The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

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Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. As many of you know, yours truly is a giver. But then again, so is my esteemed colleague CBD. He was looking out for you coffee lovers. Or was he? You be the judge.

Morning coffee may protect the heart better than all-day coffee drinking
08 Jan 2025
Topic(s)reventive Cardiology
Sophia Antipolis, 8 January 2025: People who drink coffee in the morning have a lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease and a lower overall mortality risk compared to all-day coffee drinkers, according to research published in the European Heart Journal [1] today (Wednesday).
The research was led by Dr Lu Qi, from Tulane University, New Orleans, USA. He said: “Research so far suggests that drinking coffee doesn’t raise the risk of cardiovascular disease, and it seems to lower the risk of some chronic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes. Given the effects that caffeine has on our bodies, we wanted to see if the time of day when you drink coffee has any impact on heart health.”

All I know is I'll drink it as often as I choose to.

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Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to take care of. (Rulz for those of you in Egg Harbor)

1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate away.
2) Be kind, be nice. And for crying out loud. No jumping from the kitchen table.
3) Go ahead and run with that sharp object if you must. Sympathy meters may or may not work.
4) Have a great weekend!

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AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List

Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo atsign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update.
Prayer Requests:
12/7 – Jordan61 requested prayers for his mother, who is going in for a CAT scan. Mom has been coughing and congested ever since she caught a cold in August. They have done antibiotics, etc. since, and a chest X-ray revealed something that caused the doctor to recommend an urgent CAT scan.
12/14 Update – The CAT scan showed she had pneumonia. They gave her antibiotics (fourth round) and are continuing with prednisone. If this doesn’t work she will have to see a lung specialist.
12/7 – rhennigantx asked for prayers for his friend Mike, who lost his best friend of 50 years.
1/4 Update – rhennigantx asked for prayers for the family and friends of his friend Tim, who passed away.
12/10 – Village Idiot’s Apprentice requested prayers for his father, who had a major stroke on 12/9, with not a good prognosis.
12/19 Update – His father was called home to be with God at about 1 am. It is so bittersweet to know that he is no longer here, but yet already at the side of God.
12/12 – Cybersmythe is supposed to have outpatient surgery on 12/16, but he got an abnormal ECG. He’s asking for prayers for the best of all possible outcomes.
12/21 Update – the surgery went well and there appear to be no complications. He appreciates the horde’s prayers and well wishes.
12/14 – Dash my Lace Wings asked for prayers. She has had chronic hip pain for years, but it has really started to affect her mobility. The MRI showed torn tendons. She is going to try platelet-rich-plasma injections to stimulate healing, in lieu of surgery. That will happen in January. Please pray that the tendons are healed and that she might have reduced pain for a few years, and not have to have more expensive surgery. Thank you. Also, if anyone has had this treatment, what is your opinion of it?
12/14 – About That Time asked for prayers for a daughter who is trying to give them a second grandchild. The daughter lost a baby in early October, and is pregnant again. Prayers for success are appreciated.
12/14 – Commissar Hrothgar would appreciate a prayer or two for Tim, an acquaintance from Southern Virginia. He apparently dodged a deer while driving, but went off the road into a ditch, jamming the driver’s side door, and then the car caught on fire. Amazingly, there was an ongoing house fire nearby, so the fire department EMTs saw the flames and were somehow able to extract him from the car. However, he suffered severe burns on his hands and legs. He is already receiving skin grafts on his hands and legs and will be in a bad way for some time.
12/14 – Sock Monkey asked for prayers for Publius. His cousin passed away suddenly on 12/13.
12/14 – Sharon (willow’s apprentice) could use some prayers. She had a CT scan of her hip, and may be headed toward a hip replacement. She is not worried about the surgery, which probably will improve her life, but is concerned about the loss of autonomy during recovery.
12/14 – Duke Lowell asked for prayers for his father, who was taken to the hospital 12/13 in respiratory distress. They are thinking it’s an infection, but he’s 87, and at that age anything can be serious.
12/21 Update – Thanks for the prayers; they definitely helped. Dad is recovering at home now. He had an upper respiratory infection and esophageal spasms, all treatable.
12/14 – Jewells is still in a lot of pain. The drain was put in on 12/11. She was supposed to receive a sedative and medication for pain while they worked, and she received nothing. She felt everything and it hurt like hell. It also hurts when it is being drained, and that is daily for the first week. She has a great home health nurse coming in now, and she has shown Jewell’s daughter and husband how to do it.
1/4 Update – Jewells is still in a lot of pain. The doctor has prescribed morphine. She has an orthopedic appointment soon, where hopefully one problem will be resolved.

12/16 – Teresa in Fort Worth requested prayers for Paul’s niece, Amanda, who had a heart transplant 4 years ago. Now her body has started to reject it. She needs another miracle.
12/17 – Bulg asked for prayers that he would find a job soon.
12/18 – neverenoughcaffeine could use prayers. She has 3 minor medical issues. One she can ignore, but the other 2 are causing loads of pain and discomfort. They may be related. She is praying that her ortho doctor has an answer for both.
12/21 Update – She did receive two shots of cortisone in her foot, which helped with her back issues. Her foot feels better and hopefully will continue to improve. Therapy for her back is also helping.
12/21 – Fenelon Spoke asked for prayers for E, the nurse and caregiver for her church’s retired organist. “E” has been in and out of the hospital for 2 weeks with a bleeding ulcer. Prayers are also needed for Fen’s son’s supervisor who has chest pain and a fever and has missed a couple of days of work. Fen also offered a prayer of thanks to God for FenSon completing his second week of work at a new job, which was a bit challenging since his boss was out ill.
12/21 – Tonypete requested prayers for his buddy Bev. She is normally happy, but something is going on. Lately she is very sad and depressed. One of Bev’s kids has been a cause for concern in the past, so there may be trouble there.
12/21 – J.J. Sefton sends his gratitude for all of the love, prayers, and support this past year. Last Monday, his latest MRI was also negative (that’s three in a row!) and his oncologist is very pleased with his progress.
12/21 – AZ deplorable moron asked for prayers. His first cataract surgery went well and his right eye’s vision is much improved. The left eye, not so much. Infection set in and he’s had steroids and antibiotics constantly for 3 weeks. They don’t know how much vision he will have when it has healed.
12/28 Update – Annie’s Stew apologizes for guessing incorrectly the sex of AZ deplorable moron. His pronouns have been corrected above.
1/4 Update – He has 20/200 vision in his left eye now. He can see the world, but it is dimmer than what the right eye sees. There is also a big dark spot where he focuses.
12/21 – Brave Sir Robin requested prayers for his co-worker, Matt and his wife Jamie and 2 kids. Matt, about 42 years old, was diagnosed with glioblastoma. This same cancer to Brave Sir Robin’s mother. Unless treatment has changed radically, Matt does not have a happy ending. Please pray for wisdom and skill from his doctors, and peace and serenity for Matt and his family.
12/21 – Sugar Plum Fairy requested prayers for her brother-in-law, M, who found out yesterday that he has leukemia. He is only in his mid-thirties and his daughter is 2. He is heading to the hospital for 6 weeks on 12/23 for testing. Please pray for strength for his wife and mother who are in shock and understandably devastated. And for good doctors and total healing if it is God’s will.
12/25 – Molly k asked for prayers. This will be a different Christmas. Mr. k passed away on 12/22. Luckily the girls and grandkids were home. He passed at home, holding their oldest granddaughter’s hand. Christmas will be fun for the “littles” but tough for the rest. 12/26 is the funeral and she is dreading it, but will do her best to make it the best day possible and be thankful for the real meaning of Christmas.
12/25 – vmom deport deport deport asked for prayers for her brother-in-law in the hospital, and for her sister, who is looking out for him.
12/26 – Joe Kidd requested a prayer of thanksgiving for God’s quiet resolution to a problem his younger (and last remaining) sibling was having with a roommate. She suffers from bipolar disorder and tends to make poor decisions when difficulties arise. Communication with her on Christmas indicated that God’s wisdom prevailed on all concerned. Praise Him!
12/28 – LF asked for prayers for success for her daughter’s open heart surgery, to repair an aortic weakness. The surgery should happen around Valentine’s Day. Her daughter is only 48.
12/28 – JW suggested the following Jewish Prayer of Faith for Healing:
JEWISH PRAYER OF FAITH FOR HEALING
Merciful God, we pray to you for the recovery of all who are facing illness or pain.
We join our prayers with all who love them. Grant them renewed strength and courage. Strengthen in them the healing powers You have placed within us all. Guide the hearts and hands of those who are entrusted with their care.
Help all who share the anxiety of this illness to be brave and hopeful.
Inspire us with courage and faith. Grant your blessings to all who call upon you.
Oh God, who blessed our ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; Sarah, Rebekkah, Leah, and Rachel, send your blessings to all who are ill.
Have mercy on them, and graciously restore their health and strength.
Grant them a complete recovery.
May healing come speedily.
May the knowledge of Your love and ours give added hope to them and to their dear ones.
May they find even greater strength because our prayers are linked to theirs.
When pain and fatigue are our companions, let there be room in our hearts for strength.
When days and nights are filled with darkness, let the light of courage find its place.
Help me to endure the suffering and dissolve the fear; renew within me the calm spirit of trust and peace.
We praise You, Eternal God, the Source of healing and health.
12/28 – Farmer sent thanks for the prayers for healing for his dad and for Jules. Dad is out of the hospital and is recovering. Jules’ recovery is remarkable. After surgery for a perforated ulcer, which caused severe septic shock, she was close to death. After 49 days in the hospital, she went to rehab on 12/27!
1/4 – Smell the Glove asked for prayers for an 80 year old aunt. The aunt was diagnosed with colon cancer and started treatment this week.
1/4 – vmom deport deport deport asked for prayers for her eldest sister. It looks like her illness is cancer.
1/4 – Black Orchid requested prayers for a good friend whose brother is critically ill with possible brain cancer. Black Orchid also offered a prayer of thanksgiving for quick healing of a painful wrist.
1/4 – Chris in California asked for prayers for a son who is having sensory/smell/taste issues that are troubling. They ask for healing for his body, and that he would receive the Lord’s guidance in his mind and heart.
1/4 – San Franpsycho asked for prayers for the repose of Rose, the mother of one of his kindergarten buddies.
1/4 – Tonypete requested prayers for his congregation. They are mostly elderly, and there are a raft of viruses, colds, etc. going around now.
1/4 – Eromero thanked God for his mysterious ways. His friend broke his hip, and 2 days later they removed his gall bladder, which was verging on gangrene. May God also perform wonders on the loved ones on this list, and may He also free America from DC as He freed the Hebrew children from their Egyptian oppressors.

