The Washington Post Recuses National Editor Matea Gold From Reporting on Durham and the FBI, Because Her Husband Was Promoted to FBI Chief of Staff.<br>But Her Husband Has Long Been a Top Clinton Ally-- the Son of Clinton's Old "Bimbo Eruption" Detective.

The Washington Post Recuses National Editor Matea Gold From Reporting on Durham and the FBI, Because Her Husband Was Promoted to FBI Chief of Staff.
But Her Husband Has Long Been a Top Clinton Ally-- the Son of Clinton's Old "Bimbo Eruption" Detective.

In her previous role as Investigations Editor, she reported on all the FBI's dirty dealings, with the characteristic Washington Post pro-Deep-State, FBI-do-no-wrong slant.

And her family connection to the Clinton clan was, of course, undisclosed until now.

In fact, it's still not being disclosed by the Washington Post. Paul Sperry is reporting on it for Real Clear Investigations; the Washington Post is only admitting the part about the husband being Chief of Staff of the FBI now.

Amazing stuff from Paul Sperry:

The Washington Post has recused its new national editor, Matea Gold, from the news organization's coverage of the FBI and Justice Department over a personal conflict of interest. A month before Gold was promoted, her husband, Jonathan Lenzner, was named FBI chief of staff.
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The recusal means that, among other national stories, Gold will be cordoned off from guiding Post coverage of Special Counsel John Durham's ongoing criminal investigation of the origins of the Russia probe of Donald Trump, which the FBI and Justice Department initially opened under the Obama administration.
Durham's office secured the conviction of a top FBI lawyer last year and in recent months has indicted a top Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer and a campaign subcontractor who provided most of the information in the discredited Steele dossier, which the FBI used to buttress its investigations of Trump and his advisers. In her previous role as investigations editor, Gold helped oversee the Post's coverage of the Russia "collusion" accusations against Trump and his advisers, including former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.
"For the last four years, Matea has served as the national political enterprise and investigations editor, running some of The Post's most sensitive stories, including coverage of the Russia investigation, the Ukraine pressure campaign and President Donald Trump's attempt to subvert the 2020 election results," the Post said in a story last week about her promotion. "Reporters and other editors gravitate to Matea for guidance and direction."
In the wake of Durham's findings, the Post has retracted or corrected inaccuracies in several stories about Trump and his team. Gold also will be restricted from directing coverage of the ongoing Jan. 6 investigation or editing stories about the U.S. Capitol riot probe led by FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland.
The conflict posed by Gold's husband, whose family has long been allied politically with the Clintons, was discussed last week during a staff-wide Post meeting, according to sources familiar with the development.
It is not uncommon for Washington journalists to be married to government officials, lobbyists and others who influence policy from various vantage points. But a review of Gold's biography reveals a web of especially close connections to Democratic Party officials or activists.
Terry Lenzner: The new FBI chief of staff's father, who earned a reputation as President Clinton's "private CIA" for digging up dirt on Clinton's mistresses.
Investigative Group International
Gold married Lenzner in 2006. Her husband is the son of the late private investigator Terry Lenzner, who earned a reputation as President Clinton's "private CIA" for digging up dirt on Clinton's mistresses and other enemies. He helped squelch a series of what were internally known as "bimbo eruptions" during the 1990s, reportedly with the approval of Hillary Clinton. During the Clinton impeachment probe, Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr called him before a grand jury to testify about his aggressive investigative work on behalf of the president.
After Terry Lenzner retired in 2015, his son took over the Washington private-investigations firm he founded: Investigative Group International, or IGI. Like his father, Jon Lenzner is a Democrat and a Clinton donor; he contributed at least $1,700 to Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign, Federal Election Commission records show.
In December, Wray appointed Lenzner as his chief of staff. The FBI did not release a press advisory announcing the major leadership change on the seventh floor of the Hoover Building, and did not name the firm Lenzner helmed in his bio posted on the bureau's "Leadership & Structure" page of its website. "From 2013 to 2018, Mr. Lenzner led a national risk advisory, corporate investigations, and crisis management firm in Washington, including three years as its CEO," the bio states. Asked for more details about Wray's decision to hire Lenzner, the FBI declined comment and would only provide a link to the same bio.

Wonder who his clients were.

Of course, he won't tell us, and neither will Wray.

What right do we taxpaying citizens paying his salary have to know details about the background of the man we just hired as Chief of Staff of the FBI? We peasants must know our place!

Strength from above, confidence from below -- the old fascist propaganda line. As filthy peasants, our job is just to show confidence in our strong leaders.

Yay, Christopher Wray! You get them bad guys for us!

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In 2016, the Clinton political operation also had a sympathetic figure working on the inside of FBI headquarters -- then-Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe -- who had influence over another investigation of Hillary Clinton. McCabe took control of the FBI's probe of Clinton's mishandling of classified emails within months of McCabe and his wife meeting with then-Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe -- a Democrat and longtime ally of Clinton -- at the governor's mansion in Richmond, whereupon McAuliffe agreed to bankroll the Democratic campaign of McCabe's wife for the state senate. The FBI publicly closed the Clinton email investigation with no charges just three weeks before Clinton's presidential nomination. Later, the Justice Department's watchdog investigated McCabe for political conflicts related to reports he used FBI email to promote his wife's campaign and wore a campaign T-shirt posted on social media.

IGI was the first investigative shop to launder payments for opposition research from political campaigns through law firms so that no record of payments to IGI showed up in Federal Election Commission disclosures. It first did this in 1994 while digging up dirt on then-Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy's opponents. In 2016, Hillary Clinton's campaign employed a similar model in funneling more than $1 million in payments to private investigator Fusion GPS and dossier author Christopher Steele through the law firm Perkins Coie.
It's not known if IGI did any sleuthing work for Clinton or her campaign in 2016, but the firm has investigated Trump in the past. IGI did not respond to requests for comment. IGI has a number of connections to the Clintons. Jon Lenzner's sister, Emily Lenzner, a Biden donor who sits on IGI's board, previously worked in the Clinton White House for Communications Director George Stephanopoulos and years later served as a production assistant for Stephanopoulos at ABC News.
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After working in the White House for Hillary Clinton, Brooke Shearer, the late sister of Clinton operative Cody Shearer, took an investigative job at IGI. She was the wife of Bill Clinton's close college friend Strobe Talbott, who sources say is a witness in Durham's mushrooming investigation. Durham's investigators have subpoenaed documents from the Brookings Institution, the Democratic think tank where Talbott served as president during the 2016 campaign and where the Steele dossier's primary source, Igor Danchenko, once worked as a Russian analyst. Talbott shopped the dossier to federal agencies on behalf of Clinton. Cody Shearer worked on a second Trump-Russia dossier for Clinton during her 2016 campaign, which was pitched to the FBI as a means to corroborate the now-debunked Steele dossier.
During the Nixon impeachment hearings, Terry Lenzner served as deputy counsel on the Senate Watergate Committee. Hillary Clinton worked on the impeachment inquiry as a low-level staff attorney. After Trump won the November 2016 election, Gold participated in a PBS panel on the White House transition: "Trump Family Criticized for Conflicts of Interest." "There's going to be a lot of scrutiny about whether he is mixing his own business empire with his governmental actions," Gold opined.
In September 2017, Gold shared a byline on a Post story claiming that "Trump's divisive presidency" was costing his golf clubs and resorts gala bookings and other business. The story repeated the shorthand -- and incomplete -- claim that "the president said there were 'fine people' among white supremacists, neo-Nazis and members of the alt-right protesting to preserve a Confederate statue [of Gen. Robert E. Lee] in Charlottesville." Actually, Trump specifically condemned white supremacists and neo-Nazis at the rally. "I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally," Trump stated at the time.
Although Gold has not contributed to federal political candidates, FEC records show both her parents are active Democratic donors, giving primarily to progressive candidates, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Her parents also contributed money to Howard Dean's failed 2004 Democratic bid for president while Gold covered Dean's candidacy as a reporter.
Gold met Lenzner on the campaign trail of former Democratic Sen. Bill Bradley's 1999 run for the White House. Gold was covering Bradley, while Lenzner worked for him as a press aide.

This is fine. This is fine. This is fine.

These are the Norms we must finally restore -- a corrupt network of a permanent government bureaucrats, extra-governmental shadow operatives, and media figures supposedly "holding the government to account" but who themselves float in and out of government and extra-governmental operative jobs and also marry government bureaucrats, who rule America against the wishes of the citizens and undermine and even openly go to war with any dirty outsider elected by the dirty uneducated commoners who do not share the Inner Party's vision of an America ruled by the Inner Party.

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1 first?

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at February 01, 2022 02:31 PM (8D42x)

2 and another shocking report that the media and govt are LITERALLY in bed together...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at February 01, 2022 02:32 PM (8D42x)

3 Matea Gold - that's the good shit, right?

Posted by: Guy Smiley at February 01, 2022 02:32 PM (njfCw)

4 corgis called

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at February 01, 2022 02:32 PM (8D42x)

5 not sponge

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at February 01, 2022 02:33 PM (LvTSG)

6 This is fine. This is fine. This is fine.

These are the Norms we must finally restore -- a corrupt network of a permanent government bureaucrats, extra-governmental shadow operatives, and media figures supposedly "holding the government to account" but who themselves float in and out of government and extra-governmental operative jobs and also marry government bureaucrats, who rule America against the wishes of the citizens and undermine and even openly go to war with any dirty outsider elected by the dirty uneducated commoners who do not share the Inner Party's vision of an America ruled by the Inner Party.
Posted by: Ace at 02:31 PM

I'm sure the NeverTrumpers are happy you're finally seeing reason.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 01, 2022 02:33 PM (z5Vrg)

7 I identify as first.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 01, 2022 02:34 PM (ESjRY)

8 Don't tell Sean Hannity but there are no good FIB people. None. Sorry sad but true.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at February 01, 2022 02:34 PM (iDcra)

9 3 -

Very skunky smell, and not a good high at all.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 01, 2022 02:34 PM (YV6PJ)

10 I'm sure the CIA whore will see a cut in pay. I'm sure of it

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at February 01, 2022 02:35 PM (hObqH)

11 Back the Blue. Freedom isn't free.

Posted by: Good for the Goose at February 01, 2022 02:35 PM (H8Bf9)

12 Don't tell Sean Hannity but there are no good FIB people. None. Sorry sad but true.

You sir are NOT a great American.

Posted by: Sean Hannity at February 01, 2022 02:35 PM (ESjRY)

13 Maybe she can go work for CNN now

Posted by: BacktoGA at February 01, 2022 02:35 PM (MPYWI)

14 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 02:35 PM (Zz0t1)

15 Matea Gold? I thought this would be about Kathy Mattea's gold records. ("455 Rocket" --)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 01, 2022 02:36 PM (txdEq)

16

Fey Wray.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 01, 2022 02:36 PM (s2VJv)

17 This is terrible.

In response, I offer up the Daily Daddario:

https://tinyurl.com/2p827td2

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at February 01, 2022 02:36 PM (LvTSG)

18 >>3 Matea Gold - that's the good shit, right?

Not as good as Comey Red.

Posted by: Capital Eff at February 01, 2022 02:36 PM (GYllL)

19 Official Washington is more inbred than a West Virginia trailer camp.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 01, 2022 02:36 PM (I2/tG)

20 It is insane how circular this family tree is.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 01, 2022 02:36 PM (dNqv+)

21 The Liberty Tree is starving to death.

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 02:36 PM (Zz0t1)

22 Tater think that peopole trusting Joe Rogan over CNN is bigger than Spotify. Tater done found a spud of truth... just doesn't know why it is.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at February 01, 2022 02:36 PM (iDcra)

23 12-

It's become quite clear, being a good American and a decent human being are NOT the same thing.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 01, 2022 02:36 PM (YV6PJ)

24 I thought WaPo was the CIA mouthpiece?

Posted by: rd at February 01, 2022 02:36 PM (Z32m1)

25 8 Don't tell Sean Hannity but there are no good FIB people. None. Sorry sad but true.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at February 01, 2022 02:34 PM (iDcra)

Andrew McCarthy. Another ham and egger boosting stooge.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 01, 2022 02:37 PM (s2VJv)

26
In response, I offer up the Daily Daddario:

https://tinyurl.com/2p827td2
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at February 01, 2022 02:36 PM (LvTSG)

Meh. You've done better.

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 02:37 PM (Zz0t1)

27 Red Mercury!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 01, 2022 02:37 PM (dNqv+)

28 Shhh, no one tell baseball cuck... he might start to cry.

Posted by: Inogame at February 01, 2022 02:37 PM (53oGX)

29 "This is awful..."
-The one good FBI agent, keeping his head down until retirement

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at February 01, 2022 02:37 PM (LvTSG)

30 So yep. Trust Rosenstein. Trust Wray. Trust the Plan. Was part of the op as well. Just sit there and do nothing while, we cover all this shit up.

Fcuk me. We aren't voting our way out of this shit.

Posted by: so you got that going for ya at February 01, 2022 02:37 PM (HYiC3)

31 If only Efrem Zimbalist Jr.knew!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stupid Son of a Bitch at February 01, 2022 02:38 PM (FVME7)

32 Is everyone in DC related to each other?

Posted by: Skip's Phone at February 01, 2022 02:38 PM (PwMUS)

33 Supposedly Gina Haspel landed some cushy Wall St job recently. I'm sure you're as shocked as I am.

Posted by: Capital Eff at February 01, 2022 02:38 PM (GYllL)

34 Stephanie Zimbalist > Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 02:39 PM (Zz0t1)

35 FBI is corrupt. It has always been corrupt as far as I can tell, right from inception with J. Edgar Hoover. It needs to be dissolved.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 01, 2022 02:39 PM (o2MD2)

36 Fine you people want boobies? Here you go https://tinyurl.com/4hf2vawv

Looks like one is kind of pointed the wrong way

Posted by: Sean Hannity at February 01, 2022 02:39 PM (ESjRY)

37 Listen, and understand. Durham is out there. He can't be rushed. He can't be thrown off his schedule.

He doesn't feel urgency, or pressure, or fear.

And he absolutely will not get to the bottom of any of this, ever! Until all of the statute of limitations for all of the main conspirators has expired.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 01, 2022 02:39 PM (ek3eh)

38 UCLA was shutdown today and went online because some black guy threatened a mass shooting against Jews, Asians, and "caucasoids". Read all you can about it now because it will be memory-holed in about 15 minutes.

Posted by: Mark1971 at February 01, 2022 02:39 PM (xPl2J)

39 You want a French style revolution? Because this is how you get a French style revolution.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at February 01, 2022 02:39 PM (iDcra)

40 The FBI is, was and always will be pure shit.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 01, 2022 02:39 PM (KiKyV)

41 I just found out I've been putting garbage bags in backwards my entire life.

Huh. Always wondered why the seams were on the "wrong" side. Turns out some of those "life hack" videos are actually useful and informative.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at February 01, 2022 02:39 PM (njfCw)

42 The FBI is completely not the Clintons personal detective service. Totally by coincidence, USAToday says any FBI agent working on Hillary-related investigations had to sign NDA's in their personal capacities. Totally normal. Nothing to see here.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 01, 2022 02:40 PM (XSIWL)

43 Anyone still think we're voting our way out of this? As I've been saying in comments to all the optimistic posts about how unpopular Dumocraps and Joey Mudbrain are, it makes no difference who you vote for if (i) voting doesn't matter because the Dums will win by fraud and/or (ii) voting doesn't matter because real power lies in the unelected, entrenched, corrupt Deep State bureaucracy. We can replace every politician in Congress and it would do nothing to root out the Deep State. For all his faults, Obama understood this. Alas Trump did not and it was his undoing.

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 01, 2022 02:40 PM (iFTx/)

44 Andrew McCarthy. Another ham and egger boosting stooge.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 01, 2022 02:37 PM (s2VJv)

C'mon! He was pretty funny in Weekend at Bernie's.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 01, 2022 02:40 PM (dfRN6)

45 And one person we better keep an eye on in the future cause we didn't (and Trump didn't) keep and eye on him from 2016 and he proved to be one of the linchpins of all of Trumps problems and the "Resistance" along with getting Gen. Flynn fired and the Russian Hoax.

From the git go the person at the center was Mike Pence. He's been promised a full court press to achieve the Presidency in 2024. All he had to do was cripple Trump. And he did. All he had to do was undermine everything Trump tried. And he did. All he had to do was get certain actors on his staff so that they could present testimony at the Ukrainian impeachment. And he did. And of course we know he could've held up certification of the electoral vote due to a couple states claiming that there was evidence of fraud and they were taking back their vote until they could investigate. But Pence went ahead.

Mr.(I won't be alone in the same room with a woman not my wife cause I'm so high and mighty moral but I'll stab the citizens in the back so I can get to be Prezzy) Pence.

Posted by: jakee308 at February 01, 2022 02:40 PM (uZ/z2)

46 Andrew McCarthy. Another ham and egger boosting stooge.

James Comey, Andrew McCabe and Robert Mueller are three of the finest, most honest, and most upright public servants I have ever known! I vouch for their moral probity!
...
...
...

I crack myself up sometimes.

Posted by: Andrew McCarthy! at February 01, 2022 02:40 PM (I2/tG)

47 We wanted the Solid Gold dancers and we ended up with Matea Gold.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at February 01, 2022 02:40 PM (xxG/v)

48 I just found out I've been putting garbage bags in backwards my entire life.

Wait until you find out those condoms weren't ribbed for YOUR pleasure.

Posted by: Obligatory at February 01, 2022 02:40 PM (ESjRY)

49 tbh, i'm not even shocked anymore. i think it's more shocking to find someone in the mfm who ISN'T a dirty fucking whore in bed with the govt.

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at February 01, 2022 02:40 PM (8D42x)

50 Another unexpected "benefit" of Feminism.

Before you only had to trace the relationships of the males, now you add their wives, sisters, ex-wives, etc. With anti-nepotism policies, every family is almost bound to conflicts of interest within go-getter husbands and wives.

Posted by: rd at February 01, 2022 02:40 PM (Z32m1)

51 33-

I rather enjoyed those happier times when it was briefly believed she had been terminated with extreme prejudice, somewhere in Germany, they said.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 01, 2022 02:41 PM (YV6PJ)

52 34 Stephanie Zimbalist > Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 02:39 PM (Zz0t1)

Rated: True.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 01, 2022 02:41 PM (dNqv+)

53 Hey Horde time to toss out all your Elvira stuff...

Cassandra Peterson, aka Elvira Mistress of the Dark, has apparently decided to call her remaining fans trash if they support Joe Rogan

Maybe we should call her Elvira, Mistress of the Karens.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 01, 2022 02:41 PM (crngH)

54 43 Anyone still think we're voting our way out of this? As I've been saying in comments to all the optimistic posts about how unpopular Dumocraps and Joey Mudbrain are, it makes no difference who you vote for if (i) voting doesn't matter because the Dums will win by fraud and/or (ii) voting doesn't matter because real power lies in the unelected, entrenched, corrupt Deep State bureaucracy. We can replace every politician in Congress and it would do nothing to root out the Deep State. For all his faults, Obama understood this. Alas Trump did not and it was his undoing.
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 01, 2022 02:40 PM (iFTx/)

In theory a Republican congress could dissolve the bureaucracy. In practice, a Republican congress would not attempt to dissolve the bureaucracy.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 01, 2022 02:41 PM (z5Vrg)

55 Uh oh.

Daily Mail Online
@MailOnline
Harry and Meghan put pressure on Spotify to drop Joe Rogan

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I was just thinking the other night that we hadn't heard from Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dumber lately.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stupid Son of a Bitch at February 01, 2022 02:41 PM (FVME7)

56 These are the Norms we must finally restore -- a corrupt network of a permanent government bureaucrats, extra-governmental shadow operatives, and media figures supposedly "holding the government to account" but who themselves float in and out of government and extra-governmental operative jobs and also marry government bureaucrats, who rule America against the wishes of the citizens and undermine and even openly go to war with any dirty outsider elected by the dirty uneducated commoners who do not share the Inner Party's vision of an America ruled by the Inner Party.
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The information laundromat between the press and the IC (for all his faults and annoying attributes, Dan Bongino did a splendid job describing this mechanism) depends on exactly this kind of influence network between the two groups. Someone's husband or wife or daughter or nephew can help the bogus information flow around and obfuscate its source while violating all official protocol and breaking the law. The journalist's husband is with the FBI and his mistress is at an NGO who can connect them with someone else's main squeeze at MI6.

