(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday: The Mad squash King’s pumpkin chunking [1] ['Greg Dworkin', 'Bill In Portland Maine'] Date: 2026-08-28 Series boilerplate for Kitchen Table Kibitzing group. belinda ridgewood We will know the end is near when a trebuchet is announced as armament for a Trump-class battleship that will never be constructed. Similarly, we know that Natalie Harp is not the Eva Braun of Evita Perons. The White House must not become the Führerhauptquartiere, even as the latest Iran War events show that Trump likely imagines “impossible counteroffensives, troop movements involving forces that no longer existed,” His ballroom does represent his image of the trumpian state: a lavish ceremonial space over a central command center, its federalist facade with column capitals chosen by the Mango himself. Exclusive: Former White House officials say a bunker built in secret more than a decade ago serves the purpose for which Trump has claimed his ballroom project bunker is needed. — Kimi Wei (@kimiwei.bsky.social) 2026-08-25T03:01:22.264Z President Donald Trump tours Ballroom construction around the outside the White House, Tuesday, May 19, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) AP Prop comedy is a comedy genre in which performers use humorous objects, or conventional objects in humorous ways. The stages and films term “prop”, an abbreviation of “property”, refers to any object an actor handles in the course of a performance. Prop Comic doing shtick annieli modified screenshot Can someone please explain WHY THE FUCK we'd waste $275B on a "Trump-Class" battleship program? https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2026/08/05/trump-class-battleship-program-will-cost-275-billion-cbo-report-says/ — Morgan J Freeman (@mjfree.bsky.social) 2026-08-06T13:45:08.245Z Then there’s other pumpkin colored things Machine class Team name Distance (feet) Year Adult Air American Chunker Inc 4,694.68 2013 Adult Female Air Hormone Blaster 4,382.96 2013 Adult Centrifugal Bad To The Bone 3,245.58 2013 Adult Catapult Chunk Norris 4,091 2019 Adult Trebuchet Colossal Thunder 3,377 2019 Adult Human Powered Shooda Noed Beter 2,343.42 2016 Adult Torsion ETHOS 3,792 2019 Adult Centrifugal Human Powered Smokin Lamas 1,776.37 2013 Youth Air Snot Rocket 4,206.32 2013 Youth Catapult Chunk 58 1731.43 2018 Youth Trebuchet Colossal Thunder 2,402.63 2013 Youth Human Powered Stomach Virus 1,230.12 2013 Youth 10 & Under Little Blaster 1,939.81 2002 Youth 10 & Under Catapult Jersey Devil 1,272.64 2013 Youth 10 & Under Trebuchet Pumpkin Pirates 418.99 2013 After the capitulation of Germany, Felix Steiner was imprisoned and investigated for war crimes. He faced charges at the Nuremberg Trials, but they were dropped and he was released in 1948. In 1953, Steiner was recruited by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to found the Gesellschaft für Wehrkunde (“Society for Defense Studies”), composed of former German military officers, as a propaganda tool and a military think tank for the rearmament of West Germany. From his home in West Germany he published Die Freiwilligen der Waffen-SS: Idee und Opfergang (“The Volunteers of Waffen-SS: Idea and Sacrifice”) in 1958. Steiner’s books and memoirs have been characterised by historian Charles Sydnor as one of the “most important works of apologist literature”, together with warfare analyses Grenadiere by Kurt Meyer and Waffen-SS im Einsatz by Paul Hausser. These works demanded rehabilitation of the military branch of the NSDAP, with Steiner’s works being important in stressing the theme of the purely military Waffen-SS.[14] More pop tunes discovered via the cover playlists of Fasnacht bands. Die Toten Hosen are a German punk rock band from Düsseldorf. The name is taken from the German slang idiom tote Hose (literally “dead trousers”), which means “nothing happening”; “boring”. The band has had an important success through the years, and it has built a loyal following both in Europe and South America, being particularly popular in their home country and in Argentina. Same Old Fever Where did the days go, the ones we believed in? We wouldn’t have had anything to lose. We’re opening up old boxes, taking our stories out, A big, dusty pile of old paper. We’re listening to music from the past, taking a look at faded photographs, remembering what we once had. And over and over it’s the same old songs, that make you feel as if time were standing still. I go to my street, walk to our favorite cafe, 1 I see you all sitting there knowing that I’m right in whatever ups and whatever downs we were in together. Thank God that all of us are still here. 2 And over and over it’s the same old songs, that make you feel as if time were standing still. ‘Cause it’s never over, this same old fever, which always comes up whenever we’re together. We raise our drinks with every glass to everyone, who’s already passed on. And over and over it’s the same old songs, that make you feel as if time were standing still. ‘Cause it’s never over, this same old fever, which always comes up whenever we’re together. ‘Cause it’s never over, this same old fever, which always comes up whenever we’re together. 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