For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update.
2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian (ONT Cob Emeritus) at 08:07 AM

Comments

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1 First.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 11, 2025 08:10 AM (YeGMU)

2 Good morning!

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 11, 2025 08:10 AM (7MHHr)

3 Youtube ads don't work on Opera.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 11, 2025 08:11 AM (YeGMU)

4 1 First.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 11, 2025 08:10 AM (YeGMU)

Indeed!

Posted by: m at January 11, 2025 08:11 AM (VnUSN)

5 Good morning again dear horde with gratitude to the rarely seen mh and annie and you morons for your prayers

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 11, 2025 08:12 AM (RIvkX)

6 Good morning. I woke up with the realization that all the LA fires are arson.

There are mentally ill people in LA looking forward to the Santa Ana winds for their opportunity. Then there are mentally in people working in government that will do nothing and say anything except the obvious truth.

Then there are the mentally ill public (e.g. Babs Streisand) that refuse to see the truth and parrot the lies of the other mentally ill folks.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 11, 2025 08:12 AM (ZmEVT)

7 Can someone explain to me why the SCOTUS thinks the preznit has immunity from being charged with stuff but not convicted of that stuff?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 11, 2025 08:13 AM (3Ope8)

8 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 11, 2025 08:13 AM (Q4IgG)

9 I write the songs that make the whole world burn.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 11, 2025 08:14 AM (YeGMU)

10 Good morning Mis Hum and horde

Posted by: Skip at January 11, 2025 08:14 AM (fwDg9)

11 "Can someone explain to me why the SCOTUS thinks the preznit has immunity from being charged with stuff but not convicted of that stuff?
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead"

Permutations. They get 'em in law school.

Posted by: fd at January 11, 2025 08:15 AM (vFG9F)

12 That looks a lot like Johnny Cash in the pic.

“A Boy Named Sue” wonder if that is unlawful to play over the airwaves

Posted by: Common Tater at January 11, 2025 08:15 AM (mCOJo)

13 12 That looks a lot like Johnny Cash in the pic.

Was gonna type the same thing.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 11, 2025 08:17 AM (dg+HA)

14 Horns has a great run.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 11, 2025 08:17 AM (gbOdA)

15 Willowed:

Don't know if it's been mentioned before but from Google Earth historical images, the San Ynez reservoir, a large membrane lined pond in the mountains above PP has apparently not been filled since 2009.

It looks like it was drained then to install a cover but it appears it was never filled more than a small amount after that. I suspect the cover failed or didn't work as intended and someone was keeping that quiet.

The thing worked fine until someone decided to "improve "it. Probably some green funds spread around.

34.072781°,-118.568926°

Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at January 11, 2025 08:17 AM (QB+5g)

16 I drink coffee only in the morning never in the afternoon.

Posted by: dantesed at January 11, 2025 08:18 AM (Oy/m2)

17 Rose's funeral was Thursday

May her memory be a blessing

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 11, 2025 08:18 AM (RIvkX)

18 7 Can someone explain to me why the SCOTUS thinks the preznit has immunity from being charged with stuff but not convicted of that stuff?
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 11, 2025 08:13 AM (3Ope

I still have no idea what the crime was!

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 11, 2025 08:18 AM (gbOdA)

19 On the Kangaroo Court, I hope this isn't one of those cases it takes years to review because a appeal.

Posted by: Skip at January 11, 2025 08:18 AM (fwDg9)

20 I knew coffee was good for me. Let’s head on over to Cafe du Monde, cher.

Posted by: Eromero at January 11, 2025 08:19 AM (jgmnb)

21 18 7 Can someone explain to me why the SCOTUS thinks the preznit has immunity from being charged with stuff but not convicted of that stuff?
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 11, 2025 08:13 AM (3Ope

I still have no idea what the crime was!
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 11, 2025 08:18 AM (gbOdA)

Halitosis!

Posted by: Dorcas Blimline at January 11, 2025 08:19 AM (PiwSw)

22 I still have no idea what the crime was!

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 11, 2025 08:18 AM (gbOdA)

34 counts of being Donald Trump.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 11, 2025 08:19 AM (SfhV1)

23 Can someone explain to me why the SCOTUS thinks the preznit has immunity from being charged with stuff but not convicted of that stuff?
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

There's never been a woman on SCOTUS we could trust. Amy is just following suit. It seems women in law are just not strong.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 11, 2025 08:20 AM (b294k)

24 Morning, coffee folken,

The Johnny Cash pic makes me think of something I heard the other day, attributed to Robin Williams:

"I can violate your standards faster than you can lower them."

"Expectations" could work as well as "standards."

I'm shaved, cleaned up, and dressed. Time for one more brief cup of the black juice before I head out to my favorite diner for breakfast. Re: Dr. Lu Qi, for a researcher to come up with something anti-coffee drinking in a town as dedicated to coffee as Nawlins is like . . . well, I can't think of a simile right now. Suggestions welcome.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 11, 2025 08:20 AM (omVj0)

25 I knew coffee was good for me. Let’s head on over to Cafe du Monde, cher.
Posted by: Eromero at January 11, 2025

***
Good luck finding a parking place without paying $$, though!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 11, 2025 08:21 AM (omVj0)

26 Johnny’s guitarist had a now distinctive chuck pluck sound, mainly because he never learned to play all that great. He fell asleep one night on the couch smoking a cigarette. Luther something?

Posted by: Common Tater at January 11, 2025 08:21 AM (mCOJo)

27 Coffee and beignets at Cafe Du Monde?

I'm on my way!

