Weekend Open Thread
The left could count on the Muslims being on their side as the Democrats and their allies seek to consolidate control. The radical Islamists seem to support the Democrats even though the left is more abominable to them than the right. As the Democrats jockey to consolidate control, they’re destroying the country. The Islamists see this and are patiently bidding on their time when they would establish their own version of total control. The Democrats, intending to use the Muslims to help consolidate their power, will end up being cast aside after they help the Muslims gain power. Folks like us know better and are willing to stand up and fight back. Enjoy your weekend!
Category: Open thread
First!
Yes, Ace Busters!
Go AH!! (A-in-the-hole)
Present accounted for bitches.
🖕😘😘😘
CONG-Rats A H
Nap time in the recliner ended a few minutes before you claimed fame and every thing is Hunky Dory on your taking WOT FIRST…
Can Hack Stone continue his reign of terror unabated as a kind and benevolent dictator by scoring a fifth consecutive Weekend Open Thread First Comment and once again scoring a highly coveted and rarely awarded Weekend Open Thread Ace; or will the unwashed masses participating in the No Hack rallies succeed in their nefarious activities and leave Hack Stone standing on the shoulder of the National Capital Beltway River Road exit to sell much needed y3K software? Magic 8-Ball says…
Ace Busters!
Denied!!! Looks like the No Hack Rally was successful
VERY DOUBTFUL 🙂
Ok. Third
First time I’ve been able to get even this close. My computer is dying.
Do you have a smart phone? I beat Hack with one.
Fourth … sigh.
Hack Stone is denied his Ace status. Amateur Historian returns to the throne. I spend all afternoon refreshing this silly screen and come in fourth. Life sucks sometimes.
But trivia doesn’t, so here’s the column for the week. Enjoy!
DID YOU KNOW…?
What were the results of the last duel ever fought in Canada?
By Commissioner Wretched
didyouknowcolumn@gmail.com
Copyright © 2026
I find it amazing that, over the past few weeks, there is one very important thing I have neglected to mention in the opening lines of the column … baseball.
The greatest of all sports is now deep into spring training, and the 2026 season will begin in just a couple of weeks. I hope your favorite team does well, but not at the expense of my favorite team, the Chicago Cubs.
Baseball is underway, as is trivia! That makes spring worth waiting for!
Did you know …
… the hair of Elvis Presley (1935-1977) was not as dark as you think it was? Presley’s natural hair color was a mid to light blond. As a youth, he dyed his hair dark, and that became the color fans associated with him. (Thankyouverymuch.)
… there’s a difference between “the Moon” and a moon? The proper name of Earth’s only satellite is “the Moon” (or Luna) and, as such, should be capitalized. All other natural satellites of other planets, however, are just “moons” and have their own proper names. (Lunacy. Look it up.)
… four of the five main characters in the long-running animated series The Simpsons are named after family members of the show’s creator? Homer, Marge, Lisa and Maggie are the names of the real-life parents and sisters of creator Matt Groening (born 1954). But what of Bart? Well, Groening says Bart is based on himself. (Cowabunga.)
… a scene in the classic 1972 film, The Godfather, features some reality-based acting? The scene in which movie mogul Jack Wolz, played by actor John Marley (1907-1984), awakens to find the severed head of a race horse in his bed features Marley screaming in terror – and the scream was real. Producers did not tell him that an actual horse’s head, acquired from a dog food company, was going to be used; Marley expected a papier-maché prop. (They weren’t horsing around, were they?)
… the last duel ever fought in Canada was one in which no one was hurt? In 1873, two men who had once been friends found that they’d fallen in love with the same woman, and that led to a bitter quarrel between them. One man challenged the other to a duel, and the two then proceeded to settle their differences in the “honourable” way. But as the two men stood back to back with upraised pistols, their better nature kicked in and they started wondering what the heck they were doing. As the two paced off away from each other, terror started to set in, and at the proper ten yards, the two turned and fired. One man fell, but he had not been shot – he’d fainted in his fear. Besides, unknown to the participants, both guns were loaded with blanks. Despite that fact being a serious breach of dueling etiquette, the two men agreed that their “honour” had been satisfied.
… King Charles III of the United Kingdom (born 1947) does not have a passport? He is not required to have one, as he is the monarch and can come and go as he pleases. (It’s good to be the king.)
A proper modern duel consists of champagne corks at 5 paces. Proper eyewear is required.
… a British man set a world record for spending time locked in a room with poisonous snakes? In 2010, Sussex carpenter David Jones (born 1965) spent a total of 121 days locked in a room with forty venomous snakes, including cobras, puff adders, and even the most deadly of them all, the black mamba. The attempt broke the old record, but it was all for naught – Jones was stunned to learn, upon his release, that the Guinness Book of World Records no longer accepted entries for records involving snakes and humans forced together for a long period of time. (That had to hurt.)
… an 8,650-year-old mushroom can be found in Oregon? Qualifying as both the largest and the oldest organism on Earth, a honey mushroom (Armillaria ostoyae) in Malheur National Forest, Oregon, is said by scientists to be 8,650 years old, covers 3.4 square miles of land, and is still growing. It has countless little “mushroom caps” coming up through the forest floor, and random samples taken from various areas all show it is one huge living organism. If the estimates of its age are correct, the first spore that would become this huge … thing … began to grow in 6630 BC.
… a crime ring once ran a fake U.S. Embassy? In Accra, Ghana, visitors to a certain building who thought they were at the U.S. Embassy saw an American flag and a photo of the then-President. But the building was actually a front for Ghanian and Turkish organized crime rings running immigration scams. Amazingly, the “Embassy” operated for about ten years, as the crooks paid off Ghanian politicians to look the other way and obtained official documents they could counterfeit. Finally, in 2016, the real U.S. Embassy in Accra working with Ghanian police raided the fake embassy and shut it down. (That’s what happens when you don’t pay your cut to the government.)
