The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 12/9/24

Good morning kids. Obviously the big news is the collapse of the Basher Assad regime in Syria. While it is certainly satisfying when a bloody tyrant and his thugs bite the dust. Lest we forget that the "rebels" who overthrew them are not Luke Skywalker and Company nor George Washington and the continentals. While Assad and before him his father and their Baath Party were Muslim, they raped, pillaged, plundered and waged war, primarily against the state of Israel mostly for their own personal and semi-secular political benefit. For sure they hated Jews as well as Chrstians and other non-Muslim minorities like the Kurds, as a means of ingratiating themselves with the rest of the Muslim world, especially post-Shah Iran. Syria had been and when the dust settles, may yet remain a forward base for the mullahs in their war to eradicate Israel. I assume that this rebel group, the heretofore little known Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) will no doubt seek arms and assistance from Iran to continue to wage Jihad primarily against Israel and with 1,500 years of Islam already in the books, written with the blood of thousands of its victims, the ultimate goal is world domination.

I am not optimistic. HTS is certainly not going to establish a "pluralistic democracy." They have no guiding democratic principles to steer the new regime toward tolerance and power-sharing.
The Syrian people may not realize it now, but they've just exchanged one brutal tyrant for a fanatical, brutal tyrant. I would suggest that Western governments think long and hard before sending the hundreds of billions of dollars needed to rebuild the country.

"Pluralistic democracy?!" Comedy Gold!! The Syrian people are mere spectators, and sadly many are victims of the Assads as well as their own Imams and Mullahs. For me, it's a big stretch to assume that there is some percentage let alone a majority that wants a just and peaceful society and who are willing to live in peace with Israel, let alone the Christians and Kurds and other ethnic/religious minorities within their own borders? Sorry but these innocent people, are going to have to sort out their own affairs for themselves. Put down the shisha pipe and stop getting high on the Koran and the other hatreds and prejudices passed down in their collective bloodstream since time immemorial.

This veteran of Afghanistan totally gets it:

When analyzing our Islamic extremist enemies, it is important for the American people to understand the tribal mindset that so many of our enemies come from. Islam developed from tribal cultures, and many tribal cultures over the past 1,400 years developed under Islam. The Islamic world itself is divided into what I would describe as tribes; you have the Sunni tribe, the Shia tribe, and within that are thousands of other tribes, one of the most recent being the “Palestinian” tribe which has become somewhat of a self-appointed identity by various lost members of other tribes. But in Afghanistan, tribalism is at a level that is virtually unparalleled in the world.
It is human nature to coalesce together into groups, but when you add Islam to the mix, it fuels different dynamics that are completely alien to Westerners. The tribal mindset is so vastly different than our own that it often makes it impossible to reason with them, and they will not respond logically or rationally as you might assume an American or other Westerner would. To Westerners, the tribal mindset may contain many elements that are quite shocking and deeply disturbing. . .
. . . Most people there got it. But back in Washington, and among so many in the higher ranks in the military trying to please those in Washington, there was a complete disconnect from the reality on the ground, and a complete misunderstanding of just who our enemy is, how they think, and how ferociously determined they are.

The title of his essay says it all "People Who Fought In Afghanistan Know Why Nation-Building Was Never Going To Work."

I hope and pray that President-elect Donald Trump and his advisers get this as well. As CBD and I discussed on the latest episode of the podcast, In many corners of the globe, our foes seem to be preemptively realizing that they are going to have to start behaving. Of course, Islam being Islam, nasty surprises are likely going to come our way regardless of who is in office.

By the way, lest we forget it was the covert gun-running scheme of Obama, Clinton, McCain and others to "rebels" in Syria from our embassy in Benghazi, that ultimately resulted in the brutal deaths of four of our embassy staffers, that the aforementioned let die so that their criminal enterprise would not be expsosed. G-d bless their memory and may justice be served to Obama, Clinton , McCain and everyone else involved.

Meanwhile, for something completely different, vis a vis the cold-blooded murder of the United Healthcare CEO last week and some of the reactions to it.

On Friday, I wrote: The sick irony here is that the insurance industry, like much of the healthcare industry was essentially completely devoured by the US government with the passage of Obamacare in 2010.

To which a commenter, who shall remain nameless, replied:

That almost sounds apologetic toward the insurance industry -- but who is it who wrote Obamacare? Oh, the Dems porked it up past the gills, but the fundamental legislation was the dream sheet of medical insurance, fully giving them a mandate, enforceable under the law, that everyone MUST use their product. The insurance industry was not devoured by Obamacare; they set the friggin' table for it.

While I cannot argue with this, it is in no way apologetic to the Insurance industry. But much like the pros in the propaganda press, the commenter cherry picked one line, and ignored the entire paragraph:

The sick irony here is that the insurance industry, like much of the healthcare industry was essentially completely devoured by the US government with the passage of Obamacare in 2010. So that only compounded their inherent, and primarily government-caused flaws prior to that date, via the vast bureaucratic garbage that lines the pockets of politicians, bureaucrats and go-along-to-get-along C-suite denizens in the aforementioned industries along with of course Big Pharma. Here's your fascism, Leftists, right here! Get it while it's hot. Pro-tip, it's not Trump. It's Democrats and RINOs pointing the gun of big government power at the head of business and forcing them in bed with them. Sadly, some don't need the threat and are eager to play the part of [the Krupps, et al] to the real literal Hitlers in this re-enactment of pre-1933 election Germany.

To reiterate, Here's your fascism, Leftists. Since they are baying for the blood of Insurance company executives, funny how they don't see that it's the Dept. of HHS that regulates them like every other industry out the Wah-zoo. That makes HHS the real CEO. Is it cruel and amoral to shakedown the critically ill or deny claims, even if it means cutting into the bottom line just because HHS won't back you or will push you if you defy them? of course. Is it justifiable or moral to gun down someone in cold blood? NO!

Yes, the insurance companies created the mess, with the eager assistance of venal pols looking to wet their beaks ages ago, then jumped into bed with Obama and his minions willingly or otherwise when they should've defied him, regardless of the consequences. It's yet another example of moral and cultural rot, which is not as in your face yet just as corrosive as what comes out of the lecture halls, faculty lounges, Hollywood sound stages and TV newsrooms. Indeed, the past 60 or more years of the latter is what led to the former in the C-Suites.

Regardless of whatever dire medical circumstances the shooter found himself or his loved one in and denied coverage, there can be zero tolerance nor justification for cold-blooded murder.

Okay, basta cosi on that. I'm very happy to say that someone else has publicly picked up on another brainwave I had in the past week or so:

Despite there being a hung jury on the manslaughter charge against subway “vigilante” Daniel Penny, the charge of criminally negligent homicide still remains on the ledger for the jury to decide.
In light of all that, Rep. Eli Crane (R-Ariz.) has taken it upon himself to introduce a House Resolution to award Penny with a Congressional Gold Medal for “his heroism.”
“A BILL To award a Congressional Gold Medal to Daniel Penny, who protected women and children of the city of New York, New York, from violence on May 1, 2023,” the introduction to the HR reads.
Daniel Penny’s actions exemplify what it means to stand against the grain to do right in a world that rewards moral cowardice. I’m immensely proud to introduce this resolution to award him with the Congressional Gold Medal to recognize his heroism.

Give one to Kyle Rittenhouse too.

And Donald Trump is likely to grant a mass pardon of all the J-6 political prisoners still languishing in and/or had their lives destroyed by the Garland Archipelago for the mere act of first amendment protected speech and the right to peacefully protest.

That thug with a badge Michael Byrd who committed actual murder – at the behest of Nancy Pelosi and whoever else with malice aforethought opened the Capitol doors, in shooting an unarmed and passive Ashli Babbit to death and the unidentified goons of the Capitol PD and/or DoJ who stomped and choked Roseanne Boyland to death go free and are feted as heroes is abhorrent in the extreme.

let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

Have a great day.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

But the reaction from the left is directly tied to this post-legal reality, where nobody believes in the law, trusts the law, or respects the law. And why follow what you don’t believe, trust, or respect? Just beneath the periphery of the frontpage, there’s an active campaign on the left to mythologize the grinning assassin — and to transform this cold-blooded murderer into a modern-day Robin Hood. Consider these headlines . . .
The Death Cult: How a Liberal Media and a Delusional Left Will Turn an Assassin into a Hero
It’s a bizarre and infuriating saga, from a woman’s murder to her killer’s promotion.
Why Are Dems Appeasing the Cop Who Killed Ashli Babbitt?

ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS/Hezbollah . . . AND BIDEN

President-elect Donald Trump warned earlier this month that there will be “ALL HELL TO PAY” if Hamas does not release the remaining 100 Israeli hostages, including several Americans. That threat, accompanied by behind-the-scenes diplomacy, seems to have focused minds in the region.
Report: Hamas Prepares for Hostage Deal After Trump Victory, Threat
"Sources within various Palestinian terror groups in Gaza say that Hamas has told them to compile information on the hostages they hold in preparation for a ceasefire and hostage deal with Israel," reports the Times of Israel. "Hamas has told factions including Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front and the Popular Resistance Committees to prepare information such as whether their hostages are alive or dead, the sources tell AFP."
Trump's Victory Sparks Breakthrough in Hamas Hostage Standoff

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Inappropriate to place a Jew on a scarf that has become a symbol of those who want to destroy Israel and exterminate Jews.
Vatican Nativity Scene has Jesus Lying on Keffiyeh Scarf
Almost half a century on, Saul Bellow’s To Jerusalem and Back still reads as an uncannily accurate take on Israel, the United States, and the enemies of the West.
“The Civilized World Seems Tired of Its Civilization”
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Robert Spencer: But before too long, we may have to pay the jizya to visit there.
We’ll Always Have Paris
A 64-year-old Eritrean grabbed the 20-year-old American's buttocks, and a struggle ensued. . . Prosecutors don’t believe she meant to kill the man, but still don’t believe it was within the bounds of self-defense.
Germany Charges American For Stabbing Migrant Who Sexually Assaulted Her
The Iraqi had allegedly posted online about his support for the terrorist Islamic State group and had posted photographs of the Christmas Market in Augsburg. He had also communicated his desire to drive a vehicle through the market, copying the 2016 Berlin Christmas market attack that saw a dozen killed by a rejected Tunisian asylum seeker.
Police Foil Yet Another Christmas Market Terror Plot in Europe.
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
Two Milwaukee men are on trial for standing up against anti-Semitism.
Punished for opposing anti-Semitism
Christian Toto: Film festivals block Israeli titles (even apolitical tales) in post-Oct. 7 world
Report: Israeli Artists Censored by Hollywood
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Robert Spencer: And it’s nothing less than ominous.
Obama Accuses Republicans of What Democrats are Doing
The writer lived four blocks away from the Capitol, was let in by police, entered Nancy Pelosi’s office, stood steps away from Ashli Babbitt’s shooting, spent two months in federal prison, and is the only J6 protester facing a civil suit.
A J6 Testimony
With just six weeks until he assumes the presidency, President-elect Donald Trump has reaffirmed his commitment to issue pardons for January 6th political prisoners and said that it will be a top priority on his first day in office. (unless they all get Epsteined beforehand - jjs)
Trump's Big Plan for Day One Will Really Trigger the Democrats
In its endorsement, NPA lauds Patel’s credentials, including his accomplishments as a federal prosecutor, legal liaison to the Joint Special Operations Command, Senior Counsel to the House Intelligence Committee and Chief of Staff to the Acting Secretary of Defense . . .
National Police Association Endorses Kash Patel to be Trump’s FBI Director
Never let a crisis go to waste, right?
How Trump Can Leverage the Hunter Biden Pardon
The Academy defended its admissions approach, stating that having a racially diverse group of naval officers contributes to national security and bolsters the military’s standing.
Judge Upholds Anti-White Race-Based Admissions at Naval Academy.
"BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
These announcements come amidst record inward illegal immigration patterns during President Joe Biden’s government. Trump’s campaign had foregrounded stricter border controls, often highlighting crimes linked to illegal immigrants.
BREAKING: Trump To End ‘Birthright Citizenship’ on Day One.
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
Victor Davis Hanson: This unprecedented pardon is not aberrant. It is characteristic of the left’s recent contempt for the rule of law.
Biden’s Paranoid Pardons and Leftist Morality
Andrea Widburg: While the most satisfying thing would be to see those who defrauded Americans or committed actual criminal acts face the music, there may be something better.
If Biden does grant mass pardons, there may be a benefit for America
This raises a question. When will Biden pardon the rest of his family members and himself? Stay tuned.
LARRY ELDER: Biden Confirms What Conservatives Have Known All Along
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Our self-styled elites have nothing but disdain for the true refugees who made it to America, where their hard work helped build this country’s greatness.
[Inbred Degenerate murder suspect] Joe Scarborough Snidely Wants to Know Who Raised True Americans
Delaware Federal District Court Judge, Jennifer Hall, ruled that Carlson’s reporting on Epps was protected under the First Amendment because Epps’ lawyers did not prove Carlson had acted with “actual malice.”
You Might Have Missed It, But Ray Epps’ Lawsuit Against Tucker Went Down In Flames
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
“Trade paradigms tend to undermine themselves. Policy levers for rebuilding manufacturing might include things beyond trade.”
A Resilience Paradigm for Trade
“Biden’s economic legacy, besides 40-year-high inflation and record debt, could perhaps best be described as transforming the American labor market into a temp agency for foreign workers and government bureaucrats,” E.J. Antoni, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget, told the Daily Caller News Foundation regarding the increasing disparity between foreign and native-born employment. “He [Biden] has left behind blue collar America to import new blue voters.”
It Only Took 12 Months For Roughly 1,000,000 Native-Born Jobs To Vanish Under Biden-Harris
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Prosecutors hope jurors will vote to convict Penny on the lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide
Judge Drops Manslaughter Charge Against Daniel Penny After Jury Deadlocks
“A BILL To award a Congressional Gold Medal to Daniel Penny, who protected women and children of the city of New York, New York, from violence on May 1, 2023,” the introduction to the HR reads. (Wow, Rep Crane must lurk here! - jjs)
Rep. Eli Crane Proposes Congressional Gold Medal for Subway Hero Daniel Penny
Stuart Worby, 40, procured the abortion medications mifepristone and misoprostol through a friend who posed as a woman needing an abortion during a phone consultation.
UK man jailed after sexually assaulting woman, force feeding her abortion pills during 'kinky sex'
Mere hours after she filed a police report, she blasted the police for not immediately locating her stolen possessions.
COMEDY gOLD!!!: ‘Defund the police’ activist goes viral after begging for help when everything she owned was stolen in San Francisco: ‘The cops didn’t do shit!’
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE+Fauci-created CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
Lloyd Billingsley: Back to the future with white coat supremacist Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Faucism Forever?
But there is one bizarre and unbelievable assertion.
Extensive COVID Report Shows How Government Failed Americans
SECOND AMENDMENT
On Wednesday, a shooter entered a Christian school in Oroville, California leaving two kindergarteners in critical condition before turning the gun on himself.
Anti-2A Advocates Downplay Christian School Shooting By a Terrorism Sympathizer as a 'Gun Violence' Problem (Sure as the sun rises in the east - jjs)
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
The National Association of Scholars calls for Trump’s education policies to prioritize excellence, accountability, and school responsibility for student loans while rejecting ideological influence.
Education Priorities for Trump: Yes to Excellence and Accountability, No to Ideology and Business as Usual
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
When your opening line is, “I’m Joni Ernst, I grew up castrating hogs on an Iowa farm,” not only do you have our attention — you’ve got us squirming in our seats. (Ouch.). . .In the past, nobody would’ve pointed out the blatant hypocrisy of hedging her support for Hegseth, yet enthusiastically backing Lloyd Austin — or how she’s increasingly out of step with her base on key military issues, including trans people in active service.
The Political Castration of Joni Ernst
Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) will become Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) on Monday, December 9, after current Sen. Laphonza Butler (D-CA) resigned abruptly, allowing California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) to appoint Schiff early. The gambit, while technically legal, is an evident attempt by California to gain an edge in the Senate by giving Schiff seniority over newly-elected Senators from other states, who will only be sworn into their offices on January 3, 2025.
Schiff-for-Brains to Take Office Monday, Not in January, After Newsom Makes Power Play to Help California
POLITICS
Daniel Greenfield: After Biden’s defeat, Democrats prepare to purge their senior citizens.
No Party for Old Men
Clarice Feldman: While Biden disgraces the presidency, Donald Trump is treated as acting had of state.
A Tale of Two Parties
“It felt like at the rallies, at the things I was going to, the shops I was going in, that the momentum was going our way, and it obviously wasn’t at the end,” Governor Walz told Minnesota’s KSTP-TV. He continued: “So yeah, I was a little surprised. I thought we had a positive message, and I thought the country was ready for that.”
Tim Walz Actually Thought Voters Would Embrace Bizarre Democratic Presidential Campaign.
ASSAD REGIME COLLAPSES"
This is a historic day for the Middle East. The collapse of the Assad regime, the tyranny in Damascus, offers great opportunity but also is fraught with significant dangers. This collapse is the direct result of our forceful action against Hezbollah and Iran, Assad’s main supporters. It set off a chain reaction of all those who want to free themselves from this tyranny and its oppression.
WATCH: Netanyahu on Fall of Assad Regime in Syria: ‘Great Opportunity, Significant Dangers’
The Syrian people may not realize it now, but they've just exchanged one brutal tyrant for a fanatical, brutal tyrant. I would suggest that Western governments think long and hard before sending the hundreds of billions of dollars needed to rebuild the country.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Flees as Damascus Falls to the Rebels
The mountain, covered in snow during the winter months, is the highest in the region, and a key strategic point. Israel has a military base on the mountainside, but Syria has long had a military base on the peak of the mountain itself.
Israel Seizes Strategic Peak of Mount Hermon from Syria
And what it means for the Middle East.
Why Assad Fell
“There should be no doubt — we will not allow ISIS to reconstitute and take advantage of the current situation in Syria,” CENTCOM’s commander, General Michael Erik Kurilla, said. “All organizations in Syria should know that we will hold them accountable if they partner with or support ISIS in any way.”
US, Israel Conduct Dozens Of Strikes, Hit Over 75 Targets In Wake Of Syria’s Regime Collapse
A world is disappearing, and we are the poorer for it.
Syria's archbishop warns that Christianity will be decimated in Aleppo
The rebels that overthrew the government are terrorists.
Ex-CENTCOM Chief On Syria’s Collapse: ‘Not Sure It’s Ultimately Going To Be Good News For Syria’ (Gee, ya think?! - jjs)
Daniel Greenfield: So much for 'Stop This Terrorist'.
US Has $10M Reward Out for Syria Terror Leader We’re Negotiating With
I have to admit I'm looking forward to the side-effects of a bunch of Trump's picks getting into the Cabinet and doing something similar with the Epstein passenger lists, the other 30,000 hours of the tapes from the Capitol "insurrection," and the records of the extensive wiretapping and surveillance of Trump and the Trump campaign. The Assad records, assuming they become public and I strongly suspect they will, may be 100 times worse than any of these, and comparable to the records of the Nazi Sicherheitsdienst and the death camps
Interesting Times: Assad's Gestapo Didn't Clean Up Before They Fled
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
The weekend’s celebration, which drew an estimated 50 world leaders and high security, kicks off an octave of events marking the restoration of the famous twelfth-century Gothic church to its place in Catholic liturgical life and French tourism following a devastating April 15, 2019 fire. Firefighters stood helpless as the blaze — believed to have been accidentally ignited by an electrical failure or a lit cigarette — consumed the roof and spire of the UNESCO World Heritage Site. Seemingly thwarting their efforts to douse the flames with water was a centuries’ old waterproofing technique involving covering the roof with a lead sheet.
‘A Very Special Day For All’: Trump Returns To World Stage, Joins Reopening Celebrations At Notre Dame Cathedral
Miranda Devine: As Trump is feted by world leaders and royalty in Paris, holds preliminary peace talks with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky and sends his envoy to the Middle East, the inauguration next month seems like a mere formality. . . The other thing Trump’s friends tell him is that, with a single election, he managed to vanquish the “Five Families” of politics: the Bushes, Cheneys, Clintons, Obamas and Bidens.
In the eyes of the world, America is back thanks to Donald Trump — Whether they like it or not
In Afghanistan, tribalism is at a virtually unparalleled level. Westerners have no idea how deeply disturbing that tribalism can be. (with Islam the cherry on top of the tribalism - jjs)
People Who Fought In Afghanistan Know Why Nation-Building Was Never Going To Work
Mexico reinstitutes slavery with the help of Cuba.
Mexico cheating by using Cuban doctors
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
The march is being organized by Navy SEAL veteran Bill “Freak” Brown, the founder of the New York City SEAL Swim across the Hudson River, which Hegseth has participated in for several years.
EXCLUSIVE — Over 100 Navy SEAL Veterans, War Fighters to March in Support of Pete Hegseth
Business records reveal how DJI has already maneuvered to sidestep its pending US ban
This Chinese Drone Company Found a Workaround to Congress's Ban on Doing Business in the US—Before the Ban Is Even Passed
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
For years going on decades, presidents of both parties have used executive action to spend money Congress never fully authorized.
Reining In Federal Spending Must Start With The Executive Branch
The idea, which Donald Trump supports, could play an important role in American revitalization.
Building Freedom Cities
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
Yet, No one has yet been known to become ill with this virus from drinking raw.
Here We Go Again? USDA Mandates Nationwide Milk Testing as Bird Flu Cases Surge.
Under the new federal order, regulators can collect samples for testing from dairy farms and during milk transportation or processing. Private laboratories must report any positive findings. Initially, this testing program will be implemented in California, Colorado, Michigan, Mississippi, Oregon, and Pennsylvania. The USDA indicated that the order aims to “identify where the disease is present, monitor trends, and help states identify potentially affected herds.”
Dozens of Cases of Old-Time Disease Scurvy Reported in Canada
One doctor has murdered more than 430 patients — not counting unborn babies. She is still practicing this twisted ‘medicine.’
Canada’s ‘Doctor Death’ Has Killed Hundreds Of Patients And Counting
“Expert” claims a torrent of diseases will “come crashing down” on the Trump administration “on January 21st.” . . . How the hell does he know this?! Did he misspeak, or is he privy to a biological attack set for January 21st? Is he just trying to scare people? And how does he know that these viruses/diseases won’t “come crashing down” on the Biden junta on, say, December 21st or January 6th?
The virus apocalypse is coming (according to Dr. Peter Hotez)
Draft standards call on doctors to ‘develop an equitable and just scientific knowledge base.’
Top Neuropsychology Organizations Poised To Make ‘Equity, Justice, and Inclusion’ a Core Part of Training Guidelines (think about this if God-forbid you have to go under the knife - jjs)
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
The new Hubble views of the environment around the quasar show a lot of “weird things,”
Hubble takes a different look at quasar 3C 273
JAXA should get out of the business of building rockets, as its track record is really horrible.
Japan’s space agency admits first launch of its new Epsilon-S rocket will be delayed

FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
The post was met with many comments slamming the Biden junta's priorities and looking forward to the coming Trump administration in January.
Biden’s HHS Celebrates ‘Pansexual and Panromantic Pride Day’
A Michigan group received federal funds for a “family therapy” program that instructs parents to affirm their child’s gender confusion — and enlists public school districts in the effort.
Biden Junta Cut Big Check To Activists Using Schools As Recruiting Grounds For LGBT ‘Family Therapy’ Program
It’s being called the most significant case of the current Supreme Court term — United States v. Skrmetti. The attorney general sat down with us to discuss his pivotal role in the case and his defense of a state law aimed at protecting minors from transgender medical procedures.
‘A Very Consequential Precedent’: AG Skrmetti Unpacks Landmark Supreme Court Case
After spending her entire adolescent years undergoing permanent destruction to her body, Breen is now seeking justice at 20 years old.
LAWSUIT Against America's Leading Gender Doctor for Mutilating Child, Cutting Off Breasts at 14 (Sue his ass off and get Kalid Sheikh Mohammed's rusty hacksaw to saw hIs head off [rhetorically speaking wink-wink - jjs)
Nothing we see happening should come as a surprise. The Marxists, now from Beijing, not Moscow, are pushing forward with the pinko plan that goes back decades.
The Marxism in Front of You That You Can't Unsee, Volume I: Trans Insanitys
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
If this is the state of not only childhood but adulthood in America, it's no wonder that we've found ourselves in a state where coddling, lying, and upholding fantasy over reality have become the norm.
Temper-tantrum throwing Walmart girl reveals where American parents—and society—have gone wrong
In Go Woke, Go Broke: The Inside Story of the Radicalization of Corporate America, Charles Gasparino called the Bud Light fiasco the “desecration of a great American brand.”
The Beginning of the End of DEI – In the Private Sector and Our Universities
Favreau and Lovett were speechwriters for Obama, and Vietor a spokesman. In what looks like an attempt to mainstream left-wing extremism, their shop features blue antifa onesies for babies, as well as blue antifa shirts for toddlers and youth. Molotov cocktail baby bottles? - jjs)
Obama Bros’ Crooked Media Store Sells Antifa Onesies; ‘Antifa Dad Hats’ (
HITHER & YON
Naomi Wolf: The Dems weren't reading their Bibles, nor their classics.
The Ceremony of Innocence

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1 Happy Monday

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 09, 2024 07:33 AM (gbOdA)

2 Thank you, JJ!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 09, 2024 07:34 AM (a1415)

3 It's boxing day.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 09, 2024 07:34 AM (Rcnd3)

4 Greyscale greetings everyone!

Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2024 07:34 AM (jjoN6)

5 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2024 07:34 AM (ExV1e)

6 Mornin JJ and Happy Birthday!

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at December 09, 2024 07:34 AM (dEYSD)

7 Seems ...........off.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 09, 2024 07:34 AM (a1415)

8 BOING IN GRAY!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2024 07:35 AM (ltFMw)

9 It's very Grey in here...

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 09, 2024 07:35 AM (O7YUW)

10 Raise your hand if you knew that the USPS website is saying that Postal Service to Canada has been suspended since November 29th, due to a Canadian Postal Worker strike.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 09, 2024 07:35 AM (a1415)

11 Thanks, JJ. We are all graytfull.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2024 07:36 AM (ltFMw)

12 Oooh, blocky!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 09, 2024 07:36 AM (hovnC)

13 In light of all that, Rep. Eli Crane (R-Ariz.) has taken it upon himself to introduce a House Resolution to award Penny with a Congressional Gold Medal for “his heroism.”

“A BILL To award a Congressional Gold Medal to Daniel Penny, who protected women and children of the city of New York, New York, from violence on May 1, 2023,” the introduction to the HR reads.

Interesting twist on that whole unfortunate story.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 09, 2024 07:38 AM (SfhV1)

14 Yonder Horde

Hmmm.... gray outside, grey inside.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2024 07:38 AM (Q4IgG)

15

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at December 09, 2024 07:38 AM (EFZgU)

16 Morning.

Posted by: Mick at December 09, 2024 07:38 AM (gYvAB)

17 Regarding Daniel Perry: A federal law should be enacted that automatically voids civil cases if someone is found Not Guilty in a criminal case on the grounds that this falls under Double Jeopardy.

(Lawyer morons, please correct me if something like that already exists.)

Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2024 07:38 AM (jjoN6)

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g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 09, 2024 07:39 AM (w9Ycv)

19 I've been reading about the 1916-1918 Arab uprising, and by association, TE Lawrence. Some wanted the seat of the "Arab Nation"' to be Damascus. We see how well that went.

Posted by: fd at December 09, 2024 07:39 AM (vFG9F)

20 I pronounce HTS as "hates". Seems appropriate.

Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2024 07:40 AM (SSBCb)

21 17 Regarding Daniel Perry: A federal law should be enacted that automatically voids civil cases if someone is found Not Guilty in a criminal case on the grounds that this falls under Double Jeopardy.

(Lawyer morons, please correct me if something like that already exists.)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2024

***
Makes too much sense. The lawyers' response will be that a civil case has a lower burden of proof. Which does not change the fact that if a jury found Perry, e.g., not guilty of the criminal charge, then that should mean he did not do the act in question.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2024 07:41 AM (omVj0)

22 The Syrian people may not realize it now, but they've just exchanged one brutal tyrant for a fanatical, brutal tyrant.

Be careful what you wish for.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 09, 2024 07:42 AM (SfhV1)

23 Is it cruel and amoral to shakedown the critically ill or deny claims...

It is critically important that these things happen. They must happen because the American people must become accustomed to these things happening... and THAT must happen because this is EXACTLY the way that single-payer works.

TPTB want the idiot voters to clamor for single-payer because of all these perceived flaws in the system while never considering that the 'solution' will fix none of them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2024 07:44 AM (ExV1e)

24 It's boxing day.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 09, 2024

***
Not until 12/26. Or do you mean there's a championship bout on TV tonight?

Anybody else remember Friday Night Fights, sponsored by Gillette? "How are ya fixed for blades?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2024 07:44 AM (omVj0)

25 21 The lawyers' response will be that a civil case has a lower burden of proof.

This is what I would like to see in the defense attorney. He calls the family of Neely onto the stand.

"Tell the court exactly why you abandoned Jordan while you knew full well that he was mentally ill. Is it fair to say that you're simply treating him as a meal ticket now that he's dead and newsworthy?"

Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2024 07:44 AM (jjoN6)

26 @10: *raises hand* I figured. Then again, I'm in Canada, and I knew these guys went out on strike about 3 weeks ago.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 09, 2024 07:45 AM (O7YUW)

27 I'm emailed my boss about taking off today, have shaved and showered, and am sipping coffee. What's going on in your corner of the AoSHQ world?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2024 07:45 AM (omVj0)

28 OK. Time to post info and get back to work.

Poland has a message for the EU:

https://tinyurl.com/2baf38ak

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2024 07:46 AM (ltFMw)

29 I should've not told anybody and just snuck in there:

https://tinyurl.com/2a4wa84u

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2024 07:47 AM (ltFMw)

30 Thank you JJ.

I saw a headline this morning that the US military carried out air strikes in Syria…. Trump on the other hand said something like “stay out of it, it’s a mess”… how many days until J20? Biden’s puppeteers can create lots of havoc until then

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 09, 2024 07:47 AM (HSqCq)

31 Did you all miss Trump & guests Thanksgiving dinner?

https://tinyurl.com/3kxztnb5

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2024 07:47 AM (ltFMw)

32 Instead of hajib-clad tarts lobbing scimitars, maybe this time the Syrians can choose an Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune.

Posted by: Dennis at December 09, 2024 07:47 AM (jxRfg)

33 @27/Wolfus Aurelius: Work cancelled today due to incoming freezing rain, so ... I have the day mostly to myself.

I guess I'm gonna sip more coffee too (and of course enjoy the posting and reading here.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 09, 2024 07:48 AM (O7YUW)

34 Now you can earn big $$$ from the comfort of your living room. Ask me how:

https://tinyurl.com/bdhdmpke

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2024 07:48 AM (ltFMw)

35 "Why Are Dems Appeasing the Cop Who Killed Ashli Babbitt?:"

some kinda trick question?

because, like a good apparatchik he did what they wanted without having to be told. proved that he could be trusted in a wider role.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at December 09, 2024 07:48 AM (cY18j)

36 UFOs? Sure, Jan!

https://tinyurl.com/y7xe5kfs

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2024 07:48 AM (ltFMw)

37 30 Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 09, 2024 07:47 AM (HSqCq)

Linus, the US airstrikes are linked in the Assad section.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 09, 2024 07:48 AM (x0n13)

38 Morning again, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 09, 2024 07:48 AM (AXxr0)

39 Well, this sucks!

https://tinyurl.com/3kyn285y

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2024 07:48 AM (ltFMw)

40 & hi-ho, off to the trails!

bbl

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at December 09, 2024 07:48 AM (cY18j)

41 PDJT eviscerates NBC's Kristin Welker without a sweat:

https://tinyurl.com/4a8r46v4

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2024 07:49 AM (ltFMw)

42 Even the Dems now agree that illegal aliens should be deported - but not for the same reasons as well all believe. This is what they sputter on BlueSky:

https://tinyurl.com/sjpy6me6

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2024 07:49 AM (ltFMw)

43 Father of the Nut (now deceased Nut) that Daniel Penny restrained is, of course, suing Daniel Penny. I betcha Benjamin Crump Esq. is on the case. The riders of that car who were saved by Penny should get together and sue Father of the Nut for allowing Nut to roam free range.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 09, 2024 07:49 AM (gm9Sb)

44
Oy, I saw HTS and for a moment I flashed back to my childhood, to an organization known as the HES, or Hebrew Educational Society,

Yikes. Gevalt.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 09, 2024 07:49 AM (x0n13)

45 Mornin’, All. Happy Monday.

JJ, the Kurds are Muslims, too.

Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2024 07:49 AM (v6JzV)

46 Syria may descend into religious chaos and the Christians will likely "be the first to go." But I'm dubious about the desire to prevent it.

