My family is 100% of German heritage, my great grandparents and great great grandparents immigrated to Wisconsin between 1860 and 1890. They came for a better life, to farm and to open taverns :)Later many members who did not immigrate lived on the East side of the Berlin wall. I remember my family here shipping plastic goods like baby bottles etc to our family in East Germany because East Germany had very little money for domestic spending. It took sixteen years to buy a car. The monies all went to the then Soviet Union.So here we are again, looking not too far down the road at the collapse of the economy here, modeled after Putin's Russia.
I think we need to repeat, early and often, that Repubs aren't Repubs any more. They are trumpy cultists. People who automatically vote for (R) need to understand this. They are not actually voting for Repubs.
Given that it's Trump and Pete from Fox the troops withdrawn from Germany will be in such "woke" specialties as logistic and medicine. Because who needs ammunition for their weapons, or medical aid after a battle? American soldiers will just beat the crap out of enemy tanks with their bare hands.
And speaking of foreign cars here's a video from one my of favourite Japanese YouTubers, Fuu. Here she drives a 20 year old Toyota Century. The Century has been Toyota's flagship luxury car since 1967, initially honouring the 100th birthday of Sakichi Toyoda, the founder of Toyota Industries. Click on the CC button for English subtitles.
Not surprising that they're keeping Landstuhl. In terms of flight time from Iran, it's perfectly located. Someone obviously reminded them that this hospital saved many lives of those wounded in the gulf wars for example.
Nicole Hollander, a biting cartoon artist whose comic strip “Sylvia,” about a big-haired, cigarette-smoking, cat-loving, hyper-opinionated feminist, made her a singular voice on the funny pages for more than 30 years, died on April 23 in Chicago. She was 86.
Her death, in an assisted-living center, was confirmed by her friend and executor Tom Greensfelder, who said he did not know the cause but that she had been treated for respiratory issues and dementia.
With a loose drawing style that echoed Jules Feiffer’s, Ms. Hollander made Sylvia, who got her own strip in 1980, a tart-tongued, witty, loquacious single mother who held court — sometimes from her bathtub — on sex and relationships as well as politics, health care reform, the environment and other hot-button issues...
In one such cartoon by Ms. Hollander, a man says to Sylvia: “Admit it, Syl, you need us. Can you imagine a world without men?”
“No crime and lots of happy, fat women,” Sylvia responds.
...Nicole Marilyn Garrison was born on April 25, 1939, in Chicago, the elder of two daughters of Henry Garrison, a carpenter and deli owner, and Shirley (Mazur) Garrison, a hospital administrator. From an early age, Nicole recognized that the women around her, particularly her mother and her mother’s friends Esther and Olga, were funny.
“I loved to listen to their conversations — all the jokes and irreverence and backbiting,” she said in a 2010 interview with the online publication Tablet.
She drew as a child, and later said that she discovered her career by watching one of the regulars at her father’s deli. The man “seemed to have all the time in the world to stare into his coffee cup,” Ms. Hollander wrote. “I found out he was a freelance book illustrator. I had no idea that was a job. I was hooked.”
She studied painting at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, graduating in 1960 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, and she married Paul Hollander in 1962. Four years later, she earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from Boston University and divorced her husband.
“I thought, ‘OK, I’m an adult, I have a married name, I proved that I could do it, and now I don’t have to do it ever again,’” she told The Chicago Tribune in 1990. (She didn’t.) She is survived by her sister, Jana Carpenter.
More recently, Ms. Hollander kept drawing despite her dementia, with help from her caregiver, Karen Czernek, and even had a gallery show at her assisted-living center.
“The drawings had a more surreal quality and were less tied to a character,” her friend Mr. Greensfelder said, adding that they were “odd but beautiful.”
Iran wants the U.S. to lift its blockade, before opening the Strait of Hormuz, and meeting for in person negotiations.
Trump rejected this.
It’s fucking pathetic that a government that murdered thousands of peaceful protestors in January are coming off as the reasonable ones in dealing with what Trump unleashed by attacking them.
Remember when every news outlet on the planet would have headed to their fainting couches if a president blatantly disregarded a supreme court decision?
For some time now that would only happen if a Dem disregarded a supreme court decision. And just imagine what they'd be reporting if Obama had destroyed a huge part of the White House.
So OT, duh, but have something pleasant to report. Some of you may remember (or not, no biggie) that back in November I had to give up THC in any form. Had pretty much fried my endocannabinoid system, was having day-long panic attacks with or without, BP was bad with or without too, and cold turkey was the only way--and although I only ever had in the evenings withdrawal was severe and lasted for almost a month. (May be a genetic component--relatives on my father's side report a similar phenomenon, like it turns on you suddenly.) But I didn't want to go back to consuming a bottle of wine every two days, and I did sorely miss weed mainly for long walks at the end of a productive but tiring day.