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 11, 2025 08:21 AM (dg+HA)

28 Suggestions welcome.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 11, 2025 08:20 AM (omVj0
See 20 above.

Posted by: Eromero at January 11, 2025 08:22 AM (jgmnb)

29 Permutations. They get 'em in law school.
Posted by: fd at January 11, 2025

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That word always makes me picture a soft, brown, crumbly substance, like coffee cake but nowhere near as tasty.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 11, 2025 08:22 AM (omVj0)

30 > "Can someone explain to me why the SCOTUS thinks the preznit has immunity from being charged with stuff but not convicted of that stuff?
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I think that the justices did not want to wade into what is obviously a personal vendetta. The merits (or lack thereof) of the case(s) were not even considered.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 11, 2025 08:23 AM (Q4IgG)

31
Coffee smells so good this morning I'm delaying drinking it.

Posted by: Auspex at January 11, 2025 08:23 AM (j4U/Z)

32 Decaf coffee is also known as Depresso.

Posted by: Unmotivated at January 11, 2025 08:24 AM (G5+As)

33 Good morning, Horde! Just got back last night from a family trip to the D.R. - can't wait to go brew up some of the coffee I bought there. Prayers for all those listed and unlisted intentions. Wishing you all a beautiful day full of grace and blessings.

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at January 11, 2025 08:25 AM (kOluj)

34 32 Badoom che.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 11, 2025 08:25 AM (YeGMU)

35 Coffee and beignets at Cafe Du Monde?

I'm on my way!
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 11, 2025

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Don't wear dark clothes, or sit next to someone who tells jokes you think are funny. You'll blow that white sugar all over yourself, and it's hard to brush off some fabrics.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 11, 2025 08:25 AM (omVj0)

36 Sam Moore of 'Sam and Dave' has passed away. When I worked at the vet, we had a client with a cat named Sam and a dog named Dave.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 11, 2025 08:26 AM (SfhV1)

37 Propane is critical to your bottom line.

Posted by: Hank Hill at January 11, 2025 08:27 AM (G5+As)

38 The crime was made up from a event that was out of date, then turned into 34 crimes for each piece of paper, then a prosecutor and judge colluded to convict DJT and a jury that was told a multiple list to pick one it didn't matter and no need to all agree.

Posted by: Skip at January 11, 2025 08:27 AM (fwDg9)

39 The little "CLEAN ME, HOOMAN!" light on my coffeemaker has been on for a while. I need to run some vinegar through it. My coffee is starting to taste . . . off. My morning pipe yesterday had a chemical aroma to it, and I know the pipe itself and the tobacco were both okay.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 11, 2025 08:27 AM (omVj0)

40 I think the sentencing yesterday helped Trump, didn't hurt him a bit. Because of that the SCOTUS refusal to stop the sentencing is trivial.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 11, 2025 08:28 AM (7MHHr)

41 36 Sam Moore of 'Sam and Dave' has passed away. When I worked at the vet, we had a client with a cat named Sam and a dog named Dave.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 11, 2025 08:26 AM (SfhV1
Hold on, I’m comin’!

Posted by: Eromero at January 11, 2025 08:28 AM (jgmnb)

42 What are the politics of the court the Trump case is being appealed to?

Posted by: davidt at January 11, 2025 08:28 AM (i0F8b)

43 Howdy everyone! I hope you are as warm as you want to be. I'm warming up with coffee with a goodly amount of Jack Daniels.

Posted by: Gref at January 11, 2025 08:29 AM (aBgBM)

44 (not the scotus emergency appeal)

Posted by: davidt at January 11, 2025 08:30 AM (i0F8b)

45 Then there are mentally in people working in government that will do nothing and say anything except the obvious truth.

Don't Let a Crisis Go To Waste

Sometimes you need to make a crisis, sometimes, when a crisis is inevitable, you must make it epic. Why?

$10M fire: the policy holders and insurance handle it, little government grift.

$100M Fire: Token Emergency Response Money to squander
$1B Fire: State opens up purse, lawsuits fly, government makes good grift
$10B Fire: FEMA money pours in to government plenty of grift to spread around
$100B Fire: You win the US Congress Emergency Fund Sweepstakes Grand Prize AND you get a new permanently funded agency to study the problem and "manage" it.

It is always in a corrupt government's interest to engineer for maximum damage and failure. Best part is that the money that was taxed to Left of Bang (like reservoirs, training, fire-breaks) can be spent on Sodomy, Gay Parades, Illegal Aliens and expensive junkets to Africa.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 11, 2025 08:30 AM (rHxhM)

46 En mi casa toman Bustelo.

Posted by: Caffiend at January 11, 2025 08:30 AM (G5+As)

47 Yeah, that photo's definitely Johnny Cash but I can't find a date the photo was taken.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 11, 2025 08:31 AM (/HDaX)

48 The male of the species on the court haven’t exactly earned our trust either.

As in most things, the gatekeepers (the Senate) winnow out most of the decent, they won’t even get nominated unless they think confirmation is assured, and the range of “acceptable” is … bad.

Buzzy was an ACLU apparatchik. Confirmed 93-0 or something like that. Thanks, guys. She was “qualified” though, don’tcha know.

Now technically speaking, there is no requirement to have passed the bar or be an attorney to be a member of the supreme court. Senate would never allow this, though. One of the great mind virus scams perpetrated is this notion that only someone who has been to school at an Ivy league could ever possibly comprehend the Constitution.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 11, 2025 08:31 AM (mCOJo)

49 I think the NY Court of Appeals will throw Merchan’s case out, although it will take time. Merchan made several notable errors of law during the the trial. That’s grounds to overturn.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 11, 2025 08:31 AM (7MHHr)

50 Mornin' my pretties.

The desire for bacon and coffee is finally stronger than my sloth.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 11, 2025 08:31 AM (kpS4V)

51 Bongino was recently saying hold off a couple of hours before drinking coffee in the morning. As much as I like the guy, this is NUTS! That's the whole point, crawl out of bed and head directly for the little light on the coffee machine. REQUIRED!

Posted by: rapscallion1911 at January 11, 2025 08:33 AM (GNECL)

52 Guy at our game dinner makes a fish dip/pate that got named Salmon Dave.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 11, 2025 08:33 AM (zdLoL)

53 So now the appeal of the Trump Felony Conviction to the NY Court of Appeals will be a constant anti-Trump headline in the propaganda media.

Posted by: davidt at January 11, 2025 08:34 AM (i0F8b)

54 DeCaf: Coffee that doesn’t do what Coffee does

Posted by: Common Tater at January 11, 2025 08:35 AM (mCOJo)

55 Prayers up for the WNC, TN, and CA victims of the incompetence and corrupt politicians embedded at every level of our government structure!

Posted by: Hrothgar at January 11, 2025 08:35 AM (hOUT3)

56 I’ll even say that allowing the sentencing to proceed was much better for Trump than putting the case in limbo until 2029, the other option being considered. Now the normal appeals process is fast tracked.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 11, 2025 08:36 AM (7MHHr)

57 Bongino was recently saying hold off a couple of hours before drinking coffee in the morning.

Did he say why?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 11, 2025 08:36 AM (/HDaX)

58 Good morning good people. Prayers for all intentions - those requested and those known but to God.

Also, prayers requested for one of our parishioners, Ollie. She passed away last evening. She lived with her son, Michael, who has health problems of his own and he will be lost without her.

Eternal rest grant unto her O Lord, and let Perpetual Light shine upon her. May her soul and the souls of all the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in peace. Amen.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 11, 2025 08:36 AM (WXNFJ)

59 Jimmy Carter still dead?

Posted by: Zombie Generalissimo Francisco Franco at January 11, 2025 08:36 AM (R/m4+)

60 Felonious Trump will likely have to administer his own form of retribution.

Barring an appeal to have the sentencing/conviction tossed he'd be well served by turning the DoJ on Merchan and his daughter. Have it crawl so far up their asses neither can swallow. And break both into little pieces when done.

Otherwise all his bitching and moaning is purely academic.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 11, 2025 08:36 AM (Q4IgG)

61 There's never been a woman on SCOTUS we could trust. Amy is just following suit. It seems women in law are just not strong.

