Because, America

[JWB]

100 fattest cities in America in 2025 revealed... did your hometown make the list?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14500461/100-fattest-cities-america-2025-revealed.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=social-twitter_mailonline

[Tim Sielbeck]

I don't give articles like this too much credit.  There isn't any mention of the criteria used to determine the ratings and if history is any indicator actually being fat isn't one of them.  Dallas was on one of these lists some time ago and none of the metrics used was actually measuring peoples heights and weights and body fat counts.

[Stargrunt6]

4 hours ago, JWB said:

100 fattest cities in America in 2025 revealed... did your hometown make the list?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14500461/100-fattest-cities-america-2025-revealed.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=social-twitter_mailonline

Wanna know why a random border town made the top of the list? 
 

https://english.elpais.com/health/2023-11-08/mexico-has-the-second-highest-obesity-rate-in-the-oecd.html

 

[Stargrunt6]

Hey @Murph, ever made an arrest like this?

 

11yo arrested for a false report.

 

 

Edited March 18 by Stargrunt6

[Tim Sielbeck]

That kid got what she deserved.

[Murph]

1 hour ago, Stargrunt6 said:

Hey @Murph, ever made an arrest like this?

 

11yo arrested for a false report.

 

 

No but I did tell a kid that his father could legally whup his butt and no, CPS had nothing to say about parental discipline as long as it was "reasonable", I mean normal people reasonable, not bleeding heart liberal CPS reasonable.  I quoted chapter and verse of the Penal Code and Code of Criminal Procedure.  The little sh** was stunned that he could not tell his dad to F off and get away with it.  

[JWB]

Ya gotta do better than that brah!

https://x.com/MailOnline/status/1902094368535720002

Man throws ice cubes on the floor and fakes a fall in insurance scam.

[Stargrunt6]

Felony indictment for tiktoker wh sprsyed bug spray on food

 

 

[Murph]

Good, these idiots need to know there are consequences, for too long we have allowed the insane to run the asylum.  Same with the Democrat terrorist groups, they need to be sent to prison.

[urbanoid]

[R011]

2 hours ago, urbanoid said:

Politically progressive. Personally repugnant. Militarily incompetent

Att least he was smart enough to quit rather than keep digging a hole.

[Ssnake]

Yeah, Johnson was quite the character. I just hope that Robert Caro gets the fourth volume done before he dies, which looks increasingly unlikely. He'll turn 90 on Halloween.

[Ivanhoe]

https://hilariusbookbinder.substack.com/p/the-average-college-student-today

Quote

I’m Gen X. I was pretty young when I earned my PhD, so I’ve been a professor for a long time—over 30 years. If you’re not in academia, or it’s been awhile since you were in college, you might not know this: the students are not what they used to be. The problem with even talking about this topic at all is the knee-jerk response of, “yeah, just another old man complaining about the kids today, the same way everyone has since Gilgamesh. Shake your fist at the clouds, dude.” So yes, I’m ready to hear that. Go right ahead. Because people need to know.

To me it appears that most (not all) Millennials and Zoomers are very disconnected from prior generations and more peer-focused. Thus, when all one's peers are spending 6+ hours a day on social media, that behavior becomes the norm.

 

[Ivanhoe]

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/damning-conduct-fbi-agents-stationed-asia-paid-sex-prostitutes-over-several-years
 

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FBI agents stationed overseas engaged in sex with prostitutes in Cambodia, the Philippines, and Thailand—sometimes while colleagues attended anti-human trafficking training, the New York Times reported.

The "damning conduct", which occurred between 2009 and 2018, involved agents paying for or accepting sex while socializing with each other and local police, revealing a culture where women were routinely exploited.

The report, made public after a New York Times lawsuit, offers the most detailed account yet of a scandal kept largely under wraps since the early Trump years. It surfaces as new FBI Director Kash Patel vows to overhaul the agency.

Prostitution is widespread but illegal in Cambodia, the Philippines, and Thailand—countries where FBI agents engaged in misconduct, despite the bureau’s ban on paying for sex and its stated focus on fighting human trafficking.

“The F.B.I. took swift action once alerted to the behavior,” the agency said, adding that those involved were fired and overseas personnel training has since been updated.

 

Seems to me that if you need to train FBI agents to not frequent prostitutes, the FBI's hiring criteria need some work. Then again, perhaps a tryst with a prostitute is part of the vetting process; a new agent unwilling to violate laws and social norms isn't going to fit in with the team.

Also seems obvious that an FBI agent filmed with an underaged tranny prostitute would be vulnerable to extortion.

[JWB]

https://x.com/GavinNewsom/status/1905826637704516007

Dems are in panic mode.

[JWB]

The ibs are finally admitting the problem is liberalism itself.

[Ivanhoe]

3 hours ago, JWB said:

The ibs are finally admitting the problem is liberalism itself.

Not all libs. Jonathan Chait wrote a missive about the COVID debacle, and its just astounding how he perceives reality. A TL;DR summary is; Rs dumb and emotional, Ds smart and logical.

[Stargrunt6]

On 3/30/2025 at 11:33 AM, JWB said:

The ibs are finally admitting the problem is liberalism itself.

No, they are adjusting their sails.

On 3/30/2025 at 3:12 PM, Ivanhoe said:

Not all libs. Jonathan Chait wrote a missive about the COVID debacle, and its just astounding how he perceives reality. A TL;DR summary is; Rs dumb and emotional, Ds smart and logical.

I read an article about in the National Review.  Sounds like he's bathing in teflon.

[Ivanhoe]

But wait! There's more!

And then this guy;

It takes a different kind of person to go on camera and sign gibberish, knowing that your gibberish will be replayed for years.

[Stargrunt6]

Open relationship types always be like ewwww

https://nypost.com/2025/04/01/us-news/ohio-polygamist-allegedly-ordered-her-husband-and-4-lovers-to-kidnap-torture-man-for-a-week-in-sick-revenge-plot/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_source=twitter

"An Ohio polygamist, her husband and her four lovers were thrown behind bars after they allegedly kidnapped and tortured a 26-year-old man held captive in a hotel room for a week — in a sick revenge scheme hatched by the group’s twisted matriarch."

[Ivanhoe]

If only there were 3 or 4 thousand years of experience that society could use to figure out what works and what doesn't.

 

[Sinistar]

if you take a look at china they may have learned a few things 

this is where it is attributed curses like may you get what you wish for and may you live in interesting times speak for themselves as to the situation if you survive long enough to arrive at those conclusions

 

if it would appear either on the individual level or on scales of societies cultures and civilizations

it is always zany no matter your efforts to somehow get a handle on it or manage it

 

buy the ticket

take the ride

- hunter s. thompson

 

Edited April 4 by Sinistar

[Ivanhoe]

This is actually a thing. A few years back I read of a case in coastal Texas where a guy who lived in a downmarket neighborhood had a "shower gun" in case a home invasion occurred when he was in the shower, and one day it came in handy.

 

[Tim Sielbeck]

 

[Tim Sielbeck]