Hail to the bus driver, bus driver, bus driver;
Hail to the bus driver, bus driver man.
He screams and he cusses,
He rams other busses.
Hail to the bus driver, bus driver man.
Tags: Bus Driver Man
Everybody Sing
by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 244 Comments › )Filed under Open thread at April 25th, 2025 - 4:10 am
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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
This rocks………..
FBI director says agents arrested judge for obstructing immigration operation
FBI Director Kash Patel on Friday said federal agents arrested a Wisconsin judge on obstruction charges
https://x.com/Gamma_Monkey/status/1915806054216028456
@ eaglesoars:
more……….they got the perp too. This is hilarious
https://x.com/kylenabecker/status/1915786660119253272
Apparently this is the judge.
I know I’m no prize and I’m ok with it. But really? Teeth/smile are important. I say that after spending $50k on my mouth because my dogs, via various accidents, knocked my teeth out.
https://x.com/PBlasphememes/status/1915787124445532431
Also mascara.
Wait, what??
Mother of pro-Putin Communist who was killed fighting for the Kremlin is still Deputy Director of the CIA, according to her properly pronoun’ed LinkedIn page.
https://x.com/JMichaelWaller/status/1915799273188282467
Juliane Gallina
It’s Thunder/lightening/downpour here. I’m going back to bed. Because I can.
TA DA!!
I can confirm that our @FBI agents just arrested Hannah Dugan – a county judge in Milwaukee – for allegedly helping an illegal alien avoid an arrest by
@ICEgov
.
No one is above the law.
https://x.com/AGPamBondi/status/1915799429455516128
UPDATE: WI judge Dugan helped an illegal alien escape out of the backdoor of her courtroom to evade ICE.
She is charged with two felonies.
https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/1915816634888999415
I’m so loving this…………
https://www.theblaze.com/news/unilever-crushes-dreams-of-woke-co-founder-of-ben-and-jerrys
Grab the popcorn. Sit back. Enjoy.
Pam Bondi talking about both of these nutcase judges:
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
these people are so full of themselves………….
AAaannnnddd…phuck
Mia has learned to hear us spell C H E W E Y
which is our code for the bison tendon treats
I think the history of the different names Popes have chosen is interesting.
Some have chosen a characteristic, like Pius, Innocent, or Honorius.
Others chose a name reflecting someone important in Christendom, like John or Paul.
But there have been many Popes with, at least to our ears, names which are unusual. What prompted Popes like Urban, Conon, or Zosimus to choose those names? And, with the obvious exception of Judas, why have only a handful of names of the other Disciples had their names used?
I can’t believe there are actually people protesting the arrest of that judge in Wisconsin.
right_wing2 wrote:
No idea at all??
Linus the second pope, was martyred at the wrong end of a lion, and it was a dodgy career choice, until the 300s, when the Church became the standard choice for the Roman world. Strange that hardly any of the apostles’ names with notable exceptions, were chosen by later Popes. All of the Apostles, but John met nasty deaths, and even Paul who was Disciple and a Roman citizen was martyred.
as well.
Good. She was a liar her entire life and may God have mercy on her soul because I won’t. She destroyed Prince Andrew’s life and that was the biggest mistake the Queen ever made.
Jeffrey Epstein Sexual Abuse Accuser Virginia Giuffre Has Died by Suicide at Age 41
https://x.com/RedState/status/1915991778894684255
@ Aussie Infidel:
Hey! Happy Anzac Day!
Sorry to be a bit late, I sleep a bit
cuz I’m all about animals.
Dawn, the moon bear steps outside for the first time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxtqokjtvpk
The Warning just announced an NFL pick from Kent.
@ coldwarrior:
Im watching to see how far coach Sanders kid falls because he was a total ass at the combine
Don’t piss off the billionaire owners, knucklehead
Did someone say The Warning?
Taylor Swift wishes she could sing like this:
Where the action is: Ongoing Houthi hunt.
https://news.usni.org/2025/04/21/usni-news-fleet-and-marine-tracker-april-21-2025
Mystery seeds update.
All three are now starting to develop the first pair of true leaves. Still too small to identify the plant but at least they are alive.
Waiting for them to get bigger and see if all these fancy AI tools can identify them. I can narrow the search down to a flowering plant producing very small seeds and native to an area where coconuts are grown and harvested commercially.
A ” Grow my own food ” update.
Mung beans and sprouter arrived at noon yesterday. Beans are already sprouting so on track for chicken teriyaki stir fry Wednesday supper.
Cost of a 24oz bag of seeds and sprouter is ~$30 can of bean sprouts drained are only enough for one meal and they go mushy when stir fried. Too wet. $1.52
So, if I get 20 servings of bean sprouts out of this investment I break even. And the bean sprouts should be crisp and crunchy.
Lucy may post pictures on Wednesday if I can get her ass out of bed in time for supper.
@ Possum:
P.S I ain’t gay.
Saturday night movie review. Oppenheimer.
Got 20 minutes into it and was bored. I know how the story ends. BANG! over Hiroshima.
But none of these movies tell the real story I am interested in.
Little known fact. The first atomic bomb was a plutonium design, Trinity. And that type of bomb was used over Nagasaki
The one exploded over Hiroshima was a previously untested Uranium 235 based design.
Where the fuck did they get the large amount of U235 used in the Hiroshima bomb? Why were they so sure it would work without testing the design first?
Oh, and where did the German nuclear scientists and their experimental U235 reactor go in early 1945?
We will never know….
Also I know what the three black stripes on school busses are there for.
Now off to make breakfast.
NATO invited Obama
But not Trump. Who had better thigs to ay anyway
Possum wrote:
Today I confirmed that the poop in the side yard came out of a raccoon and not a skunk.
HBO is set to release a documentary on Paul Reubens at the end of May.
https://youtu.be/jVx74C-RGDw?si=n31930Za6wbOf_U_
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Yep, Raccoon poop and Skunk poop are easy to distinguish.
Raccoon poop is kind of fruity as they like fruit.
Skunk poop tastes like beetles as they love eating insects.
Plus Skunk shit is a smaller diameter than Raccoon shit due to the differing size of their assholes.
Who needs AI when you got me?
@ Possum:
LOL, I paid for Grok and I am damn well going to use it!
Grok confirms my diagnosis, although Grok tends to go rambling on….
I find it fascinating that Skunk shit may have “a slight twist or curl”
How do Skunks shit twisty shit?
As great as Dany’s acapella singing is, this song becomes epic when played live in front of an appreciative crowd:
@ Possum:
After confirming that it was raccoon shit (by looking at pictures of poop) I cleaned up two turds (we had two raccoons on our roof a few days ago). I read that raccoon spoor can be dangerous. You can inhale roundworm parasites and other pathogens and that’s not good. No, I DID NOT sniff it.
Skunk trap has been out for a week, no sign or sound of the skunk. Guess it moved on.
I gave the mockingbirds some blueberries. One called me a fuckwad (in mockingbird slang).
Today’s crisis du jour: Tens of millions of Americans still haven’t gotten Real ID compliant licenses yet, and the deadline is May 7th.
It’s only been “coming soon” for 20 years, now. I got mine 10 years ago, and I live in the most backwards, bureaucratic mess of a state there is.
@ lobo91:
Even I got one!
@ Possum:
I can’t believe some of the comments on threads like that one. People are acting like this is something that they just dreamed up last week.
The only reason anyone DOESN’T have one today is because they live in a state that decided to let them opt out the last time they renewed their DL. In other words, they CHOSE not to get it. Now they can live with the consequences.
This wouldn’t be an issue in the first place if the blue states where most of them live hadn’t decided to start issuing licenses to illegals.
@ lobo91:
I got a real ID when I renewed my license. I had to go to the DMV/DPS in person as I am not a citizen.
I cannot even change my address without going in person, you privileged citizens can do a change of address online lucky bastards.
So, every time I renewed licence I had to bring SSN card, Green Card, two utility bills, bank statement or any other recognized documents with my address on them.
What was different last time is they took my thumb prints.
I am OK with that, all my fingers are on file anyway, so is my smiling face.
Then I got me a gold star!!!!!
( My Green Card is a real ID. I just needed a valid driver license so Walmart would deliver beer. They don’t accept Green Cards as an ID )
I cannot understand why these American citizens are all pissing and moaning about a real ID.
If you move to another state you have to go to the DMV and surrender your license and get a new one for the state you now reside in.
Same for a vehicle, within 30 days you have to re-title your vehicle and get new plates for it.
LOL or is those rules just for legal aliens.
( I am supposed to tell immigration my new address no more than 15 days after I move. Within the state or out of state )
Mystery plant update.
