypes have all appeared over the years it's not unimaginable that they just painted a solar cell pattern over the original diesel/electric model and called it a day.
Production was originally scheduled to start in 2008.
As John F. Kennedy famously said of the Apollo Program: We choose to go the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because we thought they would be easy.
I suspect that applies equally to the engineers at Aptera. Maybe more than equally.
Apple has reportedly cut production of the iPhone Air - at the same time it has boosted production of other models - and Samsung has cancelled the follow up to its competing S25 Edge.
I wouldn't mind a slimmer phone, but it's far down the list of problems with current models, most of which were self-inflicted by the companies making them.
I fully understand. The cleaning crews in New York conference spaces are all union and those overtime rates will blow your budget into another dimension.
It measures about 9" x 9" x 4", which is big for a small PC but small for a big PC, and offers four (SODIMM) memory slots, four M.2 slots, and three PCIe slots, and a Core Ultra 9 285HX (8 performance cores and 16 efficiency cores). Plus two USB4v2 ports (80Gbps) and a USB4 port (40Gbps), two 25Gb Ethernet ports, one 10Gb Ethernet port, one 2.5Gb Ethernet port, one HDMI port, and the usual bunch of USB3 ports.
Given the size and power constraints (it has a 350W power supply) you're not going to fit a high-end graphics card in it, but a low-profile Nvidia 5060 or an Intel Arc Pro B50 should work fine.
It's designed to emulate the Nintendo DS and 3DS. It can play games made for older consoles but it's clearly aimed at those two since it looks exactly like them.
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: What other things, Mr. President? WHAT OTHER THINGS?!
Saturday Night "Club ONT" October 18, 2025 [The 3 Ds]
—Open Blogger
Ladies and gentlemen, Ette's and Rons, welcome to Club ONT! A collaboration the 3D's - The Disco, The Dino, and The Doggo. Coming to you live from the one, the only Texas MoMe X. Live might be generous. Some pre-blogged content. Ok, most of it. Let's see what's on the docket this evening.
The 3D's are in Corsicana this evening. JQ has the door, bar, snacks, and jukebox tonight - for one night only... No tokens required for the restrooms.
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Coincidence that one would go to great lengths to make the journey to Corsicana?
My 3x grandfather, after serving in The War of Northern aggression, walked (no horse) from Eastern Tennessee to Corsicana, Texas. I think about that a lot. He must have known someone there. This picture was shared by a relative in California. pic.twitter.com/iX09Y74a0s
They are having such a good time that they decide to play hooky and skip out on their Monday exam in psychology. They all send their professor an email saying they had a flat tire while out of town and the professor said no problem, unexpected things happen. They could take it on Tuesday.
Celebrating their white lie they had another big night out and headed back on Monday. When they got back on campus Tuesday they went and saw their professor and she asked if they were all right, thanked them for letting her know ahead of time, and told them to get ready for the test.
Inwardly laughing they were separated into four separate rooms so as not to cheat. All four flipped over the sheet and saw only two questions:
For 5% credit, what does DSM stand for in the DSM-5?
For 95% credit, which tire went flat?
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Drink of the Night
Choices without limit.
Drink Table at Texas MoMe X
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Live look at the MoMe bar area:
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Club ONT Physics
Horde recommended items to study the descent? Ones with chaotic descent? Tumbling descent? Ballistic descent? Bacon descent?
This video of New York City residents throwing trash from their building windows at pro-Hamas fanatics who have been terrorizing the streets is still one of my favorites to watch.
You may know the town of Taft in California, but did you know that Taft was originally the Town of Moron?
From Wikipedia (so caveat emptor):
The town began as Siding Number Two on the Sunset Railroad. According to a display at the West Kern Oil Museum, local residents asked the Southern Pacific Railroad if the station could be named Moro when the rails arrived in about 1900, but a railroad official declined because the name would be too easily confused with the coastal town of Morro Bay. Instead, the railroad directed the station be called Moron, a word which as yet had no association with lack of intelligence. Pictures of local businesses, including the Moron Pharmacy, hang in the museum.
After a fire burned much of the town, the name was changed (in 1909) to Taft in honor of William Howard Taft.
Belshazzar, the ruling co-regent of Babylon, threw a great big party for 1,000 of his closest friends. He demanded the ceremonial gold and silver goblets from the temple of Jerusalem — taken after Babylon conquered Jerusalem in 587 BC — be brought to him so his guests could sip beer from the sacred vessels in a flashy, sacrilegious show.
Story goes that the hand of God promptly arrived to kill the party and smite Belshazzar, who lost his kingdom and his life later that night.
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Admiral Russell of the Mediterranean fleet took “drunk as a sailor" to new depths with his week-long cocktail party.
In 1694, Russell invited 5,000 sailors to the bash, where the drink of choice was a large fountain full of a brandy wine punch. For reference, the fountain was so large that it’s said men in canoes rowed around inside it to serve as bartenders.
To recreate it at home, just take 250 gallons of brandy, 125 gallons of wine, 1,400 pounds of sugar, 2,500 lemons, 20 gallons of lime juice, and 5 pounds of nutmeg. Serve shaken, stirred, or paddled.
What's the biggest rager the Horde has attended?
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Texas MoMe Thoughtful Hordelings
Tokens courtesy of haffhourshower. You mad-scientist, corner the token market types will need to rework your plan.
Eromero with the black t-shirts! Shot glasses courtesy of DDS.
Some Rat came through with commemorative plates and white towels.
TiFW brought logo'd writing pens!
Big ONT thanks for the Horde and their generosity.
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Club ONT Music
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Top 10ish Comments of the Week overheard at the Texas MoMe.