Not that it can't be prevented or stopped. It's that there's no interest in doing so.

Here in the US or elsewhere.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2024 07:50 AM (Q4IgG)

47 Great News: Sidney Powell has been vindicated on all accounts by the Texas Court of Appeals!

https://tinyurl.com/2wtsj4y3

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2024 07:50 AM (ltFMw)

48 Dear Catholic morons: I have zero familiarity with this fagazine. Has this been going on a long time?

https://tinyurl.com/9ad4n2zy

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2024 07:50 AM (ltFMw)

49 Morons, don't be fooled:

Cernovich
@Cernovich
14h
Cozying up to conservatives by saying “the left has gone too far,” and then trying to police the boundaries of right wing behavior is so spiritually shitlib, and some still fall for this. Come on people. Get better. Be smart.

MrLaPlant
@MrLaPlant
14h
Replying to @Cernovich
Like clockwork everyone on the losing side wants to “work together” and “compromise.” Preying on the decency of people.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2024 07:51 AM (ltFMw)

50 I sincerely doubt the Chinese "found" a work around. The bill was probably written so the Chinese drone company could find a work around.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 09, 2024 07:51 AM (tT6L1)

51 Free Syria is deja vu all over again:

https://tinyurl.com/3dh73wvf

That's it. I got nothin'.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2024 07:51 AM (ltFMw)

52 good morning, JJ, Horde

A whole lot of horror is coming to Syria, what with it being "liberated" and all.

Posted by: callsign claymore at December 09, 2024 07:52 AM (JcnCJ)

53 Trump’s stance reiterates a key aspect of his campaign platform. He also suggested terminating birthright citizenship via executive action, forecasting potential legal opposition.

Watch the video
She edited the 14th to:
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
vs
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 09, 2024 07:53 AM (gbOdA)

54 Unfortunately, there’s a disease endemic to D.C. called “turning native.”

Here's a question - an actual question since I don't know the answer - did Joni Ernst "turn native", or was she a traditional Republican - i.e. a liar who said what was needed to get into office.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2024 07:54 AM (ExV1e)

55 Linus, the US airstrikes are linked in the Assad section.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 09, 2024 07:48 AM (x0n13)

The extent of your links is incredible JJ. Don’t know how you do it

BTW… I couldn’t agree more with you on the insurance topic. The “logic” that an insurance CEO is guilty of murder because his company denies claims and therefore it’s just fine if he’s gunned down in cold blood…. That is a flawed moral calculus (to say the least). And it’s a recipe for societal chaos….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 09, 2024 07:54 AM (O1oUp)

56 JJ, the Kurds are Muslims, too.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2024 07:49 AM (v6JzV)
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But in a different whey.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2024 07:55 AM (ltFMw)

57 the Kurds are Muslims, too.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2024 07:49 AM (v6JzV)
-

Hence my reference to ethnicities, which I guess you missed.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 09, 2024 07:56 AM (x0n13)

58 The argument for Trump to make an EO about Birthright Citizenship is that of course it will be overturned immediately by the first judge that hears the case, but then that would give SCOTUS the opportunity to rule on it. I think tlhst is a weak, long shot move. Far stronger to go through Congress. The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 shows that there is precedent for Congress to define rules of citizenship under the 14th Amendment, and that is how this problem should be addressed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2024 07:58 AM (W6hoT)

59 48. No, unless you consider the "trans" agenda the next phase of the communist infiltration of the Church from the 20s, 30s on.

Posted by: callsign claymore at December 09, 2024 07:58 AM (JcnCJ)

60 @27/Wolfus Aurelius: Work cancelled today due to incoming freezing rain, so ... I have the day mostly to myself.

I guess I'm gonna sip more coffee too (and of course enjoy the posting and reading here.)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 09, 2024

***
G & R, freezing rain is no picnic. But a high temp of 72 here in December is not much fun a la Christmas. The reindeer are out there sweating like everybody else.

A high of 72, and freezing rain, are not the only two possibilities on Earth.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2024 07:58 AM (omVj0)

61 My new neighbors. Not that I had any doubts:

https://tinyurl.com/2tbfjd3z

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2024 07:58 AM (ltFMw)

62 Germany Charges American For Stabbing Migrant Who Sexually Assaulted Her

I really hope the incoming administration gets her out of there.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2024 07:58 AM (jjoN6)

63
Whey?
No whey!!

Posted by: Miss Muffet at December 09, 2024 07:59 AM (dg+HA)

64 No whey!!
Posted by: Miss Muffet at December 09, 2024 07:59 AM (dg+HA)
-

Ho say!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2024 08:00 AM (ltFMw)

65 Morning Horde, happy Monday. Thx JJ, great report.
Love the little "defund the police" twit. Even after being pointed out the hypocrisy of her whining about the theft of her stuff, she doubles down screaming about "good Christians" laughing at her. I generally don't like wishing ill on anyone, but the worst thing that can be done to this yutz is to let her be herself.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2024 08:01 AM (C8u8d)

66 I'm hoping that Biden issues blanket pardons. Those pardoned were never going to be convicted and it's evidence of their collective guilt.

But I am hoping for a J6 Truth Commission where those immunized are forced to testify under penalties of perjury about what actually happened. Don't stop until it's shown how Nancy Pelosi orchestrated it and ruined the lives of Grandmas and Tourists for political show with the willing complicity of key members of our federal government.

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 09, 2024 08:02 AM (Gqoy+)

67 I expect Iran to wind up controlling Syria.

I'd like to know where Iran gets its funding so it can continue to export violence.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 09, 2024 08:02 AM (tT6L1)

68 >but the fundamental legislation was the dream sheet of medical insurance, fully giving them a mandate, enforceable under the law, that everyone MUST use their product.
---

this was why the Roberts Court upholding the ACA was such a gut-punch for me-
it meant that the government could FORCE me to buy a product
FORCE me to engage in commerce against my will

Posted by: Don Black at December 09, 2024 08:03 AM (/7KEl)

69 57 I didn’t miss it, JJ. In your first paragraph you refer to “other non-Muslim minorities like the Kurds.”

Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2024 08:03 AM (v6JzV)

70 It's too early for me to figure out how to saw off someone's head with a rusty hacksaw rhetorically.

Posted by: Confuzzled at December 09, 2024 08:03 AM (D0hl3)

71 To call the animated movie War of the Rohirrim as anime is to prove how truly uneducated or maliciously mendacious the entertainment media is.

To call this movie anime is to call the original 1969 Scooby Doo anime because of Iwao Takamoto.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2024 08:04 AM (9rKTR)

72 “What kind of virus,” Duesberg wondered, “one day, out of nowhere, springs into action to destroy a person’s immune system with no provocation?” Never had a retrovirus been shown to cause a human disease, or even a disease in animals. Nobel laureate Walter Gilbert found “no animal model for AIDS,” and Dr. Harvey Bialy, scientific editor of Biotechnology, could locate “no pathogenic relative” for the virus.

HIV is not AIDS

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 09, 2024 08:04 AM (gbOdA)

73 Joni Ernst… ugh. She seems like one of those women that hate men. Her big concern for the military is that women “get opportunities” whatever that means. She seems to viscerally hate Hegseth because he’s an alpha who’s been with lots of women. She claims she was sexually assaulted…. Has that ever been confirmed or is it just a talking point? I don’t wanna minimize it if it actually happened…. Oh and didn’t she introduce herself in politics by bragging about castrating pigs? Reveling in castration seems like another man-hating move. Iowans… primary this lady

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 09, 2024 08:04 AM (O1oUp)

74 "this was why the Roberts Court upholding the ACA was such a gut-punch for me-
it meant that the government could FORCE me to buy a product
FORCE me to engage in commerce against my will
Posted by: Don Black"

I remember that day well. Unconstitutional as hell and the SC said it was ok because it's a tax. My view of the SC was changed forever.

Posted by: fd at December 09, 2024 08:05 AM (vFG9F)

75 @58 Spot on. There's little actual legal precedent for "birthright citizenship." Congress can put a stake through its heart and SCOTUS can uphold.

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 09, 2024 08:05 AM (Gqoy+)

76 Now you can earn big $$$ from the comfort of your living room. Ask me how:

https://tinyurl.com/bdhdmpke
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2024 07:48 AM (ltFMw)

Let's see, be an attractive young woman willing to degrade herself on camera? Oh, something about a terrorist.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2024 08:06 AM (ExV1e)

77 To make people seethe and scream, can always call HIV GRIDS.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2024 08:07 AM (9rKTR)

78 The law calls them "illegal ALIENS". "Immigrant" is leftist propaganda to make it sound like they some how belong here. THEY DON'T. Don't use leftist propaganda, it aids them and injures us.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at December 09, 2024 08:07 AM (Da7Vv)

79 BREAKING: Trump To End ‘Birthright Citizenship’ on Day One.

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

That would be epic and likely be fought for a decade in "the courts" as there are literally trillions of dollars at stake to GloboHomo Big Oligarch and The Cartels.

Posted by: ShainS -- Deus Ex Muskina [h/t Mike Benz] at December 09, 2024 08:07 AM (/6TY1)

80 Looking at pictures of the suspect in the insurance CEO murder. Guy looks Hispanic or mid eastern. No prints on file, no DNA in the data base. Maybe a "got away" specializing in contract killing?

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 09, 2024 08:07 AM (gm9Sb)

81 77 To make people seethe and scream, can always call HIV GRIDS.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2024 08:07 AM (9rKTR)

GAY RECTAL INJECTED DICK SCHMUTZ?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 09, 2024 08:08 AM (x0n13)

82 @67/blake: "I'd like to know where Iran gets its funding so it can continue to export violence."

From Nov 15, 2023, here's a clue:

https://tinyurl.com/43hshs9t

{{ In a controversial move, the Biden administration has granted Iraq a new 4-month waiver, enabling the release of billions of dollars to Iran, blocked by US sanctions.

The decision, coming amid the Gaza war and Iran's backing for Hamas, would effectively unfreeze an estimated $10 billion that Iraq owes Iran but cannot pay due to US sanctions.

The Biden administration says a thorough vetting process is in place to ensure that any money released is used exclusively for Iran’s humanitarian and "non-sanctionable" needs such as food and medicine.

But the critics say money is fungible and this fund, however thoroughly vetted, would free up other funds that can be used for malign activities. }}

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 09, 2024 08:08 AM (O7YUW)

83 Did any Challenger astronaut relatives ever try to gun down the CEO of Morton Thiokol? I didn’t think so…. Different time; less confused thinking

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 09, 2024 08:09 AM (HSqCq)

84 Today is National Pastry Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 09, 2024 08:09 AM (NpAcC)

85 I watched Trump's comments about the J6 committee with Kristin Welker and it occurred to me that Liz Cheney hasn't mouthed off on X since November 6th. No idea if she just hiked on over to BitchSky or whatever it's called or just totally gave up on the socials (for now.)

But it's interesting that some of the players on that committee are not all that vocal on social media like they once were.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2024 08:09 AM (Q4IgG)

86 The guy who shot the CEO is being applauded by the left because he killed capitalist. Wouldn't be surprised to see more attempts like this so companies will increase security on their execs. The left never stops just changes tactics

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2024 08:12 AM (C8u8d)

87 74 I remember that day well. Unconstitutional as hell and the SC said it was ok because it's a tax. My view of the SC was changed forever.
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2024 08:05 AM (vFG9F)

WHEN ROBERTS USED A RED PEN TO LITERALLY REWRITE THE LAW AND THEN DECLARE IT KOSHER, THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE SHOULD HAVE HAD CAPITOL COPS GO OVER TO SCOTUS ANDFROG-MARCH HIM TO JAIL.

COMPLETE usurpation of the Legislative branch's authority.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 09, 2024 08:12 AM (x0n13)

88
Joni Ernst should be the poster child for repealing the Seventeenth Amendment

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 09, 2024 08:12 AM (w9Ycv)

89 85 Liz just realized something. "Daddy, nobody likes me anymore." "Well, honey, that happens to all of us. Lets just sit down and plan WW3 like in the old days".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 09, 2024 08:13 AM (gm9Sb)

90 [Inbred Degenerate murder suspect] Joe Scarborough Snidely Wants to Know Who Raised True Americans
______
But this is the best Scarborough EVER! And eff you if you can't handle the truth!

He must never be permitted to forget those words.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 09, 2024 08:13 AM (1bNHn)

91 But the critics say money is fungible and this fund, however thoroughly vetted, would free up other funds that can be used for malign activities. }}
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 09, 2024 08:08 AM (O7YUW)
-------------

Thanks. I knew that had happened but didn't realize it was that much money.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 09, 2024 08:14 AM (tT6L1)

92 " Today is National Pastry Day.
Posted by: redridinghood"

*breaks out tassels*

Posted by: fd at December 09, 2024 08:15 AM (vFG9F)

93 Oh. "Pastry". Never mind.

Posted by: fd at December 09, 2024 08:15 AM (vFG9F)

94 Temper-tantrum throwing Walmart girl reveals where American parents—and society—have gone wrong
______
Little kids do that. But they shouldn't be allowed to get away with it. I remember when I was little, I threw a tantrum when in a grocery store with my grandmother. It didn't end well for me.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 09, 2024 08:16 AM (1bNHn)

95 Morning all

To reiterate, Here's your fascism, Leftists. Since they are baying for the blood of Insurance company executives, funny how they don't see that it's the Dept. of HHS that regulates them like every other industry out the Wah-zoo. That makes HHS the real CEO.

I asked a few over the weekend when they were planning to target Congress since the government was responsible for Covid.

Crickets.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 09, 2024 08:16 AM (L4M+8)

96 "The tribal mindset is so vastly different than our own that it often makes it impossible to reason with them, and they will not respond logically or rationally as you might assume an American or other Westerner would."

The Muslim world in a nutshell. Democracy, human rights, rule of law, etc. have no meaning to them whatsoever. So let's stop making believe it's otherwise, and stop trying to change them. They have their own civilization with their own customs and rules. And that's fine, as long as they keep it to themselves.

Therefore I would suggest to the Trump administration that we adopt a policy of containment. "We don't mess with your culture; you don't mess with ours."

Posted by: AWOL Civilization at December 09, 2024 08:16 AM (ZQ3a+)

97 The argument for Trump to make an EO about Birthright Citizenship is that of course it will be overturned immediately by the first judge that hears the case, but then that would give SCOTUS the opportunity to rule on it. I think tlhst is a weak, long shot move. Far stronger to go through Congress. The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 shows that there is precedent for Congress to define rules of citizenship under the 14th Amendment, and that is how this problem should be addressed.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2024 07:58 AM (W6hoT)

It's how it SHOULD be addressed but it won't. The Republicans are too gutless and the Democrats won't support it. Trying to get a SCOTUS ruling is unfortunate and weak but it's the only realistic chance we have at the moment.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2024 08:17 AM (ExV1e)

98 92 93 Tiffany isn't on stage at the Wild Pony Gents Club until 1100.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 09, 2024 08:17 AM (gm9Sb)

99 >> 89 85 Liz just realized something. "Daddy, nobody likes me anymore." "Well, honey, that happens to all of us. Lets just sit down and plan WW3 like in the old days".
-----
Maybe. But she sure was mouthy before the election. And Trump has made no bones about wanting to revisit that committee and what they did with the "evidence" they supposedly had, then trashed before anyone outside that committee looked at it.

Because, IMO all roads lead back to that committee and their various "recommendations" about what should befall Trump, his staff and supporters. Much of which has, in fact, happened.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2024 08:18 AM (Q4IgG)

100 Tiffany isn't on stage at the Wild Pony Gents Club until 1100.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 09, 2024 08:17 AM (gm9Sb)
----------------

Fake news. Tifany only has one "f."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 09, 2024 08:18 AM (tT6L1)

101 I love National Pastry Day! My favorite paste is Elmer's.

Posted by: Scranton Joe at December 09, 2024 08:18 AM (D0hl3)

102 I put Nancy in an even more narrow circle of Hell than Obama.

Obama had a deluded sense that he was an agent of change to some amorphous greater good. Like Hitler.

For Nancy it's always been about exercising raw power. She did shit because she could. Purely amoral.

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 09, 2024 08:19 AM (Gqoy+)

103 Re: tribalism

One thing to remember is that many leftists and the entire liberal gestalt view politics in the same way that the middle east does. It makes things fit better when you think of it that way.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2024 08:19 AM (HsOwE)

104 19 I've been reading about the 1916-1918 Arab uprising, and by association, TE Lawrence. Some wanted the seat of the "Arab Nation"' to be Damascus. We see how well that went.