First try with Grok says……
A Carrot!
That was from a picture a few days ago, when the sun comes up will take another picture as true leaves are now getting bigger.
I don’t think they are carrots, but what the hell do I know. Never seen a tropical carrot that grows under a coconut tree.
I didn’t get my RealID. Cost more than a standard renewal and I couldn’t afford it. Not travelling out of country so it doesn’t really mean anything to me right now. Probably get it next time since the left will try to make it mandatory for everyone to get anything.
major blackout in Spain, Portugal and parts of France
Spain declares state of emergency, as Portugal struggles with power cut transport chaos
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c9wpq8xrvd9t
This is concerning
Data architecture is paramount for Golden Dome success — and the Department of Defense is not ready
The primary limitation to achieving the capability will not be the physical hardware, but the ability to connect all the components. Of all the development tasks, the most critical technical hurdle in Golden Dome will be its data architecture. And of all the personnel hires, one of the most critical will be the Chief Data Officer (CDO), directly reporting to the Program Director, who will have direct control over the overall data architecture and network, and its implementation on Golden Dome hardware. In an environment with a greatly expanded number of interactions between sensors and shooters, the likelihood of a gap or security blind spot increases exponentially — unless the supporting data architecture is built to account for it from day one.
https://spacenews.com/data-architecture-is-paramount-for-golden-dome-success-and-the-department-of-defense-is-not-ready/
This is where you fish or cut bait. They need multiple, SMALLER databases. When the storage for your pointers (which is what this is basically saying) approaches that of your data, you start breaking it up
pictures
Mass Blackouts in Spain, Portugal and in part of France.
Every single part of digital life from shops, to traffic lights, hospitals, airports, phones, and trains, all down.
https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1916857493927428314
not sure I buy this but……..
The blackout was attributed to a rare atmospheric phenomenon known as “induced atmospheric vibration,” which caused oscillations in high-voltage power lines due to extreme temperature fluctuations in central Spain. These oscillations led to synchronization failures across the interconnected European power grid, particularly impacting the Iberian Peninsula.
https://nypost.com/2025/04/28/world-news/spain-portugal-hit-with-massive-power-outage-causing-cities-to-standstill/
While the European power grid is interconnected, it is divided into several synchronous zones. The Iberian Peninsula operates within its own synchronous zone, which means disturbances within this zone can be contained without necessarily affecting other regions like Germany or Russia.
https://cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351%2823%2900366-5
https://x.com/TemerTek/status/1916917848313569403
huh
https://sunnysjournal.com/2025/04/27/nasa-detects-3-thermal-nuclear-hotshots-under-iran-589bull/
This week, NASA — yes, NASA, the civilian space agency — confirmed it detected three massive explosions and three thermal nuclear hotspots deep underground at Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Not the Pentagon.
Not the mainstream media.
NASA.
Why would NASA be the one announcing battlefield-level nuclear events?
Simple: the explosions were so large they triggered Earth-monitoring satellites designed to detect surface temperature changes. It was impossible to hide. And using NASA makes it seem “scientific” instead of “military,” keeping tensions from boiling over immediately.
@ rain of lead:
Well that sucks. India and Pakistan are ready to fight which is good for nobody
Renewables don’t risk blackouts, said the media. But they did and they do. The physics are simple. And now, as blackouts in Spain strand people in elevators, jam traffic, and ground flights, it’s clear that too little “inertia” due to excess solar resulted in system collapse.
https://x.com/shellenberger/status/1916893181876326868
Video and commentary via @Pickle_Dunion . He filmed this in Northern Spain. Just look at the wind turbines. None of them are working. A blot on the landscape and completely inconsistent energy efficiency.
https://x.com/JamesMelville/status/1916923567914078304
https://www.theblaze.com/news/democratic-governor-claims-his-admin-didnt-direct-state-employees-to-break-federal-law-to-protect-illegal-aliens
I’m not doing what you’re saying I’m doing, but I’m going to continue doing it.
“China is making significant trade concessions without saying it is making concessions.” – Gordon Chang
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21576/china-trade-war
Was not planning on having Chicken Teriyaki stir fry until Wednesday night, have to walk to the store to get a green pepper and some spring onions.
However, there is a problem. Bean sprouts are done, they are pushing their way out of the sprouter! Only planted Friday afternoon. Way faster than I expected.
So, tomorrow I have to walk to store, get veggies and thaw out a chicken breast.
Maybe tonight is shrimp stir fry, shrimp defrost fast. A plan!
There could be photos.
Just tried a few of the raw beansprouts and they are crunchy and have lots of flavour, unlike the mushy tasteless crap from a can.
Pictures of Berlin weren’t this bad. Rafah is no more
https://x.com/VividProwess/status/1916723535692677341
April 22nd: Spain brags about hitting 100% renewable power.
April 28th: Spain has the nation’s largest blackout in history.
https://x.com/WillHild/status/1916953125992157668
Carney is Canada’s new PM. Trump probably should have kept his mouth shut
eaglesoars wrote:
And nothing of value was lost
The USS Truman can’t catch a break on this deployment. They had an F/A-18 roll off the deck while being towed earlier today. Plane and tow tractor at the bottom of the Red Sea. The two enlisted crewmembers involved barely escaped going with them.
Thanks Mr Trump!
Green bell peppers have doubled in price from Walmart and yellow onions up by 50%
I guess all the cheap illegal immigrant labor decided to go home and farmers are having to pick their own crops.
@ Possum:
Last night supper. Nutritious but boring.
https://x.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/1917345623986012588
We now have green pepper, onions, mushrooms, salmon and chicken breast in stock. Also a bottle of Oyster sauce!
Plus more bean sprouts and leftover Uncle Ben’s.
Tonight supper will be spectacular….
Some people are just going to learn the hard way
NHS staff told by health chiefs to fast for Ramadan in solidarity with Muslims
https://x.com/GBNEWS/status/1917305341097791797
Ice cream truck is back.
And even someone is as stupid as me can realise they isn’t selling ice cream then Houston Police needs to recruit some better officers.
Update on $50 tablet I bought for my cat so she could play cat games and bop roaches and slugs and butterflies,
She got bored within a few days. I use it to watch rockets exploding and car chases on youtube before I go to sleep. So not a waste of money.
However! It seems that chewing through the charger cord is the new cat game.
This is an excellent rundown of what happened in Spain/Portugal
AN ANONYMOUS EXPERT VIEW
From a deep groupchat, last night, translated from Spanish, written by an expert in transmission and distribution of power. Not my words.
“What has happened on April 28 has a well-located origin: the Aragón-Catalonia corridor, which is one of the most important electric highways in Spain. There is not only the electricity produced by our solar and wind farms in the northeast, but also the electricity that we import from France. This international interconnection, although weak (it can only contribute 3% of our demand, well below the minimum of 10% that marks the EU), in times of stress is essential to balance the network.
At 12:32 p.m., in that Aragón-Catalonia corridor there was an electric shock. What exactly does “shake” mean? It means that suddenly and abnormally, the power that flowed through those lines began to vary violently, rising and falling in a very short time. Such abrupt variability can be due to three main causes:
1. That a relay or transformer on that electric highway detects an abnormal flow of current or voltage (higher or lower than expected) and automatically disconnected to avoid burning or destroyed. This is called that “opens” a relay or switch: it jumps and cuts the passage of electricity to protect itself.
2. That the enormous concentration of renewable energy in that area (mainly solar and wind) has created an electrical resonance: electronic inverters, which synchronize current, can sometimes be amplified between them if a small voltage alteration (for example, due to clouds, strong wind or a slight failure) extends like an echo to all devices, causing widespread oscillations.
3. That a wrong control order has been sent (by mistake or attack) from the SCADA systems, disconnecting or reducing the generation of multiple hit plants. There is no confirmation of this possibility yet, but it is being investigated.
What is known is that as a consequence of that shake, the interconnection with France jumped: we were isolated just at the worst time, when the peninsula needed external support to stabilize.
Without that French help, the frequency of the peninsular network (which should always be 50 Hz exact) began to drop quickly. The frequency is like the heartbeat of the network: if it falls too much, the systems understand that the patient (the network) is collapsing and automatically disconnected so as not to self-destruct. Thus, in just five seconds, the solar and wind farms were turned off —very sensitive to frequency variations—, 15 GW of power was lost suddenly (60% of all the electricity generated at that time), and the network could not take it anymore: it was It collapsed completely, showing the Redeia Platform (REE) a “0 MW” nationwide. That does not mean that all the turbines were physically turned off, but there was no generator synchronized at the common frequency of 50 Hz. It was, for practical purposes, a country off.
