Finally, we got a richly colorful sunrise, the first one of December. Yesterday, we had a huge crowd of swans, and today they were entirely gone, from this side of the lake anyway. I thought I heard them in the distance. Maybe over by the terrace and the frat houses. But where we were the coots had reestablished cootville. Walking back, I thought I saw an eagle, and a bit later I heard an unusual bird cry. Eagles don't sound eagle-y to me. But it was an eagle. In fact, 3 eagles!
Meade caught the birds:
Tomorrow, it will be difficult to get out at all. The National Weather Service is saying "wind chills as low as 29 below expected." That's a little crazy!
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I guess you don't get a thrill out of being below zero weather. I'd probably just go out for 15 minutes, just to experience it. Of course, you need to dress properly.
It is still mid 40s here. Heck, the other day a young lady ran by in shorts and a halter top. It all depends on the jet stream, if it runs to the north, it is warmish, if it dips to the south, it freezes.
I don't understand why Trump MAGA idiots are so vehemently opposed to modern movies and TV series. Have they even heard or watched Landman? I think they don't even have a clue about modern culture and entertainment. They should probably go back to watching Lawrence Welk on Saturday nights with their grandparents.
A couple of updates today on this day where the media consensus was Democrats have already won midterms here in December Trump is in trouble, and Althouse favourite Kathy Griffin proclaimed Trump will die soon: First, don’t expect an Altpost but the high road Democrats of yesterday pooped the bed today with greasy Presidential favourite Newsom took a low blow at Elon Musk with ‘sorry your daughter hates you.’ Not very Presidential but you’ll hear it here not at all…
Clyde's Top 15 Favorite "New" Songs of 2025 - Honorable Mentions - (Part 2 of 5) - The Ataris - "Car Song" - Non-album single (2025)
The Ataris are a punk rock band that formed in 1996 in Anderson, Indiana. They have had a lot of lineup changes over the years, with the only constant being singer/songwriter/guitarist Kris Roe. They went into the studio this year to record their first album of new material since 2007, and while the album has not come out yet, they did release this single in May, dedicating it to Roe's father, who had passed away recently. He was a big fan of the band, and they put out a special edition 7" vinyl version of the single that contained a bit of Roe's father's ashes, which is more than a bit macabre. This song is more of a hard rock song than the band's punk rock roots, but this video is pure punk.
https://youtu.be/fT3qkX9TqLU?si=zV2G1BSaxf5_RlJy
Whether it's Obama being photographed in a tan suit or Trump being photographed with underage girls at the home of a notorious sex trafficker. Both presidents have appeared in some embarrassing pictures.
And so it begins...... Let's be clear there are many prominent people on both sides of the aisle that were complicit with Epstein. Part of why he got away with it for so long. Release everything and let the chips fall where they may.
…and two, the Althouse commentariat proclamation of ‘the future is here’ with Waymo, well one endangered passengers when it drove into an active police action. Oopsie. They really do make us all safer, though…
I always liked swans. But it seems the "Mute Swans" are real bastards:
"Mute swans are voracious feeders of SAV, with each adult swan consuming up to 8 pounds per day, and destroying much more in the process. SAV is an important part of aquatic ecosystems as it provides food and shelter for native waterfowl, fish, and invertebrates. By consuming massive amounts of SAV, mute swans negatively impact the structure and function of aquatic habitats native species depend upon. Additionally, mute swans are aggressive towards other birds, as well as people. Mute swans disrupt nesting activity of native waterfowl by chasing birds from their nests and have been reported to physically injure, or even kill, other birds. Mutes swans have been reported to attack people and, in some cases, have critically injured children and pets."
Things are going so well it may be time before Christmas to re-introduce Kamala Harris to the American people (and to the non-American voters but shhh…)
Eagles screech. There's an eagle nest above us in the tall white pines at our summer home, and the screeching can get constant. It gets quite annoying, especially at 5 AM.
“I guess you don't get a thrill out of being below zero weather. I'd probably just go out for 15 minutes, just to experience it. Of course, you need to dress properly.”
LOL! Anyone who has lived in Wisconsin for a a few winters knows full well what those extreme cold temps with extreme wind chills feel like and there’s no need to experience it again just to say you did.🥶
Matt Walsh just went on Tucker's show.
Meanwhile Instapundit keeps up the Israel first crusade on behalf of the Murdoch brothers.
This is all cleanup and rear guard bullshit now. America first MAGA won. Again.
Please don't say "wind chill". Don't need another lecture from hardin.
Don't worry about Hollywood. They're still making enough money to chop off children's genitals. The important stuff is still getting done.
Those orange-pink clouds always tempt me to lick the screen.
Don't judge me.
RCOCEAN II said...
I always liked swans. But it seems the "Mute Swans" are real bastards:
Chesapeake Bay had a Mute Swan problem. Little old ladies thought they were cute, but they we chowing down on the SAV. The Maryland DNR and Virginia DENREC got together and held a quiet and successful campaign to eliminate them.
Glorious photos!!!
Funny stuff, narr@7:26PM!
Your post reflects a lot of white supremacy, lonejustus@7:00PM.
The last two pics
Yes the future cia director and fmr treasury secretary visiting with epstein along with master of thd universe gates as well as ehud barak
Achilles said..Matt Walsh just went on Tucker's show.--
Well, good for you and all of your Jew hatred MAGA followers. You and your ilk can join all of the MAGA Jew hating followers who will lose the the next midterm elections. Thank you very much.