RI Red, meeting Piper....
"You don't look like I imagined you would. You have less height."
Directions you'll only hear at the MoMe: It's up there, just past the bacon. Exchange between GWB and Doof.
"They're having sex down here!"
Nurse Ratched, speaking about the never ending amount of spent brass on handgun range.
So great to meet the king of the permanent record entries.
Unknown...
Half the lies they tell about me are not true.
Duncanthrax
Shout out to Rancher Bob, for moving the porta-potties away from my camper this year.
Sponge
I wish ... (ellipses) was here. He's like a brother from another mother, or a sister from another mister. Actually, he's my sibling from another dribbling.
Shain S.
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The Disco, doing Disco things and drawing necessary attention.
*Bruce Wayne squeezed Doof's butt* She Hobbit: Why you giving out squeezes? Bruce Wayne: Because it's Doof!! He looked like he needed it.
Doof Sucks!
(weasel) - likely or something that weasel might say about Doof.
Doof is an ASS!
(CBD) - likely.
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Notably Absent From The Texas MoMe.
Jim Sunk New Dawn was a regular attendee of the Texas MoMes. This was the first one without him, and it sucks to not see him anymore. We left a chair empty in his honor - which is portrayed here. In the chair is a Hawaiian shirt (Jim's standard garment for a MoMe) and a sign which Weasel unveiled. The hangun range at the ranch will forever be a memorial to our brother Jim.
Let's raise a glass in Jim's honor!
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This Club ONT was brought to you by freewill, planning, and scheming.
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DISCLAIMER: The Club is not responsible for Morons, Misfires, or the Macarena. The Club would also like to remind guests that personal decisions have consequences. Morons getting "scoped" while on the range, sunburnt, and/or interpretive dance moves performed in or near the carport at at the sole discretion and responsibility of the Moron. Proceed at your own risk.
Good evening, Charles is on vacation. So, you get what you pay for. Yours truly.
Once upon a time in a different world that stereo looked vaguely familiar. The Fabulous and I downsized earlier in the 2000s. We now have something much more compact, Bose Wave Sound. But, all good things must come to an end and so is that particular model.
Ours is still working and it works wonderfully with our turntable. So our stereo and turntable sit with the large dust collector television in the living room.
What's a MH Music Thread without some of the Maestro!?!?
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Let's keep it to music and light topics this evening shall we?! As I write this Thread I have not heard of any tragic circumstances in rural Corsicana, TX
Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. A spin of the Ace of Spades Wheel of Hobbies (TM) landed on space shuttle air transport.
Are you thinking "That's an oddly specific hobby but I love space and modeling and I like history and traveling and engineering. There are so many aspects that make this more of an interest than a hobby. I can't wait to get into the content!" I knew it. Enjoy.
Going to be a slightly abbreviated thread this week...for reasons. TRex is in an undisclosed location doing undisclosed things.
As per usual Hobby Thread etiquette, keep this thread limited to hobbying. All (legal) hobbying is welcome. However, politics, current events and religious debates can live in threads elsewhere. Pants are optional. Puns are welcome and encouraged.
Play nice. Don't be a troll and do not feed the trolls.
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The inspiration for this post is the space shuttle carrier on display at the visitor center for NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. It is number 905 and the first of two shuttle carrier aircraft.
Can you imagine the conversation?
"We need to be able to test the shuttle's ability to glide home for a landing. We also need to transport the space shuttle around the country. How are we going to do that? We're all out of ideas. We can't fly it. We can't tow it behind a truck. We can't put it on a train."
Two guys from the back row: "How about flying it piggyback on top of a 747? We could build a model to try it out."
And they did...
John Kiker and Owen Morris built a 1/40-scale radio-controlled model of the Space Shuttle on top of a Boeing 747 to prove that the configuration was viable. The model is on display at the visitor center.
In May 1983, what was then NASA's only Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, a highly-modified Boeing 747 airliner capable of carrying a Space Shuttle on the top of its fuselage, arrived at the Paris Air Show carrying the shuttle Enterprise. The international aviation spectacle, arguably Europe's highest-profile air show, had long been an arena for Cold War competition. While the visit was hugely publicized, what most don't know is that the plane had been modified for its European trip with an advanced countermeasures system to protect itself from heat-seeking missiles that was still highly classified at the time. The defensive additions to NASA's 747 were so sensitive that the plane's crew was told to keep it a secret no matter what.
I was told that the photo, taken in December of 2008 as Endeavor made its voyage back to Kennedy Space Center in Florida, was one of the most beloved in at the installation and that it was shot by one of NASA's most acclaimed photographers, Carla Thomas. If I remember correctly, the photo was planned ahead of time and executed perfectly from the back seat of Armstrong's F/A-18B. The aircraft had rolled inverted-or near inverted-to capture the unique angle of the loaded-up SCA.
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The MDD:
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Horde Hobbying from PA Dutchman:
This is a Type 97 Chi-Ha medium tank that I just finished and mounted on a diorama base made of foam insulation. The tank represents the 34th Tank Regiment,which operated in northeast China from 1944 until the end of the war, when it was overrun by the Soviet invasion of Manchuria. I included a picture of the finished model and an AI image made with Google Gemini.
Outstanding! Thanks for sharing.
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Been waiting for a while to show this diorama. Amazing.
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Hobby humor:
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Words of wisdom:
"Because despite all our troubles, when things are grim out in that wide round world of ours, that's when it's really important to have a good hobby." Posted by: tankascribe at June 22, 2024 07:41 PM (HWxAD).
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Thought about having little fishies in your back yard? Maybe some mosquito fish in the summer? You could make up some stories with the kids or grandkids.