Posted by: fd at December 09, 2024 07:39 AM (vFG9F)

That’s the location of the great Arab Unity Conference at the end of “Lawrence of Arabia” that fails miserably. Looks like history may repeat itself.

“Sherif Ali, so long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous, and cruel as you are.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2024 08:19 AM (W6hoT)

105 I would love it if Biden only pardons family members. All of the other dirtbags, Schiff, Liz Cheney, Kinzinger and all the bureaucrats and appointees can be left to twist in the wind. Teach them to kick the old man out

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2024 08:19 AM (C8u8d)

106 For military retirees, SCOTUS knifed them in 2003 when it refused to hear the case of two military veterans, one from World War II and one from Korea.

As a result, the US Court of Appeals in Washington ruled that the recruiters promise of free health care was not backed by statue and the US Government was not under any legal contract.

This was the conclusion of a legal battle that started when the Clinton administration changed the rules.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2024 08:19 AM (9rKTR)

107 77 I saw GRIDS, then instantly thought of the grits dialogue in "My Cousin Vinny."

"No self-respecting southerner uses instant GRIDS."

Posted by: callsign claymore at December 09, 2024 08:20 AM (JcnCJ)

108 This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Tiffany with two "fs" at December 09, 2024 08:20 AM (dg+HA)

109 Obama had a deluded sense that he was an agent of change to some amorphous greater good. Like Hitler.

For Nancy it's always been about exercising raw power. She did shit because she could. Purely amoral.
Posted by: Ignoramus at December 09, 2024 08:19 AM (Gqoy+)

Lenin vs Stalin. Both mosters, just different flavors.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2024 08:20 AM (HsOwE)

110 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at December 09, 2024 08:20 AM (53oGX)

111 Wisconsin governor Tony Evers has made it known that if the Republicans pass a bill requiring state workers to return to the office, he will veto the Budget bill.

What is with these people?

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 09, 2024 08:20 AM (SfhV1)

112 LAWSUIT Against America's Leading Gender Doctor for Mutilating Child, Cutting Off Breasts at 14
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Sue them into the streets of San Francisco, to live beside piles of shit. I should be ashamed of thinking this, but imagine a world in which it is the transitioners who are committing suicide, rather than their victims, as they claimed would happen.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 09, 2024 08:21 AM (1bNHn)

113 48 Dear Catholic morons: I have zero familiarity with this fagazine. Has this been going on a long time?

https://tinyurl.com/9ad4n2zy
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2024 07:50 AM (ltFMw)

No, the Catholic faith actually puts the whole gender identity industry as the 2nd greatest sin in the current world, under abortion. They specifically pointed out in voting that neither could be suporrted at all - no wishy washy...

One destroys innocent human life
One denies and destroys the goodness of God's creation

Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2024 08:21 AM (exHjb)

114 106 Good morning, Anna Puma. Are you a vet? Come from a military family? You post a lot of good military stuff.

Posted by: callsign claymore at December 09, 2024 08:22 AM (JcnCJ)

115 Therefore I would suggest to the Trump administration that we adopt a policy of containment. "We don't mess with your culture; you don't mess with ours."
Posted by: AWOL Civilization

This was all hashed-out in 1952 in "Superman vs. The Mole People". "It's as if they are trying to say, you live your life. We'll live ours".

Posted by: Phyllis Coates at December 09, 2024 08:22 AM (D0hl3)

116 "“Sherif Ali, so long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous, and cruel as you are.”

Posted by: Tom Servo"

That is it in a nutshell. The Turks were no angels either.
It's hard to sympathize with either side.

Posted by: fd at December 09, 2024 08:22 AM (vFG9F)

117 80 Looking at pictures of the suspect in the insurance CEO murder. Guy looks Hispanic or mid eastern. No prints on file, no DNA in the data base. Maybe a "got away" specializing in contract killing?
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 09, 2024 08:07 AM (gm9Sb)

I thought that ethnicity as well...but as the spouse said, the one pulled down mask might be a disguised face b/c it had to be a very purposeful pull down (b/c he never pulled it down at all any other time)...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2024 08:23 AM (exHjb)

118 Liz just realized something. "Daddy, nobody likes me anymore." "Well, honey, that happens to all of us. Lets just sit down and plan WW3 like in the old days".
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 09, 2024 08:13 AM (gm9Sb)

That's her go-to fantasy when she masturbates... oh, oh, I'm nuking Moscow... *shudders*

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2024 08:23 AM (ExV1e)

119 Gentlemanly Requested Insemination Dude Service

Posted by: Planet Fitness Locker Room at December 09, 2024 08:24 AM (jxRfg)

120 @98, 100, . Not only is it spelled with one f the i and y are reversed: Tyfani

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2024 08:24 AM (C8u8d)

121 I used to wonder how a people like Germany in the 1920s devolved into Naziism. I think a huge contributing factor to that slide into hell was the media.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at December 09, 2024 08:24 AM (luW68)

122 A muscle pull is when your tissues separate and you bleed into them. Scurvy is the disease where your tissues separate and you bleed into them. You'll notice its the same thing: anyone who pulls a muscle has a mild case of scurvy. The treatment is the same for both: Potassium, Calcium, and Vitamin C. This came to me from an Olympic coach, and was independently backed up when I talked to an Olympic Gold Medalist in an entirely different sport. I had a horrible hamstring pull that turned the entire back of my thigh purple, and that combo of supplements cured it very quickly.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at December 09, 2024 08:25 AM (Da7Vv)

123 I hope someone is making a list of all the things Trump will do on 'Day One'

Posted by: Don Black at December 09, 2024 08:25 AM (/7KEl)

124 Is there one amazing trick that would simultaneously end the muslim threat in the ME and the wave of muslim migrants to the West?

Posted by: Oglebay at December 09, 2024 08:25 AM (ogTiX)

125 I wonder what happened to that Syrian soldier who disappeared after openly expressing on social media his undying love for al-Assad's 16-year-old daughter and his intent to make her his bride?

Sent to the crush house at Saydnaya Prison would be my guess.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 09, 2024 08:25 AM (Y1sOo)

126 "Little kids do that. But they shouldn't be allowed to get away with it."

I just saw a clickbait video of a Golden Retriever Mom going off on one puppy for harrassing its sibling. Mom correctly identified the instigator and gave it a verbal thrashing that would peel paint.

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 09, 2024 08:26 AM (Gqoy+)

127

The Medal of Freedom kind of looks like a medal that Michael Jackson once wore. Ironic since the violent nut Penny took out was a Michael Jackson impersonator.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 09, 2024 08:27 AM (x0n13)

128 As a result, the US Court of Appeals in Washington ruled that the recruiters promise of free health care was not backed by statue and the US Government was not under any legal contract.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2024 08:19 AM (9rKTR)

In fairness, even contracts with the government hold no actual value as an incoming Congress can always rule that they're null-and-void with no compensation for the government breaking them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2024 08:27 AM (ExV1e)

129 Is there one amazing trick that would simultaneously end the muslim threat in the ME and the wave of muslim migrants to the West?
Posted by: Oglebay at December 09, 2024 08:25 AM (ogTiX)
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Yeah, but, unfortunately, a lot of people die in the process. See: Bowl Judgments and Revelation.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 09, 2024 08:27 AM (tT6L1)

130 @91/blake: "Thanks. I knew that had happened but didn't realize it was that much money."

And that's just one instance. There have been others.

From the Obama administration, and this is what "See BS" news is willing to admit to, though they try to soft-shoe why it was sent...:

https://tinyurl.com/377c9yfc

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 09, 2024 08:27 AM (O7YUW)

131 121 I used to wonder how a people like Germany in the 1920s devolved into Naziism. I think a huge contributing factor to that slide into hell was the media.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...
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Obama and Biden has helped us answer the question.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 09, 2024 08:27 AM (ah1Jo)

132 Happy Monday!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2024 08:28 AM (u1uWe)

133 The islamists must be losing their sh*t over the Israelis taking the summit of Mt Herman. Good, keep it Israel.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2024 08:28 AM (C8u8d)

134 125 Sent to the crush house at Saydnaya Prison would be my guess.
Posted by: one hour sober at December 09, 2024 08:25 AM (Y1sOo)

Odd Job and the car crusher?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 09, 2024 08:28 AM (x0n13)

135 I’m actually surprised more oligarchs, politicians and judges don’t get the “treatment”.

A lot of those people are straight up psychopaths who could care less about anyone while they distort and wreck society, many times for the pettiest of reasons.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 09, 2024 08:28 AM (9ypnH)

136 Hermon, not Herman

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2024 08:29 AM (C8u8d)

137 "Here's your fascism, Leftists, right here! Get it while it's hot. Pro-tip, it's not Trump. It's Democrats and RINOs pointing the gun of big government power at the head of business and forcing them in bed with them."

Remember these statements that made Leftists swoon?
"Government is simply the name we give to the things we choose to do together."
"Government is the only thing we all belong to."

The possessive 'we' used there by elected Leftists has the same unspoken meaning as 'our' in Our Precious Democracy. It means the self-appointed Fascist State of Democrats and Big Business (pharma, food, you-name-it). The proles, including the Left's useful idiots, are not included in the we and our.

Posted by: Gref at December 09, 2024 08:29 AM (aBgBM)

138 Wisconsin governor Tony Evers has made it known that if the Republicans pass a bill requiring state workers to return to the office, he will veto the Budget bill.

I assume the Republicans in the legislature will back down then. Wouldn't want to force him to veto the budget.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2024 08:29 AM (ExV1e)

139 Is not the Identity Politics of Progressivism just Tribalism.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 09, 2024 08:29 AM (gbOdA)

140 >That’s the location of the great Arab Unity Conference at the end of “Lawrence of Arabia” that fails miserably. Looks like history may repeat itself. ---

the power plant that failed because no one knew how it worked or how to run it

Posted by: Don Black at December 09, 2024 08:29 AM (/7KEl)

141 Happy Juan Soto is a New York Met Day!

Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2024 08:29 AM (LkLld)

142 "You Might Have Missed It, But Ray Epps’ Lawsuit Against Tucker Went Down In Flames"

"Delaware Federal District Court Judge, Jennifer Hall, ruled that Carlson’s reporting on Epps was protected under the First Amendment because Epps’ lawyers did not prove Carlson had acted with “actual malice.”

I am actually surprised by this. Glad to see some sanity is still alive in Delaware.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 09, 2024 08:30 AM (NpAcC)

143 "The possessive 'we' used there by elected Leftists has the same unspoken meaning as 'our' in Our Precious Democracy. It means the self-appointed Fascist State of Democrats and Big Business (pharma, food, you-name-it). The proles, including the Left's useful idiots, are not included in the we and our.
Posted by: Gref "

We are all in this together ya know.

Posted by: fd at December 09, 2024 08:30 AM (vFG9F)

144 >>Film festivals block Israeli titles (even apolitical tales) in post-Oct. 7 world

Hollywood is the king of preaching "tolerance" yet always so, so racist. Jerks.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2024 08:30 AM (u1uWe)

145 Wanted to say that I just read Naomi's Wolf's essay and it was excellent, ( Thanks for including it, J.J) and the quote from Dr. B. about his faith got me choked up.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2024 08:30 AM (zgQjD)

146 121 A big chunk of America went Covid Nazi just a short time ago. Forced injections, forced masking, lockdowns, and more swept in like a flood. Plenty of Democrats wanted "vaccine" holdouts put in camps.

Posted by: callsign claymore at December 09, 2024 08:31 AM (JcnCJ)

147 Better the Assad's complete rule over Syria than the radical islamists.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 09, 2024 08:31 AM (ah1Jo)

148 I assume the Republicans in the legislature will back down then. Wouldn't want to force him to veto the budget.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2024 08:29 AM (ExV1e)
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At which point the GOP needs to tell Evers, "Okay, fine, we'll send you another budget only we'll remove 10% across the board. Your move."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 09, 2024 08:31 AM (tT6L1)

149 Hermon, not Herman
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2024 08:29 AM (C8u8d)
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/catnip the cat packs his bags and leaves the house

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2024 08:32 AM (ltFMw)

150 Good morning!

Posted by: Piper at December 09, 2024 08:32 AM (PRqXW)

151 "That’s the location of the great Arab Unity Conference at the end of “Lawrence of Arabia” that fails miserably. Looks like history may repeat itself. ---

the power plant that failed because no one knew how it worked or how to run it
Posted by: Don Black "

TE Lawrence was happy to see the street lights back on in Damascus just a couple of days after taking it.

Then he left.

Posted by: fd at December 09, 2024 08:32 AM (vFG9F)

152 JackStraw at December 09, 2024 08:29 AM (LkLld)

That's a lot of money for one guy.

Posted by: dantesed at December 09, 2024 08:33 AM (Oy/m2)

153 145 Wanted to say that I just read Naomi's Wolf's essay and it was excellent, ( Thanks for including it, J.J) and the quote from Dr. B. about his faith got me choked up.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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What happened at the hospital? How are you doing?

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 09, 2024 08:33 AM (ah1Jo)

154 At which point the GOP needs to tell Evers, "Okay, fine, we'll send you another budget only we'll remove 10% across the board. Your move."
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 09, 2024 08:31 AM (tT6L1)

And it still contains the provision that government workers must return to the office.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2024 08:33 AM (ExV1e)

155 @149 heh, hadn't thought of that cartoon in a long time

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2024 08:34 AM (C8u8d)

156 Tom Elliott
@tomselliott
WaPo’s Jen Rubin: Biden should pardon anyone Trump has ever criticized, “Georgia officials … journalists, election workers, the military generals who did not do his bidding or said bad things about him after he left office … Cassidy Hutchinson”

https://tinyurl.com/46v6kjxz

Posted by: redridinghood at December 09, 2024 08:34 AM (NpAcC)

157 Friedman's editorial in the NYT ends with his typical brilliance:

Best Russian aphorism to sum up the challenge that regional and global powers now face in fixing Syria: “It is easier to turn an aquarium into fish soup, then to turn fish soup into an aquarium.”

What brain malfunction would cause him to share this gem with his readers?

OPINION
Five Quick Takes on Regime Change in Syria
Dec. 8, 2024

Thomas L. Friedman
By Thomas L. Friedman
Opinion Columnist

https://tinyurl.com/4ku34dbs

Posted by: Oglebay at December 09, 2024 08:34 AM (ogTiX)

158 141 Happy Juan Soto is a New York Met Day!
Posted by: JackStraw

700 some million contract. Obscene. In 1977, the Mets traded Tom Seaver because he wanted 25K more than they thought he should get.

Posted by: This House Sho' Gone Crazy! at December 09, 2024 08:34 AM (D0hl3)

159 Also, anyone else laughing at the left and the birthright citizenship thing? They are screeching 4 of Trump’s kids wouldn’t be citizens as a result. Y’all. Very slowly…their father is a citizen and always has been.

Posted by: Piper at December 09, 2024 08:34 AM (PRqXW)

160 @149 heh, hadn't thought of that cartoon in a long time
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2024 08:34 AM (C8u8d)
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The brain farts never end!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2024 08:34 AM (ltFMw)

161 Well, well. Progressives are at last acknowledging that ObamaCare is a failure. They aren’t doing so explicitly, of course, but their social-media screeds against insurers, triggered by last week’s murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, suggest as much. “We’ve gotten to a point where healthcare is so inaccessible and unaffordable, people are justified in their frustrations,” CBS News medical contributor Céline Gounder.

100% planned to create a mass calling for Mediscare For All.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 09, 2024 08:35 AM (gbOdA)

162 JJ, great cover pic!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2024 08:35 AM (ltFMw)

163 Mexican attempts hijacking of airliner enroute from El Bajío to Tijuana to force divert to San Diego.

I guess walking to the U.S. in a caravan was a bridge to far for the lazy slob.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 09, 2024 08:35 AM (Y1sOo)

164 This will probably work out about as well as regime change worked in Libya

Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2024 08:35 AM (VE6XX)

165 Alisyn Cammerata goes bye-bye from CNN. I'm devastated and crushed

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2024 08:36 AM (C8u8d)

166 Well, time to walk the pooch. Later!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 09, 2024 08:36 AM (tT6L1)

167 While Islam does specifically hate Jews, part of the reason the modern world hates Israel is that it is an easy distraction from the problems of normal Muslim people.

Their is corruption in your government? Its the Jew's fault. The weather is bad? Jew's fault. And on and on

You'll notice leftwing/Islamist movements do this all the time.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2024 08:36 AM (oZhjI)

168 >>What happened at the hospital?

Hospital!? What is it?

Posted by: one hour sober at December 09, 2024 08:37 AM (Y1sOo)

169 Also, anyone else laughing at the left and the birthright citizenship thing? They are screeching 4 of Trump’s kids wouldn’t be citizens as a result. Y’all. Very slowly…their father is a citizen and always has been.