Incest, everywhere.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 01, 2022 02:41 PM (DU+/6)

57 >Supposedly Gina Haspel landed some cushy Wall St job recently. I'm sure you're as shocked as I am.

Posted by: Capital Eff at February 01, 2022 02:38 PM (GYllL)

Gee, she bounced back nicely from almost being killed at the raid at the sooper sekrit Dominion server farm in Germany.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at February 01, 2022 02:41 PM (/i32d)

58 I identify as first.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 01, 2022 02:34 PM (ESjRY)

I identify as shocked that American Stasi has a propaganda arm.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 01, 2022 02:42 PM (SH2Zi)

59 Anyone still think we're voting our way out of this?

Worth a shot. We still have the example of Andrew Jackson's presidency.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 01, 2022 02:42 PM (I2/tG)

60 41 I just found out I've been putting garbage bags in backwards my entire life.

Huh. Always wondered why the seams were on the "wrong" side. Turns out some of those "life hack" videos are actually useful and informative.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at February 01, 2022 02:39 PM (njfCw)

Wait, what?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 01, 2022 02:42 PM (dNqv+)

61 jakee308

I doubt Pence was the center of our problem. Maybe he didn't have the balls to rip elector votes to shreds, but not the center of our problem.

Posted by: BacktoGA at February 01, 2022 02:42 PM (MPYWI)

62 Is everyone in DC related to each other?
Posted by: Skip's Phone at February 01, 2022 02:38 PM (PwMUS)

Take a look at some of their pictures...that will probably answer that question.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 01, 2022 02:42 PM (axyOa)

63 You're supposed to turn garbage bags inside out and then put them in the can?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 01, 2022 02:42 PM (dNqv+)

64 In response, I offer up the Daily Daddario:

https://tinyurl.com/2p827td2
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at February 01, 2022 02:36 PM (LvTSG)

Something's wrong with my computer.

Shouldn't she be nekkid?

Posted by: naturalfake at February 01, 2022 02:43 PM (5NkmN)

65 The Marianis trench of the Deep State.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at February 01, 2022 02:43 PM (6SN7Z)

66 Worth a shot. We still have the example of Andrew Jackson's presidency.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

Could you imagine trying to take down the Federal Reserve now? Would be amazing

Posted by: BacktoGA at February 01, 2022 02:43 PM (MPYWI)

67 @32

>> Is everyone in DC related to each other?

Yes, and they are all maniacs and pedophiles.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 01, 2022 02:43 PM (ek3eh)

68 Cassandra Peterson, aka Elvira Mistress of the Dark, has apparently decided to call her remaining fans trash if they support Joe Rogan

Maybe we should call her Elvira, Mistress of the Karens.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 01, 2022 02:41 PM (crngH)

Rhonda Sheer wouldn't do this.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 01, 2022 02:43 PM (dNqv+)

69 Isn't Andrew McCarthy (and all of NRO) still vouching for Garland?

Makes you wonder what FBI payola and connections they're hiding

Posted by: Well at February 01, 2022 02:43 PM (vcGJs)

70 Yeah, come at me with that "Durham is coming" bullshit, I dare ya.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at February 01, 2022 02:43 PM (/i32d)

71 I find it interesting that Wray is apparently throwing down with the Clinton Dem faction rather than the Biden junta types. I suspect that the Clinton libraries of traitors and criminal acts are being used to protect not only the Clintons and their network but to stiff the Biden DOJ apparatus from controlling Wray and the FBI.

Government by blackmail and bribery seems to be how our fedgov operates now. This is just another brick in the wall.

Posted by: whig at February 01, 2022 02:43 PM (Iq9dF)

72 I had an old 340 Duster painted in Matea Gold.

Posted by: johnd01 at February 01, 2022 02:44 PM (ukNFU)

73

Isn't everyone at wapo connected in some way to the Clintons?

Posted by: artisanal ette at February 01, 2022 02:44 PM (xKKnI)

74 Supposedly Gina Haspel landed some cushy Wall St job recently. I'm sure you're as shocked as I am.

Posted by: Capital Eff at February 01, 2022 02:38 PM (GYllL)

Gee, she bounced back nicely from almost being killed at the raid at the sooper sekrit Dominion server farm in Germany.
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it was touch and go there for awhile. my heart rate got above 110, but I titrated in some decaf and was good to go!

Posted by: Gina Haspel action hero at February 01, 2022 02:44 PM (SNJNH)

75 Red Mercury!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 01, 2022 02:37 PM (dNqv+)

red rocket?

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at February 01, 2022 02:44 PM (8D42x)

76 Once upon a time incest was bad.

Now it's a gubmint employment agency.

Posted by: GnuBreed at February 01, 2022 02:44 PM (F0YaR)

77 Something's wrong with my computer.

Shouldn't she be nekkid?

Posted by: naturalfake at February 01, 2022 02:43 PM (5NkmN)

Be better, TheJamesMadison.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 01, 2022 02:44 PM (SH2Zi)

78 Speaking of bimbos, when Sandy Cortez going to leak her sex tape with the football team?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 01, 2022 02:44 PM (6liew)

79 it's clearly in the emanations of the penumbra of the hemline of the Bill Of Rights that it's a sin to suggest anyone connected to the Clintons is guilty of anything except when reported in the NY Times AND the Washington Post.

Posted by: mallfly the Georgia Peach at February 01, 2022 02:44 PM (Ynyl9)

80 Could you imagine trying to take down the Federal Reserve now? Would be amazing
Posted by: BacktoGA at February 01, 2022 02:43 PM (MPYWI)

I volunteer as tribute!

~ Rand Paul

Posted by: DoublySymmetric(phone) at February 01, 2022 02:44 PM (9mfKN)

81 75 Red Mercury!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 01, 2022 02:37 PM (dNqv+)

red rocket?
Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at February 01, 2022 02:44 PM (8D42x)

But enough about Dana Perino.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 01, 2022 02:45 PM (dNqv+)

82 These are the Norms we must finally restore -- a corrupt network of a permanent government bureaucrats, extra-governmental shadow operatives, and media figures supposedly "holding the government to account" but who themselves float in and out of government and extra-governmental operative jobs and also marry government bureaucrats, who rule America against the wishes of the citizens and undermine and even openly go to war with any dirty outsider elected by the dirty uneducated commoners who do not share the Inner Party's vision of an America ruled by the Inner Party.
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We couldn't have said it better.

Posted by: The Bullcuck at February 01, 2022 02:45 PM (dscaa)

83
I'm trying to get Chrissie Mayr to impersonate "elvira" on FNT this week.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at February 01, 2022 02:45 PM (l3sUM)

84 Despite being worth $23 million to $42 million, Christopher Wray almost never smiles. This could be a result of his wife pegging him.

Posted by: 40 Miles North at February 01, 2022 02:45 PM (uWF4x)

85 70 Yeah, come at me with that "Durham is coming" bullshit, I dare ya.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen

Actually, it makes me think that Garland is giving Durham a long leash to go after the Clinton network in office in service of the Biden/Obama junta.

In 2024, the Hillbot might actually contend again for prezzie and the Biden/Obama/Harris contingent may want to stamp that out.

Posted by: whig at February 01, 2022 02:45 PM (Iq9dF)

86 Government by blackmail and bribery seems to be how our fedgov operates now. This is just another brick in the wall.
===

Has been for all of humanity except around 1776 when there was a glimmer of hope which has now been thoroughly extinguished.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at February 01, 2022 02:45 PM (iDcra)

87 >>But enough about Dana Perino.

That girl is a slut.

Posted by: Marmaduke at February 01, 2022 02:45 PM (/HboT)

88 Where's that "burn-scatter-salt" guy when you need him.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 01, 2022 02:45 PM (llON8)

89 Daily Mail Online
@MailOnline
Harry and Meghan put pressure on Spotify to drop Joe Rogan

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I was just thinking the other night that we hadn't heard from Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dumber lately.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stupid Son of a Bitch at February 01, 2022 02:41 PM

Well, if such luminaries as a gelded ex-prince simp and his narcissistic emasculating former starlet cum former yacht girl cum cumdumpster wife say so...

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at February 01, 2022 02:46 PM (II3Gr)

90 Matea Gold looks like the figurehead for those Suburban Women we read about.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at February 01, 2022 02:46 PM (6SN7Z)

91 Once upon a time incest was bad.

Now it's a gubmint employment agency.
==
Dude. The government's real organizational chart now looks like an Aristocrat's Joke.

Posted by: not actually a joke at February 01, 2022 02:46 PM (S9GM2)

92 Cassandra Peterson, aka Elvira Mistress of the Dark, has apparently decided to call her remaining fans trash if they support Joe Rogan

Maybe we should call her Elvira, Mistress of the Karens.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 01, 2022 02:41 PM (crngH)

Wait....what?!?! Oh yeah......that's right. IDGAF.

I remember now.

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 02:46 PM (Zz0t1)

93 75 Red Mercury!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 01, 2022 02:37 PM (dNqv+)

red rocket?
Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at February 01, 2022 02:44 PM (8D42x)

Red Robin (Yuuuuuum...)

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 01, 2022 02:46 PM (dfRN6)

94 Mr.(I won't be alone in the same room with a woman not my wife cause I'm so high and mighty moral but I'll stab the citizens in the back so I can get to be Prezzy) Pence.

History is full of well dressed, meticulously polite tyrants. I know why some still swoon over those cheap ploys. Its intellectually lazy. Most people are.

Posted by: Good for the Goose at February 01, 2022 02:46 PM (H8Bf9)

95 So many heroes of the democracy, so little rope.

*plants hemp*

Posted by: GnuBreed at February 01, 2022 02:46 PM (F0YaR)

96 Well, if such luminaries as a gelded ex-prince simp and his narcissistic emasculating former starlet cum former yacht girl cum cumdumpster wife say so...

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at February 01, 2022 02:46 PM (II3Gr)

Just rolls off the tongue. How long you been sitting on that one?

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 01, 2022 02:47 PM (SH2Zi)

97 Rhonda Sheer wouldn't do this.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 01, 2022 02:43 PM (dNqv+)

Wow, I completely forgot about her.

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 01, 2022 02:47 PM (Ez6QX)

98 Yeah, come at me with that "Durham is coming" bullshit, I dare ya.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at February 01, 2022 02:43 PM (/i32d)

#TwoWeeks

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 02:47 PM (Zz0t1)

99 77 Something's wrong with my computer.

Shouldn't she be nekkid?

Posted by: naturalfake at February 01, 2022 02:43 PM (5NkmN)

Be better, TheJamesMadison.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 01, 2022 02:44 PM (SH2Zi)

Kids today! Why in my day, kids could go out and find their own porn! Not like today where they need it served bedside with their morning glass of milk and cookies.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Yorkshireman at February 01, 2022 02:47 PM (dNqv+)

100 "For the last four years, Matea has served as the national political enterprise and investigations editor, running some of The Post's most sensitive stories, including coverage of the Russia investigation, the Ukraine pressure campaign and President Donald Trump's attempt to subvert the 2020 election results," the Post said in a story last week about her promotion. "Reporters and other editors gravitate to Matea for guidance and direction."
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Not only did she not disclose her conflicts of interest in the very stories on which she was building her career, none of her bosses or employers bothered to check.

Remember, we need traditional journalism because boots-on-the-ground, amateur or semi-pro informal journalism - that is, the so-called "citizen journalists" - don't have the rigorous environment of validation, checking, sign-off, editorial control and other failsafe mechanisms of the traditional media. The reason the traditional media are so valuable is because they have consistent application of high standards and constant verification and validation.

Remember that? I do. You also couldn't say that I'm surprised that they haven't made that argument recently.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 01, 2022 02:47 PM (DU+/6)

101 74 Supposedly Gina Haspel landed some cushy Wall St job recently. I'm sure you're as shocked as I am.

Posted by: Capital Eff at February 01, 2022 02:38 PM (GYllL)

Gee, she bounced back nicely from almost being killed at the raid at the sooper sekrit Dominion server farm in Germany.
==
it was touch and go there for awhile. my heart rate got above 110, but I titrated in some decaf and was good to go!
Posted by: Gina Haspel
++++
She is in a firm with Rod Rosenstein and Sally Yates. Tell me that DC is not incestuous.

Posted by: whig at February 01, 2022 02:47 PM (Iq9dF)

102
Daily Mail Online
@MailOnline
Harry and Meghan put pressure on Spotify to drop Joe Rogan
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I was just thinking the other night that we hadn't heard from Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dumber lately.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stupid Son of a Bitch at February 01, 2022 02:41 PM (FVME7)
==================

$25 Million Contract w/ Spotify. One, a Single 30 minute Harry and MeAgain Podcast in two years. Grifters and crooks. Spotify should be suing them to get their money back.

Posted by: rd at February 01, 2022 02:47 PM (Z32m1)

103 also, Putin is trying to cut the price of oil to help the Canadian Truckers. Shhh, don't tell anyone.

Posted by: mallfly the Georgia Peach at February 01, 2022 02:47 PM (Ynyl9)

104 Boy oh boy, the Garland/ Klain DOJ are the best, most honest and wonderful people ever.

Posted by: trev006 at February 01, 2022 02:47 PM (Eqkqm)

105 The real mystery of Cassandra Peterson fans is that there are actually any Cassandra Peterson fans. I mean WTF?

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 01, 2022 02:47 PM (o2MD2)

106 Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 01, 2022 02:39 PM (ek3eh)

LOL nice

Posted by: ... at February 01, 2022 02:47 PM (dscaa)

107 Hey Horde time to toss out all your Elvira stuff...

Cassandra Peterson, aka Elvira Mistress of the Dark, has apparently decided to call her remaining fans trash if they support Joe Rogan

Maybe we should call her Elvira, Mistress of the Karens.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 01, 2022 02:41 PM (crngH)

meh, as someone who's ratings are probably slightly lower than her her 2 once redeeming qualities, I'm not the least bit concerned about her attempts to become relevant again.

tl;dr - the lesbo sthick didn't get enough attention

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at February 01, 2022 02:48 PM (8D42x)

108 Despite being worth $23 million to $42 million, Christopher Wray
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WTF? Inherited money. don't tell me a federal cop made that on the job and isn't crooked as the day is long.

Posted by: not actually a joke at February 01, 2022 02:48 PM (SuAtK)

109 WaPo reports that Ron Klein told a small group of Democrats about Breyer's upcoming retirement and that's how it "leaked."

https://washex.am/3GwYvBT

I'm guessing they intended it to leak to make sure Breyer didn't chicken out. They wanted him out while they control the White House and Congress.

They told their small group, told them to keep it secret, and waiting for DC to be DC and leak like crazy.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 01, 2022 02:48 PM (VCz/u)

110 Remember that? I do. You also couldn't say that I'm surprised that they haven't made that argument recently.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Matea is expendable as she helped take out Trump but as a Clintonite, she is sus to the Biden junta types. Bet this order came down from the Bezos.

Posted by: whig at February 01, 2022 02:48 PM (Iq9dF)

111 What does Elvira think?

Posted by: Said Nobody Ever at February 01, 2022 02:48 PM (dscaa)

112 Actually, it makes me think that Garland is giving Durham a long leash to go after the Clinton network in office in service of the Biden/Obama junta.

In 2024, the Hillbot might actually contend again for prezzie and the Biden/Obama/Harris contingent may want to stamp that out.
Posted by: whig at February 01, 2022 02:45 PM (Iq9dF)
***

I agree.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 01, 2022 02:49 PM (axyOa)

113 Wow, I completely forgot about her.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 01, 2022 02:47 PM (Ez6QX)

I have a mental knack for this type of thing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Yorkshireman at February 01, 2022 02:49 PM (dNqv+)

114 109 I'm guessing they intended it to leak to make sure Breyer didn't chicken out. They wanted him out while they control the White House and Congress.

They told their small group, told them to keep it secret, and waiting for DC to be DC and leak like crazy.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 01, 2022 02:48 PM (VCz/u)

========

I'm not sure if there's anything more powerful in DC than a powerful man who feels slighted.

If Breyer doesn't fuck over Biden for this, he's a little bitch and everyone will know it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at February 01, 2022 02:49 PM (LvTSG)

115 It takes 10 minutes into The Good, the bad and the Ugly for the first word to be spoken.

Posted by: Did you know? at February 01, 2022 02:49 PM (mFD3N)

116 Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 01, 2022 02:39 PM (ek3eh)

LOL nice

Posted by: ... at February 01, 2022 02:47 PM (dscaa)

Yep *golf clap*

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 01, 2022 02:49 PM (SH2Zi)

117 Lockdowns in the U.S. and Europe had little or no impact in reducing deaths from COVID-19, according to a new analysis by researchers at Johns Hopkins University.

The lockdowns during the early phase of the pandemic in 2020 reduced COVID-19 mortality by about 0.2%, said the broad review of multiple scientific studies.

"We find no evidence that lockdowns, school closures, border closures, and limiting gatherings have had a noticeable effect on COVID-19 mortality," the researchers wrote.

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If it saves one life . . .

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stupid Son of a Bitch at February 01, 2022 02:49 PM (FVME7)

118 What right do we taxpaying citizens paying his salary have to know details about the background of the man we just hired as Chief of Staff of the FBI? We peasants must know our place!

---------

In American KBG, Chief of Peasants know their staff!

Posted by: ShainS -- A faculty lounge, if you can keep it. at February 01, 2022 02:49 PM (GeRdb)

119 Oh and Pence's chief of staff's wife worked for Peter Strzok.

Yeah him with the smirk and the plans they have to cover things in case Trump gets elected.

Posted by: jakee308 at February 01, 2022 02:50 PM (uZ/z2)

120
I call her the drag queen, because that's what she looks like -- a man dressing up as a woman for a burlesque act.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at February 01, 2022 02:50 PM (l3sUM)

121 Wait, what?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 01, 2022 02:42 PM (dNqv+)

You're supposed to put it over top of the can like a hat and push it down inside. And that's why the seams are "always on the wrong side."

Mind blown.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at February 01, 2022 02:50 PM (njfCw)

122 Matea is expendable as she helped take out Trump but as a Clintonite, she is sus to the Biden junta types. Bet this order came down from the Bezos.
Posted by: whig at February 01, 2022 02:48 PM (Iq9dF)
+++
Maybe. I could believe it. Or not. It doesn't really matter. None of them are honest or reliable or verified. At leas the "citizen journalist" is out and proud with what he wants to accomplish and doesn't pretend to have some superhuman gravitas.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 01, 2022 02:50 PM (DU+/6)

123 Red Mercury!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 01, 2022 02:37 PM (dNqv+)

red rocket?
Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at February 01, 2022 02:44 PM (8D42x)

But enough about Dana Perino.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 01, 2022 02:45 PM (dNqv+)

this is about me isn't it?