AG Janet Nero was a charming example after immolating dozens of women and children.

Didn't Trump's pick for AG railroad George Zimmerman on that bogus St Trayvon charge?

I hope we don't have a disaster in the waiting on the order of Trump's female M Garland.

I'm keeping my expectations very low. Trump is an epic disaster when it comes to picking supreme court judges and AGs.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 11, 2025 08:38 AM (rHxhM)

62 Maybe, but nobody reads that shit any longer.

Remember the years right before Sears went under? They were still everywhere, though nobody shopped there. Like that. Sad, sure. But they couldn’t or wouldn’t keep up with the times.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 11, 2025 08:38 AM (mCOJo)

63 53 So now the appeal of the Trump Felony Conviction to the NY Court of Appeals will be a constant anti-Trump headline in the propaganda media.
Posted by: davidt at January 11, 2025 08:34 AM (i0F8b

Disagree. Trump was under a gag order from Merchant, that’s gone now. And the way it ended, with no consequences, is nothing the Left wants to defend.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 11, 2025 08:38 AM (7MHHr)

64 - This Sam Moore?

https://tinyurl.com/328973zk

Great tune to ease your way into the day.
Great studio musicians who know how to do it right, too.

Posted by: TeeJ at January 11, 2025 08:39 AM (kjZOX)

65 51 Bongino was recently saying hold off a couple of hours before drinking coffee in the morning. As much as I like the guy, this is NUTS! That's the whole point, crawl out of bed and head directly for the little light on the coffee machine. REQUIRED!
Posted by: rapscallion1911 at January 11, 2025 08:33 AM (GNECL)

Exactly
Why get up?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 11, 2025 08:40 AM (QXQ4l)

66 So now the appeal of the Trump Felony Conviction to the NY Court of Appeals will be a constant anti-Trump headline in the propaganda media.
Posted by: davidt at January 11, 2025 08:34 AM (i0F8b

Disagree. Trump was under a gag order from Merchant, that’s gone now. And the way it ended, with no consequences, is nothing the Left wants to defend.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 11, 2025 08:38 AM

Yep, the left is going to want this to die quickly now that they have their sound bite but they are not going to get their wish. Trump is not going to let this go. Pretty sure he will make the appeal process very painful for the judge and his daughter.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 11, 2025 08:41 AM (Rcnd3)

67 Radio communications with visual overlay of Delta jet's rejected takeoff yesterday morning in Atlanta due to an engine malfunction and brief fire that self-extinguished after the captain ordered the plane evacuated:

https://tinyurl.com/5n6ar6x8

The tower controller did an excellent job.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 11, 2025 08:42 AM (Y1sOo)

68
Why get up?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

The Paolo, how you say, sees thousands of reasons about him.

Posted by: The Paolo at January 11, 2025 08:42 AM (WXNFJ)

69 Felonious Trump will likely have to administer his own form of retribution.

The Demonic Party taught us well. Go find a junk yard dog lawyer who has no ethics, morals or decency and give them the opportunity to be as reckless and vindictive as possible.

Offer a bonus and raise if the prosecutor is so evil and vindictive that the target commits murder/suicide half way into the persecution.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 11, 2025 08:44 AM (rHxhM)

70 Plus, it takes a cup or two just to get enough energy up to take a nap

Posted by: Common Tater at January 11, 2025 08:44 AM (mCOJo)

71 - Common Tater
Unimportant, willowed comment bottom of last thread referencing your "vintage" knowledge.

Posted by: TeeJ at January 11, 2025 08:45 AM (kjZOX)

72 Mornin', Horde!

As if there isn't enough going on in the world, apparently Dunkin Donuts across the country are without donuts! I was getting ready for my weekly donut run when I discovered this. Some issue at the manufacturer forced Dunkin to pull donuts from the shelves.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at January 11, 2025 08:45 AM (OGOaV)

73 Did their wingtips touch?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 11, 2025 08:46 AM (YeGMU)

74 Bongino was recently saying hold off a couple of hours before drinking coffee in the morning

Bongino says a lot of stupid shit. Remember, this guy advocates jumping naked in freezing water and wants everyone to know he does this frequently and with gusto.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 11, 2025 08:47 AM (rHxhM)

75 I drink coffee.

What is time?

Posted by: Ciampino - Java beans best beans at January 11, 2025 08:47 AM (i0xsb)

76 Bongino was recently saying hold off a couple of hours before drinking coffee in the morning. As much as I like the guy, this is NUTS! That's the whole point, crawl out of bed and head directly for the little light on the coffee machine. REQUIRED!
Posted by: rapscallion1911 at January 11, 2025 08:33 AM (GNECL)

A couple of hours is a bit much, but the current biohacking wisdom is to drink something with sodium in it first, to give your system a chance to wake up. Coffee first thing doesn't do much because your body isn't woken up enough physically to get much good for it yet, and the sodium helps with that.

(this is an approximation, not actual biochem)

Posted by: Kindltot at January 11, 2025 08:48 AM (D7oie)

77 As if there isn't enough going on in the world, apparently Dunkin Donuts across the country are without donuts

You had only one job.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 11, 2025 08:48 AM (rHxhM)

78 Quote from Kash Patel on Amy Coney Barrett:

"This isn’t a job for the weak. She’s not who we thought she was. An absolute lightweight who doesn’t have the strength needed for the Supreme Court and to make sure the US constitution is followed."

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 11, 2025 08:50 AM (SfhV1)

79 62 Maybe, but nobody reads that shit any longer.

Remember the years right before Sears went under? They were still everywhere, though nobody shopped there. Like that. Sad, sure. But they couldn’t or wouldn’t keep up with the times.
Posted by: Common Tater at January 11, 2025 08:38 AM (mCOJo)

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Definitely wouldn't. Sears was already had a well-established and well-known mail order system. The shift to the internet should have been a no-brainer.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at January 11, 2025 08:50 AM (OGOaV)

80 70 Plus, it takes a cup or two just to get enough energy up to take a nap

Posted by: Common Tater at January 11, 2025 08:44 AM (mCOJo)
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In my case it takes a cup or two to get the energy to drink that first cup, ..... wait ....

Posted by: Ciampino - Got a speeding ticket when parked at January 11, 2025 08:50 AM (i0xsb)

81 So - morning coffee drinking and all day regular drinking?

Posted by: Weasel at January 11, 2025 08:51 AM (L4WDc)

82 Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 08:51 AM (ZOv7s)

83 50 Mornin' my pretties.
The desire for bacon and coffee is finally stronger than my sloth.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ette

Tell me about it. Herself doesn't care for bacon odor so I'm headed out to shovel snow to get to the gas grill to cook 'em there.

Posted by: Auspex at January 11, 2025 08:52 AM (j4U/Z)

84 59 Jimmy Carter still dead?
Posted by: Zombie Generalissimo Francisco Franco

Yes!

Posted by: Garrett Morris at January 11, 2025 08:53 AM (dg+HA)

85 Definitely wouldn't. Sears was already had a well-established and well-known mail order system. The shift to the internet should have been a no-brainer.
Posted by: No One of Consequence

There are none so blind, as those that will not see.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 11, 2025 08:53 AM (WXNFJ)

86 People who drink coffee in the morning have a lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease and a lower overall mortality risk compared to all-day coffee drinkers
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Wait, doesn't everyone die? What is this "lower mortality risk?" Who are these coffee-drinking immortals?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 08:53 AM (ZOv7s)

87 Bongino says a lot of stupid shit. Remember, this guy advocates jumping naked in freezing water and wants everyone to know he does this frequently and with gusto.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 11, 2025 08:47 AM (rHxhM)

This is also a biohack thing, and it supposed to be the equivalent of running your car hard once in a while to blow out the carbon. There is evidence it will do you some good and really wake you up, but I hate cold water.

The best analysis of it is Huberman Lab, "cold exposure protocols" episode

Posted by: Kindltot at January 11, 2025 08:54 AM (D7oie)

88 Coffee is a part of my daily grind!

Posted by: Ciampino - Got a speeding ticket when parked at January 11, 2025 08:54 AM (i0xsb)

89 Best wishes and positive vibes to all who are in distress this day

May it pass quickly

Posted by: Don Black at January 11, 2025 08:55 AM (AOsQT)

90 Coffee is a part of my daily grind!
Posted by: Ciampino

HAH!

