TBoneTX

Four in a row! Here's our Official Weekly VAWA-Thread Joke on this Sunday: =========================================== AN EXCELLENT NEW SOLDIER An Israeli soldier who just enlisted asked his Commanding Officer for a 3-day pass. The CO said, "Are you crazy? You just joined the Israeli Army, and you already want a 3-day pass? You must do something spectacular for that recognition!" The soldier came back a day later in an Arab tank. The CO was impressed, and asked, "How did you do it?" "Well, sir, I jumped in a tank and went toward the border with the Arabs. I approached the border, and I saw an Arab tank. I put my white flag up, and the Arab in the tank put his white flag up. I said to the Arab soldier, 'Do you want to get a 3-day pass?' So we exchanged tanks!"

Swalwell implosion smells like material for an internal Democrat civil war Taking a page from their very successful Cesar Chavez playbook, Democrats have effectively taken Eric Swalwell out of the race for California governor based on a cavalcade of sudden sexual harassment and predation allegations, everything from his sending pictures of his privates to unwilling interns, to rape allegations by female staffers who were intoxicated and incapable of giving consent, along with video of the married Swalwell being 'serviced' by hookers in his home. Swalwell also reportedly retaliated against those who complained, threatening and firing them from their jobs and up until now getting away with it. Democrats knew about this for years, but only now has the Cesar Chavez hammer come out of the woodwork to dislodge him the race. Oh, sure, Swalwell says the charges are false and he's not dropping out of the race, but just look at him: [...] https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/04/swalwell_implosion_looks_like_material_to_reveal_an_internal_civil_war.html

The Kristi Noem story just got so much worse Kristi Noem started out her political career looking like a normal woman. When she was young, she had normal lips and, given that her brunette coloring didn't require much makeup, used discreet amounts of eye makeup. By the time she left Homeland Security, Noem had weird, puffy lips and was often seen wearing makeup that rivaled Tammy Faye Bakker's. In addition, she was widely rumored to be having an affair with her aide, Corey Lewandowski, and the two of them used lots of taxpayer money to buff her political credentials, allegedly with an eye to her running for president. The whole thing was unseemly and smelled of a deeply insecure woman trying to make herself feel good. With the latest revelations about her husband, Bryon's relationship with a fetish dominatrix, maybe there was a good reason for her manifest low self-esteem. [...] https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/04/the_kristi_noem_story_just_got_so_much_worse.html

Scintillating Saturday repartee, yawn man. ------- Thrilling Saturday report, see man: Fever broke overnight and stayed gone, afebrile we man. We arose for good at Many a.m., hour before noon man. Breakfast/lunch was cereal, ingest we man. Mini-B. awoke at half-past 2 p.m., no misprint here man. Our only out-of-casa experience was retrieving an Rx, retrieve we man. Because it was so close to din-din time, we decided on one big lunch/din-din, decide Two Guys man. Lunch/din-din was canned corn, air-fried chicken chunks in honey-mustard, & r'b'r, ingest Two Guys man. We siesta'd thereafter for 2 hours, zzz we man. Movie night was Spenser Confidential, watch Two Guys man. Many (2+2+2) -- si man, Many (2+2+2) -- bowls of Costco popcorn were consumed, ingest Two Guys man. No party with the rubias tonight, no cavort we man. Must see Mama T-B. at least briefly on Sunday, see we man senior she man man. Unsure of any proximal ESs, maybe will research we man man. And that was/is our thrilling Saturday, report we man.

Nope. Only if you have them accessible, then they're nice to bring. Bring these, and explain to the officer the rest of what you've told us.

Awful. ~~~~~ Former Sen. Ben Sasse, Bleeding from His Face, Shares Brutal Reality of Terminal Cancer at Age 54 [...] The former Republican senator and brief University of Florida president, 54, appeared on The New York Times' podcast with significant amounts of blood on his face, less than four months after revealing he had been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. At the time, Sasse described the diagnosis as a "death sentence." Speaking with podcast host and columnist Ross Douthat, Sasse got candid about his own mortality, and why he's chosen to speak out publicly in his remaining time. [...] https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/former-sen-ben-sasse-bleeding-195629667.html

Kentucky woman was picked up by a garbage truck’s grappler claw and crushed, her family's lawyer says The family of a Kentucky woman, who was killed after a garbage truck accidentally picked her up, plans to pursue legal action against the city after the county coroner confirmed the woman's cause of death was blunt force and compressional trauma. For weeks, Louisville police asserted that 35-year-old Tyrah Adams died after having "come into contact" with a garbage truck during a "routine" cleanup in an alley. [...] https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/kentucky-woman-picked-garbage-truck-153143014.html

Never good, and probably a guaranteed loss in almost every instance.