Posted by: Jasper at February 01, 2022 02:50 PM (8D42x)

124 115 It takes 10 minutes into The Good, the bad and the Ugly for the first word to be spoken.
Posted by: Did you know? at February 01, 2022 02:49 PM (mFD3N)

Never timed it, but the same is true for Rio Bravo (personally, I still count this as the best, most enjoyable western of all time.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD Yorkshireman at February 01, 2022 02:50 PM (dNqv+)

125 "...Although Gold has not contributed to federal political candidates, FEC records show both her parents are active Democratic donors, giving primarily to progressive candidates, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Her parents also contributed money to Howard Dean's failed 2004 Democratic bid for president while Gold covered Dean's candidacy as a reporter."

The biggest fiction that the press profession pulled on the public was the lie that because (some) reporters refuse to vote, or are declared independent voters, or vote for Dems and Reps, it means that they are impartial. I'd gladly give up my individual vote if I can influence 10,000 people to vote the way I want to. They certainly do this as well. If you asked Gold, she'd say that of course she's impartial. What a crock.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at February 01, 2022 02:51 PM (mdjgu)

126 Despite being worth $23 million to $42 million, Christopher Wray almost never smiles. This could be a result of his wife pegging him.
Posted by: 40 Miles North at February 01, 2022 02:45 PM (uWF4x)

--------------------------------

The Butt Plug has really big nubs

Posted by: Christopher Wray at February 01, 2022 02:51 PM (Z32m1)

127 So if this whole political opining thing doesn't work out, will someone please at least buy some pictures of my feet?

Posted by: Elvira, Mistress of the Late 80's at February 01, 2022 02:51 PM (dscaa)

128 You're supposed to put it over top of the can like a hat and push it down inside. And that's why the seams are "always on the wrong side."

Mind blown.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at February 01, 2022 02:50 PM (njfCw)

Wait, really?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Yorkshireman at February 01, 2022 02:51 PM (dNqv+)

129 Bonhomme,

I have a slightly different take. There were some DC stories floating around that were not complimentary of Klain last week and frustrations that Klain took the side of Jayapal types in the House on the BBB and Voting bills rather than the moderates in the Senate and House.

Klain probably leaked it to change the subject to Breyer's replacement which brings in Clyburn and some of the other moderates pushing the SC judge instead of the others. Biden world owes Clyburn big time for the SC primary and Clyburn might have been the one to convince Nanzi to stay on to prevent the AOC types from taking over the house leadership post 2022.

Posted by: whig at February 01, 2022 02:51 PM (Iq9dF)

130 >>41 I just found out I've been putting garbage bags in backwards my entire life.

Huh. Always wondered why the seams were on the "wrong" side. Turns out some of those "life hack" videos are actually useful and informative.
Posted by: Guy Smiley

If you do it the hack way it turns into some horrible inverted balloon.

Posted by: Capital Eff at February 01, 2022 02:52 PM (GYllL)

131 104 Boy oh boy, the Garland/ Klain DOJ are the best, most honest and wonderful people ever.

Posted by: trev006 at February 01, 2022 02:47 PM (Eqkqm)

Uh oh they got to trev. Now he sounds like Todd.

Fucking Todd.

Posted by: GnuBreed at February 01, 2022 02:52 PM (F0YaR)

132 111 What does Elvira think?
Posted by: Said Nobody Ever at February 01, 2022 02:48 PM (dscaa)

Giddy up, oom poppa, omm poppa, mow mow

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at February 01, 2022 02:52 PM (II3Gr)

133 119 Oh and Pence's chief of staff's wife worked for Peter Strzok.

Yeah him with the smirk and the plans they have to cover things in case Trump gets elected.
Posted by: jakee308 at February 01, 2022 02:50 PM (uZ/z2)

"Yes, sir. Michael Flynn lied to me. So you have to fire him."

Posted by: Darrell Harris at February 01, 2022 02:52 PM (mdjgu)

134
Giddy up, oom poppa, omm poppa, mow mow
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at February 01, 2022 02:52 PM (II3Gr)

LOL.

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 02:52 PM (Zz0t1)

135 re 102: do they actually get paid all that, or does it depend on their doing anything to earn it?

Posted by: mallfly the Georgia Peach at February 01, 2022 02:52 PM (Ynyl9)

136 132 111 What does Elvira think?
Posted by: Said Nobody Ever at February 01, 2022 02:48 PM (dscaa)

Giddy up, oom poppa, omm poppa, mow mow
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at February 01, 2022 02:52 PM (II3Gr)

Wow, now there is a reference.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Yorkshireman at February 01, 2022 02:53 PM (dNqv+)

137 Just rolls off the tongue. How long you been sitting on that one?
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 01, 2022 02:47 PM (SH2Zi)

Put that together just now.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at February 01, 2022 02:53 PM (II3Gr)

138 Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at February 01, 2022 02:52 PM (II3Gr)

When I was a kid I thought they were singing Elvirup.

Posted by: ... at February 01, 2022 02:53 PM (dscaa)

139 Insty reports that the State Department withheld memos that said State was impressed with the work the guy Biden demanded be fired was doing.

This is, of course, some 18 months after Biden lied on national TV and said it was State that wanted him fired.

Good thing we've all those selfless public servants who understand they work for the people and not a party ....

Posted by: Well at February 01, 2022 02:53 PM (vcGJs)

140 Kids today! Why in my day, kids could go out and find their own porn! Not like today where they need it served bedside with their morning glass of milk and cookies.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Yorkshireman at February 01, 2022

***
"Back then," high school girls were slim and did their best to look attractive and sexy. A day at a a coed school could be as hot as a plain (non-Christmas) issue of Playboy.

Well, almost.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 01, 2022 02:53 PM (txdEq)

141 What does Elvira think?
Posted by: Said Nobody Ever

Seriously. I know what she looks like, vaguely. Other than that, she occupies zero space in my brain.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 01, 2022 02:53 PM (VCz/u)

142 >>>I just found out I've been putting garbage bags in backwards my entire life.

You're probably one of those who uses straws backwards, too. Sicko.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 01, 2022 02:53 PM (SH2Zi)

143
When I was a kid I thought they were singing Elvirup.
Posted by: ... at February 01, 2022 02:53 PM (dscaa)

I thought it was strange they were singing about the big boobied goth horror movie chick.

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 02:53 PM (Zz0t1)

144 I'm so low rent I still use those plastic bags from the stores. Garbage bags only for the... uhhh... messier jobs.

Posted by: ... at February 01, 2022 02:54 PM (dscaa)

145 Maybe. I could believe it. Or not. It doesn't really matter. None of them are honest or reliable or verified. At leas the "citizen journalist" is out and proud with what he wants to accomplish and doesn't pretend to have some superhuman gravitas.

Posted by: Joe Mannix

*************
Kremlinology is about all we have because the media and public information out of DC is thoroughly compromised just like the old Sov Union. Failures of a regime's leader after a coup tend to draw factional support to replace that leader. Same as jockeying to replace someone becoming ga ga.

Posted by: whig at February 01, 2022 02:54 PM (Iq9dF)

146
How incestuous.

The Hillz Haz Eyes.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 01, 2022 02:54 PM (Cf/uA)

147 just found out I've been putting garbage bags in backwards my entire life.

Huh. Always wondered why the seams were on the "wrong" side. Turns out some of those "life hack" videos are actually useful and informative.
Posted by: Guy Smiley

huh, i never knew there was a wrong way...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at February 01, 2022 02:54 PM (8D42x)

148 124 115 It takes 10 minutes into The Good, the bad and the Ugly for the first word to be spoken.
Posted by: Did you know? at February 01, 2022 02:49 PM (mFD3N)

Never timed it, but the same is true for Rio Bravo (personally, I still count this as the best, most enjoyable western of all time.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Yorkshireman at February 01, 2022 02:50 PM (dNqv+)

The Black Stallion (70s version) has at least 20 minutes in it (not the very beginning, though) where there is no dialog at all. Very well done.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at February 01, 2022 02:54 PM (mdjgu)

149
Seriously. I know what she looks like, vaguely. Other than that, she occupies zero space in my brain.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 01, 2022 02:53 PM (VCz/u)

She did Penthouse a long time ago. That took everything away from ever having to watch her again and imagine.

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 02:54 PM (Zz0t1)

150 So if this whole political opining thing doesn't work out, will someone please at least buy some pictures of my feet?
Posted by: Elvira, Mistress of the Late 80's at February 01, 2022

***
Sorry, Elvira, but there's this free thing called Wikifeet now. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 01, 2022 02:54 PM (txdEq)

151 I suspect this deep level of incestuousness in government is why no one in public office is capable of showing any ability, skill or charisma anymore.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 01, 2022 02:55 PM (ZMraq)

152 "Back then," high school girls were slim and did their best to look attractive and sexy. A day at a a coed school could be as hot as a plain (non-Christmas) issue of Playboy.

Well, almost.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 01, 2022 02:53 PM (txdEq)

Some ridiculously good-looking chicks in high school. Smoking hot. If only I hadn't been raised to be a pussy...oh the opportunities lost.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at February 01, 2022 02:55 PM (II3Gr)

153 You'd be surprised how much of this goes on. They only admit it when they get caught. Alan Greenspan was hitting Andrea Mitchell for the good Fed press (disgusting I know).

Posted by: Marcus T at February 01, 2022 02:55 PM (Tckfm)

154 115 It takes 10 minutes into The Good, the bad and the Ugly for the first word to be spoken.
Posted by: Did you know? at February 01, 2022 02:49 PM (mFD3N)

---------------

It's 15 minutes for There Will Be Blood. All of the early mining scenes are devoid of speaking. The first words are Plainview's sales pitch to the townspeople.

Posted by: radar at February 01, 2022 02:55 PM (3Zp/H)

155 Everyone in DC is either married to or related to another swamp creature.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 01, 2022 02:55 PM (F4b8f)

156
***
Sorry, Elvira, but there's this free thing called Wikifeet now. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 01, 2022 02:54 PM (txdEq)

There's a wiki for everything.

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 02:55 PM (Zz0t1)

157 133 119 Oh and Pence's chief of staff's wife worked for Peter Strzok.

Yeah him with the smirk and the plans they have to cover things in case Trump gets elected.
Posted by: jakee308 at February 01, 2022 02:50 PM (uZ/z2)

Maybe Pence really is a cuck and likes to watch. It is not apparent that marital fidelity is a value treasured by FBI or DC.

Posted by: whig at February 01, 2022 02:56 PM (Iq9dF)

158 There's a wiki for everything.
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 02:55 PM (Zz0t1)

Even ace's penis.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at February 01, 2022 02:56 PM (II3Gr)

159 I'm sure it's been covered but I sure would like those truckers to head south and shut that border down.

Posted by: dartist at February 01, 2022 02:56 PM (+ya+t)

160
You'd be surprised how much of this goes on. They only admit it when they get caught. Alan Greenspan was hitting Andrea Mitchell for the good Fed press (disgusting I know).
Posted by: Marcus T at February 01, 2022 02:55 PM (Tckfm)

One of my favorite Rush jokes was when he mentioned they were married and said "Imagine that! Every day is Halloween in that house!"

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 01, 2022 02:56 PM (Cf/uA)

161 Oh and Pence's chief of staff's wife worked for Peter Strzok.

The myth perpetuated around Pence tells you all you need to know about those who spun it. Pence is the guy that used campaign funds to pay personal bills back in the day. Pence is the guy that jumped onto the Trump Train because he was losing - badly - in early polling for re-election as IN Gov.

Pence is not a good guy. But he's good at projecting the image that gives certain people a thrill down their leg.

Posted by: Good for the Goose at February 01, 2022 02:56 PM (H8Bf9)

162 153 You'd be surprised how much of this goes on. They only admit it when they get caught. Alan Greenspan was hitting Andrea Mitchell for the good Fed press (disgusting I know).

Posted by: Marcus T at February 01, 2022 02:55 PM (Tckfm)

should not have read this while eating lunch....ewww

Posted by: IC - #FJB at February 01, 2022 02:56 PM (hV9ir)

163
Some ridiculously good-looking chicks in high school. Smoking hot. If only I hadn't been raised to be a pussy...oh the opportunities lost.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at February 01, 2022 02:55 PM (II3Gr)

I actually tried a bit, but my loser status and geekish nature were impossible to overcome.

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 02:56 PM (Zz0t1)

164 Boy oh boy, the Garland/ Klain DOJ are the best, most honest and wonderful people ever.

Posted by: trev006 at February 01, 2022 02:47 PM (Eqkqm)

Uh oh they got to trev. Now he sounds like Todd.

Fucking Todd.
Posted by: GnuBreed at February 01, 2022 02:52 PM (F0YaR)

what the hell man, i'm right here...

*tuts*

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at February 01, 2022 02:56 PM (8D42x)

165 47 We wanted the Solid Gold dancers and we ended up with Matea Gold.
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie

*fires up the disco ball*
*dons short shorts and gold vinyl boots*

Posted by: See. I told you so at February 01, 2022 02:56 PM (X6f9+)

166 Hi Ho Silver Away!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 01, 2022 02:56 PM (6liew)

167 There's a wiki for everything.
==
Wikihunchback? I think not.

Posted by: wipe this smug look off my face, just try it at February 01, 2022 02:56 PM (/uXs1)

168
Hey Horde time to toss out all your Elvira stuff...

There's such a thing as Elvira stuff?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 01, 2022 02:56 PM (63Dwl)

169 Bill Clinton had alot of "allies". 100 years from now DC will still be full of Clinton allies.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 01, 2022 02:56 PM (F4b8f)

170
Even ace's penis.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at February 01, 2022 02:56 PM (II3Gr)

WikiEwokCock

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 02:57 PM (Zz0t1)

171 > Posted by: whig at February 01, 2022 02:51 PM (Iq9dF)

Sounds like DC.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 01, 2022 02:57 PM (VCz/u)

172 Re the garbage bags, that's not the way to do it either, because pushing it down after putting it on like a hat makes it harder for the air to escape. Here's the way to do it: open the bag with your hands, put your hand in the bottom of the bag to push it into the can, and THEN fold the opening of the bag over the can.

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 01, 2022 02:57 PM (iFTx/)

173 Actually, it makes me think that Garland is giving Durham a long leash to go after the Clinton network in office in service of the Biden/Obama junta.

Agreed. I'm gonna admit, I didn't foresee that Obama's revenge on the Bidens would consist of putting a microphone in front of Joe and letting him humiliate himself, but it's been effective.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 01, 2022 02:57 PM (ZGrMX)

174 Lockdowns in the U.S. and Europe had little or no impact in reducing deaths from COVID-19, according to a new analysis by researchers at Johns Hopkins University.

The lockdowns during the early phase of the pandemic in 2020 reduced COVID-19 mortality by about 0.2%, said the broad review of multiple scientific studies.

"We find no evidence that lockdowns, school closures, border closures, and limiting gatherings have had a noticeable effect on COVID-19 mortality," the researchers wrote.
-
If it saves one life . . .
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stupid Son of a Bitch at February 01, 2022 02:49 PM (FVME7)

All the quarantines did was slightly spread out the duration of the infection spread. Everyone still got it, but rather than all in two months, all that destruction spread the duration out to maybe like 3 months. Not a big difference.

Posted by: rd at February 01, 2022 02:57 PM (Z32m1)

175 hiya

Posted by: JT at February 01, 2022 02:57 PM (arJlL)

176 I'm shocked! Shocked to find out it's turtles ... er ... Democrats all the way down!

Posted by: Ralph at February 01, 2022 02:57 PM (Qf//C)

177 Man I must be so fucked up. Never once paid any attention to the seams in the garbage bag. So ashamed.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 01, 2022 02:57 PM (o2MD2)

178 NYT trying to get Hunter's records so they can write a bunch of wishy washy bs stories

so in the summer of 2023 when all the Hunter shit is in front of congress, dims will say the NYT has already covered this

Posted by: REDACTED at February 01, 2022 02:57 PM (us2H3)

179 Wikihunchback? I think not.
Posted by: wipe this smug look off my face, just try it at February 01, 2022 02:56 PM (/uXs1)

Maybe not, but there is likely a subreddit.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric(phone) at February 01, 2022 02:57 PM (9mfKN)

180 Kremlinology is about all we have because the media and public information out of DC is thoroughly compromised just like the old Sov Union. Failures of a regime's leader after a coup tend to draw factional support to replace that leader. Same as jockeying to replace someone becoming ga ga.
Posted by: whig at February 01, 2022 02:54 PM (Iq9dF)
++++
I've already started using some Soviet methods in this regard. In the USSR, you had the Party paper (Pravda) and the State paper (Izvestia). Where they agreed - which they largely would - you knew what would happen and what the rules were. Where they disagreed, you'd see where the actual conflicts were. The behavior of the smaller orbiting papers would allow you to add more parameters and context.

The same thing applies in this country, in essence. You have the NYT and the WaPo as the anchors of the various factions and parts of the government. The NYT is essentially the State paper and the WaPo is more like the Party paper (though the IC leaks through and uses the WaPo more, and federal LE uses the NYT).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 01, 2022 02:57 PM (DU+/6)

181 It takes 10 minutes into The Good, the bad and the Ugly for the first word to be spoken.
Posted by: Did you know? at February 01, 2022

***
It was on Grit Channel this weekend. I'd only ever seen the opening and the ending scenes. There is a *lot* more going on in that movie. Unlike a lot of Westerns, for example, it's set near the end of the Civil War instead in the 1870s or -80s.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 01, 2022 02:58 PM (txdEq)

182 It's a garbage bag. Who gives a fuck where the seams are? You are going to throw it away.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos (meh, it's a living) at February 01, 2022 02:58 PM (3DZIZ)

183 Oh and the ex Fox News reporter who covers the Pentagon, who just happens to be her husbands employer.

Yeah, no conflict there.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 01, 2022 02:58 PM (Tckfm)

184 181 It was on Grit Channel this weekend. I'd only ever seen the opening and the ending scenes. There is a *lot* more going on in that movie. Unlike a lot of Westerns, for example, it's set near the end of the Civil War instead in the 1870s or -80s.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 01, 2022 02:58 PM (txdEq)

=========

It's also completely aimless, poorly plotted, and kind of boring.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at February 01, 2022 02:58 PM (LvTSG)

185 Pence is not a good guy. But he's good at projecting the image that gives certain people a thrill down their leg.
Posted by: Good for the Goose

Those who wear their religion on their sleeves are usually scumbags.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 01, 2022 02:58 PM (F4b8f)

186 Sorry, Elvira, but there's this free thing called Wikifeet now. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 01, 2022 02:54 PM (txdEq)

This truly would not surprise me. I'm not checking, either.

