31 ఆగస్టు, 2026

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Brylinski చెప్పారు...

These photos show what a beautiful world we live in!

Ann, you have had a great blog over many years with such a high level of commenters. How about putting together a list of the major commenters over the years on your blog (e.g., Dr. Kennedy) - maybe even with links to their best comments or string of comments. Maybe a job for AI?

Spiros Pappas చెప్పారు...

Trump should start renaming planets. He can at least reclassify Pluto as a planet.

Brylinski చెప్పారు...

WaPo columnist calls source for his own paper’s Iran war report ‘a traitor’ who ‘ought to be prosecuted’: https://nypost.com/2026/08/31/media/wapo-columnist-calls-source-for-his-own-papers-iran-war-report-a-traitor-who-ought-to-be-prosecuted/

BUMBLE BEE చెప్పారు...

El-Sayed is a doctor like Jill Biden is a doctor.

Iman చెప్పారు...

Trump should’ve gone with Lake Dontario on his renaming hijinks.

Narr చెప్పారు...

#2 is #1.

Disparity of Cult చెప్పారు...

El-Sayed, Hasan, great memories
Now he's just some bitch who flaked on Twitch
His poor dog, such miseries

Mason G చెప్పారు...

"Hijinks", is it?

The left has been renaming things for years, Trump has done it a couple of times. And now, the left is butthurt because he's playing by the rules they insisted on.

Another day ending in "Y".

Iman చెప్పారు...

hijinks: Carefree antics, horseplay, or lighthearted pranks that do not cause serious trouble

Iman చెప్పారు...

and as we’ve heard, the Democrats were renaming bridges, statues, mountains, etc. for years, yes.

RCOCEAN II చెప్పారు...

Crazy video of a knife wielding woman getting shot by the police after stabbing two people. Not sure if she's a "Woman" or a woman. Anyway, she looks to be about 5-2, and she was surrounded by Cops before she slowly approached them, and was tased and then shot twice.

You gotta wonder why one of the cops just didn't tackle her from behind. Fortunately for the cop who shot her, he's black, and she's white. If it had been the other way round every libtard in the USA would be screaming bloody murder. But now they go "ho hum".

Mason G చెప్పారు...

"hijinks: Carefree antics, horseplay, or lighthearted pranks that do not cause serious trouble"

Fair enough. I apologize for the ""Hijinks", is it?" part of my comment.

RCOCEAN II చెప్పారు...

Also Senator Kennedy (R-LA) who's sitting on a warchest of $800 million says he has zero money to give to Paxson to help him win a Senate Seat in Texas.

IOW, the Senate R's want Paxson to lose. Which is typical of their behavior. They don't care if they are in the minority. All that matters in the RINOs control the Senate Republican caucus

Thats why "Conservatives" are always morons when they say we must support the Establishment candidate because "The D might win". The fucking Republican establishment doesn't care if they "Beat the Ds". They're on the same side!

Iman చెప్పారు...

No apologies necessary, Mason. The definition also mentioned “more than once”, so this one barely qualified as a “hijink”.

“Prank” would’ve been more accurate on my part. 😁

Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ చెప్పారు...

Kalshi permanently bans George Santos for insider trading ~ Politico

A character who would have been written off as too on the nose as satire just 20 years ago.

rehajm చెప్పారు...

…talking about Dean Rusk today- in junior high I wrote a report for social studies where one of my source books had a typo- Dearn Rusk. I found it strange but with only junior high experience didn’t think much of it. The teacher was a SUNY leftie and was really pissed at the error- ten points off. I showed him the book and said I couldn’t find a suitable alternative source. That made it worse…

rehajm చెప్పారు...

…I think they do care if they’re in the minority- they prefer it…

Political Junkie చెప్పారు...

If one believes in the Uniparty (I really don't), then you must be for fighting federal deficit and debt by raising taxes and cutting gov spending across the board. Cheers!

narciso చెప్పారు...

Like in 1990 where were the spending cuts tell me another one

Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ చెప్పారు...