Landman as with yellowstone has some of thd dallas mien but then sheridan goes over the top
Andy garcia slumming as a cartel leader who is supposed to be an analog to billy bobs tommy norris
They all have to be tortured antiheros
This is ironic because lorimar was designed as a mob tax shelter
Clarkson’s Farm is great. Looking forward to season 5.
I imagine you thought you had something there
Sheridan silly land acknowledgement notwithstanding he made gil birmingham a compelling villain well more than danny huston or neal mcdonough
Garcia did a lot of villain roles in order to pursue his passion projects the golden city and for the glory
“Yesterday, we had a huge crowd of swans, and today they were entirely gone, from this side of the lake anyway. I thought I heard them in the distance. Maybe over by the terrace and the frat houses. “
Yes, back in the days of I Tappa Kegga we observed the swans coming over the terrace.
The walls are closing in, thats so 2017.
And yes, of course, we sowed what we reaped.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mRnwzOPPLdQ
lonejustice: "They should probably go back to watching Lawrence Welk on Saturday nights with their grandparents."
Even that's not safe - they might get the episode with One Toke Over The Line:
https://althouse.blogspot.com/2008/12/one-toke-over-line.html
CC, JSM
Whether it was Tucker Carlson asking questions or Steve Witkoff answering them, the work of both men gave Russian propagandists a day off.
Tucker Carlson is a grifter who has no real values and will say anything to get attention.
I tried read to lonejustice’s original post. I’m thinking he nodded off while trying to type. A veritable blank slate.
Of course he has nothing to say
The word is logorhea
Cole hauser evolution from a sleazy heavy to almost a hero
Much like his father who had similar roles in the 80s
"I tried read to lonejustice’s original post."
It starts out: "I don't understand..."
Sounds about right.
Waymos need to be programmed with thd laws of robotics
Andrew garfield will bf playing semi android sam altmam
I robot probably correctly predicted how these laws would turn out
There is antihuman streak in many of these teleplays like alien earth where noah hawley projects his rage a hundred years in the future
Where’s Global Warming when we need it. Must be Trump’s fault.
And he subverts the whole alien mythos if the facehuggers were here before why would you risk bringing them back
Lets not speak of what they have done with roddenberrys vision which had mostly held through ds9 and voyager
The show runners didnt hate people
They could do space opera with passion marc alaimo was one of the best realized villains since khan as dukat
They should probably go back to watching Lawrence Welk on Saturday nights with their grandparents.
Sonja Henie’s tutu! A wonerful wonerful idea…so many tight sweaters…
You can predict the weather by watching young women in halter tops? Who knew?
I know you could, at one time, guage the economy by young womens skirt lengths, but ever since they all started wearing pants that metric is past its time.
What has come since is like painting with crayon
Bald eagle vocalizations and calls.
Red-tailed buzzard (Buteo jamaicensis) calls. Popular media often dub in these sounds as the vocalizations of the bald eagle.
…the waymo thing in on Spike’s Car Radio this week if anyone can figure out why it won’t hyperspace..er…hyperlink
Who was going to know the difference
Thd eagle has a more distinct cry
The appreciation for the female form without being lurid
My complaint about modern noir leavjng to the imagination including hope
Nothing to the imagination excluding hope
Note the 1986 version of running man vs the modern analogue
Which of course will not make anywhere near what the original tdid
Lets not speak of what they did with superman (the respect for humanity is lacking in much of this work)
narciso said...
“Lets not speak of what they have done with Roddenberry’s vision, which had mostly held through DS9 and Voyager.”
I thought Enterprise Season 4 was good, too.
Yes that was a good run, then came the abramsverse
Breathtaking photos. Thank you for showing up, day in, day out.
With stephen kings source material there is rarely any hope, look with mick farris did with the stand
Here in Vegas it was a balmy sunny 73 degrees yesterday. We took the boat out and had lunch in the middle of Lake Mead over 400 feet of cool, clear and amazingly calm water. Very few other boats in sight. We virtually owned the largest reservoir in the country for the afternoon. Really a beautiful day in every way. We still prefer it over 100 with the water in the 80's. We've evolved backwards here into amphibians and we need warm water to thrive.
narciso said...
“Sheridan silly land acknowledgement notwithstanding he made gil birmingham a compelling villain well more than danny huston or neal mcdonough”
I haven’t seen Yellowstone, but I have trouble picturing Neal McDonough as a villain. I always picture him as Lt Hawke, Buck Compton, or Dum Dum Dugan.
Ok people, I personally watched the st tos on a blinking b/w tv receiver on over the air broadcast, so don’t told me what. But my grandmother turned it off when she caught me, because of the hot girls.
Hes done this in other series like justified and several films like reds
Although he was more amoral then immoral and gets his comeuppance
Elon Musk seems to be taking SpaceX public next year. A good idea, to do it now when there is no political risk. If the political winds change SpaceX is likely to be pecked to death, as it was pre 2024 election.
Its interesting that the left hated Musk even when he was a major contributor to "climate" programs. You can check out most CA home solar setups and find a Tesla power bank.
This is a sociological hatred.
I have seen it firsthand.
SpaceX and Tesla was constantly being bureaucratically harassed long before he had anything to do with Twitter, or expressed a political opinion.
The left and the US bureaucracy absolutely hates engineering, and engineers. Andreesen points it out in his famous interview.
narciso said...
“Yes that was a good run, then came the abramsverse”
It was good to see Star Trek on the big screen again, but his movies were Star Wars movies with Star Trek characters.
