Two guesses where the Hootenanny is going tonight, and the first one does not count.
Archive of entries posted on 19th July 2025
Cartoons and Memes : Saturday Night Special
Ledger Domain
Say what you will about IMAO; at least it seems to break even for FrnakJ, otherwise he’d scrap it.
CBS canned ‘The Late Show’ over tens of millions in financial losses annually — not Stephen Colbert’s politics: sources
NY Post | July 18, 2025 | Charles GasparinoCBS brass say they pulled the plug on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” because of its punishing losses — pegged between $40 million and $50 million a year — and claim politics had nothing to do with it.
To be sure, there is some idle water-cooler chit-chat about the off-the-books losses of between $40 million and $50 million a year on interns, but who among us has ever tracked expenses obsessively?
The Way of the World
GOVERNMENT: We’re going to hold hearings on everything!
ME: Uh-huh.
GOVERNMENT: We’re going to subpoena the key players. They’ll appear before our committee.
ME: Uh-huh.
GOVERNMENT: We’ll get to the bottom of the matter, and get to the truth!
ME: Uh-huh.
GOVERNMENT: And no shilly-shallying, this time.
ME: Uh-huh.
GOVERNMENT: There will be accountability and transparency!
ME: Uh-huh.
GOVERNMENT: Those most closely involved will testify fully, clearly, and truthfully.
ME: Uh-huh.
GOVERNMENT: WE WILL ACT!
ME: Uh-huh.
GOVERNMENT: There will be consequences!
ME: Uh-huh.
{Election time approaches. Silence ensues.}
You May Get Electricity in 2031, Comrade! Welcome to the AllLow Countries!
Netherlands RATIONS electricity as country struggles to cope with turning away from gas as part of green policies – as expert warns Britain is also ‘in trouble’
UK Daily Mail | 14 July 2025 | Kevin Adjei-Darko
Re: Author
Excellent try, Darko, but I have a better Witness Protection Program alias. . . . see below.
The Netherlands is rationing electricity as its overloaded power grid buckles under the pressure of rapid electrification and ambitious climate goals.
More than 11,900 businesses are stuck in a queue for access to the network, alongside public buildings including hospitals, schools and fire stations.
Thousands of new homes are also waiting to be connected, with some areas warned they may have to wait until the 2030s.
The crisis has emerged as the country scrambles to cut carbon emissions.
And now experts are warning that Britain, as well as Belgium and Germany, are all ‘in trouble.’
The countries should ‘definitely’ see what is happening in the Netherlands as a warning, says Zsuzsanna Pató, from Brussels-based energy think tank RAP.
My name is Zsuzsanna Pató, from Brussels. I work for RAP.
After shutting down production at the massive Groningen gas field last year, the Dutch government has pushed a fast transition to electric heating, solar power and battery storage.
But the national grid has failed to keep pace, creating widespread bottlenecks and driving up costs.
Tilting towards windmills, Don.
BREAKING: Oppo Charged, Laughed at, By Feds
LOS ANGELES – Oppo has been charged in a federal criminal complaint with orchestrating a phony kidnapping — which he blamed on federal agents or people working with federal agents – to generate public sympathy and solicit donations, the Justice Department announced today.
Oppo, of IMAO, is charged with conspiracy and making false statements to federal officers. Like “Pizza is better with pineapples.” Things like that.
Covid Sure Did Kill a Lot of People
Vegas 7-Eleven security guard sentenced to 5 to 14 years in prison for killing customer over COVID-19 protocols
New York Post | July 11, 2025 | Nicholas McEntryeA Las Vegas security guard was sentenced to spend between five and 14 years in prison for fatally shooting a customer outside a 7-Eleven convenience store during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Kegia Mitchell tearfully apologized on Thursday after she entered an Alford plea for the August 2020 death of 56-year-old Thomas Martin.
“I didn’t mean to take this man’s life, I did not,” Mitchell cried out in court. “I am truly sorry from the bottom of my heart.”
The deal means she doesn’t plead guilty to the murder of Martin but acknowledges that prosecutors may have enough evidence for a conviction.
Mitchell was tasked with regulating the number of customers permitted into the convenience store in Las Vegas’ northeast section on August 26 when Martin cut the line and attempted to enter.
Martin was blocked and began complaining that Mitchell was refusing to let him in while she had allowed other customers through the checkpoint.
The two began arguing as Martin cursed at the security guard, threatening Mitchell before breaking past and into the store.
Mitchell grabbed the angry customer and the two shoved each other before she took out a handgun and pointed it at Martin’s face, according to security footage of the incident.
The armed security guard led Martin out of the store with her gun inches from his head.
Martin turned around and attempted to swat the gun out of Mitchell’s hands when a shot rang out.
Mitchell, who failed her first firearms safety training, was gifted the gun for Mother’s Day, according to the outlet.
She was arrested and charged with open murder.
A grand jury later indicted her for murder with a deadly weapon.
The charges were changed to involuntary manslaughter and aggravated assault when Mitchell signed the Alford plea in April.
Well, I guess you can’t say “ain’t nobody got time for that” — because this one did.
Artist’s Depiction of Oppo’s Actual Conversation With Actual Co-Worker
Straight Line of the Day: The Next Political Mission of Clowns Without Borders: …
WaPo enlists actual clown to set the record straight in scathing op-ed: Trump is not one of us
NY Post | 7/10/25 | Chris NesiSend in the clowns.
The Washington Post published an opinion piece defending the good name of clowns everywhere — fervently insisting President Trump doesn’t deserve the harlequin moniker his rivals frequently foist upon him.
“Donald Trump is not a clown. I should know,” reads the headline of the missive penned by Tim Cunningham — a self-described professional clown of 24 years and board president of the not-at-all-terrifying-sounding nonprofit Clowns Without Borders.