Hello. This is my Cat, on the deck rail one evening. Took the shot with a flip-phone and was surprised at how well it turned out. Cat's true identity will remain secret, LOL.
Love the pet thread, it's one of the highlights of my week!
-- JQ
Thanks, JQ! What a perfect photo for the season!
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Zack from Hilton Head Island
Rich
Zack just melts your heart, doesn't he?
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Name is Sejong, we took him in when my sister spent a week in the Hospital, and I couldn't leave a month old kitten alone at her place
Then my wife fell in love with him.
He is about three months old, and is growing like a weed, and unfortunately is still at that stage of being part velociraptor.
The old lady cats are not sure what to do about him besides complain.
Kindltot
What a charmer!
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This is Aliy a Silver Lab in Anchorage.
I post as Mudshark
What a beautiful dog! And already retrieving!
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Thank you for sharing your pets and animal photos and stories with us today.
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I've saved some spring flower photos from Neal in Israel. I like these. Above, an Amaryllis (Hippeastrum) that seems fitting today. Below, a dark hollyhock to attract some critters.
One of my lefty social media "friends" seems really excited about the big protest planned for today, explained below by the "Tony Michaels Meme Machine":
The second No Kings protest against Donald Trump is planned nationwide for Saturday, October 18. Organizers are expecting over 10 million participants, which would make it one of the largest in American history. These events are organized by groups such as 50501, Indivisible movement, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Third Act, and Move On.
"No Kings" is an ultra-short theme which allows people to imagine that any criticism that they have of the President is shared by their fellow protesters and to misrepresent current events in ways that suggest that Trump wants to be a king for life. But sometimes I wonder if they have a shared vision of what they DO want?
What kind of leadership did they think they had when Joe Biden was in office? With Kamala's book tour underway and new interview clips starting to appear, I am thinking about their alternative in the last election, too:
I remember how during her short campaign, themes changed regularly, from "Kamala is a brat" to "Kamala brings joy" to things like this:
She had a hard time running on her past policies, partly because they changed over time and partly because they often didn't work out real well.
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I am beginning to think that many of the "No Kings" enthusiasts want to be part of a drama, with similar dramas being enacted across the country, and that they want directors.
Here are some directions posted by my social media friend for rally participants, from Dirty Hippies Productions:
I guess you can be a morally superior, non-violent person now even if you won't denounce Jay Jones. It will be interesting to see if the Democrats can live up to the expectations of the Dirty Hippies during and after the big rally.
The big news of the week, of course, was President Trump’s diplomatic/military triumph in obtaining an end to fighting in Gaza and the return of Hamas’s hostages to Israel. It was a moment that anyone would celebrate–anyone but a liberal, that is. The same people who organized demonstrations around the world demanding a cease fire were oddly silent when they got their wish.
In other news, peace may be breaking out in Ukraine, too. Once again, the prospect of peace has something to do with Trump’s persuasive powers, and more to do with Tomahawk missiles.
Meanwhile, the Democrats have not been idle. They have kept their Schumer Shutdown going, and did their best to prevent military personnel from being paid. And later today, they will conduct “No Kings” protests, which no doubt will be just as effective as the first round, in June. “No Kings” is an odd theme for a protest, isn’t it? Notably absent is any reference to any policy issue. The “No Kings” theme reflects the fact that the Democrats are utterly out of ammo when it comes to policy, and have nothing left but hatred of President Trump.
The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
—Misanthropic Humanitarian
[Mug H/T - JQ]
[Music H/T - Hadrian]
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Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to take care of. (Rulz for those of you in Albuquerque)
1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind, be nice.
3) Are you kidding me? No, you may not run with anything sharp.
4) To those in Texas for the Texas MoMe, be careful with your travels. No, you may not request prays for bail money.
5) Have a great week!!
Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo atsign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update.
Prayer Requests:
9/11 – D sent an update for Susan, his wife, and her battle with cancer: Thank you, everyone, again for your prayers for Susan. Her cancer markers went down at the last Dr visit, but she is back to having abdominal pain that is making it hard to eat right. They are trying to get her weight up and thank God for the good days they do have. The really good news is that she is able to walk around again without the fear of falling over.
9/23 Update – The pain has started coming back, so they went to the hospital and found a cyst. They are trying to determine if it is infected.
10/16 Update – Susan was hospitalized for 3 weeks. They removed the cyst and her gallbladder. The chemo continues; it’s rough but so far, but the cancer only grown 1 mm, so it seems to be working. Thank you to everyone for their prayers.
9/20 – Tonypete sent happy prayers for Will and Natalie, who were married on 9/19. May they continue to live God’s plan for themselves and remain as happy as they were on their wedding day.
9/20 – Accomack sent his thanks for the prayers for his wife. She was cleared of the parasites, but her liver has not returned to normal because of all the antibiotics. She has not been cleared to return to work, but she has insurance and union payouts, so this could go on for a while.
9/20 – Dash my lace wings asked for prayers for her mama. On 9/17, she fell and broke ribs. It was the second time in about 6 weeks, and much more painful than the last time.
9/27 Update – Thank you for your prayers. Her mother is recovering slowly.
9/20 – RedMindBlueState asked for prayers for the wife of a close friend. She is back in chemo for a recurrence of cancer. Please pray for her and her family.
9/21 – P asked for prayers for her brother, T, in New York. He already has stage 4 lung cancer. His car got totaled one night at 3 am, and when his wife was driving him to the insurance office the next day to report this, he felt so wobbly that she diverted to the ER, where they found out he’d had a stroke.