… until 1932, kidnapping was not a federal offense? That year, the nation and world were shocked by the abduction of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. (1930-1932), infant son of aviator Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974) and Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001). A ransom was paid, but the child was not returned, and his body was found 172 days later. Reacting to the public outcry over the kidnap-murder, Congress passed the Federal Kidnapping Act – also known as the “Little Lindbergh Law” – that finally made kidnapping across state lines a federal offense. Prior to that, the crime was a local or state issue.
… it takes more than 500 years for a disposable diaper to decompose? (But what about the … uh, no, I don’t really want to know anything about that.)
Now … you know!
How does that old mushroom taste? 🍽
Present! Prepare!
Even Japanimation folk got Mamdani’s number:
https://x.com/PsyopAnime/status/2031078291117859252
Not first again but not last either.
Happy weekend guys.
Happy Friday, you Gents! Hope you had a great week! So, I do apologize. I’ve been off and on with my usual stuff for a bit. That has been due to a combination of being busy, laziness, and minor depression. I will still submit some of my school writing and other content when I can, but expect me to not be as consistent as CW. Also, I got 1st with the intentional goal of denying Hack his Ace status.! Sorry, Hack, but you could only reign for so long and I think there is status in shooting down aces in the making.
Anyway, school is still going good. I enjoy my current professor more than my old one who tried to turn me from a Classical Liberal into a Socialist one. It didn’t work, but she did give me the background to examine my own beliefs more closely and to lean hard into them. So, in that sense, I thank the Nebraskan Commie.
In any event, here are my answers to my Government class questions (give me a some time. I need to dig them out from the drawers)
• What structural, legal, and political mechanisms allow federal agencies to operate with a degree of independence from direct control by Congress and the President? Evaluate whether this bureaucratic autonomy is beneficial to the nation’s democratic health, referencing specific advantages or disadvantages.
There are a few mechanisms that establish independence from the Federal Government: Statutory (enumerated by law), “For Cause” removal requirements (which prevents at-will removal unless by inefficiency, dereliction of duties, or malfeasance), etc. The advantages of the autonomy of the bureaucracy is that they can more effectively implement the will of the President and Congress (which serve the common interest), their independence is a guard against corruption or (supposedly) political bias (which is an important thing in this hyper partisan climate), etc. Though the disadvantages does fuel the glaring criticisms: such agencies would have an accountability gap as they are not as accountable to the President or Congress as other agencies and also the concerns that a bloated and out of control bureaucracy can de facto become an unofficial 4th branch where they are no clear mechanisms for control form the elected branches (this was recently a topic of scrutiny with the US Supreme Court).
• Should judges interpret the Constitution strictly as written (Originalism) or adapt it to modern society (Living Constitutionalism)? How should judges balance applying legal principles versus considering potential societal impacts?
The Originalism interpretation is something I can really understand. I used to exclusively subscribe to it. The Founders worked hard to create a Government that was as perfect as possible. From the Principle of the Rule of Law to the enumeration of protections in the Bill of Rights. This document and the Government that resulted from it was as perfect as anyone could’ve got at the time. Then why did the Founders give us the ability to Amend the Constitution as needed if it were perfect? The answer is that human society is never a static organism. We ARE subject to change. That is a fact. Otherwise, we’d never have killed slavery or gave women the right to vote. As such, I do include room for Living Constitutionalism. But that doesn’t mean Originalism doesn’t have merits. It has vital merits! The Rule of Law, the Rights of Man, Consent of the Governed, Federalism, and State Rights. These ARE timeless concepts. If we amend these away, then what do we become then? John Adams said it best, : “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other”. It would be immoral to get rid of any of our principles in favor of political expediency. As such, I call for judges to interpret the Constitution adaptively in matters where it’s acceptable, but be stalwart in the principles and values that founded it. That definitely means the Bill of Rights is off limits for amending.
Aaaand that’s all I have! Have a great Weekend, you Gents.
TOP TWENTY, present and unaccountable as I award myself yet another Honorary first.
((((OVER))))
We haven’t had a good food talk in quite a while. I came to that thought reading other posts in which tabasco was mentioned. I was grew up in the part of New England where if the food didn’t have an English recipe, it had an Irish one. Black pepper was considered a hot spice. When I got out of there I tried everything someone called food, even if they were lying, I ate it. I came to two conclusions: 1. I am allergic to a great number of foods. 2. Cayenne pepper is better than tobasco. Prove me wrong.
FIRST TWENTY FIFTH
Well, since passports from the United Kingdom are issued in the name of, and under the authority of: “The King” it seems pointless for him to have one. “I hereby vouch for …. ME!”
But he would have had one when him Mum was the Queen, and back then she did not have a passport for the same reason.
Left/libtards are the Jihadists’ useful idiots:
That’s not an accurate meme. They’d be too busy screaming from their bout of H/CFS (Hippopotamus/Can’t Fly Syndrome). This is lame!
True, there is some dramatic license being taken here. 🙂
I guess I’m 30th, good God its 1740 already, but damn did I sleep good……
Mike
USAF Retired
CVN-78 is getting close to the longest cruise ever. All while using “shitty” plumbing. Gravity always works I guess vacuums don’t
Photo won’t attach sorry
Been a while.
Needed a break. A good break.
How are folks doing?
We been okay.
Iran ‘Splody Video Hits
Out on patrol.
But still alive.
Y’all have a great weekend. God keep you safe and healthy.
Stolen Valor BINGO.
New BINGO card for 2026.
Your opinion ?
Meanwhile, in the Gulf… recall The Clash wrote “Rock the Casbah” in response to Khomeini being a kill-joy.