Your Ruined WeeKend Open comments

Chew on this

THAT

It is either this or that.

But I promised I would not do that again.

 


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  1. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Mommy, he’s a bad man.

    A very bad man.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Florida, Alabama and Montana, Nebraska all have banned the fake meat abomination.  Texas, Tennessee and at least 10 other states are considering it.

      I’m not against selling fake meat.  I just think they should be forced to label it…

      Democrats’ Smegma

      …in large type size.

  2. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I guess the 1,116 page BILL was So BIG, and So Obviously BEAUTIFUL , that they no longer wanted 72 hours notice so everyone could read it.

    Funny how that works, eh?

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      The Democrats sequester bills, especially their nasty omnibus bills, in committees and refuse to let anybody read them until 48 hours before the floor vote.  The Republicans have been working on this BBB for about a year and I don’t think they’ve tried much to hide what’s in it.  There is that transparency.   Last year, the Democrats weren’t too worried about it having any chance until the Armageddon of January 20th when Trump was inaugurated.  They really thought they would retake power in 2025.

      I’m not approving of the bill.  I’m only talking about the difference in procedure.

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    HA! The Squawkster has struck! Well, it’s Saturday and a beautiful day so I’m going to get out before it gets real hot. That said, we’re having unbelievable low humidity here. Last night after we had supper at Our Place with my sister we all came home and all sat on the porch from about 7 -8;30, dang it was nice.

    SO, later,….

    Oh almost forgot, Mornin’ Gang

  4. Tedtam Avatar

    Today is car show day, and I’ve just finished making two rosaries that I’m going to be taking with me. The car show should be at target rich environment for me. But I’m getting ready to pack up and head out, and fortunately the park where we’re going to have it is big enough where I don’t have to hang out with my brother-in-law all day. That does two things: it keeps me from knocking the crap out of him, and allows me to enjoy my day.

  5. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    You need therapy.

  6. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    A female poster on X named Dane @ultradane:

    Germany ~

    SexuaI assault: 100%

    Pickpocket incidents: 93%

    Human trafficking: 83.3%

    Day home burglary: 80%

    Aggravated theft: 75.6%

    Illegal smuggling: 70.3%

    Theft (general) 65.7%

    Crime against life: 60%

    ChiId abuse: 52.8%

    Arsonists: 51.9%

    AssauIt: 51.5% %

    of all crimes by migrants

     

    1. Adee Avatar
      Adee

      Umm, just what are the Germans doing about it???

      1. Shannon Avatar
        Shannon

        They are incarcerating those who speak out against it.

  7. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good Morning, Hamsters

    Purrscilla is sitting on the messy desktop in what used to be our Living Room long ago and now is the Office of sorts.  Kitty was especially attendant yesterday when I wasn’t feeling well, and she is checking today that I am much better. Pollen from trees blooming in the neighbor’s yard is at fault.

    She seems to be happy and spends more time on spouse’s lap today.  She is  adept to spouse reading the paper when she’s on his lap, with no hint of trying to read her side of the paper.  Smart cat.

  8. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Rahm Emanuel is going to run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028.  This  ought to be fun.

    Emanuel is known for his “take-no-prisoners style” that has earned him the nickname “Rahmbo.” Emanuel sent a dead fish in a box to a pollster who was late delivering polling results. On the night after the 1992 election, angry at Democrats and Republicans who “betrayed” them in the 1992 election, Emanuel stood up at a celebratory dinner with colleagues from the campaign and began plunging a steak knife into the table and began rattling off names while shouting “Dead! Dead! Dead!”. Before Tony Blair gave a pro-Clinton speech during the impeachment crisis, Emanuel reportedly screamed at Blair “Don’t f*ck this up!” while Clinton was present.

    Maybe Rahm can get Sidney “Sid Vicious” Blumenthal to run as his VP.  Sid invented the modern day version of “the politics of personal destruction” working as a fixer and hitman for Hillary.