Wonderful news. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Israel Eliminated 180 Hezbollah Jihadis in One Minute Israel Defense Forces (IDF) coordinated its Friday round of strikes on Hezbollah terrorists so precisely that they took out nearly 200 terrorists within a minute's time. After Iranian terror proxy Hezbollah marked the ceasefire by immediately bombarding Israeli civilians, the IDF, of course, struck back. And completely contrary to all the propaganda that has been circulating nonstop from Jew-haters and Islamic terrorists online, Israel is not targeting Lebanese civilians; it is targeting Hezbollah operatives. The only reason Israel has to conduct some operations in "civilian" areas is that Hezbollah, like Hamas, uses civilians and their infrastructure as human shields. In the post below, the IDF noted its efforts to avoid civilian casualties. [...] https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/04/10/israel-eliminated-180-hezbollah-jihadis-in-one-minute-n4951669

A Cease-fire that Changes Nothing—and Risks Everything On Tuesday evening, President Trump announced a two-week cease-fire with Iran, pulling back from strikes he had threatened would kill "a whole civilization." The deal asked one thing of Tehran: reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran appeared to agree. By Wednesday morning, the strait was closed again. Anyone acquainted with this regime's forty-seven-year record of treating agreements as tactical instruments rather than binding commitments should have seen this coming. [...] https://www.thefreedomfrequency.org/p/4288d441-634b-41c7-bfdc-f32a5b099ae1

Clever wording that I'll have to remember!

Thrilling (?) Friday non-ES report, see man: Breakfasted/skoolbused Mini-B., groggy Two Guys man. Mini-B. seems to have an outright cold, runny nose wee man man. Instead of seeking an immediate siesta, we dallied on Internet, dally we man. We failed to drink or ingest anything, bad move man. When finally set out on ES trail, felt lousy, but had to go man. It soon began to monsoon in large segments, add to wonderful ambience man. We skipped an intermediate errand, good move man. By end of Mama T-B.'s call outside Many'rd ES, we were shivering/chattering, rigorous we man. Fever at casa was exactly Many00 F., felt worse than that man. Ingested nothing but HSM Tylenol & embedded ourself on heating pad, very uncomfortable we man. Two-hour "siesta" rather restless & quite sweaty, every pore opened man. But after all that, fever still precisely Many00 F., man. Breakfast/lunch/din-din was Costco angusburgers, ingest traditional Friday fare Two Guys man. Mini-B. gaming with amigo, no movie night man. We still felt terrible, no movie night man. Took Heap Strong antibiotic, presciently Rx'd by doc one week ago man. No party with the rubias tonight, no cavort we man. Must skip GS-ing/ES-ing Saturday, we man. This includes one mass GS that we never miss, man. And that was/is our thrilling Friday, report we man.

Friday ES report, see man: We T-B.-mobiled by all Many, si man. The first ES yielded nothing, skunked man. The 2nd ES could not really be found in office park amidst the monsoon upon arrival, no man. We stopped in front of the Many'rd ES & Mama T-B. called, disconsolate aysheep senior she man man. At end of half-hour call, was monsooning so badly that we simply returned to the casa, oh well man. Total = $0

Gracias, si mam ma'am. We guess so, although we have last Friday's fever again, one stinkin' week between 'em and 2 lost weekends man. No one is worse, sorry man. Niece age precised, see and si and mam ma'am!

This is truly insightful -- I was spellbound through the whole thing. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It May Not Be a Ceasefire. It Might Be a Strategic Pause. I could spend a lot of this column musing about the absolute whiplash gripping the American and global commentariat surrounding the announcement of a ceasefire in the Iran War Tuesday evening. Instead, I'm going to let Ace of Spades knock that out for us, because his treatment of the instant pivot from Trump The Barbarian Civilization Killer to Trump The Cowardly P____ Who Caved To Iran was as good as I've seen: Remember, the "smart people" are also the "thoughtful" and "responsible" people. They have all the answers, they'll tell you. They definitely do not simply spam out random disingenuous claims completely incompatible with each other as the day's news cycle might require. David Strom wrote about this. I've seen it all over myself. The "nuke" thing was absurd. Trump threatened to use a top-secret conventional weapon the world had never seen before. What was it? I dunno. Maybe some kind of non-nuclear EMP to take out the power plants without harming the child human shields Iran stuffed them with? At no point did he threaten or imply a threat to use a nuke. Now I might think "Trump is making up some secret uber-weapon," but then again, Delta Force does seem to have unleashed absolute top-secret Sci-Fi weaponry in the Venezuela Snatch-and-Stash operation. But he never hinted at a nuke. But the "reasonable," "responsible," "thoughtful" people — you know, the really "smart" people you can rely upon for their intelligence and probity and smooth emotional restraint — all just went on twitter and did what they usually do, shriek lies that no one including themselves believes. [...] https://spectator.org/it-may-not-be-a-ceasefire-it-might-be-a-strategic-pause/