CITIZEN OPEN THREAD.

Update for: HR 38 – Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2025
The bill has passed thru Committee and has 189 Co-Sponsors. There is an effort to bring it to the House Floor for a vote.

H.R. 38 would finally ensure that your concealed carry permit is honored in every state across the country, just like your ability to drive a car. No more worrying about crossing state lines and becoming a felon simply for exercising your right to self-defense.

But the gun control lobby is fighting tooth and nail to kill this common-sense bill. They want to leave law-abiding gun owners like you vulnerable to anti-gun politicians and bureaucrats. That’s why we need you to act right now. Call your Congressman today. Tell them that you support H.R. 38 and cross-border carry.

“The Maine Supreme Judicial Court is set to weigh in on whether a lower court overstepped its limits when it barred a mother from reading the Bible to her 12-year-old daughter or taking her to church.”

Divorced parents. Mother is Christian, father is anti-Christian. Daughter resides with mother. Lower court judge sides with father.

“the father found ‘an ACLU judge’ and ‘flew in a Marxist former sociology professor from California’ to testify that Calvary Chapel or any Bible-believing churches, for that matter, are ‘cults'”

https://cbn.com/news/us/judge-orders-maine-mom-not-take-her-daughter-church-or-read-her-bible

Is this the assimilation that the Founders anticipated… asking for a friend.

‘Depth of organized fraud crimes committed by Somalis in Minnesota is astonishing.’
Somalis are stealing from every single state welfare program.

People try to put us d-down (talkin’ ’bout my generation)
Just because we g-get around (talkin’ ’bout my generation)
Things they do look awful c-c-cold (talkin’ ’bout my generation)
I hope I die before I get old (talkin’ ’bout my generation)
This is my generation
This is my generation, baby
Why don’t you all f-fade away? (Talkin’ ’bout my generation)
And don’t try dig what we all s-s-say (talkin’ ’bout my generation)
I’m not trying to cause a big s-s-sensation (talkin’ ’bout my generation)
I’m just talkin’ ’bout my g-g-generation (talkin’ ’bout my generation)
My generation
This is my generation, baby
My, my dirty generation
Why don’t you all fade away? (Talkin’ ’bout my generation)
Don’t try d-dig what we all s-s-say (talkin’ ’bout my generation)
I’m not trying to cause a big sensation (talkin’ ’bout my generation)
I’m just talkin’ ’bout my g-g-generation (talkin’ ’bout my generation)
This is my generation
This is my generation, baby
My, my, my, my generation
People try to put us d-down (talkin’ ’bout my generation)
Just because we g-g-get around (talkin’ ’bout my generation)
Things they do look awful c-c-cold (talkin’ ’bout my generation)
I hope I die before I get old (talkin’ ’bout my generation)
This is my generation
This is my generation, baby
My, my, my, my, my ge-ge-generation
Talkin’ about my generation
(Talkin’ ’bout my generation) my generation
(Talkin’ ’bout my generation) talkin’ about
(Talkin’ ’bout my generation) this is what I’m talkin’
(Talkin’ ’bout my generation) talkin’ about
(Talkin’ ’bout my generation) I’m talkin’ ’bout my ge-generation
(Talkin’ ’bout my generation) baby
Source: Musixmatch

Roger Daltrey stutters in the song “My Generation” for several reasons: he had a pre-existing stutter, the producer encouraged it to give the song a “pilled” or rebellious sound, and he was also trying to fit the lyrics to the music during a recording session. The band’s manager, Kit Lambert, told Daltrey to “keep it” after hearing him naturally stutter the first line, suggesting it would make the song sound like the band was “pilled”. [AI]

Good morning ☕️ hope you have a great Thursday!

New York, what have you done…

Slingshot. A white-tail deer known for its (annual) giant antler racks, has died of suspected rut fight injuries.
https://cowboystatedaily.com/2025/11/17/slingshot-colorados-famed-giant-mule-deer-dies-after-brutal-buck-fight/

Midnight Rendezvous – The Babys

Musk later doubled down: “Optimus will actually eliminate poverty.”

“You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.”
‭‭Matthew‬ ‭26‬:‭11‬ ‭CSB‬‬

My money’s on Jesus.

Nobody wants ChiComs
“RFE/RL reported that the authorities – who are also currently trying to quell frustrations over electricity shortages in the country – had attempted to downplay the incident, which involved drivers of the China Road & Bridge Corporation and the Kyrgyz company Zhongzi. It said “the brawl has highlighted anger in Kyrgyzstan over Chinese-funded projects and the influx of Chinese workers to the impoverished country”.
https://www.intellinews.com/kyrgyz-president-says-chinese-worker-comments-after-mass-brawl-are-pre-election-provocation-412430/?source=china

“Speaking to the Axios, American and Russian officials shared details of this sensitive ongoing process. According to the information provided by the officials, the draft plan consists of 28 articles in total.

The document in question is divided into four main categories: achieving peace in Ukraine, security guarantees, the security architecture in Europe, and the future relations of the US with Russia and Ukraine.”
https://harici.com.tr/en/us-russia-drafting-secret-28-point-peace-plan-for-ukraine/

For those thinking “Traditional Turkey” for Thanksgiving… Instruction and Discounted Seasonings, Brine, etc…
[I’m thinking Bone-In Pork Roast, but Matt always has a great alternative…]

The real news from Porsche is NOT that they put 1,100 HP into a car, it’s that they put it into a production car that costs only $163k, a feat formerly only done by Bugatti with their $3mil Veyron 20 years ago. But I doubt this Porsche soccer mom status-mobile will be hitting 250+ mph anytime soon.