9/22 – C requested prayers for a friend whose mother passed away after years of dealing with dementia.
10/4 Update – The friend and his siblings are gathering at the family home today and the service will be in the next few days. The finality will probably hit him at that point.
9/27 – Retired Buckeye Cop wrote to thank the Horde for praying for his kid brother, “J”, after he lost his job back in June. A few weeks ago, J received two job offers. He accepted the job that offered $13K/year more pay and had a shorter commute.
9/27 – vmom deport deport deport asked for prayers for her husband’s swift recovery. His procedure was minor, but not quite as minor as expected.
9/27 – Sock Monkey requested prayers for his paster, who went to the ER with chest pains and slurred speech. The pastor is a young man, late 30s, and relatively fit. He has 3 young children with a 4th due in Oct. Please pray for his recovery and strength for his wife. He has been a tremendous blessing to the church.
9/27 – Joe Kidd posted a request for a friend, Bill, who has assumed sole responsibility for the care of his 90-year-old mother. (The original caretaker has fallen into alcoholism and was been removed from the premises. Please pray that she gains clarity and resolve to battle that demon.) And please pray that Bill’s path is made straight as he decides between taking early retirement or continuing to balance full time work with caretaking. Thank you and God bless.
9/27 – From about That Time asked for prayers for surgery on 10/1 to remove a growth. Please pray that it’s just a small disposable annoyance, as expected.
9/27 – Tonypete gave an update on the people from his church who were in an automobile accident earlier this year. Cheri is doing much better. While convalescing from the car crash, she fell and broke her hip, so she is recovering from that also. One of the passengers, Nick, had a heart episode during the wreck and died. He was his wife’s caregiver and she is now bereft. Prayers are still needed for all.
9/28 - Teresa in Fort Worth gave an update: It has been 1 year since Teresa started “down the cancer rabbit hole”. She sends her thanks for the prayers as they have buoyed her and her family through this year. She has been blessed to exceed the original 6-12 months predicted, by the grace of God – and the prayers of many people. Her next CT scan is in November, and the surgeon is pretty sure that her tumors will be small enough to remove/destroy.
10/7 Update – A recent CT scan shows lots of calcification (indicating tumor cell death), and the oncologist didn’t see any sign on the small tumors. The area where the largest tumor was now shows lots of calcification and the largest tumor has shrunk by almost 90%! Her next CT scan will be 11/3, and they assume they will be discussing surgery to remove the lobe of her liver, where the tumor is located. Timelines are uncertain, but she is hopeful that she will get to spend Christmas with her family at least one more time, if not more! Thanks to EVERYONE who has been praying on her behalf.
9/29 – toby928 asked for prayers for a brother named Joe, who is being crushed by grief. Joe’s wife is in a coma and will likely die in the next few days.
10/12 – Joe’s wife did pass away. She is safe in the arms of our Savior.
10/1 – Duke Lowell sent an update. He is home now, after 8 days in the hospital and every antibiotic known to man. He sent thanks for the prayers, and thanks to God for granting him another day in this glorious world He’s created.
10/11 Update – After a second stint in the hospital, Duke is home now. He was recovering nicely, but something “knocked him sideways”. Severe dehydration put him into renal failure. He is on the mend now.
10/2 – Bluebell passed along an update: grammie winger sends her gratitude for all the prayers – she feels they are working. On Oct 6 she will be starting a cancer treatment program because her doctors are “cautiously optimistic” that they can give her some more time. Monday she gets the port, followed by 6 hours of chemo infusion on Tuesday. The Rev is doing better because now he has some hope. Pleease pray for her as she starts this treatment program because in her words, “prayer changes things”.
10/4 – Legally Sufficient’s “Boss” will be undergoing intestinal surgery shortly. It looks scary so prayers for him and his medical team are appreciated.
10/4 – The Fabulous for safe travels as she travels to visit her oldest daughter who is about to be a mother of a baby girl. Prayers for the mom to be and her child.
10/4 – Skip requested prayers for his dad, who fell at church back in August, hitting his head. He fell again at home and has had back pain since then. He is going in for more tests on 10/8.
10/11 Update – Dad has a brace to wear and has pain medication, so is doing OK for now. He will need an outpatient procedure soon for an injection in his spine to fill a void. Continuing prayers will help.
10/4 – Out Country is Screwed sent thanks for the prayers over the past year, during breast cancer treatments. The prayers have sustained, through surgery, chemo, and now through radiation.
10/4 – Random Dave would appreciate prayers from the Horde. He is one of the 5% of government workers that make the other 95% look bad, and he is trying to move to the private sector. He has found a good possibility to meet/exceed his pay and do an interesting job that is a good fit for his skills and interests. Praying that if it’s where God wants him, He will make it clear and the road smooth.
10/4 – DenverGregg asked for prayers for Ana, a lady from his church who is experiencing unemployment and mental illness, which tend to exacerbate each other.
10/4 – Longtime Lurker, Morgan, offers praise for financial blessings and petitions for safety in upcoming travel and coping with social isolation and loneliness, including finding a church home. Blessings upon Ace, the COBs, the other site works and all the blog lurkers and participants.
10/4 – Mrs. Leggy asked for prayers for a young girl who is suffering from leukemia and now has a horrible infection of the colon. Surgery may be required and because of her weakened condition, this could kill her. Thanks so very much!
10/6 – Inogame sent happy news about his wife and baby. The 20 week ultrasound was completed, and there is one baby girl with all the correct parts in the correct places. Mom and baby are doing well, though mom could use a nap or 20.
10/7 -CW is a long-time Horde member who could use prayers. His relationships with his son and his daughter have deteriorated recently, and his daughter has cut him off from the grandchildren.