To ignite a completely dead network again, one essential thing is needed: plants that can start in black, that is, without receiving energy from anywhere else. Spain has identified five large hydroelectric jumps capable of doing this. However, and here is one of the great negligences that are coming to light, three of those five groups were stopped in scheduled maintenance, by business decision supervised by the administration. Only two were operational. That made the recovery much slower and weaker than it should be in a normal contingency plan.
The result is that, after almost 10 hours, only 35% to 40% of the national supply has been recovered, and there are still large areas in the dark or under scheduled cuts.
The situation reveals a very serious underlying problem:
Spain is still an energy island: it only has 3% foreign exchange capacity compared to its total demand.”…
Cont:
https://x.com/energybants/status/1917206847389389216
more at the link
Canada is gonna eat this. What a waste this man is
New Canadian PM Mark Carney: “We have an enormous opportunity to bring climate change into the heart of every financial decision.”
“We can deliver the net zero world that you’ve demanded, and that our future generations deserve.”
https://x.com/wideawake_media/status/1917144336879308905
@ eaglesoars:
I could have told you that if you had asked.
An electrical grid is a very complex and fragile machine. Arguably the most complex man made machine.
When it goes down it is a huge task to re-start it and there are only a few power stations that can do it.
All the generators have to be synchronized. It is called a black start.
https://www.theblaze.com/shows/fearless-with-jason-whitlock/woman-risks-life-exposing-karmelo-anthony-defender-dominique-alexander
@ Possum:
We worked/planned to get out of and stay out of debt. But we did take out an interest-free 5 yr loan to buy/install a natural gas whole house generator (I paid it off in 2.5 yrs). It self-tests once a week and if there’s a problem, contacts the company/installer. I don’t know how it works w/o electricity SOMEWHERE in the system tho. I you want to explain that I’m listening.
@ eaglesoars:
It has a marine/industrial battery to power the starter.
Bordm wrote:
I think she meant to provide the natural gas to run it on.
@ eaglesoars:
Bordm had a good analogy as to your home generator powering just your home. It actually needs power to get it running to make lots more power.
I just Groked this so I am not talking shit, a coal fired power station needs about 5-10% of the power it generates to keep running, same with Nuclear. Natural gas power stations use 2-6% of their own generated power, hydro-electric is best at 1-5%
So, once a power station shuts down because of a fault it needs power from the grid to get going again. But no power on the grid!
To get the grid up and running again you need some power, and there are only a few power stations that can cold start a grid. They start then provide power to other stations so they can start up. A cascade effect.
The other difficulty when re-starting a power grid is all the generators throughout the country need to be synchronised. 60Hz in the USA and EXACTLY the same phase.
When a power grid is operating normally any generator that tries to go over or under 60Hz or gets out of phase it is kicked off the grid.
The electricity distribution network is an amazing thing, and when working correctly no body notices.
But although it is robust it is also very fragile at the same time if that makes sense.
Supper was very nice. Thank you Lucy! But she needs to get a better camera.
It was green peppers, mushrooms, bean sprouts and onions sliced using a jar lid as if making a blooming onion.
Far superior to slicing or chopping the onions, they are sliced length ways along the grain of the onion cells and retain the onion moisture. But hazardous to attempt when old, or drunk, or both.
Some chicken drizzled with Teriyaki sauce and a chunk of salmon, skin on, pan fried in coconut oil then a splash of oyster sauce.
The picture does not do it justice, the pile of veggies was quite high and a mushroom photo bombed it!
Anyway, still have beansprouts left over. For breakfast! ( puke )
https://x.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/1917481859082072285
Note to Bunk, I has some mushrooms left and next meal the photo bombing mushroom may have googly eyes!
LOL
Possum wrote:
I sent a shipment of googly eyes to my sister in OH. Film at 11.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/the-hilarious-reason-why-david-hogg-might-lose-his-position-at-the-dnc
This is hilarious.
I wish I could meet a nice lady who has at least four children so I could invite her and her kids to a nice supper.
She is welcome to bring her husband too!
Last of the fucking bean sprouts are in a ziplock in the fridge to stop them growing.
Note to self, don’t put bean seeds in all four trays next time…..
Afternoon snack is mushrooms and some yet to be decided meat. Trending towards the Walmart salmon things I got yesterday. About $5 a pound, skin on.
Although it could end up being a mushroom and ham omelet with buttered toast.
Or cream of celery soup.
LOL I just wish meals on wheels would deliver me a meal and I has to eat it!
Anyone here with an air fryer have you got any tips about stopping roaches getting into it when you have fried your food then let it cool down in there?
Seriously, air fried garlic and sage mushrooms and as soon as it cools in the roaches go!
Not me, asking for a friend.
( still going to eat my mushrooms. )
@ Possum:
Only thing worked for me when I was in Hyootn was a bug bomb. Killed some roaches, but most of them just moved into the apartment next door, until he set off a bug bomb. Then they all came back. It was roach tennis.
Possum wrote:
It does, thanks.
I’m so tired today I could barely walk. Had to cancel a dinner date. Heart attacks suck
@ Possum:
Borax pellets in cabinets and drawers and such. Keep the cats away!
Or “paint” diatomaceous earth with a paintbrush (just a very thin powder layer) into all the cracks of the floor tiles of the entire apartment.
“During the Biden administration, Biden nominated somebody for control of currency who was ultimately not approved. The Republicans in the senate killed, uh, the nomination. Before she was nominated, 3 weeks before, she wrote an article in the Vanderbilt Law Review that said the great thing about central bank digital currency, in other words, in all digital currency system, is you have the perfect tool to deal with inflation. If inflation gets out of hand, you just freeze everybody’s bank accounts”
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1917710133246976199
Another former Bush administration official is exposing the elites’ fear of the upcoming geophysical event on Tucker Carlson’s show.
She says much of the stolen black budget money ended up being used to build underground doomsday bunkers and infrastructure.
Watch this segment about what the elite is afraid of, and why we should start preparing too—because they’re not going to tell you what’s coming. Follow this thread for more information
https://x.com/OMApproach/status/1917205149388357675
Shri Thanedar, the Democrat Rep who filed impeachment charges against Trump, reportedly left over 150 dogs and monkeys to starve to death at an abandoned NJ testing lab that HE OWNED.
This is the guy who wants to impeach Trump. Unbelievable.
Video of dogs being rescued from an abandoned NJ testing lab owned by Democrat Rep Shri Thanedar. Most of them never even experienced being outside before.
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1917693118419259824
Cryptic message from James O’Keefe.
https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1917609763988463846
Well that is my fun ruined! Just got this email.
First they ban drinking on the tennis court and now I can’t play on the swings!
I have to move.
@ Possum:
For those who do not speaky the Spanish.
@ Possum:
Está demasiado tranquilo aquí…
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Sí, es hora de tomar más cerveza o de una siesta por la tarde.
@ Possum:
No te entiendo porque tengo caracoles en las orejas y mosquitos en los ojos. Oí que venía una gran tormenta hacia tu zona. Hubo un tornado en Mundy hace poco. Nuestro inodoro estaba atascado esta mañana y todavía no hay ningún zorrillo en el sifón.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Lamento lo de tus caracoles. ¿Has intentado agitar una lechuga sobre tu cabeza para atraerlos? El zorrillo es muy escurridizo. Además, para evitar que se te obstruya el inodoro, come más comida mexicana.
@ Possum:
LOL:, I just laughed for real, first time in a long time.
The Spanish for skunk is Zorrillo
Sounds like a Spanish/Japanese 1960s creature!
@ Possum:
I dunno, Babs, but I do know this. It’s time for my shower and then a bowl of potty-clogging fiber.
Possum wrote:
I worked on a project with Son of Zorro, Steve Catalano. He’s Guy Williams’ son, nice guy.
eaglesoars wrote:
Hope you’re doing better, Eagles.
eaglesoars wrote:
Rest is the best thing right now.
Sounds awfully familiar…
@ eaglesoars:
Sorry to hear about your health troubles. I’ll put you in my rosary chain this Sunday.
@ Buckeye Abroad:
Thank you. I’m much better today. Two steps forward, one step back. I’ll get there.
The world’s largest structure ever is under construction: here’s what you need to know
In a move that’s capturing the world’s attention, one country is working on a project that could soon make history: the construction of the largest structure ever built. Imagine a colossal cube standing 400 meters tall, designed to house up to 400,000 people. This ambitious vertical city is set to redefine urban living and reshape skylines for generations to come.
https://jasondeegan.com/the-worlds-largest-structure-ever-is-under-construction-heres-what-you-need-to-know/
This is Saudi Arabia. I don’t understand the point except for bragging rights. Where are they going to get the water, for starters
@ eaglesoars:
“This is Saudi Arabia.”