Posted by: Tonypete at January 11, 2025 08:55 AM (WXNFJ)

91 They “Borked” (now a verb) Robert Bork, who was a fine legal mind.

They trotted out Plugs Biden to falsely impugn the character of Clarence Thomas. One of the more odious chapters in Senate history. Any normal, decent candidate is going to have to run the gauntlet.

I gauge the quality of a candidate generally by his enemies. If the usual suspects start screeching hysterically, he’s probably fine. The Kavanugh thing was a bit over the top. Not sure why they did that. Practice, I suppose. And becsuse, why not?

I knew this country was in deep shit, when attorneys in and out of the “news” and politicians were perfectly fine with throwing out bedrock foundations and pillars holding everything up, like presumption of innocence.

“He’s been credibly accused”. Yeah, so what? In their minds, that’s sufficient to 86 a nominee. Unreal.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 11, 2025 08:56 AM (mCOJo)

92 Kindlot. If you have acid reflux, water first and wait a bit, then coffee. Easy for me since I pop an antacid first which requires a 30-35 minute wait before drinking coffee. It's a long 30 minutes.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 11, 2025 08:56 AM (2NHgQ)

93 86 People who drink coffee in the morning have a lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease and a lower overall mortality risk compared to all-day coffee drinkers
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Wait, doesn't everyone die? What is this "lower mortality risk?" Who are these coffee-drinking immortals?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 08:53 AM (ZOv7s)

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Yo!

Posted by: The Highlander at January 11, 2025 08:56 AM (OGOaV)

94 Tell me about it. Herself doesn't care for bacon odor so I'm headed out to shovel snow to get to the gas grill to cook 'em there.
Posted by: Auspex at January 11, 2025 08:52 AM (j4U/Z)
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Tell me you at least get coffee first!

(And I do crack a window when I cook maple bacon, like right now)

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 11, 2025 08:57 AM (kpS4V)

95 If I don't have a cup immediately after rising the risk of death for those around me goes up astronomically.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 11, 2025 08:58 AM (WXNFJ)

96 Happy Wildcard Weekend
it's gonna be weawwy gweat

Posted by: Don Black at January 11, 2025 08:58 AM (AOsQT)

97 Everyone has a 100% mortality risk.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 11, 2025 08:58 AM (YeGMU)

98 Can someone explain to me why the SCOTUS thinks the preznit has immunity from being charged with stuff but not convicted of that stuff?
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

There's never been a woman on SCOTUS we could trust. Amy is just following suit. It seems women in law are just not strong.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 11, 2025 08:20 AM (b294k)
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Can someone explain to me why Trump's appointees are supposed to act like royal courtiers and wipe his nose every time he sneezes?

Of all the things to get pissed about, fuming about "betrayal," this stupid non-conviction, non-punishment is the epitome of why I hate conservative media.

If you believe in judicial restraint, you show judicial restraint. The Supreme Court should not be man-handling every rogue state district court judge. The case is a joke, it will eventually be overturned, and now the Dems are in the utterly ludicrous position of saying Trump is a felon - super-serious! Guys! SUPER-SERIOUS! *And he's not even on probation*

As Napoleon once said: "Never interrupt the enemy when they are acting retarded and shit."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 08:59 AM (ZOv7s)

99 Kash Patel on Amy Coney Barrett:

"This isn’t a job for the weak. She’s not who we thought she was. An absolute lightweight who doesn’t have the strength needed for the Supreme Court and to make sure the US constitution is followed."

But she goes by three names!

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 11, 2025 08:59 AM (dg+HA)

100 Lavazza Perfetto

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 11, 2025 08:59 AM (dR6yv)

101 Why does she have three names. Was she an assassin?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 11, 2025 09:00 AM (YeGMU)

102 81 So - morning coffee drinking and all day regular drinking?
Posted by: Weasel

Works for me!

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at January 11, 2025 09:00 AM (dg+HA)

103 Cold shower, when about 24 hours into a fast. Intermittent fasting will put you into a heightened state of awareness or clear thinking, many people find. The cold shock is really something. I think it helps amp up the metabolism more.

I can heartily unreccomend a shot of bourbon when in a fasted state however. Wow

Posted by: Common Tater at January 11, 2025 09:00 AM (mCOJo)

104 Kindlot. If you have acid reflux, water first and wait a bit, then coffee. Easy for me since I pop an antacid first which requires a 30-35 minute wait before drinking coffee. It's a long 30 minutes.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 11, 2025 08:56 AM (2NHgQ)

warm water is always a good one too, it goes down easier first thing, especially in the winter.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 11, 2025 09:01 AM (D7oie)

105 Lord hear our prayers.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at January 11, 2025 09:01 AM (rtSlS)

106 I think non-intervention was the smart play, because now the appellate courts are going to look through why there was no punishment at all for such a supposedly serious crime.

"So you tore up precedent, shredded the defendant's rights, just to call him a name? Conviction overturned. GTFO."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 09:01 AM (ZOv7s)

107 > Quote from Kash Patel on Amy Coney Barrett:

"This isn’t a job for the weak. She’s not who we thought she was. An absolute lightweight who doesn’t have the strength needed for the Supreme Court and to make sure the US constitution is followed."
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I would imagine this sort of comment does not make Barrett want to do some introspection or reevaluate her decision. I do however think it would more than likely piss her off and steel her resolve to continue screwing over conservatives since they don't understand her reasoning.

Like any woman would.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 11, 2025 09:01 AM (Q4IgG)

108 26 degrees and very light flurries,

Posted by: Skip at January 11, 2025 09:01 AM (fwDg9)

109 If I had a name like “Ray Wayne Lee” I’d just turn myself into the cops on general principles

Posted by: Common Tater at January 11, 2025 09:02 AM (mCOJo)

110 99 Kash Patel on Amy Coney Barrett:

"This isn’t a job for the weak. She’s not who we thought she was. An absolute lightweight who doesn’t have the strength needed for the Supreme Court and to make sure the US constitution is followed."

But she goes by three names!
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 11, 2025 08:59 AM (dg+HA)
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Hey! Be nice to my beard!

Posted by: John Roberts Hardly Ever Saw Epstein ! at January 11, 2025 09:03 AM (AVnGb)

111 Bongino says a lot of stupid shit. Remember, this guy advocates jumping naked in freezing water and wants everyone to know he does this frequently and with gusto.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 11, 2025 08:47 AM (rHxhM)
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Wait, he's a filthy Scandi? Why does he have a dago name?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 09:03 AM (ZOv7s)

112 Does anybody REALLY give a shit about this Merchan bullshit? No. Lefties can spew nonsense and crow about it, but even they know it's all BS theatre. Everybody else just ignores it, other than as a topic for time-wasting discussion, just like yakking about this week's sportsball game.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 11, 2025 09:04 AM (XMwZJ)

113 Here in upstate SC, it is 34 degrees. Had some freezing rain last night.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 11, 2025 09:04 AM (dR6yv)

114 I know when I'm looking for tips on health and eating habits, the first people I turn to are former Secret Service agents who spend three hours a day on the radio basically talking to a producer named Jim.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 11, 2025 09:05 AM (dg+HA)

115 I guess if I wanted to have a heart attack I would abstain from coffee and jump into freezing cold water. But I don't so won't.

Posted by: fd at January 11, 2025 09:05 AM (vFG9F)

116 I make 32 oz of coffee. I will drink half now, and pour half into a thermos for a couple hours from now.

I might be a light coffee drinker compared to some of you bean fiends.

Enjoy.

Posted by: Don Black at January 11, 2025 09:05 AM (AOsQT)

117 Quote from Kash Patel on Amy Coney Barrett:

"This isn’t a job for the weak. She’s not who we thought she was. An absolute lightweight who doesn’t have the strength needed for the Supreme Court and to make sure the US constitution is followed."

The problem with any of these judges is much like the same problem as the Pharisees.

