The prairie snow was piled that high in the storm of ‘66.

The pickup looks very familiar. I was about 12 years old raking hay sitting on the fender of a 1944 John Deere tractor with an open air fly wheel that had to be manually spun to start the thing. No brakes. Just throw the thing out of gear and roll to a stop. It was a wonderful freedom!!

Nice article. It would be nice if the fraudsters were slapped in jail when discovered, but I don't see much of that happening. Billions stolen, but not many perps walking as far as I can tell. Are the fake daycare centers still receiving checks or is the money still flowing while "investigations" go on and lawyers suck up even more funds arguing the case? I don't know at this point. If there were swift and very real and stringent consequences for fraud there would be less of it. Weak "guardrails" are one thing, but doing nothing when the rails are breached is even worse.

I do cringe when Social Security (or SS Ponzi as I like to say) is referred to as an entitlement program since I and my employers on my behalf were forced to pay into it for my entire working life. The bit I receive is actually a return on investment, not an entitlement, even if I was forced to invest. With that said, there are many that never paid in or have paid in extremely little, yet are collecting nearly as much as I am. That would be fraud (entitlement?), but nothing is done to correct it. In fact, the Biden administration's golden vote buying autopen made it worse as now many retired government employees receiving government retirement checks are now eligible to collect SS and have never paid in a dime. I know two of the "recipients" personally so I know it's for real. They got their first checks this past January.

Thanks for the collection of Then and Now. The one with the Dodge truck ... maybe use AI to add a gun rack in the back... and those little kids with the pastel headgear... shouldn't they be adorned in organic acid-gas respirators, or at least some form of face-diaper. Cheers.

It just goes on getting worse!

A bit of relief is the email exchange between Epstein and Musk-
Musk said he was too busy on tech projects to watch politicians, it may be that Musk saw what it was, or that Musk is on the spectrum.
So Epstein spelled it out 'interesting' = "cute" = not over 25.
Musk was still not interested.
The target audience appeared to know that "cute' meant under 16.

What gets me- the involvement of so many women, and the eagerness of the well connected, eg. Gates and ex-Prince Andrew, surely at that level they have professional competent fixers, no need to get favors from Epstein?

Bulk purchases of acid- this is well beyond Hanky Panky.

LibertyPen Well done.

This is a very good article covering the ground well from slackness in admin to bad incentives.

There is mention of "the genuinely eligible beneficiaries".
Well I do agree that there are people in that category, many, what I am uneasy and not convinced about is whether alleviating that hardship/suffering should be done with money extracted from others by compulsion.

What the article tells us is that heartfelt concern leads to open-ended support and government intervention. There appears to be no theoretical limit to this kind of spending, correction is always very late and is in response to scandal rather than audited results and balance of voter intentions.

If they release the videos showing the perps…that’d be somewhat impactful.

Is it just me, or does it feel like nobody cares about this? Dissolving kids is acid. Nothing to see here. Move along… I don’t believe in karma. But, I also don’t believe a nation can just sweep this under the rug and not experience severe, long term effects.

Possibly the greatest injustice in America’s history…the CDC childhood vaccine program. It’s not been all negative, but holy shit…If you don’t know, good. Keep it that way. You don’t want to know.

Yeah. Good one. I see this trend as bad all over. Less need for non-trades professionals in relation to supply (maybe we’re just becoming a banana republic w nukes). Colleges are failing to do what they’re paid to do. I look at what I do (engineering) and compare it what an attorney does and gets paid for it and engineering stinks in comparison.

Yeah the tax thing is so ridiculous. If you run a business with any kind of success the hurdles you have to jump through just to make sure you are taking advantage of all possible "loopholes" is enough to cause grey hair.

Way to find something funny in this! Just desert indeed!

I loved bubble wrap when I was a kid!

Good thing no one ever tried to make me wear it.

You got that right. To loosely quote Lenin, “If we can get them to Socialism, we’ve got them for Communism.”

The Epstein boomerang reminds me of the MeToo mania that rapidly faded when prominent Democrats/leftists got whacked.

A "moderate" Democrat is someone between Mao and Stalin on the political spectrum.

Yep! That was a good one.

And now in OR they are looking to ban hunting - crazy left coast politics....
What is next??

Another great collection, OGC! The opener was great - remembering riding (and driving with kids in the back) in pickups like that often!
And the school bus - we always seemed to get to school, and now they seem to be looking for reasons for keeping the kids out of school.
And the jackass and the boomerang....
Thanks again!!

Love the "then and now" memes, especially bad bunny, LOL! The Virginia commie woke are getting what they voted for - too bad those who didn't vote for it are equally screwed. The slow death of Star Trek, sad really. Nice start of the day, OUC, Thanks!

Be careful around all those loose ladies now! Never ever forget pill call!
Should one of those bimbos loves you and leaves you all knocked up, you'll be stuck in tattle-tale gossip city for nine whole months.
Oh, so many tongues shall wag! All those fingers and fingers pointing STRAIGHT AT YOU!
Everyone sayin' "Oh, you hussy, you!"
YOU! YOU! YOU! Hey, there he goes! How disgusting!
And guess what is the very, very worse?!
No way for your newborn to get out of you save for what I saw in some flick to Arnold Schwarzenegger!
Sharp knives and saws SURGERY!!!
A FATE WORSE THAN DEATH!

She is such a liar that her nose should reach into another state.

The Horse is winning so far . . . perhaps Dogs running a close second.
As our days go forward, Humans will slip lower and lower on the totempole due to wokeism/fluoride use/and cosmic radiation.

Which species has greater intellect? ;^)
(Thank you, OUC!) 👍

I'm still on the Pill !!!

Approaching my 79th birthday in March, me dino has seen and heard things I would never believe possible during the previous century.
For example, such as anyone for being such a Woke joke he is capable of putting tampons in a school's restroom for boys.
Such as someone actually being elected as the governor of an entire freaking state?!!
Hey, and are any of you guys getting pregnant yet?