Actually more from Carrick. So you wonkers from not Pittsburgh expect a diatribe like this. FYI Baconz is a Pittsburgher. (From the Mon Valley which is worster accent).
I've pretty much stopped drinking, but I don't want to be caught flatfooted on the day the world rejoices. I put a fresh bottle of champagne next to my mantle clock. A karmic runway, if you will.
Didn't we send some Navy warships to the Straight of Hormuz? How come I never read anything about them in the media? Weren't they supposed to clear the Straight of mines and scare the Iranians into surrendering, etc.??? Gee, that doesn't seem to have happened.
Claire McCaskill said something today about how voters are going to have to manage their expectations because Donald is going to absolutely try to
And I thought "Yes, and American voters are spoiled and expect everything to be fixed immediately -- but any professional pol who hasn't been planning for this might not be a professional, since we needed to be paying attention to this the whole entire time"
A far-right Republican candidate in Florida’s governor’s race has been accused of stiffing a high school debate champion over the better part of $11,000 in scholarship money she won from a company he founded.
Student Briana Whatley landed the awards as regional and national champion of Incubate Debate, a league-style competition set up by the candidate, James Fishback, to encourage youth to engage in political discourse.
A recording posted to Substack by Fishback in May 2024 shows Whatley, now a second-year history student at Florida State University, accepting a $10,000 check for besting seven other finalists in the 2024 Incubate Debate national championship, adding to two $500 area awards she previously won.
According to Florida Politics, Whatley is suing Fishback for not delivering $8,000 of the money that a letter from the company promised would be paid to her in full on the day she graduated high school in May last year.
The filing names Incubate Foundation Inc, the parent of Incubate Debate, and Fishback, 31, who is challenging front-running US congressman Byron Donalds, and Jay Collins, the lieutenant governor of Florida, for the Republican nomination for state governor in November.
Fishback wrote an essay for The Free Press, then owned by Bari Weiss, the CBS news editor-in-chief, stating that the National Speech and Debate Association had become a “woke” organization “hijacked by left-wing politics” that was telling students what they could and could not talk about.
Whatley, then a high school sophomore, told Fox News Digital that she was warned by the organization to refrain from bringing up then former president Donald Trump during debates because it would be “inappropriate”.
The ICEholes and immigration are experts at Catch-22s and relish in their use of it. For example:
> "Last week, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services sent [Jessica Treviño] a notice of intent to terminate her status for “unauthorized travel outside of the United States on or about March 25, 2026,” the same day she was deported from the country by the Department of Homeland Security." https://apnews.com/article/daca-immigration-texas-uscis-09071c1707e6e1d385ca503c9c75bc6f
Of interest here is the claim deportation = “unauthorized travel outside of the United States." Ms Treviño lives in the US under the DACA program, and she's been here over 25 years. Could this be a prototype for how the current regime will rid the nation of the scourge called DACA?
> "“This is what a deliberate, systematic effort to destroy DACA looks like in practice: target recipients one by one, manufacture justifications after the fact, and leave their children to grow up without them,” said Todd Schulte, president of FWD.us, a policy organization defending immigration rights." ibid
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Lessons (not) learned:
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history." Aldous Huxley
"We learn from history that we do not learn from history" Friedrich Hegel
> "If this cautionary tale [referencing Afghanistan and Iraq] had any lasting value, it was as a deterrent to politicians and generals tempted to rashly embark on open-ended conflicts without just cause, defined, achievable aims, and an exit strategy. ... And yet, it seems, the same disastrous pattern is now repeating after Donald Trump’s [sic] incomprehensibly foolish decision to attack Iran." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/02/donald-trump-iran-afghanistan-25-years-same-mistakes
(Sidebar: "A war he termed a “little excursion” is entering its sixth month" ibid
> "When The New York Times asked him how long the United States and Israel would continue the attacks, Trump [sic] said: “Well, we intended four to five weeks.” ibid
We have now seen "four to five weeks" like "people have never seen before.”
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Speaking of wars and unlearned lessons:
> "The Russian Army suffered record losses in July – General Staff [hed]
Monthly dynamics of losses of manpower of the occupiers in 2026.
◾ January: 31,710 people
◾ February: 26,090 people
◾ March: 31,960 people
◾ April: 32,980 people
◾ May: 33,760 people
◾ June: 39,290 people
◾ July: 42,860 people (a record figure for 2026).
"Overall, during the first seven months of 2026, enemy personnel losses amounted to 238,650 people," the General Staff added.
Russia hardly even bothers to push back against the West "winning the information war", because all it does is cause confusion, which generally suits their purpose.
Probably, although I don't know the Mean Joe one. It certainly has the feeling of an homage. ETA: oh yeah, just watched it (so that's what the anchor still photo is!), definitely.
This is a typical Pittsburgh Dad.
Actually more from Carrick. So you wonkers from not Pittsburgh expect a diatribe like this. FYI Baconz is a Pittsburgher. (From the Mon Valley which is worster accent).