They are constantly considering the wording of the law and, allegedly, the original intent of the law.

But the law serves a deeper meta-level intent, which people rarely consider because of the minutiae. In the case of the Constitution, the real intent of the founders wasn't to create a legal code to be rigorously adhered to, it was to limit the actions of government to wrong, oppress, or otherwise carry out injustice against the citizens.

If ACB can't look at the Trump case and understand this is exactly what is occurring, a miscarriage of justice and political persecution, then she has no wisdom in her and unfit for the bench.

To Patel's statement, I differ in opinion. it is a job for the weak. For the weak understand precisely what the weight of government is in their impotent state.

ACB isn't weak. She's unwise in her exercise of power.

Posted by: Vlad at January 11, 2025 09:06 AM (Hadg9)

118 270° Kelvin and Graupel

Posted by: Common Tater at January 11, 2025 09:06 AM (tmGxn)

119 "This isn’t a job for the weak. She’s not who we thought she was. An absolute lightweight who doesn’t have the strength needed for the Supreme Court and to make sure the US constitution is followed."

I'm the new judge. There will be law. There is going to be order, progress, civilization, peace... Above all, peace. And I don't care who I have to kill to get it. Now go on, you tell 'em that.

Posted by: Judge Roy Bean at January 11, 2025 09:06 AM (R/m4+)

120 Also, if you have not tried Illy coffee, in the silver can, you should.

Posted by: Don Black at January 11, 2025 09:06 AM (AOsQT)

121 Does anybody REALLY give a shit about this Merchan bullshit? [ . . . ]
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 11, 2025 09:04 AM (XMwZJ)

I am seeing bumpersitckers, "I prefer presidents who are not felons"

I think it is like Bud Light, the people doing that are advertising to the people they want to be liked by.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 11, 2025 09:07 AM (D7oie)

122 Prayers up for all the Horde's intentions. Those asked and unasked.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 11, 2025 09:07 AM (hoCmQ)

123 Is this about me?

Posted by: Sandra Day O'Connor at January 11, 2025 09:07 AM (dg+HA)

124 It might be about me.

Posted by: Ruth Bader Ginsburg at January 11, 2025 09:08 AM (dg+HA)

125 Felonious Trump will likely have to administer his own form of retribution.
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Love the name.

The Demofascists have started a new tradition: force your election opponents into a courtroom and see what shakes out.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 11, 2025 09:08 AM (jyACO)

126 I guess if I wanted to have a heart attack I would abstain from coffee and jump into freezing cold water. But I don't so won't.
Posted by: fd

My wife and I rowed while in our early 60's with all the other kids of the crew club and many of the parents. The club rowed every day there was no ice or storms on the reservoir. However, the club doctor forbid us 'seniors' from rowing when the water was very cold during the winter as he said a spill into it would most likely result in a heart attack.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 11, 2025 09:09 AM (WXNFJ)

127 Everybody else just ignores it, other than as a topic for time-wasting discussion, just like yakking about this week's sportsball game.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 11, 2025 09:04 AM (XMwZJ)
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Sportsball is actually fun to watch, though. You can enjoy the ebb and flow of a game, admire the athleticism on display.

This is drama club for retards.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 09:10 AM (ZOv7s)

128 100 Lavazza Perfetto
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory,

That guy could sing. What a set of pipes!

Posted by: Fortunio Bonanova at January 11, 2025 09:11 AM (G5+As)

129 Step aside, ladies.

Posted by: Ketanji Brown Jackson at January 11, 2025 09:11 AM (dg+HA)

130 Sears could have, should have, smothered Amazon in the crib. They didn't and now they are no more.

Posted by: Life of Wryly at January 11, 2025 09:11 AM (Ggs2O)

131 >Does anybody REALLY give a shit about this Merchan bullshit? [ . . . ]
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent
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the Left absolutely LOVES slogans
they have a new one now

it will become part of their canon, like climate change and homophobia and evil corporations and all the usual lefty tropes

"It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing"

Posted by: Don Black at January 11, 2025 09:11 AM (AOsQT)

132 Vlad, I think you are correct. The job of the court is to protect the court, apparently.

They are being intimidated quite unlawfully. That’s probably been going on a long time, but they are quite open about it now. Make the wrong decision and a mob shows up ready to torch your house.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 11, 2025 09:12 AM (tmGxn)

133 The picture does look like Johnny Cash. I don't think I've ever seen a picture of him that young. Great musician!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 11, 2025 09:12 AM (BD2iU)

134 OSU barely escaped Texas last night with a win. Those Texas kids are awfully good at the whole football thing.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 11, 2025 09:12 AM (jyACO)

135 I am seeing bumpersitckers, "I prefer presidents who are not felons"

I think it is like Bud Light, the people doing that are advertising to the people they want to be liked by.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 11, 2025 09:07 AM (D7oie)
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There is no reaching these people. If it's not one thing, it's another. They live in a bubble, impervious to reality.

Why give a shit about how they get their rocks off on a given day? If it's not one lie, it's another.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 09:13 AM (ZOv7s)

136 Now here's something interesting for you.

Apparently (ahem) "experts" are warning Californians to anticipate an increase in heart attacks due to the smoke from the L.A. fires.

Neat, huh?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, does your job make you feminine and inspirational or stressed and brittle? at January 11, 2025 09:13 AM (oz0LA)

137 I guess it's not about me.

Posted by: Elena Kagan at January 11, 2025 09:13 AM (dg+HA)

138 Yo Yo Ma playing Ennio Morricone is the right theme music for this morning

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 11, 2025 09:14 AM (jyACO)

139 The Demofascists have started a new tradition: force your election opponents into a courtroom and see what shakes out.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 11, 2025 09:08 AM (jyACO)
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And yet it failed. Bigly.

Not seeing a problem with this.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 09:14 AM (ZOv7s)

140 Sears could have, should have, smothered Amazon in the crib. They didn't and now they are no more.
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Correct. It was theoretically possible, at least. Same with the big news outlets. They are going extinct, and they don’t quite know what to do about it.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 11, 2025 09:15 AM (tmGxn)

141 At least I get honorable mention for number of syllables.

Posted by: Sonia Sotomayor at January 11, 2025 09:15 AM (dg+HA)

142 Prayers for those mentioned above, and for all of our prayers only known to God. May have hear our prayers, grant them according to His Holy Will, grant us peace and mercy.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 11, 2025 09:15 AM (2AW7/)

143 OSU barely escaped Texas last night with a win. Those Texas kids are awfully good at the whole football thing.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 11, 2025 09:12 AM (jyACO)
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What an odd way of describing a victory.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 09:15 AM (ZOv7s)

144 Now Ohio State has to face a team with God on its side.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 11, 2025 09:17 AM (Y1sOo)

145 134 OSU barely escaped Texas last night with a win. Those Texas kids are awfully good at the whole football thing.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 11, 2025 09:12 AM (jyACO)

Surprised the point spread was as big as it was. At least we got to see Texas play Texas A&M again this year.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 11, 2025 09:17 AM (2AW7/)

146 Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 11, 2025 09:15 AM (2AW7/)

Amen. Thanks!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 11, 2025 09:17 AM (jo8Zc)

147 Vlad, I don't quite agree with that take. Part of our current problem is the SC going beyond its intended purpose to "protect" supposed "oppressed" groups, and in so doing upending decades/centuries of civil society and established norms. Of course, this case is quite a bit different in that this is an obvious case of political persecution against an individual.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 11, 2025 09:17 AM (XMwZJ)

148 The fire risk in Michigan is nonexistent, what with all the snow. We had a stiff wind pushing felt temperatures into single digits, but now we're comfy and warm at 26 degrees.

Roads were a bit iffy coming home from work yesterday, but they look decent for running errands today.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 09:18 AM (ZOv7s)

149 The NFL is a reality TV show featuring 32 quarterbacks and 32 head coaches.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 11, 2025 09:18 AM (dg+HA)

150 Immune to Facts, Logic, and Reason. Sorta like Women, I guess.

(I got 99 problems but ….)

