The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 1/4/23

Good morning, kids. The vote for House Speaker is certainly topping the headlines and links today, but frankly I'm not really all that interested in it. Dan Gelernter over at American Greatness had an article last week that basically echoed my and I'm sure many of your sentiments regarding the state of affairs in this nation. It's about the rift between those who want Trump and those who do not in 2024, but it can be extrapolated to the struggle for control of the GOP and really the farce of our alleged two-party system. All of it is encapsulated, I think, with this vote over House Speaker:

Here’s the thing: It is precisely the expedient view of “well, this person isn’t my first choice, but he’s the best available option who can win” which has allowed the uniparty to take over and ruin the country. We’re letting the Republicans get away with offering us a false dichotomy: A fake non-choice among candidates who are pre-selected for us. The Democrats did this themselves in 2016 when they stole the primary from Bernie Sanders.
You could go even further and say that the two-party system, in addition to preserving systemic stability, has prevented us from having any real say in our own government, except to the smallest extent. The Republicans and Democrats appear like the guard rails on either side of the road they’ve decided we should all be traveling on.
I’m sure I’ll be accused of being a shill for the Democrats here, and as far as I’m concerned that’s as credible as being accused of shilling for Russia these days. I’m not suggesting you have to do what I do, either. But I have no intention of supporting a Republican Party that manifestly contravenes the desires of its voters. . .
. . . Our best talking-heads and pundits have argued for years that it’s better to win with a bad candidate than to lose with a good one. I used to believe it myself. But look at the results . . .
. . . I used to think Republicans were at least a little more restrained in their spending than the Democrats. But now it’s just clear they spend our money on different things: Democrats give our money to welfare infrastructure (and the drug industry). Republicans give our money to the military-industrial complex (and the drug industry). . .
. . . Do I think Trump can win as a third-party candidate? No. Would I vote for him as a third-party candidate? Yes. Because I’m not interested in propping up this corrupt gravy-train any longer.
There are not enough unprintable words in the dictionary to say everything that statements like McConnell’s conjure up in my mind. But here are a few he might understand: “I’m fed up. And I’m out.”

Emphasis mine. It's not just about "To Trump or Not to Trump" at this stage of the game. It's about our old quandary, the choice between the lesser of two evils (and just to be clear I am not referring to Trump v. Whoever). Lesser of two evils doesn't cut it, especially since the distinction between the two is growing less and less distinct and more and more equal with the passing of each election cycle, 2016 notwithstanding.

Regardless of the nearly guaranteed fact that even if the Siamese Twin of George S. Patton and Judge Roy Bean was Speaker of the House and Majority Leader, does anyone really think that all of the criminals that rigged 2020, spied on, set up, persecuted and imprisoned scores of Americans who still languish in prison, colluded to silence voices of dissent and used their time in office to amass ill-gotten wealth collectively in the hundreds of millions if not billions at the expense of the American taxpayer and national security are going to wind up in Leavenworth, or on the wrong end of a noose?

Now look at Frank Luntz houseboy Kevin McCarthy. There are already reports that if the Democrats had perhaps done the smart thing and gave him the votes he needed to win, he'd have agreed to kneecapping the subpoena and investigatory power of his fellow House GOPers in their attempt to clean up the disgrace of the Democrat-led kangaroo court J-6 committee, among other high crimes, misdemeanors and in point of fact, treasonous acts.

So all that said, what's really the difference between McCarthy and perhaps this Hakeem Jeffries stooge? In the grand scheme of things, as the Titanic takes on more and more water, not really a whole hell of a lot.

Bread and circuses, except the bread is moldering, and costs five times as much for just half the amount. As for circuses, we've got transexual child rapists everywhere you turn so, to butcher (pun intended) The Who, "put in your earplugs, put on your eye shades, you know where to put – " Paul Pelosi's ball peen hammer.

The next line, "We're not gonna take it," remains to be seen.

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Here's why I don't necessarily give a damn about all of the above. A story out of the UK came to light a little over a week ago and, while I wanted to feature it, I gave it short shrift because there were just so many other things going on that kept it on a back burner. Yet, it's terrifying in its implications, let alone in and of itself, because it is exactly where we are headed.

At first, it seemed too absurd to believe. Surely, there must be more to the story than meets the eye.
It turns out that what was reported was quite accurate: a Christian pro-life leader in England was arrested not simply for standing in front of an abortion clinic. She was also arrested for the crime of praying while standing there, even though she was simply praying in her own head. Talk about being prosecuted for a “thought crime.” This really and truly happened.
In the words of Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, leader of the UK March for Life, “It’s abhorrently wrong that I was searched, arrested, interrogated by police and charged simply for praying in the privacy of my own mind. Nobody should be criminalized for thinking and for praying, in a public space in the UK. . .”
. . . It turns out that there are, in fact, Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) zones which protect abortion clinics and other places. And Vaughan-Spruce was prohibited from standing in this particular zone, no matter how peaceful and gracious her presence might be.
But, as noted in the official press release from the Alliance Defending Freedom U.K., “The censorship zone measure introduced by Birmingham authorities criminalises individuals percieved to be ‘engaging in any act of approval or disapproval or attempted act of approval or disapproval’ in relation to abortion, including through ‘verbal or written means, prayer or counselling…’.”
Accordingly, “Whilst in the police station, Vaughan-Spruce was shown pictures of herself outside the abortion facility. She said she could not recall from the pictures whether she was praying at these specific moments, or whether these had been taken at times that she was distracted and thought about other things, such as her lunch. She maintains that all her thoughts were equally peaceful and imperceptible and that none should be criminalised.”
Yes, she was questioned as to whether she had been praying in her own mind. This is not made up. This is not the figment of Christian paranoia. This is what literally took place. . .
. . . One month prior, on November 24, in Bournemouth, UK, “Local woman Livia Tossici-Bolt was praying quietly with a friend in a public space when she was warned by local authorities that their prayer could cause ‘intimidation, harassment or distress’, and was asked to move away.”
To be clear, I have not been quoting from Orwell’s 1984.
To the contrary, not even Big Brother could read our thoughts. Not even The Chinese Communist Party of China can read its people’s minds. Not even Kim Jong-Un of North Korea imprisons alleged dissenters for daring to think a thought. Only God Almighty knows the thoughts of people’s hearts.
Of course, the British police didn’t know what Vaughan-Spruce was thinking either, because they had to ask, “Are you praying?”
Oh, the crime! Oh, the horror!
“Yes, Officer, I confess! I am guilty, so guilty! I might have been praying in my mind!”
To repeat: This was not Orwell’s 1984. This was England in 2022. Let that sink in.

I wonder what would have happened after the bobby asked Vaughn-Spruce if she were praying, she'd have replied "none of your business." I can only imagine. Yet, what's worse; having to obfuscate or avoid telling the truth or not having the freedom to say out loud exactly what you're thinking. Remember, this is England. The nation that begat Magna Carta, the Enlightenment and ultimately our Founders. No more.

Meanwhile, the FBI had the terrorist machete attacker on their "watch list" and did nothing. Nothing except whitewash and water down actual attacks on Jews while engaging in entrapment scam operations that resulted in the January 6th Reichstag Weenie Roast and the Wretched Whitmer kidnapping "plot" wherein two thirds of the plotters were either FBI agents or informants and poor saps who were threatened to go along lest they wind up in a Federal lock up for chewing gum on a Tuesday without a permit.

And lest we forget the parent organization of the FBI, the Department of Justice – I just LOL'd and vomited in my mouth a little as I wrote that – which conspired and colluded with the National Association of School Boards and the Oval Office to label parents who protest the mind-, body-, and soul-rape of their children with transexual psychotic perverts and anti-American brainwashing in their schools as "terrorists."

Kevin McCarthy = Frank Luntz = Nelson Muntz. And the joke's on us.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

“It was a Reagan-era regulatory change that empowered the likes of BlackRock.”
Why the Right Can’t Beat ESG
Margot Cleveland: "From deep-state election meddling to silent journalists, here are 10 scandals to track in the upcoming year."
10 Scandals to Keep Your Eye On in 2023
Christopher Rufo: "A new counterculture with the potential to disrupt left-wing institutional capture."
The Quiet Right
"Equal opportunity rewards excellence. Equal outcomes require tyranny and are indifferent to excellence."
The Equity Paradox
Victor Davis Hanson: "Diversity can ensure either dynamism or bedlam."
The Baleful Cargo of Woke Diversity Worship
"Who can imagine what’s coming next?"
When Thinking a Prayer Became a Crime

FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

“The real reason Chairman Schiff lobbied to have me banned from Twitter stemmed from the fact he was angry [I] outed his anonymous impeachment ‘whistleblower.’ He lobbied to get me banned under the false premise of ‘promot[ing] false QAnon conspiracies’ which I have never done and [I] challenge Schiff to produce evidence to back up his defamatory remarks to Twitter,” [Paul] Sperry told the Daily Caller.
Adam Schiff-for-Brain’s Office Asked Twitter To Ban Investigative Journalist, Docs Show
“It is very clear that the NY Times would never target another minority group in this fashion, certainly not at a time when that same minority is being targeted for hate crimes like no other on the streets of the city,” says Rabbi Yaakov Menken.
NY Times and WaPo Continue Smear Campaign Against Orthodox Jews as Anti-Semitic Hate Crimes Surge
"Magazines and other major publications used to welcome the new year with challenges for readers to commit to be fit. Not in 2023."
Time Magazine Stigmatizes Exercise as White Supremacist
Lloyd Billingsley: "Use your constitutional free-speech rights while you still have them. When the next holiday season rolls around, check to see if things got any better."
The Year of Pushing Back
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
"As is the case whenever societies tremble on the verge of collapse, the country is in the hands of a small cabal that cares only for its own values, wealth, and power."
How is the Uniparty Destroying America? Let Me Count the Ways
Robert Spencer: "Understanding [Nazi collaborator] George Soros’ self-image is a key to grasping much of what’s going on these days."
America, Behold Your God
"The hollowness of an accusation."
The Falsehood of "White Privilege"
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"Saving the planet requires nothing more difficult than having sex with short people. I had no idea, but I suppose I’m game."
Insanity Wrap: Eugenics Experts Advise Having Sex with Short People
"Empty shelves and higher prices for basic goods – the ruling class is setting up America's future."
The War on Truckers, Refrigerators, and Your Well-Being
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"Over the past six months, Americans have increased their focus on the overall economy while seeing inflationary pressures as less of a threat, according to a poll from the Associated Press and the University of Chicago’s National Opinion Research Center."
New Poll Reveals the Policy Priorities Americans Care About Most in 2023
"When they enter the medical profession, medical students are required to take the Hippocratic Oath, which includes a provision to 'do no harm.' Perhaps economists at the Federal Reserve Board should be required to take a similar oath."
Taking a Roller Coaster Ride with the Fed
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released its year-end report showing yet another uptick in the total of fugitive illegal aliens — those who have been ordered deported but have refused to leave the U.S. — as the Biden [junta] has systematically gutted interior immigration enforcement."
More Than 1.2 Million Fugitive Illegal Aliens Remain Living Across U.S. Despite Having Final Deportation Orders
"With 220,000 Cubans entering the U.S. through Mexico, the United States really doesn’t need another massive boat lift by Cubans entering the U.S. in Florida. It’s just one more indication that the crisis that Joe Biden refuses to admit is a crisis is already upon us."
Hundreds of Illegals From Cuba Land in Florida Keys Over the Weekend
"What the House Republican Majority must do." (and Senate GOPers with Kevin McLuntz won't allow - jjs)
Deterring More Illegal Immigration
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"It goes much deeper than just the JPMorgan lawsuit…"
Virgin Islands AG Fired Three Days After Suing JPMorgan Over Jeffrey Epstein
"McLaughlin is scheduled to die by injection Tuesday. Despite the media’s angling, Gov. Parson says it will indeed occur as planned."
Media Creates Trans Martyr Out of Death Row Inmate Who Stalked, Raped, Murdered GF
"The arrest is a comfort to the victims’ families but also a reminder that we need to address DNA privacy."
Arrest in Idaho Murders is a Reminder That Your DNA is Not Private or Safe
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
“This just smells of bureaucrats and a Secretary of Defense who disagrees with the policy trying to trying to parse words,” Florida Republican Rep. Mike Waltz told the DCNF. . . Congress clearly intended the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act to repeal the vaccine mandate for the entire military, including the National Guard and reserves, Republican lawmakers told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
GOP Reps Rip Army’s ‘Galling’ Decision Not to Repeal Vaccine Mandate for National Guard, Reserves
"A new study out of Germany, funded by the German government, found just that."
It's Time to Ask Whether Repeated mRNA Vaccine Shots Weaken the Immune Response to Chinese COVID-19
Dugout Doug was right. We should've nuked the bastards in '50 and Moscow while we had the muscle.
Beijing Threatens ‘Countermeasures’ Against Countries Requiring Chinese COVID Test For Travelers From China
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"Fucking dick."
Las Vegas Parents Sue School After Daughter Allegedly Given ‘Pornographic’ Assignment
"Does a woke war on merit violate the Human Rights Act?"
Virginia Attorney General Sets His Sights On Another Woke School District After Magnet School Turns Away From Merit
"The final result, at least in this school, is that the control freak in charge is now gone, and might face financial pain for being a control freak."
Pushback: Court denies school principal immunity from lawsuit for squelching free speech
ABORTION
"Whether this rule comes at this time by accident or design I do not know. But nurses and other healthcare workers may soon find that participating in abortions is required, no matter their beliefs."
HHS Proposes to Partially Rescind the Conscience Rule for Health Workers
"No, President Trump, the unapologetically pro-life position is a strength, not a weakness."
Trump is Wrong About the Efficacy and Resilience of the Pro-Life Movement
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
"Currently, more than 100 election-related bills have been pre-filed for the 2023 legislative session, according to the nonpartisan group Voting Rights Lab, which tracks election laws across the states. Democrat-led states are more likely to favor laws which loosen voting restrictions, such as by expanding early voting or adopting automatic voter registration, according to Politico."
Dem-Led Swing States Are Seizing The Opportunity To Rewrite Voting Laws
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"Senate Republicans blocked Dilawar Syed's nomination in 2021 over affiliation with anti-Israel group Emgage."
Biden Renominates Board Member at Anti-Israel Group to Small Business Administration
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
Bankman-Fried’s lawyers argued that there is “no need for public disclosure” of the identities of two people who will help secure the disgraced FTX founder’s bail in order to protect them from potential scrutiny and harassment, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Disgraced FTX Founder and Democrat Super Donor Sam "Scam Bank-Fraud" Bankman-Fried Asks Judge to Keep the People Paying His Bail Secret
"The impending appointment of outgoing Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts to retiring Sen. Ben Sasse’s seat could widen the split within the state Republican Party as Ricketts faces accusations that he bought the seat."
Nebraska Governor Accused of Buying Senate Seat
One staffer also says that [Katie] Porter “ridiculed people after they had reported sexual harassment in her office” and even “made fun of individuals whose parents passed away from [Chinese] COVID.”
A Dem Congresswoman Used Racist Slurs Against Staff, and the Mainstream Media Couldn't Care Less
"It would take considerable doing on the New York Republican’s part even to approximate the dishonesty of the party he ran against."
Santos Can’t Touch the Democrats’ Duplicity
POLITICS
"Ten Republicans voted for Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs on the first ballot and nine voted for non-nominated candidates, dealing McCarthy a potentially insurmountable margin as he attempts to ascend to the gavel. The Californian needs 218 votes to be named Speaker, meaning he must flip 15 members on subsequent ballots. McCarthy previously garnered 188 votes in a November conference meeting."
Speaker Vote Heads to Second Ballot for First Time in 100 Years
"Gaetz also revealed that some incoming committee chairmen threatened to remove him and other conservatives from committees if they did not fall in line and vote for McCarthy."
Rep. Gaetz: McCarthy 'Refused' on 'Term Limits,' Balanced Budget, and 'Border Plan'
"[Jim] Jordan, however, continued to support McCarthy, saying on the House floor during the second round of voting: 'I think Kevin McCarthy is the right guy to lead us.'”
Republican Defectors Opposing McCarthy Galvanize Support Around Another Candidate
"In a private meeting with McCarthy to negotiate voting for him to become House Speaker, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), and Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) said they want to form their own legal entity in the new Congress to wage lawsuits, according to Punchbowl News."
Report: Boebert, Gaetz, Perry Told McCarthy They Don’t Mind if Democrat Hakeem Jeffries Wins Speakership
"Putting him in the chair — thus leaving him in their debt over the next two years — would have been an ironclad guarantee the new speaker would have spent more time fighting for his political life than for the spending restraints he has identified as central to what he wants to do."
Democrats are Throwing Away a Chance to Have Kevin McCarthy in the Palms of Their Hands
"Fun fact: The longest vote in U.S. history took place in 1855, lasting 133 rounds over two months, from December 1855 to February 1856."
The Bid for House Speaker is Looking More and More Like a Soap Opera
Why in the hell Trump backed him in the first place made zero sense.
Trump Appears To Flip On Kevin McCarthy After Calling Him ‘My Kevin’

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“I don’t own this job,” McConnell claimed after the vote. “Anybody who wants to run for it can feel free to do so.” (and then wind up having dinner with Vince Foster - jjs)
Mitch McConnell Becomes Longest Serving Party Leader in Senate History
"The former president’s chances are slipping. Who else is up at bat?"
Trump’s Reelection Woes Are Just Beginning
“Do I think Trump can win as a third-party candidate? No,” [pundit Dan] Gelernter added. “Would I vote for him as a third-party candidate? Yes, because I’m not interested in propping up this corrupt gravy-train any longer.”
Trump Suggests He May Run on Third-Party Ticket in 2024
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
"This one-sided dependent relationship must end before this nation is insolvent and effectively subservient to China.
The War in Ukraine Has Underscored the Necessity of America Exiting NATO
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"Grief began these protests, but fury keeps them going."
In Iran, Crowds Chant: "Death to the IRGC, Death to the Entire System!"
"The U.S. will send Ambassador of the Holy See, Joe Donnelly, 'in line with the wishes of the late Pope and the Vatican. This is what their requests were. This is what their wishes were,' Jean-Pierre said."
Biden Will Not Attend Funeral of Pope Benedict ‘In Line With the Wishes of the Vatican’
Daniel Greenfield: "That’s how you know it’s on the right track."
The Beautiful People Hate ‘Ugly Israel’s’ New Government
"The Greek Revolution of 1821 was similar to today’s war in Ukraine."
The Original Monster Abroad
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
Gordon Chang: [Sen. Kevin Cramer] was referring to the Biden administration clearing a Chinese company to own 370 acres of land within 12 miles of Grand Forks Air Force Base in Grand Forks, North Dakota. As a result, China will be able to use a proposed $700 million corn milling plant on the site to spy on military communications and even disrupt them. In Beijing, they must be shaking their heads in disbelief at the inability of the U.S. to protect some of its most sensitive communications."
China Must Be Shaking Its Head in Disbelief at the Biden Junta's Stunningly Bad Decision-Making
"Airbus, a major contractor for the U.S. military, needs to clean up its act."
We Won’t Be Fooled Again
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
"Bickford, who carried out the assault hours before the new year, has been charged with two counts of attempted murder and attempted assault for each police officer he injured, officials say. He could also face terrorism charges."
‘Repent to Allah’: Machete-Wielding Times Square Attacker Is an Islamic Extremist
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
"The May 2 leak triggered a wave of protests, many of which occurred in front of the private homes of Supreme Court justices, and one man was charged for the attempted murder of Justice Brett Kavanaugh between the leak and the final decision, according to The Washington Post. Chief Justice John Roberts ordered the Supreme Court marshal, who is the head security officer for the court, to open an investigation the day after the leak, but there have been no updates on the investigation since then."
‘Long Past Time’: Source Behind SCOTUS’ Dobbs Leak Still A Mystery 8 Months Later
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"This is basically the story of healthcare across the developed world over the last century: the progressive medicalization of more and more facets of our lives, and the growing concentration of power over life and death in the hands of the medical profession. Despite overwhelming evidence that this process is having paradoxical effects – that it is making us sicker, not healthier – we continue to believe that it is a good thing, a very clear manifestation of capital-P Progress."
What Shrinking U.S. Life Expectancy May Be Telling Us About the Pandemic Response.
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"This additional money now means that SpaceX has raised about $10 billion in private money, most of which is being used for the development of Starship and Superheavy. When we add the $4 billion SpaceX will get from NASA for Starship, the company now has $14 billion to build this new rocket."
SpaceX raises another $750 million in private investment capital
"A brightening of two of these gases, sodium and ionized sulfur, began between July and September 2022 and lasted until December 2022. The ionized sulfur, which forms a donut-like structure that encircles Jupiter and is called the Io plasma torus, was curiously not nearly as bright in this outburst as previously seen."
Largest volcanic eruption in years detected on Io
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"The number of American children being treated for gender dysphoria has risen sharply in recent years."
Puberty Blocker Prescriptions for American Children Have Doubled Since 2017
"Kaylee McGhee White shares the truth about this alarming new trend."
Prager U Video: The Truth about Gender-Affirming Care
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
“We will not allow reality, facts, and truth to become optional. We will never surrender to the woke mob.”
‘Florida is Where Woke Goes to Die’: DeSantis Boasts Accomplishments in Inauguration Speech
"I say Coke's policies are evil because I saw inside the room. The first step in playbook was paying the NAACP + other civil rights groups to call opponents racist. Coke gave millions to the NAACP and the Hispanic Federation - both directly and through front groups like the American Beverage Association This picked up in 2011-2013 - when the Farm Bill and soda taxes were under consideration."
Coca-Cola Accused of Paying NAACP to Paint Soda Tax Advocates as 'Racist'
Dennis Prager: ". . . America has been gradually abandoning its unique value system and is consequently becoming a less free, less humane, less prosperous and more corrupt country. In fact, at this moment, America is no longer the best country, the exceptional country, it has been since 1776. There may not yet be a better country. But that is cold comfort."
America Has Become the Greatest Exporter of Destructive Ideas
Woke activists find racism in liberal James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water. For real.
Wait . . . ‘Blueface’ Is a Thing Now?
"This is the critical problem in critical theory: if there is no human nature, then everything is truly destabilized."
Tragic Farce: The Origins and Destiny of Critical Theory
"As anyone as well read as Lex Fridman’s detractors claim to be should know, you don’t incentivize an activity by insulting those who are still at an intermediate or beginner level in that activity."
Reading Lists and Their Detractors
"Totalitarians can dish it out but they can’t take it."
There is No Fun in Progressivism
Michael Walsh: "Give [The Star Spangled Banner] back to the military bands, which can actually play it, and place Key's poem under glass at the National Archives in perpetuity. But replace it with what?"
Of Thee I Can't Sing
HITHER & YON
"My faith is in God. So whatever He has planned for me, that'll be it."
Who Is Damar Hamlin? Open Christian Who Says Family Comes First
"Angel Studios' yarn delivers action, adventure and laughs for the whole family."
5 Reasons to Watch Animated Wingfeather Saga
"Smuggling network had also looted a gilded coffin out of Egypt that was once featured at New York’s Metropolitan Museum."
U.S. Returns Looted Sarcophagus to Egypt

