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Straight Line of the Day: We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident: …
TANST-AWFUL
There Ain’t No Stupider Thing As ‘Work-For-Us’ Liberals
Is this guy absolutely stark raving mad?
Mamdani’s definition of socialism sounds like state-controlled ‘totalitarianism’: critics
NY Post | 10/03/26 | Rich CalderFar-left New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani offered an impassioned definition of socialism this week — one critics say rivals state-controlled totalitarianism — claiming in a podcast interview that it’s the job of the government to ensure the masses have “whatever you need.”
“Socialism, to me, it means that you will have whatever you need to live a dignified life and that it is the government’s job to deliver on that.”
… People talk about it as the extension of democracy . . .
— the extension of government intrusion —
. . . from the ballot box to the rest of your life.
“What do people mean by . . .
— government intrusion in —
. . . the rest of your life? They mean your workplace, your home, things like that.”
“When people say dignity, I want to be very clear, we’re talking about the things that allow you to take a breath: housing, childcare, public transit,” the mayor said. “No one should be priced out of these things. These are non-negotiables; you need these to live.”
— as is CO2, but that’s another discussion.
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I’d Like To Be a Falkland Islander
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Gift Ideas
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Now I’m Really Hungry
I wasn’t hungry at all until I ran across this guy in a news forum:
I’ve got sorghum molasses in my pantry.
Pour a tablespoonful onto your plate along with a pat of butter and mix with your fork. Break open a steaming-hot cat’s head biscuit and spoon the mix over the top. Cut and eat with a fork. Plum larruping.
Or once your bacon is cooked and out of the skillet, pour off the grease, put the skillet back on the heat and pour in a tbsp of molasses. Stir with a spoon, scraping the bottom to incorporate the crusty bacon bits, then spoon over the bacon. Best bacon you’ll ever eat.
That’s working man food. A hundred years ago, that’s the way our farmer ancestors et at every meal.
That’s also the first time I ever heard of “cat’s head biscuits,” but I get the image.
I just wish “pantry” didn’t sound so much like “panty.”
Straight Line of the Day: Tonight, On the Caesar News Network: …
Idea courtesy of Gumbeaux.
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Egyptologists uncover 4,000-year-old tomb of the ‘keeper of the king’s secrets’ – with a mysterious ‘portal to the afterlife’
Daily Mail | 09/26/26 | Xantha LeathamThe discovery was made at the Bubasteion Necropolis in Saqqara, one of Egypt’s most important archaeological sites.
Hieroglyphs reveal the tomb belonged to a senior official named Sakhnetio-Btah, who lived during the time of the Old Kingdom.



