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Tuesday Open Thoughts

Everyone’s making a big deal about truckers uniting and the possibility that they may stop driving into New York City because of a corrupt court ruling or whatever.

But I’m not worried.

Why should I be? Truckers don’t do anything for me. They just get in my way when I’m driving down to Florida to escape the hellscape that is my native New York. Get out of my way! I bet they all want to date me.

No, truckers don’t do anything for me. I don’t get anything from Amazon and I get all my food from grocery stores, not truckers. This is a very important point.

Truckers just drive around all day polluting the atmosphere and making horrible noises. They don’t do ANYTHING!

So, no I’m not afraid if they stop “working”. It would make my life so much easier!

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43 responses to “Tuesday Open Thoughts”

  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Deep thoughts by AOC?!?! HA! Really? Give me a break. Oh and I don’t know if those statements were really made by her but she IS that stupid.

    Just another day in paradise, yesterday was perfect, not too hot and the gulf perfectly flat. We did have a pop-up shower about 3:30 but it didn’t last long and the sun was shinning brightly when we pulled up the tent pegs and headed in about 5 PM. Of course we sat under our canopy while it rained. Grilled burgers last night and since my sister is coming down today she wants, Burn’t Dawgs, chips N Coleslaw for supper. My kind of eating.

    Life is Good.

    Mornin’ Gang

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Catching up, I guess Neturei Karta is sort of like Queers for Palestine in that if they get what they want it might not be what they expected. Being tossed off a roof as one example. Useful idiots!  ~sigh~

  3. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Brett Kavanaugh chickens out again.  You would think he’s cut from the same cloth as John Roberts.

    The Supreme Court won’t hear the challenge to Maryland’s “assault weapon” and magazine case.

    Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Clarence Thomas would have granted the petition for a writ of certiorari for both cases.

    • David Snope, et al. v. Anthony Brown challenged Maryland’s “assault weapon” ban.
    • Ocean State Tactical, et al. v. Rhode Island challenged Rhode Island’s “large capacity” magazine ban.

    The Snope case started in 2021 as Bianchi v. Frost. I’m not kidding.

     

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      If you can’t get a majority in the Supreme Court to uphold Heller, WTH do you do?!

      ~SPITS~

  4. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    You really need to read the Democratic pollster Nate Silver’s quote at the link. 

    Geiger Capital

    Wow. Nate Silver pointing out the uncomfortable truth for Democrats I’ve mentioned before… There’s an entire demographic who take antidepressants and go to therapy, and then think we should all listen to them on how to run the country.

  5. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat
    America is much safer now that a complete imbecile like McCabe is out of the FBI.
    Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe criticized FBI Director Kash Patel Sunday during a CNN appearance, claiming Patel prematurely described an incident in Boulder, Colorado, as terrorism.
    Patel posted on X that the FBI was investigating a “targeted terror attack” in Boulder after Mohamed Sabry Soliman allegedly used Molotov cocktails and a jury-rigged flamethrower when he attacked an event supporting hostages taken during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by the radical Islamic terrorist group Hamas that killed over 1,200 people in Israel. McCabe said that local officials, who he claimed had “better information,” had not called it terrorism.
  6. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Great story for your morning coffee.  Be sure to watch the video.

    A trio of masked thugs broke into a multi-million dollar home in the Hollywood Hills near Los Angeles Thursday evening.  A sign on the property warned that, “This house is protected by God and a gun. Screw around and you’ll meet both,” should have offered the young scholars a clue to pick another house. But to be fair, they probably couldn’t read.

    Anyway, the trio forced their way in around 10:30 and not fifteen seconds after making entry, they had poked the bear and the bear opened fire. All three of the felons fled in great haste.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      The real tragedy is that the felons were able to flee at all.

  7. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    One of the illegal migrants accused of raping and killing little Jocelyn Nungaray and dumping her body in a Houston bayou allegedly raped another victim before the youngster’s vicious slaying, the former district attorney revealed — as she expressed concerns with her successor’s lax prosecution style.

    During Democrat Kim Ogg’s investigation into the 12-year-old’s barbaric murder a year ago, a woman came forward claiming that Franklin Jose Pena Ramos sexually assaulted her while she was vacationing in Costa Rica, the former DA told Fox 26 Houston Thursday.

    and,

    Ogg said she fears “some backdoor deal” being “done in the quiet of the night and a long time after people have forgotten the horror of this case.