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Posted by: J.J. Sefton at 07:31 AM

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1 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 04, 2023 07:31 AM (BRHaw)

2 Good morning JJ and readers.

Posted by: CapeFear at January 04, 2023 07:32 AM (SdglZ)

3 Moronin', Hourde!

Kinda boxy and grey today.

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at January 04, 2023 07:32 AM (u7pQw)

4 “Yes, Officer, I confess! I am guilty, so guilty! I might have been praying in my mind!”

As nurse ratched put it to me yesterday, you can pray for a sportsball player, but you will be arrested praying for butchered babies.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 04, 2023 07:33 AM (AW0uW)

5 Thank you JJ

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 04, 2023 07:33 AM (uLr+K)

6 Howdy!

Posted by: Marooned at January 04, 2023 07:33 AM (w6hJ9)

7 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Eff Kevin McCarthy-Luntz and the junta he stands for.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 04, 2023 07:34 AM (EZebt)

8 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at January 04, 2023 07:34 AM (ZGDr6)

9 Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J.

Saint of the Day
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774–1821) was born in New York City to a wealthy, virtuous, and influential family. She married a businessman, and together they lived on Wall Street. They attended an Episcopalian church where Elizabeth was very active in charitable works to the poor. When her father-in-law died, she became like a mother to her husband's six younger siblings, in addition to her own five children. During a trip to Italy she was introduced to Catholicism, and she converted to the Catholic Church following the death of her husband. After losing her family fortune, Elizabeth spent her life working to improve education and provide for the poor, as well as the needs of her family. She established the first Catholic school in the nation, and also founded the Sisters of Charity, the first American religious community. St. Elizabeth Ann Seton was the first native-born citizen of the United States to be declared a saint. She is also the patron of widows and those who have lost parents or children. Her feast day is January 4th.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 04, 2023 07:40 AM (qoGsy)

10 Good morning, my pretties.

Here's a newish one from Razorfist, "America Fist":

https://tinyurl.com/kv3rvxp7

"We have our own homegrown political binary, and it ain't Mussolini vs. Mao - it's Hamilton vs. DJ Jazzy Jefferson."

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at January 04, 2023 07:40 AM (Dc2NZ)

11 Yes the constant battle between "I am never voting for the GOP again!" to "We have to vote him in! It's better than the alternative!" To be the GOPe, or not to be, that is the question.

Posted by: BacktoGA at January 04, 2023 07:40 AM (MPYWI)

12 The FBI can't be all places at all times. You can't expect them to monitor suspected terrorists AND read everyone's tweets. There has to be some give and take.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 04, 2023 07:42 AM (C2ZTD)

13
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 04, 2023 07:43 AM (ENBF0)

14 Isabel Vaughan-Spruce should start by choosing A) Vaughan or B) Spruce. Isabel should finish by telling officers, "Can you help me. I do not know where I am. The last thing I remember was heading to supermarket for milk and placenta helper."

Posted by: Marooned at January 04, 2023 07:43 AM (w6hJ9)

15 Mornin' Mo-rons!

Posted by: Hawkpilot at January 04, 2023 07:44 AM (pz/6k)

16 I have said it before, and I will say it again. If you are an FBI agent, you are not one of the good guys. You are all part of a corrupt system and your presence enables it. But muh pension! I would rather stomp my boot on 1000 American's necks than sacrifice one dollar of muh pension! Don't worry, I won't stomp my boot on your neck, but I will do another job to free up an agent who will do so with a smile on his face.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 04, 2023 07:46 AM (C2ZTD)

17 Eff Kevin McCarthy-Luntz and the junta he stands for.

I just wonder when they will declare their love for each other.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at January 04, 2023 07:46 AM (nxdel)

18 Yes the constant battle between "I am never voting for the GOP again!" to "We have to vote him in! It's better than the alternative!" To be the GOPe, or not to be, that is the question.

JJ and CBD discussed a version of this on their podcast - I don't care if a candidate claimed they killed Bin Laden personally, so long as they were a guaranteed vote against the left.

I am done with the GOP on every level. They will never get another vote from me unless the candidate is Donald Trump. If I ask you "was 2020 stolen?" and you evince the slightest bit of hesitation in answering, then you're a Deep State asswipe and can forget about my doing anything to support you.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 04, 2023 07:46 AM (AW0uW)

19 Well said Mr JJ

Tried to watch a little news last night. FNC being the mouthpiece of GOPE Theater Productions ™ they were all bent out of shape about the 20 who won’t get with the production. Unwatchable garbage

Posted by: Ex-GOP at January 04, 2023 07:47 AM (vKOgw)

20 Seems to me that if you lose three votes for a job, you should withdraw.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 04, 2023 07:47 AM (Angsy)

21
America First. Period.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 04, 2023 07:48 AM (enJYY)

22 This is why I said we have to break the paradigm. Yes, there is already an existing system in place and Trump had already captured the base of the GOPe. However, you still had all of the GOPe candidates. One thing about starting a new party is it would have inherently self selected for who was an actual homer and who was a fair weather fan. Until the new party had managed to actually capture offices, you would only get the hardcore who actually had an issue with how the GOPe does business. Then as the new party gathered strength, the lemmings only interested in the gravy would have started to glom over- but that would tell you something.

There is the whole question of timing and fraud, but that just means you might be trying to solve the wrong problem. Rearranging the deck chairs instead of trying to save the ship and people, to borrow from the prior thread.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 04, 2023 07:49 AM (CsVWE)

23 I nominate that which has more personality, more intellect, more courage, more honesty and gosh darn is even better looking than Kevin "Reach Around" McCarthy...I nominate the honorable Hairy Dog Mess Bleached White By The Sun for speaker of the house.

Never Give Up Your Guns!

Rootin For Putin!

Free Buffalo Guy!

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 04, 2023 07:49 AM (XQtRs)

24 I'm not sure the McCarthy dust-up matters as more than a temporary disruption to the system. But the side dramas are interesting, as in Trump's decision to back McCarthy. It points once more to the fact that Trump is a non-revolutionary leader of an aspiringly revolutionary movement that has now overtaken him.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 04, 2023 07:50 AM (H8QX8)

25

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at January 04, 2023 07:51 AM (vwCZJ)

26 18 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 04, 2023 07:46 AM (AW0uW)

Yup.

I wrote the other day that I'd support George Santos if he would vote only two ways on any Democrat or bipartisan bill:

"NO" or "HELL NO."

In fact, I want an entire party based on those votes alone.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 04, 2023 07:51 AM (x0n13)

27 We need to ban the government from contracting with private entities, especially the intel/ State dept. If government can't do it in house, then they shouldn't do it al all.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 04, 2023 07:52 AM (C2ZTD)

28 It's a good thing they don't know the things I say in my head, I'd be really fucked.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at January 04, 2023 07:52 AM (tVOiC)

29 That excerpt from amgreatness...I simply can't convey how precisely perfect every word is in expressing my exact thoughts. When all of this draaaama played out yesterday with regard to the Speaker election, I simply did not care about the outcome. Because, ultimately, there is little difference in the long run on whether it's McCarthy or Jeffries. They're calling all the shots on our governance, not us. I simply don't care. And I won't until the entire edifice of treachery and fakery is burned down and rebuilt into something that resembles actual representation By the People, For the People.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 04, 2023 07:52 AM (sVtYq)

30 20 Seems to me that if you lose three votes for a job, you should withdraw.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 04, 2023 07:47 AM (Angsy)

"I have a '76 LeSabre with a trunk that can fix that!"

- - Al Franken

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 04, 2023 07:52 AM (x0n13)

31 I am done with the GOP on every level. They will never get another vote from me unless the candidate is Donald Trump. If I ask you "was 2020 stolen?" and you evince the slightest bit of hesitation in answering, then you're a Deep State asswipe and can forget about my doing anything to support you.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

I'm not concerned with whether the election was stolen or not at this point. My own eyes showed me it was. I am more concerned whether the 1,000 Trump supporters from Jan 6th that were tracked down in their sleep and thrown into prison without due process will be let out immediately. Let me know which speaker will protect me against being thrown into prison for expressing my first amendment rights, and that's who should be our leader/president/etc.

Posted by: BacktoGA at January 04, 2023 07:53 AM (MPYWI)

32 Good morning horde

But C.A.T how can we perfect Fascism then?

Posted by: Skip at January 04, 2023 07:53 AM (g+eW1)

33 Let me know which speaker will protect me against being thrown into prison for expressing my first amendment rights, and that's who should be our leader/president/etc.
Posted by: BacktoGA at January 04, 2023 07:53 AM (MPYWI)

This is a good point.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 04, 2023 07:54 AM (CsVWE)

34 Additional prayers for Vaughan-Spruce and Livia Tossici-Bolt.

We all knew this was coming. We were warned by the actions of others many times.

There is no escape - it is the nature of fallen societies. Even if we are the one alone, crying in the wilderness we should not be afraid for God is always with us (Isaiah 40:3, John 1:23, Psalms 27:1)

Posted by: Tonypete at January 04, 2023 07:54 AM (qoGsy)

35 There really is no point to anything is there. The American Dream was marched behind the prison barracks and shot in the head. We're all fucked and there's zero chance of enjoying the ride along the way.

Posted by: It's one big pile of shit without one single redeeming piece od at January 04, 2023 07:55 AM (s2na+)

36 G'morning, y'all!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 04, 2023 07:55 AM (t0OGg)

37 It points once more to the fact that Trump is a non-revolutionary leader of an aspiringly revolutionary movement that has now overtaken him.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 04, 2023 07:50 AM (H8QX

Trump is a symptom. He would have been nothing without the masses of pissed off and desperate voters who have had to choose between squishes and big-mouthed cowards for several decades. If Trump stops looking like the guy who offers a way out, then his support will evaporate.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2023 07:57 AM (9UlRk)

38 Let me know which speaker will protect me against being thrown into prison for expressing my first amendment rights, and that's who should be our leader/president/etc.
Posted by: BacktoGA at January 04, 2023 07:53 AM (MPYWI)

I don't see a single Republican taking such a stand.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 04, 2023 07:57 AM (H8QX8)

39 "I have a '76 LeSabre with a trunk that can fix that!"

- - Al Franken

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 04, 2023 07:52 AM (x0n13)

P'haps, but knowing GM quality, you probably can't get the trunk open.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 04, 2023 07:57 AM (Angsy)

40 oh thank you Tonypete! St Elizabeth Ann Seton is one of my favorites, along with St Therese of Lisieux

Posted by: BlackOrchidIsNotAmused at January 04, 2023 07:57 AM (w0NJk)

41 Happy National Spaghetti Day!

Posted by: redridinghood at January 04, 2023 07:57 AM (NpAcC)

42 Margot Cleveland: "From deep-state election meddling to silent journalists, here are 10 scandals to track in the upcoming year."

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Without reading yet what these scandals are, if they involve Deep State agencies/Democrats/leftist people, they will not be scandals because 1) they won't be reported on outside our circles, no matter what, 2) the GOP will remain utterly silent, no matter what, and 3) not a single soul will be punished, no matter what.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 04, 2023 07:57 AM (sVtYq)

43 Woke activists find racism in liberal James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water. For real.
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SMURF LIVES MATTER!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 04, 2023 07:58 AM (YIVH2)

44 Thanks TonyPete !

Posted by: JT at January 04, 2023 07:58 AM (T4tVD)

45 hiya

Posted by: JT at January 04, 2023 07:58 AM (T4tVD)

46 This is a good point.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Will McCarthy do a damn thing about the January 6th prisoners? Nope.

You know who backs him wholeheartedly? Donald Trump. The man that asked everyone to show up on January 6th.

Thank my lucky stars I couldn't go on Jan 6th. I don't know what would have happened to me, my family, and my business had I gone. And I know not one fucker in the GOP would have done a damn thing about it.

MTG used to be my girl, but she supports McCarthy too. Not doing anything about Jan 6th prisoners should be the litmus test of whether our reps will put their neck out for their own voting base.

Posted by: BacktoGA at January 04, 2023 07:59 AM (MPYWI)

47 We’re letting the Republicans get away with offering us a false dichotomy: A fake non-choice among candidates who are pre-selected for us. The Democrats did this themselves in 2016 when they stole the primary from Bernie Sanders.
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Yes. Once a government becomes like ours (in our case, it's a tyrannical technocracy glued together with bureaucracy, but it can take many forms), it cannot accept unexpected variables in its power structure. They can *probably* deal with those problems, but they'd rather not because the risks are too great if they fail. The *only* meaningful choice that can ever be offered to the subjects is a kind of Hobson's Choice.

If this fails - as it did with Trump because he caught them flat-footed and cocksure - they have to work very, very hard to contain the risks.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 04, 2023 07:59 AM (t0OGg)

48 And it's National Trivia Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 04, 2023 07:59 AM (NpAcC)

49 My birdbath is not frozen. The nice TV weatherlady says its 54 DEG out thar.

Posted by: JT at January 04, 2023 07:59 AM (T4tVD)

50 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 04, 2023 07:58 AM (YIVH2)

Drat! Missed your post again yesterday.

Maybe I'll tell the wife and kid to walk home. It ain't that cold....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 04, 2023 08:00 AM (Angsy)

51 Yonder Horde. 4" of rain yesterday and the flood waters persist this morning. We are in no danger, but man is it soggy out there.

As to the "voting" for House speaker. I think it's ironic they get to vote and vote again until the "right" candidate is chosen. I don't recall having that sort of luxury in 2020.

Personally I'd like one of two outcomes for that shit show; either McCarthy gets tanked or the GOP loses the speakership. They're a dead party walking at this point. Might as well get on with it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 04, 2023 08:00 AM (Q4IgG)

52 33 And how will officials be able to skim off tax money 💰?

Posted by: Skip at January 04, 2023 08:00 AM (g+eW1)

53 And it's National Trivia Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

Who's buried in Grant's tomb ?

Posted by: JT at January 04, 2023 08:00 AM (T4tVD)

54 49 My birdbath is not frozen. The nice TV weatherlady says its 54 DEG out thar.

I have the windows open in my office!

it's crazy warm out

my kids are so sad they tried to ski as much as possible before this "nasty" (to them) weather hit

not looking good for natural snow all of January! that means they sit around here being miserable instead of annoying people on the slopes!

Posted by: BlackOrchidIsNotAmused at January 04, 2023 08:01 AM (w0NJk)

55 37 If Trump stops looking like the guy who offers a way out, then his support will evaporate.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2023 07:57 AM (9UlRk)

His recent statements on abortion are head-scratchers. I get what he's saying, but the thrust of the debate should not be about what we pro-lifers should compromise, but the murderous extent of the butchery of the baby-killers and how that must be curtailed.

Unforced error on his part IMHO

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 04, 2023 08:01 AM (x0n13)

56 I wrote the other day that I'd support George Santos if he would vote only two ways on any Democrat or bipartisan bill:

"NO" or "HELL NO."

In fact, I want an entire party based on those votes alone.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 04, 2023 07:51 AM (x0n13)

I agree, JJ. Frankly, the CJN podcast was the only bright spot in an otherwise rotten day yesterday.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 04, 2023 08:01 AM (AW0uW)

57 Dr. Mercola on what the vaccine has wrought -- a deadly new killer that makes Covid look like a teddy bear.

https://tinyurl.com/4cm5f59e

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 04, 2023 08:01 AM (H8QX8)

58 And it's National Trivia Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 04, 2023 07:59 AM (NpAcC)

A very important day. It should take precedence over everything else!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 04, 2023 08:01 AM (Angsy)

59 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 04, 2023 07:58 AM (YIVH2)

Drat! Missed your post again yesterday.

Maybe I'll tell the wife and kid to walk home. It ain't that cold....
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It wasn't a book thread...and because of the "breaking news" about the House vote fiasco, CBD asked the COBs to post a bit later than scheduled...

It was a fun post on "the gas station of the future" involving charging stations for EVs. The Moron Horde had fun ripping it to shreds, like they do...Definitely worth visiting the comments!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 04, 2023 08:02 AM (YIVH2)

60 Yes, Fox has been shameless shill. They had Dan Crenshaw yesterday whose sputtering and stuttering belied how humiliated he is.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 04, 2023 08:02 AM (EZebt)

61 Happy National Spaghetti Day!
Posted by: redridinghood

Wait a minute....I thought it was trivia day ?

Posted by: JT at January 04, 2023 08:02 AM (T4tVD)

62 Who's buried in Grant's tomb ?
Posted by: JT at January 04, 2023 08:00 AM (T4tVD)
********
Al Capone.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 04, 2023 08:02 AM (NpAcC)

63 Kevin McCarthy = Frank Luntz = Nelson Muntz. And the joke's on us.
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How about free lunch?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 04, 2023 08:02 AM (R1YS4)

64 60 Yes, Fox has been shameless shill. They had Dan Crenshaw yesterday whose sputtering and stuttering belied how humiliated he is.

If One-Eyed Dan is unhappy, then I am happy

Posted by: BlackOrchidIsNotAmused at January 04, 2023 08:03 AM (w0NJk)

65 Wait a minute....I thought it was trivia day ?
Posted by: JT at January 04, 2023 08:02 AM (T4tVD)
*****
It's both!!!!!

