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Friday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 5/1/26, 8:00 am

Running a bit slow this morning. Here are some links.

  • Be better next time, Bob Ferguson, and maybe you can avoid a fine.
  • Don’t those people who crossed the Fremont Bridge over a million times know that Seattle is rainy and has hills?
  • We need a bunch of tiny homes, but we also need a buffer zone to stop a bunch of tiny homes.
  • Connecting cool bike and pedestrian infrastructure to make it a real network. Go Spokane!

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48 Stoopid Comments

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  1. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 8:48 am

    Absolutely angelic Tacoma high school student falsely accused of committing a violent act.

    No firearm involved.

  2. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 8:50 am

    Yet another record:

    Live Updates
    Updated Fri, May 1 202611:48 AM EDT

    S&P 500 rises to record to kick off May trading as oil falls, Apple shares jump: Live updates

  3. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 8:53 am

    1. Yes, he did.
    2. It’s an unconstitutional law, so it really does not matter.

    What Exactly Is the War Powers Act and Is Obama Really Violating It?
    The Obama administration is certainly sidestepping the controversial law known as the War Powers Act, but in doing so he’s following a well-worn path.

    You guys like ProPublica when they out the finances of billionaires, amirite?

  4. Pars Dominae Foetidae spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 8:55 am

    @1

    Your link does not work.

  5. Free Markets spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 9:00 am

    Today is May Day, and the Democratic Socialists of America are having rallies all over the country. Socialism, unfortunately, is not compatible with democracy. Once voted into power, Democratic Socialism becomes straight authoritarian socialism.

    What works best is free markets and voluntary cooperation between willing buyers and willing sellers.

  6. 86 47 spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 9:17 am

    Another $.09 jump in national average. Donnie heard Joe Biden had a record and he’s gunning for it.

    The Arco near me which before Pee-wee Donnie’s big adventure was $3.87 cash is now $6.05 cash. Dumbfuck Will be a long later to insist it’s Washington Taxes

    If you’re playing in Texas.F-150 Fill up went up 10 bucks just in the last week while the White House has a big ceremony releasing the report on the poor persecuted Christians by the panel of weirdos assigned because trans day of visibility to fall on Easter one year.

  7. Billionaires are not compatible with democracy spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 9:20 am

    @5

    The ghost of the 1950s is back

  8. The Midterms spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 9:36 am

    @2

    Is it a wise financial plan to pay my mortgage with my 401(k)?

    How many shares of my index fund do I need to sell to get to and from work when gas hits six dollars?

    Foreclosure filings continued to rise nationwide in the first quarter of 2026, with total activity up 26% from a year ago.

    There were a total of 118,727 U.S. properties with foreclosure filings during the three months of the year—with Indiana, South Carolina, and Florida recording the highest foreclosure rates for the period. The total includes default notices, scheduled auctions, and bank repossessions

    Red state, red state, red state.

    🎶 You used to call me pal. Buddy can you spare 50 shares?

  9. Sleepy Joe spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 9:57 am

    “He’s talking about stocks and the booming economy while people can’t afford food and rent” is SO 2024

  10. Steve spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 9:58 am

    LMFAO! Darrel thinks he can ban me. What a fucking idiot.

  11. Steve spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 10:02 am

    Seriously, all my comments disappeared from the last thread.

  12. Steve spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 10:13 am

    Darrel is the worst blogger in the world. Seriously, when was the last time any of you clicked on one of his stupid fucking links? I’ve probably only clicked a link of his twice, the last time something like eight to ten years ago.

    Sadly, Carl is like Darrel Junior. But on the up side, Carl only posts three or for links. Much less scrolling.

  13. Steve spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 10:16 am

    Marvin nailed it. I just checked and Darrel still hasn’t a single positive student review.

  14. G spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 10:45 am

    Kissing Trump.

    https://youtu.be/3-yHjOGC328

    Blah blah blah. Otherwise it doesn’t post

  15. G spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 10:48 am

    Biden had 52 recorded highs.

    No big accomplishment, that’s what you are supposed to do, until they crash it into a ditch.

    Oh and gas is higher than has been in the last 4 years, one big horse cock that they love to suck now.

  16. G spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 10:50 am

    Your link does not work.