It’s probably another grift or pet project from the royals. I knew an Irish engineer who was in SA during the 60s apart of an irrigation project. There was a water table beneath the sand and they were instructed to arrange to extract the water to grow corn. He said it was a huge waste. The water will never be replenished, but they were under contract.
eaglesoars wrote:
It’s a WGTBD project.
@ eaglesoars:
It looks like a Borg cube from Star Trek. Fitting, I suppose, for the home of Islam.
“You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.”
@ Buckeye Abroad:
I worked with a Philippine guy whw got a temp drafting job in Saudi Arabia. He said it wasn’t much fun, what with all the sharī’ah stuff. No alcohol, no music, mandatory ritual, etc. He couldn’t bring his wife into country because of all the crap she’d have to go through. He played a lot of ping pong.
One of his buddies got caught messing around with one of the royal princesses. The Saudis sent him back to the Phillippines in several boxes.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
And no one ever saw that princess again either
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
WGTBD
????
@ eaglesoars:
That’s how the US Army’s policy of always passing foreign students, no matter how poorly they do in class, began. A couple of Muslim students (Saudis, I believe) failed a course they had been sent to in the US, and when they got home, they were executed.
lobo91 wrote:
whoa!
let the wailing and gnashing of teeth commence
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2025/05/02/breaking-trump-signs-executive-order-end-tax-money-radical-woke-pbs
eaglesoars wrote:
We Got The Biggest Dick
I made it up to puzzle Mr. Possum.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Damn, you really got me good with that one!
I spent over an hour watching this video on repeat and wondering what the hell she was singing about.
My revenge will be sweet, but will not happen for a few months. Going to get you when you least expect it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KloqtuCNFIc
@ Possum:
lol
rain of lead wrote:
Even better, he just fucked over Hahvahd. Bet the Ivies are watching their Ps and Qs
We’ve got thunder! lightening! wind and rain! I love that stuff
@ rain of lead:
“Here are some examples of the trash that has passed as ‘news’ at NPR and PBS:”
https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1918134395375915138
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I know a few stories about SA along that vein. Spent some time there before DS and they are such a backward ass people. I knew King Fahd’s personal pilot later in life and he had some stories to tell.
@ lobo91:
A friend of mine was with 2nd batt and confirmed that. A foreign officer flunked out of the ranger school and sent home. A month later the BN got a package with the guys head in it.
They changed policy.
Trump’s proposed budget.
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/05/02/president-trumps-fy2026-budget-proposal-released-and-it-does-something-we-havent-seen-in-decades-n2188614
I think we need to trim DoD, too.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/judge-stops-trump-perkins-coie
Apparently, according to this judge it’s illegal to stop working with a criminal organization disguised as a law firm.
@ right_wing2:
The midterm elections are going to be brutal to watch. I expect massive fraud.
@ right_wing2:
“Show Me The Panda” fits the DOGE mission perfectly.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1918411080982044851
OH NOES!
The Montazer Ghaem thermal power plant in Iran has mysteriously exploded.
https://x.com/AviKaner/status/1918763636270522494
Anyway…………..
100m frisbee catch
https://x.com/PuppiesIover/status/1918787668701274146
I think that’s a Malinois
Good
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier to IGNORE JUDGE who ordered halt to state immigration enforcement, “The court has overstepped.”
https://x.com/ExxAlerts/status/1918774467322372319
Apparently every horse in today’s Kentucky Derby is a descendent of Secretariat.
Canada quietly banned all gas powered vehicles without a single vote
By 2035, you’ll be banned from buying a gas or hybrid car in Canada
No debate. No vote. The Environment Minister Guilbeault quietly changed CEPA, the Environmental Protection Act and forced a full electric mandate
– By 2026, 20% of new vehicle sales must be ZEVs (Zero Emission Vehicle)
– This increases to 60% by 2030.
– By 2035, the target is 100% ZEV sales
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1918840461139321124
We’ll see. China isn’t going to take this lying down
——————–
Trump’s tariffs are crushing China’s export economy, with Goldman Sachs estimating 16M job losses. Export orders are at COVID-lows, and while some worker unrest is reported, claims of mass revolts seem exaggerated. Beijing’s scrambling with stimulus, but the trade war’s biting hard.
https://x.com/pr0ud_americans/status/1918626231882248506
may the fourth be with you
just saw this on X. what would yinz do?
Honest question…. A childhood friend is having a party Memorial Day weekend, yet tells everyone they must address her 15 year old as they/them and non-binary…. Just a few years ago, it was her son….. what do you say, do you go? And why is this still happening in our country…
https://x.com/SparkyBru/status/1919007829748302030
I know you are all intrigued as to how my body performed in April but were too afraid to ask.
No real weight gain or loss. April 1st 207.6 April 30th 208.4
High during the month 210.6 which was caused by short sleep times/laying flat and a higher than usual sodium intake for the preceding few days.
Low during April was 204.2 both alcohol were reduced for a few days.
Anyway no real gain in weight for an average daily calorie intake of 2485 per day. Consisting of 998 food and 1487 alcoholic beverages.
After 5 months of this my BMR is about 2300-2400, a proven fact.
May I am trying a life style change to reduce daily calorie input by 1000 calories to lose weight. 1500 calories per day.
Going to quit eating…
@ eaglesoars:
Strange thing is you never use he/she/it/them when DIRECTLY addressing a person.
You only use pronouns when talking to a third person ABOUT them.
Tom Fitton has FOIA info showing that the FBI were pursuing criminal allegations against Ashlii Babbitt for months after her death.
https://youtu.be/vRWlSN57hiw?si=gB9R7zy5VvMIS_Wb
02:18 and I think 17 shots fired, maybe 18 as they were either fired by someone with a really muscular finger or one of those fully automatic switch things for a Gluck or Glack or Glock.
Is this very late at night or early morning gun firing related to an arms dealer selling guns and proving to the buyer they work?
I did a Google, probably a KRISS USA MagEx2 Extension Kit for Glock 21 .45 ACP +17 Round Capacity with one in the chamber makes 18
damn
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/america-first-legal-sues-supreme-court-chief-justice-john-roberts
@ Possum:
You like that Nightwish band, ya? I ran across this girl by accident, she does covers of songs that I’ve never heard.
https://youtu.be/DYKpqKjcsvk?si=Rwg01sql9Oz4XOKc
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Nightwish, apart from being a great band to watch videos of doing live concerts, actually has some nice tunes!
Now, as to the lady playing the piano, watch her hands. It is mesmerizing. Like watching two spiders crossed with an octopus. I watched some of her piano covers and some of other piano players. Her hand movements are way different.
I am no expert on anything but watching this one she is playing the white notes while her hands are over the black ones. If that makes sense. Her whole hand moves over the black notes when she is playing a combination of black and white. Not hovering over the white ones and stretching a finger to play a black note.
Amy over analyzing this? Probably, but it is either do this or clean the bathroom.
Anyway, this video illustrates what I feel. Her hands are mesmerizing….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgg6clWz170
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
The amazing thing about Nightwish is they have managed to get three of the most talented leads I’ve ever heard. Who all went on to other projects and just dominated there too.
@ Possum:
I like watching Kitty Durham play drums.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/woke-virginia-school-district-investigates-boys-uncomfortable-with-transvestite-in-their-locker-room-report
Loudoun County VA in the news again. For the same kind of crap.
Looks like the Truman lost ANOTHER F/A-18 today. Arresting gear failure of some sort. The crew ejected, and the plane went into the ocean.
India and Pakistan are shooting at each other
This is the asshole who left dogs and monkees to die
———–
Democrat Rep. Shri Thanedar, who personally introduced a resolution to impeach President Trump, is now calling for the U.S. to join India in bombing Pakistan.
He says the goal is to help India locate and punish the “terrorists” responsible.
“The United States and India must collaborate to fight against terrorism all across the world.”
https://x.com/ShadowofEzra/status/1919896643165737186
Walmart just delivered Ibuprofen. I don’t normally do drugs of any kind but have been stuck in the apartment for five days now.
AND even if I get my legs working weather forecast is heavy rain/thunder storms all day!
So going to be stuck in apartment another day.
A food post.
Walmart also delivered some frozen shrimp and a can of clams. Why you may ask.
A batch of bean sprouts are ready. This time I measured how many seeds I put in the sprouter. 38g about one and a half ounces.
