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  • Today's Toons 3/4/26

    03/04/2026 3:47:21 AM PST · by pookie18 · 1 replies
    The Right Reasons ^ | 3/4/26 | pookie18
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  • Today's Cryptogram Challenge

    03/04/2026 3:20:32 AM PST · by Lonesome in Massachussets · 3 replies
    QDD GFQGWPG QUF EFQRHAORD OWU HNF XFUGWP ZNW JQUUAFG NQXXAPFGG ZAHNAP. -- NWUQJF OUAFGG. Clue: Change G to S
  • Colts place rarely used transition tag on QB Daniel Jones

    03/03/2026 11:10:09 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 15 replies
    ESPN ^ | Mar 3, 2026 | Stephen Holder
    The Indianapolis Colts have taken the first step in ensuring that impending free agent quarterback Daniel Jones sticks around, placing the seldom-used transition tag on the veteran. The tag guarantees the Colts the right of first refusal for Jones, preserving the right to match any competing offer sheet he might sign with an interested club. The news comes ahead of Tuesday's deadline to assess franchise or transition tags on players who are scheduled to hit free agency next week. If Jones does not sign a competing offer sheet, he would earn a one-year guaranteed salary of $37.833 million. Colts general...
  • U.S. Military Forces–Iran Status of Forces Agreement / “Capitulation Law” (1964)

    03/03/2026 10:07:09 PM PST · by CharlesOConnell
    My Memory | 03/03/2026 | CharlesOconnell
    Prior to the 1979 Iranian Revolution, when American military bases were hosted by the Shah, there was a separate tier of justice, like the difference between Sharia and Rum courts, to which American military criminal justice cases were referred. [The "Rum" (Orthodox Christians) under eastern Muslim governments, were generally governed by their own religious laws in civil matters. They were considered a minority protected under the millet-like system that allowed communal, self-governing ecclesiastical courts, particularly in religious, matrimonial, and inheritance cases, rather than strict Islamic Sharia. A similar system under British occupation was the Irish "Breton Law" courts in which,...
  • DeSoto Police ‘Drone as First Responder' program finds missing boy

    03/03/2026 9:57:27 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 2 replies
    NBC DFW ^ | 3/3 | Noelle Walker
    A 4-year-old boy who has autism and is non-verbal went missing from his DeSoto home Sunday afternoon. A police drone spotted him and directed officers to his rescue.The 200 block of Jordan Drive in DeSoto was a buzz of activity on Sunday afternoon, as neighbors joined in a search for a missing 4-year-old boy with autism who is non-verbal, who had wandered away from his home. "Mom radar is all the way up, and I'm just consoling her on the side, because I'm just imagining how she's feeling," neighbor Kandice Middleton said. "It felt like years that we were looking...
  • British Miss @CleansedTweets | I am blown away that this is the size of the UK's navy in 2026. Shocked. I had no clue it had been reduced to this tiny flotilla. 😭

    03/03/2026 8:10:35 PM PST · by ransomnote · 35 replies
    x.com ^ | Mar 3, 2026 | British Miss @CleansedTweets
    https://x.com/johnkonrad/status/2029022173055135832 John Ʌ Konrad V@johnkonrad·50mThat's assuming they can get all them underway at once.They usually can't deploy more than one third.British Miss@CleansedTweets·12hI am blown away that this is the size of the UK's navy in 2026. Shocked. I had no clue it had been reduced to this tiny flotilla. 😭
  • Selge: The Unexcavated Ancient City Hidden Above the Canyon [21:44]

    03/03/2026 7:47:35 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 13 replies
    YouTube ^ | March 1, 2026 | Rumiseus -- Lost Civilizations
    Deep in the Taurus Mountains, an unexcavated ancient city still waits. Selge: hidden, silent, and far older than Rome itself. This is its story. Selge: The Unexcavated Ancient City Hidden Above the Canyon | 21:44 Rumiseus -- Lost Civilizations | 426 subscribers | 392 views | March 1, 2026
  • Iranian sleeper cells and lone Islamist wolves