I can now report that, as long as I limit it to no more than twice a month--because I do NOT want to go back to the way it was--I can load a bowl, take a lovely long walk, enjoy a movie or binge a show, and then sleep like a baby. It feels like cleaning my emotional lint filter, so to speak. That's a huge relief, to have a reward possible from time to time. And I continue to feel good without it too, better than I ever thought possible. I still love it, but have to respect my limits. The end.
Cromwell was a right bastard, and I thoroughly agree with the Irish about him, but he did have a *few* intriguing ideas that should be considered if we decide on crowning an American king.
There's also some solid stuff in "Utopia" by Thomas More. One idea was that if wars started, the leaders who started them should be targeted by offering huge bounties (payable to survivors, if necessary). Oddly enough, countries don't do that because the guys at the top are afraid too. They only want to put other people at risk.
“conservative commentator Jack Posobiec, who posted a Tweet with "86 46" during Joe Biden's presidency and recently interviewed Blanche at the Conservative Political Action Conference.”
My family is 100% of German heritage, my great grandparents and great great grandparents immigrated to Wisconsin between 1860 and 1890. They came for a better life, to farm and to open taverns :)Later many members who did not immigrate lived on the East side of the Berlin wall. I remember my family here shipping plastic goods like baby bottles etc to our family in East Germany because East Germany had very little money for domestic spending. It took sixteen years to buy a car. The monies all went to the then Soviet Union.So here we are again, looking not too far down the road at the collapse of the economy here, modeled after Putin's Russia.
I think we need to repeat, early and often, that Repubs aren't Repubs any more. They are trumpy cultists. People who automatically vote for (R) need to understand this. They are not actually voting for Repubs.
You know who’s happy as a pig in shit that Trump’s pulling troops from Germany? Vladdy Putin. Trump is the gift that keeps on giving…
It is Germany's job to end the war in Ukraine? Well, alright then. Even if Merz did nothing, it would be better than Trump riding Putin's meat.
86 um, tariffs, yeah tariffs
Given that it's Trump and Pete from Fox the troops withdrawn from Germany will be in such "woke" specialties as logistic and medicine. Because who needs ammunition for their weapons, or medical aid after a battle? American soldiers will just beat the crap out of enemy tanks with their bare hands.
And speaking of foreign cars here's a video from one my of favourite Japanese YouTubers, Fuu. Here she drives a 20 year old Toyota Century. The Century has been Toyota's flagship luxury car since 1967, initially honouring the 100th birthday of Sakichi Toyoda, the founder of Toyota Industries. Click on the CC button for English subtitles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1WniHPKAxY
(Given her haircut and big glasses I suspect Fuu's screen name is a reference to Fuu Hououji from the manga and anime Magic Knight Rayearth.)
If you've ever been to the airport in Frankfurt, Germany, you probably noticed that it's also a *major* logistics hub for the American military.
I wouldn't put it past Shitfaced to terminate everything and leave in a huff.
From what I read, they’re leaving the medical personnel in Germany.
I think logistics people and some combat people are being pulled.
Not surprising that they're keeping Landstuhl. In terms of flight time from Iran, it's perfectly located. Someone obviously reminded them that this hospital saved many lives of those wounded in the gulf wars for example.
Off Topic:
𝗡𝗶𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿, 𝗔𝗰𝗲𝗿𝗯𝗶𝗰 𝗙𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁, 𝗗𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝟴𝟲
Nicole Hollander, a biting cartoon artist whose comic strip “Sylvia,” about a big-haired, cigarette-smoking, cat-loving, hyper-opinionated feminist, made her a singular voice on the funny pages for more than 30 years, died on April 23 in Chicago. She was 86.
Her death, in an assisted-living center, was confirmed by her friend and executor Tom Greensfelder, who said he did not know the cause but that she had been treated for respiratory issues and dementia.
With a loose drawing style that echoed Jules Feiffer’s, Ms. Hollander made Sylvia, who got her own strip in 1980, a tart-tongued, witty, loquacious single mother who held court — sometimes from her bathtub — on sex and relationships as well as politics, health care reform, the environment and other hot-button issues...
In one such cartoon by Ms. Hollander, a man says to Sylvia: “Admit it, Syl, you need us. Can you imagine a world without men?”
“No crime and lots of happy, fat women,” Sylvia responds.
...Nicole Marilyn Garrison was born on April 25, 1939, in Chicago, the elder of two daughters of Henry Garrison, a carpenter and deli owner, and Shirley (Mazur) Garrison, a hospital administrator. From an early age, Nicole recognized that the women around her, particularly her mother and her mother’s friends Esther and Olga, were funny.
“I loved to listen to their conversations — all the jokes and irreverence and backbiting,” she said in a 2010 interview with the online publication Tablet.
She drew as a child, and later said that she discovered her career by watching one of the regulars at her father’s deli. The man “seemed to have all the time in the world to stare into his coffee cup,” Ms. Hollander wrote. “I found out he was a freelance book illustrator. I had no idea that was a job. I was hooked.”