Going to be eating bean sprouts for days yet again! Breakfast is stir fry bean sprouts, onion, green peppers and shrimp with a sauce of clams and oyster sauce.
BRITISH FOOD!!!!!!
May be a while until Lucy makes me a cheese and tomato sandwich, but at least she tries.
https://x.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/1920147557071671422
https://www.theblaze.com/news/fbi-pushed-false-narrative-about-bernie-sanders-supporters-terrorist-attack-on-republicans-house-report
FBI says Scalise shooting was maybe politically motivated after all. /sarc
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
Surprise, surprise, surprise.
I think this is the 1st time in the almost 4 yrs we’ve been in this house that I’ve been here alone (except for Mia). I’ll have about 3 glorious hours all to myself Maybe 4!
James O’Keefe is dropping a story today
someone on trumps staff was covering for epstein
he dropped a hint that it’s pam bondi
which would track as she was the ag for epsteins first deal
things getting toasty with india and paki
okeefe info to drop at 2pm central
The votes on the DOGE cuts that were scheduled today have been canceled and Johnson has recessed the House for 4 days starting tomorrow
Fucking clown show
@ Possum:
Saw that Lucy was getting “mansplained” about gearshift patterns, and Lucy was kicking the mansplainers in the nuts.
This kind of AI manipulation should be prosecutable.
https://x.com/MaverickDarby/status/1919801299387686975
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
“College is just how well I can use ChatGPT at this point.”
“I think we are years — or months, probably — away from a world where nobody thinks using AI for homework is considered cheating.”
“It isn’t as if cheating is new. But now, as one student put it, ‘the ceiling has been blown off.’ Who could resist a tool that makes every assignment easier with seemingly no consequences?”
“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate.”
“The humanities, and writing in particular, are quickly becoming an anachronistic art elective like basket-weaving.”
https://x.com/MaverickDarby/status/1919801299387686975
who didn’t see that coming………….
@ eaglesoars:
oh wrong link, here’s the correct one
https://x.com/sfmcguire79/status/1920109453988319704?
They’re doing in-class blue book essays. My first college class was English w/Prof Fisker. Blue book essay every class. Unfortunately for me it was at 8am when I’m basically in a coma but I still got something like a 95. He was a good prof
You mean they lied?
Private sector added ZERO net jobs in third quarter of last year, per to new data from labor dept; previously, the monthly job reports for Q3 ’24 showed a gain of 399k nonfarm payrolls; of course, these new Biden-era data won’t be reflected in the jobs numbers until next year:
https://x.com/RealEJAntoni/status/1920121537539035463
uh oh
Alex Jones has revealed that James O’Keefe is preparing to expose a Trump administration official accused of helping cover up for Jeffrey Epstein.
According to Jones, he believes that person is none other than Attorney General Pam Bondi.
He claims the White House is fully aware of the official’s identity.
Jones adds that O’Keefe’s upcoming reports will connect the dots to reveal a much larger story.
https://x.com/ShadowofEzra/status/1920179042298269764
O’Keefe is supposed to announce his big reveal today but I haven’t heard anything
black smoke
1st round fail
eaglesoars wrote:
Jones has no credibility IMHO. O’Keefe is ok, but if he’s silent I’d say it’s just Jones’ hot air.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
turned out to be the prince
complete bait and switch
https://rumble.com/v6t3jmz-james-okeefe-reveals-new-epstein-bombshell-prince-andrew-hardest-hit.html
really?
https://www.reuters.com/world/bidens-gaza-pier-injured-far-more-troops-than-previously-known-2025-05-07/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=twitter
@ rain of lead:
From the NY Post:
@ rain of lead:
The important thing is that all personnel involved were up to date on their Covid shots and had completed all of the required online training regarding transgender service members.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
She had so many options lined up to trigger a shitstorm. Looks like the one she chose worked OK.
The number of people who Googled images of a gear shifting thing then posted it was cool. Some even took the time to take a picture of their own knobs!
There were three other options she could have chosen, and she will try one of them next time that click bait post appears.
1, The position on the gear shift in the diagram operates the passenger ejection seat. As in James Bond Goldfinger and his Aston Martin DB5 where he gets rid of the bad person.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY8zxRjOuak
@ Possum:
Sorry to seem I am spamming this place but I have to be careful about posting links or I get banned for months and it takes many begging emails and phone calls to get me re-instated.
Anyway, option 2
2, The position under the 5 on the gear shift in the Batmobile turned on the rocket engine at the back. Yeah, I know, lame and not likely to get Lucy many interactions.
No point posting a video, we all seen it!
3, Another click bait reply Lucy could have used.
” The gear shift in my Tesla does not have reverse in that position. Reverse is over to the left, push the gear stick down and then to the right. A safety feature ”
LOL Teslas don’t have a gear box or any kind of transmission. I am sure someone would have explained that!
Food post.
Three days after putting beans in the sprouter is the best time to eat them. They are nice, full of flavour and crunchy.
Day four it is like eating dental floss.
Tough, stringy and gets between your teeth.
I got this….
Looks like they’ve selected a new Pope. No word on who it is, though
An American Pope?!
right_wing2 wrote:
More of an American ex-pat. He’s apparently lived in Peru for decades, and even holds dual citizenship.
Everybody missed this guy. He was on nobody’s short list
The former pope, Francis, brought Prevost, 69, to the Vatican in 2023 to serve as the powerful head of the office that vets bishop nominations from around the world, one of the most important jobs in the Catholic Church. As a result, Prevost has a prominence going into the conclave that few other cardinals had.
He’s got an X account – and he ain’t conservative
https://x.com/Rabidcow1/status/1920533939556348119
Born in Chicago, attended Villanova
Here’s his X account
https://x.com/drprevost
‘Operation Sindoor’ Nails Mastermind of Daniel Pearl Kidnapping
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/05/08/operation-sindoor-nails-mastermind-of-daniel-pearl-kidnapping-n3802558
@ eaglesoars:
@ lobo91:
I saw an article somewhere a couple weeks ago that mentioned this guy. It basically said “pray he isn’t picked”. Apparently he’s even to the left of francis, a full on commie.
oooff
https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2025/05/08/whoa-trump-says-hes-pulling-ed-martins-nom-for-us-attorney-in-dc-thats-on-tillis-n2188835
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
I don’t know about the commie part, but from what I’ve seen he’s totally anti-Trump and that’s what got him elected
GOD HAS GIVEN THE WORLD A PROGRESSIVE POPE!
Here is what we’ve learned about Pope Leo XIV:
* He has written and reposted anti-Trump tweets.
* Has come out against boarder enforcement
*Endorsed Dreamers
* Supports BLM
*Pro gun reform,
*Supports climate action,
https://x.com/DougWahl1/status/1920580465657815549
rain of lead wrote:
https://www.theblaze.com/news/republican-senator-turns-against-key-trump-nominee-potentially-empowering-activist-judge-boasberg
Martin has been serving as interim U.S. attorney for the district since Trump’s inauguration, but his interim term is set to expire on May 19. If the Senate fails to confirm Martin before then, his replacement will be chosen by activist judge and MAGA combatant Judge James Boasberg.
*snort* yep
“Oh, you won’t confirm Ed Martin as DC US Attorney because he was too nice to J6ers? Fine, I’ll make him the pardon attorney so he can ensure that everyone gets a pardon. Also, here’s Judge Jeanine.”
https://x.com/willchamberlain/status/1920635251161735418
A cat post.
Natasha came into my apartment in October 2017 through an open window and then decided that is where she wanted to live.
I am OK with that!
Anyway whenever there is a thunderstorm she seeks safety by hiding behind the toilet, in a bathroom cabinet, under the sink or in a kitchen cabinet.
Now, after over seven years of this she finally decided the best place to get shelter and be protected from thunder storms is to crawl into bed next to me!
It is kind of nice that after seven years she finally trusts me to keep her safe. LOL!
@ Possum:
Awesome feeling, isn’t it?
@ right_wing2:
Yep. Cats are mysterious creatures.
My two have their very favourite best in the World sleeping spots!
For about a week, then it all changes, for another week.
( I really must get rid of the microwave box that was one of the best places to sleep which nobody has been in for a year. )
New Jersey Dems have lost their damn minds:
@ Possum:
Our second most recent rescue is coming along. When I give the morning treats out, she will let me pet her while she’s eating. We can’t pet her anytime, but she’s getting better.