    It was during the early days of the Lewinsky scandal, and Starr’s prosecutors were convinced that Blumenthal was at the center of an organized campaign—complete with private detectives—to dig up dirt about their pasts. So, the prosecutors subpoenaed Blumenthal. After a brief session with Starr and his prosecutors, Blumenthal emerged on the courthouse steps and, as if mimicking Joseph Welch before Joe McCarthy, indignantly portrayed himself as a First Amendment martyr.

    but then one always knows when Sid is lying because his lips are moving,

    Months later, the transcript of the Feb. 26, 1998, grand jury session became public as part of Starr’s impeachment report. It showed that Blumenthal wasn’t asked about any news organizations at all. He was asked if he had ever leaked to the press DNC “oppo research” about two members of Starr’s team. It was Blumenthal, not the prosecutors, who brought up the names of the news organizations—apparently so he could later claim that the questioning was more sinister than it really was.

  9. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Qatar Gift Plane to USA

  10. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Speaking of airplanes, heads up on the new TSA rule about power banks, battery chargers and anything else with a lithium ion battery.  You can no longer pack any of it in your checked luggage.  It has to be in your carry-on bag.  Southwest is going a step further:

    Southwest Airlines is implementing a surprising new restriction on portable chargers to keep these notoriously incendiary devices from bursting into flame mid-flight.

    Starting May 28, passengers will be required to keep their power banks in plain sight, making the budget carrier the first to roll out a policy of this kind.“Using portable charging devices while stored in a bag or overhead bin will no longer be permitted,” a Southwest spokesperson told Business Insider. “Nothing is more important to Southwest than the safety of its customers and employees.”

  11. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Earlier this year, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez sat on a stage at SXSW in Austin in front of a crowd of dancing monkeys clapping at every ridiculous thing rolling out of her mouth.  It’s the socialistic argle-bargle of a moronic fool.

    Thomas Sowell responds directly and clearly in the way only he can do.  It’s barely 10 minutes of your time.

  12. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Speaking of airplanes

    Okay before anyone gets mad at me……. I am not totally against Trump………. yet.  BUT, Trump says there is nothing wrong with accepting a flying palace as a gift.  A truth is that with every gift there comes strings and expectations especially with Muslim Qatar.

    Now i do not think Trump threw Israel under the bus in his last trip.  Trump is MAGA America First.He cut some trillion dollar deals for the good of our economy.  Trump is working deals and trying to get the Mid East countries on his side.  There is a consideration here that you may have recognized or not,  He is dealing with Sunni countries.  Trump works fast and he is aligning against Iran.

    If I learned anything from Benzion it was not to be a single issue voter and with Trump I learned a long time ago ya gotta step back and look at the bigger picture.  But I gotta tell ya I do not like the looks of accepting a Qatar plane.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      I agree with you about the plane. NOT a good look and it just gives the raging Hyena’s ammo for no good reason.

      I’ll add that I don’t want to change the name of the Gulf just like I didn’t want them to rename Fort Rucker.

      1. squawkbox Avatar
        squawkbox

        Yanno why he did the Gulf thing don’t ya?  A short cut around all the laws that preclude drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

  13. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    THE WEEK IN PICTURES: FORGET IT, JAKE, IT’S WASHINGTON EDITION

    There is a play called “The Unexpected Inspector” in which the detective turns out to be the culprit he is looking for. Life imitated art this week, as Jake Tapper dug deep into the abject history of the Biden administration to find that the villain who deceived the American public about Joe Biden was…Jake Tapper.

    Speaking of Biden, revelations followed one upon another as it was announced that Biden is suffering from an advanced cancer that he must have known about years ago, likely before he ran for president in 2020. The timing of the revelation seemed suspicious to everyone except, perhaps, Jake Tapper.

    Much else happened: a Mexican sailboat lost power and drifted into the Brooklyn Bridge. Letitia James turned out to be guilty of the very same offense with which she charged Donald Trump. President Trump treated the President of South Africa to a video. And much more. So, lots of material for The Week In Pictures.

  14. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The big bitcoin fundraiser was bad optics, too.

    1. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      Oh I forgot that.

  15. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    That Mexican Navy allision was hard to watch with all those cadets on the yardarms.

    1. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      And that was a beautiful 3 master.  I hate the loss of life more

  16. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Over yonder, I noticed that today is Head Shaker’s birthday, do any of y’all keep up with him? I ask because the last time he posted anything was in 2021 but I think he pretty much gave up on FB a long time ago.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      The only reason I ever signed up for Facebook was so I could see my West Coast daughter’s posts.  I’ve never posted, never wanted to post anything to that page.  In fact, I haven’t logged onto FB in years because I forgot the password and never put in a new one.  I’m too private of a person to share the details of my personal life with the world.  What I do here is enough.  Besides, where do people get the time do all this social media stuff ?