All these octogenarians running the US government realize they’ll be dead in 5 years so why not spend like there’s no tomorrow. They literally gold-plated the Oval Office and told Trump he's the greatest president ever. See it in the glitz!

The bond market will tell the people since the government cannot. In a temple of lies, the rates will not lie.

Dr Weevil చెప్పారు...

For those who think Iranians are all Muslims who hate the US (Twitter link):

"Navid Mohammadzadeh, one of Iran’s biggest movie stars, Venice winner, posted a video two weeks ago wearing Palestine colors and declaring he will support them forever.

"Iranians didn’t argue. They didn’t 'have a conversation.' They erased him. Nearly a million unfollows in a day. His current Tehran play’s ticket sales cratered so badly the producers dropped him from the cast.

"This happened in Tehran. Not London. Not Los Angeles. Inside the country the regime has spent decades trying to turn into a Palestine cheering section.

"If the same video dropped in New York, he’d get a standing ovation, a think-piece, and extra work."

Dr Weevil చెప్పారు...

Just a few days ago, someone here (IEE? jaq?) was insisting that Trump was lying, lying, lying about the Strait of Hormuz being open, and quoted some organization none of us had ever heard of named Kpler as contradicting him. Here's the latest on that from Twitter (link):

"Kpler, which for months now has been cited by everyone in the media showing that 'no secret tankers exist' has quietly updated their methodology RETROACTIVELY and magically found nearly a billion barrels of oil they missed

"Just incredible stuff"

Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ చెప్పారు...

Kpler’s estimate was revised, therefore Kpler lied” is about as sophisticated as arguing that a weather forecast was fraudulent because the meteorologist later got more data.

Dr Weevil చెప్పారు...

Anyone who follows the link I gave and reads the replies to that comment, some agreeing with it, others not, will know that IEE is lying again, that Kpler didn't adjust some numbers to make them more accurate, they reversed their entire claim, and did so without admitting that they did that. Follow the link if you want to know the facts. IEE doesn't - doesn't follow, and doesn't want to know the truth. His paymasters pay him to deny it.

Iman చెప్పారు...

Better put some ice on that, ITripleKak!

Dave Begley చెప్పారు...

Cubs hit franchise record 9 HRs against Brewers tonight.

Not an oldster. చెప్పారు...

Begley, better at report8ng sports scores than predicting war games... fuck you, meade. I hope you and your heirs only know losing always ahead.

Fucking gloater

Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ చెప్పారు...

The factual weakness in Dr Weevil’s comment is the claim that Kpler “reversed its entire claim.” Kpler’s own explanation says the opposite: it explicitly describes why the numbers changed, including different counting lines and delayed confirmation of previously unobserved movements. It says its figures are “confirmed floors” that revise upward as additional evidence arrives. https://www.kpler.com/blog/explainer-the-nuances-of-reading-hormuz-oil-flows-data

Kpler revising an estimate after finding previously unobserved tanker movements is evidence that its earlier estimate was wrong, not that it lied. “They reversed their entire claim” is an assertion, not a fact established by the link.

And Kpler still doesn’t say Hormuz was fully open; its revised estimate was still roughly 40% of prewar flows. By all means criticize Kpler’s methodology. But when the evidence doesn’t support the accusation, calling someone a paid liar doesn’t strengthen your argument—it just advertises that you don’t have one.

Dr Weevil చెప్పారు...

Kpler is covering their ass and lying. They retroactively added nearly ONE BILLION barrels to the amount that had successfully exited the Gulf. That's more than FORTY DAYS pre-war traffic!

When the US Navy reported that lots of traffic was sneaking through unobserved by Iran, I believe it was IEE who insisted that the Navy was lying, and that Kpler was telling the truth. Now that Kpler has massively "adjusted" their numbers, does IEE admit that the Navy was right and he was wrong? No, because he's a lying paid propagandist repeating talking points distributed to him by his paymasters.

Mr. T. చెప్పారు...