We had an earthquake at 9 am. 4.1 about 20 miles away. I felt nothing, neither did Mia
This overweight black woman wearing nothing – and I mean NOTHING – other than a strappy t-shirt is in line to have baggage checked. Look at this
https://x.com/LionelMedia/status/1921287888970317841
And fuck Thom Tillis. Be careful what you wish for asshole
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/10/exclusive-ed-martin-assumes-powerful-doj-post-greatest-job-i-could-ever-envision-to-target-weaponization/
Exclusive – Ed Martin Assumes Powerful DOJ Post: ‘Greatest Job I Could Ever Envision’ to Target Weaponization
Walmart order is on the way. A combination of boring and fun.
Cat treats ( that is a given ) Some Keto no carb bread, six small avocados and a jar of minced garlic ( I don’t have a girlfriend and I like garliky stuff )
Now the fun!
A packet of cucumber seeds, a packet of Pak Choy seeds ( Chinese cabbage ) which hopefully I can at least get one tiny cucumber from and baby crunchy cabbage.
Also three garlic bulbs, I have potting soil and pots so going to break the bulbs into cloves and plant them, They may grow and divide, or if they don’t I will dig them up again and eat them.
The really fun and extravagant purchase is some very course sea salt. I think that would be perfect for my avocadoes.
Avocadoes need lightly salting and the coarse salt will add some crunchiness to the avocado slime.
Interesting fact about pickles ( aka baby cucumbers ) One acre takes two people working 8hrs per day seven days a week to harvest them.
Notice all the pickles in the jar are the same size? They grow so fast they have to be harvested when they are the pickle jar size. Hence the constant work needed to select the optimum sized ones.
Oh and I confirmed it using Grock.
@ Possum:
And yet again I thought I was clever but not clever enough.
There are chemicals that are used to stop potatoes and onions etc from sprouting. They are used to treat groceries so your potatoes don’t sprout green things and your onions don’t try to escape from the pantry.
Try it. buy some baby red potatoes and at the same time buy organic baby reds and place one of each on the kitchen counter and just wait a few days.
I just bought regular garlic bulbs not organic. Bet they are treated to prevent them sprouting.
The labeled ” organic ” are not allowed to be treated with chemicals, that is why organic produce has a very short shelf life, the shit starts growing…
If I hoped to grow garlic I should have paid $1 more for three bulbs.
Oh well, I is going to eated them anyway.
Reference to chemicals to stop sprouting in potatoes and onions etc.
https://www.drexchem.com/products/sprout-stop/
Safety sheet here.
https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/agrian-cg-fs1-production/pdfs/Drexel_Sprout-Stop1m_Label.pdf
An interesting read. And this is just the first page.
@ Possum:
And yet again! If you get a Walmart shopper that does not give a shit then when they cannot find something they just flag it as unavailable even though I request a substitution and it is ignored. Example fresh baked Italian bread, French bread will do!
Today’s shopper is one of the good ones, I ordered Pak Choy seeds as no Bok Choy was showing up as available.
However, it seems Pak Choy was no where to be found so shopper substituted some Bok Choy seeds they found!
Fucking awesome! Customer service what customer service should be.
However if I am going to try to grow a tiny cucumber or a baby Chinese cabbage then I am going to have to plant the seeds in their forever home. They don’t like their roots messed with.
The opposite is true for my tomato plants, messing about with their roots and multiple transplanting actually encourages root growth.
It pisses the plants off and they fight back!
Grok agrees….
A food post, well not my food.
Cinco de Mayo is an white American thing. Nobody here did anything for it. In fact only a tiny place ion Mexico celebrates it.
Same with St Patrick’s day in the USA. That is an American reason to drink green beer and go nuts eating Corned Beef and Carrots. But no Americans eat corned beef and cabbage the rest of the year. Why not if it is so good?
Reason for this post, the air is thick with smoke from charcoal grills tinged with lighter fluid. Also when I let the cats out at 8am there were several large boilers being set up for making Tamales.
Point is, Mother’s day is being celebrated here with food. From Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and a few other countries I cannot remember where the people are from.
Feels like a genuine celebration day not a fake commercially driven event.
@ Possum:
As a side note for anyone who is interested.
Mother’s Day in the USA is actually a commercial event, always at the same time of year, the second Sunday of May. When flowers are blooming and far away enough from Valentines day so sales are maximised.
Mother’s Day, or Mothering Sunday is a many hundreds year old tradition that is syncronised with Easter, so the date varies.
It is the one day that Lent can be broken in honour of mothers.
It was March 30th this year in the rest of the world.
uh oh
CLOSED BORDER: Nashville’s Democrat mayor claims that cooperation between the Tennessee Highway Patrol and ICE is inflicting “deep community harms,” and in response, he’s created a taxpayer-funded program to support illegal aliens living in the city.
https://x.com/amuse/status/1921650698069971422
follow the $$$ and where is the governor?
@ eaglesoars:
Davidson co/Nashville is almost as blue as it gets
also
the girl is now a graduate
she has a BS in History
did it in three years
and no debt
she has one last internship this summer
then it’s on her own
the local talk radio is gonna be fucking lit in the morning
Had Cadillac surgery on Thursday, got a headlight replaced. Now both headlights can see the fleas on a crow’s ass from a block away, but can’t see sheet for closeup reading. I got bubble glasses for that.
Daughter ran across a used 25-inch wide monitor that a gamer friend was getting rid of. Hooked it up and now I don’t need bubbles to see the screen. In a few weeks I’ll get proper bifocals for the closeup stuff.
I am happy.
eaglesoars wrote:
Pope Leo XIV was the stand in for the 67 year old Philippines Cardinal Tagle, who fell at the first fence because he was a guitar strumming neo-Marxist with a dodgy past. Given both these characters were part of the 100 acolytes of Francis, no wonder there is ‘trouble at mill’. Pope Leo XIV (AKA Cardinal Bob the Yank) has only been a Cardinal for 2 years and ‘came out of left field’. Pardon the pun!
🙂
well
https://patriots.win/p/19BGFMdm2p/us-will-lower-tariffs-on-chinese/c
well well
https://patriots.win/p/19BGFMdm2l/breaking-dollar-surges-against-y/c
well well well
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/11/stock-market-today-live-updates.html
@ eaglesoars:
https://www.theblaze.com/shows/back-to-the-people/silicon-valleys-demons-transhumanists-possessed-by-something-anti-human
Well, just planted some Bok Choy seeds and the plan was to plant four in a four inch pot, six pots.
Then allowing for misfires I may have one or two plants per small pot that I can grow into baby Bok Choys and eated them in a stir fry.
The seeds are tiny and I have fingers like pig’s tits so there may be more than four seeds per pot!
For anyone wondering, tomatoes are doing OK, this lack of direct sunlight is causing leggyness but the shoot tips are showing signs of potentially producing flowers. Small and densely compacted leaves. We shall see!
As to the tomato plants I gave away to ground floor people with raised beds outside their apartments, the plants are healthy and growing at an amazing rate.
One of us is going to get a tomato!
test
is the site really laggy today?
@ rain of lead:
tickle
Probably another post waiting for the moderation NAZIs to approve it but here goes.
Just planted a whole garlic bulb into a 5 inch pot, can’t be bothered to break it into cloves as I fear it was sprayed with an anti sprouting chemical.
Anyway if the bloody thing does sprout it seems that garlic sprouts are a culinary delicacy.
We shall see….
it’s taken just about a year, but our flower beds in back are finally finished.
I’ve moved 3 1/2 to 4 tons of dirt, half a ton or so of rock, four roll of weed barrier, and about 15 bags of rubber mulch.
When I started, the part of the bed closest to the house was a good six or 7 inches lower than the front. That should solve any drainage problems.
We’ve planted three roses, and a handful of tiger lilies.
@ rain of lead:
The spaminator is being a dick, but I don’t blame it. Something anonymous was trying to post bitcoin ads.
Off to see the Onkydoc, then get pumped up for the 129th time.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
BREAKING NEWS: ONKYDOC SAYS NO MORE CHEMO AFTER THIS ONE!
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Great news * in bold *
Note to Bunk’s Doctor.
” Please can you prescribe Mr Bunk with something that makes him fun twice a month please as he is now off his regular meds. “
24×20 foot pergola completed on the porch. I am sore, tired of power tools. Need guinness.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Boom!!!!!
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Yes!
rain of lead wrote:
Yes
But I’ve been being power tool Boi.
I’ll see if it settles
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Congrats!
@ coldwarrior:
@ eaglesoars:
Fr. James Altman
@FatherAltman
SO. ABOUT THAT NEW POPE.
Dear family, many have been asking me about Prevost, the new “pope.” As obviously has been the case since the hierarchy betrayed us in their altar boy-raping and cover up, and abandoned us during the covid-plan-demic, the vast majority of the hierarchy have betrayed and abandoned us once again.