Posted by: redridinghood at January 04, 2023 08:03 AM (NpAcC)

66 It was a fun post on "the gas station of the future" involving charging stations for EVs. The Moron Horde had fun ripping it to shreds, like they do...Definitely worth visiting the comments!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 04, 2023 08:02 AM (YIVH2)

I did read it. Sorry I missed it live.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 04, 2023 08:04 AM (Angsy)

67 Let me know which speaker will protect me against being thrown into prison for expressing my first amendment rights, and that's who should be our leader/president/etc.
Posted by: BacktoGA at January 04, 2023 07:53 AM (MPYWI)

This is an excellent point. I use the election only as a quick shorthand to endorse or disavow anyone seeking my joke of a 'vote.'

Both Cruz and Paul have permanently put themselves on my shit list for voting to award medals of bravery to the bastards who murdered Ashli Babbitt. And if Trump was staying silent about the J6 prisoners because he thought he'd be thrown in jail, the time for that hesitation is over.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 04, 2023 08:04 AM (AW0uW)

68 Emphasis mine. It's not just about "To Trump or Not to Trump" at this stage of the game. It's about our old quandary, the choice between the lesser of two evils (and just to be clear I am not referring to Trump v. Whoever).
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That has been the false dichotomy. If you have two evil men and one of them is ambitious and the other is lazy, the lazy man is not a lesser evil he is merely a less effective evil. That is the actual historical meaning of the "lesser of two evils" as it applies to American politics. They've been on the same side since at least the fall of the USSR, it's just that one group moves quickly and confidently and the other group is comparatively incompetent.

That period ended in 2016. The ambitious and competent in the second group retrenched and elevated themselves out of necessity. The first group - that is, the Democrats - is still more effective and better organized, but the second group - that is, the Republicans - is *just* as sinister. I can think of fewer than 20 names that are exceptions, and they all held firm and caused the abject humiliation of Kevin McCarthy yesterday. They might be the sum total of the exceptions, too, G-d help us.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 04, 2023 08:04 AM (t0OGg)

69 "Happy National Spaghetti Day!
Posted by: redridinghood "

*sorts noodles*

Posted by: fd at January 04, 2023 08:04 AM (iayUP)

70 Also, I suspect that NFL player was felled by the vaccine. The silence confirms my suspicions.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 04, 2023 08:05 AM (EZebt)

71 34 Additional prayers for Vaughan-Spruce and Livia Tossici-Bolt.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 04, 2023 07:54 AM (qoGsy)
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Scotland Yard. You're under arrest. Please follow me.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 04, 2023 08:05 AM (R1YS4)

72 56 I agree, JJ. Frankly, the CJN podcast was the only bright spot in an otherwise rotten day yesterday.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 04, 2023 08:01 AM (AW0uW)

Thanks, and a belated happy and blessed new year to you and yours

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 04, 2023 08:05 AM (x0n13)

73 Of course, the British police didn’t know what Vaughan-Spruce was thinking either, because they had to ask, “Are you praying?”
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For a country with a formal state religion, this is particularly ironic.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 04, 2023 08:05 AM (t0OGg)

74 As it stands, my "litmus test" is any politician who is willing to actually type-delete, and type-delete every filthy bastard in DC who has ever even been within smelling distance of a lever of power.

So, you know, bit of "expectation managing" going on here.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2023 08:05 AM (9UlRk)

75 I am amused by the speaker debacle. They really thought that we would just buckle under and accept whatever crap sandwich the GOP offered.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 04, 2023 08:06 AM (lTGtQ)

76 Yet, what's worse; having to obfuscate or avoid telling the truth or not having the freedom to say out loud exactly what you're thinking.
++++
One begets the other. They're the same thing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 04, 2023 08:06 AM (t0OGg)

77 There’s a large contingent of us who remember the uniparty RNC fucking over Ron Paul at the 2008 and 2012 RNC conventions with their bois McCanin and Romney, and we are still here, and we’re still pissed off about it.

Posted by: DuhHell at January 04, 2023 08:06 AM (3r7lt)

78 62 Who's buried in Grant's tomb ?
Posted by: JT at January 04, 2023 08:00 AM (T4tVD)
********
Al Capone.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 04, 2023 08:02 AM (NpAcC)

Geraldo Rivera's white . . . parent.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 04, 2023 08:06 AM (x0n13)

79 "Three House Freedom Caucus members reportedly told GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) in a private meeting on Monday that they don’t mind if incoming House Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) wins the speakership.

In a private meeting with McCarthy to negotiate voting for him to become House Speaker, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), and Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) said they want to form their own legal entity in the new Congress to wage lawsuits, according to Punchbowl News.

Posted by: fd at January 04, 2023 08:08 AM (iayUP)

80 "Happy National Spaghetti Day!
Posted by: redridinghood "
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ANTHONY! ANTHONY!!!

https://youtu.be/K6adya1di7A

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 04, 2023 08:08 AM (R1YS4)

81 75 I am amused by the speaker debacle. They really thought that we would just buckle under and accept whatever crap sandwich the GOP offered.

it's a start!

dan crenshaw sputtering? mcarthy's hair mussed?

well worth it on their own

Posted by: BlackOrchidIsNotAmused at January 04, 2023 08:08 AM (w0NJk)

82 Of course, the British police didn’t know what Vaughan-Spruce was thinking either, because they had to ask, “Are you praying?”

Now you know the goal of AI.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 04, 2023 08:08 AM (lTGtQ)

83 The *only* meaningful choice that can ever be offered to the subjects is a kind of Hobson's Choice.

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Yep. Not written to you, but in general. Here's the thing to continually remember:

The TEA Party stood up and said "stop" back in 2010, and the same people cut their legs out from under them. "Hobbits" was the term McCain used IIRC.

We keep trying and trying, and we keep being reminded that they are not us and are not on our team. They fought our presidential choice, and then fought our president. The Republicans in the Senate had the majority - and security clearances to know the Russia stuff was BS - and still continued on with the fake investigations to damage us and the nation.

Mitch passed the Democrat's 2023 funding bill to hamstring our elected House. Their hands are tied for a year of oversight. They can do nothing, with the support of Mitch and the True Republicans.

And we're not even getting into the topics of EPA, ATF, FBI, etc. deciding what is law and what isn't, and when the not-law doesn't have to be implemented.

I don't know the answer, but I know we're f*cked in every direction from here.

Posted by: The shots were safe and effective. Some people got safe, some people got effective. at January 04, 2023 08:08 AM (JTIc2)

84 Who's buried in Grant's tomb ?
Posted by: JT at January 04, 2023 08:00 AM (T4tVD)
********
Al Capone.
Posted by: redridinghood

We should have Jerry Rivers investigate....

Posted by: JT at January 04, 2023 08:08 AM (T4tVD)

85 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 04, 2023 08:09 AM (Zz0t1)

86 And I'm ok with that.

Posted by: fd at January 04, 2023 08:09 AM (iayUP)

87 For a country with a formal state religion, this is particularly ironic.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 04, 2023 08:05 AM (t0OGg)
===
And an informal one.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 04, 2023 08:09 AM (EZebt)

88 . . . Do I think Trump can win as a third-party candidate? No. Would I vote for him as a third-party candidate? Yes. Because I’m not interested in propping up this corrupt gravy-train any longer.

Was there any point where Trump didn't spend like a drunken sailor once elected?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 04, 2023 08:09 AM (Zz0t1)

89 4 “Yes, Officer, I confess! I am guilty, so guilty! I might have been praying in my mind!”

As nurse ratched put it to me yesterday, you can pray for a sportsball player, but you will be arrested praying for butchered babies.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

In the UK.

Posted by: Puddleglum at January 04, 2023 08:09 AM (sAmhv)

90 Let 'em rot. It doesn't matter who's in charge anyway.

Posted by: fd at January 04, 2023 08:10 AM (iayUP)

91 There’s a large contingent of us who remember the uniparty RNC fucking over Ron Paul at the 2008 and 2012 RNC conventions with their bois McCanin and Romney, and we are still here, and we’re still pissed off about it.
Posted by: DuhHell at January 04, 2023 08:06 AM (3r7lt)
++++
The Uniparty RNC also kneecapped Roy Moore. The Uniparty RNC (courtesy of Haley Barbour) funded a campaign of deceit to protect the corrupt fossil Thad Cochran to keep "Tea Party" candidate Chris McDaniel out. The Uniparty RNC spent 2022 kneecapping GOP candidates to maintain their own internal Party power at the expense of victory.

They are scum.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 04, 2023 08:10 AM (t0OGg)

92 47 If this fails - as it did with Trump because he caught them flat-footed and cocksure - they have to work very, very hard to contain the risks.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 04, 2023 07:59 AM (t0OGg)

I saw Flat-Footed and Cocksure open for Little Feat with Bruce Cockburn at the Bottom Line in '77.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 04, 2023 08:10 AM (x0n13)

93 "FDA to allow pharmacies to offer abortion pills for the first time as more states seek to medication abortion."

Chyron didn't specify if 'morning after', later abortifacients, or both.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 04, 2023 08:10 AM (Vwz3I)

94 The fact that the footballer didn't recover quickly, makes it less likely that it was commotio cordis. I am leaning to myocarditis induced arrhythmia and heart failure or massive PE. Or maybe he was down too long with ineffective CPR and has anoxic brain injury.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 04, 2023 08:11 AM (C2ZTD)

95 I don't think Trump would help the J6 prisoners if he inserted himself into that mess. Trump's voters don't need any persuasion on that score, and Trump isn't capable of persuading people who aren't already on his side at this point. He's a known quantity; everyone has made of his or her mind about Trump. So him becoming involved would likely just make things worse for the J6 prisoners. Not saying that's his motive. But he can't do anything for them.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at January 04, 2023 08:11 AM (KFhLj)

96 Wait a minute....I thought it was trivia day ?
Posted by: JT at January 04, 2023 08:02 AM (T4tVD)
*****
It's both!!!!!
Posted by: redridinghood

Is that allowed ?

Posted by: JT at January 04, 2023 08:11 AM (T4tVD)

97 Also, I suspect that NFL player was felled by the vaccine. The silence confirms my suspicions.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 04, 2023 08:05 AM (EZebt)

Here's how I know it was the Kung Flu shot - that NR tool Jim Geraghty slammed anyone suggesting the shot might be responsible as conspiracy theorists who probably believe in lizard people.

F that asswipe in particular.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 04, 2023 08:11 AM (AW0uW)

98 Was there any point where Trump didn't spend like a drunken sailor once elected?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 04, 2023 08:09 AM (Zz0t1)
++++
He did try. We got a government shutdown out of it. He blinked and signed the bill.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 04, 2023 08:12 AM (t0OGg)

99 Now you know the goal of AI.
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"The Biden administration is set to dole out more than $550,000 in grants to develop an artificial intelligence model that can automatically detect and suppress microaggressions on social media, government spending records show.

The award, funded through President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, was granted to researchers at the University of Washington in March to develop technologies that could be used to protect online users from discriminatory language. "

https://tinyurl.com/2p8prxf9

Posted by: The shots were safe and effective. Some people got safe, some people got effective. at January 04, 2023 08:12 AM (JTIc2)

100 55 37 If Trump stops looking like the guy who offers a way out, then his support will evaporate.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2023 07:57 AM (9UlRk)

His recent statements on abortion are head-scratchers. I get what he's saying, but the thrust of the debate should not be about what we pro-lifers should compromise, but the murderous extent of the butchery of the baby-killers and how that must be curtailed.

Unforced error on his part IMHO
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 04, 2023 08:01 AM (x0n13)

He's had a lot of those since declaring...

Posted by: Nova local at January 04, 2023 08:12 AM (exHjb)

101 88 Was there any point where Trump didn't spend like a drunken sailor once elected?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 04, 2023 08:09 AM (Zz0t1)

Sadly, no. But that's the system he chose to run to become the head of. Fucked up as it is, he's not a dictator. The Legislature is co-equal branch.

Should he have used the bully pulpit to declare war on profligacy and the bureaucracy? Yes, regardless of the inevitable failure to crush it.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 04, 2023 08:12 AM (x0n13)

102

The Re-Education Camp For We - a limerick

Can a man who writes limericks be trusted?
My daily thoughts would surely get me busted
"Throw him in the calaboose!"
"He's got a screw that's loose!"
"Haul him off so he can be...well...

...........adjusted!"

Posted by: Muldoon at January 04, 2023 08:13 AM (ykeLU)

103 94 The fact that the footballer didn't recover quickly, makes it less likely that it was commotio cordis. I am leaning to myocarditis induced arrhythmia and heart failure or massive PE. Or maybe he was down too long with ineffective CPR and has anoxic brain injury.

9 minutes of CPR? and they stabilized his heart with an external pacer? oh man. at this point recovery would be a miracle.

and I think he threw a clot - aneurysm

Posted by: BlackOrchidIsNotAmused at January 04, 2023 08:13 AM (w0NJk)

104 The uniparty is pissed that Jeb flamed out and Marco was soundly rejected and Creosote never stuck.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 04, 2023 08:13 AM (C2ZTD)

105 Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 04, 2023 08:09 AM (EZebt)

New storm headed your way today?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 04, 2023 08:13 AM (Angsy)

106 Also, I suspect that NFL player was felled by the vaccine. The silence confirms my suspicions.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Of course it was, but we're only allowed to speculate about some incredibly rare medical phenomenon that has happened 200 times over the last 100 years.

I heard Biden is going to go have a photo op with him. It's weird how they're not concerned about COVID, isn't it? Seems like that football player would be about as compromised as you could get.

Posted by: The shots were safe and effective. Some people got safe, some people got effective. at January 04, 2023 08:14 AM (JTIc2)

107 Is that allowed ?
Posted by: JT at January 04, 2023 08:11 AM (T4tVD)
*******
Not my rules.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 04, 2023 08:14 AM (NpAcC)

108 What Shrinking U.S. Life Expectancy May Be Telling Us About the Pandemic Response.

Modern western medicine is not about making people well, not about dealing with root causes... it is about managing symptoms.

Well people make no money for Big Medicine.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at January 04, 2023 08:14 AM (uvymP)

109 What's the average length of a spaghetti noodle?

Posted by: fd at January 04, 2023 08:14 AM (iayUP)

110 "FDA to allow pharmacies to offer abortion pills for the first time as more states seek to medication abortion."

Chyron didn't specify if 'morning after', later abortifacients, or both.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 04, 2023 08:10 AM (Vwz3I)
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My guess is later abortifacients. The typical marketing line s that the "morning after pill" is *not* an abortion because that early, there's no way to know. Calling them "abortion pills" would be unusual given the marketing legacy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 04, 2023 08:14 AM (t0OGg)

111 I don't know the answer, but I know we're f*cked in every direction from here.

Posted by: The shots were safe and effective. Some people got safe, some people got effective. at January 04, 2023 08:08 AM (JTIc2)

Well said, and these are the things a leader would be saying now, coupled with a way forward. Asserting you want to drain the swamp and that you support McCarthy are simply and starkly irreconcilable positions.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 04, 2023 08:14 AM (H8QX8)

112 This might be a problem for other armies in the future too...

Russia says unauthorized cell phone use by Russian soldiers led to a deadly Ukrainian rocket attack, killing 89.

[Maybe don't barrack troops in the same building as an ammo dump might have helped too?]

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 04, 2023 08:15 AM (Vwz3I)

113 9 minutes of CPR?

As long as the CPR is good, 9 minutes isn't a big deal. But commotio assumes a structurally good heart which should reset and recover fast. It could be that it took a couple minutes to realize he was in arrest, and maybe the pads prevented good compressions.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 04, 2023 08:15 AM (C2ZTD)

114 43 Woke activists find racism in liberal James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water. For real.
----
SMURF LIVES MATTER!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Heh! This pleases me. So sorry, Jim. You can never ever be Woke enough. You're just another rich white guy with all kinds of privilege.

Posted by: Puddleglum at January 04, 2023 08:15 AM (sAmhv)

115 84 We should have Jerry Rivers investigate....
Posted by: JT at January 04, 2023 08:08 AM (T4tVD)

See me at 78.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 04, 2023 08:15 AM (x0n13)

116
Also, I suspect that NFL player was felled by the vaccine. The silence confirms my suspicions.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 04, 2023 08:05 AM

A heart weakened by the vaccine and adrenaline seems to be a deadly combination. The number of athletes suddenly keeling over against historical averages is shocking.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 04, 2023 08:15 AM (enJYY)

117 Well said, and these are the things a leader would be saying now, coupled with a way forward. Asserting you want to drain the swamp and that you support McCarthy are simply and starkly irreconcilable positions.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 04, 2023 08:14 AM (H8QX

"Lord, help me drain this swamp. But not yet. "

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2023 08:15 AM (9UlRk)

118 ... The award, funded through President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, was granted to researchers at the University of Washington in March to develop technologies that could be used to protect online users from discriminatory language. " ...
Posted by: The shots were safe and effective. Some people got safe, some people got effective. at January 04, 2023 08:12 AM (JTIc2)
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Yup. Sounds about right. It's *tough* to maintain a censorship regime at scale. China has armies of online enforcers to police Chinese social media, but it isn't enough. They need a *ton* of automation, and so do we. We're playing the same game.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 04, 2023 08:16 AM (t0OGg)

119 Modern western medicine is not about making people well, not about dealing with root causes... it is about managing symptoms.

Hell is't not even about that here anymore. As near as I can tell it's about the creation and dissemination of electronic medical records. That's what my doctor and her staff appear to do for the most part. Their endless e-mails and texts are a great comfort, of course, far better than treatment.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at January 04, 2023 08:16 AM (KFhLj)

120 What's the average length of a spaghetti noodle?
Posted by: fd

African or European?

Laden or Unladen?

It matters. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at January 04, 2023 08:16 AM (qoGsy)

121 Posted by: The shots were safe and effective. Some people got safe, some people got effective. at January 04, 2023 08:08 AM (JTIc2)

The ones that were safe weren't effective and the ones that were effective weren't safe . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 04, 2023 08:16 AM (x0n13)

122
Should he have used the bully pulpit to declare war on profligacy and the bureaucracy? Yes, regardless of the inevitable failure to crush it.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 04, 2023 08:12 AM (x0n13)

I know he was one man against a thousand, but I expected more pushback from him in these areas and just didn't get much.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 04, 2023 08:17 AM (Zz0t1)

123 "When they enter the medical profession, medical students are required to take the Hippocratic Oath

*******

This no longer true at most, if not all medical schools.

Posted by: Muldoon at January 04, 2023 08:17 AM (ykeLU)

124 Two different stories both illustrate the absolute insanity of our times:
Lady arrested for praying silently in the U.K. (right out of Orwell!!)
NYT story promoting sex with short people to save the planet (nonsequitur anyone?)

Insane

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 04, 2023 08:17 AM (KhYTU)

125 As long as the CPR is good, 9 minutes isn't a big deal. But commotio assumes a structurally good heart which should reset and recover fast. It could be that it took a couple minutes to realize he was in arrest, and maybe the pads prevented good compressions.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 04, 2023 08:15 AM (C2ZTD)
++++
I can't imagine the pads *don't* prevent effective CPR. Wouldn't the first step in the protocol be to cut all of it away?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 04, 2023 08:17 AM (t0OGg)

126 Modern western medicine is not about making people well, not about dealing with root causes... it is about managing symptoms.

Well people make no money for Big Medicine.
-------------

That was probably the most disconcerting thing for me with the COVID response. Alternative treatments were banned, doctors were threatened, etc., because only the big-money option was going to be the one used.

I never believed that a cure for cancer would be suppressed in favor of milking money out of dying people for as long as possible.

Now I do. Not only do I believe it, but I now know for a fact that the medical community and drug companies and government would pursue that route. We saw it with our own eyes.

Posted by: The shots were safe and effective. Some people got safe, some people got effective. at January 04, 2023 08:18 AM (JTIc2)

127 If the FDA can tell pharmacies they can sell abortion pills, then why can't they tell them they can sell birth control over the counter?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at January 04, 2023 08:19 AM (tVOiC)

128 ...NYT story promoting sex with short people to save the planet (nonsequitur anyone?)

Insane
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 04, 2023 08:17 AM (KhYTU)

I find it quite cromulent.