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MXeNi0M8Uns&pp=ygUOUGl0dHNidXJnaCBkYWQ%3D
I've pretty much stopped drinking, but I don't want to be caught flatfooted on the day the world rejoices. I put a fresh bottle of champagne next to my mantle clock. A karmic runway, if you will.
Prudent decision.
Another day, Another Republican Congressman exposed as a harasser
Republican Rep. Chuck Edwards, who faces a tough reelection battle in #NC11, now faces formal censure over sexual harassment allegations
https://bsky.app/profile/the-downballot.com/post/3ms75bw2kx22e
https://bsky.app/profile/keithedwards.bsky.social/post/3ms7k4xgjn22b
Keith Edwards
@keithedwards.bsky.social
BREAKING: Jeanine Pirro is about to get fired.
Read here: www.edwardswire.com/p/she-choked...
"Counselor, you can either be disbarred or fired. Your choice."
"Ha, I made you think only one would happen."
The big question is which sycophantic pedophile attorney will take her place.
BREAK OUT THE SUBMARINE SAMMICHES!!!
Hold the veggies!
Thems explosive!
Those hot peppers can creep up on you at 3:00 AM.
Don't start waving that around, now!
Watch out for that stray spray of mayonnaise!
Damn, gallbladder, you just committed teh terrorizmsz!
Assault with a breadly weapon.
"Hey, look, it's Hedy Lamarr!"
"Breadly!"
Professor (Melissa) Murray and Ambassador (Norm) Eisen are talking about that right now
Drummer Martin Atkins is 67 years old today. From the Public Image Ltd. album This Is What You Want..., here's Atkins playing on "1981":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znU6qRj0R34
Here he is drumming on the 1989 video for the Nine Inch Nails song "Head Like A Hole":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao-Sahfy7Hg
Atkins also played with Ministry and Killing Joke, among others. Since 2006, he has primarily spent his time teaching.
"Head Like A Hole"...man, if you ever wanted an anthem for the times....
Remember when the Press tried to make us believe Hunter Biden’s paintings were somehow selling access to President Biden?
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‘How Is This Legal?!’ Manu Raju Gobsmacked Over Truth Social Selling Access To Trump’s Posts
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/how-is-this-legal-manu-raju-gobsmacked-over-truth-social-selling-access-to-trumps-posts/
Remember when Sarah Ferguson was trying to sell access to the Andrew Formerly Known as Prince? She got in a shitload of trouble for that.
Andrew was getting his own supply through Epstein . . .
I kind of tuned them out when they were trying to make us believe that
A girl has to at least TRY to stay sane
Didn't we send some Navy warships to the Straight of Hormuz? How come I never read anything about them in the media? Weren't they supposed to clear the Straight of mines and scare the Iranians into surrendering, etc.??? Gee, that doesn't seem to have happened.
Today's news:
“We have total control,” Trump said. “They call it a wall of steel, the United States wall of steel.”
In reality it's yet another United States Wall Of Bullshit!
Axios always gets the scoop, but then we know less than before.
𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘧 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘪𝘥𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘴, 𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘈𝘹𝘪𝘰𝘴
Well then, what's with all the fervor about the SAVE Act, fuckface?
Sure Jan.
Claire McCaskill said something today about how voters are going to have to manage their expectations because Donald is going to absolutely try to
And I thought "Yes, and American voters are spoiled and expect everything to be fixed immediately -- but any professional pol who hasn't been planning for this might not be a professional, since we needed to be paying attention to this the whole entire time"
One unexpected outcome of Nolan’s new movie - I realized I had been pronouncing the names as “Telemacheeus” and “Menelayus.”
It's all Greek to me.
Doesn't matter; ancient and modern Greek are only loosely related.
NICE TIMES!
For the long term:
Industry accounts for one-third of the US's CO2 emissions. What if there were ways to get them to switch over to 'greener' energy tech?
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2026/07/how-can-us-factories-get-cleaner-heat-these-ideas-may-help/
For the NOW:
A Cincinnati animal shelter rescued a kitten with a spinal injury. 'Gelato' was too small for their animal wheelchairs, so they had to improvise:
https://wapo.st/3Sar6Zp
𝐅𝐚𝐫-𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 $𝟖,𝟎𝟎𝟎
𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑎 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡𝑙𝑒𝑦 𝑠𝑢𝑒𝑠 𝐹𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑑𝑎 𝑔𝑢𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝐽𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝐹𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑢𝑛𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑦 ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑
A far-right Republican candidate in Florida’s governor’s race has been accused of stiffing a high school debate champion over the better part of $11,000 in scholarship money she won from a company he founded.
Student Briana Whatley landed the awards as regional and national champion of Incubate Debate, a league-style competition set up by the candidate, James Fishback, to encourage youth to engage in political discourse.
A recording posted to Substack by Fishback in May 2024 shows Whatley, now a second-year history student at Florida State University, accepting a $10,000 check for besting seven other finalists in the 2024 Incubate Debate national championship, adding to two $500 area awards she previously won.
According to Florida Politics, Whatley is suing Fishback for not delivering $8,000 of the money that a letter from the company promised would be paid to her in full on the day she graduated high school in May last year.