Posted by: Common Tater at January 11, 2025 09:18 AM (tmGxn)

151 Sears could have, should have, smothered Amazon in the crib. They didn't and now they are no more.

OK Walmart. Time to stand up.

Actually, Amazon is killing itself by just being a front for fourth shift stolen IP goods out of China. I'm finding myself less and less likely to buy something from their website. In my neck of the woods, "Next Day" has turned into "Next Week" with a minimum of three days from order to fulfillment. I remember the days when I could order at 9PM and the product would be on my doorstep along with the morning newspaper.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 11, 2025 09:18 AM (rHxhM)

152 I am seeing bumpersitckers, "I prefer presidents who are not felons"
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They were convinced he was crooked back in 2015 but every single investigation turned up nada. So they manufactured a never before used charge and prosecuted it 34 times before a judge who is a donor and activist for the other side, and whose daughter corruptly used the trial to earn millions.

Who is the most crooked here? I say its the people cheering on this perversion of justice.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 11, 2025 09:18 AM (ivLWF)

153 *In my neck of the woods, "Next Day" has turned into "Next Week" with a minimum of three days from order to fulfillment.*

Now do TEMU.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 11, 2025 09:20 AM (dg+HA)

154 What an odd way of describing a victory.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 09:15 AM (ZOv7s)
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You misspelled "accurate"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 11, 2025 09:20 AM (ivLWF)

155 And yet it failed. Bigly.

Not seeing a problem with this.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 09:14 AM (ZOv7s)

And today, even the LIV’s are hearing about this and saying to themselves “wait, what? 34 felony convictions, but no jail, no probation, no fine, no nothing? Was this all just a giant farce from the start? What was the point of that trial?”

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 11, 2025 09:20 AM (7MHHr)

156 Who is the most crooked here? I say its the people cheering on this perversion of justice.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 11, 2025 09:18 AM (ivLWF)

that doesn't fit on a bumpersticker, unfortunately

Posted by: Kindltot at January 11, 2025 09:20 AM (D7oie)

157 Who is the most crooked here? I say its the people cheering on this perversion of justice.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 11, 2025 09:18 AM (ivLWF)
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It's going to be overturned, it's just a question of when and how. It has no practical effect other than to please shut-in partisans and make New York look like a corrupt banana republic, which it is.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 09:21 AM (ZOv7s)

158 Bongino says a lot of stupid shit. Remember, this guy advocates jumping naked in freezing water and wants everyone to know he does this frequently and with gusto.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 11, 2025 08:47 AM (rHxhM)

This is also a biohack thing, and it supposed to be the equivalent of running your car hard once in a while to blow out the carbon. There is evidence it will do you some good and really wake you up, but I hate cold water.

The best analysis of it is Huberman Lab, "cold exposure protocols" episode
Posted by: Kindltot

“Research so far suggest.."
Yea let's listen to the experts. My life is so much better because of their immense contributions.

tiny.cc/7455001

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at January 11, 2025 09:21 AM (rtSlS)

159 Prayers for all on the list, and for the many who need them and don't ask.

Posted by: Sugar Plum fairy at January 11, 2025 09:22 AM (G77LY)

160 OK Walmart. Time to stand up.

Actually, Amazon is killing itself by just being a front for fourth shift stolen IP goods out of China. I'm finding myself less and less likely to buy something from their website. In my neck of the woods, "Next Day" has turned into "Next Week" with a minimum of three days from order to fulfillment. I remember the days when I could order at 9PM and the product would be on my doorstep along with the morning newspaper.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

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Yep. And Amazon is including a notice with their return pages now that you might not get a refund for returning the new, unopened item since you tripped some AI algorithm for returning products per the terms of the purchase.

Convenience is reduced, and once people start outright losing money with Amazon they're going to go back to walmart.

FWIW if you do a chargeback with Amazon you're blacklisted, so you'll only get your money back once

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, does your job make you feminine and inspirational or stressed and brittle? at January 11, 2025 09:22 AM (oz0LA)

161 And today, even the LIV’s are hearing about this and saying to themselves “wait, what? 34 felony convictions, but no jail, no probation, no fine, no nothing? Was this all just a giant farce from the start? What was the point of that trial?”
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 11, 2025 09:20 AM (7MHHr)
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Yes. No one has ever heard of someone being convicted of a felony and then absolutely nothing happening to them.

This is the greatest self-own since Biden's last speech.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 09:22 AM (ZOv7s)

162 “Disparate Impact”

Equality under the law: Dead. Or worse than dead really, more like a herd of Zombies

Presumption of Innocence: On life support

Right to face accuser: Not dead, just smells like it.

Freedom of Association: Most sincerely dead

Posted by: Common Tater at January 11, 2025 09:23 AM (tmGxn)

163 c'mon man

28-14 is not 'barely escaping'
it's winning
OSU won

Posted by: Don Black at January 11, 2025 09:23 AM (AOsQT)

164 Apparently (ahem) "experts" are warning Californians to anticipate an increase in heart attacks due to the smoke from the L.A. fires.

Not from how Ozempic abuse that weakens the muscles with the heart being a muscle, nor from the Kill Shot that treats the recipient to a case of Myocarditis.

I'm wondering how the local government is going to game this "fact" into another multi-billion dollar Federal Grant to "study" and "manage" the problem for the next hundred years.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 11, 2025 09:23 AM (rHxhM)

165 FWIW if you do a chargeback with Amazon you're blacklisted, so you'll only get your money back once

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, does your job make you feminine and inspirational or stressed and brittle? at January 11, 2025 09:22 AM (oz0LA)

I'm not following you. I send stuff back to Amazon all the time and always get my refund.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 11, 2025 09:24 AM (SfhV1)

166 I won't take anything away from either team. That was a good game and a well-earned win.

I'm sort of surprised the Manning kid wasn't put in fairly often to switch stuff up.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, does your job make you feminine and inspirational or stressed and brittle? at January 11, 2025 09:24 AM (oz0LA)

167 You misspelled "accurate"
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 11, 2025 09:20 AM (ivLWF)
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Normally when I hear about a team "escaping" with a win, it's a massive favorite playing a patsy who puts up an unexpectedly stiff fight.

So I guess Texas was grossly overrated and should have been blown out?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 09:24 AM (ZOv7s)

168 " Sears could have, should have, smothered Amazon in the crib. They didn't and now they are no more."

I've always thought that this was Bezos's greatest fear when he started branching out from books.

But Jeff got to build from scratch. Sears would have had to completely overhaul their system to expand they way that was needed.

No one could have beaten the brand name at the time.

Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at January 11, 2025 09:25 AM (QB+5g)

169 Walmart has taken steps to mix its brick and morter with a robust online presence. I trust the Walmart name more than I trust Amazon. Amazon Is a horrible employer who treat their employees like shit.

Posted by: Life of Wryly at January 11, 2025 09:25 AM (Ggs2O)

170 Yes. No one has ever heard of someone being convicted of a felony and then absolutely nothing happening to them.

Well, the felon now can't vote nor pack heat, or for that matter get a service technician license or financial certification.

This is really an impediment to a multi-billionaire who is the leader of the "free world".

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 11, 2025 09:26 AM (rHxhM)

171 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 08:59 AM (ZOv7s)

What was important was the law followed the progression up the chain of command, with each stage turning a blind eye to the circumstances (conflict of interest) and the charges (bogus/made up). And the highest court in the land which had ruled that the preznit can't be charged with anything, then indicated that it would be acceptable to convict him of something. It did nothing but diminish what little credibility the SCOTUS had.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 11, 2025 09:26 AM (3Ope8)

172 Stripping all the paint off a Lada with a laser:

youtube.com/watch?v=x4mMODe0Fkw

Posted by: fd at January 11, 2025 09:27 AM (vFG9F)

173 May I humbly ask for two favors.
1) Please keep me in your prayers. I'll be having surgery (double mastectomy) in a couple weeks. Yes - male breast cancer is a thing! I am very fortunate that it appears localized.

2) I got a call from an aunt (70+ yrs old) last night who is facing lung cancer and having part of her lung removed. She knew of my plight and wanted to talk, which I was more than glad to. She is 4+ hours away, alone (her kids are, well.....absent). And she is scared. Please pray for her as well.