    “I just want people to remember Jocelyn, and I want them to hear and make a decision about the evidence,” she added.

    The unidentified victim came forward to Ogg’s office after spotting pictures of Pena on television following the June 16, 2024, murder.

     

    1. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      Note: The DA and the defense teams both went after Ogg yesterday, demanding that she be included in the gag order. It was a very heated hearing and the story made most of the local newscasts.

  8. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Vile, gutter-slime, Maxine Waters has been found guilty of multiple instances of campaign finance violations.

    How much has anyone heard of this on the LSM?

  9. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    It appears that leftist cheating in the vote count is not solely an USA phenomenon; Canada has some dirty stuff going on as well.

  10. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Well I finished off the coffee, established the Beachhead, then walked down to the County Pier and back. Going to be another fine day here.

    BTW; Do you know what would be good? Some good old fashioned homemade ice cream.   😉

    1. wagonburner Avatar
      wagonburner

      Yeah, baby!

      As a yoot, I was one of the crew that started cranking. Once it got hard to crank, I was “promoted” to ballast, sitting on several folded towels on top of the churn to improve cranking.

      We almost always made peach ice cream, sometimes strawberry.

      1. bsue54 Avatar
        bsue54

        Believe it or not, I didn’t know that home-made ice cream could be done in any variety besides vanilla until we had an ice cream social at church and someone made banana…

        When, as an adult, I took Mama to Baskin Robbins and she ordered vanilla, ice cream, I understood…

      2. Super Dave Avatar
        Super Dave

        I had the exact same job, crank until I couldn’t then sit on the old towel on top. Oh and lick the dasher. 😉

  11. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    If a tree falls on your ex in the woods and no one’s around to hear it, you should probably still get rid of the chainsaw.

    In memory of Southern Tragedy   😉

    1. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      She is missed.

  12. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    AOC  is prolly mad at truckers because one stiffed her when she was working as a lot lizard.

  13. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Scumbag witxh

  14. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    I’d call her a B……  but I do not want to insult B……

  15. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Explaining sound economic principals to AOC is about as productive as explaining nuclear physics to a dog.

  16. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    She is the type of female that a misogynist could like.

  17. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    I did not say AOC ran the vac pump on a septic truck.  I said she is the vac pump on a septic truck.

  18. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    I’ve seen a week old gut pile that was more attractive than AOC.

  19. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    AOC is proof we are governed by a Pornocracy

     

  20. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    AOC Killed the blog

    1. wagonburner Avatar
      wagonburner

      She look like someone’s trusty steed.

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

    If the nukes were ever headed this way this would still be super Dave and his “life is good” signature moniker on the beach.

    Whatever he drinks I want some a dat.:)

    pass the shrimp etouffee and red snapper, Gulf Shores.

    tony robbins got nutin’ on him.
    you can do eeeeetttt.

  22. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Finally here.  I got a special request for two rosaries this morning,  a friend whose MIL passed and her husband lost his rosary.  Made a blue one for him, had a purple on in my stash, so those are outside waiting for pickup. They are leaving for Ft. Worth either later today or tomorrow, so they really needed them today.  She was very nice and asked if she could make a donation to my church.  Thoughtful.

    My baby brother requested two rosaries for one of his adult foreign students in his English class.  Student just had two babies and  Liberal Baby Bro thought it would be nice to offer  them rosaries for the kids.  So, I have to rebuild my stash so he’ll have something to choose from.  I’ve been giving them away so rapidly lately that I’ve run pretty low. Two more rosaries in the stash.  I’ll be seeing him at my sister’s anniversary party on Saturday, so I’ll try to add some more before then.

    Also, my friend from my past parish asked if I could do a last minute rosary class for the  confirmation students as a make-up class on Saturday.  I had to turn it down, see above.

    Finally got around to eating.  I ate once yesterday (about 6:30 pm), and I finally got somewhat hungry about noon.  Two pieces of bacon, one of my thick hamburger patties – in pieces, cooked together.  Then put that in a bowl with two had boiled eggs and some of my homemade mayo…man, it was good.

    So now that my bead time is over and my tummy is full….

  23. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    An analyst at Decision Desk HQ does a deep dive on the historic shift in Hispanic voting. He analyzes the various regions of the country.

    Scroll down to the “Hispanic Voters In the 2024 Election.”