    The bootlicker’s brain isn’t either.

  17. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 10:53 am

    @ 1, 4

  18. G spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 10:53 am

    The ghost of the 1950s is back

    Yeah and with a 1930’s flare. Corruption to the greates magnitude and Fascist Nazis

  19. G spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 10:58 am

    Darryl is sensitive. He didn’t want to face the reality of The HETEROSEXUAL NEANDERTHAL VIRUS either.

    For some reason he felt attacked, I think, I don’t know.

  20. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 10:59 am

    Happy May Day to Steve!

    May all of Steve’s spews pass muster.

  21. G spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 11:00 am

    He’s talking about stocks and the booming economy while people can’t afford food and rent” is SO 2024

    Any excuse to put that cheerleader’s skirt on. 🦄

  22. Wayne LaPierre spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 11:00 am

    @1

    I know what he’s talking about. It was carefully worded to avoid admitting there were no fatalities. Not even a kid on life support.

    Almost like lack of guns saves lives.

  23. LinkedIN spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 11:08 am

    Dumbfuck’s go to economic indicator for the entire Obama era, no not the U6 because the U6 is stupid*, is headed in the wrong direction.

    https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART

    * If you need me to explain why again happy to.

  24. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 11:15 am

    Radiology Rule # 1: Nobody dies in Radiology.*

    Chicago violated this rule:

    CHICAGO — A man accused of killing Chicago Police officer John Bartholomew and critically wounding his partner while at Swedish Hospital used the same gun in the shootings as he did in a robbery and beating of a store employee on the North Side earlier in the day, prosecutors said Thursday.

    Alphanso Talley, 26, was taken to the hospital after being arrested for the first attack at a Family Dollar store after he claimed he had swallowed drugs. But how he was able to allegedly hide the gun even after being taken into police custody and going through hospital security was not addressed in the latest hearing in the case Thursday.

    Prosecutors said he used the gun to shoot Bartholomew, 38, a 10-year police veteran, and his partner, a 21-year veteran who remains in critical condition, while getting ready for a CT scan at the hospital. Talley faces a litany of charges in the case, including first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, aggravated battery of a police officer and kidnapping.

    See, he had to kill them before the scan. The scan would have revealed where he was hiding the gun.

    G-clown already knows were he hid it. That’s not part of an on-street weapons search. Except in The Castro, maybe.

    * The concept is that if the patient is so sick (s)he is in danger of dying during an imaging procedure that imaging procedure should be postponed.

  25. Tommy Tubberville spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 11:16 am

    For the fourth time in just over three weeks Russian State owned Tuapse oil refinery on the Black Sea is burning after Ukrainian drone strike.

    But there’s no way Ukraine can win

  26. G spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 11:24 am

    You mean they couldn’t add the word Fries in there somehow? Or how about maybe they could have called it “America grabbed its Pussy Coalition”

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/us-asks-help-opening-strait-hormuz-trump-attacks-allies-rcna343082

  27. Putting the Der in Leader spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 11:24 am

    Remember when we had a President who didn’t tell the gathered press about a covert action to arm a revolution inside a country the CIA is trying to destabilize?

    I’m not happy with what happened with the Kurds. The Kurds did not deliver the weapons.”

  28. Steve spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 11:37 am

    @20 Back at ya. Happy May Day.

    I just checked a post from the year 2018 and all of my old comments are still up. I’ll start refreshing TOR before each of my future comments. The email I’ve been using is DarrelSucks@msn.com. I’ll start using numbers after DarrelSucks starting with 1. The next comment would be DarrekSucks2@msn.com, etc.

    If you goes back to the 2010 archives you’ll see that Darrel used to be HA’s comment cop, deleting comments that were off topic.

    Darrel is a true fucktard.

  29. lmao spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 11:46 am

    The Obama administration is certainly sidestepping the controversial law known as the War Powers Act, but in doing so he’s following a well-worn path.

    well-worn path by repuke war-mongers like Darth Cheney and following that path to obviate cheap shot attacks from out of power repuke warmongers.

    Sucks don’t it?

    And oh yeah we luv it when ProPublica outs tax cheats who support asshole repukes who condemn working class people who are too fucking poor to pay federal income tax who qualify for public assistance because Walmart and that ilk pay shit wages.

