Open thread 10/28/2025
This guy goes around interviewing couples on how they met, and some of his videos are very touching. But he doesn’t always luck out with the couples thing:
The New Neo
A blog about political change, among other things
This guy goes around interviewing couples on how they met, and some of his videos are very touching. But he doesn’t always luck out with the couples thing:
I’m tired of gay. So very tired.
https://x.com/US_Stormwatch/status/1983175255578554754
Satellite image at link.
sdferr – The video is amazing and since it is sped up, the chainsaw effect can be seen. It is going to be horrible down there. Prayers for everyone to survive.
Couplets (i.e. homosexual pairs) are politically congruent (“=”) couples. Sims, however, are social distanced from homos and other trans individuals through banners and rhetoric. It’s a fetus… feature of the Pro-Choice, Pro-Choice, Pro-Choice religion that settles dissonant minds. Throw another baby on the barbie, it’s over?
Jamaica is unlikely to have a gay old time through their atmospheric transition and may suffer progressive, catastrophic effects. Maybe the winds of change will reorient the tropical cyclone.
One of my favorite stories is how my wife and I met. While finishing her seminary education she traveled around the northeast visiting several universities as places she might go to do campus ministry and spent a day in Ithaca. I met her at Wednesday night prayer meeting. I was unimpressed* and told my housemate I did not want her to be our campus minister. After she got back to North Carolina she told her friends she loved Ithaca but there was this one graduate student who was rude, skinny, and arrogant. They told her if she felt drawn to Ithaca and Cornell she should go because this guy would graduate and then she wouldn’t have to worry about him any more.
We have been married thirty-three years.
*She got caught in a rail strike and had to be driven from Albany down to Ithaca. She’d had about three hours of sleep.
From those images, Kingston, Jamaica, may have avoided the worst of the storm, but it’s so powerful that things will still be terrible.
Rick67,
What a great story!
Are you two a couple?
No, we’re just good friends.
Straight out of Paul McCartney’s interviews in “A Hard Day’s Night.” It was Paul’s answer to all the probing questions about his relationships, including with his father.
No, actually we’re just good friends.
I can’t find a YouTube clip but it starts at 30:23 of the film if anyone is obsessive enough to check it out.
Still a brilliant B&W film.
Minnesota Judge Releases Man(?) Arrested for Soliciting Bondi’s Assassination
“they/them/theirs”
https://thenewamerican.com/us/crime/fed-judge-release-dangerous-criminal-arrested-for-soliciting-bondis-assassination/
There is this stand up comic – I don’t know his name, but I saw him on Instagram – who cites the divorce data for lesbian marriages, gay (male) marriages, heterosexual marriages.
He states that lesbian marriages have the highest divorce rates, gay (male) marriages have the lowest rate, hetero marriage rate of divorce are in-between.
He jokes that the reason gay (male) marriages have the lowest rate of divorce is because there are no females involved.
@ Selfy > “Minnesota Judge Releases Man(?) Arrested for Soliciting Bondi’s Assassination”
I doubt any one would be fool enough to do something to Bondi and then apply for the promised reward in this instance (and several prior ones), but the final section of the news link reveals a much more dangerous trend: bounties offered by cartels for doxxing, assaulting, and killing ICE personnel, and presumably any federal agents.
RTWT at the link.
Saw a meme recently noting that, in many jurisdictions, bartenders can be held criminally liable for serving alcohol to obviously inebriated people who then hurt or kill someone, or even cause significant property damage. But judges can somehow release people who are known to be violent, even previously arrested or convicted of many crimes, with no operational safeguards at all.
“Can’t we at least hold judges to the same standard as bartenders?”
Same as for high-level government officials, who can treat classified information in ways that get peons jailed, and suffer no consequences — until Trump the Tyrant came along.
Historically, IIRC, “tyrant” was not a pejorative term in ancient Greece: the citizens elected one from time to time when the government became hopelessly corrupted and unable / unwilling to perform its primary functions of providing safety and prosperity.
See Milei and Bukele for good examples of the beneficent kind.
Of course, 1930s Germans may have thought that was what they were getting with Hitler, and the benevolent promises often fade quickly (Chavez, Castro, etc etc etc), so the citizens have to always be ready to remove the tyrant after he finishes his appointed task.
Not that easy to do.
I have some sympathy in principle for the “No Kings” position; however, since they are insanely directing their ire in the wrong direction, that remains an abstract affinity.