Posted by: Peter Dinklage at January 04, 2023 08:19 AM (PiwSw)

129 "When they enter the medical profession, medical students are required to take the Hippocratic Oath"
-

Which explains world-wide obesity levels.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 04, 2023 08:19 AM (R1YS4)

130 "One staffer also says that Porter “ridiculed people after they had reported sexual harassment in her office” and even “made fun of individuals whose parents passed away from COVID.”

Disgusting. Porter is an evil bitch.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 04, 2023 08:19 AM (NpAcC)

131 122 I know he was one man against a thousand, but I expected more pushback from him in these areas and just didn't get much.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 04, 2023 08:17 AM (Zz0t1)

One of his greatest assets - his ability to communicate - should've been used to much greater effect in identifying and targeting "the swamp."

I bet if Trump wanted to, he could effectively communicate why "entitlements" so-called are evil and should be ended/sunsetted.

Instead, he has gone off on "protecting" social security, etc. Too bad.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 04, 2023 08:19 AM (x0n13)

132 The ones that were safe weren't effective and the ones that were effective weren't safe . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton
----

Chicken dinner, my friend.

Posted by: The shots were safe and effective. Some people got safe, some people got effective. at January 04, 2023 08:19 AM (JTIc2)

133 >>I know he was one man against a thousand, but I expected more pushback from him in these areas and just didn't get much.

If you go back an look at the 2016 campaign Trump was pretty clear that he didn't think debt was a problem. One area I did not agree with him.

He was not great on spending but at least he wasn't spending money on absolutely crazy shit and he certainly wasn't spending like what has happened since 2020.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 04, 2023 08:19 AM (ZLI7S)

134 Headlines today:

Uncle Says Damar Hamlin Was Resuscitated TWICE After Horrific On-Field Cardiac Arrest
Yorktown Police Lieutenant Suddenly Dies ‘After Two-Day Illness’
First Woman to Chair Mortgage Bankers Association Dies Suddenly at 68
42-Year-Old Special Ops Officer Suddenly Dies
Orange County Water Polo Coach Dies Suddenly at 28 ‘Without Any Warnings or Signs’

But don't worry, the 'vaccine' is safe and effective and you should get it ASAP.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 04, 2023 08:20 AM (Zz0t1)

135 "African or European?
Laden or Unladen?
It matters. . .
Posted by: Tonypete "

All the spaghetti noodles in the world. Please answer in pedes.

Posted by: fd at January 04, 2023 08:20 AM (iayUP)

136 NYT story promoting sex with short people to save the planet (nonsequitur anyone?)

Insane
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 04, 2023 08:17 AM (KhYTU)
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Interesting how these folks never seem to consider that *no* sex would be better for saving the planet in the long term...(i.e., less chances for reproduction, leading to a die-off of the "surplus" population)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 04, 2023 08:20 AM (YIVH2)

137 "When they enter the medical profession, medical students are required to take the Hippocratic Oath

*******

This no longer true at most, if not all medical schools.
Posted by: Muldoon

They take the Hippopotamus Oath now.

Posted by: JT at January 04, 2023 08:20 AM (T4tVD)

138 130 "One staffer also says that Porter “ridiculed people after they had reported sexual harassment in her office” and even “made fun of individuals whose parents passed away from COVID.”

Disgusting. Porter is an evil bitch.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 04, 2023 08:19 AM (NpAcC)

Bloated, horrid cvnt.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 04, 2023 08:20 AM (x0n13)

139 10. Journalists’ Silence
The tenth scandal of 2023 is one that can’t be watched because it is the dog that didn’t bark: the press that didn’t report.

If their lips are NOT moving, they are lying.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 04, 2023 08:20 AM (BRHaw)

140 NYT story promoting sex with short people

Hold up. Let's not be hasty in out opprobrium.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at January 04, 2023 08:20 AM (KFhLj)

141 NYT story promoting sex with short people to save the planet (nonsequitur anyone?)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 04, 2023 08:17 AM (KhYTU)
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Wouldn't that turn earth into a dwarf star?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 04, 2023 08:20 AM (R1YS4)

142 If the FDA can tell pharmacies they can sell abortion pills, then why can't they tell them they can sell birth control over the counter?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at January 04, 2023 08:19 AM (tVOiC)
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Because the need for abortifacients represents an emergency situation that must be accommodated, particularly in the context of restrictive abortion laws in some state. Birth control is non-emergency and does not warrant a policy exception.

Just a guess.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 04, 2023 08:20 AM (t0OGg)

143 They have just implemented new rules for coding charts for billing. The reason your doctor spends so much time in front of the computer clickety clickety tap tapping is because a ridiculous number of boxes need to be checked for the coders and billers to properly submit the chart for insurance. This is driven by Medicare rules. As of Yesterday, new medicare rules went into effect to simplify charting. I don't work until tomorrow, so I haven't seen what our new charts look like. Supposedly way less clicking and tapping.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 04, 2023 08:20 AM (C2ZTD)

144 BTW…. Trey Gowdy was garbage on Fox last night. His panties are all in a wad because some mean republicans won’t vote for Kev-Luntz. That guy has me fooled for some time as he furiously cross-examined witnesses in house hearings…. Sigh

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 04, 2023 08:21 AM (KhYTU)

145
I can't imagine the pads *don't* prevent effective CPR. Wouldn't the first step in the protocol be to cut all of it away?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 04, 2023 08:17 AM

My wife had a class in this and said shaving the chest is a necessary first step. Manscaping saves lives.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 04, 2023 08:21 AM (enJYY)

146
Instead, he has gone off on "protecting" social security, etc. Too bad.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 04, 2023 08:19 AM (x0n13)

Just showing that we have no true representation in DC and are continually stuck with the perceived 'lesser' of a thousand evils in every election.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 04, 2023 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)

147 You can be a Revolutionary or you can be a Statesman. You can't be both. And I'm good and god damn tired of charlatans posing as revolutionaries to gather support from the throngs of desperate voters just to absorb into the anoxic muck of the Potomac like a comfortable and well adjusted fungus.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2023 08:21 AM (9UlRk)

148 Bloated, horrid cvnt.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 04, 2023 08:20 AM (x0n13)

I saw Bloated, Horrid Cvnts open for Pussy Riot in Krakow on NYE 2004.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 04, 2023 08:21 AM (BRHaw)

149 141 - LOL

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 04, 2023 08:22 AM (KhYTU)

150 132 Chicken dinner, my friend.
Posted by: The shots were safe and effective. Some people got safe, some people got effective. at January 04, 2023 08:19 AM (JTIc2)

It's a play on an old insult, the author of which I forget. Might have been an Algonquin Round Table member.

"His work is both original and interesting. The problem is, what's original isn't interesting and what's interesting isn't original."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 04, 2023 08:22 AM (x0n13)

151 Young athletes and men croaking everywhere . . . bring out your dead (splat) . . bring out your dead . . .(splat) . . . bring out your dead

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards at January 04, 2023 08:22 AM (8m/Xb)

152
Bloated, horrid cvnt.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 04, 2023 08:20 AM (x0n13)

HEY!!!!!!

Posted by: Lena Dunham at January 04, 2023 08:22 AM (Zz0t1)

153 NYT story promoting sex with short people to save the planet (nonsequitur anyone?)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 04, 2023 08:17 AM (KhYTU)

I am 5'7", does that qualify as short? Where is the women?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 04, 2023 08:22 AM (Irn0L)

154 Here's how I know it was the Kung Flu shot - that NR tool Jim Geraghty slammed anyone suggesting the shot might be responsible as conspiracy theorists who probably believe in lizard people.

--

A week ago, I read a piece that said the term "conspiracy theorist" was conjured up by the CIA. Another tool in the box that was and is meant to shame you into silence, and label you a kook. Simply for daring to question what you're being spoonfed. I don't know if that's where the term actually derived, but it sure seems plausible in the Nothing Is What It Seems world we live in now.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 04, 2023 08:22 AM (sVtYq)

155 See me at 78.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Hiya

Posted by: JT at January 04, 2023 08:22 AM (T4tVD)

156 Since it’s National Spaghetti Day, here’s a Horde-favorite documentary about how it gets made:

https://tinyurl.com/mvcsevs4

Now we just need an official docu about how it’s always JJ’s birthday!

Posted by: RondinellaMamma Donald J Trump is our duly elected president at January 04, 2023 08:22 AM (l0Cy4)

157 I am 5'7", does that qualify as short? Where is the women?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 04, 2023 08:22 AM (Irn0L)
++++
I am sure they don't mean short men. Women prefer tall men, so it must mean that men should bed short women. This is already not a problem.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 04, 2023 08:23 AM (t0OGg)

158 142 Birth control is non-emergency and does not warrant a policy exception.

Just a guess.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 04, 2023 08:20 AM (t0OGg)

Unless you look like Sam/Scam Bank-Fraud's girlfriend and the prospect of getting laid is akin to the sightings of Halley's Comet.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 04, 2023 08:24 AM (x0n13)

159 NYT story promoting sex with short people to save the planet (nonsequitur anyone?)

Paging AtC........

Posted by: JT at January 04, 2023 08:24 AM (T4tVD)

160 One of the Philly talk show guys said he couldn't care less about the speaker, and said this fight could go on for years for all he cared. I agree wholeheartedly.

McCarthy is a worm, and he will do nothing to fix the country. That said, all the other nominees are equally bad. So let them fight for two years because any of these speakers will be as awful as McConnell.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 04, 2023 08:24 AM (bkUtD)

161
They take the Hippopotamus Oath now.
Posted by: JT at January 04, 2023 08:20 AM (T4tVD)

This.

'...shall do no harm' and '...shall not play God' have been blown WAY the hell out of the water.

Posted by: Lena Dunham at January 04, 2023 08:24 AM (Zz0t1)

162 SHIT.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 04, 2023 08:24 AM (Zz0t1)

163 Unless you look like Sam/Scam Bank-Fraud's girlfriend and the prospect of getting laid is akin to the sightings of Halley's Comet.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 04, 2023 08:24 AM (x0n13)
-

She's short. Hey, Joe!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 04, 2023 08:24 AM (R1YS4)

164 Grandpa Dementia going to see this football player is...really, really bizarre.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 04, 2023 08:24 AM (sVtYq)

165 153 I am 5'7", does that qualify as short? Where is the women?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 04, 2023 08:22 AM (Irn0L)

5'7" vertically. You'll have to confirm the horizontal dimension!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 04, 2023 08:25 AM (x0n13)

166
Paging AtC........
Posted by: JT at January 04, 2023 08:24 AM (T4tVD)

She's mad at us.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 04, 2023 08:25 AM (Zz0t1)

167 Confession time.

I dislike traditional American spaghetti with red sauce. I like other pasta, even other spaghetti dishes that aren't that one. I even like the same dish in different forms (I'm down with ravioli and lasagna, for example), just not that particular thing. It makes no sense. I like the components and I like the flavor profile, I just can't stand the stuff once it's all assembled.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 04, 2023 08:25 AM (t0OGg)

168 We are here to save your race. Take us to your leaders.

Posted by: Little green men from Mars at January 04, 2023 08:25 AM (iayUP)

169 Yes, because there are no possible ill effects from taking misopristol.

But, then again, if you get abortion inducing drugs from a pharmacy without being followed by a doctor, you deserve whatever you get.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 04, 2023 08:25 AM (C2ZTD)

170 Interesting how these folks never seem to consider that *no* sex would be better for saving the planet in the long term...(i.e., less chances for reproduction, leading to a die-off of the "surplus" population)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 04, 2023 08:20 AM (YIVH2)

Speaking of which, the nice monkey lady has ideas:

https://is.gd/6vt8Rk

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 04, 2023 08:25 AM (PiwSw)

171 Stars of the 1968 film of Romeo and Juliet are suing Paramount Pictures over nude scene shot when they were teens.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063518/

Leonard Whiting; and Olivia Hussey. Nothing about thumb-sucking though.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 04, 2023 08:26 AM (Vwz3I)

172 Paging AtC........
Posted by: JT at January 04, 2023 08:24 AM (T4tVD)

She's mad at us.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

I didn't do it !

Posted by: JT at January 04, 2023 08:26 AM (T4tVD)

173 Unless you look like Sam/Scam Bank-Fraud's girlfriend and the prospect of getting laid is akin to the sightings of Halley's Comet.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 04, 2023 08:24 AM (x0n13)
++++
She did pretty well for herself in that regard. Wild drug and sex parties funded with stolen money go a long way, I guess.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 04, 2023 08:26 AM (t0OGg)

174 Should he have used the bully pulpit to declare war on profligacy and the bureaucracy? Yes, regardless of the inevitable failure to crush it.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 04, 2023 08:12 AM (x0n13)

Exactly. My greatest complaint was this. He acted as if he was president in the 1960s. Given his passionate refrain to drain the swamp, and the personal ordeals of calumny he went through, it makes no sense, except to say that he is by nature a managerial, corporate-minded personality and not at all a radical reformer.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 04, 2023 08:27 AM (H8QX8)

175 "Grandpa Dementia going to see this football player is...really, really bizarre."

Is he going to do that before or after he meets with the family of the Pennsylvania police chief that was shot dead by a thug?

Posted by: fd at January 04, 2023 08:27 AM (iayUP)

176
Speaking of which, the nice monkey lady has ideas:

https://is.gd/6vt8Rk

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 04, 2023 08:25 AM (PiwSw)

But her battleax ass should be one of the survivors because she's SMAHT!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 04, 2023 08:27 AM (Zz0t1)

177 153 - Thinking of Jerry Seinfeld contemplating sleeping with Elaine to “save the friendship”… If we have to, we have to!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 04, 2023 08:27 AM (KhYTU)

178 Speaking of which, the nice monkey lady has ideas:

https://is.gd/6vt8Rk
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 04, 2023 08:25 AM (PiwSw)
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Her - and her entire bloodline - first. Money where your mouth is.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 04, 2023 08:27 AM (t0OGg)

179
Grandpa Dementia going to see this football player is...really, really bizarre.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 04, 2023 08:24 AM

It wouldn't surprise me if the idea gets quietly dropped after the hospital tells him to stay the hell away.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 04, 2023 08:27 AM (enJYY)

180 Alternative treatments were banned, doctors were threatened, etc., because only the big-money option was going to be the one used.

Posted by: The shots were safe and effective

The exact same formula as used for shopping. Kill the small businesses, and force people to the politically connected mega stores.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 04, 2023 08:27 AM (lTGtQ)

181 Meanwhile, the FBI had the terrorist machete attacker on their "watch list" and did nothing.

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You probably misspelled "payroll."

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at January 04, 2023 08:27 AM (vJyxI)

182 Since it’s National Spaghetti Day, here’s a Horde-favorite documentary about how it gets made:

https://tinyurl.com/mvcsevs4

Now we just need an official docu about how it’s always JJ’s birthday!
Posted by: RondinellaMamma Donald J Trump is our duly elected president at January 04, 2023 08:22 AM (l0Cy4)
*******
Can't wait to by some spaghetti plants. It's going to be awesome!

Posted by: redridinghood at January 04, 2023 08:28 AM (NpAcC)

183 Schiff has evidence of russian collusion

About 117,000 results (0.45 seconds)

Santos lied

About 47,700,000 results (0.58 seconds)

Need more???

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 04, 2023 08:28 AM (BRHaw)

184 "Saving the planet requires nothing more difficult than having sex with short people."

Does this person have a newsletter? Perhaps a dating site?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 04, 2023 08:29 AM (TTbU0)

185 173 She did pretty well for herself in that regard. Wild drug and sex parties funded with stolen money go a long way, I guess.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 04, 2023 08:26 AM (t0OGg)

Look up the word "meesekeit" in the Yiddish dictionary and her picture is there to illustrate.

I wouldn't hit that if I were fucked up on a gallon of fentanyl with the boyfriend's dick and Rosa DeLauro pushing.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 04, 2023 08:29 AM (x0n13)

186 I can't imagine the pads *don't* prevent effective CPR. Wouldn't the first step in the protocol be to cut all of it away?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 04, 2023 08:17 AM (t0OGg)

Recognize he has no pulse, Find shears, cut off a lot of stuff, remove helmet. No way effective CPR was started fast.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 04, 2023 08:29 AM (C2ZTD)

187 They have just implemented new rules for coding charts for billing.

Thanks for this info.

I hope it makes a positive difference. Because, man.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at January 04, 2023 08:29 AM (KFhLj)

188 That was probably the most disconcerting thing for me with the COVID response. Alternative treatments were banned, doctors were threatened, etc., because only the big-money option was going to be the one used.
***

Not "were," are. New CA law will strip a doctor of his license if he speaks out against government Covid policy.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 04, 2023 08:29 AM (H8QX8)

189 Speaking of which, the nice monkey lady has ideas:

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes

If the moderator stood up and said to her "I believe you - you first." and fired a few pew pew into her head, he'd be the bad guy.

You just can't win with these people.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 04, 2023 08:30 AM (qoGsy)

190 167 Confession time.

I dislike traditional American spaghetti with red sauce. I like other pasta, even other spaghetti dishes that aren't that one. I even like the same dish in different forms (I'm down with ravioli and lasagna, for example), just not that particular thing. It makes no sense. I like the components and I like the flavor profile, I just can't stand the stuff once it's all assembled.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 04, 2023 08:25 AM (t0OGg)

The best spaghetti is capellini (angel-hair pasta). Change my mind.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 04, 2023 08:30 AM (PiwSw)

191 ...NYT story promoting sex with short people to save the planet (nonsequitur anyone?)

Well, there might be hope for me yet. . .

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 04, 2023 08:30 AM (AW0uW)

192 Allow us to remind you again that we are Top Men.

Top. Men.

Posted by: Your FBI at January 04, 2023 08:30 AM (a3Q+t)

193 Speaking of which, the nice monkey lady has ideas:

https://is.gd/6vt8Rk

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 04, 2023 08:25 AM (PiwSw)
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Jane's aping Paul Ehrlich.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 04, 2023 08:31 AM (R1YS4)

194 >>Need more???

If you read Matt Taibbi's Twitter files from yesterday, not surprising in the least. Sadly, about the only place what has been going on with the government and social media is being reported is on social media.

If this isn't exposed and stopped then it doesn't matter who we nominate for what office or who gets elected. It will just get worse.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 04, 2023 08:31 AM (ZLI7S)

195 >>>Is he going to do that before or after he meets with the family of the Pennsylvania police chief that was shot dead by a thug?
Posted by: fd

LOL, never gonna happen.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 04, 2023 08:32 AM (bkUtD)

196
What the bloody hell? Are you people still here?

Stop your shilly-shallying, you shirkers, and kill yourselves now!

There no way we can rid Mother Gaia of 7.5 billion climate destroyers if you won't do your duty and die and so we can save The Planet, live diverse, sustainable lives and fuck monkeys.

Now, do as your told by your Betters!

Posted by: Jane Goodall at January 04, 2023 08:32 AM (KLPy8)

197 My guess is later abortifacients. The typical marketing line s that the "morning after pill" is *not* an abortion because that early, there's no way to know. Calling them "abortion pills" would be unusual given the marketing legacy.
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Yes; and obviously I missed the word "ban" [by the states] in my pre-coffee reading and typing!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 04, 2023 08:32 AM (Vwz3I)

198 190 167 Confession time.

I dislike traditional American spaghetti with red sauce. I like other pasta, even other spaghetti dishes that aren't that one. I even like the same dish in different forms (I'm down with ravioli and lasagna, for example), just not that particular thing. It makes no sense. I like the components and I like the flavor profile, I just can't stand the stuff once it's all assembled.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 04, 2023 08:25 AM (t0OGg)

The best spaghetti is capellini (angel-hair pasta). Change my mind.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 04, 2023 08:30 AM (PiwSw)

I am partial to buccatini or percchiatelli. Better mouth feel. Plus, the best non red sauce dishes are aglio e olio or caccio pepe.

YMMV

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 04, 2023 08:32 AM (x0n13)

199 Hiya horde. Goodest morning to all. Prayers for the D'Oh family.

Busy yesterday, so i need to catch up. Was PDJT elected Speaker?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 04, 2023 08:32 AM (l/gNR)

200 Tall women want tall men
Short women want tall men

Tall men want short women.
Short men want short women.