10/8 – fourseasons asked for prayers for a brother-in-law, Chris, who was diagnosed with a brain tumor. He had another scan last weekend and there is another tumor. He is losing his vision and has lost his ability to speak. He will have surgery on 10/10, and the surgeon said he will probably lose the ability to walk. The family is devastated. Chris is a wonderful man and has always been healthy.
10/11 Update – Chris is recovering from surgery to remove his brain tumors now. He was talking last night, which he wasn’t able to do before surgery. They are hoping for a full recovery.
10/11 – NuclearJim requests prayers for spiritual strength to defeat prostate cancer.
10/11 – the lower depths asked for prayers for his/her mother Gail and her eyes (macular degeneration) and knees (bone on bone) failing.
10/11 – FenelonSpoke asked for prayers for her son. He needs a job and has been diligently looking for one. His degree is in botany.
10/11 – tbodie Lurker requested continued prayers for a son with pancreatic cancer. He has been through 3 months of chemo that significantly shrank the cancer. This week he had surgery to remove the remaining cancer. They also removed his spleen. So far things look good. Thank you.
10/11 – Brother Tim asked for prayers as he has two more sessions of radiation. Prayer works and God heals.
10/11 – Ben Had asked for prayers for a very special man we know as olddog. May his medical issues be benign and full health restored.
10/13 – K requested prayers for a co-worker (Grant). Grant and his wife are expecting their first child, and they are experiencing some complications. K would appreciate prayers for peace and a healthy baby for Grant, his wife, and their unborn child.
10/15 – Bulg asked for prayers for an elderly neighbor, who used to babysit for them, is undergoing chemo for colon cancer.
10/16 – jrgunn5 asked for prayers for a son who is going through a very trying time. The son is almost finished with his teaching credentials and Master’s program. He sees other students being offered positions that he is more qualified for, yet he is ignored by the schools where he is working. He is becoming angry and despairing of gaining a position to pay off the enormous debt he has taken on to pursue this career. He needs to hear God’s voice, and a door opening soon would be appreciated.
10/16 – Annie’s Stew requests God’s protection and blessing on the Texas MoMe this weekend. May He grant safe travels to and from the get-together, and may it be a blessing for everyone involved.
For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update.
2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.
"Our Constitution forbids this," the lawsuit said. "None of our laws require businesses to 'card' people before they can enter bookstores and shopping malls. The First Amendment prohibits such oppressive laws as much in cyberspace as it does in the physical world."
Actually the Constitution is silent on this, and arguing the First Amendment forbids laws protecting children applies equally to the Second Amendment.
Content warning. A young goat falls as he attempts to climb a very vertical cliff. The goat lives and tries again, but it's hard to watch the little guy fall. (Note: Nature photographers and editors are sometimes pretty dishonest. For all I know, this little goat did die, and then maybe they edited in another goat making the climb and just claimed it was the first goat.)
You know when they say that if an animal charges you, you shouldn't run, but instead stand your ground? I don't know if that works most of the time but it works here.
The homeowner saw on the security camera that a bear was playing on the outdoor swing every day, but couldn't get on. So he had a bigger swing built, and this was the result. pic.twitter.com/v2HCLY6fd6
This spillway's design was inspired by Kamala Harris.
The world's largest drain is part of the Monticello Dam in California. Known as the Morning Glory Spillway, this massive structure helps manage water levels and prevents flooding by channeling excess water from the lake.
(A spillway allows excess water to pass over or around a dam instead of overtopping it and maybe causing the entire dam to collapse. This particular spillway is a big vertical shaft going down through the earth and emptying on the other side of the dam. The shaft's walls are built to a certain level and no water flows down through it unless the water rises about their height. Further information about Kamala Harris's gargantuan sex-pit here.)
Some of you were searching for "Wrong Hole" videos. Here you go.
But that is hardly the universal experience people are having with America's religious surge. There is darkness right alongside the light. Christians stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 ...
But as Rev. Dr. King points out, the protectors of the status quo are not so much those on the far right, but those who purport to be left-of-center, but who remain moderate in their thinking and their actions.
Are flag-wielding, MAGA-shouting Trump supporters a problem? Yes. They're horrifying. But the biggest obstacle in taking down fascism isn't far-right extremists.
It's folks with "BLM" in their bios who live in majority-white suburbs and send their kids to private school. It's folks who claim to be allies to the queer and trans communities and then have gender-reveal parties when pregnant. It's people who look at the United States' descent into fascism and ask, "How did we get here?" It's folks who compare their European ancestors' immigrations to what Black and Brown immigrants are experiencing today, as if race is inconsequential.
It's Taylor Swift -- and the majority of her fans.
Taylor Swift is a white woman whose success relies on cultural narratives of the fragility and purity of white femininity, while practicing zero interrogation into her own whiteness.
And her fans run to her defense whenever that is criticized. "But she publicly endorsed Kamala Harris!" they press, not realizing that this proves the point: Moderate politics dressed up as leftism don't stand a chance against far-right extremism, a lesson I wish the Democratic Party would learn.
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What makes Taylor Swift dangerous isn't that she writes lyrics that could serve as the background music to a pro-eugenics Sydney Sweeney ad. It's that she lacks the self-awareness to see how those two things could be connected.
They've been pushing this line for decades: You must be an "ally," and you are only an "ally" if you commit to the most extremist form of "anti-racism" (actually, straight up anti-white racism) imaginable. If you fail to match the zealotry of the most extremist member of the left's cult, you are excommunicated.