Oh they do with a passion,
Well kirk and spock were entirely too emo for their own good
Josephbleau said...
“Ok people, I personally watched the st tos on a blinking b/w tv receiver on over the air broadcast, so don’t told me what. But my grandmother turned it off when she caught me, because of the hot girls.”
You should have told her you were watching the hemlines to gauge the state of the economy.
Basic scientific research lol
There are Waymos everywhere in Vegas, often three or more in the same block, at least around the strip anyway. I want to take one, but they don't come to my neighborhood. I trust them, just like I do most technology that's not dedicated to telling lies, and I trust them more than human drivers, including myself. One Waymo ran a police emergency, like human drivers have done a thousand times. That doesn't bother me. At least the fix is straightforward. Not so much with badly programmed humans.
Yeah i probably trust human drivers a little less, i dont know how vegas driving differs from florida but rules seem to be suggestions
Yeah the company reset wont take, with people
Maybe im too cynical about people in particular
I try not to be, and then you see the crazy lengths some will contort themselves into
This will manifest itself in 3.2.1
bagoh20 said...
“…We still prefer it over 100 with the water in the 80's. We've evolved backwards here into amphibians and we need warm water to thrive.”
So you’re turning into amphibians and have consistently high temperatures. Any chance your kids are all boys or all girls?
But they will get better (obligatory holy grail reference)
“ You should have told her you were watching the hemlines to gauge the state of the economy.”
This was my maternal GM and she was not interested in research, she already knew everything. My paternal gm was a Tennessee Scot who was a bloodthirsty advocate of Hardee and Cleburne and taught me about the civil war, she gave me a 6 pounder solid shot cannonball from the battle of Springfield which I put in my father in laws 105 artillery casing ash tray from Korea.
He was commanding A co, 38rh inf rgt, 2 inf div. and was at old baldy and held the Jamestown line in the I corps sector.
I don't understand why Trump MAGA idiots are so vehemently opposed to modern movies and TV series.
Do you ever get tired of completely making things up nobody said and then insulting them for something you pulled out of your ass?
The other day you suggested Trump may commit mass murder of his political opponents.
What in the fuck is wrong with you?
@WallStreetApes
Jeffrey Epstein files reveal a woman named Kathy Ruemmler was one of the people who had the most communication with Epstein
Over 100 emails and more than 50 meetings in just 5 years after he was a convicted sex offender
She was White House counsel to Barack Obama.
"I trust them more than human drivers, including myself."
The problem with human drivers, in my experience, is not you or me or the Uber drivers, who are, in my experience pretty good. It's the one in a million drunk or teen texter who veers onto the wrong side of the road or runs a red light. Is being in a Waymo any better protection against that than if you or some other trustworthy human is driving? Maybe, but I doubt it.
"What in the fuck is wrong with you?"
I think he just craves attention.
"Tucker Carlson is a grifter who has no real values and will say anything to get attention."
Ah. Kaki is a Ziobot!
It is often said that "managing programmers is like herding cats". Since cats are not easily controlled. But I have discovered, as many others have before me, that it is trivially easy to control a cat with a laser pointer. He will chase it around in an endless circle, he will pounce upon it, and wonder how it got away, he will follow it out the door and down the street and all the way to Bolivia.
Cats simply cannot believe that a glowing dot is not something that you can capture. I swear, my cat has figured out, that the dot only appears when I am around, and even that the tiny click of the laser button means that the dot is about to appear. But it simply is not in the realm of cat-think to produce a viable model of the laser-pointer dot phenomenon. What is evident to us is not merely unbelievable to a cat, it is inconceivable. It is a thing that cannot be conceived.
I hope the parallel is obvious. Perhaps someday, there will be a kitty-kat Einstein, who figures out how the thing works, and explains it to the other cats. Maybe there will even be a monkey-see Einstein, who will teach us that the bright images we pursue with such determination are, by their very nature, impossible of capture.
My first glimpse of this possibility came in my teens, while reading The Man With The Golden Arm, by Nelson Algren. From memory, it was something like this; he was describing the men who visited a prostitute, essentially from her point of view, but also employing the omniscient narrator:
"There was no end to the things that the young men wanted, and no possibility that they would ever be satisfied, for the things that the young men wanted did not exist."
I remember reading that, as a very young man. I was puzzled. How could you want something that did not exist?
Kwanzaa is a noun. You can't grade or modify it. Very Kwanzaa, more Kwanzaa, use it as a predicate "Kwanzaa gift," "The gift is Kwanzaa."
Kak: What is embarrassing about Barack Obama being photographed in a tan suit? Perhaps he wants people to notice that he is black despite his mixed heritage. At least he changes suit colors occasionally, which in Trump's case, are always blue with wide notched lapels.
I think he just craves attention.
I think he's psychotic.
He claims to be a retired prosecutor. He also claims he was a Republican consultant for two(?) decades in Iowa politics. (which would explain why a state that should vote for Republicans - didn't - until he and others like him got run out of the biz)
We know TDS is real in the on-line community. He might be a case in which it actually fried his brain.
Seems to be low participation from our bleak chorus tonight.
It's probably taking extra time for the giant brains at the DNC to turn the 2025 National Security Strategy into Mein Kampf for distribution to the TDSers.
his movies were Star Wars movies with Star Trek characters.
That's why they were the best ones!
“ Here in Vegas it was a balmy sunny 73 degrees yesterday. We took the boat out and had lunch in the middle of Lake Mead over 400 feet of cool, clear and amazingly calm water.”