Watching KKkak/Richsockpuppet/paidActbluetrollaccount/mainekampfextendedrapeexcursion(TM) posts is like like watching Rolling Stone and Amanda Marcotte keep claiming that "Jackie" (Coakley) is telling the TRUTH(TM)!"

gadfly చెప్పారు...

Chief Justice John Roberts broke with his conservative colleagues in a Supreme Court decision on Monday that allowed construction on the proposed White House ballroom to continue, stating that the ruling undermines the separation of powers.

Roberts, joined by the three liberal justices, contended that the majority’s reasoning likely infringed on Congress’s power of the purse and authority to regulate federal property in the nation’s capital.

mccullough చెప్పారు...

Maybe Congress will turn John Roberts office into a broom closet under their power to regulate federal property.

wendybar చెప్పారు...

California really BLEW it, when they rigged their election.....

Spencer Pratt
@spencerpratt
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This is the most incredible shot/chaser I've seen. In 2015 this communist lauds Canada for infinity immigration, saying it drives GDP. 11 years later, he's freaking out about Canada's GDP falling off a cliff, asking "what happened in 2015???"
Stupid-smart people strike again!

https://x.com/spencerpratt/status/2094422300334449115?s=20

mezzrow చెప్పారు...

breaking news: The Cubs just hit another homer.

They'll probably get shut out 1 - 0 tomorrow. Eamus catuli.

wendybar చెప్పారు...

For those of you who want to let the murderer of her three kids go free, THIS is what you support.......Look it up.


Sassafrass84

@Sassafrass_84
Constance Fisher drowned her three children in a bathtub in 1954.

Mental hospital. Declared better. Released.
Husband stayed. They had three more kids.
She drowned those three too.

Same house. Same bathtub. Same excuse. Six dead children because a system treated a child killer like a patient who just needed time.

https://x.com/Sassafrass_84/status/2094623208917872705?s=20

Curious George చెప్పారు...

"Cubs hit franchise record 9 HRs against Brewers tonight."

This is why the Cubs are the better playoff team. They can slug.

mccullough చెప్పారు...

The Cubs slug until they don’t. They are in second place. Again. The Reds just embarrassed them the night before. Where was the slugging then?

Cubs fans aren’t baseball fans. PCA is now 1-25 against the Brewers this season.

The Cubs are the Packers of MLB. Can’t win their division. Get dusted in the playoffs.

Achilles చెప్పారు...

Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...

Kpler’s estimate was revised, therefore Kpler lied” is about as sophisticated as arguing that a weather forecast was fraudulent because the meteorologist later got more data.

You cited something you knew wasn't true. They knew it wasn't true. They were forced to acknowledge reality.

Everything you do and say is based on lies. Always has been.

Breezy చెప్పారు...

“Roberts, joined by the three liberal justices, contended that the majority’s reasoning likely infringed on Congress’s power of the purse and authority to regulate federal property in the nation’s capital.“

If the power of Congress was infringed upon, then Congress is the only entity with standing. It’s not some historian who is aghast and dismayed at the transformation of the East Wing into a ballroom with super powers, envisioned and built by Trump. Roberts should be ashamed of himself.

Humperdink చెప్పారు...

Mayor Brandon Johnson continues to put boots on the ground in Chi-Town. Unfortunately the boots were his army of thugs. Forty-one people shot this past weekend in the Windy City. On the upside the deceased will still vote.

Mike (MJB Wolf) చెప్పారు...

Roberts has a bad case of TDS and will submit to further humiliation from lower court judges who will continue to ignore SCOTUS rulings. His inability to actually manage the judges under his authority is the weak link that threatens our whole Republic. As one wittier than I said “he’s joined the crazy female wing of SCOTUS.”

Mike (MJB Wolf) చెప్పారు...

A suit with absolutely no foundation, no standing for the plaintiff and no basis in Article III limitations, has now enjoyed several turns at the Court of Last Resort even though no one was harmed and no laws broken.