Posted by: GnuBreed at February 01, 2022 02:58 PM (F0YaR)

187 She did Penthouse a long time ago. That took everything away from ever having to watch her again and imagine.
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 02:54 PM (Zz0t1)

Redhead.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Yorkshireman at February 01, 2022 02:58 PM (dNqv+)

188 Seriously. I know what she looks like, vaguely. Other than that, she occupies zero space in my brain.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 01, 2022 02:53 PM (VCz/u)

She did Penthouse a long time ago. That took everything away from ever having to watch her again and imagine.
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 02:54 PM (Zz0t1)

natural red head, so she had that going for her.

but as i said, her 2 best assets are probably as low as her ratings now...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at February 01, 2022 02:58 PM (8D42x)

189 You'd be surprised how much of this goes on. They only admit it when they get caught. Alan Greenspan was hitting Andrea Mitchell for the good Fed press (disgusting I know).
Posted by: Marcus T at February 01, 2022 02:55 PM (Tckfm)
++++
Disgusting in both directions and across all possible dimensions

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 01, 2022 02:58 PM (DU+/6)

190 Pretty sure Kevin McCarthy is married to Frank Luntz. Pretty sure.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 01, 2022 02:59 PM (Tckfm)

191 ***
It was on Grit Channel this weekend. I'd only ever seen the opening and the ending scenes. There is a *lot* more going on in that movie. Unlike a lot of Westerns, for example, it's set near the end of the Civil War instead in the 1870s or -80s.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 01, 2022 02:58 PM (txdEq)

Yes. It's really a good movie. I'll have to see if I have the uncut version somewhere.

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 02:59 PM (Zz0t1)

192 https://tinyurl.com/3z9k8v9a

washington inbreeding.....the bloodlines are long

Posted by: uncouth jay marks at February 01, 2022 02:59 PM (GT8Ln)

193 First, thanks Ace for your great articles throughout the day.
I read all, but I don't often comment.
My question: how in the world do we correct any of this?!
I just don't see anything but the alt-left constantly and easily getting their way. And each of their 'wins' emboldens them further...
Maybe it's this dismal day that has me feeling negative...
When does the balloon go up to signal a change?
I'm guessing for me, I'm probably going to check out seeing my United States gone with the wind. And I'm barely 29!
Sad way to feel, knowing my WWII dad fought for this country.
Maybe that crazy ONT will cheer me up...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at February 01, 2022 02:59 PM (JfNvZ)

194 That is why none of the wives take their husbands names.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 01, 2022 02:59 PM (F4b8f)

195 > You're probably one of those who uses straws backwards, too. Sicko.

Crazy side down, right?

Posted by: bonhomme at February 01, 2022 02:59 PM (VCz/u)

196 >> Is everyone in DC related to each other?

Yes, and they are all maniacs and pedophiles.

And now they are all hemophiliacs.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 01, 2022 02:59 PM (w9Wax)

197 Some ridiculously good-looking chicks in high school. Smoking hot. If only I hadn't been raised to be a pussy...oh the opportunities lost.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at February 01, 2022 02:55 PM (II3Gr)

-----------

For some reason, when I was a sophomore, there was a senior girl in my French class. Don't remember why. She was gorgeous and popular, yet for some reason was really friendly and flirty with me. It of course went no further than that, but it was heart-pounding for me, dorky kid that I was, at that age. I can still picture her very vividly in my mind, in the tight spandex skirts she usually wore.

Posted by: radar at February 01, 2022 02:59 PM (3Zp/H)

198 Like Monty Burns and Skinner's mother.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 01, 2022 03:00 PM (F4b8f)

199 "Back then," high school girls were slim and did their best to look attractive and sexy. A day at a a coed school could be as hot as a plain (non-Christmas) issue of Playboy.

Well, almost.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 01, 2022
*
Some ridiculously good-looking chicks in high school. Smoking hot. If only I hadn't been raised to be a pussy...oh the opportunities lost.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at February 01, 2022

***
I had a bit more confidence in my senior year, and did fairly well for a guy with no car. Still, if I had known that a lot of the girls were secretly as insecure as most of the guys . . .!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 01, 2022 03:00 PM (txdEq)

200 millennial please.

Posted by: x at February 01, 2022 03:00 PM (oA+QO)

I am stealing that.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 01, 2022 03:01 PM (SH2Zi)

201 Don't forget Pence was in charge of Election Integrity.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 01, 2022 03:01 PM (jTmQV)

202 C'mon. Andrea Mitchell getting it from a guy who looks like a lizard while he licks makeup as thick as spackle from the pockmarks in her face.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 01, 2022 03:01 PM (Tckfm)

203 Wikihunchback? I think not.
Posted by: wipe this smug look off my face, just try it at February 01, 2022 02:56 PM (/uXs1)

is that the one about LauraW?

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at February 01, 2022 03:01 PM (8D42x)

204 Has been for all of humanity except around 1776 when there was a glimmer of hope which has now been thoroughly extinguished.

Posted by: Jukin

Nope, if anything, having it come out clarifies things. Just like DJT did a service to America by making these creatures come out into the light. The entire West appears to be run by these pod people. Recognition of the problem is the first step to fixing it.

Posted by: whig at February 01, 2022 03:01 PM (Iq9dF)

205 199 I had a bit more confidence in my senior year, and did fairly well for a guy with no car. Still, if I had known that a lot of the girls were secretly as insecure as most of the guys . . .!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 01, 2022 03:00 PM (txdEq)

========

"Everyone says you're beautiful, but I've seen hotter."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at February 01, 2022 03:01 PM (LvTSG)

206 It was on Grit Channel this weekend. I'd only ever seen the opening and the ending scenes. There is a *lot* more going on in that movie. Unlike a lot of Westerns, for example, it's set near the end of the Civil War instead in the 1870s or -80s.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 01, 2022 02:58 PM (txdEq)

"God's NOT on our side cuz he hates idiots."

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 01, 2022 03:01 PM (dfRN6)

207 in court filings, Durham has made it clear that Horowitz has been keeping evidence from his investigation

Posted by: REDACTED at February 01, 2022 03:01 PM (us2H3)

208 It was on Grit Channel this weekend.
------
Yeah, at like 3 or 4am. It's not healthy to stay up drinking that late because you can't stop watching a movie.

Posted by: dartist at February 01, 2022 03:02 PM (+ya+t)

209 G-B,& Ugly was an extremely influential movie. I liked it greatly, but I never, ever heard a rifle with the report they had in that movie. You can actually hear the bullet singing down the bore.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 01, 2022 03:02 PM (o2MD2)

210 Wikihunchback? I think not.
Posted by: wipe this smug look off my face, just try it at February 01, 2022 02:56 PM (/uXs1)

is that the one about LauraW?
Posted by: SturmToddler
==
You've done quite a few tours here haven't you mate.

Posted by: wipe this smug look off my face, just try it at February 01, 2022 03:02 PM (SNJNH)

211 @70

>>Yeah, come at me with that "Durham is coming" bullshit, I dare ya.

Three years, nine months and counting.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 01, 2022 03:02 PM (ek3eh)

212 How will the Washington Post managers above Matea Gold monitor and enforce Gold's recusal?

Bwah-ha-ha-ha-ha! I denounce myself for asking that absurd question.

Posted by: Gref at February 01, 2022 03:02 PM (AMIL/)

213 Always struck me as odd how the .gov and members of the press intermarry

Posted by: Beeman at February 01, 2022 03:02 PM (nvJZG)

214 201 Don't forget Pence was in charge of Election Integrity.

Posted by: gourmand du jour

And Covid task force.

He equals Kamala in accomplishments in office other than keeping his mouth shut in public.

Posted by: whig at February 01, 2022 03:02 PM (Iq9dF)

215 This blonde in her underwear finds the incestuous, double-dealing standards of Washington to be grotesque and contemptible:
https://is.gd/8NXPJB

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 01, 2022 03:02 PM (DU+/6)

216 Never could tell the difference between WaPo and the FBI.
2 incestuous crime families.

Posted by: (jV+aN) "President" lofl Josef Stalinette Biden at February 01, 2022 03:03 PM (jV+aN)

217 It was on Grit Channel this weekend. I'd only ever seen the opening and the ending scenes. There is a *lot* more going on in that movie. Unlike a lot of Westerns, for example, it's set near the end of the Civil War instead in the 1870s or -80s.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 01, 2022
=========
It's also completely aimless, poorly plotted, and kind of boring.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at February 01, 2022

***
It's no True Grit (the original), or Unforgiven, or The Searchers, or Hondo.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 01, 2022 03:03 PM (txdEq)

218 If you're going to shoot,

Shoot.

Posted by: See. I told you so at February 01, 2022 03:03 PM (X6f9+)

219 I love The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, but it definitely is too long. Could have easily trimmed 20-30 minutes off it without losing anything.

Posted by: radar at February 01, 2022 03:03 PM (3Zp/H)

220 It was on Grit Channel this weekend. I'd only ever seen the opening and the ending scenes. There is a *lot* more going on in that movie. Unlike a lot of Westerns, for example, it's set near the end of the Civil War instead in the 1870s or -80s.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 01, 2022 02:58 PM (txdEq)

It was filmed in Spain, and I suspect there was a lightening up a bit on what could and could not be said about the Spanish Civil war - not overtly, but a willingness to discuss it where before it was prohibido

Posted by: Kindltot at February 01, 2022 03:03 PM (ZMraq)

221 This truly would not surprise me. I'm not checking, either.

Posted by: GnuBreed at February 01, 2022 02:58 PM (F0YaR)

For certain subjects, if Wolfus says it, it is so.

Posted by: ... at February 01, 2022 03:03 PM (dscaa)

222 This blonde in her underwear finds the incestuous, double-dealing standards of Washington to be grotesque and contemptible:
https://is.gd/8NXPJB
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 01, 2022 03:02 PM (DU+/6)

I spy with my little eye.....

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 03:04 PM (Zz0t1)

223
The plan going forward:

1. RCMP revokes all their licenses
2. Trucks get towed and impounded
3. End of violent Canadian insurrection
4. Democrats win in '22!

Posted by: Bill Kristol, Chief Dildo Recipient at February 01, 2022 03:04 PM (l3sUM)

224 Wikihunchback? I think not.
Posted by: wipe this smug look off my face, just try it at February 01, 2022 02:56 PM (/uXs1)

is that the one about LauraW?
Posted by: SturmToddler
==
You've done quite a few tours here haven't you mate.
Posted by: wipe this smug look off my face, just try it at February 01, 2022 03:02 PM (SNJNH)

I've been around a few times. i can't even remember my original nic, but yeah, i've forgotten a LOT of things...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at February 01, 2022 03:04 PM (8D42x)

225 216 Never could tell the difference between WaPo and the FBI.
2 incestuous crime families.
Posted by: (jV+aN) "President" lofl Josef Stalinette Biden at February 01, 2022 03:03 PM (jV+aN)

one is owned by Bezos

he is a client of the other

Posted by: REDACTED at February 01, 2022 03:04 PM (us2H3)

226 It's no True Grit (the original), or Unforgiven, or The Searchers, or Hondo.
==
One spanking scene would have saved it.

Posted by: McClintock! at February 01, 2022 03:04 PM (5s+G6)

227 For some reason, when I was a sophomore, there was a senior girl in my French class. Don't remember why. She was gorgeous and popular, yet for some reason was really friendly and flirty with me. It of course went no further than that, but it was heart-pounding for me, dorky kid that I was, at that age. I can still picture her very vividly in my mind, in the tight spandex skirts she usually wore.

Posted by: radar
############
For you, My Angel is the Centerfold
https://youtu.be/BqDjMZKf-wg

Posted by: whig at February 01, 2022 03:04 PM (Iq9dF)

228 If you liked John Wayne's True Grit don't read the book, as it has little in common with the movie. Remake is closer.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 01, 2022 03:04 PM (o2MD2)

229
is that the one about LauraW?
Posted by: SturmToddler

Blast from the past. What happened to her?

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 03:04 PM (Zz0t1)

230 I bet none of you ever dated a girl who stabbed you.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 01, 2022 03:05 PM (Tckfm)

231 >>172 Re the garbage bags, that's not the way to do it either, because pushing it down after putting it on like a hat makes it harder for the air to escape. Here's the way to do it: open the bag with your hands, put your hand in the bottom of the bag to push it into the can, and THEN fold the opening of the bag over the can.

This is the proper approach.

Posted by: Capital Eff at February 01, 2022 03:05 PM (GYllL)

232 A linchpin is a thing vital to the operation of a mechanism or system. It may not be the heart of the matter but without it's placement and actions the entire edifice will shudder to a halt and it's goals and ultimate results will not be what was desired.

So that's what Pence was. He was a sleeper set right inside Trump operation so that at any time whether they had the wiretaps or not, they knew what was happening and who was doing whatever and what to do to thwart the actions being taken.

Without Pence's treachery, Trump might actually have been able to accomplish more than he did. Perhaps not be pinned up against the wall every other day by Nancy Pelosi.

Posted by: jakee308 at February 01, 2022 03:05 PM (uZ/z2)

233 I bet none of you ever dated a girl who stabbed you.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 01, 2022 03:05 PM (Tckfm)

Didn't date a whole lot, so the options were limited.

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 03:06 PM (Zz0t1)

234 230 I bet none of you ever dated a girl who stabbed you.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 01, 2022 03:05 PM (Tckfm)

=========

It's a metaphor.

She stabbed you with the knife of commitment.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at February 01, 2022 03:06 PM (LvTSG)

235 Blast from the past. What happened to her?
==
Swimming on the Penn team, with much success.

Posted by: who knew at February 01, 2022 03:06 PM (9/AHh)

236 @207

>>in court filings, Durham has made it clear that Horowitz has been keeping evidence from his investigation.

Allegedly he has a grand jury empaneled, if Horowitz is obstructing his investigation then he can go right ahead and indict Horowitz for obstruction of justice, obstructing an investigation and with whatever else he can think of.

But the whole thing is bullshit, stray voltage nonsense.

We're coasting past half a decade with this bullshit already.

Enough.

I'm sick of fucking hearing about John Durham and this never ending jerk fest.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 01, 2022 03:06 PM (ek3eh)

237 Begun, the garbage bag wars have.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 01, 2022 03:06 PM (nfrXX)

238 It was filmed in Spain, and I suspect there was a lightening up a bit on what could and could not be said about the Spanish Civil war - not overtly, but a willingness to discuss it where before it was prohibido
Posted by: Kindltot at February 01, 2022

***
No, I meant the U.S. Civil War, Yanks and Rebs, that sort of thing. GBU is still a Western, but one set earlier than most.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 01, 2022 03:06 PM (txdEq)

239 >>Yeah, come at me with that "Durham is coming" bullshit, I dare ya.

Three years, nine months and counting.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 01, 2022 03:02 PM (ek3eh)

hey, it took us 4 years to clip the nips

cut him some slack

Posted by: REDACTED at February 01, 2022 03:06 PM (us2H3)

240 230 I bet none of you ever dated a girl who stabbed you.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 01, 2022 03:05 PM

In the back but that was a) metaphorical and b) my ex-wife, so probably doesn't count.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 01, 2022 03:06 PM (II3Gr)

241 This blonde in her underwear finds the incestuous, double-dealing standards of Washington to be grotesque and contemptible:
https://is.gd/8NXPJB
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 01, 2022 03:02 PM (DU+/6)

wow... i uh... yeah, i forgot what i was thinking...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at February 01, 2022 03:06 PM (8D42x)

242 "It's a metaphor.

She stabbed you with the knife of commitment.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at February 01, 2022 03:06 PM (LvTSG)"

Then Why do I have a scar?

Posted by: Marcus T at February 01, 2022 03:07 PM (Tckfm)

243 When I dated, I preferred to do the stabbing

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 01, 2022 03:07 PM (o2MD2)

244 >>Enough.

I'm sick of fucking hearing about John Durham and this never ending jerk fest.

This. Hopium for the ignorant.

Posted by: Capital Eff at February 01, 2022 03:07 PM (GYllL)

245 If you liked John Wayne's True Grit don't read the book, as it has little in common with the movie. Remake is closer.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 01, 2022

***
Great whacking chunks of the novel's dialog are used verbatim in the 1969 movie, as is most of the plot. The only major difference is the end scene.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 01, 2022 03:08 PM (txdEq)

246 I guess they found out somebody was gonna do a story on the connection. Otherwise she would still be doing stories to shill for the fbi. And I bet in reality she still is.

But, how convenient the Post had her for the Trump takedown.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 01, 2022 03:08 PM (coYBh)

247 "In the back but that was a) metaphorical and b) my ex-wife, so probably doesn't count.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 01, 2022 03:06 PM (II3Gr)"

You know what they say. When someone stabs you in the back, stab them back in the front.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 01, 2022 03:08 PM (Tckfm)

248 241 This blonde in her underwear finds the incestuous, double-dealing standards of Washington to be grotesque and contemptible:
https://is.gd/8NXPJB
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 01, 2022 03:02 PM (DU+/6)

Bit of a man jaw but I'm willing to overlook that.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 01, 2022 03:08 PM (II3Gr)

249 228 If you liked John Wayne's True Grit don't read the book, as it has little in common with the movie. Remake is closer.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 01, 2022 03:04 PM (o2MD2)

Yep. I'm a yuuuge Charles Portis fan and where the remake stuck to the book, it got it bang right.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 01, 2022 03:08 PM (dfRN6)

250 Pence had a whiff of HW and being somewhat foisted on Trump from the beginning. I never wavered on this.

Posted by: ... at February 01, 2022 03:08 PM (dscaa)

251 is that the one about LauraW?
Posted by: SturmToddler

Blast from the past. What happened to her?
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 03:04 PM (Zz0t1)

not a clue. and i'm not sure if i'm impressed or not that that name popped into my head before Igor...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at February 01, 2022 03:08 PM (8D42x)

252 230 I bet none of you ever dated a girl who stabbed you.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 01, 2022 03:05 PM (Tckfm)

I'll take that bet! I dated a Lady who won a National Historic Sword Fighting tournament!

And yes, she was a practice partner.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 01, 2022 03:08 PM (oHd/0)

253 240 230 I bet none of you ever dated a girl who stabbed you.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 01, 2022 03:05 PM

did have a few that blew me away

Posted by: REDACTED at February 01, 2022 03:09 PM (us2H3)

254 You know what they say. When someone stabs you in the back, stab them back in the front.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 01, 2022 03:08 PM (Tckfm)

If only that were possible in my situation....

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 01, 2022 03:09 PM (II3Gr)

255 Begun, the garbage bag wars have.
Posted by: Oddbob at February 01, 2022 03:06 PM

Just wait for the hardware wars.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 01, 2022 03:09 PM (RkC6l)

256 I had a bit more confidence in my senior year, and did fairly well for a guy with no car. Still, if I had known that a lot of the girls were secretly as insecure as most of the guys . . .!

I was clueless. Not handsome, and poor. But I worked construction - pouring concrete and such. The older dudes always pointed me in the right direction.

As in "hey, dumb ass. Their daughter your age watching you carry forms all day ? Might want to say hi. Dumb ass".

Happened more than you'd think.

Posted by: Good for the Goose at February 01, 2022 03:09 PM (H8Bf9)

257 I bet none of you ever dated a girl who stabbed you.
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I'm surprised it never happened with all the crazy Italian girls around here. They sure were fun though.

Posted by: dartist at February 01, 2022 03:09 PM (+ya+t)

258 I like to be in a stabby, normal relationship.

Posted by: Igor, pronounced EYE-gore at February 01, 2022 03:09 PM (w9Wax)

259 Great whacking chunks of the novel's dialog are used verbatim in the 1969 movie, as is most of the plot. The only major difference is the end scene.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 01, 2022 03:08 PM (txdEq)

Locations are all fucked up. True Grit didn't take place in the fucking Rockies. That spoiled it for me.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 01, 2022 03:09 PM (o2MD2)

260 ITS FUNNY BECAUSE IF EVERYONE IS THE ASSHOLE.....

Posted by: BEN ROTHLESBOOGER at February 01, 2022 03:09 PM (X6f9+)

261 Begun, the garbage bag wars have.
Posted by: Oddbob at February 01, 2022 03:06 PM

Just wait for the hardware wars.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 01, 2022

***
"You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll kiss three bucks goodbye!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 01, 2022 03:09 PM (txdEq)

262 >>Bit of a man jaw but I'm willing to overlook that.