That’s where my wife’s oldest was conceived. Her first husband had a boat there, and they spent many an afternoon on the lake.
We drove back to Phoenix from Vegas Wednesday, and actually drove through Boulder City on the way. She needed a restroom, and there really aren’t any for the next half hour into AZ, so got off I-11, and couldn’t get back on without driving through Boulder City. She reminds me that they have a street there named after her, after I remind her of all the places in the west with my last name. Apparently, almost 50 years ago, her father built a subdivision there (last one you can see to the north as you go down the hill to the dam), and named a street there after her.
We were there to see doctors for her. We stay at Trump, where we have a couple units. Great if you don’t gamble. We don’t. (She grew up there, and I have a math degree, MBA, and worked on a lot of gaming patents). We drove, because we have a dog and cat. Too long for her bad back. Flying back there next two Thursdays for more doctors’ appointments. Easier on her back.
I'm a huge fan of J.J. Abrams. His two Star Trek movies are the best of the Star Trek movies. And his Mission: Impossible movie was the best version of that franchise, too.
While everybody and his sister hates the modern Star Wars films, I actually think Abrams' two movies, The Force Awakens and The Rise of Skywalker, are both fantastic. A+ for the two of them.
(The absolute shit show was The Last Jedi. It's a shit sandwich, with that stinking turd in between two very fresh pieces of Abrams' Wonder bread. And I get why people want to blame him for the sandwich. But all he did was craft the delicious bread).
I heard The Critical Drinker and Ben Shapiro discuss all the Star Wars movies. Basically Shapiro was furious that Abrams killed off Han Solo. It was an emotional reaction. I get that. I'm still pissed off they killed the girl in the second Jason Bourne movie. I can divorce myself from my emotions, though. I was mad for three years when Han Solo was a frozen popsicle. That is no way to end a movie. But I still like Empire Strikes Back.
Han Solo's death is upsetting. It's supposed to upset you! It totally works for me. It made me hate the bad guy, who as a bad guy is really emo and lame.
The other criticism Shapiro had of Abrams is that he's not much of an original artist. His best work are his sequels of other people's intellectual property. I think this is 100% true. So what? George Lucas only made one fantastic Star Wars movie. What Abrams accomplished was miles above the three prequel movies. Unless you are going to dismiss all sequels as inherently inferior art forms. I do not do that.
I also love Rogue One and Solo. We can yell at Disney for a lot of things. There are a lot of Star Wars stinkers out there. But I would not single out Abrams for criticism. He's a shining star in the Star Wars universe.
I want to yell at Science for a minute. There's an alleged scientific theory that homosexuality is genetic. The basic problem with this non-theory is that homosexuals do not pass genes to offspring. That's a huge problem for the theory. It's like the alleged scientific theory is a fly, and it just smacked into a windshield at 90 miles an hour.
Whenever some damn "scientist" tries to explain how non-reproducing homosexuals pass genes to offspring, all I hear is "raped lesbians" or "gay cousins raising babies," or some damn thing. Raped lesbians, all the way back to the Mayflower.
It seems to me, if Science wants any respect, you need to do some actual research to prove your dumb ass theory. You would, for instance, start by finding some gay people. They're out there. I've seen them. And then ask them. Are your parents gay? Are your grandparents gay? Is homosexuality running rampant in your family?
In my family, we've got a gay second cousin, or cousin removed, whatever the hell cousin he is. And (this is going to shock you), the man has no children. Which is a very basic problem with the gay gene theory. The line dies out every time the gene expresses itself.
Here's my theory: our sexual orientation is in our mind. Our religious beliefs are in our mind. Our political beliefs are in our mind. A lot of important things are in our mind. People are free to change our minds.
Sex, of course, is very important in genetics. I do not completely dismiss the idea that sexuality is genetic. Heterosexuals, for instance, breed and pass genes to offspring. So do bisexuals. Homosexuals and celibates do not breed and pass genes to offspring. If sexuality is genetic, why do we have homosexuals? Why do we have celibates?
I believe strongly that all human beings have free will, and this supersedes whatever our instincts tell us to do.
So why is it important to resolve this? Because "science" is currently teaching us that sexual orientation is innate and cannot be changed, ever. While our two sexes are fluid, and can become 1000 genders or more. All you need to do is chop, chop, mutilate, and add some steroids.
Go back to the lab, you "scientists." You suck. And please do not blot out the sun, you dumb fucks.
"Tucker Carlson is a grifter who has no real values and will say anything to get attention."
My God, Kak, you have no self-awareness at all, do you?
The appreciation for the female form without being lurid
Coca-Cola used to be beautiful and now the bottle has been stripped of its sexuality. And it's 100% plastic.
“There are Waymos everywhere in Vegas, often three or more in the same block, at least around the strip anyway. I want to take one, but they don't come to my neighborhood.”
I concur. We stay away from the actual “Strip”, greatly preferring the back roads. We take Industrial a lot from DI north, and see a bunch of Waymos there, even a couple in the same block. Industrial runs roughly parallel to the Strip, maybe a quarter mile west, so is a natural bypass route to the hotels along the Strip.
Focusing on the hotels and casinos along the Strip makes perfect sense. It’s high volume, but low number of destinations. Very concentrated traffic. If I were running a business like that, I would probably run it between Paradise and I-15 E-W, and I-215 and downtown S-N. Under 20 sq miles. That picks up the Convention Center and the airport, and a high percentage of the tourist/taxi traffic.