But a big chunk of America including many here will cheer them on to do it again even as their insane lawfare destroys what is left of our confidence in the Highest Court. Perhaps Roberts is hoping to encourage the court-packers to “reform” SCOTUS for him and relieve him of so much responsibility.

gilbar చెప్పారు...

i watched Coyote vs. ACME last night.
it was pretty good. unquestionably the best law trial movie i've gone to see at the theaters this year. Well, it was The ONLY movie i've gone to see at the theature this year; but it WAS pretty funny

Mike (MJB Wolf) చెప్పారు...

John H at PowerLine blog quotes the Constitution regarding Trump’s responsibilities for the White House, “The President has statutory authority over the “care, maintenance, repair, alteration, refurnishing, improvement, air-conditioning, heating, and lighting (including electric power and fixtures) of the Executive Residence at the White House.” 3 U.S.C. § 105(d)(1).“

rehajm చెప్పారు...

…I was under the impression the supreme’s responsibility of ‘managing judges’ in lower courts was through appellate review, which is what they’re doing. They’ve even gone so far as to rebuke lawfare rulings and individual behavior within that review, which I could argue is a stretch of that authority. Responsibility for action against bad actors lies with congress, does it not? Frustrating as it is that congress is a dysfunctional body does it alter the procedure?

rehajm చెప్పారు...

…there’s congressional tools to deal with it but our host was once viewed as a con law authority and if I’m recalling correctly those in regards to those tools was ‘we don’t do that’. I think the implication is reference to precedent. Personally my layman mind believes the founders were not big on filler language in the founding documents and if there’s remedy there it was there for a reason. But me layman so what do I know?

rehajm చెప్పారు...

…one element of the lawfare strategy is delay but as we’ve seen with the White House construction suit the Supreme has some determination to reduce the lawfare incentive with injunction and swiftness of appeal. Could they act more quickly?

boatbuilder చెప్పారు...

Curious. Why isn't IEE pissed off at Kpler for feeding him bad information and making him look like a dupe?

This is a rhetorical question, Rich. Another lecture about "nuance" will just make you appear even more ridiculous.

boatbuilder చెప్పారు...

""Kpler’s estimate was revised, therefore Kpler lied” is about as sophisticated as arguing that a weather forecast was fraudulent because the meteorologist later got more data.""

You don't have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

rcommal చెప్పారు...

Anyone else see Transportation Secretary Duffy's rally where he talked about a pet peeve of his: the pushbutton starter in modern cars? I found the quip funny, by the way, so none of this comment is intended as snark.

I'm speculating that the secretary was likely referring to not the actual button, as opposed to key, but the automatic cutting of the engine at stoplights, etc. (Otherwise, it does some seem to be a "petty" pet peeve, but who cares anyway? We all have them, don't we?)

Anyway, it got me curious, and now I'm back to "everything old is new again" (though with a twist). I started looking into it, admittedly via AI, and the first pushbutton, dashboard starter was in the 1912 Chrysler Model 39, to replace the crank, which could be dangerous.

The "key ignition" was introduced in 1949. Prior to that, many cars used a key to engage the electrical system, but actual starting involved stamping on a floor button to crank the engine. (And before that there were actual cranks, of course.)

So, I'm left wondering: What would Secretary Duffy's great-grandfather (great-great grandfather?; I don't know how old Secretary Duffy is, off hand) think of this new innovation?

Just my AI diversion of the morning... .

Jaq చెప్పారు...

The trade war with Canada is going great! Last night I went to a restaurant not far from the border, and you used to need a reservation and you had to park in a field next door, but now there’s lots of open parking places, and no need for a reservation. Plus there are none of those furrin license plates!

Rousing success!

Peachy+2 చెప్పారు...

Tariffs! ruining left-wingers lives just like Israel.

rcommal చెప్పారు...

I mean, not all the people living in border areas and affected by the tariffs and the disputes between Canada and the U.S. are "left-wingers." Even if you agree with the tariffs and the broader hostility to Canada, I don't see the point of discarding the real concerns and in some areas pain that ordinary Americans living and running businesses in those areas are experiencing.

rcommal చెప్పారు...

It seems very carelessly dismissive, to me.

Aggie చెప్పారు...