  24. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Today’s C&C roundup:

    Good morning, C&C, it’s Tuesday! Today’s roundup includes: a cautionary tale about AI investment as rogue AI company suddenly and unexpectedly implodes when human workers pop out from behind the curtain; developments in the Proxy War show cracks appearing in the cohesive media narrative as Moscow and Kiev negotiate with psych-out drone strikes in the background; Federalist breaks what would have been the scandal of the century except that we’re in such a target-rich environment these days; and the Democrats’ brand problem keeps getting worse with no end in sight- plus, the young men are leaving in droves.

  25. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    First up, AI:  It seems one such company (Builder.AI )has gone bankrupt – because it’s hundreds of engineers of the Indian (non-native American) type.  After it received a half billion from venture capitalists.

    New term: “AI washing” – the exaggeration of a company’s AI “friendliness” in order to attract certain investors of the type that don’t do their due diligence.  Think virtue signaling, but just related to this type of technology.

    A slew of articles described how the Indian fraudsters duped both Microsoft and several Middle Eastern oil sheiks out of a cool half-billion. AI is an unprecedented, revolutionary technology; but fraud is not new…. But for every fraudster there must be an equal and opposite sucker.

    /snip

    The old saw about something being “too good to be true” remains good, and true. The truth is, no matter what the Indians say, consumer A.I. still cannot build apps by itself, and it’s possible we will never be allowed to have that tech. (Military A.I. skills may be a different ballgame, but that’s for a different post.)

    /snip

    Bottom line: Be cautious about investing in AI.* (* Not investment advice.)

     

  26. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    If a doctor ever prescribes the antibiotic, Augmentin, (aka Amoxicillin/clavulanic acid), do not under any circumstances ignore the warning on the bottle that says:  WITH FOOD.

    Pro-Tip:  If you do, you will be sick as a dog all day long.

  27. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    After a discussion of the proxy war over there – which I’m skipping here because…I’m just not interested today , there’s this: Epstein files.

    We are learning much more about why the Epstein disclosures might be taking so long. Yesterday, the Federalist ran an intriguing story headlined, “DOJ Officials Didn’t Know Database Let FBI Bury Russiagate Docs.” Oh, FBI.

    Follows is the revelation of the FBI’s Sentinel database and it’s various levels of access.  We’ve all heard about the “prohibited access” level by now,  the one where the documents don’t even show when a list of related docs are requested.  Skipping forward:

    According to Federalist sources, no one from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office ever mentioned to Durham that documents relevant to the investigation into surveillance of the Trump campaign were concealed by the “Prohibited Access” designation, even though FBI officials knew the DOJ was investigating the origins and handling of the Crossfire Hurricane case.

    Now it becomes easier to understand why Peter Strzok and James Comer were so annoyingly arrogant during their Congressional testimony. They knew a secret. They knew that John Durham would never see the most problematic documents.

    (Sounds like a job for DOGE’s engineers. Or maybe it already has been.)

    If evidence was willfully concealed using database tools designed to frustrate discovery, it might be criminal. Options include obstruction of justice, fraud on the court, Brady violations (failure to disclose exculpatory evidence), or even civil rights offenses if this was part of a politically motivated prosecution strategy.

    Lately, investigations into the Biden-Burisma case were also stymied by use of the “prohibited access” protocol.  I can only guess why. /spits/

    But “Prohibited Access” is now exposed as a key deep-state tool, perhaps one of the most insidious and darkly elegant weapons in the administrative arsenal. It appears legitimate. After all, it doesn’t destroy documents, leak emails, or fabricate evidence. It simply hides reality. Silently, permanently, without fingerprints.

    It’s plausible deniability: “But you never asked for Prohibited Access documents.”

    CONGRESS: “Why weren’t these turned over?”

    FBI: “Your request didn’t include ‘buried under digital cement.’”

    This story reanimates Donald Rumsfeld’s folksy term, “unknown unknowns.” The Federalist said not even FBI agents were aware of the Prohibited Access code. So only a cabal of trusted insiders knew, and it appears they weren’t inclined to share, even with their Constitutional bosses.

    /snip

    This is a scandal on par with the worst cases of intelligence abuse in American history.

    There should be no statutory expirations dates on crap like this.

    Mr. C. recalls the Church Commission and the discovery of those CIA files that were hidden like this.