Thankfully, some people are finally starting to jump off this never-ending treadmill of violent left-wing escalation. At some point, even the stupidest liberal sees a rigged game in which they can never win, only constantly lose and be degraded as "bad allies."
Now that this has come to light, he's claiming he didn't really mean it when he repeatedly said these things.
Maine Democrat Graham Platner, who is seeking his party's nomination to run against Sen. Susan Collins (R.) in next year's midterms, called himself a "communist," claimed to own guns because he doesn't "trust the fascists to act politely," and accused "white rural America" of being racist and stupid in a series of social media posts, CNN reported.
Platner posted on Reddit under the name "P-Hustle," according to the now-deleted posts. In a 2021 response to a post about people getting more conservative as they age, Platner wrote, "I got older and became a communist." He made the post on a far-left subreddit called r/Antiwork that recommends Karl Marx books to readers.
r/Antiwork is even more infamous for just declaring that no human beings should work at all, and we should all just mandate infinite welfare from a government which has no money because no one is working and paying taxes.
The candidate also said that white people are racist and stupid. Replying to a post titled "White people aren't as racist or stupid as Trump thinks," Platner, who is white, wrote, "Living in white rural America, I'm afraid to tell you they actually are."
Maine, a purple state, is one of the most rural states in the country and has a population that is more than 90 percent white.
Platner in a statement to CNN tried to downplay the severity of his social media posts. "That was very much me fucking around the internet," he said. "I don't think any of that is indicative of who I am today, really."
These posts are from 2021. This is not about a Youthful Indiscretion with anti-work grifter communism.
He's also, get this, pro-terrorist.
Platner also sparked controversy in September, when the Washington Free Beacon uncovered an op-ed he wrote after 9/11 in which he argued that "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter" and lamented that "every terrorist is portrayed as evil."
In the Reddit posts, Platner also described himself as "a vegetable growing, psychedelics taking socialist these days." The former vet said that after serving in the military, "I've pretty much stopped believing in any of the patriotic nonsense that got me there in the first place."
"Still got the guns though," he went on. "I don't trust the fascists to act politely."
Platner reserved some of his most incendiary comments for the police, writing, "Fuck these cops," and replying to a comment saying "Cops are bastards" with "All of them, in fact."
Content warning: Trans commentator "India" Willoughby -- real name "Herb" or something, I don't know -- goes to town on his fake breasts while standing naked in a women's changing area, pretty much establishing himself to be an autogynephile. He himself declared that he had never seen a fully naked woman in a locker room, thus establishing, by his own admission, that he is not a woman.
Another "ALL AGES" pride party featuring drag queens and likely male prostitutes. I dunno, all of their photos feature them about to give a dude a blowjob or else touching their own genitals. I don't know what job apart from "prostitute" allows that kind of behavior.
If you're a fan of watching tone-deaf withered hippies "sing" songs that were musty and broke-ass even during Woodstock, or if you're a fan of cringe like I am, you'll want to watch this decrepit hippie hootenany. The Party of Youth, yo!
"Nose Ring Theory" says, depending on who you ask, either that batshit-crazy women want to broadcast to the world that they are insane and toxic and do so by the same cultic mutilations (full sleeve tattoos, unnatural hair color, and, of course, septum piercings) or that women with septum piercings "make their traumas their entire personality." Or both. They're not incompatible.
Feminists have noticed that people are noticing their insanity and are, get this, insanely angry about it.
Feminists seem to have recently discovered "nose ring theory" and they are not happy. They admit that the theory is somewhat accurate, but they also argue that men are not being honest about why they are avoiding feminists. They say that men are scared away by the septum ring (feminism) because it represents "freedom" and a "woman who will not be controlled". In reality, it simply indicates a women who has succumbed to woke ideology, a form of insanity that very few men are interested in dealing with (and these women then wonder why they are living alone with their cats).
Don't believe that first lunatic that she "doesn't care" what you think about her nosering. Seeking public validation is the whole reason she stuck a bull's nose-ring in her face in the first place. As that validation is withdrawn and even reversed, these clout-chasing, attention-seeking soul-shaped-holes will take the hardware out of their faces.
Unemployable former DEI hire Don Lemon urges "black and brown" people to get guns to kill cops when they knock on their door.
ric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
UPDATE: Conservatives are calling for an INVESTIGATION into Don Lemon after he called on black people and brown people to get armed to defend against ICE agents
"Get a GUN! [...] [ICE is] knocking on your door! And taking you away without due process as a citizen!"
"Go back and read what the 2nd Amendment says. Perhaps it will knock some SENSE in the heads of these people!"
"NOBODY is illegal! It is a misdemeanor!"
I remember fat cretin Erick Erickson getting weeks of media hate for saying something like this in 2009 or so. I think he said it about census-takers knocking on his door.
Don Lemon instructs illegal aliens "to go out and get a gun because when you have people knocking on your door and taking you away, isn't that what the second amendment was written for?"
DEI Dum-Dum Kamala Harris: Many people say that I was the most qualified presidential candidate in history.
Kamala Harris says she was the most qualified candidate to ever run for president. I know that political entourage sycophants like to flatter their candidates with delusional words of encouragement, but this is a whole new level of crazy. pic.twitter.com/LpQvb2Crtu
Fox News, long a dominant force in cable news, maintained its position at the top despite the downturn. The network averaged 2.483 million total primetime viewers and 243,000 viewers in the Adults 25-54 demographic during Q3 2025. For total day viewership, Fox News recorded 1.568 million total viewers and 159,000 in the demo. Compared to Q2 2025, the network saw a 6% decline in total primetime viewers and a steeper 20% drop in the demo. Total day figures showed a 4% decrease in total viewers and a 21% decline in the demo.