Here are some others from recent years:

https://www.motor1.com/features/663381/1000-hp-cars-supercars-evs/

Pretty Sure These Two HillBilly Chicks Are Related To Me

Video:
https://x.com/ArmaLite15OU812/status/1990621123872997544?s=20

https://x.com/KarluskaP/status/1991168662406115676?s=20

Wait a minute — how many illegal aliens are in our country again?

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It’s at least 40 million, that article did zero research.

Bear Stearns pegged the number at 30 million and that was 25 years ago.

They did some deep analysis, Ann Coulter has cited their research before.

https://unherd.com/2025/11/mamdanis-trumpers-are-americas-future/

There were an estimated 60,000 NYC residents who voted for Trump in 2024 and then for Mamdani in 2025.
(Wuh-kow! Whiplash!)
In a city of eight million, that may not seem like much, but they exemplify a broader trend across the country. …

“Trump brought too much chaos, man,” says Ramon*, … “My bills are still high and my wife can’t afford no groceries.”
A part-time car mechanic by day and cleaner at the new JP Morgan office by night, Ramon says that he voted for Trump in 2024 because he thought he’d bring down the price of gas and groceries, but “that ain’t happened”.
“I don’t know if Mamdani’s going to make things better or worse,” he said, “but we need something different from this.”

“Turkey has replaced the term Central Asia with Turkistan in its national school curriculum.”
-“…the ministry is removing geographical terms that he described as having imperial roots and said the curriculum should reflect Turkey’s own historical vocabulary…”-
https://www.turkishminute.com/2025/11/19/turkey-renames-central-asia-turkistan-in-school-curriculum/

and they wanted to keep it shutdown to Thanksgiving ~

-Today
“World Toilet Day 2025: Why Malaysians Will Never Give Up The Bidet
Walking into a toilet with no bidet when you need to do some “big business” could feel like a life or death situation.”
https://www.therakyatpost.com/fun/2025/11/19/world-toilet-day-2025-why-malaysians-will-never-give-up-the-bidet/

From the Stack:
Loose wire caused bridge collapse ~

Morning, everybody. Still on first cup of coffee.

Morn’n from Colorado

You all have a GREAT day!!

Bill Clinton, testifying under oath:

“I did not have sexual relations with that woman. Wait, what? Epstein? Sorry, I nodded off, I thought you were asking about Hillary. No, I didn’t have sexual relations with Jeffrey Epstein either.”

Lather, rinse, repeat.

Cloudflare in court over “helping” tech pirates.
“Tokyo District Court on Wednesday ordered U.S. information technology company Cloudflare Inc. to pay about 500 million yen in damages for assisting copyrights violations by pirated manga websites.
https://www.nippon.com/en/news/yjj2025111900153/tokyo-court-orders-u-s-it-firm-to-pay-damages-over-pirated-manga.html

“Images of Japan official appearing to bow before China counterpart go viral”
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20251119/p2g/00m/0in/023000c

Picture
“Images of “diplomatic superiority” shown by Chinese state media have exacerbated the Japan-China feud over Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s remarks about Taiwan.”
https://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/16167599

‘The Party’ slowly pulling Chairman Winnie into retirement?
“Three years ago, Chinese Premier Li Qiang took on a role largely stripped of its former glory. Now, in a surprise twist, he is becoming President Xi Jinping’s top emissary on the world stage.

When China’s No. 2 official steps out in Johannesburg at the first Group of 20 (G-20) leaders’ meeting ever held in Africa this weekend, it will mark his third stint representing Mr Xi at a major conference.”
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-president-xi-jinping-is-making-premier-li-qiang-his-top-messenger-on-world-stage

“Chinese premier’s visit to Zambia focuses on reviving a Cold War-era railway to help mineral access”
https://financialpost.com/pmn/chinese-premiers-visit-to-zambia-focuses-on-reviving-a-cold-war-era-railway-to-help-mineral-access

https://www.bluewin.ch/en/news/nestle-may-continue-to-sell-perrier-mineral-in-france-2970059.html
“In an urgent application, a consumer protection organization wanted to prohibit Nestlé from continuing to sell Perrier as natural mineral water due to allegedly unlawful treatment processes.”

Apple’s 1991 Macintosh shipped with a bug that should’ve stopped it from booting, but no one ever knew because an undocumented CPU trick ‘almost too crazy to be true’ miraculously made it work
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/apples-1991-macintosh-shipped-with-a-bug-that-shouldve-stopped-it-from-booting-but-no-one-ever-knew-because-an-undocumented-cpu-trick-almost-too-crazy-to-be-true-miraculously-made-it-work/

Morning CFP Patriots! Have a wonderful Wednesday.

Morning CFP ☕️

Boss,
Increased Military air traffic in and around Fort Stewart, Georgia.

Ok
Elon
WTH
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“Amazing Grace” – Dan Vasc

SCOTUS Update…
Duncan v Bonta [California’s Magazine Capacity Limit/Ban] is now “DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/5/2025”