I could fix that.

Posted by: Mike Tyson at February 01, 2022 03:09 PM (GYllL)

263 I'm surprised it never happened with all the crazy Italian girls around here. They sure were fun though.
Posted by: dartist at February 01, 2022 03:09 PM (+ya+t)

It's all fun and games until there's plates and edged weapons being slung your way.

Hilldawg got quite proficient at hurling lamps Billy-Boy's way IIRC.

Posted by: Thrawn at February 01, 2022 03:10 PM (Rl7KJ)

264 I went on 3 date in high school. 2 were prom and one was a blind date setup thing.

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 03:10 PM (Zz0t1)

265 *dates

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 03:10 PM (Zz0t1)

266 Damn, Durham is taking a long time with his investigation into the 2016 election.

Posted by: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed at February 01, 2022 03:10 PM (dscaa)

267 I see they're now reporting on the FIB investigating bomb threats at historic black colleges. I think this will easily overtake the Canadian truckers story.

Posted by: InCali at February 01, 2022 03:10 PM (eFvmN)

268 This arrangement they have in DC reminds me of a lot of small town manufacturer where everyone in the town has worked for them at some point in their life. And that everyone knows everyone else who works their and it's impossible to get hired because they don't hire outsiders.

But because of the employment advertising laws and such now and then they get an applicant that they have to take the application and even tho that person is way over qualified for the job they never get hired for some reason.

In DC it really ain't just who you blow it's who you know that knows who you blow that wields the power. And it's a very tight structure at the top. A shadow government if you will. Where even the peons don't know who's really in charge.

Posted by: jakee308 at February 01, 2022 03:10 PM (uZ/z2)

269 243 yeah the other way is doing it wrong

Posted by: Dogbert at February 01, 2022 03:10 PM (Z9HSN)

270 Locations are all fucked up. True Grit didn't take place in the fucking Rockies. That spoiled it for me.
----------------
Yep. It is still a great book. Portis' finest in many ways.

Posted by: Puddin Head at February 01, 2022 03:11 PM (2uOKS)

271 Major General John K. Singlaub, R.I.P.

We've lost a special operations legend and true patriot, Horde.

Posted by: callsign claymore at February 01, 2022 03:11 PM (s3b1w)

272 Great whacking chunks of the novel's dialog are used verbatim in the 1969 movie, as is most of the plot. The only major difference is the end scene.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 01, 2022 03:08 PM (txdEq)

Locations are all fucked up. True Grit didn't take place in the fucking Rockies. That spoiled it for me.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 01, 2022

***
No, but they were in the Winding Stair Mountains in the Indian Nation, weren't they? Or was that just a mention by Rooster of one of his earlier adventures? (Though I suppose, by Rockies standards, the Winding Stairs are more like big hills.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 01, 2022 03:11 PM (txdEq)

273 Just wait for the hardware wars.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 01, 2022 03:09 PM (RkC6l)

Help us, Oggie Ben Doggie. You're our only hope.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 01, 2022 03:11 PM (SH2Zi)

274
Hilldawg got quite proficient at hurling lamps Billy-Boy's way IIRC.
Posted by: Thrawn at February 01, 2022 03:10 PM (Rl7KJ)

"I wear the pants around here!!!!!"

*hurls lamp*

*CRASH*

*shart*

*hic*

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 03:11 PM (Zz0t1)

275 264 I went on 3 date in high school. 2 were prom and one was a blind date setup thing.
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 03:10 PM (Zz0t1)

Did the blind date have a "wonderful personality"?

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 01, 2022 03:11 PM (II3Gr)

276 I like to be in a stabby, normal relationship.
Posted by: Igor, pronounced EYE-gore at February 01, 2022 03:09 PM

Sorry, but I think vmom is taken.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 01, 2022 03:12 PM (RkC6l)

277 Liquor in front, poker in the rear.

Posted by: dartist at February 01, 2022 03:12 PM (+ya+t)

278 I went on 3 date in high school. 2 were prom and one was a blind date setup thing.
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 03:10 PM (Zz0t1)

which one of you was blind?

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at February 01, 2022 03:12 PM (8D42x)

279
Did the blind date have a "wonderful personality"?
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 01, 2022 03:11 PM (II3Gr)

"You're a dork. You've got nothing else to do."

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 03:13 PM (Zz0t1)

280 Just wait for the hardware wars.

Will the hardware wars involve the correct way to hang shelves?

Posted by: Ian S. at February 01, 2022 03:13 PM (ZGrMX)

281 273 Just wait for the hardware wars.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 01, 2022 03:09 PM (RkC6l)

Help us, Oggie Ben Doggie. You're our only hope.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 01, 2022 03:11 PM (SH2Zi)

"Just go! Leave me behind!"

"What a martyr, sheesh..."

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 01, 2022 03:13 PM (II3Gr)

282 Johns Hopkins: "lockdowns have had little to no effect on COVID-19 mortality. More specifically, stringency index studies find that lockdowns in Europe and the United States only reduced COVID-19 mortality by 0.2% on average."

So are we following the science now, orrrrrrrr.....

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at February 01, 2022 03:13 PM (cvNl1)

283 189 You'd be surprised how much of this goes on. They only admit it when they get caught. Alan Greenspan was hitting Andrea Mitchell for the good Fed press (disgusting I know).
Posted by: Marcus T at February 01, 2022 02:55 PM
---
Peel me a grape, Big Boy...

Posted by: Helen Thomas at February 01, 2022 03:13 PM (sWM8x)

284 I like to be in a stabby, normal relationship.
Posted by: Igor, pronounced EYE-gore at February 01, 2022 03:09 PM

Sorry, but I think vmom is taken.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 01, 2022 03:12 PM (RkC6l)

could try with bluebell, shanks are stabby...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at February 01, 2022 03:13 PM (8D42x)

285 193 First, thanks Ace for your great articles throughout the day.
I read all, but I don't often comment.
My question: how in the world do we correct any of this?!

If you asked people in 1988 whether the Berlin Wall would come down they would think you were nuts.

If you asked people whether the US would win WWII in three years after many defeats in early 1942, they would think you were nuts.

Ditto for Washington's men in December of 1776 before they crossed the Delaware. Same for Henry V at Agincourt.

So, to answer your question, first is recognizing the problem. The termites did a lot of damage to the structure of the US because most people ignored them. Change your community first, broaden that to your state, and be of cheer. Nothing good ever comes easy.

Posted by: whig at February 01, 2022 03:13 PM (Iq9dF)

286 282 Johns Hopkins: "lockdowns have had little to no effect on COVID-19 mortality. More specifically, stringency index studies find that lockdowns in Europe and the United States only reduced COVID-19 mortality by 0.2% on average."

So are we following the science now, orrrrrrrr.....
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at February 01, 2022 03:13 PM (cvNl1)

===========

"Don't lock down again, idiots..."
-The message from the DNC to Democratic governors

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at February 01, 2022 03:13 PM (LvTSG)

287 >>>C'mon. Andrea Mitchell getting it from a guy who looks like a lizard while he licks makeup as thick as spackle from the pockmarks in her face.

>Thank heavens we didn't get a description of Ace's circumcision in a previous thread.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 01, 2022 03:13 PM (6liew)

288
"You're a dork. You've got nothing else to do."
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 03:13 PM (Zz0t1)

Oof.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 01, 2022 03:13 PM (II3Gr)

289 I see they're now reporting on the FIB investigating bomb threats at historic black colleges.

That story will fade as soon as they find out the race of the bomb threatener.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 01, 2022 03:13 PM (coYBh)

290
I went on a blind date once. I said "Are you Doris?"

She said "Are you Rodney?"

I said "Yeah."

She said "I'm not Doris."

Posted by: Rodney at February 01, 2022 03:14 PM (dscaa)

291 289 I see they're now reporting on the FIB investigating bomb threats at historic black colleges.

That story will fade as soon as they find out the race of the bomb threatener.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 01, 2022 03:13 PM (coYBh)

========

A white black man?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at February 01, 2022 03:14 PM (LvTSG)

292 could try with bluebell, shanks are stabby...
Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at February 01, 2022 03:13 PM

I think Mr. bluebell might have something to say about that.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 01, 2022 03:14 PM (RkC6l)

293 When you hear about their great personality, run. Run your ass off...

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 01, 2022 03:14 PM (o2MD2)

294 She said "I'm not Doris."
Posted by: Rodney at February 01, 2022 03:14 PM (dscaa)

No respect, I tell ya, no respect.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric(phone) at February 01, 2022 03:15 PM (pbxH9)

295 282 Johns Hopkins: "lockdowns have had little to no effect on COVID-19 mortality. More specifically, stringency index studies find that lockdowns in Europe and the United States only reduced COVID-19 mortality by 0.2% on average."

So are we following the science now, orrrrrrrr.....
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at February 01, 2022 03:13 PM (cvNl1)

That's not Fauci-pronounced Science™, and he IS Science™, so we aren't following Johns Hopkins fake "science."

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 01, 2022 03:15 PM (II3Gr)

296
========

A white black man?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at February 01, 2022 03:14 PM (LvTSG)

It'll be the dean. He's sick of dealing with all of it.

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 03:15 PM (Zz0t1)

297 could try with bluebell, shanks are stabby...
Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at February 01, 2022 03:13 PM

I think Mr. bluebell might have something to say about that.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 01, 2022 03:14 PM (RkC6l)

i did say the shanks are stabby, just neglected to say who they're from...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at February 01, 2022 03:15 PM (8D42x)

298 We're pushing, what, like the 200th week of "_____ will come in just #twoWeeks and here's all the badass shit they're going to bring with 'em?"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 01, 2022 03:15 PM (DU+/6)

299 293 When you hear about their great personality, run. Run your ass off...
Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 01, 2022 03:14 PM (o2MD2)

If they give chase don't worry, they'll get winded in 2-3 seconds.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 01, 2022 03:16 PM (II3Gr)

300 Remember the FBI is 2 -0 in removing Presidents

Posted by: Skip's Phone at February 01, 2022 03:16 PM (PwMUS)

301 Next we will be told ribbed trash bags actually provide more pleasure.

Posted by: Dogbert at February 01, 2022 03:16 PM (Z9HSN)

302 That story will fade as soon as they find out the race of the bomb threatener.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 01, 2022 03:13 PM (coYBh)

========

A white black man?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at February 01, 2022 03:14 PM (LvTSG)

I think who it is is immaterial. That is, if there actually is someone calling in bomb threats.

Posted by: InCali at February 01, 2022 03:17 PM (eFvmN)

303 Cooking note:

I LOVE the "Better than Bullion" beef product. I use it in a lot of ways when cooking beef flavors. I used their chicken and vegetable bullions over the last couple days.

Holy FUCK the salt......damn near ruined everything it was so salty. VERY disappointing.

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 03:17 PM (Zz0t1)

304 In DC it really ain't just who you blow it's who you know that knows who you blow that wields the power. And it's a very tight structure at the top. A shadow government if you will. Where even the peons don't know who's really in charge.

Posted by: jakee308

You can figure out a lot of it by who people fear and do not criticize and who they want to be seen with.

For example, how many Republican senators criticize McConnell or Pelosi herself. How many Republicans in House or Senate have openly criticized Pence. That tells you that they wield power in DC. McCarthy and Kamala though and perhaps Schumer get it coming and going. That tells you they are weak.

Posted by: whig at February 01, 2022 03:18 PM (Iq9dF)

305 I believe the makeshift stabby instrument is called a "shiv," while "shank" refers to the stabby activity using said instrument.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 01, 2022 03:18 PM (II3Gr)

306 Who is Terry Fox?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 01, 2022 03:13 P

Copied from several posts back.
Terry Fox was a young man who lost a leg to bone cancer. So he attempted to raise funds for cancer by running across across Canada on one leg and a prosthetic.
He stopped about halfway through when his cancer re-emerged.

This in the 1980s.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, resolved to lurking at February 01, 2022 03:18 PM (eGTCV)

307
That's not Fauci-pronounced Science, and he IS Science, so we aren't following Johns Hopkins fake "science."
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 01, 2022 03:15 PM (II3Gr)

Lib fuck up the street was telling me early on how John Hopkins was telling us we were all going to die unless we closed everything, wore masks and locked ourselves in a closet somewhere.

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 03:18 PM (Zz0t1)

308 Nuke it from orbit. Only way to be sure.

Posted by: Corporal Hicks at February 01, 2022 03:18 PM (AmoqO)

309 I LOVE the "Better than Bullion" beef product. I use it in a lot of ways when cooking beef flavors. I used their chicken and vegetable bullions over the last couple days.

Holy FUCK the salt......damn near ruined everything it was so salty. VERY disappointing.

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 03:17 PM (Zz0t1)

I like the Knorr bullions in the large containers. Find it at Asian food markets.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 01, 2022 03:18 PM (SH2Zi)

310 It is quite telling that the relatively minor pooh bahs of county government power such as those who wind up on School Boards feel quite comfortable telling others that parents don't have a right to know what the school is teaching their kids.

They get that attitude cause it rubs off from higher up and thru contact (in the case of DC area boards) with people who do run the government and don't even tell the President what's going on.

This is why the attitude when dealing with most any large city government functionary when asked to do their job. Even if done politely and nicely. They feel that they are doing us all a favor just keeping the lights on and the water running.

Posted by: jakee308 at February 01, 2022 03:19 PM (uZ/z2)

311 Artisnal garbage bags made from only the finest Anatolian goat bladders, hand stitched by Armenian peasants.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos (meh, it's a living) at February 01, 2022 03:19 PM (3DZIZ)

312 Durham is taking a long time with his investigation into the 2016 election.

Pays well. Its a good gig.

Posted by: Durham and Sons. Inc. at February 01, 2022 03:19 PM (coYBh)

313 They get that attitude cause it rubs off from higher up and thru contact (in the case of DC area boards) with people who do run the government and don't even tell the President what's going on.

I mean, would you want to explain anything to Biden that wasn't ice cream?

Posted by: Ian S. at February 01, 2022 03:20 PM (ZGrMX)

314
I like the Knorr bullions in the large containers. Find it at Asian food markets.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 01, 2022 03:18 PM (SH2Zi)

I will search.......

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 03:20 PM (Zz0t1)

315 He stopped about halfway through when his cancer re-emerged.

This in the 1980s.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, resolved to lurking at February 01, 2022 03:18 PM (eGTCV)

This is why I don't exercise. It causes cancer.

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 03:20 PM (Zz0t1)

316 Major General John K. Singlaub, R.I.P.

We've lost a special operations legend and true patriot, Horde.
Posted by: callsign claymore

Really? Was it today? He must have been well over 90, I think.
I read a story about him parachuting into Occupied France (he was in the OSS) and having to work with communists in the French Resistance because they were the only ones who would fight.
He was truly a pretty incredible soldier.
He retired in the late 1970's to be free to criticize President Skippy about withdrawing from S. Korea.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at February 01, 2022 03:20 PM (vcOmj)

317 Lib fuck up the street was telling me early on how John Hopkins was telling us we were all going to die unless we closed everything, wore masks and locked ourselves in a closet somewhere.
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 03:18 PM (Zz0t1)

But of course.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 01, 2022 03:21 PM (II3Gr)

318 I like the Knorr bullions in the large containers.
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I like them too, but they're too salty.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 01, 2022 03:21 PM (sWM8x)

319 You can actually lock the timeframe of Good Bad and Ugly down to some time between February and April, 1862, because it's set during the New Mexico campaign between Confederate General Sibley and Union Colonel Canby. There are a couple references to forts and troop movements, but I've never bothered to check if they're accurate.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 01, 2022 03:21 PM (dfRN6)

320 They get that attitude cause it rubs off from higher up and thru contact (in the case of DC area boards) with people who do run the government and don't even tell the President what's going on.

This is why the attitude when dealing with most any large city government functionary when asked to do their job. Even if done politely and nicely. They feel that they are doing us all a favor just keeping the lights on and the water running.
Posted by: jakee308 at February 01, 2022 03:19 PM (uZ/z2)
++++
They're the purpose of the whole thing. You're just a niggling, annoying distraction.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 01, 2022 03:21 PM (DU+/6)

321 Holy crap, I clicked the link. Matea looks like Tom Baker in a ginger wig.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos (meh, it's a living) at February 01, 2022 03:21 PM (3DZIZ)

322 Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 01, 2022 03:18 PM (II3Gr)

Shiv and shank are both nouns and verbs.

Ask Bluebell.

Posted by: jakee308 at February 01, 2022 03:22 PM (uZ/z2)

323 We're pushing, what, like the 200th week of "_____ will come in just #twoWeeks and here's all the badass shit they're going to bring with 'em?"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 01, 2022 03:15 PM (DU+/6)

from 90 miles from freedom:

If someone asks to borrow your car for two weeks because of an emergency, and now it is two years later, there is no discussion of how to tell if the emergency is over, and you still don't have your car back --- Your car was stolen.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 01, 2022 03:22 PM (ZMraq)

324 >>>Artisnal garbage bags made from only the finest Anatolian goat bladders, hand stitched by Armenian peasants.

>I love those articles in the limey gossip rags that tell me I've been cooking bacon wrong.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 01, 2022 03:22 PM (6liew)

325 The garbage bag thing.

I don't get it.

Who cares which way the seam is. That is just how the bags are made.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 01, 2022 03:22 PM (F4b8f)

326 319 You can actually lock the timeframe of Good Bad and Ugly down to some time between February and April, 1862, because it's set during the New Mexico campaign between Confederate General Sibley and Union Colonel Canby. There are a couple references to forts and troop movements, but I've never bothered to check if they're accurate.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 01, 2022 03:21 PM (dfRN6)

==========

You can lock down the timeframe of The Horse Soldiers to a wild wave of the arms at a timeline of the Civil War.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at February 01, 2022 03:22 PM (LvTSG)

327 Without Pence's treachery, Trump might actually have been able to accomplish more than he did. Perhaps not be pinned up against the wall every other day by Nancy Pelosi.

Posted by: jakee308

The funny thing is that Pence will now never become president--he might have money but will never have honor nor power again. If he had followed the HW path, he would have had possibly at least one term as the big guy. I suspect that he thought though he would be the Republican hero of Jan 6 somewhat like Brutus.