    In 1975, in Watergate’s wake, the Church Commission investigated CIA abuses. Congressional investigators uncovered a series of top-secret internal CIA memos hidden from anyone outside the Agency, even the President. The secret memos described decades of unconstitutional and criminal abuse. They pictured a CIA that was completely off the chain,…

    Inside the Agency, these protected memos were called the CIA’s “Family Jewels,” too dangerous to disclose to outsiders, too damning to destroy. (In other words, they were preserved as blackmail insurance against former CIA members, rogue presidents, or a recalcitrant Congress.)

    I’ve wondered if this is why certain politicians and judges seem to tuck tail after getting their positions.   “They have seven ways from Sunday to get to you…”

    In 1975, as the Family Jewels sparkled in the daylight, committee chair Frank Church prophetically observed, “If this government ever became a tyranny… the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back.”

    Indeed. The Family Jewels disclosures led to the only major reform of the intelligence agencies in history. From that scandal, we got Congressional oversight committees, the FISA court, and an executive order prohibiting assassinations. The debacle also led inexorably to the minting of the now-familiar term, “deep state.”

    Where will this all lead?  What will Patel do with this information?  How much can be safely and publicly exposed?  How will Trump use this?  Trump’s successor?  Will it weaken the Deep State or make it more insistent on regaining or holding onto its power?

    We live in interesting – and dangerous – times.

  28. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Lastly – the Dem’s utter confusion about their falling poll numbers with young men and how to fix it:

    Solving this problem is not straightforward. The Democrats have a structural problem. They cannot rebuild trust with young men while simultaneously blaming them for society’s ills, denying their struggles are real, and pathologizing traditional masculinity. If Democrats could somehow reverse course on their male-hating ways, a highly speculative possibility, it would create a victim-group civil war inside the Democrat party.

    Modern progressive politics relies on a hierarchy of oppression. … If Democrats start validating male suffering, especially without the required qualifiers (“but privilege…”), they’ll break the foundational rule of their own belief system: straight men are not allowed to be victims.

    They made that nasty ol’ bed.  The bed just isn’t big enough for everyone they want to sleep with.  And no, that’s not much of a pun or metaphor.

    Meanwhile, more and more young men are finding a place in conservatism, which offers them respect and individual agency without collective blame. If you want a single explanation for this trend (that started in 2016), you might begin by looking at President Trump’s unapologetic masculinity.

    Real women like real men.  Real men like real men.   Soy boys and brainwashed lesbians, maybe not so much.  There are more real men and women than not, so it’s an uphill battle.

  29. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I just got effusive thanks for the rosaries I made for my friend this morning.  It’s good to have my efforts appreciated.

  30. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I had never heard of Isabel of France.  How sad.

  31. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Between the massive cover-up of Biden in the White House and this FBI/DOJ deep corruption, the past four years has been much greater and more damaging than Watergate ever was.  The concealment of the secret files from John Durham is the biggest Brady violation in American history.  This is worse than I even imagined.

  32. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I have a question.

    If a man or woman is going to work as an undercover cop, a spy, an international criminal or a black-ops commando, why would you ever put tattoos on your body making one instantly recognizable and identifiable ?  Given the wide choice of tools and materials these days to create incredible disguises, why make it easy for pursuers or even captors to instantly confirm your identity ?

    Russia has launched a massive manhunt for a former DJ and his wife, an erotic novelist, after they were linked to Ukraine’s stunning “Russian Pearl Harbor” attack on its air bases.

    Ukraine’s surprise attack — dubbed “Operation Spider Web” — managed to wipe out or damage dozens of the Kremlin’s nuclear bombers and other aircraft after explosives-laden drones were stashed in a slew of trucks that were driven onto the air bases.

    Russia is hunting Artem Timofeev, a 37-year-old former Ukrainian DJ who they say owns the truck company.

    and,

    Ukraine’s secret service pulled off the strikes, which were quickly dubbed “the Russian Pearl Harbor,” by hiding attack drones inside the roofs of sheds that were loaded onto trucks.

    After the trucks were driven onto various air bases, the roof panels of the sheds were lifted off by a remotely activated device — allowing the 117 drones to fly out and make their devastating attacks, Ukrainian authorities said.

     

  33. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I only have a few bean plants, but I picked enough for Hubby’s dinner today.  I have one tomato plant full of green ‘maters.  I picked a head of lettuce today.

    Soon, I’ll have a complete salad.

  34. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Hubby has to be at the hospital by 4:30.  That means I’m going to have to drag my butt out of bed way before my brain is ready.  Pre-packing for the waiting room will happen in a bit.

  35. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Go Horns. Beat the hell out of the Red Raiders!

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