Elon Musk, and his Boring Company seem to be playing a similar. game. They have dug tunnels under the strip, and run self driving Teslas through the tunnels. They have the advantage of not needing all the sensors that Waymos sport, because they are limited to, well, their tunnels. They aren’t competing on the roads with human driven vehicles - some decently large, or the stupid electric scooters zipping in and out of traffic. When the system is built out, I expect that the Boring system will be the fastest method of travel up and down the Strip, and to/from the airport, zipping up to maybe 60 mph under maybe the densest concentration of hotels, etc in the SW.
Tomorrow, it will be difficult to get out at all. The National Weather Service is saying "wind chills as low as 29 below expected."
Madison goes below zero every year. The record in negative 37, back in 1951.
That's without wind chill!
Do you ever get tired of completely making things up nobody said and then insulting them for something you pulled out of your ass?
This seems to be the "go to" debate strategy of progressive these days. If they would quit arguing with the thoughts in their heads; they might find common ground.
“I want to yell at Science for a minute. There's an alleged scientific theory that homosexuality is genetic. The basic problem with this non-theory is that homosexuals do not pass genes to offspring. That's a huge problem for the theory. It's like the alleged scientific theory is a fly, and it just smacked into a windshield at 90 miles an hour.”
As you said, a genetic theory for homosexuality doesn’t make evolutionary sense. Genes that survive offer some reproductive advantage. Male homosexuals, in general, don’t reproduce.
The best theory that I have seen is that male homosexuality may be a result of low testosterone during critical phases of in utero brain development. The babies’ brains fail to fully masculinize. And that can be attributed some times to maternal stress (there was, apparently, a large number of male homosexuals born in late 1945, into early 1946).
I still think the lawyers will kill them when the inevitable incidents happen. It will leave someone stranded when it encounters marine layer or a snow squall or a wildfire or a line painted on the road it can’t process. It will cause a pile up when it crowds an intersection. They run only small geofenced areas in phoenix and vegas and la where there’s rarely weather. A small patch in Texas had Teslas for a few days for the media. Nearly every reviewer had an issue but I’m sure it’s just a software glitch. They aren’t coming to new york and boston and DC corridor any time soon I’m told, it just feels that way…
The NYT ran the story of the photos, including one with Trump surrounded by six young women with redacted faces. Trump had his right hand on their bare midriff of one woman.
The NYT said there was nothing new or illegal in the photos.
Parties with an excess of nubile women happen spontaneously.
Uber is bad yes. Anyone can declare themselves a professional driver….
”There’s an alleged scientific theory that homosexuality is genetic.”
Allow me to point out that hemophilia is genetic and its victim’s rarely live to reproduce. Typically, the gene is located on X chromosome. Women can carry the gene but present no symptoms because it is a recessive trait and females have two X chromosomes. A male who inherits the gene will present symptoms because there is no corresponding locus on the Y chromosome to suppress the trait. In very rare cases, the hemophiliac is female because she inherited the trait from both parents.
Hemophilia is an example of the Mendelian genetic model. However, genetics is far more subtle than that studious monk was able to demonstrate with his pea plants. It is quite possible for a trait to have both genetic and environmental components. In fact, most genetic disorders have environmental components.
Hayden’s story above reminded me of our western tour of the U.S. several years ago. Traveling along the interstate in Montana, in the middle of nowhere, my bride had to use the restroom. No exits, let alone restrooms. We finally come to an exit and take it. No gas stations, no fast food joints, nothing but an isolated building with a sign Montana State Hospital.
We walk in the front door. No one to greet us just an empty desk. Spouse walks down the hall, while I wait at the front desk. She finds a restroom and we vacate. Never seeing a soul. Still funny to this day.
IIRC that photo of the nubile women was about a beauty pageant, you can see the sashes and etc. Trump used to own the Miss Universe pageant and Miss USA. He sold them in 2015.
Shhhhh buwaya!! Don't confuse them with facts when they have an agenda to run with their complicit media
St Croix: “ Raped lesbians, all the way back to the Mayflower.”
This describes all the leading New England families pretty well. CC, JSM
A bit more seriously: the gay gene could be recessive. Not saying gayness is a disease, but think of genetic diseases. They get carried by healthy people, until the two recessives meet and you get someone with the disease. Or if you inbreed a lot, you get the Hapsburg chin or one of the diseases prevalent among Orthodox Jews.
Or sickle-cell trait, which helps against malaria but is otherwise not a really great thing to have. It’s still out there.
Finally, selection acts at more than the individual level. A tribe with a small number of non-breeders may outcompete a tribe that’s breeding beyond the land’s carrying capacity.
Speaking of: why don’t all mammals breed in huge litters like dogs and pigs? No matter how big your adults are, you could have lots of tiny babies at once. No elephant litters, or even deer or chimp litters. Why is that? Aren’t more babies better? CC, JSM
Humperdink, is this the place?
Humperdink: you realize Montana State Hospital is a psychiatric institution? You all were lucky to get out! CC, JSM
Crypto Magnate Do Kwon Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison ~ Wired
'The founder of Terraform Labs was sentenced for lying about “experimental” coins that blew a $40 billion hole in the crypto economy.'
Has Trump pardoned him yet? Must be quite demoralizing for the DoJ, knowing Trump is just going to pardon him in a few weeks.
Why is it again that crypto is supposed to be a good thing when all its leading founders have been convicted of fraud?
"Trump used to own the Miss Universe pageant and Miss USA."
Farm team for Epstein's program..