Posted by: whig at February 01, 2022 03:23 PM (Iq9dF)

328
Shiv and shank are both nouns and verbs.

Ask Bluebell.
Posted by: jakee308 at February 01, 2022 03:22 PM (uZ/z2)

She's definitely the expert, so I defer to her superior knowledge.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 01, 2022 03:23 PM (II3Gr)

329 If you're a person who ran across Canada on one leg I doubt he'd get his knickers in a twist because someone put a Canadian flag and a "freedom" sign on his statue.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 01, 2022 03:23 PM (SXeTK)

330
Major General John K. Singlaub, R.I.P.

We've lost a special operations legend and true patriot, Horde.

another grim milestone for the biden administration

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 01, 2022 03:23 PM (DUIap)

331 I like them too, but they're too salty.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 01, 2022 03:21 PM (sWM8x)

With the large containers, you can control the amount of salt to your taste by limiting what other salt you add. I don't typically finish seasoning until right before serving. But I think I have a rep for making things too salty. So YMMV.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 01, 2022 03:23 PM (SH2Zi)

332 Hey give durham a break, his plate is full. He is also still investigating whether Jim Thorpe should have had his olympic medals taken away. He is almost done

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 01, 2022 03:24 PM (Irn0L)

333 You can actually lock the timeframe of Good Bad and Ugly down to some time between February and April, 1862, because it's set during the New Mexico campaign between Confederate General Sibley and Union Colonel Canby. There are a couple references to forts and troop movements, but I've never bothered to check if they're accurate.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 01, 2022

***
Oh, so really *early* in the Civil War instead of late. Ever more unusual. Some of the Rawhide episodes seem to be set around 1868, but most Westerns do the 1870-1890 period. Then there are the outliers in the early 20th Century, pre-WWI West -- I think The Shootist is one like that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 01, 2022 03:24 PM (txdEq)

334 *builds time portal*

*travels back in time to 1790, shows George Washington and assorted other Founding Fathers exactly what has been done to their Republic by the Demon Rats*

*opens portal from 1790 with outlet located in sub-basement of US Capitol Building*

*hilarity ensues*

Posted by: Sharkman at February 01, 2022 03:24 PM (8gxrg)

335 325 The garbage bag thing.

I don't get it.

Who cares which way the seam is. That is just how the bags are made.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 01, 2022 03:22 PM (F4b8f)

They make FANTASTIC crib mattress covers and toys for preschoolers.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 01, 2022 03:24 PM (II3Gr)

336 322 Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 01, 2022 03:18 PM (II3Gr)

Shiv and shank are both nouns and verbs.

Ask Bluebell.
Posted by: jakee308 at February 01, 2022 03:22 PM (uZ/z2)

Like Xerox.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 01, 2022 03:24 PM (z5Vrg)

337 The trash bags for sale in the truck stop bathrooms are too small.

Posted by: klaftern at February 01, 2022 03:24 PM (taPSh)

338 Durham: Here is a long list of indictments

FJB: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Pardoned.

Durham: My work is done! Peace, out!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 01, 2022 03:24 PM (F4b8f)

339 You can lock down the timeframe of The Horse Soldiers to a wild wave of the arms at a timeline of the Civil War.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at February 01, 2022 03:22 PM (LvTSG)

That was based on teh Grierson Raid of April, 1863.

Ding-dong. Ding-dong.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 01, 2022 03:24 PM (dfRN6)

340 >>I like the Knorr bullions in the large containers. Find it at Asian food markets.
Posted by: flounder

I opened up a fresh bottle of HerbOx chicken bullion cubes the other day, I needed a hammer to break them up. A diamond would have been softer. Still had a year to expire too.

Posted by: Capital Eff at February 01, 2022 03:25 PM (GYllL)

341
But of course.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 01, 2022 03:21 PM (II3Gr)

He also believed that HCQ shouldn't be used because of 'heart issues,' Trump said inject bleach and caused that stupid bitch in AZ to poison her husband.

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 03:25 PM (Zz0t1)

342 Ask Bluebell.
Posted by: jakee308 at February 01, 2022 03:22 PM (uZ/z2)

Like Xerox.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 01, 2022 03:24 PM (z5Vrg)

Her name is a killing word.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 01, 2022 03:25 PM (II3Gr)

343 339 You can lock down the timeframe of The Horse Soldiers to a wild wave of the arms at a timeline of the Civil War.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at February 01, 2022 03:22 PM (LvTSG)

That was based on teh Grierson Raid of April, 1863.

Ding-dong. Ding-dong.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 01, 2022 03:24 PM (dfRN6)

==========

With references to Andersonville, which wasn't built until 1864.

It's a hodgepodge of Civil War stuff thrown in a blender.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at February 01, 2022 03:25 PM (LvTSG)

344 If you're a person who ran across Canada on one leg I doubt he'd get his knickers in a twist because someone put a Canadian flag and a "freedom" sign on his statue.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 01, 2022 03:23 PM (SXeTK)

Agreed. If you have only one leg, wouldn't it be a knicker?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, resolved to lurking at February 01, 2022 03:25 PM (eGTCV)

345 Well, since she's recused herself, we can now be assured Wapo is not an FBI mouthpiece.

Oh, wait. "Recusal" of an editor at newspaper is not really a thing that exists, but I guess it sounds all legal and stuff and certainly isn't just happy talk, uncheckable nonsense.

Posted by: Match Checksout at February 01, 2022 03:25 PM (dYe5S)

346
oxo

It's British. Way better than pretty much anything here for bullion.

Posted by: ... at February 01, 2022 03:25 PM (dscaa)

347 201 Don't forget Pence was in charge of Election Integrity.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 01, 2022 03:01 PM (jTmQV)

And the Covid response team.

Posted by: Flyover, further disgusted by 2022. at February 01, 2022 03:25 PM (Rbu5d)

348 My kids put their sibling in a bag and throw them down the stairs. Very enjoyable to watch.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 01, 2022 03:26 PM (F4b8f)

349 boullion

Posted by: ... at February 01, 2022 03:26 PM (dscaa)

350 I like the Knorr bullions in the large containers.
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I like them too, but they're too salty.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 01, 2022 03:21 PM (sWM8x)

Look for the Mexican ones, they're different.

Posted by: clutch cargo | something something, something at February 01, 2022 03:26 PM (wAnMi)

351 But I think I have a rep for making things too salty. So YMMV.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 01, 2022 03:23 PM (SH2Zi)

Is there such a thing?

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 01, 2022 03:26 PM (Ez6QX)

352 Major General John K. Singlaub, R.I.P.

We've lost a special operations legend and true patriot, Horde.

And Dr. Johnny Fever. We can't forget Dr. Fever.

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 03:26 PM (Zz0t1)

353 He also believed that HCQ shouldn't be used because of 'heart issues,' Trump said inject bleach and caused that stupid bitch in AZ to poison her husband.
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 03:25 PM (Zz0t1)

*hands Sponge a tire iron*

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 01, 2022 03:26 PM (II3Gr)

354 So, to answer your question, first is recognizing the problem. The termites did a lot of damage to the structure of the US because most people ignored them. Change your community first, broaden that to your state, and be of cheer. Nothing good ever comes easy.
Posted by: whig

Your comment stirs a line of introspection. When did we as a people become bored with Gods wondrous gift of free will and reject this great experiment of liberty and self governance. I've taken to self assessment looking to first reform myself in how best to deal with the madness. In many ways we are in a spiritual battle as well as.temporal. I find inspiration in Solzhenitsyn's Live not by Lies.

Posted by: 7man at February 01, 2022 03:26 PM (qwO6y)

355 It's a hodgepodge of Civil War stuff thrown in a blender.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at February 01, 2022 03:25 PM (LvTSG)

Civil war smoothie - delicious!

Posted by: DoublySymmetric(phone) at February 01, 2022 03:26 PM (pbxH9)

356 IN A WORLD, where everyone's a pussy...

Posted by: Ace's Penis, Coming 2022 at February 01, 2022 03:27 PM (ZGrMX)

357 boullion
Posted by: ... at February 01, 2022 03:26 PM (dscaa)

Yeah, sorry.

Having a bad day.

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 03:27 PM (Zz0t1)

358 Agreed. If you have only one leg, wouldn't it be a knicker?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, resolved to lurking at February 01, 2022 03:25 PM (eGTCV)

Knicker, please!

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 01, 2022 03:27 PM (II3Gr)

359 Like Obamas AG recused herself from investigating herself, except the parts that she retained control of, which was everything.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 01, 2022 03:27 PM (F4b8f)

360
*hands Sponge a tire iron*
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 01, 2022 03:26 PM (II3Gr)

If only......

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 03:27 PM (Zz0t1)

361 Durham is taking a long time with his investigation into the 2016 election.

Pays well. Its a good gig.
Posted by: Durham and Sons. Inc.

Billing by the hour -> day -> year!

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 01, 2022 03:27 PM (w9Wax)

362 Is there such a thing?

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 01, 2022 03:26 PM (Ez6QX)

For dainty palates.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 01, 2022 03:27 PM (SH2Zi)

363 You can lock down the timeframe of The Horse Soldiers to a wild wave of the arms at a timeline of the Civil War.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford

It was prior to the Fall of Vicksburg, which, incidentally, was the same time as Gettysburg (July 1-3).
So it was during the siege, and the point of taking Newton Station was to cut the rail line that could reinforce Vicksburg.
Geez, kids these days.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at February 01, 2022 03:27 PM (vcOmj)

364 When the capitol of Washington DC was proposed, the loudest criticism of the time was that it would eventually become a cesspool of taxes, beaureucrats and corruption.
That was more than 200 years ago.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 01, 2022 03:28 PM (jTmQV)

365 IN A WORLD, where everyone's a pussy...
Posted by: Ace's Penis, Coming 2022 at February 01, 2022 03:27 PM (ZGrMX)

There is but one penis.....and it's got WORK to do......

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 03:28 PM (Zz0t1)

366 Twitter has finally figured out a way to stop me from reading tweets. How else can I keep up with Sean Davis?

He's gone from Federalist, I think, and now I can't read his tweets without signing up for twitter (which I won't do).

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 01, 2022 03:28 PM (XSIWL)

367 Fuck.

Is there no end to the inbred corruption in Washington?

Posted by: jwest at February 01, 2022 03:28 PM (/BlEx)

368 363 It was prior to the Fall of Vicksburg, which, incidentally, was the same time as Gettysburg (July 1-3).
So it was during the siege, and the point of taking Newton Station was to cut the rail line that could reinforce Vicksburg.
Geez, kids these days.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at February 01, 2022 03:27 PM (vcOmj)

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It's supposedly based on a singular event in the Western theater, but it treats the war like its much later with references to Andersonville and the children going off to war.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at February 01, 2022 03:28 PM (LvTSG)

369 I like the little jars of Better Than Bouillon. They come in so many flavors now. I have to try the clam flavor to make some linguine alle vongole.

Posted by: kallisto at February 01, 2022 03:28 PM (DJFLF)

370 Yeah, Trump's presidency was "divisive" because of his policies - not because of the unhinged vile insane paroxysm of hate and idiocy from his opponents.

And the Charlottesville thing is approaching the April Glaspie meeting in terms of being a completely distorted thing internalized by even "conservative" types. The original rally was organized by, the permit acquired by, groups who were not "neo-Nazi" or "white supremacist" in any way, of course. Apparently Trump knew this, and was referring to them.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 01, 2022 03:28 PM (OTzUX)

371 338 Durham: Here is a long list of indictments

FJB: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Pardoned.

Durham: My work is done! Peace, out!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

I think that whole reason that Biden junta did not fire Durham is to keep Hillbot and her supporters in DC under control. It is not as if they cared about violating laws in firing Trump appointees. Notice when Biden started sliding in the polls, that Hillbot popped up. The Clinton faction is bloodied and bruised but might be up for a rubber match in 2024 versus a decaying Biden or the unpopular Kamala which threatens the Obama faction of the Dems.

Posted by: whig at February 01, 2022 03:28 PM (Iq9dF)

372 No respect, I tell ya, no respect.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric(phone) at February 01, 2022 03:15 PM (pbxH9)

Speaking of no respect, my son stole my lunch AGAIN.

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 01, 2022 03:29 PM (Ez6QX)

373 Twitter has finally figured out a way to stop me from reading tweets. How else can I keep up with Sean Davis?

put your browser in Private mode. That's what worked for me

Posted by: kallisto at February 01, 2022 03:29 PM (DJFLF)

374 I like the little jars of Better Than Bouillon. They come in so many flavors now. I have to try the clam flavor to make some linguine alle vongole.
Posted by: kallisto at February 01, 2022 03:28 PM (DJFLF)

Better love salt if you try the chicken or vegetable ones.

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 03:29 PM (Zz0t1)

375 we were all going to die unless we closed everything, wore masks and locked ourselves in a closet somewhere.
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks

We all died. Someone left the simulation running.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 01, 2022 03:30 PM (F4b8f)

376 Oh, so really *early* in the Civil War instead of late. Ever more unusual. Some of the Rawhide episodes seem to be set around 1868, but most Westerns do the 1870-1890 period. Then there are the outliers in the early 20th Century, pre-WWI West -- I think The Shootist is one like that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I think The Shootist was supposed to take place in Jan-Feb of 1901. JB Books (Wayne) off- handedly mentions reading about Queen Victoria's death in the paper. She died Jan 22, 1901.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at February 01, 2022 03:30 PM (vcOmj)

377 It's supposedly based on a singular event in the Western theater, but it treats the war like its much later with references to Andersonville and the children going off to war.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at February 01, 2022 03:28 PM (LvTSG)

I have the novel on which the movie is (sorta) based and IIRC, it's much more disciplined about this sort of thing.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 01, 2022 03:30 PM (dfRN6)

378 Your comment stirs a line of introspection. When did we as a people become bored with Gods wondrous gift of free will and reject this great experiment of liberty and self governance. I've taken to self assessment looking to first reform myself in how best to deal with the madness. In many ways we are in a spiritual battle as well as.temporal. I find inspiration in Solzhenitsyn's Live not by Lies.
Posted by: 7man at February 01, 2022 03:26 PM (qwO6y)

Industrial revolution of the early 1900s and urbanization. If you read Montesquieu on what republics exist and under what circumstances they form and function, basically republics that aren't noble republics need a lot of small landholders. It's not clear how one would go about setting up a lasting popular republic with modern economic conditions, de jure power and de facto power don't line up so it's unstable.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 01, 2022 03:30 PM (z5Vrg)

379 I like both the beef and chicken Better Than Bullion. Just have to be careful how much you put in. The no salt broth is good too, you can sneak up on the salt.

Posted by: dartist at February 01, 2022 03:31 PM (+ya+t)

380 We all died. Someone left the simulation running.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 01, 2022 03:30 PM (F4b8f)

This self-awareness algorithm sucks ass.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 01, 2022 03:31 PM (II3Gr)

381 316 Bozo Conservative, details in the Jan. 1 Army Times. He lived to 100, which is mind-blowing when you look at his resume -- OSS / Jedburgh, commanded MACV SOG...

Posted by: callsign claymore at February 01, 2022 03:31 PM (s3b1w)

382 I believe the best one so far as length of time of an investigation was the Iran Contra affair. It started in about 1985 and they finally forced Walsh to stop investigating in 1993. He wasn't finding stuff about Iran Contra but he felt his mandate was to investigate any wrong doing he found while investigating anything else.

Starr only went 4 years.

Posted by: jakee308 at February 01, 2022 03:31 PM (uZ/z2)

383 Durham: I came.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 01, 2022 03:31 PM (F4b8f)

384 I had a bimbo eruption once but doctor gave me a cream for it. A balm. An unguent. A lotion.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at February 01, 2022 03:32 PM (5P6Lv)

385 315 LOL Sponge . Apparently deep sea sponges do creep which is form of exercise. If you're a kitchen sponge you might get some exercise wiping the dishes, but then you wouldn't be sentient. You've never uhhh-"come out " as which kind of sponge you identify with.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 01, 2022 03:32 PM (Ouz58)

386 Your comment stirs a line of introspection. When did we as a people become bored with Gods wondrous gift of free will and reject this great experiment of liberty and self governance. I've taken to self assessment looking to first reform myself in how best to deal with the madness. In many ways we are in a spiritual battle as well as.temporal. I find inspiration in Solzhenitsyn's Live not by Lies.

Posted by: 7man

Rome decayed after meeting the challenge of Carthage. The Byzantines decayed after fending off the Persians, and we decayed after meeting the Soviet challenge. See that example many times in the Good Book. It seems unless an existential challenge exists, people fall into their natural activities which is seeking money, pleasure, and power.

Posted by: whig at February 01, 2022 03:32 PM (Iq9dF)

387 377 It's supposedly based on a singular event in the Western theater, but it treats the war like its much later with references to Andersonville and the children going off to war.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at February 01, 2022 03:28 PM (LvTSG)

I have the novel on which the movie is (sorta) based and IIRC, it's much more disciplined about this sort of thing.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 01, 2022 03:30 PM (dfRN6)

==========

That wouldn't surprise me. John Ford was known for throwing out scripts and just shooting whatever the fuck he felt like. Hell, The Horse Soldiers is unfinished. They pretty much just stopped filming after a stuntman died.

And people wonder why directors get all the attention while writers get ignored. As Frank Miller said, "Don't be the writer. The director's got the power. The screenplay is a fire hydrant, and there's a row of dogs around the block waiting for it."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at February 01, 2022 03:32 PM (LvTSG)

388 Funny, I need some veg or chicken stock to add to the ham/lentil soup cooking in the slow cooker, and all I have is beef, both cans and dry. All this bouillion/boulion/boullion/Khadafy/Qaddafi talk is making me think I need to go get some stock.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 01, 2022 03:32 PM (OTzUX)

389
We all died. Someone left the simulation running.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 01, 2022 03:30 PM (F4b8f)

First it was net neutrality. Then it was tax cuts. Then covid.

Every time I die, they SUCK ME BACK IN!

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 03:32 PM (Zz0t1)

390 384 I had a bimbo eruption once but doctor gave me a cream for it. A balm. An unguent. A lotion.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at February 01, 2022 03:32 PM (5P6Lv)

"Who told you to use the balm?"

- Jackie Childs

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 01, 2022 03:32 PM (dfRN6)

391 epiphany:

if the Media is talking about it, it benefits them, my job is to ignore it.

if the Media doesn't talk about it, it benefits us, my job is to pay attention and gather all available info about it and try to let others know.

Posted by: Shoey77 at February 01, 2022 03:33 PM (fcWVN)

392 When the capitol of Washington DC was proposed, the loudest criticism of the time was that it would eventually become a cesspool of taxes, beaureucrats and corruption.
That was more than 200 years ago.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 01, 2022 03:28 PM (jTmQV)

Remember how everyone would clear out of DC in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, for fear of malaria and smallpox? That wasn't a problem for the founders, who thought disease a good way to keep the sleezy denizens of the Capital from getting too comfortable.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 01, 2022 03:33 PM (XSIWL)

393 352 And Johnny Fever, too, Sponge. RIP.

Posted by: callsign claymore at February 01, 2022 03:33 PM (s3b1w)

394 181 It takes 10 minutes into The Good, the bad and the Ugly for the first word to be spoken.
Posted by: Did you know? at February 01, 2022

***
It was on Grit Channel this weekend. I'd only ever seen the opening and the ending scenes. There is a *lot* more going on in that movie. Unlike a lot of Westerns, for example, it's set near the end of the Civil War instead in the 1870s or -80s.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 01, 2022 02:58 PM (txdEq)

If following real history, the movie is set in 1862. All battles between the Union and Confederate forces in New Mexico were in 1861 and 1862. Confederate organized forces were run out of New Mexico by fall of '62. I do not believe there were many if any battles or big skirmishes between organized USA and CSA troops in West Texas during the war.