It was always an insane understanding of citizenship to give it to the children of illegals. They are by definition not under the jurisdiction of the US...or they wouldn't be here.

The children of legal aliens are more of a problem but this is a slam dunk...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2024 08:38 AM (oZhjI)

170 >>That's a lot of money for one guy.

It's crazy. And only $5 million more than the Yankees offered. Dodgers wanted him but with all of the contracts they've been handing out including Ohtani's $700 million they couldn't afford it.

It's the way the game is today. For a game that is supposedly dying players sure are getting paid.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2024 08:38 AM (LkLld)

171
>>What happened at the hospital?

Hospital!? What is it?

Posted by: one hour sober at December 09, 2024 08:37 AM

it's a large building with doctors and patients, but that's not important now

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 09, 2024 08:39 AM (w9Ycv)

172 . . . some nation, under Allah, with head chopping and tribal identities for all.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2024 08:39 AM (Aqu9a)

173 Morning JJ, great info as always

Posted by: Jonah at December 09, 2024 08:39 AM (YCxFk)

174 Is it true the late votes from CA took away Trumps popular vote win ?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2024 08:39 AM (VE6XX)

175 Michael Jackson got a medal? What on earth for?

Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2024 08:39 AM (v6JzV)

176 Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 09, 2024 08:33 AM (ah1Jo)

I had a bad UTI and was released at 1:00 Saturday morning. I am on antibiotics and resting today.
Thanks for your concern, dear Braeyard. and for the prayers.

Sorry to the folks who already heard this before.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2024 08:41 AM (o7ega)

177 Is it true the late votes from CA took away Trumps popular vote win ?

Isn't it just amazing that the last votes to be counted in any contested election are all 90%+ donk?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2024 08:41 AM (oZhjI)

178 48 Dear Catholic morons: I have zero familiarity with this fagazine. Has this been going on a long time?

https://tinyurl.com/9ad4n2zy
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2024 07:50 AM (ltFMw)
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Even Francis has come out against it.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 09, 2024 08:41 AM (1bNHn)

179 Michael Jackson got a medal? What on earth for?

Pederasty. Narrowly beat out Bill Clinton for that year

Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2024 08:41 AM (oZhjI)

180 I agree that Syria will become a Terrorist state. Assad helped Iraqi terrorists kill our troops during the War, roast in Hell.

Imagine American Drone command is going to be busy

Posted by: Jonah at December 09, 2024 08:42 AM (YCxFk)

181 After toppling the brutal regime of dictator Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on December 8, 2024, Syrian opposition-aligned fighter groups declared their next objectives: the "liberation of Jerusalem" and the destruction of the State of Israel.

Posted by: Don Black at December 09, 2024 08:42 AM (/7KEl)

182 It really hit me after seeing the bracket yesterday… whoever came up with the CFP rules really messed up…. ASU and Boise State with byes?? While Texas, Notre Dame, PSU, OSU and Tennessee all play? SMU and Indiana both in, not having beaten anyone of consequence? While Ole Miss, Alabama and South Carolina are out, all having beaten top teams? College football has been ruined; Nick Saban was smart getting out when he did

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 09, 2024 08:42 AM (WdMlw)

183 Hospital!? What is it?
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It's a big building with patients and limerick-writing doctors but that's not important now!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 09, 2024 08:42 AM (hovnC)

184 @176 prayers up Fen. Good luck and God bless

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2024 08:42 AM (C8u8d)

185 Syrian opposition-aligned fighter groups declared their next objectives: the "liberation of Jerusalem" and the destruction of the State of Israel.
Posted by: Don Black at December 09, 2024 08:42 AM (/7KEl)

Wow.. I didn't see that coming....

Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2024 08:43 AM (VE6XX)

186 21 17 Regarding Daniel Perry: A federal law should be enacted that automatically voids civil cases if someone is found Not Guilty in a criminal case on the grounds that this falls under Double Jeopardy.

(Lawyer morons, please correct me if something like that already exists.)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2024

***
Makes too much sense. The lawyers' response will be that a civil case has a lower burden of proof. Which does not change the fact that if a jury found Perry, e.g., not guilty of the criminal charge, then that should mean he did not do the act in question.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2024 07:41 AM (omVj0)
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What rule prevents people from suing judges and lawyers from making a mockery of justice?

Posted by: Eeyore at December 09, 2024 08:43 AM (1bNHn)

187 The children of legal aliens are more of a problem but this is a slam dunk...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2024 08:38 AM (oZhjI)

Tourist visa - no.
Student visa - conditional*.
Work visa - conditional*.
Green card - yes.

* if your temporary visa turns into a permanent thing, citizenship for children, if not, not.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2024 08:43 AM (ExV1e)

188 What's crazy is that MLB contracts don't have outs. So the Mets are at risk of injury let alone under-production.

Stevie Cohen is the model for the character in Billions. He's no dummy. He wants to steal the Yankees brand as #1 in NYC and then make a real estate play around Citi field.

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 09, 2024 08:43 AM (Gqoy+)

189 167 While Islam does specifically hate Jews, part of the reason the modern world hates Israel is that it is an easy distraction from the problems of normal Muslim people.

Their is corruption in your government? Its the Jew's fault. The weather is bad? Jew's fault. And on and on

You'll notice leftwing/Islamist movements do this all the time.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2024 08:36 AM (oZhjI)

Hatred of Israel and the "Palestinian" cause are distractions of the abject failure and catastrophe Islam has wrought on its adherents for nearly a millennium and a half. Better to blame the Yids than to self-correct.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 09, 2024 08:43 AM (x0n13)

190 Nov 19, 1979 Nolan Ryan (#34), ace pitcher for the Houston Astros, becomes baseball's first $1 million-per-year player by signing a 4-year, $4.5 million free agent contract.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2024 08:44 AM (Aqu9a)

191 Is it true the late votes from CA took away Trumps popular vote win ?
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2024 08:39 AM (VE6XX)

He still won the popular vote but he didn't get over 50%.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2024 08:44 AM (ExV1e)

192 Is it true the late votes from CA took away Trumps popular vote win ?
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2024 08:39 AM (VE6XX)

NOT true. Per the AP Trump’s PV lead is still more than 2M. It won’t be erased

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 09, 2024 08:44 AM (WdMlw)

193 GOP needs a new strategy in California. Rush use to say that the biggest GOP Donors were in southern Cal.

I think we still have 9 US House seats, out of 52, in Cal. If not for that, we would not spend a penny in that corrupt shothole

Posted by: Jonah at December 09, 2024 08:44 AM (YCxFk)

194 Dear Catholic morons: I have zero familiarity with this fagazine. Has this been going on a long time?

The leaps they take with this are...amazing. And again this understanding of "gender roles" is a complete reversal of earlier versions of feminism. Prior to 4th gen/feminism the idea was that "gender roles" were arbitrary and either a man or a woman could adopt any such roles if they wanted to and it didn't affect that they were still a man or a woman.

Now tranny feminism argues that if you are not 100% at all times defined by "gender roles" you are non-binary or a tranny. .

Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2024 08:44 AM (oZhjI)

195 >>COMEDY gOLD!!!: ‘Defund the police’ activist goes viral after begging for help when everything she owned was stolen in San Francisco: ‘The cops didn’t do shit!’

Activists who have been burning down this country for years finally feeling the consequences.
Priceless.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2024 08:45 AM (u1uWe)

196 192. Thanks Linus

Posted by: Jonah at December 09, 2024 08:45 AM (YCxFk)

197 161 Well, well. Progressives are at last acknowledging that ObamaCare is a failure. They aren’t doing so explicitly, of course, but their social-media screeds against insurers, triggered by last week’s murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, suggest as much. “We’ve gotten to a point where healthcare is so inaccessible and unaffordable, people are justified in their frustrations,” CBS News medical contributor Céline Gounder.

100% planned to create a mass calling for Mediscare For All.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 09, 2024 08:35 AM (gbOdA)

I was mentioning to the spouse, this seems like a deep state op...get a similar aged Butler shooter, train him, and be his "guy in the chair" getting him in and out, and teaching him to leave all the red herrings to get discussions the way you want to go...

The monopoly money, after the bullets, pushed my thinking that the CEO might have been able to out some powerful people to DOJ if he was in the plea-making deal...and now, 2 birds, 1 stone - we get the health insurance discussion to push politics in a down time...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2024 08:45 AM (exHjb)

198 While Islam does specifically hate Jews, part of the reason the modern world hates Israel is that it is an easy distraction from the problems of normal Muslim people.

Their is corruption in your government? Its the Jew's fault. The weather is bad? Jew's fault. And on and on

Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2024 08:36 AM (oZhjI)
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In her fascinating book World on Fire, Amy Chua argues that ethnic hatred will always be directed by the host society against any conspicuously successful minority. All three conditions must be present.

1. The hated group must be a minority or people will fear to attack it.
2. It must be successful or people will not envy it, merely feel contempt for it.
3. It must be conspicuous or people will not notice it.

Jews tended to fit all three.

- The late Chief Rabbi of the UK, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, "The Birth of the World's Oldest Hate"

https://tinyurl.com/3ama2yee

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2024 08:46 AM (ltFMw)

199 181 After toppling the brutal regime of dictator Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on December 8, 2024, Syrian opposition-aligned fighter groups declared their next objectives: the "liberation of Jerusalem" and the destruction of the State of Israel.
Posted by: Don Black
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Russia wanted to keep a port in the Med. Them leaving indicates how bad it is.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 09, 2024 08:46 AM (ah1Jo)

200 The failed Mexican hijacker grabbed a flight attendant and attempted to open the cabin door, threatening to jump and bring her with him.

Oh, Mario, you big dummy. You can tug on that cabin door all day, even have some friends assist you, and it isn't going to open.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 09, 2024 08:46 AM (Y1sOo)

201 International criminal gangs were behind much of the abuse.
Transnational “criminal networks engaged in large-scale operations that submitted fraudulent claims, laundered illicit funds through financial systems, and transferred proceeds across borders.”
“It is estimated that at least half of the federal funds lost through the PPP and UI relief programs were stolen by international fraudsters.”

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 09, 2024 08:46 AM (gbOdA)

202 33 @27/Wolfus Aurelius: Work cancelled today due to incoming freezing rain, so ... I have the day mostly to myself.

I guess I'm gonna sip more coffee too (and of course enjoy the posting and reading here.)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 09, 2024 07:48 AM (O7YUW)
______
What I love about retirement. It's a cold, rainy Monday morning. We are sitting in our bathrobes sipping coffee.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 09, 2024 08:47 AM (1bNHn)

203 Trump should name Kevin McCarthy Ambassador to California LOL.

Posted by: Jonah at December 09, 2024 08:47 AM (YCxFk)

204 182 It really hit me after seeing the bracket yesterday… whoever came up with the CFP rules really messed up…. ASU and Boise State with byes?? While Texas, Notre Dame, PSU, OSU and Tennessee all play? SMU and Indiana both in, not having beaten anyone of consequence? While Ole Miss, Alabama and South Carolina are out, all having beaten top teams? College football has been ruined; Nick Saban was smart getting out when he did
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 09, 2024 08:42 AM (WdMlw)

Conference champs get byes to make up for their extra game and to make sure there's never again an FSU situation...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2024 08:48 AM (exHjb)

205 Syrian opposition-aligned fighter groups declared their next objectives: the "liberation of Jerusalem" and the destruction of the State of Israel.

Funny part about that. The reason Muslims claim Jerusalem is that they have a story that Muhammed road a flying horse to the "farthest Mosque" and celebrated a religious ceremony there.

This story only came about later when the Caliphate conquered Jerusalem. Note the Byzantine and Jewish writers of the time did not note any flying horses over Jerusalem nor any Muslim holy men at the time.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2024 08:48 AM (oZhjI)

206 >>College football has been ruined; Nick Saban was smart getting out when he did
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 09, 2024 08:42 AM (WdMlw)
*****
Yeah, it seems “experts” are now managing college football. The results are not unexpected.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at December 09, 2024 08:48 AM (hyhgk)

207 Even Francis has come out against it.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 09, 2024 08:41 AM (1bNHn)
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Waiting for progressives to tell the Pope to lighten up.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2024 08:49 AM (ltFMw)

208 Good morning Hordelings!

Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2024 08:49 AM (favqb)

209 The Europeans who are still all for the Ukraine war keep saying that Russia will invade all of Europe if they aren’t stopped in Ukraine. They should note that Russia just broke and ran from a ragtag guerilla army in Syria.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2024 08:49 AM (W6hoT)

210 182 It really hit me after seeing the bracket yesterday… whoever came up with the CFP rules really messed up…. ASU and Boise State with byes?? While Texas, Notre Dame, PSU, OSU and Tennessee all play? SMU and Indiana both in, not having beaten anyone of consequence? While Ole Miss, Alabama and South Carolina are out, all having beaten top teams? College football has been ruined; Nick Saban was smart getting out when he did
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Yeah, but go Dawgs! 😜

Posted by: Piper at December 09, 2024 08:49 AM (pRpzT)

211 Are there people out there who think the new rulers of Syria will be better than the old? Oh right. There’s also a group of people who think Ukraine is fighting for democracy😂

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2024 08:49 AM (SBwvE)

212 Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson

Elon Musk’s son, Lil X: “Save America. Help Trump”

https://tinyurl.com/2jtzdk72

Posted by: redridinghood at December 09, 2024 08:50 AM (NpAcC)

213 >>>The monopoly money, after the bullets, pushed my thinking that the CEO might have been able to out some powerful people to DOJ if he was in the plea-making deal...and now, 2 birds, 1 stone - we get the health insurance discussion to push politics in a down time...
Posted by: Nova Local
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This may give Trump an opportunity to correct O'Care, not that his plate isn't already full.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 09, 2024 08:50 AM (ah1Jo)

214 Trump already said Syria ain't none of our business. That's a very good sign.

I imagine Lindsey Graham must be inconsolable right now. If this election had gone the other way, he'd be on the phone with State, grabbing his money sacks, putting on his waders, and preparing to wade into this pool of blood and really open the sluices.

As it stands, he's probably just angrily reading Trump tweets and smacking around his catamites.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 09, 2024 08:50 AM (BI5O2)

215 Russia wanted to keep a port in the Med. Them leaving indicates how bad it is.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 09, 2024 08:46 AM (ah1Jo)
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Russian strength has been a little thinned out down here, thanks to the never-ending war in the Crimea.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2024 08:50 AM (ltFMw)

216 I remember when the talking heads said the expansion to a 12-team college football playoff would eliminate all the controversy over deserving teams being left out.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 09, 2024 08:50 AM (Y1sOo)

217
Activists who have been burning down this country for years finally feeling the consequences.
Priceless.

The problem is that even if this one idiot learns, and that is an if, that not of her friends will. In fact her "friends" will decide that they all knew this unfortunate soul was always kind of racist and really should have been willing to "share" with the less fortunate.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2024 08:50 AM (oZhjI)

218 @198 happens in communist takeovers all the time. If you weren't Han Chinese ( Mongol, Uigher, Tibetan, Manchu etc ) you took a beating. In Soviet Union if you weren't Russian (Uke, Baltic , Pole, German etc) things didn't go so well. In Africa if you were the wrong tribe bad times .

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2024 08:51 AM (C8u8d)

219 ASU and Boise State with byes?? While Texas, Notre Dame, PSU, OSU and Tennessee all play?

—

It’s almost as if winning a conference matters or something.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2024 08:51 AM (SBwvE)

220 Wow, watching Bills v Rams it would seem the Bills got Bengaled or SOFI'd last night by the Refs. Amazing that the Rams go ahead drive started with an uncalled False Start and finished with an uncalled Holding Penalty right before your eyes. Also, available in re-run. What is it with LA Rams and the obvious assists they get from their Refs?

Other than that, I did enjoy a lot of football this weekend.

Posted by: pudinhead at December 09, 2024 08:51 AM (jFCkp)

221 This story only came about later when the Caliphate conquered Jerusalem. Note the Byzantine and Jewish writers of the time did not note any flying horses over Jerusalem nor any Muslim holy men at the time.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2024 08:48 AM (oZhjI)

This bolsters the idea that all of the stories about Mohammed are just 9th century myth making by the new Arab Dynasty looking to bolster its legitimacy.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2024 08:51 AM (W6hoT)

222 Nov 19, 1979 Nolan Ryan (#34), ace pitcher for the Houston Astros, becomes baseball's first $1 million-per-year player by signing a 4-year, $4.5 million free agent contract.
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I assume this comment was inspired by the news that outfielder Juan Soto has agreed to a 15-year, $765-million contract with the NY Mets??

