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Open Thread - Thurs 12 Feb 2026 - Ring Cam Doggie Rescue???

Ring Cam Doggie Rescue???

A couple of days ago Lee Camp wrote an article called ‘A Super Bowl Ad Accidentally Showed The Horrific Future of America’ for his substack. I didn’t watch the Super Bowl, even though it featured the Seattle Seahawks and was close to my old home town (Los Gatos, CA), and very close to where I went to college as an undergraduate (University of Santa Clara). So, I never saw this ad. But after reading this article, I’m determined, I am NEVER going to see this ad. And I’m not getting a Ring Camera. And I’ll find my dog, if he gets lost, the old fashioned way, by going out there and searching for him and calling for him and getting neighbors to help…


One of the old fashioned ways of finding your dog – calling it, being outside with it, walking with it… So darned old fashioned! From image.freepik.com

A Warning

I don't need this fucking stress in my life right now.

I've never seen so many calls for violence from c99 members in the eleven years that I've admined this site, that includes death wishes for national and world leaders. Calls for violence have always been forbidden on this site, from the beginning.

And I'm fucking sick of it.

If I see any more of it the member who does it is out of here and I don't care who you are. You're putting yourself and this site in jeopardy with your fucking bravado. If you're going to be a dumb ass about it then take that shit elsewhere. Discussing fucked up pols and their fucked up policies are OK, calls for violence against anyone are not OK.

If there's one thing that there's too much of in this world, it is hatred. Especially hatred that's meant to divide us.

I always thought we were better than that.

You've been warned.

The Weekly Watch

Hot War, Cold War
Bring along the Atom Bombs

(to the tune Hot Corn, Cold Corn - Live / 1978 · The New Lost City Ramblers)
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The on again, off again war with Iran teeters on the whim of the Don. Some how I don't trust his "morality". Many of the analysts in today's column suggest Trump has painted himself into a corner with Iran. This week we let lapse the last of the nuclear treaties, START. No telling what that move will precipitate...a new nuclear arms race, when we already have enough bombs to blown up the world multiple times? The other big news item of the week is the fall out from the Epstein files. Their release is echoing in various western halls of power, especially in Europe. The UK press is trying to promote the lame idea that Jeffery Epstein was a Russian agent. When in doubt, blame it on Russia. All that and more below the fold...

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