Did Trump just go through his most awfullest most no good week in like, ever?
It’s hard to guess Trump’s next move for a distraction. Maybe nuke Minnesota or have his ICE mob raid maternity wards?
Gavin Newsom tells Mike Braun his knee pads are in the mail.
Homosexuality didnt used to be exclusive. That seems mostly to be a western european custom. Afghans and Pakistanis for instance exhibit a lot of homosexual behavior while still having wives.
Maybe the genes involved dont really rule out sex with women. Or the same re women.
Maybe all or most homosexuals are really bisexual and the exclusivity part is cultural/circumstantial.
It would take a while for such a mixed behavior to purge the genes involved.
Just a theory. There is very little research into this.
Btw I once was going out with a woman who told me up front she was a lesbian, and to a degree she presented as such and even had a regular "girlfriend". But she was open-minded anyway. She was awfully cute.
An old friend of mine married a woman who gave him three kids, but who then asked for a divorce as she had decided she was a lesbian. A neighbor had a similar experience.
I think we did a regular hospital once. Wife and I parked illegally in front, ran in the door and wife scooted past the receptionist while I explained ‘pregnant’. She was not but say no more…
Ha. So the wife used to have a disturbingly short period of time between ‘I don’t have to go’ and ‘pull over NOW’. It has led to a few scrambles and- true story one incident where she called off a stop at the casino but later led to a squat beside a driveway as we were driving by…Hayden Lake
"No elephant litters, or even deer or chimp litters. Why is that? Aren’t more babies better?"
In biology, the that question is discussed as big R and little r. If I recall that properly, R represents the reproductive strategy characterized by small litters with big investments of resources and parental care. Little r is the reverse -- large litters with small investments of resources and care.
As a undergrad, I took a symposium course on human evolution where we compared the R of genus Homo to the R of genus Gorilla. Our branch of the great ape cladogram has made a big success using R, whereas the other branches haven't.
Perhaps it is best illustrated by orcas and salmon. Orcas are extreme cases of R, whilst salmon are r extremists. If orcas were less extreme, they'd probably have gone extinct long ago.
@Quaestor, yep that’s it.
@ John Mosby, yes we were aware of that. If confronted, I would have claimed we were visiting Bob Wylie.
IIRC US beauty contests required contestants to be 18+
“ Did Trump just go through his most awfullest most no good week in like, ever?” Now do Tim Walz.
Another humorous story of our western tour was coming to an isolated town. Sign said Berlin population12. The next sign said Berlin Post Office, left arrow.
The town has its own post office with a tiny population. What? Half the town works in the post office?
I’ll pass Mr. Forward. But you can do Tim Walz if you want.
Buwaya: "An old friend of mine married a woman who gave him three kids, but who then asked for a divorce as she had decided she was a lesbian. A neighbor had a similar experience."
Maybe there needs to be a corollary to Ben Franklin's idea about changing spouses every 16 years: change orientations at a similar interval.
Teen/young adult: the randy guys and shy women stick with their own kind.
Family-building age: go straight.
Menopause and Men-o-pause: women get together for mutually-agreed-upon lesbian bed death, while the still-randy men go on Viagra-and-poppers binges with each other. CC, JSM
Hoping Jazzy Croquet continues her run for senate in Texas as it will provide unlimited fodder for us fascists, racists, misogynists and deplorables. What a standard bearer for the lefties!
Quaestor: cool. More sophisticated explication of my point that evolutionary survival is about more than just "he who makes the most babies wins." CC, JSM
Homosexuals may transition in utero as babies... fetuses around six weeks through environmental corruption that affects brain development. That said, science cannot discern origin and expression.
The critical issue for human viability is whether this behavioral progression or evolution remains a minority choice. Simulants are also transgender, and may transition at the same critical phase, but as a fetus... feature physiological dissonance that progresses or evolves with sexual maturity. Transvestites are transsocial, perhaps rebelling against the social imperative to normalize a favorable juxtaposition of the sexes, or compelled to exhibit a gender phobia (e.g. misogynistic pride).
RJW: "you can do Tim Walz if you want."
Speaking of recessive gay genes....CC, JSM
"Quaestor, yep that’s it."
The likely reason the building was deserted was the fact that it had just undergone historic preservation. While the preservation was ongoing, its functions were being covered by the modern MSH campus. That building is the original Montana State Hospital, which dates to around 1890. After preservation and modernization it became the administration center for the MSH complex. There was likely to have been an "interregnum" between the completion of the work and the transfer of staff and records into that building.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/12/the-week-in-pictures-its-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like-christmas-edition.php#google_vignette
Theyll soend a hundred million on here like with skate board o rourke
Abrams subverted star wars (pillaging the extended universe and leaving a desert) ruining the sacrifice that luke han and leia had made
It may just be that species and individual pairs with a small Posterity are simply lazy, or have leisurely preferences. We observe this behavioral choice in humans with bachelor... ettes, abortionists, rapists, etc.
Miss Teen USA, part of the Miss Universe Organization (which Donald Trump owned from 1996 to 2015), allowed contestants aged 14 to 19. Official rules required girls to be at least 14 and under 19 (or up to 19 in some formulations) as of January 1 of the competition year, with reports from that era confirming participants as young as 14 or 15.
"Men and women knew the Truth but they denied it to themselves and God left them to their desires"
Why there will be a great judgement
Just watched last night's Firing Line with guest retired Gen Hertling, criticizing the NSS. Worth watching only because anything with Margaret Hoover is worth watching, IYKWIMAITYD. The general's criticism of the NSS wasn't worth much. But it did make me think of this:
Obama says we are transitioning to a multipolar world: Genius! Yes, let's prepare the way for American decline!