  30. lmao spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 11:50 am

    @28 It’s Darryl with a “y”

    https://horsesass.org/about-me/

    However, your friend Puddy spells its name that way give or take an “r” or an “l”

    Sorry to let you know. I understand where you’re coming from.

  31. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 11:54 am

    @ 28

    If you goes back to the 2010 archives you’ll see that Darrel used to be HA’s comment cop, deleting comments that were off topic.

    And he does not have to do that anymore, because we learned from the experience, and now none of our spews are ever off-topic.

  32. Brian Terry spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 11:59 am

    @ 27

    Remember when we had a President who didn’t tell the gathered press about a covert action to arm a revolution inside a country the CIA is trying to destabilize?

    My family can remember worse. Me, I wasn’t around for most of it.

  33. Cool Story Bro spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 12:15 pm

    @32

    You still trying to make something out of a program that started and went for four years under W?

    The waddabout is more than a decade old again.

  34. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 12:53 pm

    @4 His brain doesn’t work, either. Perhaps the two are connected.

  35. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 12:58 pm

    @5 What works best is free markets and voluntary cooperation between willing buyers and willing sellers.

    No, what works best is regulated markets, because unregulated markets always collapse into monopolies, fraud, and exploitation.

  36. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 1:08 pm

    @31 The topic is always the same: Republicans suck.

  37. Free Markets spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 4:15 pm

    “What works best is free markets and voluntary cooperation between willing buyers and willing sellers.”

    I don’t see the word “unregulated” in that statement.

  38. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 4:41 pm

    @37 I get it now: You’re for regulated free markets. Me, too, because laissez-faire capitalism doesn’t work. Capitalism with rules does.

  39. EvergreenRailfan spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 5:28 pm

    If Spirit is shutting down assuming no last minute bailout, would we know first if there is a disruption of any International flights? Airlines normally don’t want expensive assets overseas when a shutdown occurs. It’s usually chaotic, but at least Pan Am even did that with grace. Ticket agents at Kennedy even after told out of a job trying to find other flights fot the last passengers. One of the best stories from that day was the deadheading of the last 747 from Montevideo to JFK via Brazil.

    https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-pan-am-podcast/id1581321929?i=1000532309615

  40. Thomas Jefferson, Never spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 5:46 pm

    Challenging your sovereign by raising objection to his rule, however malign, is the highest form of treason.

  41. Professor Dumbledore spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 5:52 pm

    “What works best is free markets and voluntary cooperation between willing buyers and willing sellers.”

    How is this incompatible with public utilities, municipal water and sewer systems, National parks, public schools, NASA’s Artemis 2, Sesame Street, or the Medicare you depend on?

    Show your work.

    Don’t be a coward.

  42. Donald J. Trump, Convicted Felon spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 6:25 pm

    Taking Over Cuba.

    You wanted it, right?

  43. FAFO spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 6:29 pm

    Daily Wire fired half its staff today.

    Riley Gaines and Chaya Raichik are unable to pay their bills.

    Ben Shapiro reluctantly admits a huge decline in audience engagement and retention.

  44. Broke rhymes with Fascist spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 6:31 pm

    @43

    Backing the Nazis has consequences

    The Daily Wire fires half of its staff in mass layoffs

    This comes as co-founder Ben Shapiro has lost 85% of his Youtube audience since last year

  45. lmao spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 7:46 pm

    @44 Shapiro is a pompous bore.. like kreepfuck..

    Riley Gaines and Chaya Raichik are unable to pay their bills.

    Awwww… So sad for them..

    NOT…

  46. Professor Dumbledore spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 8:45 pm

    I repeat:

    Show your work.

    Don’t be a coward.

  47. Professor Snape spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 9:13 pm

    Arvada Kadabara!

    See 38.

  48. Professor Dumbledore spews:

    Friday, 5/1/26 at 9:54 pm

    Snape @ 47,

    No “willing buyer” with public utilities, municipal water and sewer systems, National parks, public schools, NASA’s Artemis 2, Sesame Street, or Medicare. These are all examples of sole source mandatory supply monopolies imposed by coercive government force.

    Do you approve of these things or do you oppose them?

    Show your work.

    Don’t be a coward.

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