Has anyone sensed how absolutely irrelevant the Catholic Church has become under apostate Bergoglio and the anti-Catholic synodal-way he has tried to establish?
Does anyone really even care that this new guy “made history” as the first American pope? Factually, he is a relative unknown “American” with ZERO heroic pedigree of persecution for the Catholic Faith.
Was anyone – except for the likes of James Martin or Blase Cupich – really cheering for Prevost when he suddenly appeared on the balcony? Can you imagine the cheers that would have rung out had someone like Cardinal Sarah or Cardinal Zen stepped out?! That really tells us all we need to know. We have been betrayed and abandoned once again.
I understand that his history is aligned with “Bergoglio the Apostate,” such that he is aligned with the globalist communist agenda as seen in the climate change hoax, the anti-Catholic open-borders heresy, and Bergoglio’s false message of “mercy?” [remember: no sin, then no repentance, then no absolution nor forgiveness. period.]
Has any REAL Catholic not already “put two and two together” and, knowing that the Catholic Church essentially is financially bankrupt, figured out that the reason Bergoglio’s boys voted in Prevost was to strong-arm the United States into using tax-payer money to fund such things as Catholic Charities which did such evil things? Does any REAL Catholic not already know that Catholic NGO’s used our taxpayer money in so many corrupt ways to pay for the Godless globalist agenda throughout the world, an agenda that even facilitated child sex slaves crossing the southern border? (I can’t wait to see the names that show up on the Epstein list and other investigations)
Does any REAL Catholic not already know that Prevost’s “election” was all about U.S. taxpayer dollars?
FACT: A REAL Catholic Pope would begin every proclamation with the proclamation voiced by every prophet, St. John the Baptist and Jesus Christ the Lord: REPENT and BELIEVE and GO AND SIN NO MORE. PERIOD.
THAT is the REAL Gospel, the Real Deposit of Faith, handed down unchanged and unchangeable, over 2,000 years of Saints and Martyrs, and not that utter TRIPE that Prevost spewed forth from the balcony.
Memo to Prevost: there is NO bridge that can be built over the unbridgeable chasm between Heaven and Hell.
A REAL Catholic Pope would preach the words of Jesus as regards sin and salvation – the reason Jesus came in the first place – and not some latest version of the heretical “liberation theology” that originally came out of heretical South American hierarchy whereafter Prevost spent so much time in Peru.
So in betraying and abandoning us, it certainly seems that Bergoglio’s boys got the anti-Trump American Cardinal they wanted who now will try to use the Jesus’s Catholic Church to undermine this sovereign nation through the same methodical and heretical misrepresentation of Catholicism as Bergoglio did.
So be it. As St. Pio said, pray, hope and don’t worry.
So, the question to ask is not what is my opinion, the best question to ask is will Prevost be Catholic?
Here are four simple tests to get us started – though rest assured, this only is a start to proving he actually is Catholic:
1. Will he take away the red hats from Mahoney and Wuerl, two of the absolute worst altar-boy-raper-cover-uppers in the history of the entire Catholic Church, and demote and get rid of every other such viper in the hierarchy? [don’t hold your breath on this one – in his position as honcho over the dicastery for bishops, he did nothing about the cancer in the USCCB]
2. Will he remove McElroy from DC – McElroy being the treasonous poster boy for the criminal invasion of our southern border – and immediately put that viper out to pasture?
3. Will he publicly apologize for the Abu Dhabi agreement, reconsecrate St. Peter’s after the Pachamama abomination, re-assert that there is only one true Church and not many “ways” to Heaven, and end the anti-Catholic idiocy of synodality?
4. Will he publicly acknowledge the apostacy of Bergoglio regarding traditionis custodis, and ORDER every bishop in the world, as did Pope Benedict XVI, to allow, encourage and enable the only Dogmatic Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in the Roman Rite Church – commonly known as the Traditional Latin Mass?
If the answers to any or all of these four questions are “no,” then every time he henceforth rears his ugly anti-Catholic head, he is to be opposed as an anti-pope in the line of Bergoglio, along with every bishop or cardinal who enables his error. He, and they, must be publicly and vigorously excoriated for any diabolical contravention of the Deposit of Faith.
But honestly, I really do not have to state the obvious to every real Catholic. These things we already know.
Dear family, God gave us a brain and He expects us to use it. So instead of asking my opinion regarding Prevost, instead, ask “is he Catholic?” The fact that he let Bergoglio get away with apostacy for over a decade as Bergoglio led eight billion people down the road to Perdition seems to already have answered that question. Regardless, henceforth Prevost’s actions will continue to answer that question, loudly and clearly.
@ Aussie Infidel:
I went orthodox, thankfully.
It’s harder, but less crap.
Yeah Bunk! And, congratulations to surviving it all.
Looks like the lefties are losing their minds over the 46 South African refugees who just arrived.
Who didn’t see that coming?
@ coldwarrior:
@ eaglesoars:
Conclave Secrets — Why Prevost Won, Parolin Lost
By John GizziMonday, 12 May 2025
This may have been one of the most tumultuous papal conclaves in recent memory, with the cardinals of the Roman Church settling on what appears to be a unifying Pope, Leo XIV.
It is remarkable that Robert Prevost, an American, became Pope. It long had been held that an American could never become Pope.
But Vatican sources, who are impeccable, tell Newsmax he was the man to beat from the minute the conclave began.
Here’s what unfolded.
This conclave started last Wednesday with secret meetings in the Sistine Chapel.
But the discussions about replacing Francis began almost immediately after his death on April 21.
These meetings — general congregations — at first were comprised mainly of Vatican-based cardinals, but the numbers soon swelled as others arrived from distant parts of the world.
Sources said these meetings were very frank and, at times, quite difficult.
The open days were like “chaos,” one participant said.
Francis had named so many cardinals, and many had never even met before.
Other cardinals were shocked to hear tales of mismanagement and abuses under Francis.
Though Francis had talked of dialogue and openness in the church, he did not tolerate any criticism well.
Nor did Francis have much toleration for church traditions, including the Latin Mass, which he had sought to ban.
His reprisals against priests, bishops, and cardinals who spoke out against some of his radical statements and policies were often petty and nasty.
The cardinals openly discussed these and other problems in the pre-conclave meetings.
One problem was the bad concordant made between the Vatican and China.
Some saw it as a sellout to the Communist Chinese regime, giving Beijing de facto control over the church in China.
Cadinal Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state, was largely blamed for it.
And then there were financial abuse issues in the Vatican.
The Vatican has numerous financial problems, including a $1.5 billion unfunded liability for its pension system.
Several cardinals insisted the next Pope leave the Vatican hotel, Santa Marta, and return to the papal apartments.
Francis lived in Santa Marta, causing security and space issues for Cardinals and Bishops. (Leo has moved his residence back to the papal apartments.)
By the time the conclave began, Parolin, the named “front-runner” for Pope, had little chance.
One participant told me that by the day the conclave began, Parolin looked “beat up.”
Another told me Parolin was a good priest, but had been “tortured” by Francis who “changed his mind every five minutes” and was notoriously difficult to work with.
Parolin had sought to resign more than once as secretary of state, but was urged to stay because he was a stabilizing force at the Vatican.
The Conclave Meets
The meeting of the conclave is secret, but inevitably word spills as to what happens there.
So it was, and I have a clear understanding of this conclave from multiple Vatican sources.
As the opening vote took place on Wednesday, it was helter-skelter.
Though quite controlling, Francis had never set in motion a plan to effectively name a successor.
Francis selected 108 of the 135 voting cardinals — an astounding 80% of them — and had he weighed in before his death with one candidate, he may have been able to push through his person.
Surprisingly, I was told, the strongest supporters of Francis had never organized to get behind one candidate.
“They were scattered all over the place,” one participant told me, recounting multiple candidates on the first ballot.
As the second and third votes took place, it became clear there were only three contenders.
First was Cardinal Erdo from Hungary. Church conservatives rallied behind him, giving him an initial block of votes.
Second was Parolin, who had some Francis votes and a group of Italian cardinals behind him.
Third was Prevost.
He began strong with the backing of North American cardinals like Blase Cupich of Chicago but also brought to the ballot “all of the Latin cardinals as a block.”
By the fourth vote, it was clear neither Parolin nor Erdo could win.
“The African and Asian cardinals saw where this was going and stampeded to Prevost,” my source said.
Prevost won handily on the fourth ballet, securing over 100 votes. Only 88 votes were needed for him to become the next Pope.
Prevost did not accidentally become Pope. Support for him appeared to be organized.