Bad place to be:
Short man
Tall woman.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 04, 2023 08:32 AM (C2ZTD)

201 Good morning.
More coffee..

Posted by: dantesed at January 04, 2023 08:32 AM (88xKn)

202 Stars of the 1968 film of Romeo and Juliet are suing Paramount Pictures over nude scene shot when they were teens.

Oh, FFS, really? I used to respect Hussey.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 04, 2023 08:32 AM (AW0uW)

203 If the moderator stood up and said to her "I believe you - you first." and fired a few pew pew into her head, he'd be the bad guy.

You just can't win with these people.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 04, 2023 08:30 AM (qoGsy)
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Now, now...A more modest proposal would be to set a pew-pew device on the table and offer her the opportunity to demonstrate the strength of her conviction in front of a live audience.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 04, 2023 08:32 AM (YIVH2)

204 Plus, the best non red sauce dishes are aglio e olio or caccio pepe.

YMMV
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 04, 2023 08:32 AM (x0n13)

Also, carbonara.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 04, 2023 08:33 AM (x0n13)

205 Bad place to be:
Short man
Tall woman.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 04, 2023 08:32 AM (C2ZTD)

Unless you like to eat standing up.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 04, 2023 08:33 AM (Zz0t1)

206 The best spaghetti is capellini (angel-hair pasta). Change my mind.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 04, 2023 08:30 AM (PiwSw)

Buccatini or GTFO.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2023 08:33 AM (9UlRk)

207 The best spaghetti is capellini (angel-hair pasta). Change my mind.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 04, 2023 08:30 AM (PiwSw)

Different areas of Italy specialize in different pasta shapes. Angel hair is traditionally Sicilian.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 04, 2023 08:33 AM (AW0uW)

208 Jane Goodall is sexay!

Jane Goodall's,
Bonobo

Posted by: Marooned at January 04, 2023 08:34 AM (w6hJ9)

209 If this isn't exposed and stopped then it doesn't matter who we nominate for what office or who gets elected. It will just get worse.

--

This is why I can see little to no light at the end of that elusive tunnel. Look where the first explosive batch of files got us. If you said nowhere, collect your winnings.

This will be handled no differently. Ignored, buried, quashed until the last ember has burned out. Nobody punished, no agency deprived of their massive budgets. Nothing. I wish I felt differently.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 04, 2023 08:34 AM (sVtYq)

210 Let me repost my earlier comment please.

' "Thomas Samaras, who has been studying height for 40 years and is known in small circles as the Godfather of Shrink Think, a widely unknown philosophy that considers small superior,"

Ewoks...

Ace will save the planet.

(If we can get human women to mate with him)'

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 04, 2023 08:34 AM (uLr+K)

211 We need Monty back apparently.

Posted by: blaster at January 04, 2023 08:34 AM (pwExq)

212 Most of the humans on earth are Chinese or Indian.

Why are Goodall and Ehrlich so racist?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2023 08:35 AM (9UlRk)

213 A story out of the UK came to light a little over a week ago and, while I wanted to feature it, I gave it short shrift because there were just so many other things going on that kept it on a back burner. Yet, it's terrifying in its implications, let alone in and of itself, because it is exactly where we are headed.

reminded me of this:
Jordan Peterson Could Face College Tribunal Over Social Media Posts
https://tinyurl.com/36nzxfek
Peterson tweeted on Jan. 3, "BREAKING: the Ontario College of Psychologists @CPOntario has demanded that I submit myself to mandatory social-media communication retraining with their experts for, among other crimes, retweeting [Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre] and criticizing [Prime Minister Justin Trudeau] and his political allies."

Posted by: artisanal ette at January 04, 2023 08:35 AM (9qHsE)

214 Mornin’, All.

I nominate Zombie Preston Brooks for Speaker.

As long as he brings his cane with him.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 04, 2023 08:35 AM (UY3+i)

215 Tall women want tall men
Short women want tall men

Tall men want short women.
Short men want short women.

I am short. I adore tall women.

Women, however, do not adore me.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 04, 2023 08:35 AM (AW0uW)

216 Now, now...A more modest proposal would be to set a pew-pew device on the table and offer her the opportunity to demonstrate the strength of her conviction in front of a live audience.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 04, 2023 08:32 AM (YIVH2)
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High risk option. She'd demonstrate her commitment by shooting *you* in front of the live audience.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 04, 2023 08:35 AM (t0OGg)

217 I am partial to buccatini or percchiatelli. Better mouth feel. Plus, the best non red sauce dishes are aglio e olio or caccio pepe.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Paisan!! *I know differently but still. . *

Posted by: Tonypete at January 04, 2023 08:35 AM (qoGsy)

218 The Republicans and Democrats appear like the guard rails on either side of the road they’ve decided we should all be traveling on.

Very good description of what has been going on for years (decades?).

I also see this Speaker of the House vote situation as enlightening as the Donald Trump Presidency. The Trump Presidency exposed numerous people on the right as frauds and Deep Staters. This Speaker of the House vote situation is doing the same, in my opinion.

Those who are supporting McCarthy, I no longer see as conservatives with the best interest of the American people at heart. Sadly, President Trump is in that camp for me now as well. McCarthy is Deep State. And I will not support anyone supporting the Deep State. As Crenshaw explicitly stated, the Deep State sees us as their enemies. So be it. President Trump used to be anti-Deep State. He was We, The People's candidate and President. But siding with McCarthy, after the Deep State has been exposed for all to see the past 6+ years... I just cannot support anyone who does that. It is LONG past time to take a stand.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 04, 2023 08:36 AM (Do5/p)

219
Bad place to be:
Short man
Tall woman.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 04, 2023 08:32 AM

Oh, yeah. Tall women can be very aggressive when they meet a tall man. They know they have a much smaller pond to fish in.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 04, 2023 08:36 AM (enJYY)

220 Ewoks...

Ace will save the planet.

(If we can get human women to mate with him)'
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 04, 2023 08:34 AM (uLr+K)
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What do you think he's doing on his vacation right now? Gettin' busy with the hot, sexy Ewoks back on Endor at the Ewok Friendship Village...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 04, 2023 08:36 AM (YIVH2)

221 Women prefer tall men, so it must mean that men should bed short women. This is already not a problem.

Posted by: Joe Mannix

Unless the runway is too short.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 04, 2023 08:36 AM (lTGtQ)

222 A nice homemade Tagliatelli is hard to beat too, but not exactly in the spaghetti clade of noodle taxonomy, is it?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2023 08:36 AM (9UlRk)

223 Daughter made caccio e pepe with Pecorino Romano & butter for Christmas Eve dinner. Superb!!

Posted by: Carmenzoid at January 04, 2023 08:36 AM (uErkz)

224 Most of the humans on earth are Chinese or Indian.
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Oddly enough, most of the trash in the ocean comes from China and India. And pollution in general. Matter of fact, I think India is worse than China.

But we need to ban our straws and stop towing our boats.

Posted by: The shots were safe and effective. Some people got safe, some people got effective. at January 04, 2023 08:37 AM (JTIc2)

225 Oh, FFS, really? I used to respect Hussey.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 04, 2023 08:32 AM (AW0uW)

I dunno, MP4. No one really respects a hussey....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 04, 2023 08:37 AM (Angsy)

226 I wouldn't hit that if I were fucked up on a gallon of fentanyl with the boyfriend's dick and Rosa DeLauro pushing.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 04, 2023 08:29 AM

Sure, you say that now, as you approach 29, but we have the example here of the many younger Commentators who blithely ignore, despite the magnanimous, worthy, and oft-repeated counsel of The Elder 'Rons, the wisdom of Rule One.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 04, 2023 08:37 AM (a3Q+t)

227 High risk option. She'd demonstrate her commitment by shooting *you* in front of the live audience.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 04, 2023 08:35 AM (t0OGg)
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All right...to make it sporting, go with Russian Roulette... Both the moderator and Goodall take turns until one of them loses.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 04, 2023 08:37 AM (YIVH2)

228 Bankman-Fried’s lawyers argued that there is “no need for public disclosure” of the identities of two people who will help secure the disgraced FTX founder’s bail in order to protect them from potential scrutiny and harassment, according to a report by Bloomberg.

The truth is, no one "paid" his bail. It is a fiction. Sure, it is secured with claims against some assets, but to the extant they are family assets (like, real estate) the presumption is those were originally purchased with looted FTX funds.

The innocent creditors of FTX are paying for his bail.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 04, 2023 08:37 AM (Hs6et)

229 No one really respects a hussey....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 04, 2023 08:37 AM (Angsy)
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Some Jordanians do.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 04, 2023 08:37 AM (R1YS4)

230 On the way in this a.m. Newt called the 20 GOP "blackmailers."

1) I didn't think you could use that term anymore /s

2) He's really not understanding what's going on.

To simply waive in McCarthy as speaker IS the status quo.

OTOH, it's almost time they take their gains, press for a bit more and get the 118th started

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 04, 2023 08:38 AM (NW9xb)

231 "What do you think he's doing on his vacation right now? Gettin' busy with the hot, sexy Ewoks back on Endor at the Ewok Friendship Village..."

Ewok Pon Farr?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 04, 2023 08:38 AM (uLr+K)

232 As head of the Democrats Biden knows that there is some racism to be mined by visiting the player in the hospital.

Posted by: blaster at January 04, 2023 08:38 AM (pwExq)

233 GOP Reps Rip Army’s ‘Galling’ Decision Not to Repeal Vaccine Mandate for National Guard, Reserves

This is all about creating a blacklist - who inside will not comply. It's happening all over the government. They are keeping lists and getting rid of as many independent thinkers as they can.

Posted by: artisanal ette at January 04, 2023 08:39 AM (9qHsE)

234 The ones pushing for McCarthy are the blackmailers.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2023 08:39 AM (9UlRk)

235

My eel pond explodes with hovercraft!

Posted by: Hungarian Dyslexic at January 04, 2023 08:39 AM (7/wNx)

236 Thank you, JJ.

And Ace, cobLoggers and commenters.

Posted by: democrats, Raping And Mutilating The Children They Cannot Kill Since 1973 at January 04, 2023 08:39 AM (jV+aN)

237 A nice homemade Tagliatelli is hard to beat too, but not exactly in the spaghetti clade of noodle taxonomy, is it?
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Tagliatelli is a pimp. He could never outfought Santino.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 04, 2023 08:39 AM (qoGsy)

238
This Jane Goodall person seems to have some good and interesting ideas-

she should be Speaker of the House!

Posted by: Gane Joodall at January 04, 2023 08:39 AM (KLPy8)

239 As head of the Democrats Biden knows that there is some racism to be mined by visiting the player in the hospital.
Posted by: blaster at January 04, 2023 08:38 AM (pwExq)
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Maybe he'll repeat and say "You ain't black."

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 04, 2023 08:40 AM (R1YS4)

240 From the office chat today regarding covid:

P1: "thank you I am surprised how sick I got with having vaccines and all boosters"

P2: "It may be a different variant"

P3: "that is surprising wonder if it is the new variant going around"

P1: "I was thinking the same"

They are almost there... couple more dots to connect. I tried to give a different view point awhile back, they werent having it....

Posted by: Haywood at January 04, 2023 08:40 AM (jBMw+)

241 Women prefer tall men, so it must mean that men should bed short women. This is already not a problem.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

That's one way to put a spin on it.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 04, 2023 08:40 AM (a3Q+t)

242 "Saving the planet requires nothing more difficult than having sex with short people. I had no idea, but I suppose I’m game."
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I used to have a midget girlfriend.

Man, I was just nuts over her.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at January 04, 2023 08:40 AM (YJwUM)

243 New Congresscritters have a little seminar before swearing in, supposedly to show them the ropes of being in Congess. I bet it's more like the old beat cop showing the rookie where to get a free lunch, where to get out of the cold and have a free drink or two, and where to get a weekly envelope.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 04, 2023 08:40 AM (lz5hY)

244 Busy yesterday, so i need to catch up. Was PDJT elected Speaker?
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Marcel Marceau

Posted by: JT at January 04, 2023 08:41 AM (T4tVD)

245 Everything is going swimmingly!

https://tinyurl.com/28jrbs4m

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 04, 2023 08:41 AM (uLr+K)

246 It's not just about "To Trump or Not to Trump" at this stage of the game. It's about our old quandary, the choice between the lesser of two evils (and just to be clear I am not referring to Trump v. Whoever). Lesser of two evils doesn't cut it, especially since the distinction between the two is growing less and less distinct and more and more equal with the passing of each election cycle, 2016 notwithstanding.

Evil is evil, Stregobor. Lesser, greater, middling. It's all the same. I'm not judging you. I haven't only done good in my life either. But now, if I have to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.

https://bit.ly/3QavKBc

Posted by: The Witcher at January 04, 2023 08:41 AM (Do5/p)

247 As head of the Democrats Biden knows that there is some racism to be mined by visiting the player in the hospital.
Posted by: blaster at January 04, 2023 08:38 AM (pwExq)

Of course he'll go. A chance to be seen 'praying' with the family.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 04, 2023 08:41 AM (AW0uW)

248 I used to have a midget girlfriend.

Man, I was just nuts over her.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at January 04, 2023 08:40 AM (YJwUM)

Dammit, Taq. I was supposed to go to work today, but now i can't because I'm dead.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2023 08:41 AM (9UlRk)

249 230 On the way in this a.m. Newt called the 20 GOP "blackmailers."

1) I didn't think you could use that term anymore /s

2) He's really not understanding what's going on.

***
He could have been the Trump of 2012, and briefly teased at this in the South Carolina primary. But he revealed himself to be another company man.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 04, 2023 08:41 AM (H8QX8)

250 A meesekeit isn't a Jewish barbeque??

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 04, 2023 08:41 AM (Vwz3I)

251 Man, I was just nuts over her.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at January 04, 2023 08:40 AM (YJwUM)
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That's what you say. She said you came up short.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 04, 2023 08:41 AM (R1YS4)

252 New Congresscritters have a little seminar before swearing in, supposedly to show them the ropes of being in Congess. I bet it's more like the old beat cop showing the rookie where to get a free lunch, where to get out of the cold and have a free drink or two, and where to get a weekly envelope.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 04, 2023 08:40 AM (lz5hY)
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It's all about honing the Congresscritters' natural instincts for graft into a razor edge...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 04, 2023 08:42 AM (YIVH2)

253
Can you imagine coming out of a coma and seeing Biden's lips descending on your hair? Put him right back into cardiac arrest.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 04, 2023 08:42 AM (enJYY)

254 A nice thing about short women is that their boobs look bigger because they take up a greater percentage of their body area.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 04, 2023 08:42 AM (UY3+i)

255 Plus, the best non red sauce dishes are aglio e olio or caccio pepe.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Gesundheidt !

Posted by: JT at January 04, 2023 08:42 AM (T4tVD)

256 A meesekeit isn't a Jewish barbeque??
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 04, 2023 08:41 AM (Vwz3I)
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Perhaps a fleisch fahrbrengen is.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 04, 2023 08:42 AM (R1YS4)

257 I see the same people who are like okay just vote in McCarthy trying to upend Ronna McDaniel.

Eh. Just let it burn.

Posted by: blaster at January 04, 2023 08:42 AM (pwExq)

258 Jane's aping Paul Ehrlich.
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She's gone Koko!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 04, 2023 08:43 AM (Vwz3I)

259 Oddly enough, most of the trash in the ocean comes from China and India. And pollution in general. Matter of fact, I think India is worse than China.

But we need to ban our straws and stop towing our boats.
Posted by: The shots were safe and effective. Some people got safe, some people got effective. at January 04, 2023 08:37 AM (JTIc2)
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Historical legacy. That's how you square the circle.

Most of the man-made carbon emissions over the duration of human history taken from the start of the industrial revolution to the present day - about 200-250 years - occurred in Europe and North America. Just because the East is emitting more *today,* it doesn't absolve the West of its historical crimes against climate. If not for the 200-year head start on emissions due to western industrialization, we would not be facing climate crisis today.

No joke. That's a fairly common counter-argument.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 04, 2023 08:43 AM (t0OGg)

260 On the way in this a.m. Newt called the 20 GOP "blackmailers."

She turned me into a Newt!
A newt?
I got better!
Not from where I am standing.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 04, 2023 08:43 AM (C2ZTD)

261 "Man, I was just nuts over her.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at January 04, 2023 08:40 AM (YJwUM)
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That's what you say. She said you came up short."

I've heard it both ways.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 04, 2023 08:43 AM (uLr+K)

262 >>>I see the same people who are like okay just vote in McCarthy trying to upend Ronna McDaniel.

Eh. Just let it burn.
Posted by: blaster

Agreed. Let it burn to the ground.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 04, 2023 08:43 AM (bkUtD)

263 I used to have a midget girlfriend.

Man, I was just nuts over her.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus

Nose to nose and your toes are in it.
Toes to toes and your nose is in it.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 04, 2023 08:44 AM (qoGsy)

264 Of course he'll go. A chance to be seen 'praying' with the family.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 04, 2023 08:41 AM (AW0uW)

Yeah, Benedict's funeral? Can't make it, Pres. Biden will be at the bedside of a football player. Sorry.

Posted by: KJP's Talking Point at January 04, 2023 08:44 AM (Angsy)

265 Good morning horde. Last night they found the body of one of Little Winger's Army buddies dead in a river. Apparent suicide. This is the eleventh one of his fellow soldiers that he served with. Awful.

Posted by: grammie winger at January 04, 2023 08:44 AM (45fpk)

266 Busy yesterday, so i need to catch up. Was PDJT elected Speaker?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 04, 2023 08:32 AM (l/gNR)

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I was hoping they'd eliminate the middle-man puppet and elect Putin.

/

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at January 04, 2023 08:44 AM (vJyxI)

267 Prior to COVID, COVID vaccines, all-pervasive medical diagnostic coding and rampant insane amplification on the Internet, cases of sudden death or near-miss sudden death in young athletes were considered rare, but were substantially undercounted. Most were local news stories, and while tragic, did not reach much beyond the local paper. The current reportage is so amped up as to be nearly uninterpretable.

The differential diagnosis (aka list of possibilities) includes hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, underlying dysrhythmia (e.g. WPW, A-fib), myocarditis (of any cause), anomalous coronary artery (Pete Maravich), myocardial infarction (e.g. priior Kawasaki disease), and commotio cordis; as well as non-cardiac events such as asthma or epilepsy.

To pronounce any of these as the cause of young Hamlin's collapse without first-hand knowledge and test results is a fool's errand.

And I agree with Nevergiveup from yesterday that jumping to a default chorus of "he died because of the vaxx" makes "us" look stupid.

Posted by: Muldoon at January 04, 2023 08:45 AM (ykeLU)

268 "Apparent suicide. This is the eleventh one of his fellow soldiers that he served with. Awful."

Ugghh

Prayers sent.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 04, 2023 08:45 AM (uLr+K)

269 I've heard it both ways.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 04, 2023 08:43 AM (uLr+K)
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Is this some sort of a stunt?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 04, 2023 08:45 AM (R1YS4)

270 California faces double whammy of bomb cyclone, ‘Pineapple Express’ for ‘brutal’ storm threat

https://tinyurl.com/4stmyz58

Posted by: redridinghood at January 04, 2023 08:46 AM (NpAcC)

271 Happy Wednesday. . .?

>>“The censorship zone measure introduced by Birmingham authorities criminalises individuals percieved to be ‘engaging in any act of approval or disapproval or attempted act of approval or disapproval’ in relation to abortion, including through ‘verbal or written means, prayer or counselling…’.”

This is bananas, absolutely mind-blowing.
They are outlawing disapproval, ffs.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 04, 2023 08:46 AM (mqu1M)

272 They can't elect Trump speaker. Any day now the forensic accountants are going to uncover massive tax fraud crimes! He is going to prison!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 04, 2023 08:46 AM (C2ZTD)

273 266 Speaker of the House Anthony Fauci, MD.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 04, 2023 08:46 AM (lz5hY)

274 Christopher Rufo: "A new counterculture with the potential to disrupt left-wing institutional capture."
The Quiet Right

This is great, but it needs to move faster. The controls and punishment for free living is sweeping the world, not just the nation. I have heard of Hillsdale, but this is good to see:

Others have enrolled their children in a fast-growing network of "classical schools," which have returned to the traditional liberal arts curriculum of logic, rhetoric, grammar, mathematics, Latin, and music. And the small but influential network of traditional, faith-based colleges, such as Hillsdale, Benedictine, Thomas Aquinas, and University of Dallas, have seen record-breaking enrollment.