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 09, 2024 08:52 AM (hovnC)

223 howdy, Doof

Posted by: callsign claymore at December 09, 2024 08:52 AM (JcnCJ)

224 214. If Kamel won, Lindsay Graham would be on morning shows, saying all of her Marxist Cabinet picks should be confirmed

Posted by: Jonah at December 09, 2024 08:52 AM (YCxFk)

225 The Naomi Wolf article is great. She has been through much hatred and vilification by the left the last four years. If you had told me ten years ago that she and Steve Bannon would work together to save our nation, I'd have said you were nuts. I think a lot of her.

Posted by: Strange Bedfellows at December 09, 2024 08:52 AM (D0hl3)

226 Dear Alabama:

Don't lose to Vanderbilt and Oklahoma

Posted by: one hour sober at December 09, 2024 08:52 AM (Y1sOo)

227 Just go with a 64-team NCAAF playoff. That's where this'll end up anyway.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at December 09, 2024 08:52 AM (CwhoI)

228 I hope Kash really does declassify everything possible. The Diddy party list is gonna be something.

>>@EpochTimes
·
>>1m
American rapper Jay-Z, 55, denied sexual assault accusations on Dec. 8 after his name was added to a civil lawsuit alongside Sean “Diddy” Combs for allegedly drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl more than two decades ago.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2024 08:52 AM (LkLld)

229 >>Favreau and Lovett were speechwriters for Obama, and Vietor a spokesman. In what looks like an attempt to mainstream left-wing extremism, their shop features blue antifa onesies for babies, as well as blue antifa shirts for toddlers and youth. Molotov cocktail baby bottles?

The antifa stuff is weird, but the anti-baby baby clothes are freaking creepy: https://tinyurl.com/yz4zrdn4

Onesies with "Birth Control" (baby model is crying), "Bros for Roes." One can imagine they did this with the intention of making people pissed (getting more publicity), but it still reveals their sick minds. Poor kids who are pictured in this realizing the meaning 15+ years from now. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2024 08:52 AM (u1uWe)

230 Sending prayers for a fast recovery, Fen.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 09, 2024 08:53 AM (NpAcC)

231 216 I remember when the talking heads said the expansion to a 12-team college football playoff would eliminate all the controversy over deserving teams being left out.
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Imagine yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile...

Posted by: pudinhead at December 09, 2024 08:53 AM (jFCkp)

232 He still won the popular vote but he didn't get over 50%.
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After a month of additional counting in California and similar elsewhere so I think we all know the real truth of the matter.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 09, 2024 08:53 AM (hovnC)

233 216 I remember when the talking heads said the expansion to a 12-team college football playoff would eliminate all the controversy over deserving teams being left out.
Posted by: one hour sober at December 09, 2024 08:50 AM (Y1sOo)

Only Army can complain...anyone with 2 or more losses shouldn't really be in the discussion for missing the tourney...

After that, it becomes representing the best of each conference to see if you really have judged their strength correctly...if you are only 3rd or 4th best, you wouldn't be in your conference championship, let alone the national championship, without the playoffs...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2024 08:53 AM (exHjb)

234 howdy, Doof
Posted by: callsign claymore at December 09, 2024 08:52 AM (JcnCJ)

Good morning, Double C!

Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2024 08:53 AM (favqb)

235 It used to be that the biggest building in town was a factory. Now, it's the hospital and clinics.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 09, 2024 08:53 AM (NQtI0)

236 Nov 19, 1979 Nolan Ryan (#34), ace pitcher for the Houston Astros, becomes baseball's first $1 million-per-year player by signing a 4-year, $4.5 million free agent contract.
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I assume this comment was inspired by the news that outfielder Juan Soto has agreed to a 15-year, $765-million contract with the NY Mets??
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 09, 2024 08:52 AM (hovnC)

Yes indeed.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2024 08:54 AM (Aqu9a)

237 230 Sending prayers for a fast recovery, Fen.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 09, 2024 08:53 AM (NpAcC)

What happened ?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2024 08:54 AM (VE6XX)

238 Just go with a 64-team NCAAF playoff. That's where this'll end up anyway.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at December 09, 2024 08:52 AM (CwhoI)

Just watch hockey instead

Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2024 08:54 AM (favqb)

239 >>>It used to be that the biggest building in town was a factory. Now, it's the hospital and clinics.

Where I live the largest buildings are either warehouses or medical facilities. Both are brutalist eyesores.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at December 09, 2024 08:55 AM (CwhoI)

240 What happened ?
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2024 08:54 AM (VE6XX)
*****
UTI

Posted by: redridinghood at December 09, 2024 08:55 AM (NpAcC)

241 Conference champs get byes to make up for their extra game and to make sure there's never again an FSU situation...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2024 08:48 AM (exHjb)

Except leaving FSU out last year was absolutely the right decision. Without their #1 QB they were not one of the 4 best teams… that was clearly proven when they were crushed by Georgia in the Orange Bowl… a game where they proclaimed beforehand they were gonna use it to prove how badly they’d been cheated. What was the final score 63-3?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 09, 2024 08:55 AM (WdMlw)

242 212 Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson

Elon Musk’s son, Lil X: “Save America. Help Trump”

https://tinyurl.com/2jtzdk72
Posted by: redridinghood
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After he lost his oldest boy he decided the women weren't going to have too much influence over his children. Or, perhaps, he took a shine to the youngest. Whatever, it's quite a contrast to see Musk with his son versus Bezos and his yacht girl at different events.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 09, 2024 08:55 AM (ah1Jo)

243 RINO Warhawk Lindsey Graham signals he wants the U.S. to stage a GROUND INCURSION into Syria, saying “air strikes are not enough.”

Posted by: Don Black at December 09, 2024 08:55 AM (/7KEl)

244 Vatican Nativity Scene has Jesus Lying on Keffiyeh Scarf
Inappropriate to place a Jew on a scarf that has become a symbol of those who want to destroy Israel and exterminate Jews.
==

WTF ?!

Posted by: runner at December 09, 2024 08:55 AM (QTCRF)

245 240 What happened ?
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2024 08:54 AM (VE6XX)
*****
UTI
Posted by: redridinghood at December 09, 2024 08:55 AM (NpAcC)

Ouch.. Get well Fen

Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2024 08:56 AM (VE6XX)

246 Any new regime in Syria is going to be far better than the old one because it’s going to be weak and chaotic , and deprived of all of its heavy or advanced weaponry. As such, they can easily be kept contained in their own Petri dish no matter how good or bad they are.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2024 08:56 AM (W6hoT)

247 Guys, guuuuys, next time, select an Italian Pope.....

Posted by: runner at December 09, 2024 08:56 AM (QTCRF)

248 This bolsters the idea that all of the stories about Mohammed are just 9th century myth making by the new Arab Dynasty looking to bolster its legitimacy.

The earliest Byzantine writers on Muslims thought they were some sort of heretics influenced by Judaism. And there were non-orthodox Christian movements outside the Empire so its not like this sort of thing was unusual (see Arianism for example)

How much of what we currently call Islam existed at the time time? Who knows.

One fun specific bit in this area - Islam is famously iconoclastic. Well, the Byzantine Empire embraced iconoclasm in the 700s. Were they influenced by the Caliphate? Or...did the Caliphate adopt this from the Byzantines? Or did they both pick it up from the same thinkers and separately adopt it?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2024 08:56 AM (oZhjI)

249 how is this phag still in the Senate

c'mon, S Carolina- do something

Posted by: Don Black at December 09, 2024 08:56 AM (/7KEl)

250 Except leaving FSU out last year was absolutely the right decision. Without their #1 QB they were not one of the 4 best teams… that was clearly proven when they were crushed by Georgia in the Orange Bowl… a game where they proclaimed beforehand they were gonna use it to prove how badly they’d been cheated. What was the final score 63-3?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 09, 2024 08:55 AM (WdMlw)

Then you would say GA would be out this year, losing both QBs in their Championship Game.

You are supposed to decide by the play on the field, not the injury report.

Right now, GA may have no QB ready for their 1st game, and would certainly not have without a bye...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2024 08:57 AM (exHjb)

251 The good news is we have another Biden War.

Posted by: pudinhead at December 09, 2024 08:57 AM (jFCkp)

252 Vatican Nativity Scene has Jesus Lying on Keffiyeh Scarf

Unbelievable. Who's in charge over there?

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 09, 2024 08:57 AM (SfhV1)

253 Guys, guuuuys, next time, select an Italian Pope.....
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2024 08:56 AM (QTCRF)
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I miss Carmelita.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2024 08:58 AM (ltFMw)

254 RINO Warhawk Lindsey Graham signals he wants the U.S. to stage a GROUND INCURSION into Syria, saying “air strikes are not enough.”
Posted by: Don Black at December 09, 2024 08:55 AM (/7KEl)

This idea of a ground incursion is the stupidest thing I've read this morning, so far.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2024 08:58 AM (Aqu9a)

255 Right now, GA may have no QB ready for their 1st game, and would certainly not have without a bye...
Posted by: Nova Local at

I will tell you UGA got here not because of Carson, but in spite of him.

Posted by: Piper at December 09, 2024 08:58 AM (PRqXW)

256 Well, you don't know what we can find
Why don't you come with me, little boy
On a magic horsey ride?
You don't know what we can see
Why don't you tell your dreams to me?
Buraq will set you free

Posted by: Stonnenwolf at December 09, 2024 08:58 AM (hovnC)

257 I miss JPII....

Posted by: runner at December 09, 2024 08:58 AM (QTCRF)

258 Pope Frankie is a piece of Liberation Theology crap. The left installed him after the Benedict coup and he does their bidding

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2024 08:58 AM (C8u8d)

259 > As such, they can easily be kept contained in their own Petri dish no matter how good or bad they are.
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yeah
like UBL and the Taliban
wait

Posted by: Don Black at December 09, 2024 08:59 AM (/7KEl)

260 Everybody knows it is true that Jay Z raped that girl. He was protected during me too by Entertainment media, so not to hurt Beyonce. Their Queen

Posted by: Jonah at December 09, 2024 08:59 AM (YCxFk)

261 This current pope created around 150 new cardinals, that is more than JPII and Benedict combined.

Posted by: runner at December 09, 2024 08:59 AM (QTCRF)

262 > Russia wanted to keep a port in the Med. Them leaving indicates how bad it is.
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Worse, if you're Russian. The Syrian port of Tartus was Russia's stepping stone to Africa and a base from which it could (potentially) control access to and from the Med via the Suez and Gibraltar. The number of Russian client states in Africa is not insignificant. China now has a free hand there as the US isn't interested in Africa other than a place to launder some money.

It will be interesting whether Putin looks elsewhere in and around the Med for another port (possibly Turkey?) or if Russia returns to North Africa in Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, etc.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2024 08:59 AM (Q4IgG)

263 I saw someone refer to Syria as a self-cleaning oven. Seemed a pretty apt analogy.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at December 09, 2024 08:59 AM (CwhoI)

264 >>There’s also a group of people who think Ukraine is fighting for democracy

Zelensky attending the Notre Dame reopening was disgusting considering he shutdown the Orthodox churches in his country

Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2024 08:59 AM (u1uWe)

265 >>>Where I live the largest buildings are either warehouses or medical facilities. Both are brutalist eyesores.
Posted by: Citizen Cake
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Very much so. Some years ago the Big City had one pre-war hospital remaining, it was designed by a real architect. Galleries, verandas, court yards; just too much wasted space for modernity.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 09, 2024 09:00 AM (ah1Jo)

266 Oregon has no defense. Penn State has awful offense, and still got 40 points.

Georgia will win the whole thing easily

Posted by: Jonah at December 09, 2024 09:00 AM (YCxFk)

267 Guys, guuuuys, next time, select an Italian Pope.....
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2024 08:56 AM (QTCRF)

Is Father Guido Sarducci available?

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2024 09:00 AM (Aqu9a)

268 Zelensky attending the Notre Dame reopening was disgusting considering he shutdown the Orthodox churches in his country

Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2024 08:59 AM (u1uWe)

Even his attire was disrespectful.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 09, 2024 09:00 AM (SfhV1)

269 Ok Miss Lindsey here's a rifle . Go lead the ground incursion. After being captured you might enjoy the butt rape. Might

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2024 09:01 AM (C8u8d)

270 >>that was clearly proven when they were crushed by Georgia in the Orange Bowl

That's a bit misleading. Twenty-three FSU players sat out that bowl game, either electing to enter the portal, or declaring for the NFL draft instead.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 09, 2024 09:01 AM (Y1sOo)

271 264. Good point Lizzy. Probably went to Paris, so his Wife could buy 12k handbags again

Posted by: Jonah at December 09, 2024 09:01 AM (YCxFk)

272 Right now, GA may have no QB ready for their 1st game, and would certainly not have without a bye...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2024 08:57 AM (exHjb)

Not at all. Georgia beat a very good Texas team playing their backup QB the entire second half. In fact they scored more points in the 2nd half than the 1st. FSU last year was putrid in 2 games playing their backup QB

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 09, 2024 09:01 AM (HSqCq)

273 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2024 09:02 AM (Zz0t1)

274 Happy Monday.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2024 09:02 AM (Zz0t1)

275 272 Right now, GA may have no QB ready for their 1st game, and would certainly not have without a bye...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2024 08:57 AM (exHjb)

Not at all. Georgia beat a very good Texas team playing their backup QB the entire second half. In fact they scored more points in the 2nd half than the 1st. FSU last year was putrid in 2 games playing their backup QB
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 09, 2024 09:01 AM (HSqCq)

The backup QB is ALSO Out. He got Tua'd and has a concussion the size of TX...on the 2nd to last play of the game, I think...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2024 09:03 AM (exHjb)

276
Zelensky attending the Notre Dame reopening was disgusting considering he shutdown the Orthodox churches in his country
Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2024 08:59 AM (u1uWe)

Attention whore whores for attention, money.

Story at 10.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2024 09:03 AM (Zz0t1)

277 Missouri pol introduces bill to offer $1K ‘bounty’ to people who turn in illegal migrants

https://tinyurl.com/yxcne5fm

Posted by: redridinghood at December 09, 2024 09:03 AM (NpAcC)

278 Asking questions are genuinely fastidious thing if you are not understanding something
fully, however this piece of writing gives nice understanding even.

Posted by: celeb sex tape leaked at December 09, 2024 09:03 AM (06MMn)

279 216 I remember when the talking heads said the expansion to a 12-team college football playoff would eliminate all the controversy over deserving teams being left out.
Posted by: one hour sober at December 09, 2024 08:50 AM (Y1sOo)

Unless every team makes the playoffs there will always be someone who will cry WE WUZ ROBBED

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2024 09:03 AM (SBwvE)

280 From the article about the girl having the tantrum in WalMart:

"She rips food off the shelves and stomps on it. She runs her
hand behind boxes of dry foods and pushes them onto the floor. She picks up a bottle of sparkling juice out of a crate and smashes it."

I remember something similar when my kids were young and I was bringing them with me shopping to show them the ropes about price comparisons, value shopping, why sometimes it's worth it to pay the higher price point, etc... Y'know, imparting good life lessons, as one should.

Further up the aisle we're in, a little boy just starts melting down... on the floor, fists and feet flailing, screaming... Thankfully it didn't devolve into product destruction, but it was close. His mom's just looking on doing nothing (wrong choice.)

I looked at my two and said plenty loud enough for that mother to hear, "Here's a great example of why your mother and I raise you the way we do. We would NEVER let you turn out like THAT." Both my kids are nodding at me and have this "shocked and apalled" look on their face at the other kid. That kid's mom wasn't happy with me. Oh well, anyway.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 09, 2024 09:04 AM (O7YUW)

281 The backup QB is ALSO Out. He got Tua'd and has a concussion the size of TX...on the 2nd to last play of the game, I think...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2024 09:03 AM (exHjb)

That's why the starter had to come back in for the final handoff.

We'll see which one recovers first.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2024 09:04 AM (Zz0t1)

282 253 Guys, guuuuys, next time, select an Italian Pope.....
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2024 08:56 AM (QTCRF)
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I miss Carmelita.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey,

Not to mention Anna Maria Alberghetti.

Posted by: Can Pick'em at December 09, 2024 09:04 AM (D0hl3)

283 It is an unfortunate topic, but sidewalk-shitter morons have even infected the great outdoors.

There’s no common basis for learning basics any longer, whether Driver’s Ed, or Boy Scouts. Find a naked turd right on the trail in parks and recreation areas. Leviticus mentions that when a traveller is abroad, to have a paddle (trowel shovel?) and “cover up that which cometh from thee”.