    03/03/2026 6:16:20 PM PST · by MtnClimber · 10 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 3 Mar, 2026 | Susan Quinn
    ollowing an obvious terror attack in Austin, Texas, Governor Greg Abbott is sounding the alarm on the threat of Iranian sleeper cells and other “lone wolf” Islamist actors: ‘Exactly what happened here in Austin, Texas, and you oftentimes see when there’s a war breaking out like this, where the United States may be going against a country like Iran, that you could have either sleeper cells or lone wolfs [sic] acting,’ Abbott continued. The threat is not new, and it’s not surprising. Just last year, the Institute for Economics and Peace released a report on new data from the Global...
  • Eye-patch McCain losing his primary

    03/03/2026 6:09:08 PM PST · by cotton1706 · 63 replies
    Currently: 53% Toth 44% Crenshaw
  • Did AI Just Solve an Ancient Roman Mystery? [14:14]

    03/03/2026 5:59:54 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 11 replies
    YouTube ^ | March 1, 2026 | Dig It With Raven
    Scientists think they may have discovered an ancient Roman board game with a little help from artificial intelligence. Did AI Just Solve an Ancient Roman Mystery? | 14:14Dig It With Raven | 76.7K subscribers | 12,122 views | March 1, 2026
  • NY AG Letitia James has issued a letter to NYU Langone ORDERING them to resume the genital and chemical castration of CHILDREN after the hospital shut down its transgender youth program.

    03/03/2026 5:52:59 PM PST · by Republican Wildcat · 43 replies
    BREAKING: NY AG Letitia James has issued a letter to NYU Langone ORDERING them to resume the genital and chemical castration of CHILDREN after the hospital shut down its transgender youth program. This is how desperate Democrats are to mutilate your kids.
  • Cher's son Elijah Allman arrested in New Hampshire for second time in three days

    03/03/2026 5:31:15 PM PST · by Governor Dinwiddie · 48 replies
    WMUR ^ | March 2, 2026 | Arielle Mitropoulos
    WINDHAM, N.H. — The son of superstar singer Cher and Greg Allman is in jail in New Hampshire after he was arrested for a second time this weekend. Elijah Blue Allman was arrested Sunday in Windham and is accused of breaking into a house on Ministerial Road through the back door. According to an affidavit, a woman inside the home called 911 while hiding in a closet. When police arrived, they found that a glass pane in the back door had been shattered, and Allman was sitting on the couch smoking a cigarette. Police said he told officers the homeowner...
  • Where NM landed in the latest ‘Best States to Live’ rankings

    03/03/2026 4:48:45 PM PST · by CedarDave · 36 replies
    The Piñon Post ^ | March 2, 2026 | Piñon Post staff
    According to WalletHub’s 2026 “Best States to Live In” study, New Mexico ranks dead last in the nation — a sobering distinction that underscores years of troubling trends in education, health, and public safety. The annual analysis compares all 50 states across 51 separate indicators, including affordability, economic performance, education and health outcomes, quality of life, and safety. While some states perform strongly in certain categories and poorly in others, New Mexico’s overall placement at No. 50 signals broad, structural weaknesses that continue to drag down the state’s standing nationwide. WalletHub assigns New Mexico an overall score of 39.68, the...
  • Guilty verdict for US father of teenage school shooter

    03/03/2026 3:54:02 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 29 replies
    BBC ^ | 03/03/2026 | Max Matza
    The father of a teenage boy accused of killing four people in a shooting rampage at a high school in the US state of Georgia has been found guilty of murder, child cruelty and other charges His prosecution marks the third time that a US parent has been held criminally responsible for a mass shooting carried out by their child... ... Prosecutors argued he ignored numerous warning signs, including a notebook detailing how his son planned to kill students and teachers. During the trial, the jury heard how Colin Gray had bought his son an AR-style rifle for Christmas the...
  • Stone Age boy in Sweden was buried in deerskin and a woodpecker headdress, archaeologists discover