Posted by: artisanal ette at January 04, 2023 08:46 AM (9qHsE)

275 There seems to be an infinite number of pasta varieties.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 04, 2023 08:46 AM (UY3+i)

276 Yeah, Benedict's funeral? Can't make it, Pres. Biden will be at the bedside of a football player. Sorry.

Posted by: KJP's Talking Point at January 04, 2023 08:44 AM (Angsy)

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He's angling for 10% of those Christmas toy-drive millions, amirite?

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at January 04, 2023 08:46 AM (vJyxI)

277 I am sure they don't mean short men. Women prefer tall men, so it must mean that men should bed short women. This is already not a problem.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 04, 2023 08:23 AM

I do not envy you the headache you will have when you awake. But for now, rest well and dream of large women.

Posted by: Dread Pirate Westley at January 04, 2023 08:47 AM (Do5/p)

278 He's angling for 10% of those Christmas toy-drive millions, amirite?
Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at January 04, 2023 08:46 AM (vJyxI)

How sad is it that i didn't laugh right away?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2023 08:47 AM (9UlRk)

279 Prayers up Grammie !

(and hiya)

Posted by: JT at January 04, 2023 08:47 AM (T4tVD)

280 237 A nice homemade Tagliatelli is hard to beat too, but not exactly in the spaghetti clade of noodle taxonomy, is it?
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Tagliatelli is a pimp. He could never outfought Santino.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 04, 2023 08:39 AM (qoGsy)

THREAD WINNER.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 04, 2023 08:48 AM (x0n13)

281 NYT story promoting sex with short people to save the planet (nonsequitur anyone?)
Well, there might be hope for me yet. . .
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 04, 2023 08:30 AM

Cancer and my name is Larry, huh
And I like a woman that loves everything and everybody
And you know what, ladies, if you feel that this is you
Then this is what I want you to do...

Posted by: Larry, The Floaters at January 04, 2023 08:48 AM (XQtRs)

282 Hiya JT! And thank you.

Posted by: grammie winger at January 04, 2023 08:48 AM (45fpk)

283 KJP lookin' perky!

https://tinyurl.com/6fz985d8

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 04, 2023 08:48 AM (a3Q+t)

284 This is great, but it needs to move faster. The controls and punishment for free living is sweeping the world, not just the nation. I have heard of Hillsdale, but this is good to see:

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Expect to see -- and I'm honestly surprised it's not yet happened (I mean, who's gonna stop them?) -- the feral government ban all home- and non-public schooling. #Soon, ~~comrades~~ criminals ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at January 04, 2023 08:49 AM (vJyxI)

285
I love a free speech forum where even 'nutty' ideas can be floated around freely, chewed up, perhaps discarded. But then I have a business background not medical.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 04, 2023 08:49 AM (enJYY)

286 Apparently, CO governor Jared Polis has started busing illegal aliens to NYC, lol.

Blue state vs blue state, let's go!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 04, 2023 08:49 AM (mqu1M)

287 There seems to be an infinite number of pasta varieties.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 04, 2023 08:46 AM (UY3+i)

The Pastaverse is a vast and complex thing.

And don't even get me started on the PastaMultiverse!

Posted by: naturalfake at January 04, 2023 08:49 AM (KLPy8)

288 This is bananas, absolutely mind-blowing.
They are outlawing disapproval, ffs.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 04, 2023 08:46 AM (mqu1M)

Thought crimes. Decided by the Observer. Hey, you did not nod and smile with approval HARD enough, comrade!

Always the same thing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 04, 2023 08:49 AM (CsVWE)

289 "And I agree with Nevergiveup from yesterday that jumping to a default chorus of "he died because of the vaxx" makes "us" look stupid."

As kids, we used to figure out where the Christmas presents were hidden by our parents by saying that we were going to go play in a certain room in the house.

If we were told we weren't allowed to go there, we knew that's where the presents were.

So somebody tells me I am forbidden to even ask if a vaccine has caused an illness.

Yeh...that's where the presents are hidden

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 04, 2023 08:49 AM (uLr+K)

290 He's angling for 10% of those Christmas toy-drive millions, amirite?

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at January 04, 2023 08:46 AM (vJyxI)

Non existent inflation has upped his rake to 15%.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 04, 2023 08:49 AM (Angsy)

291 $20 says Biden will tell the player he was an All American Flanker Back

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at January 04, 2023 08:49 AM (tVOiC)

292 I do not envy you the headache you will have when you awake. But for now, rest well and dream of large women.
Posted by: Dread Pirate Westley at January 04, 2023 08:47 AM (Do5/p)

Nice!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 04, 2023 08:49 AM (CsVWE)

293 Yeah, Benedict's funeral? Can't make it, Pres. Biden will be at the bedside of a football player. Sorry.

Posted by: KJP's Talking Point at January 04, 2023 08:44 AM (Angsy)

Fine with me. I would rather Benedict be laid to rest without Stinkfinger and Frankie Fabulous hogging the scenery.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 04, 2023 08:50 AM (AW0uW)

294 Oh, FFS, really? I used to respect Hussey.
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I'd forgotten it was her -- I only recalled Michael York in it having seen it only on TV in the '70s -- so that surprised me too.

I began laughing looking at the IMDB page recalling Milo O'Shea as the Friar and recalling his appearance on Frasier.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 04, 2023 08:50 AM (Vwz3I)

295 >>“The censorship zone measure introduced by Birmingham authorities criminalises individuals percieved to be ‘engaging in any act of approval or disapproval or attempted act of approval or disapproval’ in relation to abortion, including through ‘verbal or written means, prayer or counselling…’.”

This is bananas, absolutely mind-blowing.
They are outlawing disapproval, ffs.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 04, 2023 08:46 AM (mqu1M)

What can I say? I'm kvelling.

Posted by: Eric Arthur Blair at January 04, 2023 08:50 AM (PiwSw)

296
And I agree with Nevergiveup from yesterday that jumping to a default chorus of "he died because of the vaxx" makes "us" look stupid.
Posted by: Muldoon at January 04, 2023 08:45 AM (ykeLU)

Yeah, that's the problem.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 04, 2023 08:50 AM (Zz0t1)

297 KJP lookin' perky!

https://tinyurl.com/6fz985d8
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 04, 2023 08:48 AM (a3Q+t)
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Pinocchio!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 04, 2023 08:50 AM (R1YS4)

298 *checks headlines

So, any good news??

Posted by: runner at January 04, 2023 08:51 AM (npr/i)

299 The Pastaverse is a vast and complex thing.

And don't even get me started on the PastaMultiverse!
Posted by: naturalfake

Pastafarians have this all covered.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 04, 2023 08:51 AM (qoGsy)

300 I have to venture out in the "atmospheric river" (aka "rain") wife is getting an MRI. Good thing I have an evil 4WD SUV to get me thru the flooded places. Hopefully. Glug.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 04, 2023 08:51 AM (jTmQV)

301

This is bananas, absolutely mind-blowing.
They are outlawing disapproval, ffs.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 04, 2023 08:46 AM (mqu1M)

They're enacting 15 minute zones in the UK, so, yeah, dey gone.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 04, 2023 08:51 AM (Zz0t1)

302 CNN reported last month that the White House has created an administration-wide task force to investigate how US and Western-made technology -- ranging from smaller equipment like semiconductors and GPS modules to larger parts like engines -- has ended up in Iranian drones.

Hmmmmm could it be because we outsource manufacturing to China? Just spitballing here.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 04, 2023 08:52 AM (C2ZTD)

303 298 *checks headlines

So, any good news??
Posted by: runner at January 04, 2023 08:51 AM (npr/i)

JT's birdbath isn't frozen.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 04, 2023 08:52 AM (PiwSw)

304 Fine with me. I would rather Benedict be laid to rest without Stinkfinger and Frankie Fabulous hogging the scenery.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 04, 2023 08:50 AM (AW0uW)

He was asked not to come because B didn't want him there.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 04, 2023 08:53 AM (Angsy)

305 Hiya JT! And thank you.
Posted by: grammie winger

Posted by: JT at January 04, 2023 08:53 AM (T4tVD)

306 267
And I agree with Nevergiveup from yesterday that jumping to a default chorus of "he died because of the vaxx" makes "us" look stupid.
Posted by: Muldoon at January 04, 2023 08:45 AM (ykeLU)

Believe it or not I agree. The thrust of my discourse yesterday was that the Junta and bureaucracy have made us distrust them to such an extent, and that the cases of death and adverse reactions so large despite the charge of anyone who cites this as being a nutter, that to not even bring up the possibility - even without evidence as I had made clear early on - would raise even more doubts.

Hamlin's condition is indeed tragic. But not at least asking the question of being vaccine-related I think would be equally irresponsible to stating it was not related at all.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 04, 2023 08:53 AM (x0n13)

307 "The vote for House Speaker is certainly topping the headlines and links today, but frankly I'm not really all that interested in it."

Glad I'm not alone in my disinterest. It's all an op.

Posted by: Pour Your Misery Down On gp at January 04, 2023 08:54 AM (24fqN)

308 This is bananas, absolutely mind-blowing.
They are outlawing disapproval, ffs.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 04, 2023 08:46 AM (mqu1M)

Thought crimes. Decided by the Observer. Hey, you did not nod and smile with approval HARD enough, comrade!

Always the same thing.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 04, 2023 08:49 AM (CsVWE)

I'm still all in for splitting the nation. You can see by just watching the exodus from CA and NY to FL and TX how it would work.

Posted by: artisanal ette at January 04, 2023 08:54 AM (9qHsE)

309 Prior to COVID, COVID vaccines, all-pervasive medical diagnostic coding and rampant insane amplification on the Internet
Posted by: Muldoon at January 04, 2023 08:45 AM

I miss those days.

Posted by: Dr. Fred M'Bogo at January 04, 2023 08:54 AM (a3Q+t)

310 Biden walks into the football player's hospital room, and the player's Great Grandfather is there, and it's Cornpop. The two oldsters shake hands, then hug. It's the reunion we've been waiting for. Then Cornpop pulls his blade and starts cutting long, straight, and continuous.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 04, 2023 08:54 AM (lz5hY)

311 Hmmmmm could it be because we outsource manufacturing to China? Just spitballing here.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 04, 2023 08:52 AM (C2ZTD)
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Wouldn't surprise me if we gave them the technology directly and just "forgot" about it...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 04, 2023 08:54 AM (YIVH2)

312 So somebody tells me I am forbidden to even ask if a vaccine has caused an illness.

Yeh...that's where the presents are hidden

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 04, 2023 08:49 AM

And having federal agents at the hospital reminds me of the federal agents at the JFK autopsy ordering the doctors what to do and say.

Even if this ends up having nothing to do with the clot shot, the Deep State is clearly worried that it could be due to the clot shot. Which means they know something like this is a severe adverse reaction of the clot shot. And they are making sure the narrative is set, even before any differential diagnosis has been done, to state that this had nothing whatsoever to do with the clot shot.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 04, 2023 08:54 AM (Do5/p)

313 KJP lookin' perky!

https://tinyurl.com/6fz985d8
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 04, 2023 08:48 AM (a3Q+t)
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Pinocchio!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 04, 2023 08:50 AM (R1YS4)
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CORRECTION: Two Pinocchios!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 04, 2023 08:54 AM (R1YS4)

314 296
And I agree with Nevergiveup from yesterday that jumping to a default chorus of "he died because of the vaxx" makes "us" look stupid.
Posted by: Muldoon at January 04, 2023 08:45 AM (ykeLU)
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The bad news is they will never release the truth. The good news is it doesn't matter. The question about vax safety has broke the internet, people are talking. People are waking up.

Posted by: Haywood at January 04, 2023 08:54 AM (jBMw+)

315 KJP lookin' perky!

https://tinyurl.com/6fz985d8
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 04, 2023 08:48 AM (a3Q+t)

It's all that "bad veal" she eats every night. . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 04, 2023 08:55 AM (x0n13)

316 Hercule Poirot as Speaker of the House. He solves everything.

Posted by: dantesed at January 04, 2023 08:55 AM (88xKn)

317 Daughter made caccio e pepe

******

I thought caccio e pepe is what happened with Ben Stiller's zipper in Something About Mary

Posted by: Muldoon at January 04, 2023 08:55 AM (ykeLU)

318 The differential diagnosis (aka list of possibilities) includes hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, underlying dysrhythmia (e.g. WPW, A-fib), myocarditis (of any cause), anomalous coronary artery (Pete Maravich), myocardial infarction (e.g. priior Kawasaki disease), and commotio cordis; as well as non-cardiac events such as asthma or epilepsy.

To pronounce any of these as the cause of young Hamlin's collapse without first-hand knowledge and test results is a fool's errand.

And I agree with Nevergiveup from yesterday that jumping to a default chorus of "he died because of the vaxx" makes "us" look stupid.

Posted by: Muldoon
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I suspect lots of people would be completely fine if it were simply added to the first paragraph of speculation.

It won't be vaccine related, though. (jedi hand wave) No one has died from the vaccine. The vaccine has had no ill effects.

Posted by: The shots were safe and effective. Some people got safe, some people got effective. at January 04, 2023 08:57 AM (JTIc2)

319
Hamlin's condition is indeed tragic. But not at least asking the question of being vaccine-related I think would be equally irresponsible to stating it was not related at all.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 04, 2023 08:53 AM (x0n13)

Sorry, but the increasing number of young people, including CHILDREN having heart issues or dropping dead means I'm leaning to the most obvious place to look in each and every instance. The mRNA 'vaccine.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 04, 2023 08:57 AM (Zz0t1)

320 makes "us" look stupid

To whom? The people who have arranged a society in which I can no longer make well-informed decisions? The people who already think I'm stupid or evil or both? To the uncommitted low-information types who never figure out the score?

I don't crave their good opinion. I don't care.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at January 04, 2023 08:57 AM (KFhLj)

321 Good morning horde. Last night they found the body of one of Little Winger's Army buddies dead in a river. Apparent suicide. This is the eleventh one of his fellow soldiers that he served with. Awful.
Posted by: grammie winger at January 04, 2023 08:44 AM (45fpk)

This is awful. It is so hard to know when someone is contemplating suicide with some, but with others there are signs. Prayers for his family. This is just awful.

Posted by: artisanal ette at January 04, 2023 08:58 AM (9qHsE)

322 It won't be vaccine related, though. (jedi hand wave) No one has died from the vaccine. The vaccine has had no ill effects.
Posted by: The shots were safe and effective. Some people got safe, some people got effective. at January 04, 2023 08:57 AM (JTIc2)
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"This is not the vax victim you are looking for."

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 04, 2023 08:58 AM (R1YS4)

323 I'll take the "Penne is Mightier", for $200, Trebek...

like your granny last night!

Posted by: zombie sean connery at January 04, 2023 08:58 AM (Vwz3I)

324 >>They are almost there... couple more dots to connect. I tried to give a different view point awhile back, they werent having it....

In WSJ days ago, the new XBB variant is running rampant in MA, the state with the highest vaccination rate.

Pastor at my parent's church has a son married to a Chines immigrant. Her parents arrived from China for the holidays 2 1/2 weeks ago with covid. They have since traveled from LA to Denver to stay with our pastor. He then preached on Sunday, days after welcoming these sick guests into his home.

I have never been a covid Karen, but what the #@%!??? Fortunately, my elderly parents got a heads-up and streamed the service from home.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 04, 2023 08:58 AM (mqu1M)

325
It's all that "bad veal" she eats every night. . .
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 04, 2023 08:55 AM (x0n13)

*narrator voice*

And by veal, J.J. means she munches on skanky pussy every night.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 04, 2023 08:58 AM (Zz0t1)

326 And having federal agents at the hospital reminds me of the federal agents at the JFK autopsy ordering the doctors what to do and say.

Even if this ends up having nothing to do with the clot shot, the Deep State is clearly worried that it could be due to the clot shot. Which means they know something like this is a severe adverse reaction of the clot shot. And they are making sure the narrative is set, even before any differential diagnosis has been done, to state that this had nothing whatsoever to do with the clot shot.
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(lays $20 on table)

The football player will be immediately cremated, same as the January 6th folks.

Posted by: The shots were safe and effective. Some people got safe, some people got effective. at January 04, 2023 08:59 AM (JTIc2)

327 Hmmmmm could it be because we outsource manufacturing to China? Just spitballing here.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 04, 2023 08:52 AM (C2ZTD)
++++
Unpossible.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 04, 2023 08:59 AM (t0OGg)

328 Did KJP have to look up in her big book to answer the question about Biden's involvement in family schemes?

Posted by: dantesed at January 04, 2023 09:00 AM (88xKn)

329 Mel Tillis for speaker of the house.

Posted by: The Sound Of One Foot Clapping at January 04, 2023 09:00 AM (5Ts23)

330
If we were told we weren't allowed to go there, we knew that's where the presents were.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 04, 2023 08:49 AM

So true. But my sister had a hamster who sometimes would 'accidentally' get loose and I'd have the chore of tracking him down. Usually into the closet where the presents were. Just to be sure it hadn't chewed into the box, a thorough shaking was required.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 04, 2023 09:00 AM (enJYY)

331 "Did KJP have to look up in her big book to answer the question about Biden's involvement in family schemes?"

No...she had to look up what day of the week it was.
In case anybody asked.

She likes to be prepared.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 04, 2023 09:01 AM (uLr+K)

332 "NYT story promoting sex with short people to save the planet
Posted by: LinusVanPelt"

I'm guessing Robert Reich wrote that one.

Posted by: Ripley at January 04, 2023 09:01 AM (cUYo/)

333 Hamlin's condition is indeed tragic. But not at least asking the question of being vaccine-related I think would be equally irresponsible to stating it was not related at all.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

*******

I agree JJ. And the more Pfizer and the feds obfuscate, obstruct and obscure the answer to that question, and attempt to cancel those asking the question, the more the pressure will build. I did not exclude myocarditis due the mRNA vaccine from my differential dx.

Posted by: Muldoon at January 04, 2023 09:01 AM (ykeLU)

334 Hercule Poirot as Speaker of the House. He solves everything.

Posted by: dantesed at January 04, 2023 08:55 AM (88xKn)

I am currently listening to the New Testament as read by David Suchet. What a lovely speaking voice he has.

Posted by: grammie winger at January 04, 2023 09:01 AM (45fpk)

335 10 Biden walks into the football player's hospital room, and the player's Great Grandfather is there, and it's Cornpop. The two oldsters shake hands, then hug. It's the reunion we've been waiting for. Then Cornpop pulls his blade and starts cutting long, straight, and continuous.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 04, 2023 08:54 AM (lz5hY)

***********

If true, the fact that Cornpop is his grandfather would be evidence that Cornpop was maligned by Biden.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at January 04, 2023 09:02 AM (xxG/v)

336 It's Trump as Speaker or no one else.

At this specific moment in history-- ie the USA going down for the 3 rd time under the weight of Communist oppression we must have a dog to mail the Commie dog.
Trumps THE man for this moment.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at January 04, 2023 09:02 AM (wReBR)

337 Yes, Isabel. There is a reason why DeSantis and Jeb! being on the same stage while the donor base smiles.

All you have to do is transport back to Dec 2019 and how wonderful everything was. That was Trump. Today is McCarthy et al in the republican party. They did not uphold the Constitution(Article 1, Sec 4, Cl 1). Period.

Posted by: Danimal28 at January 04, 2023 09:02 AM (ryUqI)

338 House convenes at noon today for another vote. This will give the Chamber of Commerce time to get the Scrooge McDuck money bags ready.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 04, 2023 09:02 AM (lz5hY)

339 Sorry, but the increasing number of young people, including CHILDREN having heart issues or dropping dead means I'm leaning to the most obvious place to look in each and every instance. The mRNA 'vaccine.'
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 04, 2023 08:57 AM (Zz0t1)

Or the bioweapon itself. Since the vax employs elements of that bioweapon, it's no surprise you could be screwed either way if you're more susceptible to the bioweapon...