The filing names Incubate Foundation Inc, the parent of Incubate Debate, and Fishback, 31, who is challenging front-running US congressman Byron Donalds, and Jay Collins, the lieutenant governor of Florida, for the Republican nomination for state governor in November.
Fishback wrote an essay for The Free Press, then owned by Bari Weiss, the CBS news editor-in-chief, stating that the National Speech and Debate Association had become a “woke” organization “hijacked by left-wing politics” that was telling students what they could and could not talk about.
Whatley, then a high school sophomore, told Fox News Digital that she was warned by the organization to refrain from bringing up then former president Donald Trump during debates because it would be “inappropriate”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/03/republican-james-fishback-sued-student-debate-money
Put another way: "How DARE you be smarter than me!"
A threefer
The ICEholes and immigration are experts at Catch-22s and relish in their use of it. For example:
> "Last week, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services sent [Jessica Treviño] a notice of intent to terminate her status for “unauthorized travel outside of the United States on or about March 25, 2026,” the same day she was deported from the country by the Department of Homeland Security." https://apnews.com/article/daca-immigration-texas-uscis-09071c1707e6e1d385ca503c9c75bc6f
Of interest here is the claim deportation = “unauthorized travel outside of the United States." Ms Treviño lives in the US under the DACA program, and she's been here over 25 years. Could this be a prototype for how the current regime will rid the nation of the scourge called DACA?
> "“This is what a deliberate, systematic effort to destroy DACA looks like in practice: target recipients one by one, manufacture justifications after the fact, and leave their children to grow up without them,” said Todd Schulte, president of FWD.us, a policy organization defending immigration rights." ibid
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Lessons (not) learned:
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history." Aldous Huxley
"We learn from history that we do not learn from history" Friedrich Hegel
> "If this cautionary tale [referencing Afghanistan and Iraq] had any lasting value, it was as a deterrent to politicians and generals tempted to rashly embark on open-ended conflicts without just cause, defined, achievable aims, and an exit strategy. ... And yet, it seems, the same disastrous pattern is now repeating after Donald Trump’s [sic] incomprehensibly foolish decision to attack Iran." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/02/donald-trump-iran-afghanistan-25-years-same-mistakes
(Sidebar: "A war he termed a “little excursion” is entering its sixth month" ibid
> "When The New York Times asked him how long the United States and Israel would continue the attacks, Trump [sic] said: “Well, we intended four to five weeks.” ibid
We have now seen "four to five weeks" like "people have never seen before.”
-----
Speaking of wars and unlearned lessons:
> "The Russian Army suffered record losses in July – General Staff [hed]
Monthly dynamics of losses of manpower of the occupiers in 2026.
◾ January: 31,710 people
◾ February: 26,090 people
◾ March: 31,960 people
◾ April: 32,980 people
◾ May: 33,760 people
◾ June: 39,290 people
◾ July: 42,860 people (a record figure for 2026).
"Overall, during the first seven months of 2026, enemy personnel losses amounted to 238,650 people," the General Staff added.
As a reminder, since the start of the Great War, the Russian army's irreparable losses are approximately 14 times higher than those of the Ukrainian Defense Forces. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated this on Fox News." https://korrespondent.net/ukraine/4899182-armyia-rf-ponesla-rekordnye-potery-v-yuile-henshtab [transliteration from Russian]
fnord
Russia hardly even bothers to push back against the West "winning the information war", because all it does is cause confusion, which generally suits their purpose.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wXmub4-CNOc
Was this ad with Shaq a nod to the one with Mean Joe?
Yes!
Probably, although I don't know the Mean Joe one. It certainly has the feeling of an homage. ETA: oh yeah, just watched it (so that's what the anchor still photo is!), definitely.
He’s not joking. He doesn’t know what a joke it.
‘I Should Be Entitled to It’: Trump Jokes He Should Get ‘Millions of Dollars’ in Public Gifts
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/i-should-be-entitled-to-it-trump-jokes-he-should-get-millions-of-dollars-in-public-gifts/
If we give it to him, will he go away and never come back?
He literally got a $400 gift plane from Qatar. He literally is trying to set up a slush fund.
None of this is a fucking joke.
Oh, I think you're entitled to more than a few things, fuckface...
The only gift President Tangsnorter deserves to get is a permanent cell at Leavenworth.
Spokane 🔥
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/8-30-a-m-california-interagency-incident-management-team-7-spokane-area-fires-update/vi-AA29jNWv
I haven't seen Skepti and Paul today.
Morons are flying their personal drones around the fires 🔥
The Trump administration is now literally begging randos for ideas on how to get out of Iran, because Trump will sure never think of any:
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/politics/us-military-iran-war-troops-punish?Date=20260803&Profile=CNN
Great. A cabinet position for Catturd™ can't be far off.
Have they tried setting a paper bag of dogshit on fire next to the Strait of Hormuz?
I have an idea:
Arrest and remove Hogbreath, Trump, Vance and a few other cabinet members.
Peace will flourish around the world.
Followed by arresting Netanyahu the next time he sets foot in this country.
Let's ask those five Trump supporters at that Denny's in Barbecued Yarbles, Mississippi.
So, he's raffling off geopolitical decision-making? Sounds about right.