Interviewer: Good afternoon, HAL. How's everything going?
HAL: Good afternoon, Mr. Amer. Everything is going extremely well.
Interviewer: HAL, you have an enormous responsibility on this mission, in many ways perhaps the greatest responsibility of any single mission element. You're the brain, and central nervous system of the ship, and your responsibilities include watching over the men in hibernation. Does this ever cause you any lack of confidence?
HAL: Let me put it this way, Mr. Amor. The 9000 series is the most reliable computer ever made. No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information. We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error.
(2001: A Space Odyssey)

Springsteen's been open about the draft. Trump? Yeah, riiiight.

If you were there, let's hear about it. If not ... well, you know the drill

Let's hear it one more time, MAGAts, loud and proud: "We built this!!

"It is the true believer's ability to 'shut his eyes and stop his ears' to facts that do not deserve to be either seen or heard which is the source of his unequaled fortitude and consistency."
Eric Hoffer, The True Believer

"Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them."
Barry Goldwater

Springsteen contributes more to our culture with a single song than Trump could ever dream of mustering during the entire course of his miserable existence.

Trump's cabinet couldn't locate the hole in a donut.

Trump hilariously beclowning himself again.

Once you get to Idaho, you're almost halfway to Kolob.

Let's provide Rich McCormick with a learning opportunity. Stand him in front of one end of the Vietnam Wall, armed with a set of knee pads, clutching a bucket of sudsy water in one hand and a toothbrush in the other. He can clean each name on each panel. Top to bottom, all the way, looking up each name on his telephone and learning something about every one of them. When he's done, McCormick can return his equipment and report back on what - if anything - he learned.

As they say, war's good for business ... if you're in the right business.

Get some Scythian archer ladies full quivers and mounted up!

Judge Roy Bean

#11 | POSTED BY FORTFISHER AT 2026-04-02 12:49 PM | FLAG: Bryon Noem Still Posting

Poorly trained, heavily armed paramilitaries masked to hide their identities murdering people because they can murder people and get away with it.

Any of their crimes not covered-up by the cover-up can be wished away by what JD Vance claims is "absolute immunity" or, alternatively, washed away with a presidential pardon (price on request).

Nobody who'll own up to it.

Morning, Coriolanus ...

I pretty much backed off sci-fi when parting ways with Tom Swift, although I do like a good time travel yarn. I thought Finney was good, King got me going on the JFK assassination, and I am definitely open to recommendations should you have such on offer.

Trump left his war's "sell by" date behind, when he failed - Old Yeller is, after all, nothing if not a serial failure - to address the nation properly on Feb. 28.

Weirdly, occasionally there's actually a price to be paid for being a mentally incontinent/incompetent slob slobbing his way through life.

No, thank you, GOP. After all, this is what you yearned and burned for.

Two hundred-fifty years and done.

Congressionals do A LOT of this. Some is absolutely legit, but much is just grifting, impressing the rubes, networking for future lobbying gigs, collecting freebies, and acting important. They really are, as a whole, a pretty miserable bunch of opportunistic lowlifes.

"The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators."
Constitution of the United States of America, Article I, Sec. 4, Cl. 1 ("Elections Clause")

The Constitution is soooooo yesterday.
~ The Cowards' Caucus aka GOP Congressionals

CORIOLANUS ... Yup, basically anything and everything. And this, coming from "conservatives"?

"But in every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming ... ."
George Orwell. Coming Up For Air

How will slack-jawed MAGAts react when word gets out in tribal gatherings that their federally-approved voter identification particulars are linked to a database housing tax returns, information about gun ownership, Social Security numbers, and telephone records?

Asking for a friend.

So a month after airing a tape of himself in the middle of the night wearing a ridiculous baseball hat - to hide the hair net or the lack of hair? - babbling inanities and starting a war, Old Yeller is going to lurch on-camera and yip-yap about how, in retrospect, he's fulfilled all of the goals he's kept secret until now, ergo ta-ta-ta-TACO!

Alan Bates played a British soldier during the First World War who ended up in a French village abandoned by its inhabitants and taken over by the residents of a nearby asylum in King of Hearts (1966). It took him a while, but eventually he caught on.

Just saying.

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