About 10 days before the conclave, a wave of articles hit the Catholic press suggesting that dark horse Prevost could win the papal ballot.
“The first American Pope? This cardinal has the best chance of making history in this conclave,” the liberal National Catholic Reporter headlined on April 30.
Though close to Francis, Prevost is seen as a church centrist.
He is liberal-leaning on economic and social justice issues, but conservative on church teachings and traditions.
Several Vatican sources have indicated that Leo will soon lift restrictions on the Latin mass.
During the general congregations, the conservative faction of the conclave liked what they heard from Prevost.
He frequently mentioned “Our Lord” and talked about the pastoral work of the church, one participant recalled.
No doubt, Prevost, as an American and somewhat unknown, was a bold choice.
https://www.newsmax.com/john-gizzi/pope-leo-vatican-catholic-church/2025/05/12/id/1210597/
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Oh thank God Bunk, I’m so happy for you!
@ Aussie Infidel:
That was fascinating thanks!
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
Not sure either how the votes were corralled so soon. Given that most of the 108 cardinals who were Francis appointees, many of whom didn’t even know each other personally, and that Prevost has only been a Cardinal for less than a couple of years, it appears too stage managed to only last into the fourth vote! Given the massive ‘leakage’ from within Conclave itself. Remember that each of the 135 voting Cardinals had to formally swear ‘individually’, under penalty of heresy against Canon Law, and excommunication from the RCC….. the ‘leakage’ from within the secret Conclave appeared massive ….. AGAIN.
Such obvious ‘leakage’, if true, brings into question whether the Swiss Guard initiated sweeping of the Conclave building for listening devices was professionally completed, in the week before the Conclave began. One has to recollect the period prior to Pope Francis’ Conclave 12 years past, that both the ‘San Gallen Group’ discussions, that in itself is a total criminal enterprise against Canon Law. Not to even mention additionally, the Francis Conclave itself , were deeply suspicious, and openly reported as having been penetrated by CIA electronic over-watch on both occasions. Some seem to never learn from their potentially ‘amateur hour’ security, on all of these past occasions. One has to ask just how factual these reports actually are? Given the power gambits involved, on these now three separate occasions, and the CIA’s past history, one must assume that the odds against CIA dabbling in power politics, are getting stacked pretty hard against inevitable CIA meddling ….AGAIN.
🙂
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
Still given that many voting in the current Conclave were members of the Masonic Lodge…..
What do they care about ‘heresy’??
🙂
You’re a 19-year-old kid.
You are critically wounded and dying in the jungle somewhere in the Central Highlands of Vietnam.
It’s November 14, 1965. LZ (landing zone) X-ray.
Your unit is outnumbered 8-1 and the enemy fire is so intense from 100 yards away, that your CO (commanding officer) has ordered the MedEvac helicopters to stop coming in.
You’re lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns, and you know you’re not getting out.
Your family is halfway around the world, 12,000 miles away, and you’ll never see them again.
As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day.
Then – over the machine gun noise – you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter.
You look up to see a Huey coming in. But, It doesn’t seem real because no MedEvac markings are on it.
Captain Ed Freeman is coming in for you. He’s not MedEvac so it’s not his job, but he heard the radio call and decided he’s flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire anyway.
Even after the MedEvacs were ordered not to come. He’s coming anyway. And he drops it in and sits there in the machine gun fire, as they load 3 of you at a time on board.
Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire to the doctors and nurses and safety. And, he kept coming back!! 13 more times!!
Until all the wounded were out. No one knew until the mission was over that the Captain had been hit 4 times in the legs and left arm.
He took 29 of you and your buddies out that day. Some would not have made it without the Captain and his Huey.
Medal of Honor Recipient, Captain Ed Freeman, United States Army, died at the age of 81, in Boise, Idaho.
https://x.com/Ikennect/status/1921964525772828731
David Hogg may actually be on to something. The problem is that liberal women are famously unattractive.
NEW: David Hogg gets a huge reaction from Bill Maher after saying Democrats need to reconnect with young men who just want to “get laid and have fun” without walking on eggshells.
He said the parties have flipped. Democrats are now the snobs that judge your every move.
“What I think happened last election is younger men—they would rather vote for somebody who they don’t completely agree with, they don’t feel judged by, than somebody who they do agree with, that they feel like they have to walk on eggshells around constantly because they’re going to be judged or ostracized or excommunicated.”
And because of that, young men are walking away.
“Nobody is perfect. But ultimately, what we have to do here is figure out how to bring people back in and work towards the bigger goal of advancing the future of this country and helping young people especially get by, so that they’re able to focus on their lives and getting with a young woman or something like that, instead of how are they going to pay their rent, for example, or how are they working their two jobs.
“Young people should be able to focus on what young people should be focused on, which is how to get laid and how to go and have fun.”
Maher clapped, stood up, and shook Hogg’s hand after that comment.
https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/1921037767414350195?
@ eaglesoars:
Hogg down! Hogg down!
https://patriots.win/p/19BGFOuqGX/congrats-to-dnc-vice-chair-david/c
and there is a key witness in the diddy trial that’s missing
@ eaglesoars:
“David Hogg may actually be on to something. The problem is that liberal women are famously unattractive.”
Hogg is just a rank opportunist with no idea what he is talking about, but must do his masters bidding. The cultural destruction of the west was in motion way before this effeminate-man-child arrived.
@ Possum:
@ lobo91:
@ Calo:
@ coldwarrior:
@ eaglesoars:
Muchisimas Grassyass to all!
I started choking up a little after the Onkydoc gave me the news, but I held it together, went back to business. I’ll have appointments for blood draws & fresh Signatera markers every three months, CT scan every four months. The Signatera tests are relatively new – it detects dead cancer cell DNA for early warning in case some little beastie decides to start fucking around again. Onkydoc said it’s unlikely, but if that happens I’ll just go back on 5FU infusions (with a capillary inhibitor other than Avastin).
I’m hoping that after a few months the drugs filter out and I can think a bit more clearly. I’m not going to be able to blame stupid on chemobrain any more.
Another benefit is I’ll get some days back that I didn’t have during infusion weeks. Drawback: the pretty nurses will miss their favorite patient.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
You will probably never know how many prayers have gone up for you.
I’m going to call it. South Africa. There is a race war against white farmers. Trump has given them asylum and they are arriving.
Trump is going to be called a racist for admitting whites but no one is going to call out blacks for the race war
eaglesoars wrote:
Read the comments on any MSM story about it. The consensus seems to be “they deserve it,” along with “Trump is a Nazi, so of course he’s importing more Nazis.”
WATCH: Someone Should Be Fired After CNN Analyst Goes on Wild, Racist Rant Against White South Afrikaners
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Things got wild on CNN on Monday night after a former Obama staffer and current CNN analyst decided to go on a racist rant over President Donald Trump admitting 48 South African refugees.
As RedState has reported, South Africa’s ruling party has infamously made singing “Kill the Boer,” which translates to “kill the farmer,” a staple of their political rallies. For context, the song specifically refers to white farmers (Afrikaners) and dates back to the country’s apartheid days. Laws to confiscate their land and extra-judicial killings have taken center stage over the last several years.
For some reason, though, that has greatly offended Democrats, who have finally found refugees they do not want to admit into the country. Funny how that works, right? I’m sure it’s just a coincidence. On the other hand, here’s Ashley Allison making it clear that it’s not one.
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/05/13/someone-should-be-fired-after-cnn-analyst-goes-on-wild-racist-rant-against-white-south-afrikaners-n2189017
NEW: MSNBC’s Yamiche Alcindor hyperventilates over the White South Africans who were granted refugee status by Trump.
“So the Trump admin, they’re saying that essentially these white South Africans assimilate better, and they’re also not as much of a security risk.”
“That’s really ah causing a lot of of of people to be appalled, frankly.”
“And I also should tell people that this violence that they’re talking about that are dealing with these Afrikaners.”
“I’ve been hearing from people that say there is violence in South Africa, but it’s affecting everybody of every single race.”
https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1922032573037085163?
Judge Hannah Dugan has been indicted by a Grand Jury for aiding/abetting the escape of the illegal from the courthouse.
https://x.com/BunkStrutts/status/1922424052100030630
@ eaglesoars:
Some, if not all of them, made it to the desk of the One In Charge.
I look at these women and think..you’re THIS old and you STILL have no purpose in life.
https://x.com/amuse/status/1922410933663449369
playing dress up
OH CANADA: Communists in Toronto protesting fossil fuels.
I think Hogg is out at DNC
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5297387-dnc-vice-chair-election-david-hogg-malcolm-kenyatta/