Posted by: Nova local at January 04, 2023 09:03 AM (exHjb)

340 I don't crave their good opinion. I don't care.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at January 04, 2023 08:57 AM (KFhLj)

Concur. They can't even define what a broad is.

If I say the China Flu Scam Vax caused ding dong footballer's heart attack, then it's the truth.

Their rules.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 04, 2023 09:03 AM (XQtRs)

341 "So we do not want to be here at this moment," said Gatez. "We would prefer to have a unity of purpose. But we will not continue to allow the uniparty to run this town without a fight."

"There's very little difference between Nancy Pelosi and her California delegation-mate that seeks the gavel," he added.

This is my shocked face.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 04, 2023 09:03 AM (W5GbK)

342 Did KJP have to look up in her big book to answer the question about Biden's involvement in family schemes?
Posted by: dantesed at January 04, 2023 09:00 AM

No, it was just a jump to the left, while she was thinking of pelvic thrusts.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 04, 2023 09:03 AM (a3Q+t)

343 I agree JJ. And the more Pfizer and the feds obfuscate, obstruct and obscure the answer to that question, and attempt to cancel those asking the question, the more the pressure will build. I did not exclude myocarditis due the mRNA vaccine from my differential dx.
Posted by: Muldoon at January 04, 2023 09:01 AM (ykeLU)
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It will build to the point of blanket assumption. The old USSR rules increasingly apply. In this case, the applicable rule is:
"Never believe a rumor unless it is confirmed with an official denial."

If speculation results in immediate blowback from the halls of power, it will make people more inclined to believe that speculation.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 04, 2023 09:04 AM (t0OGg)

344 Mel Tillis for speaker of the house.
Posted by: The Sound Of One Foot Clapping

Marcel Marceau !

Posted by: JT at January 04, 2023 09:04 AM (T4tVD)

345 >>To pronounce any of these as the cause of young Hamlin's collapse without first-hand knowledge and test results is a fool's errand.

And I agree with Nevergiveup from yesterday that jumping to a default chorus of "he died because of the vaxx" makes "us" look stupid.
- - - -

I agree completely, and have no thoughts on this football player's health.

The problem has been that we know we have been lied to repeatedly, we know they want to force us to do things they have no business demanding, we know that alternate sources of information are suppressed and those sharing it harassed out of jobs, etc..

So in that vacuum of hidden info and lies, people are going to speculate -- so we all become conspiracy theorists of some degree by simply trying to figure out what is real/not real. It sucks.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 04, 2023 09:04 AM (mqu1M)

346 "So we do not want to be here at this moment," said Gatez. "We would prefer to have a unity of purpose. But we will not continue to allow the uniparty to run this town without a fight." ...
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 04, 2023 09:03 AM (W5GbK)
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Gaetz actually called it the Uniparty, did he? I hope his life insurance is paid up.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 04, 2023 09:05 AM (t0OGg)

347 "I am currently listening to the New Testament as read by David Suchet. What a lovely speaking voice he has."

He did a couple of Holy Land documentaries, In the Footsteps of Peter, and In the Footsteps of Paul, that are pretty good.

Posted by: Pour Your Misery Down On gp at January 04, 2023 09:05 AM (24fqN)

348 335 Yep. Read up on Hamlin. Seems like a good kid who elevated himself through faith even after a rocky family life at first.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 04, 2023 09:05 AM (lz5hY)

349 Rachel Levine is a woman

The vaccine is safe and has had no ill effects

Posted by: The shots were safe and effective. Some people got safe, some people got effective. at January 04, 2023 09:06 AM (JTIc2)

350
A bioweapon that damages the heart of healthy males of military age which is compounded by the adrenaline rush of combat. Sounds like a winner.

/ conjecture

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 04, 2023 09:06 AM (enJYY)

351 So somebody tells me I am forbidden to even ask if a vaccine has caused an illness.

Yeh...that's where the presents are hidden
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

*******

I do hope you are not suggesting that is what I was saying.

Posted by: Muldoon at January 04, 2023 09:06 AM (ykeLU)

352 Damn JJ, you're spot on today! Excellent article by Dan Gelenter of American Greatness. He articulates my attitude about our government, the GOP and the entire statist system. If we can't have what we want, then they will have nothing in return. There's no more pause left in me to reconsider what burning the Republican Party to the ground will mean, because I DON'T CARE. I just want it burned down!

2020: NEVER FORGET, NEVER FORGIVE

Posted by: Tracy at January 04, 2023 09:06 AM (ias+u)

353 I agree with Nevergiveup from yesterday that jumping to a default chorus of "he died because of the vaxx" makes "us" look stupid.
Posted by: Muldoon at January 04, 2023 08:45 AM (ykeLU)

As time goes on, it will become more obvious who's being stupid.

Posted by: Word to your mother at January 04, 2023 09:07 AM (3uf3+)

354 re: Hamlin et al

Damar Hamlin: 24-year-old NFL Buffalo Bills safety in critical condition after collapsing on the field, while former NFL player Uche Nwaneri dies suddenly
https://tinyurl.com/bddnkhfa

interesting explanation on payouts

Posted by: artisanal ette at January 04, 2023 09:07 AM (9qHsE)

355 >>>In WSJ days ago, the new XBB variant is running rampant in MA, the state with the highest vaccination rate.
==================

Visiting in the area now and yesterday I was entertained to see a man turning into a Whole Foods in his Tesla, by himself, wearing a mask. A perfect cultural moment.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 04, 2023 09:08 AM (W5GbK)

356 Been a minute since I've been here.

Still smells the same, though.

Morning roonz and roonettez, what's shakin'?

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 04, 2023 09:08 AM (CcOog)

357 One of the other neat things has been watching people insist that it's COVID that has done everything, because COVID gives people heart problems and everyone has had COVID.

The vaccine is safe and has had no ill effects because if you had ill effects it was COVID even if you didn't know you had COVID.

Posted by: The shots were safe and effective. Some people got safe, some people got effective. at January 04, 2023 09:08 AM (JTIc2)

358 >>Visiting in the area now and yesterday I was entertained to see a man turning into a Whole Foods in his Tesla, by himself, wearing a mask. A perfect cultural moment.

That always kills me - mask in care while alone!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 04, 2023 09:09 AM (mqu1M)

359 "I agree with Nevergiveup from yesterday that jumping to a default chorus of "he died because of the vaxx" makes "us" look stupid."

I think that it helps to prove first that the decedent actually was vaxed before making the conclusion. I was impressed by the doc "Died Suddenly," except that they did not do that. They yanked a bunch of clots, but did not prove the clotted victims were actually vaxed.

Posted by: Pour Your Misery Down On gp at January 04, 2023 09:10 AM (24fqN)

360 I comment occasionally here but not voluminously. Mostly my comments gather little, if any, attention. No problem because they’re not particularly interesting I admit. I’ve just had my biggest response ever in this thread. The topic? Sex with short people to save the planet - LOL. This illustrates why I love the horde. I didn’t even mention bewbs….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 04, 2023 09:10 AM (KhYTU)

361 I was entertained to see a man turning into a Whole Foods in his Tesla, by himself, wearing a mask.

Posted by: Huck Follywood

I once saw a magician turn into a restaurant.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 04, 2023 09:10 AM (lTGtQ)

362 I do hope you are not suggesting that is what I was saying.

Posted by: Muldoon
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I can't speak for him, but I didn't think that and have never thought along those lines. When discussing the matter I'm directing my comments towards corporate / government entities making the sweeping decisions and censorship.

Posted by: The shots were safe and effective. Some people got safe, some people got effective. at January 04, 2023 09:10 AM (JTIc2)

363 355 Earlier this morning, the news showed some Good Samaritans and a cop lifting a car that had a bicyclist pinned under it. Bike rider was masked.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 04, 2023 09:11 AM (lz5hY)

364 I have no idea if Hamlin's condition was caused by the vaccine or some other cause but I do know that the pharma/medical industry is as corrupt as they come. I have a lot of respect for some individual doctors including those here but the industry itself is just another part of the government complex at this point.

This is an excellent thread detailing some of the corrupt practices of Pfizer over the last number of years. Pushing untested drugs on people all over the world didn't start with the china virus vaccines. It's been going on for a very longtime and the medical community has abetted it.

It's perfectly valid to demand that we get answers on what exactly did happen to Hamlin because the entire world has been used as guinea pigs without consent.

https://tinyurl.com/mwfudd38

Posted by: JackStraw at January 04, 2023 09:11 AM (ZLI7S)

365 To whom? The people who have arranged a society in which I can no longer make well-informed decisions? The people who already think I'm stupid or evil or both? To the uncommitted low-information types who never figure out the score?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at January 04, 2023 08:57 AM

The same people think we're stupid for being capitalists. Think we're stupid for not believing in "global warming". Think we're stupid for not wearing masks. Think we're stupid for not believing men can be women. Think we're stupid for not mutilating children's sexual organs. And on and on and on.

This "we can't do or say anything for which the Left will criticize or make fun of us" attitude is exactly what Republicans have been doing for decades. As the old ESPN commercial stated, "there are no stupid questions, only stupid people who ask questions." In reality, all questions should be asked, about everything. Healthy discourse is always needed. No question is stupid. Being able to answer questions with facts and logic and more information is always a good thing.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 04, 2023 09:11 AM (Do5/p)

366 "So in that vacuum of hidden info and lies, people are going to speculate -- so we all become conspiracy theorists of some degree by simply trying to figure out what is real/not real. It sucks.

Posted by: Lizzy"

It reminds me of what I used to read about life in the Soviet Union. People knew they were being lied to continually, but tried to glean the truth by what was omitted, what lie was changed, what lie emphasized, who disappeared and who moved up in the photos. The one thing I know about covid for sure is practically everything the govt/MSM spews about it is lies.

Posted by: Ripley at January 04, 2023 09:12 AM (cUYo/)

367 >>I once saw a magician turn into a restaurant.

Man walks into a bar. Says "Ouch!"

Posted by: Lizzy at January 04, 2023 09:12 AM (mqu1M)

368 Biden to host Japanese PM Fumio Kishida at White House for economic and security consultations.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 04, 2023 09:12 AM (Vwz3I)

369 Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 04, 2023 09:08 AM (W5GbK)

I see people by themselves wearing a mask driving in a car with the windows down. Bizarre.

Posted by: dantesed at January 04, 2023 09:12 AM (88xKn)

370 He did a couple of Holy Land documentaries, In the Footsteps of Peter, and In the Footsteps of Paul, that are pretty good.

Robert Powell, who played Jesus in the 1977 film by Franco Zeffirelli, did a couple of documentaries himself, traveling the Holy Land in an effort to find the truth about Christ. They're entertaining, and Powell himself respectful, but the biggest surprise is how short Powell is.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 04, 2023 09:12 AM (AW0uW)

371
It was in the Wall Street Journal yesterday that reported repeatedly vaccinated 3 to 4 times as likely to catch c-19 as unvaccinated. The Wall Street Journal is one of the few newspapers I give a high award to.

But then I have a business background not medical.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 04, 2023 09:13 AM (enJYY)

372 McConnell and the other GOP Senate maggots who gave the "Biden" Administration everything they wanted for the next year did us all a favor: they formally killed the GOP. I suspect much of this has blown back of McCarthy, a despicable bastard as it is.

The bottom line is 200 or so Republican congressmen thinks this backstabbing liar is worthy to lead them. That speaks volumes.

Maybe individual states should put confidence/no confidence votes in the United States government on the ballot next time. I don't intend ever to vote again, but would in that instance or would if Trump were charged or indicted, since that would act as a no confidence vote.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at January 04, 2023 09:13 AM (KSNKu)

373 Posted by: JackStraw at January 04, 2023 09:11 AM (ZLI7S)

The notorious FDA has never been about safety. It's always been about State Capitalism* and barriers to entry.

* (which is, of course, not capitalism)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2023 09:13 AM (9UlRk)

374 The topic? Sex with short people to save the planet - LOL

Yeah, what I've taken away from this thread is that there are a lot of us short-arse morons, and we're all ready to selflessly do our bit to save the world.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at January 04, 2023 09:13 AM (KFhLj)

375
I hear the Democrats in KY are talking about marijuana legalization. Great news, I hope they pass it.

Having lived through this in CO, I can tell you, there are certain kinds of people who will pick up their lives and move to a State with legal marijuana. And those people are vagrants, idiots, and assorted other crumb-bums.

All neighboring states have to do is stand firm and keep weed illegal, even if it's a misdemeanor or whatever, and watch as Kentucky becomes the Upper South's septic tank pump truck.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 04, 2023 09:13 AM (oINRc)

376 Rasmussen Reports
@Rasmussen_Poll
We at Rasmussen Reports, aren't sensationalists.

This is our biggest poll ever.

73 MILLION AMERICANS say they know someone 'personally' they think died from the #CovidVaccines

Posted by: artisanal ette at January 04, 2023 09:13 AM (9qHsE)

377 The one thing I know about covid for sure is practically everything the govt/MSM spews about it is lies.

Posted by: Ripley at January 04, 2023 09:12 AM

The thing that bothers me most with the lies is they know that we know they are lying, but they don't care.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 04, 2023 09:13 AM (uNylN)

378 Mel Tillis for speaker of the house.
Posted by: The Sound Of One Foot Clapping

Marcel Marceau !
Posted by: JT

Earnest P. Worrell (Know what I mean Vern?)

Posted by: Tonypete at January 04, 2023 09:14 AM (qoGsy)

379
Rasmussen Reports
@Rasmussen_Poll

'Died Suddenly'? More Than 1-in-4 Think Someone They Know Died From COVID-19 Vaccines

Posted by: artisanal ette at January 04, 2023 09:14 AM (9qHsE)

380 Traveling the Holy Lands hoping to find the truth about Jesus is like traveling New Jersey hoping to find the truth about Woodrow Wilson.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2023 09:15 AM (9UlRk)

381 BOMBSHELL: 41% Of Americans Experienced At Least Minor Side Effects From The COVID-19 Jab, @Rasmussen_Poll Reports

Posted by: artisanal ette at January 04, 2023 09:15 AM (9qHsE)

382 I agree with Nevergiveup from yesterday that jumping to a default chorus of "he died because of the vaxx" makes "us" look stupid.
Posted by: Muldoon at January 04, 2023 08:45 AM (ykeLU)

As time goes on, it will become more obvious who's being stupid.
Posted by: Word to your mother at January 04, 2023 09:07 AM (3uf3+)
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What a thing to say, especially to Muldoon. You should go sit in the corner and wear your dunce hat.

Reflexively blaming a vaccine is just being...reflexive. It is the result of not thinking things through.

No one is saying the vaccine is not at fault, and it may well be! All that is being said is a common-sense statement that jumping to conclusions in the absence of facts is ignorant.

If the vaccine is at fault, which I am perfectly prepared to believe, we should encourage free investigation of the facts. Maybe, someday, that will be legal and expected again.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 04, 2023 09:15 AM (+Lhm6)

383 It's perfectly valid to demand that we get answers on what exactly did happen to Hamlin because the entire world has been used as guinea pigs without consent.

https://tinyurl.com/mwfudd38

Posted by: JackStraw at January 04, 2023 09:11 AM

Read that thread yesterday and meant to share it in comments somewhere yesterday and got caught up with work. Thanks for sharing it. Definitely an excellent, albeit depressing and enraging, read.

Here is the ThreadReaderApp Link: https://bit.ly/3GcH637

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 04, 2023 09:15 AM (Do5/p)

384 Mel Tillis for speaker of the house.

Posted by: The Sound Of One Foot Clapping at January 04, 2023 09:00 AM (5Ts23)

As long as he sings everything all will be well. He would be better than Thom Tillis by a long damn shot.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 04, 2023 09:16 AM (CcOog)

385 To whom? The people who have arranged a society in which I can no longer make well-informed decisions? ...
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at January 04, 2023 08:57 AM
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Your problem is lack of faith in our leaders. The world is a complicated place and questions of science, law, economy, industry, etc. are just too complex in the modern world for the lay person. We need - and are lucky enough to have - groups of experts committed to the public interest.

The reason for your discomfiture is your irrational lack of faith and trust in the experts who have the knowledge and capability to guide you toward good decisions. The root premise of your question is incorrect. You don't need to worry about "making well-informed decisions." In fact, it is impossible for *you* to make a well-informed decision. You can't because you don't know how and there is no way for you to learn because the world is so complicated that no non-expert can possibly begin to understand it.

The best-informed decision you can make is the decision to follow your leaders. Down that road lies contentment.

Posted by: Your Kid's Philosophy Professor at January 04, 2023 09:16 AM (t0OGg)

386 It seems to me, when someone asks if you have been praying, especially with the intent to stop it, the best answer is "Yes, but not as much as as should have been."

Posted by: Voyager at January 04, 2023 09:17 AM (u5PZm)

387 The best-informed decision you can make is the decision to follow your leaders. Down that road lies contentment.

Posted by: Your Kid's Philosophy Professor at January 04, 2023 09:16 AM (t0OGg)

Surprisingly true, as long as your leader is the King of Kings.

Posted by: grammie winger at January 04, 2023 09:18 AM (45fpk)

388 Biden to host Japanese PM Fumio Kishida at White House for economic and security consultations.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 04, 2023 09:12 AM (Vwz3I)
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That's going to be fun. I don't imagine that Japan's action last month on the military and economy are too popular in Washington. I hope Kishida can contain his desire to slap their faces, drop trou and moon them on his way out the door.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 04, 2023 09:18 AM (t0OGg)

389 Oh what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say "It wasn't the vaxx, how dare you!" at will to old ladies. There is a pestilence upon this land. Nothing is sacred. Even those who speculate about suspicious and untested experimental medical treatments are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.

Posted by: Roger the NFL Stretcher Bearer at January 04, 2023 09:18 AM (5Ts23)

390 ... Having lived through this in CO, I can tell you, there are certain kinds of people who will pick up their lives and move to a State with legal marijuana. And those people are vagrants, idiots, and assorted other crumb-bums. ...
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 04, 2023 09:13 AM (oINRc)
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I don't know how much of that was pot legalization per se or the fact that CO (and WA) were both desirable/cool places to live anyway *and* first across the line with the new rules.

I suppose we'll find out!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 04, 2023 09:19 AM (t0OGg)

391 I think that it helps to prove first that the decedent actually was vaxed before making the conclusion. I was impressed by the doc "Died Suddenly," except that they did not do that. They yanked a bunch of clots, but did not prove the clotted victims were actually vaxed.

Posted by: Pour Your Misery Down On gp
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Wasn't it Aaron Rodgers who had the entire MSM and Democrat party against him because he was discussing natural immunity and whether that qualified him medically under the rules of the NFL?

It's probably safe to assume that someone got the injection if they're playing in the NFL.

Posted by: The shots were safe and effective. Some people got safe, some people got effective. at January 04, 2023 09:20 AM (JTIc2)

392 Surprisingly true, as long as your leader is the King of Kings.
Posted by: grammie winger at January 04, 2023 09:18 AM (45fpk)

.... Xerxes?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2023 09:20 AM (9UlRk)

393 325
It's all that "bad veal" she eats every night. . .
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 04, 2023 08:55 AM (x0n13)

*narrator voice*

And by veal, J.J. means she munches on skanky pussy every night.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 04, 2023 08:58 AM (Zz0t1)

Bad veal, in French is (wait for it) . . . Mal veaux.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 04, 2023 09:20 AM (x0n13)

394 If the vaccine is at fault, which I am perfectly prepared to believe, we should encourage free investigation of the facts. Maybe, someday, that will be legal and expected again.

This is neutral-principles talk. It presupposes that investigation or open inquiry is permissible and that our opponents (enemies really, if we are being honest) are engaged in a good-faith dispute with us. But this is not what's happening in America, about Covid, vaccines, or anything else.The age of reason is over. This is the age of the orc.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at January 04, 2023 09:20 AM (KFhLj)

395 You should go sit in the corner and wear your dunce hat.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 04, 2023 09:15 AM (+Lhm6)

You should probably get started on blood thinners or at least a daily asprin. Don't get angry at us, it was your choice.