I had to explain carefully to hikers, just because Deer and Bear shit on the trail doesn’t make it OK. There is the Fly Shit Food nexus, and a host of waterborne diseases and viruses that are only passed thru humans.

Turds on the Trail? Thank a Teacher, or something.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2024 09:05 AM (ICnaH)

284 Happy Monday.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2024 09:02 AM (Zz0t1)

Howdy brother!

You asked for it!
https://youtu.be/mFBQ0PH5rM4

Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2024 09:05 AM (favqb)

285
Is Father Guido Sarducci available?
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2024 09:00 AM (Aqu9a)

I swear my dad bought my first car from that guy. He sounded EXACTLY like him.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2024 09:05 AM (Zz0t1)

286 It will be interesting whether Putin looks elsewhere in and around the Med for another port (possibly Turkey?) or if Russia returns to North Africa in Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, etc.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2024 08:59 AM (Q4IgG)

Russsia and Turkey have been intense rivals for hundreds of years, that’s not about to change especially with Erdogan thinking he can exert control over the Black Sea himself. I think Russia just has to give up on the region completely.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2024 09:05 AM (W6hoT)

287 >>Unless every team makes the playoffs there will always be someone who will cry WE WUZ ROBBED

Yes, that was my point. I laughed whenever I heard a talking head say the expansion to 12 teams would eliminate the controversies going forward.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 09, 2024 09:05 AM (Y1sOo)

288 >>Attention whore whores for attention, money.

Oh yeah.
Surprised no one there or in media mentioned it.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2024 09:06 AM (u1uWe)

289 And there were non-orthodox Christian movements outside the Empire so its not like this sort of thing was unusual (see Arianism for example)
====
It's not unusual to think a horse can fly
But when I see you flying about with anyone
It's not unusual to see Mo fly, I wanna try

Posted by: Tom al-Jones at December 09, 2024 09:06 AM (hovnC)

290 The Bulwark: Democrats should deport illegals because they’re no longer reliable illegal votes.

Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2024 09:06 AM (kwMr5)

291 Is Father Guido Sarducci available?
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2024 09:00 AM (Aqu9a)

A new Cardinal, but a very hard worker !

Posted by: runner at December 09, 2024 09:06 AM (QTCRF)

292 @171 and @183: Horde Mind (love it!)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 09, 2024 09:06 AM (O7YUW)

293 248 Good morning, 18-1. Mecca as a place of pilgrimage pre-existed Islam. So did allah, a moon god in the pantheon at Mecca.

The Byzantine Christians were pro-holy imagery, as were the Western Christians. Icons and statues go back to the earliest days of Christianity. The iconoclasm was driven by Islam.

Posted by: callsign claymore at December 09, 2024 09:06 AM (JcnCJ)

294 So, who's your guess for "Times Person of the Year" to be named this week? I’m not even gonna guess 🙄

Hitler was once Time's "Person of the Year". Just sayin'.

They ought to give it to Elon since he bought the presidency for Trump. And that would make Trump mad.

MAGA voters.,They change the world for the worst for the weakest of reasons. An in-depth analysis of how they were so easily duped.

Taylor Swift. With a global reach and head on her shoulders, I think we will be hearing more from her when the Eras tour is over. Someone said this morning, "the Beatles of this time".

Kamala Harris. Possibly the best presidential candidate who didn't get elected, ever. Plus, knowing Trump's brain would explode hearing the news is a bonus.

Volodymyr Zelensky deserves to be "Person of the Year" this year and every year that the devastating war in Ukraine drags on. He's the picture of leadership.

Musk. After all, he's been in the papers quite a few times: blew up $60 million worth of rockets, finally released The Homer, bought a presidential election...or maybe Putin.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 09, 2024 09:07 AM (JCZqz)

295 Howdy brother!

You asked for it!
https://youtu.be/mFBQ0PH5rM4
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2024 09:05 AM (favqb)

I've been looking for that song for decades and couldn't for the life of me remember who did it or what it was called. It WAS my freshman year of college. There was another version of it that got a lot of play in the dorm back then.

wow........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2024 09:07 AM (Zz0t1)

296 Democrats should spend exactly zero political capital stopping any Trump deportation efforts. It is madness to spend capital trying to help people who are no longer a major part of your electoral coalition.

Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2024 09:08 AM (kwMr5)

297 I had a bad UTI and was released at 1:00 Saturday morning. I am on antibiotics and resting today.
Thanks for your concern, dear Braeyard. and for the prayers.

Sorry to the folks who already heard this before.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2024 08:41 AM (o7ega)

Praying your medical team and the antibiotics do the job and your recovery is fast and complete.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 09, 2024 09:08 AM (ogTiX)

298
Taylor Swift. With a global reach and head on her shoulders, I think we will be hearing more from her when the Eras tour is over. Someone said this morning, "the Beatles of this time".

Kamala Harris. Possibly the best presidential candidate who didn't get elected, ever. Plus, knowing Trump's brain would explode hearing the news is a bonus.

LOL

Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2024 09:08 AM (VE6XX)

299 Further up the aisle we're in, a little boy just starts melting down... on the floor, fists and feet flailing, screaming...
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Another victim of Bidenflation.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 09, 2024 09:09 AM (hovnC)

300 Kamala Harris. Possibly the best presidential candidate who didn't get elected, ever.

I'm laughing here.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 09, 2024 09:09 AM (SfhV1)

301 I nominate DU posters as people of the year. Their comedy is gold Jerry, Gold!

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2024 09:10 AM (SBwvE)

302
Kamala Harris. Possibly the best presidential candidate who didn't get elected, ever. Plus, knowing Trump's brain would explode hearing the news is a bonus.

Don't do drugs.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2024 09:10 AM (Zz0t1)

303 >>Is Father Guido Sarducci available?

Love that guy!
He wrote the funniest book, "The Lazlo Letters."

Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2024 09:10 AM (u1uWe)

304 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 09, 2024 09:07 AM (JCZqz)

The DU crowd doesn't take losing well do they

Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2024 09:11 AM (VE6XX)

305 Who did this ?
https://x.com/FFT1776/status/1865616024415932762

Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2024 09:12 AM (kwMr5)

306 “ If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.”

John 15:7-8

Posted by: Marcus T at December 09, 2024 09:12 AM (ibKjr)

307 Kamala Harris. Possibly the best presidential candidate who didn't get elected, ever.

-----

signed - K. Emhoff

Posted by: runner at December 09, 2024 09:12 AM (QTCRF)

308 Feed a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
Deport a man and you never have to feed him again.
_Tiffany Fong

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 09, 2024 09:13 AM (ah1Jo)

309 One fun specific bit in this area - Islam is famously iconoclastic. Well, the Byzantine Empire embraced iconoclasm in the 700s. Were they influenced by the Caliphate? Or...did the Caliphate adopt this from the Byzantines? Or did they both pick it up from the same thinkers and separately adopt it?
Posted by: 18-1

The first Iconoclast Emperor was Leo III, who, IIRC, was from Syria. So probably he got it from the Muslims. But who knows?

Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2024 09:13 AM (v6JzV)

310 Glad you're on the med, Fen!!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2024 09:13 AM (u1uWe)

311 So much easier to find when you know the name.......

Remix '91.

https://youtu.be/RudtS48qBf8

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2024 09:13 AM (Zz0t1)

312 Golden, CO 1903

guess what that building is

https://tinyurl.com/473y5pkc

Posted by: Don Black at December 09, 2024 09:13 AM (/7KEl)

313 Kamala Harris. Possibly the best presidential candidate who didn't get elected, ever

—

Even on their side there are 10 other candid-ayes for this honor in modern history alone. Comments like this show these people have zero critical thinking ability. The ultimate NPCs.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2024 09:14 AM (SBwvE)

314 I've been looking for that song for decades and couldn't for the life of me remember who did it or what it was called. It WAS my freshman year of college. There was another version of it that got a lot of play in the dorm back then.

wow........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2024 09:07 AM (Zz0t1)

I'm here to serve!

Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2024 09:14 AM (favqb)

315 guess what that building is

https://tinyurl.com/473y5pkc
Posted by: Don Black at December 09, 2024 09:13 AM (/7KEl)

Coors brewery ?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2024 09:14 AM (VE6XX)

316 >>Kamala Harris. Possibly the best presidential candidate who didn't get elected, ever.

"AHEM!!!"
-- Hillary, "The Most Qualified Presidential Candidate Ever"

Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2024 09:14 AM (u1uWe)

317 314 I've been looking for that song for decades and couldn't for the life of me remember who did it or what it was called. It WAS my freshman year of college. There was another version of it that got a lot of play in the dorm back then.

wow........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2024 09:07 AM (Zz0t1)
----------------------
Tied to the Whipping Post?

Posted by: pudinhead at December 09, 2024 09:15 AM (jFCkp)

318 >>Golden, CO 1903

guess what that building is

https://tinyurl.com/473y5pkc

Coors brewery?

Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2024 09:15 AM (u1uWe)

319 guess what that building is

https://tinyurl.com/473y5pkc
Posted by: Don Black at December 09, 2024 09:13 AM (/7KEl)

The THC extraction factory in Pueblo, Colorado?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2024 09:15 AM (Zz0t1)

320 316 >>Kamala Harris. Possibly the best presidential candidate who didn't get elected, ever.

"AHEM!!!"
-- Hillary, "The Most Qualified Presidential Candidate Ever"
Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2024 09:14 AM (u1uWe)

Ahem ahem ahem
- Al “I invented the internet” Gore

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2024 09:15 AM (SBwvE)

321 >>>guess what that building is

crematorium?

Posted by: one hour sober at December 09, 2024 09:15 AM (Y1sOo)

322 Golden, CO 1903

guess what that building is

https://tinyurl.com/473y5pkc
Posted by: Don Black at December 09, 2024 09:13 AM (/7KEl)
-

Wicked Witch of the West's castle?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2024 09:16 AM (ltFMw)

323 322 Golden, CO 1903

guess what that building is

https://tinyurl.com/473y5pkc
Posted by: Don Black at December 09, 2024 09:13 AM (/7KEl)
-

Wicked Witch of the West's castle?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2024 09:16 AM (ltFMw)
-

Silly me. No flying monkeys!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2024 09:17 AM (ltFMw)

324 Isn't Mz. Emhoff, err.... Harris separating from him? I thought there was mention of it a week or two ago.

Something always seemed a "bit off" with them.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2024 09:17 AM (Q4IgG)

325 Kamala Harris. Possibly the best presidential candidate who didn't get elected, ever.

"AHEM!!!"
-- Hillary, "The Most Qualified Presidential Candidate Ever"
Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2024 09:14 AM (u1uWe)

Ahem ahem ahem
- Al “I invented the internet” Gore
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2024 09:15 AM (SBwvE)
------------
It's like Tinker to Evers to Chance!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 09, 2024 09:18 AM (fsC91)

326 JJ is right. Syria is just exchanging one tyrant for another worse tyrant. I lived in Iran in late seventies (and left) when all the “youth” were jonesing for a new regime. They were hating on the shah who no doubt ruled with a tight fist, but brought wealth to the country, gave education to the people-including women, and generally loved his country. Look what they exchanged that for—Islamic brutality! Iran went from a western friendly modern looking country to 14th century tyrannical rule.

Posted by: AnnaS at December 09, 2024 09:18 AM (ANuwa)

327 What is the point of these recent bot comments complimenting the blog????

Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2024 09:18 AM (u1uWe)

328 >Coors brewery ?

Posted by: It's me donna
---

ding ding ding
winner winner chicken dinner

Posted by: Don Black at December 09, 2024 09:18 AM (/7KEl)

329 Isn't Mz. Emhoff, err.... Harris separating from him? I thought there was mention of it a week or two ago.
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I've been assured on This Very Blog that that is not the case.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 09, 2024 09:18 AM (fsC91)

330 I just thought it was an interesting photo

would you believe, it looks nothing like that now

Posted by: Don Black at December 09, 2024 09:19 AM (/7KEl)

331 Golden, CO 1903

guess what that building is

https://tinyurl.com/473y5pkc
Posted by: Don Black at December 09, 2024 09:13 AM (/7KEl)

Little Johnny Mine? The gold mine what made The Unsinkable Molly Brown & husband fabulously wealthy.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2024 09:19 AM (Aqu9a)

332

Alexa Henning
@alexahenning
NEW THIS AM: More than 250 veterans, including Medal of Honor recipients, pen letter endorsing
@TulsiGabbard
for DNI.

“Her patriotism, shaped on the battlefield, mirrors the values and aspirations of the American people.”

Posted by: redridinghood at December 09, 2024 09:19 AM (NpAcC)

333 331 I just thought it was an interesting photo

would you believe, it looks nothing like that now
Posted by: Don Black at December 09, 2024 09:19 AM (/7KEl)

I imagine there are a few more buildings now...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2024 09:20 AM (VE6XX)

334 The gold mine what made The Unsinkable Molly Brown & husband fabulously wealthy.
---------
Debbie Reynolds Molly Brown v. Kathy Bates Molly Brown?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 09, 2024 09:20 AM (fsC91)

335 I like the bots who promise me hot women more than the ones who promise me fast website load times.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2024 09:21 AM (SBwvE)

336 Golden, CO 1903

guess what that building is

https://tinyurl.com/473y5pkc
Posted by: Don Black at December 09, 2024 09:13 AM (/7KEl)

Not bad but it's no Elsinore Brewery. That place is a beauty, eh?

Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2024 09:21 AM (favqb)

337 We must stop saying "Biden administration, Biden did this or that" . By putting the focus on Biden, it gives the next Democrat candidate to say Biden did this so I won't. Put the focus on the Democrat party, because they ALL have the views, desires and goals Biden has.

Posted by: Chillin the most at December 09, 2024 09:22 AM (AhKLt)

338 328 What is the point of these recent bot comments complimenting the blog????
Posted by: Lizzy

Your comment loaded so quickly! What do you feed your hampsters?

Posted by: Wuhan Hacking Institute at December 09, 2024 09:22 AM (D0hl3)

339 I like the bots who promise me hot women more than the ones who promise me fast website load times.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2024 09:21 AM (SBwvE)
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Can they promise hot women who load quickly?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 09, 2024 09:22 AM (fsC91)

340 >>So, who's your guess for "Times Person of the Year" to be named this week? I’m not even gonna guess

Joe Biden?
Immigrants?

Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2024 09:22 AM (u1uWe)

341 There's a beer store literally right across the street from the brewery. This is where you get the fresh beer.

Posted by: Don Black at December 09, 2024 09:22 AM (/7KEl)

342 More US Regime meddling. Guatemala:

https://tinyurl.com/25xacbz3

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2024 09:23 AM (ltFMw)

343 Debbie Reynolds Molly Brown v. Kathy Bates Molly Brown?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea

I thought Kathy Bates was great as Molly Brown. The best part of that otherwise horrible movie. (Well, other than Kate Winslet's boobs, but I saw Titanic on a flight and that scene was cut out.)

I've never seen the Meredith Willson musical all the way through, so can't really opine on Debbie's performance.

Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2024 09:23 AM (v6JzV)

344 >>>So, who's your guess for "Times Person of the Year" to be named this week? I’m not even gonna guess
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gotta be Elon

Posted by: Don Black at December 09, 2024 09:23 AM (/7KEl)

345 The World Book had some photos they were showing off in the 1960s, Iran had some Western style record stores where youths could browse music. Including females dressed in Western clothing. This was a huge development at the time. It wasn’t the LA Tower Records, but it was an opening up of the culture.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2024 09:23 AM (ICnaH)

346 320 316 >>Kamala Harris. Possibly the best presidential candidate who didn't get elected, ever.

"AHEM!!!"
-- Hillary, "The Most Qualified Presidential Candidate Ever"
Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2024 09:14 AM (u1uWe)

Ahem ahem ahem
- Al “I invented the internet” Gore
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

An ACTUAL response at DU:

Adlai Stevenson enters the chat. His running mate was Estes Kefauver, one of only 3 Southern senators who didn't sign the racist Southern Manifesto in 1956. Albert Gore, Sr. and Lyndon Johnson were the other two senators.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 09, 2024 09:24 AM (JCZqz)

347 But I can see Time not making Elon the POTY, just to be dicks about it

Posted by: Don Black at December 09, 2024 09:24 AM (/7KEl)

348 Not to brag, but one year I was Time Magazine Person of the Year.

Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2024 09:24 AM (favqb)

349 >>> Look what they exchanged that for—Islamic brutality! Iran went from a western friendly modern looking country to 14th century tyrannical rule.
Posted by: AnnaS
----

Hello Syria. We're going to have more trouble with the new islamic regime than we ever had with the Assads. We didn't have problems with Syria until Hillary started the cascade from Libya.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 09, 2024 09:25 AM (ah1Jo)

350 Good morning, 18-1. Mecca as a place of pilgrimage pre-existed Islam. So did allah, a moon god in the pantheon at Mecc

I was looking at a map that showed all the places Roman coins had been found. Note - none were found in Mecca.