She studied painting at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, graduating in 1960 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, and she married Paul Hollander in 1962. Four years later, she earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from Boston University and divorced her husband.
“I thought, ‘OK, I’m an adult, I have a married name, I proved that I could do it, and now I don’t have to do it ever again,’” she told The Chicago Tribune in 1990. (She didn’t.) She is survived by her sister, Jana Carpenter.
More recently, Ms. Hollander kept drawing despite her dementia, with help from her caregiver, Karen Czernek, and even had a gallery show at her assisted-living center.
“The drawings had a more surreal quality and were less tied to a character,” her friend Mr. Greensfelder said, adding that they were “odd but beautiful.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/arts/design/nicole-hollander-dead.html
My sister loved the acerbic Sylvia as much as she loved the acerbic Maude. RIP Nicole and Bea Arthur and my sis.
Did anyone else catch the successive NPR news pieces on Friday that went like this:
1. "The war is over. We don't have to seek congressional authorization."
2. "Gas prices will come down as soon as the war is over."
Iran wants the U.S. to lift its blockade, before opening the Strait of Hormuz, and meeting for in person negotiations.
Trump rejected this.
It’s fucking pathetic that a government that murdered thousands of peaceful protestors in January are coming off as the reasonable ones in dealing with what Trump unleashed by attacking them.
We have always been at war with eastasia
in that order
why they didn't just add, after the second one, "NPR has contacted the WH for comment on whether the President thinks war is or is not over."
Remember when every news outlet on the planet would have headed to their fainting couches if a president blatantly disregarded a supreme court decision?
For some time now that would only happen if a Dem disregarded a supreme court decision. And just imagine what they'd be reporting if Obama had destroyed a huge part of the White House.
Yes. It was one Biden ago.
So OT, duh, but have something pleasant to report. Some of you may remember (or not, no biggie) that back in November I had to give up THC in any form. Had pretty much fried my endocannabinoid system, was having day-long panic attacks with or without, BP was bad with or without too, and cold turkey was the only way--and although I only ever had in the evenings withdrawal was severe and lasted for almost a month. (May be a genetic component--relatives on my father's side report a similar phenomenon, like it turns on you suddenly.) But I didn't want to go back to consuming a bottle of wine every two days, and I did sorely miss weed mainly for long walks at the end of a productive but tiring day.
I can now report that, as long as I limit it to no more than twice a month--because I do NOT want to go back to the way it was--I can load a bowl, take a lovely long walk, enjoy a movie or binge a show, and then sleep like a baby. It feels like cleaning my emotional lint filter, so to speak. That's a huge relief, to have a reward possible from time to time. And I continue to feel good without it too, better than I ever thought possible. I still love it, but have to respect my limits. The end.
Thanks for listening!
Cromwell was a right bastard, and I thoroughly agree with the Irish about him, but he did have a *few* intriguing ideas that should be considered if we decide on crowning an American king.
There's also some solid stuff in "Utopia" by Thomas More. One idea was that if wars started, the leaders who started them should be targeted by offering huge bounties (payable to survivors, if necessary). Oddly enough, countries don't do that because the guys at the top are afraid too. They only want to put other people at risk.
Is the Stable Genius unaware that Charles is of German ancestry? Does he know where the "Saxons" in "Anglo-Saxons" came from?
The Windsors were the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha until WW1, when anti-German sentiment caused them to make a name change in 1917.
Other royals also followed, like the Battenbergs changing their name to Mountbatten.
The Saxons came from Saxophonia.
Tenor saxophonia?
I like the mountains of Alto Saxophonia.
Thank you for knowing how many “a”s are in Saxophonia.
I certainly wasn’t going to go with the common misspelling and write Saaxophaniaa.
I’m more aggrieved by the too common saxAphonia.
what a wanker
Apparently a bellend.
The old imperial powers ultimately couldn't afford imperialism. But DJT is no student of history.
Or of business. Or of administration. Or of anything, really.
He's pretty good at drawing naked little girls...credit where credit is due...
EPSTEIN FILES GODDAMMIT
our local burger place no longer puts tomatoes on the burgers and sandwiches due to increased cost.
Mark Davis, an unaffiliated candidate running in Florida’s 16th district, drives around with an “8647” license plate, wears an “86 47” hat, and sells hats and a t-shirt featuring the numbers on his campaign’s website. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/arrest-us-i-dare-you-veteran-selling-8647-merch-says/ar-AA22bPSn?cvpid=7820ee3db2e64eade86400f091736f63
I sent him $$. I didn't find merch on his website though. I don't live in Florida.
When’s this guy going to be indicted?
“conservative commentator Jack Posobiec, who posted a Tweet with "86 46" during Joe Biden's presidency and recently interviewed Blanche at the Conservative Political Action Conference.”
https://abcnews.com/US/grand-jury-indicts-former-fbi-director-james-comey/story?id=132425678
Every day, Comey's lawyer gets to amend his motion to dismiss to add a new exhibit, LOL.