      1. GJT Avatar
        GJT

        While you’re in here posting smart stuff, we are over there reading train wrecks.

  17. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I know that y’all have been eagerly awaiting the results so here they are.

    Slaw Dog wins the Indy 500 Wienermoblie Race.
    Oscar Mayer Wienermobiles race to dramatic finish in first-ever Wienie 500.
     

    1. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      It is the end of civilization as we know.

      FUNNY

  18. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    You want to see top shelf level municipal suicide ?  Hotels, motels will be required to pay a minimum wage of $38.35 an hour by the summer of 2028 just when the International Summer Olympics come to Los Angeles.  That is $76,700 a year for an unskilled maid or maintenance worker, without overtime.

    Wait till those $19 hamburgers at LAX go to $42.

    The Los Angeles City Council gave final approval Friday to an ordinance that will increase the minimum wage for Los Angeles hotel and airport workers…

    The vote authorized updates to the city’s Living Wage and Hotel Workers Minimum Wage ordinances, which regulate the minimum wage for such workers. Hotel and airport employees would receive $22.50 an hour starting in July under the amendments, followed by an annual $2.50 increase over three years…

    Workers are expected to earn $25 an hour beginning July 2026, $27.50 an hour in July 2027 and $30 an hour in July 2028, as well as receive a new $8.35 per hour healthcare payment, which will begin July 2026.

  19. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I saw a couple days ago a billion dollar town center is going to be built here in old Magnolia. I couldn’t find exactly where but the blurb said it would between FM1774 and FM1488, which intersect, so not sure what between is, but sounds like right in the heart of town. Also, about a mile from us is some big fancy water resort with hotels and shops is being built

    Dang it, we moved out as far as we thought we needed in 2013, crossing into Waller County but didn’t go far enough. I only got one more move in me and that’ll be to the old folks home.

  20. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    So, my Huntin’ Buddy’s nephew graduated from West Point yesterday and President Trump spoke at the Commencement but he (Huntin’ Buddy) didn’t go! He had invitations and there is a very limited number of them but he decided not to go. I have no idea why he didn’t go since he has the time and money but I think he missed a great opportunity.

    And before you ask, he is a strong Trump supporter so it wasn’t that.

    With that, Mornin’ Gang

  21. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    My wife told me to take the spider out instead of killing him. We went out. Had a few drinks. Nice guy. He’s a web designer.   😉

  22. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Just now I watched a bird, bigger than a pigeon, pale grey head with a less pale grey body get ‘mated’ by a higher contrast bird of the same species, all on a power line in my back yard. Large wingspan. The male flew off after the event but returned about 5 minutes later with something in his beak. He landed about 2 feet away from her and inched his way towards her and gave it to her then flew off again. Payment for services rendered? She is just hanging out on the power line. The shape is like a dove, but much bigger – like 4x bigger. I looked up Peregrine Falcon and the coloring is all wrong to be one of those.

    1. GJT Avatar
      GJT

      You should post it on Only Fans. 😀

      I saw a couple squirrels gettin it a few days ago, she was playing hard to get but she was only faking it.

      1. wagonburner Avatar
        wagonburner

        Tramp.

    2. wagonburner Avatar
      wagonburner

      Floozy

    3. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      Tsk Tsk

        1. Texpat Avatar
          Texpat

          Bonecrusher,  you need to download this app to your phone.  We use it everyday around here.

          Merlin Bird ID app from Cornell University.

          Cornell Lab is a world class bird ID site.

    4. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      That large of a bird it does sound like a raptor.  Could be a Peregrine Falcon,   Kite or Coopers Hawk..  Those are indigenous to your area.

  23. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Mornin people!

    Today NASCAR’s Kyle Larson attempts “The Double”, running both the Indy 500 then quickly flying to Charlotte to race the NASCAR Cup Coca Cola 600 tonight, 1,100 miles racing in one day. He tried it last year but rain from the same weather system affected both races and messed up the schedule. For the first time in many years I’m going to sit down and watch the Indy race. I mean, I got beer and everything. 😀

    Oh, and the NASCAR race will be broadcast on Amazon Prime. That’s just weird to me. I’ll follow that one but probably won’t watch the whole thing.