Posted by: Word to your mother at January 04, 2023 09:20 AM (3uf3+)

396 You should probably get started on blood thinners or at least a daily asprin. Don't get angry at us, it was your choice.
Posted by: Word to your mother at January 04, 2023 09:20 AM (3uf3+)

I read the blood thinners do not work against these "rubbery" or "plastic-like" clots. It won't break them down.

Posted by: artisanal ette at January 04, 2023 09:21 AM (9qHsE)

397 It seems to me, when someone asks if you have been praying, especially with the intent to stop it, the best answer is "Yes, but not as much as as should have been."
Posted by: Voyager at January 04, 2023 09:17 AM (u5PZm)

"Mind your own business." would be the correct answer, to which-

you may or may not, your choice, add the appellation "dickweed".

Posted by: naturalfake at January 04, 2023 09:21 AM (KLPy8)

398 392 Surprisingly true, as long as your leader is the King of Kings.
Posted by: grammie winger at January 04, 2023 09:18 AM (45fpk)

.... Xerxes?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2023 09:20 AM (9UlRk)

Xuxa > Xerxes.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 04, 2023 09:21 AM (x0n13)

399 BOMBSHELL: 41% Of Americans Experienced At Least Minor Side Effects From The COVID-19 Jab, @Rasmussen_Poll Reports
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I doubt that's true. I'm guessing it's closer to 90%+

Remember how *everyone* knew their arms were going to hurt like heck and that they'd feel like crap after the injection after receiving something that was created entirely in a lab and via a computer approximation?

It's neat how that wasn't counted as an adverse effect, isn't it?

Posted by: The shots were safe and effective. Some people got safe, some people got effective. at January 04, 2023 09:22 AM (JTIc2)

400 That's going to be fun. I don't imagine that Japan's action last month on the military and economy are too popular in Washington. I hope Kishida can contain his desire to slap their faces, drop trou and moon them on his way out the door.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 04, 2023 09:18 AM (t0OGg)
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Japan is leading right now on China, at least in the PR arena. I would love to hear the exchange with the bewildered Junta NatSec team.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 04, 2023 09:23 AM (+Lhm6)

401 34 There is no escape - it is the nature of fallen societies. Even if we are the one alone, crying in the wilderness we should not be afraid for God is always with us (Isaiah 40:3, John 1:23, Psalms 27:1)
Posted by: Tonypete at January 04, 2023 07:54 AM (qoGsy)

35 There really is no point to anything is there. The American Dream was marched behind the prison barracks and shot in the head. We're all fucked and there's zero chance of enjoying the ride along the way.
Posted by: It's one big pile of shit without one single redeeming piece od at January 04, 2023 07:55 AM (s2na+)

36 G'morning, y'all!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 04, 2023 07:55 AM (t0OGg)

THE HORDE!

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at January 04, 2023 09:23 AM (MkuC5)

402 Xuxa > Xerxes.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Whoa! I hadn't thought about Xuxa for years. Loved how she always kissed and hugged the fat kids on her show.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 04, 2023 09:24 AM (qoGsy)

403 In another couple years when the death rate among those that identify as being vaccinated against SARS-CoV-19 and its mutations is categorically and undeniably higher than normal, bring up the topic of potential malfeasance on the part of big pharma and FedGov.

Today everyone's minds are already set.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 04, 2023 09:24 AM (Q4IgG)

404 344 Mel Tillis for speaker of the house.
Posted by: The Sound Of One Foot Clapping

Marcel Marceau !
Posted by: JT at January 04, 2023 09:04 AM (T4tVD)

Non!

Posted by: Marcel Marceau at January 04, 2023 09:24 AM (PiwSw)

405
You should probably get started on blood thinners or at least a daily asprin. Don't get angry at us, it was your choice.
Posted by: Word to your mother at January 04, 2023 09:20 AM (3uf3+)
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again, you misjudge.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 04, 2023 09:24 AM (+Lhm6)

406 The age of reason is over. This is the age of the orc.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at January 04, 2023 09:20 AM (KFhLj)

Concur.

You know, I'd say, uh... since the war, our methods - our techniques, that is - and those of the Communists, have become very much the same. Yes. I mean, occasionally... we have to do wicked things. Very wicked things, indeed. But, uh, you can't be less wicked than your enemies simply because your policy is benevolent, can you?

Posted by: Control at January 04, 2023 09:24 AM (XQtRs)

407 Your problem is lack of faith in our leaders. The world is a complicated place and questions of science, law, economy, industry, etc. are just too complex in the modern world for the lay person. We need - and are lucky enough to have - groups of experts committed to the public interest.
The reason for your discomfiture is your irrational lack of faith and trust in the experts who have the knowledge and capability to guide you toward good decisions. The root premise of your question is incorrect. You don't need to worry about "making well-informed decisions." In fact, it is impossible for *you* to make a well-informed decision. You can't because you don't know how and there is no way for you to learn because the world is so complicated that no non-expert can possibly begin to understand it.

TL;DR - I find your lack of faith...disturbing.

Posted by: Darth GGE at January 04, 2023 09:25 AM (CcOog)

408 402 Xuxa > Xerxes.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Whoa! I hadn't thought about Xuxa for years. Loved how she always kissed and hugged the fat kids on her show.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 04, 2023 09:24 AM (qoGsy)

White European in a nation of mullato mestizos. And America is racist, right?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 04, 2023 09:25 AM (x0n13)

409 I would think that with the stakes on these players, both the teams and insurance companies have probed and prodded the players within an inch of their lives. Things like HOCM and WPW would have been found. That being said, it is all speculation and we will likely never get an honest answer.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 04, 2023 09:25 AM (C2ZTD)

410 Today everyone's minds are already set.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

No it isn't!! And you'll never change my mind!

Posted by: Tonypete at January 04, 2023 09:26 AM (qoGsy)

411
"Mind your own business." would be the correct answer, to which-

you may or may not, your choice, add the appellation "dickweed".
Posted by: naturalfake at January 04, 2023 09:21 AM (KLPy8

Take note of who's asking, for these are the harbingers of Satan and must be struck down by the hands of God.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 04, 2023 09:26 AM (Zz0t1)

412 Japan is leading right now on China, at least in the PR arena. I would love to hear the exchange with the bewildered Junta NatSec team.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 04, 2023 09:23 AM (+Lhm6)
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Me, too. But I suspect it will be more "enraged" than "bewildered." Japan essentially cucked them.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 04, 2023 09:26 AM (t0OGg)

413 57 Dr. Mercola on what the vaccine has wrought -- a deadly new killer that makes Covid look like a teddy bear.

https://tinyurl.com/4cm5f59e

Gotta keep the fear percolating in the back of the national mind in case the public gets too restless.. "deadly new strain requires lockdown for public safety!!!"

Posted by: azjaeger at January 04, 2023 09:27 AM (3/XaG)

414 409 That being said, it is all speculation and we will likely never get an honest answer.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 04, 2023 09:25 AM (C2ZTD)

And that right there is the nub of my disquisition from yesterday.

The absolute loss of trust.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 04, 2023 09:27 AM (x0n13)

415 But this is not what's happening in America, about Covid, vaccines, or anything else.The age of reason is over. This is the age of the orc.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at January 04, 2023 09:20 AM (KFhLj)
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Is the age of reason over? It may well be. Hope not, which is why I still argue in favor of it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 04, 2023 09:27 AM (+Lhm6)

416 In another couple years when the death rate among those that identify as being vaccinated against SARS-CoV-19 and its mutations is categorically and undeniably higher than normal, bring up the topic of potential malfeasance on the part of big pharma and FedGov.
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Sorry, the federal government unanimously voted to put the COVID-19 injection onto the childhood vaccination schedule before the emergency use authorization protections expired.

They're free from any major liability now. The most you can get is around $17K per person over a lifetime IIRC.

Posted by: The shots were safe and effective. Some people got safe, some people got effective. at January 04, 2023 09:27 AM (JTIc2)

417 @zerohedge · 5h
French Interior Minister Mocked After Saying "Only" 690 Cars Torched On New Year's Eve

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 04, 2023 09:27 AM (Vwz3I)

418 That being said, it is all speculation and we will likely never get an honest answer.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy,

******

That is indeed likely.

Posted by: Muldoon at January 04, 2023 09:28 AM (ykeLU)

419 Well, shit. My cousin's BIL just "died suddenly". Young, 40-something cop, good health, etc. Fuck.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 04, 2023 09:28 AM (TTbU0)

420
And that right there is the nub of my disquisition from yesterday.

The absolute loss of trust.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 04, 2023 09:27 AM (x0n13)

Yes. It's everywhere - but I think the medical establishment was one of the last institutions people broadly trusted. That's now over. The toothpaste can't be put back in the tube.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 04, 2023 09:29 AM (oINRc)

421
'Died Suddenly'? More Than 1-in-4 Think Someone They Know Died From COVID-19 Vaccines

I have my suspicions. Neighbor died of aneurysm with covid, before vaccine. His wife also contracted covid and survived. She then had to get the vaccine to enter assisted living. She died within three months. Doctor down the street contracted covid, survived easily. His pregnant wife miscarried. I suspect that both were vaccinated.

/ all I have is conjecture, but if a lot of people report you can see that something is happening and 'blacklisting' such reports is Soviet era censorship.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 04, 2023 09:29 AM (enJYY)

422 417 @zerohedge · 5h
French Interior Minister Mocked After Saying "Only" 690 Cars Torched On New Year's Eve
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 04, 2023 09:27 AM (Vwz3I)

But, but, but, Marine LePen is a crypto Nazi!!! From the country that was half in the bag for Petain and Hitler.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 04, 2023 09:29 AM (x0n13)

423 Japan essentially cucked them.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 04, 2023 09:26 AM (t0OGg)
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Japan has proposed a security alliance with India and Vietnam, both front line countries in actual periodic conflict with China. Again, quoting Sergeant Schultz, very interesting.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 04, 2023 09:29 AM (+Lhm6)

424
Wasn't it Aaron Rodgers who had the entire MSM and Democrat party against him because he was discussing natural immunity and whether that qualified him medically under the rules of the NFL?

It's probably safe to assume that someone got the injection if they're playing in the NFL.
Posted by: The shots were safe and effective. Some people got safe, some people got effective. at January 04, 2023 09:20 AM (JTIc2)

And the NBA player that refused the 'vaccine' because they couldn't tell him what was in it and since he's tested for everything, he wouldn't allow it in his body. He wasn't allowed to play for quite a while.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 04, 2023 09:29 AM (Zz0t1)

425 >>I don't know how much of that was pot legalization per se or the fact that CO (and WA) were both desirable/cool places to live anyway *and* first across the line with the new rules.

Per an acquaintance who works at the Boulder County jail: it was the pot. He said the change was dramatic and they have come from all over the country to CO because they get assistance AND pot. And this source was pro-pot legalization -- until he saw what it caused.

And yet, CO just legalized mushrooms - moar cowbell!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 04, 2023 09:29 AM (mqu1M)

426 In the 4th round, you gotta take a dive. You might feel a little sting, Kevin. That's just pride fucking with you.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 04, 2023 09:29 AM (C2ZTD)

427 Dr. Mercola on what the vaccine has wrought -- a deadly new killer that makes Covid look like a teddy bear.

https://tinyurl.com/4cm5f59e

Gotta keep the fear percolating in the back of the national mind in case the public gets too restless.. "deadly new strain requires lockdown for public safety!!!"

Posted by: azjaeger
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"COVID Jabs Have Erased 25 Years of Health Gains"

The neat part is that is almost identical to the academic loss:

"According to a press release from the N.C. Department of Public Instruction, the fourth- and eighth grade average math scores for North Carolina haven’t been this low since 2000."

https://tinyurl.com/musjdtyv

The only cure is money!!!

Posted by: The shots were safe and effective. Some people got safe, some people got effective. at January 04, 2023 09:30 AM (JTIc2)

428 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 04, 2023 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

429 'Died Suddenly'? More Than 1-in-4 Think Someone They Know Died From COVID-19 Vaccines
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Motorcycle deaths, murder/suicides, drug overdoses were all COVID-19 deaths.

But no post-vaccine deaths have anything whatsoever to do with the vaccine and how dare you.

Posted by: The shots were safe and effective. Some people got safe, some people got effective. at January 04, 2023 09:31 AM (JTIc2)

430 bobbie- Are you praying?
Isobel Spruce-Vaughn-
Yes, why aren't you?

Posted by: Eromero at January 04, 2023 09:32 AM (0OP+5)

431 nood ho's

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 04, 2023 09:32 AM (Vwz3I)

432 ... Per an acquaintance who works at the Boulder County jail: it was the pot. He said the change was dramatic and they have come from all over the country to CO because they get assistance AND pot. And this source was pro-pot legalization -- until he saw what it caused. ...
Posted by: Lizzy at January 04, 2023 09:29 AM (mqu1M)
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Right, I was unclear.

My question is, "would the same downsides have been seen if CO had been, say, 10th to legalize pot rather than first?" It's impossible to answer, but watching states doing so now might an indicator. Being first will pull a lot of the pot enthusiast element in at high volume.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 04, 2023 09:33 AM (t0OGg)

433 Again, quoting Sergeant Schultz, very interesting.
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Wrong greatcoat-wearer.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 04, 2023 09:34 AM (Vwz3I)

434 >>>>I don't know how much of that was pot legalization per se or the fact that CO (and WA) were both desirable/cool places to live anyway *and* first across the line with the new rules.

The black market became huge, not small (I don't know why in particular but I understand unintended consequences in general) which defies all predictions by Goth Fonzie.

Correlating crime, robbery and murder, also spiked upward. The good news is that your state can't crater as badly as Colorado because you wouldn't be the first to legalize.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 04, 2023 09:34 AM (44ww/)

435 Saving the planet requires nothing more difficult than having sex with short people. I had no idea, but I suppose I’m game."
Insanity Wrap: Eugenics Experts Advise Having Sex with Short People?

I heartily endorse this.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 04, 2023 09:35 AM (Y+l9t)

436 These People: "We can't have Kevin McCarthy! I'm voting third party for Trump!"

Trump: "Support Kevin McCarthy."

Posted by: Hippogryph at January 04, 2023 09:35 AM (kdklL)

437 "According to a press release from the N.C. Department of Public Instruction, the fourth- and eighth grade average math scores for North Carolina haven’t been this low since 2000."

It's not like public education was the pinnacle of success anyway, but the damage done to it by Teachers Inc. (unions) and Boreds of Education has been criminal.

But it don't mean nothin' till someone goes to FPMITA prison.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 04, 2023 09:36 AM (CcOog)

438 A few elections ago, I decided that being offered a crap sandwich and being told I must choose which side to take a bite out of didn't alter the fact that it was a crap sandwich, which I didn't want.

I'm a lot happier with my voting decisions now.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 04, 2023 09:38 AM (nRMeC)

439 Good morning, Horde, and thank you, J.J.

29. .... I simply don't care. And I won't until the entire edifice of treachery and fakery is burned down and rebuilt into something that resembles actual representation By the People, For the People. Posted by: Lady in Black, Jan 4

All of it, expressing my exact thoughts.
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But one positive thing has happened, though more locally related, an email from Kathy Burnett with her Road to Winning in Pennsylvania program.

She's posted events that are different & include a Chinese New Year Senior Citizens food drive and providing information about School Board Training, hosted by Democrats, and how it could be a great way to learn about a plethora of different school board strategies.

She ends with, "Remember, ALL of our elected officials work for us. Please check out the details below.
In the future, more details about my plans to help with school board races in 2023 will be revealed."

I'm also keeping an eye on Texas Rep Chip Roy. He's apparently been labelled "the GOP agitator." So be it.
He's got my blessing.

Posted by: Lola at January 04, 2023 09:45 AM (p39Z2)

440 It's probably safe to assume that someone got the injection if they're playing in the NFL.

Posted by: The shots were safe and effective. Some people got safe, some people got effective. at January 04, 2023 09:20 AM

Someone posted something yesterday or the day before stating that ~94% of players, coaches, personnel in the NFL have reportedly received at least one clot shot. Based on data s/he shared in the comment. Wish there was a way to easily search past comments for stuff like this...

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 04, 2023 09:50 AM (Do5/p)

441 Motorcycle deaths, murder/suicides, drug overdoses were all COVID-19 deaths.

But no post-vaccine deaths have anything whatsoever to do with the vaccine and how dare you.

Posted by: The shots were safe and effective. Some people got safe, some people got effective. at January 04, 2023 09:31 AM

Recall the narrative also states that any adverse reactions within X days of receiving the clot shot were not due to the clot shot, because it did not have enough time to take effect. So any adverse effects during that time period were all attributed to COVID.

All the data from Day 1 of the Plandemic is FUBAR. Garbage in, garbage out. There is absolutely nothing that is trustworthy. Even the "cases" were redefined mid-Plandemic. And the "tests" they were doing to determine "cases" were faulty. An actual case started out as "COVID+ test and symptoms". It then morphed into "COVID+ test" only, even if asymptomatic.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 04, 2023 09:55 AM (Do5/p)

442 there are many reasons to reject McCarthy, but having Frank Luntz as the chief strategist for the House GOP is reason enough alone

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at January 04, 2023 10:07 AM (V6W16)

443 And the NBA player that refused the 'vaccine' because they couldn't tell him what was in it and since he's tested for everything, he wouldn't allow it in his body. He wasn't allowed to play for quite a while.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 04, 2023 09:29 AM

Kyrie Irving

Don't forget Novak Djokovic, #1 tennis player in the world, was banned from competing in numerous tournaments over his refusal to get the clot shot.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 04, 2023 10:11 AM (Do5/p)

444 It turns out that what was reported was quite accurate: a Christian pro-life leader in England was arrested not simply for standing in front of an abortion clinic. She was also arrested for the crime of praying while standing there, even though she was simply praying in her own head. Talk about being prosecuted for a "thought crime." This really and truly happened.

Yep, Paul Joseph Watson showed the video of the arrest a week or so ago.

https://bit.ly/3WLNeWW

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 04, 2023 10:29 AM (Do5/p)

445 If you are voting for the lesser of two evils, then you are still voting for evil.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at January 04, 2023 10:49 AM (b306O)

446 McCarthy is very good at getting himself re-elected again and again IN CALIFORNIA.
Jesus, what more do you need to know?

FJB

Posted by: jbspry at January 04, 2023 11:09 AM (Ms35u)

447 The US is not headed in the UK's direction it's already there.

What was Trump's crime which led to literal persecution by the FBI and corporate government/business? The Englishwoman is less powerful than the American president but was less attacked than Trump . What of general Flynn, what crime did he commit? Roger Stone,Steve Bannon all attacked for just being employed by Trump.Stone imprisoned and Bannon facing incarceration for thoughtcrime.

J6 demonstrators arrested ,imprisoned and still 18 months later waiting for a trial. Apparently some of them have been violently attacked by prison staff for the crime of singing the national anthem.

The UK,US,Canada,New Zealand and Australia are all roughly in the same spot.

Posted by: Jake Fapper at January 04, 2023 11:10 AM (xmYE5)

448 As I watched Fox last night, I kept wondering why no one asked, "Why don't the Dems throw 30 votes to McCarthy?"

Posted by: leber at January 04, 2023 01:46 PM (TUdnY)

449 I am making $0.090 an hour working from home. I never imagined that it was honest to goodness yet my closest companion is earning $0.16 a month by working Rosa DeLauro's carborundum-encrusted piss flaps with this tongue, that was truly astounding for me, she prescribed for me to attempt it simply.
Here's what I've been doing.. www.EatRosaDeLaurosTaint.com

Posted by: www.PryOpenDeLaurosThighs7.com at January 04, 2023 02:31 PM (hQFBj)

450 It's..."cute" how people still think we can vote our way back to true Constitutional government when the marxist/woketard/globalist cabal are the ones "counting" the votes.

Exercise. Practice survival skills. Be ready. Stop giving money to companies that are literally using your money to pay for the destruction of our once Christian Western and moral nation the greatest that ever existed.

There is no deus ex machina coming to help us.

Posted by: Pete at January 04, 2023 03:55 PM (9uoO8)

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