Some were found in Ethiopia, Yemen, and of course India.

If Mecca were an important trading hub prior to the rise of Islam it is odd that no Roman coins ended up there isn't it?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2024 09:25 AM (oZhjI)

351 The World Book had some photos they were showing off in the 1960s, Iran had some Western style record stores where youths could browse music. Including females dressed in Western clothing. This was a huge development at the time. It wasn’t the LA Tower Records, but it was an opening up of the culture.

Posted by: Common Tater

Wasn't there a similar picture from Afghanistan as well?

Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2024 09:25 AM (v6JzV)

352 Golden, CO 1903

guess what that building is

https://tinyurl.com/473y5pkc
Posted by: Don Black at December 09, 2024

***
The Coors Brewery?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2024 09:25 AM (omVj0)

353 The gold mine what made The Unsinkable Molly Brown & husband fabulously wealthy.
---------)
Debbie Reynolds Molly Brown v. Kathy Bates Molly Brown?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 09, 2024 09:20 AM (fsC91)

Neither. Tucker McGuire Molly Brown from A Night To Remember (1958 )

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2024 09:25 AM (Aqu9a)

354 You guys understand that what is happening in Syria might influence what is happening in Iran ? Ayatollah's regime might fall. They lost most of what propped up that regime The illegal oil trade, arms and threats around ME - gone.

Posted by: runner at December 09, 2024 09:26 AM (QTCRF)

355 See this:

https://tinyurl.com/ytnmwv2u

Then read my comment 49 above.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2024 09:26 AM (ltFMw)

356
The big problem for the leader of Syria was cognitive dissonance.

With a name like "Basher" Assad, you'd expect him to look-like some 250 lb., tattooed, bulked-up WWE Wrestler bellowing out his signature phrase,

"You smell what I'm cookin'? JOOOOOOOOZ!!!!!"

But, in truth, he was a chinless, slicked up, little deeb and eventually reality caught up with his name,

And so he fell.

Posted by: naturalfake, Internet Historian at December 09, 2024 09:26 AM (iJfKG)

357 Maybe it was Afghanistan? My memory banks sometimes transpose things. I can see the photo in my minds eye still.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2024 09:26 AM (ICnaH)

358 Can they promise hot women who load quickly?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea

I promise the ladies I won't download quickly...but I always do 😢

Posted by: Typical Male Moron at December 09, 2024 09:26 AM (JCZqz)

359 Greta Thunberg to a crowd of terror supporters, “Fuck Germany and Fuck Israel.”

She went from supporting the environment to supporting terrorist organizations.

Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2024 09:26 AM (DFm5D)

360 I was looking at a map that showed all the places Roman coins had been found. Note - none were found in Mecca.

Some were found in Ethiopia, Yemen, and of course India.

If Mecca were an important trading hub prior to the rise of Islam it is odd that no Roman coins ended up there isn't it?

Posted by: 18-1

A Roman coin even turned up in the Ryukyu Is.

Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2024 09:26 AM (v6JzV)

361 Iran went from a western friendly modern looking country to 14th century tyrannical rule.

Hey Khomeni swore up and down he was a supporter of democracy.

Of course Islamic "democracy" means only Islamic parties are allowed and none of the FNM bothered to ask about that

Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2024 09:27 AM (oZhjI)

362 If Israel bombs out the rest of Iran's "secret" nuke program, what is left ?

Posted by: runner at December 09, 2024 09:27 AM (QTCRF)

363 You know who was also Time Person of the Year and a terrific dancer?

Posted by: Franz Liebkind at December 09, 2024 09:27 AM (D0hl3)

364 348 Which year?

Posted by: callsign claymore at December 09, 2024 09:28 AM (JcnCJ)

365 Greta Thunberg to a crowd of terror supporters, “Fuck Germany and Fuck Israel.”

She went from supporting the environment to supporting terrorist organizations.
Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2024 09:26 AM (DFm5D)

At an environmentalists for palestine rally.

Whatever the grift, I guess.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2024 09:28 AM (Zz0t1)

366 Neither. Tucker McGuire Molly Brown from A Night To Remember (1958 )
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2024 09:25 AM (Aqu9a)
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Wow, I'll have to watch that one. (If I have seen it, it's so long ago that I don't remember it.) The boat sinks, right?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 09, 2024 09:28 AM (fsC91)

367 Who did this ?
https://x.com/FFT1776/status/1865616024415932762
Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2024 09:12 AM (kwMr5)
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Me next!

Posted by: Mrs. David french at December 09, 2024 09:28 AM (C7Pt/)

368
Let's hope this is true:

https://amgreatness.com/2024/12/08/312542/

Buuuuut, I don't think Obama is done unti his capture of Black Women voters is lost. And White Woke Women, too.

Posted by: naturalfake, Internet Historian at December 09, 2024 09:28 AM (iJfKG)

369 Trump is licensing a cologne and perfume called Fight Fight Fight. I thought it would be a fun Christmas buy. It is $200 smackaroos per bottle!! Is that how much this stuff normally costs? Wow!! I had no idea. I've only bought grocerie store cologne, old spice and stetson. I guess I'm a poor, ain't I?

Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2024 09:29 AM (Y6IkP)

370 Greta Thunberg to a crowd of terror supporters, “Fuck Germany and Fuck Israel.”

She went from supporting the environment to supporting terrorist organizations.
Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2024 09:26 AM (DFm5D)
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This is why I don't take advice from mentally ill teenagers. (Yeah, I know she's no longer a teen, but she still has that vibe.)

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 09, 2024 09:30 AM (fsC91)

371 All the loose Roman coins were sent to Oak Island to support the Multi-decade reality show.

Posted by: Kill Your Television at December 09, 2024 09:31 AM (D0hl3)

372 BabylonBee: Supreme Court Rules 8-1 In Favor Of Taking Turns Bonking Justice Sotomayor On The Head With Their Gavels

Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2024 09:31 AM (DFm5D)

373 The Catholic Church needs a fire-breathing Conservative African Bishop to become pope.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at December 09, 2024 09:31 AM (1FWWQ)

374 Noodus gratia artis.

Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2024 09:31 AM (v6JzV)

375 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2024 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

376 >>>
With a name like "Basher" Assad, you'd expect him to look-like some 250 lb., tattooed, bulked-up WWE Wrestler bellowing out his signature phras
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Remember, his dad ran the country, he was a dentist. For reasons I don't remember, (the intended successor died?) Basher was thrown into the job he never wanted.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 09, 2024 09:32 AM (ah1Jo)

377 Greta Thunberg to a crowd of terror supporters, “Fuck Germany and Fuck Israel.”

She went from supporting the environment to supporting terrorist organizations.
Posted by: SMOD

It was cute when she was whining about the earf being destroyed. Now that she is talking about a group of people, she has become a legitimate target.

Tread carefully girl. You just put a target on your back.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 09, 2024 09:33 AM (L4M+8)

378 350 That's interesting.

Posted by: callsign claymore at December 09, 2024 09:33 AM (JcnCJ)

379 373 From your lips to God's ears!

Posted by: callsign claymore at December 09, 2024 09:34 AM (JcnCJ)

380 “Children should be seen, and not heard”

Sometimes, the old ways are the best ways. Note well - this is also for children’s benefit as well as society.

The left enjoys blowing up conventions, whilst at the same time demanding we all continue on as before. So, they parade a child wind up toy in front of say, Congress, spouting BS, and attack anyone who dares utter a discouraging word to a mere child.

See how that works? With a media compliant editing program and “gotcha” moments, they use Women and Children and Vulnerable Communities as completely unassailable protected entities.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2024 09:34 AM (ICnaH)

381 370 (Yeah, I know she's no longer a teen, but she still has that vibe.)

"Mentally ill Swedish chick" is one of the more polite terms I use against her.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2024 09:35 AM (jjoN6)

382 362 If Israel bombs out the rest of Iran's "secret" nuke program, what is left ?
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2024 09:27 AM (QTCRF)

they could go after Iran's very minimal oil refining capacity, which is a big achilles heel.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 09, 2024 09:36 AM (x0n13)

383 " Not to brag, but one year I was Time Magazine Person of the Year.
Posted by: Doof "

Me too!

Posted by: Charles Manson at December 09, 2024 09:38 AM (vFG9F)

384 Under no circumstances am I condoning murder.

I would like to point out why United Health Care is the most hated healthcare insurance company. Industry wide the rejection rate for claims is 16%. UHC has a claim rejection rate of 32%. Hard enough to believe 1 in 6 insurance claims are illegitimate, but 1 in 3?

By the way the industry rejection rate for premiums is right at 0.000%.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at December 09, 2024 09:39 AM (Da7Vv)

385 Has anybody noticed that the infamous Koch brothers have come off of the Progressive Enemies List ?

Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2024 09:39 AM (DFm5D)

386 That almost sounds apologetic toward the insurance industry -- but who is it who wrote Obamacare? Oh, the Dems porked it up past the gills, but the fundamental legislation was the dream sheet of medical insurance, fully giving them a mandate, enforceable under the law, that everyone MUST use their product. The insurance industry was not devoured by Obamacare; they set the friggin' table for it.

While I cannot argue with this, it is in no way apologetic to the Insurance industry. But much like the pros in the propaganda press, the commenter cherry picked one line, and ignored the entire paragraph:
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Of course this comment is absolutely false. They wrote almost none of it. They were explicitly excluded from it. They were the boogeyman in the closet dems used to whip up support. The hospitals had much more input.

This is not to say that the insurance companies didn't lobby for it in the end. Because they did. But they had very little input in its drafting. It was mostly pointed head leftist government single payer advocates who fashioned it. Left to their devices, they would have eliminated private insurance.

Posted by: Black JEM at December 09, 2024 09:54 AM (GZYu7)

387 369 Trump is licensing a cologne and perfume called Fight Fight Fight. I thought it would be a fun Christmas buy. It is $200 smackaroos per bottle!! Is that how much this stuff normally costs? Wow!! I had no idea. I've only bought grocerie store cologne, old spice and stetson. I guess I'm a poor, ain't I?
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Posted by: pudinhead at December 09, 2024 09:58 AM (jFCkp)

388 It's not that 'nation-building' was never going to work.

It's that the 'experts' in charge absolutely forbid the military from actually doing the things that was going to LET nation-building work.

They refused to let them punish corruption in the Afghan army and government refused to let them cross the border to Pakistan where they KNEW the strongholds of the fighters were, and made them abide by the most ludicrously restrictive ROE (Rules of Engagement) imaginable.

EVERYBODY in the military below the rank of general knew the Afghan army was going to fold the second we left. EVERYBODY.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at December 09, 2024 10:00 AM (setIA)

389 Be careful how you use it!

Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2024 10:02 AM (Iwnxp)

390 Barring some miracle, little WalMart girl is going to come to a horrible end. And when that happens her 'parents' and the whole community, will say 'She was a good girl, turning her life around.'

Posted by: Eromero at December 09, 2024 10:28 AM (LHPAg)

391 Good morning, all, and thanks, J.J. for another wonderful thread.

The blue states dole out medical benefits packages to their state & county workers that are fantastic (usually including dental, vision, life insurance, accident, disability) & relatively inexpensive even for full family coverage. Same with the big public unions such as, but not limited to, IBEW, Carpenters, Teamsters, etc. The feds also get very good medical coverage at good rates; pay extra for dental, vision, life insurance.

Meandering to a point, why murder the CEO of Unitedhealthcare? Is it a statement killing, a hate crime?

KFF, 'Health Policy 101, The Regulation of Private Health Insurance' Published: May 28, 2024 | Updated July 29, 2024

In part, "Introduction
Private health coverage is subject to significant requirements at the state and federal levels. While the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 ushered in many new requirements for the federal regulation of private health coverage, another federal law, the Employer Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), has for over 50 years regulated the most predominant form of health coverage for people under age 65, employer-sponsored coverage."

Posted by: L - Rooster today, feather duster tomorrow.. at December 09, 2024 11:22 AM (NFX2v)

392 Why now??!

>FACT SHEET: Vice President Harris Announces Proposal to Prohibit Medical Bills from Being Included on Credit Reports and Calls on States and Localities to Take Further Actions to Reduce Medical Debt, June 11, 2024

And many have, i.e.,: Governor Murphy Signs "Louisa Carman Medical Debt Relief Act” 07/22/2024; RIP Medical Debt Organization (around for awhile)

>White House, Briefing Room, 1 October 2024, "FACT SHEET: Biden-⁠Harris Administration Announces New Actions to Reduce Medical Debt and Address Illegal Medical Debt Collection Practices"

>USA dot gov: How to get help with medical bills, Last updated December 2, 2024

Though: Jayapal, Dingell, Sanders Introduce Medicare for All Act of 2023, H.R.3421 - 118th Congress (2023-2024): Medicare for All Act, and also H.R.6270 - State-Based Universal Health Care Act of 2023, 118th Congress (2023-2024) by Representative Ro Khanna

Also: Doc Buddy dot com, Thought Leadership, 'Medical Associations in 5 States are Calling for Universal Health Care in the US—Here's Why' Written by: Cassidy Grom, October 31, 2023

For the undocumented, unhoused to have (full coverage) insurance through states w/Federal contributions?

Posted by: L - Rooster today, feather duster tomorrow.. at December 09, 2024 11:22 AM (NFX2v)

393 If so, then doesn't the problem also involve the diverse medical profession and programs??

Some additional articles within KFF article, previous:
Rise in Use of Mental Health Apps Raises New Policy Issues
Mental Health Parity at a Crossroads
Health System Tracker: The burden of medical debt in the United States

Something more planned for the second Trump Administration to unravel. IDK.
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"Let the River Run"

Posted by: L - Rooster today, feather duster tomorrow.. at December 09, 2024 11:22 AM (NFX2v)

394 New Hampshire Bulletin, Election 2024
Goodlander adds ‘congresswoman from New Hampshire’ to her government resume
2nd District voters chose her over Republican Lily Tang Williams, By: Claire Sullivan - November 6, 2024

In part, "She focused her campaign on taking on the “bullies” that she described as big corporations and extreme politicians. Goodlander also entered the race with a deeply personal story: She needed immediate care after losing her son at 20 weeks pregnant. Instead, she said, she faced delays caused by an influx of patients from states with restrictive abortion laws. With her appointment scheduled one day too late, she was forced to deliver her stillborn son in a hotel bathtub.

Goodlander has said she would “fight like hell” to restore federal abortion protections once guaranteed by Roe v. Wade, which was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022."

Jake Sullivan of the US State Department's wife.
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Another argument for open, universal healthcare in the USA, it seems.

Posted by: L - Rooster today, feather duster tomorrow.. at December 09, 2024 11:28 AM (NFX2v)

395 Might want rethink some of thoughts on Syria, just as you later, look back and said while Saddam Hussein and Kadafi were surely heavy-handed dictators they had to be. Furthermore, you might wanna research who is behind these attacks and what you’ll find is. They are the same rebels that launched the attack against Israel, October 7 and was simply relocated by the United States into Syria. It is not a miracle coincidence the day the cease-fire began rebels began advancing into Aleppo . You might also wanna research that it was our 810 fighter squadron from Turkey that provided ground support and decimated Syrias ground forces. For further research.Look at Dick Cheneys position on Genie Energy along with other members who wield influence, it’s location and the history of the Trans Arabian Pipeline,that began after world war 2 under Project Ajax, before calling this a conspiracy theory simple searches can reveal the whole truth. Let’s not forget it was Bush then Obama’ who began this and was Trump who defunded CIA operations in Syria . Might also want to look up the comments by an ambassador Jeffries who admitted he lthey repeatedly lied to Trump about troop withdrawals.

Posted by: Harold Buhrandt at December 09, 2024 11:42 AM (1iCtl)

396 Greg Price
@greg_price11
Jordan Neely supporter: "When Jordan came on that subway car, the first thing he asked for was food. And he was killed." 12:00 p.m.

Greg Price
@greg_price11
Jordan Neely's father Andre Zachary, who abandoned him as a child, placed him in foster care after his mother's murder when he was a teenager, and did not care about him while he was homeless says "I miss my son" and "this system is rigged." 12:05 pm

Posted by: L - Rooster today, feather duster tomorrow.. at December 09, 2024 05:01 PM (NFX2v)

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