  24. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Oh puhlease, the weather head on ABC 13 is telling how to properly grill a burger.

    1. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
      Dr phil Good-E=1984

      With beans or without, squawka Bruddah?

      1. squawkbox Avatar
        squawkbox

        Without.  The heathen

        1. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
          Dr phil Good-E=1984

          🙂

  25. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Yesterday, despite not feeling well, I took Her Highness to the Stew Leonard’s market in Paramus.  It’s been open there for 6 years, but she had never been.

    Stew Leonard’s is a very unique market and dairy store.  We were up in Connecticut one weekend years ago and went into the original location there in Norwalk.  The first revelation I had entering the store was realizing where the Butt family came up with the idea of the maze trail floor plan (1 way in -1 way out) for Central Markets.  They borrowed it from Stew Leonard.

    Stew Leonard’s has grown at an amazing pace – and 30 additions have since been added to the original store. Stew Leonard’s has taken the fresh dairy concept and expanded into meats, fish, produce, bakery, cheese and wine. Unlike traditional grocery stores that sell an average 30,000 items, each Stew Leonard’s store carries only 2,200 items, chosen specifically for their freshness, quality and value.

    They have huge sections of prepared foods – meats, fish, vegetables, dairy, bakery – as well as large butcher and fish markets.  We took a gamble on a pound of smoked brisket and a pound of smoked beef ribs.  They were shockingly good for New Jersey.  Smoke and texture were excellent and the flavor was good, but not up to, say, Kreuz’s in Lockhart.

    We also bought hamburger patties made from filet mignon and a couple from ribeyes.  I’ll grill some today.

    1. wagonburner Avatar
      wagonburner

      Sounds a lot like Central Market.

  26. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    This man is truly an artist who works with steel. His ability to think in 4d is quite impressive. Beautiful blades.

  27. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    One of my favorite lawyers, Ron Coleman, who lives around here and practically invented legal defense of bloggers years ago posted this X post from another brilliant legal mind, Adrian Vermeule, probably the most conservative lawprof left at Harvard.

    At this point the TROs are basically an automatic judicial veto on all new policy, and then the courts of appeals decide whether the judicial veto should be suspended. Whatever form of government that is, let’s please not call it “democracy.” x.com/kyledcheney/st…

  28. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The Southern Poverty Law Center is comparing the largest conservative grassroots youth organization to the Ku Klux Klan, adding Turning Point USA to its “hate map” that plots KKK chapters and claims to expose “the groups upholding white supremacy in the United States.”

    The latest version of the SPLC hate map, released Thursday, lists Turning Point USA for the first time, categorizing the group as an “anti-government extremist group.” The hate map also includes PragerU, a nonprofit that uses digital media to spread conservative ideas, putting it in the same category as Turning Point USA

    PragerU told The Daily Signal that the SPLC did not reach out to them before putting the group on the “hate map.”

    “No, they did not notify us and if they’d like to know how we feel about SPLC, we actually have an entire 5 minute video about them titled The “Anti-Hate” Group That Is a Hate Group,” a PragerU representative said.

     

    1. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      Despicable bastards.

  29. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Mr potato head speaks.

    he also told you 2020 was most secure election ever, Covid didn’t originate in a lab, Trump colluded with Russia, wear your mask, won’t tell the truth about J6 being a deep state production and on and on.

    anyone ever see potato head and Rachel mad cow together?

    they sure look alike. Both ugly fools.

  30. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I knew he had a heart problem, but I didn’t know Mark Steyn had two heart attacks during this period.  This is a nice tribute to Steyn given what he went through alone for years to score a victory for free speech.

    In a previous column, I detailed Michael Mann’s unraveling legal crusade, focusing on his courtroom defeat and the staggering financial penalty levied against him.

    Readers’ responses were passionate, particularly about the absence of commentary on Mark Steyn.

    Author, broadcaster, and unflinching cultural critic Mark Steyn did not merely weather a defamation trial. He survived it physically, financially, and morally when most would have buckled under the strain. What began as a battle over words became a battle over the soul of free speech.