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MSNBC faced even more pronounced declines during the same period. The network averaged 802,000 total primetime viewers and just 66,000 in the Adults 25-54 demographic. For total day, MSNBC recorded 492,000 total viewers and 41,000 demo viewers. Compared to Q2 2025, primetime viewership fell by 20% in total viewers and 27% in the demo, a drop attributed in part to anchor Rachel Maddow's transition to hosting her show only once a week. Total day numbers reflected a 17% decline in total viewers and a 28% drop in the demo.... As a result, MSNBC's rankings slipped, moving to third place in primetime total viewers and dropping from 15th to a tie for 20th in the demo alongside Investigation Discovery. For total day, the network fell from second to third in total viewers and slid three spots to 14th in the demo.
CNN also struggled to retain its audience in Q3 2025, averaging 538,000 total primetime viewers and 87,000 in the demo. Total day viewership stood at 396,000 total viewers and 61,000 demo viewers. Compared to Q2 2025, CNN's primetime viewership remained flat in total viewers but fell 17% in the demo, while total day saw a 2% dip in total viewers and a 14% decline in the demo... In the rankings, CNN placed fifth in primetime total viewers and tied for 10th in the demo with Discovery Channel and Nick at Nite. For total day, the network climbed one spot to fourth in total viewers but held steady at sixth in the demo, tied with the Food Network.
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The sharp declines across all three networks highlight a broader trend in the cable news industry, as audiences increasingly turn to alternative platforms for information and entertainment.
On to Schlubby Jimmy Kimmel.
Earlier, we saw that his ratings plunged over 70% from his post-suspension high.
Kimmel had renewed interest and lightning in a bottle. But he squandered it by refusing to change the same act that got him booted in the first place.
By continuing to politicize every current event, Kimmel has impressively lost 85% of his post-suspension bounce in just a few weeks among key demographics. With ratings hovering around 1.7 million viewers, his collapse in viewership is now lower than it was pre-suspension.
"Jimmy Kimmel Live!" wasn't cancelled because of government "crackdowns" on free speech, as some proclaimed, but because consumers stopped valuing Kimmel's program. His show was incongruous with their viewing habits and the national conversation, and it may face similar and necessary repercussions again.
American politics has long been fused with entertainment, and people are getting tired of it. The abundance of television shows like "South Park," popular music, and celebrities lampooning or critiquing current events has made politics inescapable. Pew Research Center (PRC) found that almost two-thirds of Americans feel exhausted when thinking about politics. More in Common's Hidden Tribe report found that most Americans are frustrated by division and tribalism, wanting officials to heal, not inflame, culture wars.
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Deloitte's 2025 media consumption survey revealed only 49% of consumers have cable or satellite TV subscriptions -- down from 63% three years ago -- a mass departure partially driven by a market oversaturated with political content. An observed desire for hosts to separate politics from programming has skyrocketed the demand and consumption for alternative media, which they find more trustworthy.
Watch out for the accounting/tax firm Deloitte -- they're SETTING THE RIVERS ON FIRE, says DEI Dum-Dum Alexandria Donkey-Chompers.
Related: If you thought Dungeons and Dragons was already a woke parody of itself, you haven't seen nothing yet.
Hasbro wants you to know that D&D really is Gay now.
If you can't make out the picture: It shows two monstrous gay dudes dancing and dipping each other while the whole gay fantasy village beams in P R I D E. Note the rainbow.
And the "beholder" -- a D&D exclusive monster, central to its IP "product identity" -- has been depicted as a dangerous living catastrophe. Until now. Now it's a pro-gay cutie-patootie with a little heart in its central eye.
The transcendant power of GAY has turned it from Chaotic Evil to Lawful Good!
How did we go from this, to this? For the love of God someone take D&D from these retarded degenerates already. pic.twitter.com/8bxdQe9UcP
D&D was for nerds, and we enjoyed it. Now it appears to be for a single polycule of diaper-fetishist discord-mods somewhere in Portland. I hope they're generous billionaires, because I ain't buying.
Not the Bee
@Not_the_Bee
Oct 15
Replying to @Wizards_DnD
How many DEI hires stacked on top of each other does it take to destroy something this thoroughly
Welcome to Islamo-Nazi Britain: Jewish Fans Barred from Attending Soccer Match in the UK Because Muslims Are Literally Threatening That Their "Safety" Cannot Be Guaranteed
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Muslims (who else?) demanded that Jewish fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv not be permitted to attend a local game, and the UK police announced that it is now enforcing Islamic Sharia law, and would be barring Israeli fans because of "security" concerns.
The do not mean that Israelis will put Muslims in danger.
They mean Muslims will start murdering Jews and the police don't want to get involved in stopping the pogrom. Arresting people for tweets is about the level of commitment they can manage.
Here was the threat written by a barrister and Member of Parliament:
Pressure mounted Friday on police authorities in the English city of Birmingham to reverse a ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer fans attending a Europa League game at Aston Villa next month over security concerns, a decision that drew widespread condemnation.
Behind the scenes, the government was seeking to resolve the row, which comes at a time of heightened worries about antisemitism in Britain following a deadly attack on a Manchester synagogue earlier this month and calls from Palestinians and their supporters for a sports boycott of Israel over its conduct of the war against Hamas in Gaza.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the police recommendation to bar the visiting team's fans from the Nov. 6 game was "the wrong decision" and that "the role of the police is to ensure all football fans can enjoy the game, without fear of violence or intimidation."
Starmer spokesman Geraint Ellis said Friday that "the prime minister has been angered by the decision" and the government was working urgently to overturn it.