Posted by: Gref at February 01, 2022 03:33 PM (AMIL/)

395 Does Better than Bouillon come in Miso flavor . . .

Posted by: Kindltot at February 01, 2022 03:33 PM (ZMraq)

396 We all died. Someone left the simulation running.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 01, 2022 03:30 PM (F4b8f)

This self-awareness algorithm sucks ass.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 01, 2022 03:31 PM (II3Gr)

Democrat voters now?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, resolved to lurking at February 01, 2022 03:33 PM (eGTCV)

397 LOL Sponge . Apparently deep sea sponges do creep which is form of exercise. If you're a kitchen sponge you might get some exercise wiping the dishes, but then you wouldn't be sentient. You've never uhhh-"come out " as which kind of sponge you identify with.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 01, 2022 03:32 PM (Ouz58

I have a response, but you're such a good person, I don't want to ruin it.

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 03:33 PM (Zz0t1)

398 I like both the beef and chicken Better Than Bullion. Just have to be careful how much you put in. The no salt broth is good too, you can sneak up on the salt.
Posted by: dartist at February 01, 2022 03:31 PM (+ya+t)

The fish or lobster base ones are great for clam chowder and fish chowder. Especially since my main fish monger went away and I can't get a bag full of fish heads for a buck.

Posted by: clutch cargo | something something, something at February 01, 2022 03:34 PM (wAnMi)

399 If the next Republican President does nothing else, just breaking up the Executive Branch Agencies and sending the remaining bunch's headquarters to the hinter lands of the Republic they pretend to serve - will be the greatest achieve of any President since Lincoln won the war against the states.

The press will commit mass suicide if that should ever happen which, in and of itself, would be the most liberating event since the American Colonies broke away from King George.

Posted by: Boswell at February 01, 2022 03:34 PM (5iUNf)

400 Speaking of no respect, my son stole my lunch AGAIN.
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Lunch, you've got it easy. My son steals my skivvies and socks all the fucking time.

Posted by: Puddin Head at February 01, 2022 03:34 PM (2uOKS)

401 It's supposedly based on a singular event in the Western theater, but it treats the war like its much later with references to Andersonville and the children going off to war.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford

Well, I'll give you Andersonville. That was started later in the war. But as Zombie Robbo said, it was a fictionalized account of Grierson's Raid. So it was in April-May 1863.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at February 01, 2022 03:34 PM (vcOmj)

402 Biggest mistake the founders made was no term limits.

Second mistake was no session time limits.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 01, 2022 03:34 PM (F4b8f)

403 401 Well, I'll give you Andersonville. That was started later in the war. But as Zombie Robbo said, it was a fictionalized account of Grierson's Raid. So it was in April-May 1863.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at February 01, 2022 03:34 PM (vcOmj)

==========

As I said...wild hand gestures at a timeline of Civil War history.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at February 01, 2022 03:34 PM (LvTSG)

404 I had a bimbo eruption once but doctor gave me a cream for it. A balm. An unguent. A lotion.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at February 01, 2022 03:32 PM (5P6Lv)

Are bimbo eruptions painful or just unsightly?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, resolved to lurking at February 01, 2022 03:35 PM (eGTCV)

405 402 Biggest mistake the founders made was no term limits.

Second mistake was no session time limits.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 01, 2022 03:34 PM (F4b8f)

=========

Sunset provisions on bills and punishments for elected officials who write unconstitutional laws and regulations.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at February 01, 2022 03:35 PM (LvTSG)

406 put your browser in Private mode. That's what worked for me
Posted by: kallisto at February 01, 2022 03:29 PM (DJFLF)
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thanks! worked.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 01, 2022 03:35 PM (XSIWL)

407 Posted by: Jordan61 at February 01, 2022 03:29 PM (Ez6QX)

You need to mug him in the hallways tomorrow just to teach him a lesson.

Posted by: jakee308 at February 01, 2022 03:36 PM (uZ/z2)

408 Lunch, you've got it easy. My son steals my skivvies and socks all the fucking time.
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 01, 2022 03:34 PM (2uOKS)

If he started stealing my underwear we'd have much deeper issues to deal with.

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 01, 2022 03:36 PM (Ez6QX)

409
You need to mug him in the hallways tomorrow just to teach him a lesson.
Posted by: jakee308 at February 01, 2022 03:36 PM (uZ/z2)

Koneecheewaahh bitches!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 03:36 PM (Zz0t1)

410 >>> Twitter has finally figured out a way to stop me from reading tweets. How else can I keep up with Sean Davis?

He's gone from Federalist, I think, and now I can't read his tweets without signing up for twitter (which I won't do).
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 01, 2022 03:28 PM (XSIWL)

Substitute nitter.net for twitter.com

https://nitter.net/seanmdav

Posted by: banana Dream at February 01, 2022 03:36 PM (pnzcV)

411 404 I had a bimbo eruption once but doctor gave me a cream for it. A balm. An unguent. A lotion.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at February 01, 2022 03:32 PM (5P6Lv)
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I had to get two penicillin shots. More a leaking faucet than an eruption.

Posted by: Puddin Head at February 01, 2022 03:36 PM (2uOKS)

412 You need to mug him in the hallways tomorrow just to teach him a lesson.
Posted by: jakee308 at February 01, 2022 03:36 PM (uZ/z2)

I might do it today. We work at the same place.

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 01, 2022 03:36 PM (Ez6QX)

413 Sunset provisions on bills and punishments for elected officials who write unconstitutional laws and regulations.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at February 01, 2022 03:35 PM (LvTSG)

If they get unruly, you quone them.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 01, 2022 03:36 PM (SH2Zi)

414 BREAKING: Fertilizer plant on fire in NC...Winston/Salem

It's almost like this may add to the fertilizer shortage. But, not suspicious.

Posted by: Capital Eff at February 01, 2022 03:36 PM (GYllL)

415 Most of the east coast Fake News Media and government employees need to be converted to fertilizer, for the good of the country specifically and the human race generally.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at February 01, 2022 03:36 PM (JNTt1)

416 Does Better than Bouillon come in Miso flavor . . .
Posted by: Kindltot at February 01, 2022 03:33 PM (ZMraq)

I'd get the miso flavored miso TBH. LOL, unless of course you don't have Asian markets.

They do have sauteed onion, roast garlic and mushroom - but I usually wind up sauteeing onions, roasting garlic and there's a mushroom grower less than a mile from my house. I'm WAY spoiled when it comes to mushrooms. No, I haven't asked about the long-stem blue snap mushrooms.

Posted by: clutch cargo | something something, something at February 01, 2022 03:37 PM (wAnMi)

417 407 Posted by: Jordan61 at February 01, 2022 03:29 PM (Ez6QX)

You need to mug him in the hallways tomorrow just to teach him a lesson.
Posted by: jakee308 at February 01, 2022 03:36 PM (uZ/z2)

Take his lunch money and shove him in a locker.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 01, 2022 03:37 PM (II3Gr)

418 If he started stealing my underwear we'd have much deeper issues to deal with.

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 01, 2022 03:36 PM (Ez6QX)

lol

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 01, 2022 03:37 PM (SH2Zi)

419 And people wonder why directors get all the attention while writers get ignored. As Frank Miller said, "Don't be the writer. The director's got the power. The screenplay is a fire hydrant, and there's a row of dogs around the block waiting for it."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at February 01, 2022 03:32 PM (LvTSG)

That's true in Hollywood, but not on Broadway. There, the writer has all the power. Nothing gets done without their approval, and if a production is successful, a writer gets *paid*. 7.5% royalties forever and ever.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at February 01, 2022 03:37 PM (mdjgu)

420
Take his lunch money and shove him in a locker.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 01, 2022 03:37 PM (II3Gr)

undie grundie and a swirlie.

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 03:38 PM (Zz0t1)

421 Sunset provisions on bills and punishments for elected officials who write unconstitutional laws and regulations.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at February 01, 2022 03:35 PM (LvTSG)
++++
One of the few Constitutional amendments I'd support would be an automatic sunset on every piece of legislation. After seven years, the law expires unless Congress renews it - and bills must be renewed individually. No ominbus "all bills expiring this year are renewed" stuff.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 01, 2022 03:38 PM (DU+/6)

422 402 Biggest mistake the founders made was no term limits.

Second mistake was no session time limits.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 01, 2022 03:34 PM (F4b8f)

Yoo hoo. Don't forget about meeeee.

Posted by: John Marshall at February 01, 2022 03:38 PM (mdjgu)

423 It's almost like this may add to the fertilizer shortage. But, not suspicious.
Posted by: Capital Eff

Last year it was a pool chlorine shortage then a factory burned down.

And a chip shortage, then a factory burned down.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 01, 2022 03:38 PM (F4b8f)

424 Major General John K. Singlaub, R.I.P.

We've lost a special operations legend and true patriot, Horde.

Damn.
One hell of a life well lived!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 01, 2022 03:39 PM (axyOa)

425 If he started stealing my underwear we'd have much deeper issues to deal with.

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 01, 2022 03:36 PM (Ez6QX)

LOL

Posted by: IC - #FJB at February 01, 2022 03:39 PM (hV9ir)

426
Substitute nitter.net for twitter.com

https://nitter.net/seanmdav
Posted by: banana Dream at February 01, 2022 03:36 PM (pnzcV)

Ooof.....he's got Dirty Harry movie villain written all over him.

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 03:39 PM (Zz0t1)

427 Re Terry Fox he had a peculiar hop run that looked extremely difficult. I couldn't run across a Walmart parking lot like that, let alone across Canada.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, resolved to lurking at February 01, 2022 03:39 PM (eGTCV)

428 Speaking of no respect, my son stole my lunch AGAIN.
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Worse meal to lose on a work day. I think it might be time for that boy to receive an ass whooping.

Posted by: dartist at February 01, 2022 03:40 PM (+ya+t)

429 421 One of the few Constitutional amendments I'd support would be an automatic sunset on every piece of legislation. After seven years, the law expires unless Congress renews it - and bills must be renewed individually. No ominbus "all bills expiring this year are renewed" stuff.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 01, 2022 03:38 PM (DU+/6)

=========

Also, a ban on all omnibus bills. One department at a time and one intention at a time.

Also, CRs are outlawed and a Congress that does not pass a balanced budget is not allowed to pass any other legislation while also going unpaid with all climate control to all federal buildings turned off to save money.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at February 01, 2022 03:40 PM (LvTSG)

430 >>423 It's almost like this may add to the fertilizer shortage. But, not suspicious.
Posted by: Capital Eff

Last year it was a pool chlorine shortage then a factory burned down.

And a chip shortage, then a factory burned down.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Ah ha! A pattern.

Posted by: Capital Eff at February 01, 2022 03:40 PM (GYllL)

431 The sooner Justin complies, the sooner we can get back to normal. We're all in this together!

Posted by: Canadian Truckers at February 01, 2022 03:40 PM (GuVSd)

432 >>> Terry Fox he had a peculiar hop run that looked extremely difficult. I couldn't run across a Walmart parking lot like that, let alone across Canada.

Didn't he have a prosthetic leg?

Posted by: fluffy at February 01, 2022 03:40 PM (UnQlg)

433 Does anyone have a mini excavator they want to sell?

The Horde is a diversified group with years of acquisitions sitting in their well-appointed pole barns. Time to give up some of the unused power equipment for a reasonable amount.

Posted by: jwest at February 01, 2022 03:40 PM (/BlEx)

434 As I said...wild hand gestures at a timeline of Civil War history.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford

I have a biography of John Ford that I have been meaning to read "Just Print the Myth".
Have you read that? And Ford was quite the drunken character at times; very brutal to his cast and people around him.
John Wayne owed him a lot, as he used Wayne in a lot of movies and really made him a star.
When Wayne was later in "In Harm's Way" made by Otto Preminger, people who knew Preminger were surprised at how polite and cordial Preminger was to Wayne. Maybe Preminger knew about John Ford.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at February 01, 2022 03:41 PM (vcOmj)

435 Any word from LadyL about her friend Dave? She took him to the ER earlier with Afib.

Posted by: Kathy at February 01, 2022 03:41 PM (h3RRP)

436 I believe the makeshift stabby instrument is called a "shiv," while "shank" refers to the stabby activity using said instrument.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder.

Alcatraz prison guard John Johnson (you may call him "Vicky") explains further:

https://youtu.be/ah7mS9H_TOM

Posted by: Sharkman at February 01, 2022 03:41 PM (8gxrg)

437 Worse meal to lose on a work day. I think it might be time for that boy to receive an ass whooping.
Posted by: dartist at February 01, 2022 03:40 PM (+ya+t)

I should go over there and embarrass the shit out of him in front of his minions. That would teach him.

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 01, 2022 03:41 PM (Ez6QX)

438 The cure for the school boards is to home school your children. Eventually getting organized to the point where you can fund your own school for your area and completely lock the union out.

Rather than organized like public school, make it more of an advisory facility aiding and providing tools and temps for the parents doing the teaching.

You will know when you are getting to them when they start whining about the lower school standards to the legislature. They'll try to make it harder to be allowed to home school and change the requirements etc.

A similar attitude can be done over other types of governmental functions that they've over bloated and raised expenses on while creating their little fiefdoms. Create a contractor based group that can offer reduced costs to the county/city government. The country workers will hit the rood cause the bean counters will usually always go for the cheaper price. Esp if the workmanship is good also.

Posted by: jakee308 at February 01, 2022 03:42 PM (uZ/z2)

439 434 I have a biography of John Ford that I have been meaning to read "Just Print the Myth".
Have you read that? And Ford was quite the drunken character at times; very brutal to his cast and people around him.
John Wayne owed him a lot, as he used Wayne in a lot of movies and really made him a star.
When Wayne was later in "In Harm's Way" made by Otto Preminger, people who knew Preminger were surprised at how polite and cordial Preminger was to Wayne. Maybe Preminger knew about John Ford.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at February 01, 2022 03:41 PM (vcOmj)

========

I haven't really read anything on Ford, but I plan to. Let the movies speak for themselves, yaknow? I do like this story by Jimmy Stewart about working with Ford, though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5mcU74rHGM

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at February 01, 2022 03:42 PM (LvTSG)

440 Speaking of no respect, my son stole my lunch AGAIN.
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Set up a trap and put eye drops on the next one. He'll be in the shitter all day.

Posted by: dartist at February 01, 2022 03:42 PM (+ya+t)

441
I should go over there and embarrass the shit out of him in front of his minions. That would teach him.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 01, 2022 03:41 PM (Ez6QX)

Either that or make a dummy meal that tastes like complete shit.

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 03:43 PM (Zz0t1)

442 Didn't he have a prosthetic leg?
Posted by: fluffy at February 01, 2022 03:40 PM (UnQlg)

Yes but his gait was very awkward looking.

This was maybe 35 years ago. That seems a different world. His political beliefs were irrelevant as I recall.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, resolved to lurking at February 01, 2022 03:43 PM (eGTCV)

443 Coming up on the three year anniversary of the Durham investigation, four years if you include the abortive failure known as the "John Huber investigation". Oddly enough, I get the sense something important might finally be happening this year. Better really, really late than never, I guess.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 01, 2022 03:44 PM (XSIWL)

444
I see they're now reporting on the FIB investigating bomb threats at historic black colleges. I think this will easily overtake the Canadian truckers story.
Posted by: InCali

Didn't see that coming!

Oh wait, I did over 2 hours ago:

Can we start an AoS betting pool for How Many Fake Hate Crime Hoaxes will be reported this month from school and college campuses?

Bonus pool: How many fake "racist messages" and "racist graffitti" will be supposedly discovered on the streets of various black neighborhoods in the blue cities?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at February 01, 2022 01:23 PM

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at February 01, 2022 03:44 PM (l3sUM)

445 Had no idea eye drops would do that. I learned something today.

Posted by: Dogbert at February 01, 2022 03:44 PM (Z9HSN)

446 Set up a trap and put eye drops on the next one. He'll be in the shitter all day.
Posted by: dartist at February 01, 2022 03:42 PM (+ya+t)
++++
My oldest brother used to pilfer money from my older brother. Older brother baited a trap. Put a $5 bill on top of a tee shirt that was artfully arranged over a bitchin' rat trap.

Put an end to that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 01, 2022 03:44 PM (DU+/6)

447 BREAKING: Fertilizer plant on fire in NC...Winston/Salem

That's not suspicious at all.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 01, 2022 03:44 PM (ZGrMX)

448 She took him to the ER earlier with Afib.

Oh dear, I didn't know. I'll try texting her.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at February 01, 2022 03:45 PM (nxdel)

449 Could a MoMe be described as a fete or a cotillion?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, resolved to lurking at February 01, 2022 03:45 PM (eGTCV)

450 There's a saying; if you sit down at a poker table and can't figure out who the mark is, it's YOU.

This is how I'm feeling these days. I knew the government and all their ilk were con artists and grifters but I still had no concept of how far the rot goes and how far they were willing to go for a few cents and a government parking place. And in what directions.

It's simply a wonder the entire thing hasn't just collapsed in a pile of dust like an old house that's been afflicted with dry rot, carpenter ants and termites for 40 years. Everyone's amazed it lasted this long.

Posted by: jakee308 at February 01, 2022 03:46 PM (uZ/z2)

451 Could a MoMe be described as a fete or a cotillion?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, resolved to lurking at February 01, 2022 03:45 PM (eGTCV)
++++
More a fete than a cotillion.

Although "fight" is probably closer still...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 01, 2022 03:46 PM (DU+/6)

452 Could a MoMe be described as a fete or a cotillion?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, resolved to lurking at February 01, 2022 03:45 PM (eGTCV)

I thought someone was discussing Wikifete earlier......

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)

453 You make "The Searchers", there are no boundaries. Lifetime pass.

Posted by: Indignatio Vindicatorem at February 01, 2022 03:46 PM (oWBc3)

454 >>> This was maybe 35 years ago. That seems a different world. His political beliefs were irrelevant as I recall.

42 years, according the the intertoobs.

Posted by: fluffy at February 01, 2022 03:46 PM (UnQlg)

455 It's almost like this may add to the fertilizer shortage. But, not suspicious.
Posted by: Capital Eff

This cements DC as the American capital of fertilizer - no shortage of bullshit there.

Posted by: Boswell at February 01, 2022 03:46 PM (5iUNf)

456 ++++
More a fete than a cotillion.

Although "fight" is probably closer still...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 01, 2022 03:46 PM (DU+/6)

The TxMoMe is more 'shootout.'

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)

457 I thought someone was discussing Wikifete earlier......
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)

Fete, feet, whatever. The internet has it all.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric(phone) at February 01, 2022 03:47 PM (9mfKN)

458 Could a MoMe be described as a fete or a cotillion?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, resolved to lurking at February 01, 2022 03:45 PM (eGTCV)

Aren't cotillions fancy? Definitely not that.

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 01, 2022 03:47 PM (Ez6QX)

459 There are very very few positive aspects to a shooting Civil War. This post reveals one of them. Evil psychopaths. All of them.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 01, 2022 03:48 PM (VzbI8)

460 BREAKING: Fertilizer plant on fire in NC...Winston/Salem

That's not suspicious at all.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 01, 2022 03:44 PM (ZGrMX)

How much went missing before the fire?

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 01, 2022 03:48 PM (SH2Zi)

461
Boom. Just got done with the girl's annual neurology checkup. Showed the doctoress her progress on walking, talking, muscle tone, coordination, etc. This lady never says anything, but when the appointment was wrapping up, she said that given the size of her cyst and her medical history, she would not expect any of this til 4-5 years old, not at just over 2 years. She said it was "amazing," and "a miracle."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 01, 2022 03:48 PM (Cf/uA)

462
BREAKING: Fertilizer plant on fire in NC...Winston/Salem

Posted by: Capital Eff

Gee, I wonder if fertilizer manufacturers were included in the Fake News NYT fake article about people who are "being paid to kill the planet?"