    03/03/2026 3:44:25 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 15 replies
    Live Science ^ | February 27, 2026 | Kristina Killgrove
    A new method of studying the contents of soil samples has revealed Stone Age people in Sweden were buried in decorated fur-and-feather clothing.More than seven millennia ago, Stone Age mourners in what is now Sweden buried a boy with a crown of woodpecker feathers and, in another grave, interred a woman with multicolored fur-and-feather footwear, a new study finds.These details were unearthed thanks to a newly developed technique that can identify traces of hair and feathers in soil taken from ancient graves, the researchers said...In the study, published Feb. 20 in the journal Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Kirkinen and colleagues...
  • Planned Parenthood Starts Doing Botox Injections to Make More Money

    03/03/2026 3:29:02 PM PST · by Morgana · 17 replies
    Life News ^ | March 2, 2026 | Steven Ertelt
    Facing a $100 million revenue shortfall largely due to federal Medicaid reimbursement cuts, Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, the largest affiliate of the national abortion business, has begun selling Botox injections and other cosmetic procedures to generate new income. The affiliate, which serves Northern California and Nevada, is introducing the services amid significant financial pressures. It closed five abortion clinics and laid off nearly 15% of its staff in 2025 after losing substantial Medicaid funding following a July spending bill under President Trump. Stacy Cross, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, said of the funding gap, “We’ll never fill...
  • Nashville teacher gets record cleared after being disciplined for not reading LGBTQ book to first-grade students

    03/03/2026 2:57:37 PM PST · by DFG · 14 replies
    NY Post ^ | 03/03/2026 | Kristine Parks, Fox News
    A Nashville elementary school has cleared the record of a first-grade teacher who was disciplined for refusing to read a book about same-sex marriage to his young students, according to a report. KIPP Antioch College Prep Elementary issued a “final warning letter” to teacher Eric Rivera in January after he declined to read an LGBTQ book to his class that was included in the language arts curriculum. Due to his Christian beliefs, Rivera said he could not in good conscience read the book to his class, according to legal group First Liberty Institute, and he asked a colleague to read...
  • While every camera on Earth pointed at Tehran — the real operation happened in silence.

    03/03/2026 2:21:38 PM PST · by Racketeer · 29 replies
    X ^ | March 1, 2026 | Mr. Pool
    3 SOLDIERS DIED TODAY. NOT FOR OIL. NOT FOR LAND. FOR THE CHILDREN. March 1, 2026. 11:47 AM. The Pentagon confirmed: 3 American service members killed in action. 5 more wounded. The first casualties of Operation Epic Fury. The media will use their deaths to question the war. We will use their sacrifice to tell you WHY this war is being fought. ⚡ WHAT HAPPENED IN THE LAST 24 HOURS While every camera on Earth pointed at Tehran — the real operation happened in silence. — Interpol arrested 7 people across 4 European countries. France. Germany. Austria. Belgium. All connected...
  • Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution, by Jonathan Turley

    03/03/2026 1:57:34 PM PST · by vharlow · 10 replies
    I've only just begun...and I just have to say this is a "must read" especially this year! Not a quick read, but compelling, and a fabulous detailed history that none should ignore. Prof. Turley is thorough and thoughtful. We are going through troubling times these days, and back before the ratification of our Constitution, there was much turmoil right here while the people worked on forming a system of government. Fabulously done! I have many other things to do, but I can't put it down. So...I guess I'm reading for a while.
  • Whom do Democrats love?

    03/03/2026 1:35:10 PM PST · by MtnClimber · 38 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 3 Mar, 2026 | Pete McArdle
    TThe Democrat party is the party of hate. They hate, in no particular order, white people, masculine men, law and order, Christians (especially those who enjoy a traditional Mass), personal responsibility, the “cisgendered,” the 2nd Amendment, merit-based hiring, punctuality, the physically fit, standardized exams, voting requiring photo ID, America, Donald Trump, and God. When President Trump invokes the Almighty, the donkeys squee and wet their knickers, lest their heads explode. A thinking person, which precludes most on the left, might ask, whom, then, do Democrats love? Well, the list is long, and again, in no particular order — except...