Simon Foster, the elected official in Birmingham responsible for overseeing the local police force and holding it to account, also urged an "immediate review," while local Mayor Richard Parker called on authorities to find "a workable solution" that may involve the government covering some policing costs.
Security worries over game
Premier League team Aston Villa said Thursday that police had informed the club that "they have public safety concerns outside the stadium bowl and the ability to deal with any potential protests on the night."
West Midlands Police said it had deemed the match to be high risk "based on current intelligence and previous incidents," including violence and hate crimes that took place when Maccabi Tel Aviv played Ajax in Amsterdam last season.
JRR Tolkein came from the Midlands. I think that's why he called it "Middle-Earth." (There's also an old Saxon term like "Mittle-erd" or something.)
Now it's just yet another Islamic shithole.
Fan bans are not unheard of in European soccer, but are typically based on a history of violence between fans of rival clubs. There is no history of violence between Aston Villa and Maccabi fans.
Look at terrorist-promoting AP dance around what the real source of danger might be!
However, Maccabi fans have been increasingly in the spotlight over the past year or so, partly linked to the war in Gaza. Most notably, Maccabi fans clashed violently with city residents in Amsterdam last season when the team visited for a Europa League game against Ajax.
Oh? They clashed violently with "city residents"?
Which "city residents," AP?
A "British" Minister of Parliament congratulated the town he'd threatened into banning Jews for their discretion in submitting to Islam:
Thank you all who put the safety of Aston Villa fans, Birmingham residents snd the British public above the zionist and political pressure to let Israeli hooligans and terrorists run riot in our country. https://t.co/9TmdL1ZmbQ
Birmingham Islamic preacher, Astar Rashid, told his followers that the Muslims of Birmingham “should show no mercy” to the football fans from Tel Aviv.
And the British police just announced that it is not capable of protecting the Jewish fans.
Just the other day, Zohran Mamdani appeared on Fox News where he was asked repeated about his stance on Hamas, specifically about whether the group should lay down its weapons, which is a key part of President Trump's peace plan. Mamdani refused to answer, at one point claiming he didn't really have an opinion on the matter that has been central to his politics for his entire adult life.
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This is like asking Aaron Judge if he has any opinion about the Dodgers or even just baseball as a sport and having Judge respond, "I don't really have an opinion on these topics, I just hope everyone plays by the rules and has fun."
The New York Times took Mamdani's press release calling criticism of his pro-Hamas stance "islamophobic" and put it straight into a headline with no quotes -- that is, the NYTimes adopted Mamdani's PR team's position as its own.
Mamdani also dodged the question in last night's debate, stating that "all parties" -- including Israel -- must now "lay down their arms."
Obviously, Israel isn't disarming for Hamas so Mamdani's position is that Hamas should never lay down its arms, as the "occupying army" won't lay down it's own.
See the link for that.
Related: You may remember that Graham Linehan was arrested by five cops upon his return to the UK for the crime of making a joke on Twitter about "kicking trans 'women' in the balls." A judge then mandated, as part of his conditions for bail (that is, being released from jail) that he was forbidden from contacting his "victims" -- trannies with balls. I believe this was intended to keep him from going online, because a left-wing censor-judge would say that just by typing online he was "contacting" his "victims."
Judge throws out Graham Linehan's 'meaningless' bail conditions
Ban on writer contacting alleged victims removed because it could 'mean anyone from the transgender community'
A judge has thrown out the "meaningless" bail conditions Graham Linehan was given after being arrested for gender-critical comments.
The limitations placed on the Father Ted creator were criticised for using the loaded term "victim" when no offence had been proven.
District judge Michael Snow further said that the ban on Mr Linehan contacting his alleged victims was too vague to be applicable, because "anyone from the trans community could take offence".
The Father Ted creator was given police bail after he was arrested at Heathrow by five armed officers over comments he posted on social media.
He was told he was being arrested on suspicion of a Public Order offence and questioned for several hours before being bailed.
It is believed the arrest was related to a comment he posted on X on April 20 that read: "If a trans-identified male is in a female-only space, he is committing a violent abusive act. Make a scene, call the cops and if all else fails, punch him in the balls."
The previous day he had posted a picture of what appeared to be a trans rally with the caption: "A photo you can smell."
He followed it up with the comment: "I hate them. Misogynists and homophobes. F*** 'em."
Following his release he was initially told he was not allowed to post on X but that was later varied to "not to contact the victims or interfere with the investigation".
On Thursday a district judge at Westminster magistrates' court lifted the ban and criticised the police for applying bail conditions that were far too vague.
Judge Snow said: "The phrase not to contact 'victims' is a loaded term -- nothing proved to date.
"In any event, who are the victims? There is reference to one individual who is offended. It's a type of offence where anyone, anyone from the trans community could take offence.
"So it is meaningless as a prohibition. Similarly interference with investigation is meaningless in its own right, but more importantly interfering in an investigation is a criminal offence.
"So taking everything into account, I am satisfied that it is appropriate for the condition to be removed."
The judge was also critical of the police officer in the case for failing to attend court, saying: "The officer has been given notice, indicated he will attend or another officer will attend. He has not done so.
"No communications as far as I know has been received. I am satisfied that, having had notice, by failing to attend he has indicated a reluctance to defend these conditions."
Lord Young, general secretary of the Free Speech Union, said: "The police are being far too cavalier when it comes to imposing bail conditions, acting like a law unto themselves. Graham's bail conditions were particularly egregious because there is no 'victim' in this case."
Mr Linehan has since announced his intention to sue the Metropolitan Police for wrongful arrest and a breach of his free speech rights.
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