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at February 01, 2022 03:49 PM (l3sUM)

463 She said it was "amazing," and "a miracle."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 01, 2022 03:48 PM (Cf/uA)

God is Great.

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 01, 2022 03:49 PM (Zz0t1)

464 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 01, 2022 03:48 PM (Cf/uA)

What wonderful news!

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 01, 2022 03:49 PM (Ez6QX)

465 Some Moron posted this earlier in the day. It claims to be a text history (like from the texting application) of one of those absurd "lead on the scammer until the scammer gets bored and gives up" things that just keeps going and going and getting more and more absurd with apparently no limits. I laughed many times.
https://is.gd/Xf0EF0

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 01, 2022 03:49 PM (DU+/6)

466 Hang in there. You're doing things right.

Posted by: Wally at February 01, 2022 03:49 PM (vMWVi)

467 Glad to hear it YD! Awesome news bro.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at February 01, 2022 03:49 PM (phTQ4)

468 She said it was "amazing," and "a miracle."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 01, 2022 03:48 PM (Cf/uA)

Outstanding news!

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 01, 2022 03:49 PM (SH2Zi)

469 She said it was "amazing," and "a miracle."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 01, 2022 03:48 PM (Cf/uA)

That's fantastic!

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 01, 2022 03:50 PM (II3Gr)

470 Euthanization would be a kindness. If not for them, for their ~~children~~ cats.

https://tinyurl.com/yspcbpv6

Posted by: clutch cargo | something something, something at February 01, 2022 03:50 PM (wAnMi)

471 Industrial revolution of the early 1900s and urbanization. If you read Montesquieu on what republics exist and under what circumstances they form and function, basically republics that aren't noble republics need a lot of small landholders. It's not clear how one would go about setting up a lasting popular republic with modern economic conditions, de jure power and de facto power don't line up so it's unstable.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 01, 2022 03:30 PM (z5Vrg)

People who own a house with 1/5 - 1/10th of an acre are small landholders, and they have a lot of influence and want stability as well.
Modern tech and modern farming allow for urbanization which seems to be the greatest driver for prosperity and efficiency, and that in turn allows the small property owners to have greater influence as well.
I wonder that the inflation of the 70's wasn't the start of the faltering because it made house ownership harder, especially since it drove jobs overseas and closed up factories here.

(1/2)

Posted by: Kindltot at February 01, 2022 03:50 PM (ZMraq)

472 2/2

Small landowner was 20 - 40 (or 80) acres, depending on the land, but that is because there are requirements to raise food and have a cash crop or trade for what you can't grow for yourself. Modern urbanization both allows for everyone to be in a trade and allow specialists to raise food, with the transport being the easiest part. With power equipment it takes far less manual labor to raise food, and the surplus labor can find other things that pay better than grub labor.

I would suggest dealing with the huge business cycles that cause the unending crashes and allow actual ownership of land again.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 01, 2022 03:50 PM (ZMraq)

473
She said it was "amazing," and "a miracle."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Much needed wonderful news.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at February 01, 2022 03:50 PM (l3sUM)

474 Boom. Just got done with the girl's annual neurology checkup. Showed the doctoress her progress on walking, talking, muscle tone, coordination, etc. This lady never says anything, but when the appointment was wrapping up, she said that given the size of her cyst and her medical history, she would not expect any of this til 4-5 years old, not at just over 2 years. She said it was "amazing," and "a miracle."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 01, 2022 03:48 PM (Cf/uA)
++++
Glad to hear it, YD. That is wonderful news indeed!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 01, 2022 03:50 PM (DU+/6)

475 459 There are very very few positive aspects to a shooting Civil War.
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You get to shoot Yankees. THat's pretty positive.

Posted by: Puddin Head at February 01, 2022 03:50 PM (2uOKS)

476 Ladyl said boyfriend had afib, don't know the cause. She's at the pharmacy but they did release him. Will be praying for him. Scary.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at February 01, 2022 03:50 PM (nxdel)

477 469 She said it was "amazing," and "a miracle."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 01, 2022 03:48 PM (Cf/uA)

That's fantastic!
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 01, 2022 03:50 PM (II3Gr)

Great news, YD!

Posted by: Darrell Harris at February 01, 2022 03:51 PM (mdjgu)

478 Aren't cotillions fancy? Definitely not that.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 01, 2022 03:47 PM (

I'm not sure what a cotillion is, except it's a dancy kind of thing.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, resolved to lurking at February 01, 2022 03:51 PM (eGTCV)

479 Call for Article V Convention Reaches the Halfway Point - just 17 more states to go!

https://tinyurl.com/mryanb32

Oh please, oh please...if this possibly results in anything, let it be the repeal of the 17th Amendment...

Posted by: Boswell at February 01, 2022 03:51 PM (5iUNf)

480 Sorry. I meant that for Yudishthira's Dice. You're doing things right, and praise the Lord.

Posted by: Wally at February 01, 2022 03:52 PM (vMWVi)

481 FIB investigating bomb threats at historic black colleges
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Final exams already?

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at February 01, 2022 03:53 PM (CKevK)

482 Happiest news of the day YD!

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 01, 2022 03:53 PM (XSIWL)

483 Joe Mannix - this is grade A level trolling. Holy fuck.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at February 01, 2022 03:53 PM (phTQ4)

484
Thanks everyone, for the well wishes, and especially the prayers

It's all paying off. This little girl is happy and healthy and beating everyone's expectations. Tough little broad to begin with, but I have no doubt that something special is going on here

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 01, 2022 03:53 PM (Cf/uA)

485 Elon Musk trolls Justin Trudeau.

https://youtu.be/lC6_tlzqLiU

Posted by: buzzion at February 01, 2022 03:53 PM (vMCab)

486 Posted by: Puddin Head at February 01, 2022 03:36 PM (2uOKS)

Bothered by that constant drip drip drip?

I think Zappa had a song with those lyrics or someone anyway.

Posted by: jakee308 at February 01, 2022 03:54 PM (uZ/z2)

487 I'm not sure what a cotillion is, except it's a dancy kind of thing.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, resolved to lurking at February 01, 2022 03:51 PM (eGTCV)
++++
A cotillion is both fancy and dancy. It's derived from the name of the dance itself, which is - and I am not joking - an ultra-elite, super-sophisticated, extremely formal, courtly form of square dancing favored by the French and English nobility.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 01, 2022 03:54 PM (DU+/6)

488 Some Moron posted this earlier in the day. It claims to be a text history (like from the texting application) of one of those absurd "lead on the scammer until the scammer gets bored and gives up" things that just keeps going and going and getting more and more absurd with apparently no limits. I laughed many times.
https://is.gd/Xf0EF0
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 01, 2022 03:49 PM (DU+/6)

That's brilliant! I love how the guy starts to emulate the bad english, if real this is first order trolling.

Posted by: clutch cargo | something something, something at February 01, 2022 03:54 PM (wAnMi)

489 She said it was "amazing," and "a miracle."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

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Made my day.

Posted by: ShainS -- A faculty lounge, if you can keep it. at February 01, 2022 03:55 PM (Jvj76)

490 That's brilliant! I love how the guy starts to emulate the bad english, if real this is first order trolling.
Posted by: clutch cargo | something something, something at February 01, 2022 03:54 PM (wAnMi)
++++
Yes. And if it's not real, it's top-shelf comedy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 01, 2022 03:55 PM (DU+/6)

491 >>> Speaking of no respect, my son stole my lunch AGAIN.

I ground up a handful of carolina reaper pods and put them in a shaker, - like red pepper flakes. I like spicy food.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 01, 2022 03:55 PM (6liew)

492 YD I remember the beginning of your difficult journey. You stayed positive and tough. You deserve this good news. Give thanks to God .

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 01, 2022 03:55 PM (VzbI8)

493 Democracy Dies in Darkness

Posted by: ... at February 01, 2022 03:56 PM (dscaa)

494 Good news YD.

Posted by: dartist at February 01, 2022 03:56 PM (+ya+t)

495 Yes. And if it's not real, it's top-shelf comedy.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 01, 2022 03:55 PM (DU+/6)

This will keep me laughing all day.

Posted by: clutch cargo | something something, something at February 01, 2022 03:56 PM (wAnMi)

496 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 01, 2022 03:48 PM (Cf/uA)

That's fantastic. Thank you for the update. Prayers will continue.

Posted by: ... at February 01, 2022 03:57 PM (dscaa)

497 So how do a fete or cotillion compare to a soiree?

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 01, 2022 03:57 PM (II3Gr)

498 Former President Donald Trump is facing serious backlash from die-hard loyalists over his decision to intervene in a Tennessee House race, with his supporters accusing him of spurning a staunch Republican ally who's running.

Trump on Tuesday evening endorsed Morgan Ortagus, who served as a State Department spokesperson during his administration and is pondering a run for a Middle Tennessee-based congressional district. The announcement has caused a firestorm, with far-right, high-profile backers ranging from North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn to conservative activist Candace Owens taking to social media to voice their support for Robby Starbuck, a rival candidate who's been a mainstay of the pro-Trump movement.

Posted by: Capital Eff at February 01, 2022 03:57 PM (GYllL)

499 486 Posted by: Puddin Head at February 01, 2022 03:36 PM (2uOKS)

Bothered by that constant drip drip drip?

I think Zappa had a song with those lyrics or someone anyway.
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A shot of penicillin in each cheek and you will walk like John Wayne for a day or so.

Posted by: Puddin Head at February 01, 2022 03:57 PM (2uOKS)

500 So how do a fete or cotillion compare to a soiree?
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 01, 2022 03:57 PM (II3Gr)

Well it's no ball.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 01, 2022 03:57 PM (VzbI8)

501 Second verse, same as the first.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at February 01, 2022 03:58 PM (byiCu)

502 I love that
www.liar.com

is just a blind redirect to Justin Trudeau's Wikipedia page. Apparently it's Elon Musk's doing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 01, 2022 03:58 PM (DU+/6)

503 500 So how do a fete or cotillion compare to a soiree?
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 01, 2022 03:57 PM (II3Gr)

Well it's no ball.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 01, 2022 03:57 PM (VzbI

Which kind? Some balls are held for charity and some for fancy dress.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 01, 2022 03:58 PM (II3Gr)

504 So how do a fete or cotillion compare to a soiree?
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 01, 2022 03:57 PM (II3Gr)
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A soiree is a much more casual (less formal) affair. You need to be dressed for a soiree, but you need to be formal for a fete and ultra-formal (white tie) for a cotillion.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 01, 2022 03:58 PM (DU+/6)

505 It's no True Grit (the original), or Unforgiven, or The Searchers, or Hondo.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 01, 2022 03:03 PM (txdEq)

Ehhhh ... Spaghetti Western Clint vs Old Clint. . Like comparing John Wayne's "Stagecoach" to John Wayne's "The Shootist".

TGTBATIU has the best soundtrack, by far.

Posted by: mrp at February 01, 2022 03:59 PM (6eRlp)

506 485 Elon Musk trolls Justin Trudeau.

https://youtu.be/lC6_tlzqLiU

Posted by: buzzion at February 01, 2022 03:53 PM (vMCab)

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Awesome sauce.

Posted by: ShainS -- A faculty lounge, if you can keep it. at February 01, 2022 04:00 PM (Jvj76)

507
The announcement has caused a firestorm, with far-right, high-profile backers ranging from North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn to conservative activist Candace Owens...

Fake News wrote this, obviously.
This whole Morgan Oragtus story reeks of being half-bullshit, from the start.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at February 01, 2022 04:00 PM (l3sUM)

508 For amusement whilst waiting for Mrs D, I did a side-by-side comparison of pictures of Castro and Trudeau. Good Grief. I"d bet anything ol Fidel is his daddy.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 01, 2022 04:00 PM (axyOa)

509 The Balls held for pleasure are the balls that I like best.

Posted by: Good for the Goose at February 01, 2022 04:01 PM (K2UYJ)

510 FIB investigating bomb threats at historic black colleges

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Why do I believe nothing about that is real? Why do I automatically believe it's yet another hoax or an FBI instigated false flag?

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 01, 2022 04:01 PM (sVtYq)

511 But when they're held for pleasure, they're the balls that I like best.

Posted by: SFGoth at February 01, 2022 04:01 PM (KAi1n)

512 For amusement whilst waiting for Mrs D, I did a side-by-side comparison of pictures of Castro and Trudeau. Good Grief. I"d bet anything ol Fidel is his daddy.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 01, 2022 04:00 PM (axyOa)
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Would it change your opinion if you were to also learn that Justin's mama went down to party with communists in Cuba at the right time, and came home from the island in a delicate condition?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 01, 2022 04:01 PM (DU+/6)

513 Feral hogs are in the San Francisco Bay area. I'm very curious how they're going to handle this. TX and other states are having issues despite removing nearly all hunting restrictions on the pests. What's SF going to do? Appoint cops to feral pig hunting duty?

I can just see all of the horror stories about wealthy Californians discovering MEN WITH GUNS on their property and how they now have PTSD and are suing everyone in the blue phone book.

https://bit.ly/34sLlYV

Posted by: bonhomme at February 01, 2022 04:02 PM (VCz/u)

514 The first time I heard Chris Wray mealy-mouthing about the Trump FISA warrants in terms of "potentially concerning improper procedure blah blah" I knew he was dead-rotton Uniparty apparatchik to the core.

Posted by: Zek at February 01, 2022 04:02 PM (OzNIz)

515 498-

Symbolic of the whole of what is wrong with Trump being involved still. He generally doesn't seem to get it, that the people destroying this country are all through the government, especially places like the state department. No doubt he has no clue who this guy is, but was "advised" by someone he thinks he can trust.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 01, 2022 04:02 PM (mQR8C)

516 Nood double standards

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 01, 2022 04:02 PM (z5Vrg)

517 Thanks so much for letting us know YD about your daughter's positive progress.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 01, 2022 04:02 PM (nQa/k)

518 Which kind? Some balls are held for charity and some for fancy dress.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 01, 2022 03:58 PM (II3Gr)

Balls were always considered a formal dance gathering. I guess the meaning has evolved but I believe it's still requires formal dress.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 01, 2022 04:02 PM (VzbI8)

519 504 So how do a fete or cotillion compare to a soiree?
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 01, 2022 03:57 PM (II3Gr)
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A soiree is a much more casual (less formal) affair. You need to be dressed for a soiree, but you need to be formal for a fete and ultra-formal (white tie) for a cotillion.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 01, 2022 03:58 PM (DU+/6)
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In Firefly, didn't Mal get conned by, and thinking he had married, the Christina Hendrix character at a shindig?

Posted by: ShainS -- A faculty lounge, if you can keep it. at February 01, 2022 04:03 PM (Jvj76)

520 It's my belief that my big balls should be held every night.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 01, 2022 04:03 PM (II3Gr)

521 >>>[476] 4LadyL said boyfriend had afib, don't know the cause. She's at the pharmacy but they did release him. Will be praying for him. Scary. Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at February 01, 2022 03:50 PM
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Thanks, Jewells ... Glad to hear he is okay ... Afib can indeed be scary ... Hubby has it but, fortunately, it has been controlled with Rx for quite awhile now.

Posted by: Kathy at February 01, 2022 04:03 PM (h3RRP)

522 wonderful news yd

the post, has the son in law of a cuban spymaster, nick miroff on staff, covering latin american issues,

Posted by: no 6 at February 01, 2022 04:03 PM (hMlTh)

523 Back to the original topic, it is totally fucked up that the Arkansas mafia is anywhere near the Justice Department. They will eventually Randy Weaver us all.

Posted by: Indignatio Vindicatorem at February 01, 2022 04:03 PM (oWBc3)

524 Would it change your opinion if you were to also learn that Justin's mama went down to party with communists in Cuba at the right time, and came home from the island in a delicate condition?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 01, 2022 04:01 PM (DU+/6)

This is why I think it's a sure bet. I can remember when she went down there. No doubt in my mind.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 01, 2022 04:04 PM (axyOa)

525 481 FIB investigating bomb threats at historic black colleges
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Final exams already?
Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at February 01, 2022 03:53 PM (CKevK)

Future article:

"Even though these threats turned out to be a hoax by a person of color we must always remain vigilant against racism especially during black history month."

Posted by: buzzion at February 01, 2022 04:04 PM (vMCab)

526 A soiree has vanilla in it as well as the jam and the cubed pound-cake.
Some people demand the caramelized vanilla sugar as a topping, but mom just used a hard sauce.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 01, 2022 04:04 PM (ZMraq)

527 Trump promised to drain the swamp. He never really tried.

Posted by: Jack S Phogbound Esq at February 01, 2022 04:05 PM (9X60i)

528 Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 01, 2022 03:57 PM (II3Gr)

How about a Gala. (pronounced Gah Lah. Not Gey Lah)

Or a sweatie. This is where you go off into farm country and pull back into the uncut corn just standing drying and then cut into an area off of the lane leading in so no one can see people out in the field. Have to have the right topography so that it's hidden a bit from the roads with the light reflection off the clouds and stuff.

Takes place in spring or fall. Couple or more people buy a keg or three and someone brings some brick for a fire and odds and ends to cook. A bunch of coolers with ice. At least one car with a really good stereo. And if the weather is iffy bring a couple tents along. You'll need them later anyway when people start passing out and can't drive home.

Posted by: jakee308 at February 01, 2022 04:06 PM (uZ/z2)

529 Don't ask me why they're called "Sweaties" I don't know they just always are where I'm from.

Posted by: jakee308 at February 01, 2022 04:07 PM (uZ/z2)

530 Symbolic of the whole of what is wrong with Trump being involved still.

Maybe some are finally getting it. Trump is many things.

In a gathering of independent minded middle class ? He'll piss off more than he endears, because of his ego. In a series of games of checkers with the same ? He'll lose more than he wins.

He'll hang on just as long as Hillary.

Posted by: Good for the Goose at February 01, 2022 04:07 PM (K2UYJ)

531 285
Totally agree.
I try, in my small way, to influence my community.
I always defy mask mandates. Not easy here in the Peoples Republic of Boulder. I also attempt to have non-conflict conversations with leftist neighbors. Also not easy...
I guess I just need to persevere...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at February 01, 2022 04:09 PM (JfNvZ)

532 505 It's no True Grit (the original), or Unforgiven, or The Searchers, or Hondo.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 01, 2022 03:03 PM (txdEq)

Ehhhh ... Spaghetti Western Clint vs Old Clint. . Like comparing John Wayne's "Stagecoach" to John Wayne's "The Shootist".

TGTBATIU has the best soundtrack, by far.

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Check this out if you liked the theme music for GBU
https://is.gd/AoLQFF

Posted by: Ciampino at February 01, 2022 04:50 PM (qfLjt)

533 The Vulture the Shark and the Donkey Partners in Crime

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at February 01, 2022 06:09 PM (wGqjj)

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The Washington Post Recuses National Editor Matea Gold From Reporting on Durham and the FBI, Because Her Husband Was Promoted to FBI Chief of Staff.But Her Husband Has Long Been a Top Clinton Ally-- the Son of Clinton's Old "Bimbo Eruption" Detective.

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The Washington Post Recuses National Editor Matea Gold From Reporting on Durham and the FBI, Because Her Husband Was Promoted to FBI Chief of Staff.
But Her Husband Has Long Been a Top Clinton Ally-- the Son of Clinton's Old "Bimbo Eruption" Detective.