Trump says we're in a multipolar world: Evil! How un-American can you get!?
More proof that the left doesn't believe in its professed values. CC, JSM
LOL - Another Maddow-Soviet Democratic LIE/ tabloid - blows up in democratics sad f***k faces.
Quelle surprise
From Instapundit:
Unredacted photos of President Trump from the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s estate — which oddly blurred the faces of women he posed with — reveal he was standing with “adult women models,” according to exclusive images obtained by The [New York] Post.
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released a trove of images from Epstein’s estate Friday, including two shots of the president with women whose faces were blacked out — fueling speculation they could be the disgraced financier’s victims.
But a pair of pictures obtained exclusively by The Post show Trump standing next to beautiful grown women. . . . The outlet reported the women were models representing the Hawaiian Tropic, the American suntan lotion brand, at an event at Trump’s Florida home.
So they weren’t underage women on Epstein’s Island. They were grown Hawaiian Tropic models at Mar-a-Lago. And the Democrats knew that, and covered their faces to make it seem like they were minors.
From this we know two things: (1) Democrats are garbage people (to be fair, we knew that already); and (2) They’re really worried about what’s coming out in the Epstein documents about to be released, so they launched this rather pathetic spoiling attack.
If one goes to the Post’s online article one finds a comment by one of the models as to how gentlemanly Trump behaved.
If you want a clear example of the symptoms and mental effects of TDS, you only need to read the comments of the lefties in this post: dishonest, unfounded, desperate and embarrassing stretches, because they simply can't help it. They can't resist, and they can't see the obvious pathology of it. Trump is a demon in their fever dreams. Just wake up.
"If one goes to the Post’s online article one finds a comment by one of the models as to how gentlemanly Trump behaved."
Which tellingly will never be mentioned by them, but if a woman said something even remotely negative, they would all repeat it ad nauseum day after day. It's really getting old. 10 years of this crap. Probably incurable at this point.
The following is entirely my own un-researched thought experiment.
Homosexuality doesn't preclude having sex with or even forming a lifelong pair bond (of some description, anyway) with a member of the opposite sex. Pretty obviously, a lot of gay people must have done just that over the centuries in the US, for instance, where the eccentric maiden aunt or bachelor uncle wasn't as common a family trope as in, say, England over the same period. And if homosexuality is a genetic trait, in whole or in part, it doesn't necessarily HAVE to be "adaptive" in the sense of providing some mysterious genetic advantage - it could just be a thing, like hair color, since (as I said) nothing about it precludes reproduction, if the person is committed to reproducing. Marriage for love is not the norm historically; marriage for family advantage is.
What I think will be interesting is this: let's say homosexuality IS genetic. We now live in a time and place in which marriage for love IS the norm, and no one looks askance at someone who chooses not to reproduce. Is homosexuality about to pass from the earth (or at least from Western cultures)?
Begley: what do you think of this:
The EPA Was Considering a Massive Lead Cleanup in Omaha. Then Trump Shifted Guidance.
https://apple.news/AQ8PRtLL3QZyj0Z2HSwne7w
CC, JSM
Kakistocracy said...
Miss Teen USA, part of the Miss Universe Organization (which Donald Trump owned from 1996 to 2015), allowed contestants aged 14 to 19. Official rules required girls to be at least 14 and under 19 (or up to 19 in some formulations) as of January 1 of the competition year, with reports from that era confirming participants as young as 14 or 15.
I am curious how many times you can repost another person's lies before you realize how stupid you look doing that?
Homosexuality, for most of human history and in most cultures, was a practice; it only became an identity in recent decades.
As for homosexuals not reproducing, that's tautological. Men who never have sex with women will not reproduce, and we have decided that men who have sex with women are not homosexuals. We call them bisexuals instead.
Gay men I know have children, and grand children. Some create families , and later both spouses move on to other men.
When talking to one such friend, he suggested that sex with women was simple and easy compared to sex with other men, which seemed upside down to me, but he insisted top and bottom can be fluid, and then I understood.
I guess some gay men are very specific to men and cannot even perform sex with women, but that doesn't seem like the mechanics for male sexuality. Men are more like a Swiss army knife.
Living in the Bay Area you will hear some wild things. The other day in a long Dollar Tree line a couple women were chatting in front of me. A school teacher assistant and a woman who used to work in what used to be the Concord Weapons Station, a huge area mostly filled with ammo bunkers but also has a couple dozen administrative buildings.
The CWS was closed in the 90s, bombs moved elsewhere, and the land was given to the city of Concord. More than 25 years ago. Nothing has happened to the land. The city asked for bids to get a single developer for the whole project - thousands of homes and lots of retail, as well as schools. The bid was awarded and some subset of the 'losers' sued and had the contract cancelled. So the whole area still looks like it did when the military gave the area to Concord.
The woman that used to work in the area said the new plan is to have work started by 2030. The teacher responded with 'that sounds like something Trump would do'. I started to laugh and quickly switched to a fake cough. If you want to survive here you have to learn that trick.
So, it seems we have finally discovered the real pizza shop ...Achilles
Women can carry the gene but present no symptoms because it is a recessive trait and females have two X chromosomes.
I run away from Science. I hear "Mendel" and I'm like, "Oh shit." And then you start talking chromosomes and I go, "Motherfucker, I brought this on myself." It's like I'm begging for a higher Science slap down. I am at the farmer stage. "You need one with a pecker, and one without." Just so we settle that fight first.