  31. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    When is the NCAA baseball tournament bracket revealed?

    Date: Monday, May 26
    Time: Noon ET
    TV channel: ESPN2
    Streaming options: ESPN app | Fubo (free trial)

    The 2025 NCAA baseball tournament bracket will be revealed in its entirety at noon ET on Monday, May 26 on ESPN2. Streaming options for the NCAA baseball tournament bracket reveal show include the ESPN app (with a TV login) and Fubo, which carries the ESPN family of networks and offers a free trial to new subscribers.

  32. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    We now have pickleball.
    is relishball next?

  33. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    What good is an aggregate website when almost all links are to propagandist corporate ‘news’ websites?

    the same corporate media I won’t spend a second watching yet I’m supposed to want to read their web articles?

    the hades?

  34. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Yom Yerushalayim, or Jerusalem Day, is observed this year from Sunday evening, May 25, through Monday night, May 26. It celebrates the 58th anniversary of the reunification of Judaism’s holiest city.

    Today, Israel’s control of the parts of Jerusalem that the Israeli Defense Forces liberated in 1967 is consistently and vehemently contested by Arabs, who claim those areas rightfully belong to them. This claim is a cornerstone of the daily anti-Israel propaganda disseminated by Mahmoud Abbas and his Palestinian Authority associates.

    Here’s the thing, though: the area Abbas refers to isn’t “East Jerusalem” at all. It’s just Jerusalem. What’s more, there is no political entity known as “East Jerusalem”—not now and not at any point in history.

    The latest of these claims came on May 17 in Baghdad, where Abbas addressed fellow strongmen and despots at their 34th Arab Summit.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      Abbas and his ilk can go get spit-roasted in hell, and the sooner the better. For all mankind.

  35. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    A fine day here. It is 92 degrees but the humidity is at 53% so it’s not too bad in the shade.

  36. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This is the coldest, dreariest, wettest Memorial Day around here even old-timers can remember.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      Very neat! I’ve never seen LN2 frozen. We used LN2 a lot in B13 at NASA/JSC to cool down chambers and we sometimes played with it. You can pour a small amount into a rubber glove, tie it off and it will inflate as the nitrogen boils off. Or dunk a banana into a dewar of LN2, let it set for a little bit and throw it on the ground and it will shatter like glass.

    2. wagonburner Avatar
      wagonburner

      Look up phase change vids in YouTube. I’m gonna try the personal cooling pouches to slide under my pfd whe I take my kayak out in the summer.

  37. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Upscale Los Angeles neighborhood removes ‘homophobic’ no U-turn signs

    City council members gathered this week in an upmarket LA neighborhood to remove ‘No U-turn’ signs that they say were a part of the area’s homophobic history.

    In 1997, signs that conveyed messages like, ‘No cruising. No U-turns. Midnight to 6 am,’ were posted throughout the Silver Lake neighborhood in an effort to curtail hookups among gay men.

    On Monday, city leaders were joined by local LGBTQ+ individuals when they removed the final few ‘No U-Turn’ and ‘No Cruising’ signs.

    And in other news I am still waiting for Trump to order the restoration of all the  CONFEDERATE statues and flags.

    1. Tedtam Avatar

      Reason #5,281 why I don’t want to live in California.

  38. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Russia has their own way to conduct negotiations, eh?

  39. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Trump has impromptu presser on the tarmac in Jersey.

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com

    The man is relentless. He’s always in motion.
    A whirling dervish.

    Although I have seen signs of exhaustion a couple times.

    1. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      George Floyd Day celebrated today at Houston’s Emancipation Park.

      It’s so appalling.

       

    2. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      George Floyd Day celebrated today at Houston’s Emancipation Park.

      It’s so appalling.

      I hope Re-Joyce was there, giving them a piece of her mind.

  40. Tedtam Avatar

    Hubby and I have been in recovery  mode today.  I was on my feet most of yesterday, in the sun.  Between the sun in my eyes and the sweat dripping into them, the eyes really needed to be closed today.

    I tried to nap, desperately needed it, but every time I was about to go under my brain would jerk awake.   Jerky brain.

    So, since I gave away 25 rosaries yesterday at the car show, I cranked out six replacements today.

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