@rcomma1, my very first car was a 1941 Ford, the last full model year that was made before production was diverted for WWII to build tanks, jeeps, and planes. I have a starter button too, and not only that: The ignition key requires a full turn to energize the ignition, because it retracts a bolt that locks the steering column in place, preventing the steering wheel from being turned.

Aggie చెప్పారు...

Not to mention, my restoration project right now is a 40s vintage pickup that has 5 floor controls: Headlights, clutch, brake, gas pedal, and yes, a floor starter.

Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ చెప్పారు...

U.S.-Iran War Latest: Tankers hit in Strait of Hormuz as Trump mulls more strikes in "relatively little war" ~ CBS News

"Two oil tankers shuttling oil out of the Gulf were hit on Monday night amid a rise in attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz even as the US claimed its military was safely guiding vessels through the waterway."

This wouldn’t have happened if Donald Trump were president.

Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ చెప్పారు...

Trump says U.S. growth could hit 20%. It’s happened only once since WWII ~ CNBC

"President Donald Trump said the U.S. economy could grow at rates as high as 20%, arguing that rapid growth should not prompt the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates.

U.S. GDP has grown at an annualized rate of 20% or more in just one quarter since 1947: the extraordinary post-Covid rebound in the third quarter of 2020. The economy grew at a 1.5% annualized rate in the second quarter of 2026, while inflation remains above the Fed’s 2% target."

Is he counting inflation as growth?

Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ చెప్పారు...

“𝘙𝘰𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘴, 𝘫𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴, 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘫𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺’𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴’𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯’𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭.“

This would make Congress sad if they were still alive.

Curious George చెప్పారు...

"mccullough said...
The Cubs slug until they don’t. They are in second place. Again. The Reds just embarrassed them the night before. Where was the slugging then?"

The Reds beat them 7-5. The Cubs had two homers. Not doing so well. By the way, the Cubs rank first in all MLB in hitting homers.

"Cubs fans aren’t baseball fans. PCA is now 1-25 against the Brewers this season."

They pack Wrigley game after game after game. As for PCA v. the Brewers, look up "small sample size." He will be the NL MVP.

"The Cubs are the Packers of MLB. Can’t win their division. Get dusted in the playoffs." Last year they beat the Padres, and lost to the Brewers 3 games to 2. The Brewers got dusted by the Dodgers, being swept in four.

Gospace చెప్పారు...

𝘨𝘪𝘭𝘣𝘢𝘳 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥...
𝘪 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘊𝘰𝘺𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘷𝘴. 𝘈𝘊𝘔𝘌 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵.
𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘺 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥. 𝘶𝘯𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘭𝘢𝘸 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘦 𝘪'𝘷𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳. 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭, 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘕𝘓𝘠 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘦 𝘪'𝘷𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳; 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘞𝘈𝘚 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘺 𝘧𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘺

My wife and I did the same, and concur with your remarks. Especially the pretty funny part. 4 PM showing, school hasn't started here yet, and audience, though small, was all adults.

Original Mike చెప్పారు...

"We all have [push button starters], don't we?"

Nope. We have stuck with keys as a theft deterrent. Last car was bought in 2019, and we had to get the base model, but the higher models had a whole bunch of other crap we did not want either. And it had a stick.

It's nice when the car you actually want is the cheapest one.

Jim at చెప్పారు...

*Roberts, joined by the three liberal justices, contended that the majority’s reasoning likely infringed on Congress’s power of the purse and authority to regulate federal property in the nation’s capital.*

Which had nothing to do with the case before them. Which is why Roberts is a piece of shit.

The case had to do with standing. Not Congress. If Congress wants to bring suit, THEN Roberts can run his mouth.

mccullough చెప్పారు...

Curious George,

Cubs are 4-6 in their last 10. MVPs are participation trophies. The playoffs are where the great players like Yordan & Shohei separate themselves from the Pretenders.

Do you watch baseball or just the Cubs?

The Cubs are a second place team. A wild card club. They are the Packers of MLB. They have a few young players and the rest are over the hill

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