It's seems to my farmer mind that what you are saying might possibly explain gay men, but not lesbians. And I know some people say lesbians don't actually exist. But I've seen them on the TV.
"sex with men and women" (for my 1016am comment).
I pedantize myself.
Saint Croix, if lesbians didn't exist, we would invent them.
Abrams subverted star wars (pillaging the extended universe and leaving a desert) ruining the sacrifice that luke han and leia had made
In his defense, Han Solo was old as shit. If we're wedded to the original cast, like Casablanca, then Star Wars was always fucked as a Home of the Sequel. Damn if I want to spend my years at the retirement home watching AI Harrison Ford.
Personally, I refuse to learn the names of anybody who wasn't in the original Star Wars. Except, God help me, Jar-Jar Binks. Apparently my brain thinks it's really important that I remember Jar-Jar Binks. Also I know Lando. And I know a whole race of fucking Ewoks. But I don't know any of them personally. And you can't make me.
If I watch one of the new ones, I'm like, "The girl, the black guy, maybe Finn? Could be Finn."
The latino guy, perhaps the only one with any personality
It was also one of max von sydows last roles
I also want to add that sodomy is fine. I'm fine with sodomy. But if you're stuck at the sodomy stage, you're really missing out.
Camille Paglia once suggested to lesbians who like dildos, "You should try a man." That's why she's my favorite lesbian. On the philosophy side, not so much for the physical mechanics.
The latino guy, perhaps the only one with any personality
I thought that was Finn. Oof, the black guy was Finn. This is why I can't talk to the kids.
the gay gene could be recessive
Okay, I made a D in Biology, and I fell asleep in Sex Ed. (Sex Ed, in my experience, sounds way way cooler than the reality, which is identify the fallopian tubes on a map).
I would rock putting a condom on a banana. If I was tested on that. I might squish the banana a little. That would actually be kind of tricky, if it was a curved banana and you were a hard-liner on the no squishing rule. I have gotten off track.
Anyway, it sounds to my non-scientist brain that the recessive gene theory still runs into the brick wall of non-reproduction, every time the gene expresses itself.
Finally, selection acts at more than the individual level. A tribe with a small number of non-breeders may outcompete a tribe that’s breeding beyond the land’s carrying capacity.
"We fucked ourselves into extinction." It just seems counter-intuitive to me.
One of the theories I've heard is that Christianity conquered Rome because the Christians were multiplying like mad, and the gay Romans were not.
In college I took a Psychology of Sex/Sexual Deviation class. Where we saw porn, actual porn! Unfortunately it was PC porn. Scientific porn. Which is no fun at all. I mean, I stayed awake. So way better than my Sex Ed class in sixth grade.
No one likes the sequel trilogy (not honestly)
In biology, the that question is discussed as big R and little r. If I recall that properly, R represents the reproductive strategy characterized by small litters with big investments of resources and parental care. Little r is the reverse -- large litters with small investments of resources and care.
Humanity would always be big R, right? Because our babies can't walk or talk or feed themselves or do anything for a year or two. You can't leave them out in the rain. By definition, human babies need the big R.
So, within humanity, the advantage would be to those societies where the big R people adopt little r strategies. Fuck and breed, fuck and breed. Yes?
No one likes the sequel trilogy (not honestly)
Honestly, I like them way more than the prequels. Not even close. And I love #7 and #9. Rian Johnson's effort is the shit in the shit sandwich.
My Star Wars DVD collection: Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, The Force Awakens, The Rise of Skywalker, Rogue One, Solo, The Mandalorian, Andor, Star Wars Rebels.
If I bought them, I like them. Right? And I'm not a completist. I actively avoid the ones I suspect are bad.
I'm still happy Disney bought Star Wars from Lucas. Would you prefer that it would be stuck in limbo forever? Not me.
I liked rogue one solo is passible last jedi made me ill, i grew up on the originals
Also, for most of human history, there was no birth control. The pill has been around for 65 years. Rubber condoms for 175 years.
Humanity is 300,000 years old.
While there was some "family planning," it was actually infanticide practices. Abandoning your babies to die was a common pagan tactic. Christianity swamped the pagans, not so much with conversion (although there was some of that). Mostly it was people loving their own children and providing for them.
last jedi made me ill
I did not watch that one in the theater. That would really magnify the suck.
You don't actually need it to enjoy the two Abrams movies.
I liked rogue one
You might enjoy Andor. That's the same actor (Diego Luna) and character from that movie. Kind of a Rogue One prequel. It's a very good show, in my opinion. The best of the TV stuff.
yes tony gilroy did very well, in a complex tale, that took two seasons,
Gilroy is another filmmaker I love. Michael Clayton is unbelievably good. I'd forgotten that he wrote the screenplay for Rogue One.
A lot of these artists are really working at a high level. I like Rian Johnson's original stuff. Brick is fantastic. It's such a beautiful noir, oh my God. So I don't blame the studio for thinking he could handle it. Apparently, when you hand him other people's IP, he shits all over it. Some creative people are dangerous.
looper was really good, thats why initially I had high hopes,
Saint Croix said...
last jedi made me ill
I did not watch that one in the theater. That would really magnify the suck.
You don't actually need it to enjoy the two Abrams movies.
I saw some of the animated clone wars. My brother actually liked those.
If they had been smart they would have posted those between 2 and 3 to explain Anakin's fall a little better.
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