Thank you Horde. You are the best.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 11, 2025 09:27 AM (2AW7/)

174
Well, the felon now can't vote nor pack heat, or for that matter get a service technician license or financial certification.

This is really an impediment to a multi-billionaire who is the leader of the "free world".
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 11, 2025 09:26 AM (rHxhM)
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Only in New York, where he no longer resides.

States treat felonies differently.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 09:27 AM (ZOv7s)

175 Most of the crap Amazon sells no one needs. Bored people like the van pulling up at their door so it makes them feel like they have a life and they matter. Shop local.

Posted by: The Abandoned Mall, Where Bored People Used To Go at January 11, 2025 09:27 AM (R/m4+)

176 Wait. Trump can't get licensed to do HVAC repairs?

Guess he'll have to stick to the drive thru.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 11, 2025 09:28 AM (dg+HA)

177 I saw a video of a family who had a gas powered water pump that could feed their yard sprinklers and a hose and saved their house and a neighbor’s with water from their pool. Whoever is looking to buy up the land cheap is gonna be pissed.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 11, 2025 09:29 AM (QZThv)

178 May I humbly ask for two favors.
1) Please keep me in your prayers. I'll be having surgery (double mastectomy) in a couple weeks. Yes - male breast cancer is a thing!

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 11, 2025 09:27 AM (2AW7/)

Of course!

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 11, 2025 09:29 AM (SfhV1)

179 I'm not following you. I send stuff back to Amazon all the time and always get my refund.
Posted by: grammie winger

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You might not have returned an expensive enough item yet, but if you do you'll trip an algorithm.

https://tinyurl.com/f8zxe3hw

Start taking photos of everything before you return them, opened or new, in case you need to email them. Because it's probably not a human making any decisions until two or three steps down the road.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, does your job make you feminine and inspirational or stressed and brittle? at January 11, 2025 09:29 AM (oz0LA)

180 But Jeff got to build from scratch. Sears would have had to completely overhaul their system to expand they way that was needed.

You do know that Sears so owned the Order and Deliver mechanism with regional warehouses and local fulfillment centers that their catalogs were called "The Consumer's Bible".

All they had to do was make it go on-line. They already had their financial network when they created the Discover Card.

Their management moved into the Aristocracy phase of assessments of their skills and strengths and thought they could do things way outside their abilities. Its their hubris that killed Sears. That, and rejecting their core consumers and retailoring their ads and product line to go after the stereotype of a "black consumer".

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 11, 2025 09:30 AM (rHxhM)

181 Start taking photos of everything before you return them, opened or new, in case you need to email them. Because it's probably not a human making any decisions until two or three steps down the road.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, does your job make you feminine and inspirational or stressed and brittle? at January 11, 2025 09:29 AM (oz0LA)

Will do. Thanks.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 11, 2025 09:30 AM (SfhV1)

182 Sears HAD the infrastructure to create an online parallel to their stores but just didn't have the visionary leadership to apply their resources to where they would have been beneficial. Management killed the Golden goose.

Posted by: Life of Wryly at January 11, 2025 09:30 AM (Ggs2O)

183 What was important was the law followed the progression up the chain of command, with each stage turning a blind eye to the circumstances (conflict of interest) and the charges (bogus/made up). And the highest court in the land which had ruled that the preznit can't be charged with anything, then indicated that it would be acceptable to convict him of something. It did nothing but diminish what little credibility the SCOTUS had.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 11, 2025 09:26 AM (3Ope

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That's not true. This was an emergency filing, not the normal chain of appeals. Trump was asking for a special intervention outside of the chain you describe.

That process will now move forward, and there will be additional discovery as the case moves forward, this time with federal prosecutors looking for civil rights violations.

There is a case for shutting it down and a case for letting it play out.

I don't see this as worthy of hair being set on fire.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 09:30 AM (ZOv7s)

184 Morning Horde, thx MisHum especially for posting the prayer request for my aunt. She had the port put in and started the chemo. Tough lady.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 11, 2025 09:31 AM (RLc6v)

185 You do know that Sears so owned the Order and Deliver mechanism with regional warehouses and local fulfillment centers that their catalogs were called "The Consumer's Bible".

All they had to do was make it go on-line. They already had their financial network when they created the Discover Card.

Exactly. They were positioned for success but went full Kamala. You never go full Kamala.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 11, 2025 09:32 AM (QZThv)

186 I hear one of the Broad Wing Hawks, maybe 100 yds Away from me

Posted by: Skip at January 11, 2025 09:32 AM (fwDg9)

187 Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 11, 2025 09:27 AM (2AW7/)

Of course. Prayers for both you and your aunt for healing. I'm sure, too, with an absent family it's good for her to talk with you. God bless you for your listening ears and heart and for her concern for you as well,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 11, 2025 09:32 AM (rvikl)

188 Those with long memories recall when all the Democrat cognoscenti were totally cool with Mr. Trump. I think it was kind of a bucket list thing to get a pic taken with him.

And virtual overnight, he’s “worse than hitler and the stock market will never recover and blah blah blah”

They fooled no-one, but they have to have something to talk about on the 24/7 cable news networks. Who are dying by the way. Funny that.

Could these things be related?

Posted by: Common Tater at January 11, 2025 09:32 AM (tmGxn)

189 Ordered something from the Amazon's, and they delivered something that wasn't even close to it. I returned it and they refused the return, saying that what I returned didn't match what I ordered. Had to call them and explain "No kidding, that's why I returned it".

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 11, 2025 09:33 AM (mZWz7)

190 *You never go full Kamala.*

I'll drink to that.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at January 11, 2025 09:33 AM (dg+HA)

191 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 09:30 AM (ZOv7s)

What was the next court in line to appeal to that could have tossed the case based on it's demerits?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 11, 2025 09:33 AM (3Ope8)

192 Only beef I have with Walmart is their packaging. One item in a shipping carton 4 times larger than the item. Item bumps around and arrives damaged. Not just Walmart. We purchased a pellet grill directly from the factory. After bumping around the country for 3 weeks the shipping carton was busted open and two of the items we purchased as accessories were gone. One showed up the next day, the other is, well I don’t know where. Company is reshipping it.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 11, 2025 09:34 AM (2NHgQ)

193 Prayers for the people in LA. Lord protect them from the fires and from the idiots. Apparently Oregon sent 75 trucks and 300 firefighters. They arrived Wednesday morning but had to stop in Sacramento because California required DOT inspections and they couldn't fit them in until 4:30 pm. Wonder how many rigs failed? As Mrs. Sock said that's not only incredibly stupid but it's insulting as well.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at January 11, 2025 09:34 AM (rtSlS)

194 Most of the crap Amazon sells no one needs. Bored people like the van pulling up at their door so it makes them feel like they have a life and they matter. Shop local.

I decided it was the most important thing in the world to have the Bose UltraComfort Earbuds. Because Bose, like Garmin and many other companies only allows resellers to sell at MSRP, the choice is now do I want to get off my ass and go to a store and hope they have the color I want, or just click the yellow button.

A week later the exact color of ear bud shows up in my mailbox. I lived for 29 years without them, I can wait another week.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 11, 2025 09:35 AM (rHxhM)

195 I'd prefer SCOTUS deal with constitutional disagreements and stay out of personal vendettas, like the Merchan/Trump thing.

It's more important (to me) to have justice meted out to those who instigated the whole conspiracy than to finagle some sort of dismissal through legal smoke and mirrors.

Merchan and the DA, Alvin Bragg didn't hatch this by themselves. Put the proverbial screws to them and see who they proffer up. Then, put the two of them away for life and hang the others.

Otherwise this sort of shit continues.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 11, 2025 09:35 AM (Q4IgG)

196 UDUP,

I doubt that their legacy based systems could have scaled to handle the volume. Sears would have never been agile enough to make a clean break.

Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at January 11, 2025 09:35 AM (QB+5g)

197 >Wait. Trump can't get licensed to do HVAC repairs?

Guess he'll have to stick to the drive thru.
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fortunately he has a trade to fall back on, being President of the United States

Posted by: Don Black at January 11, 2025 09:35 AM (AOsQT)

198

Global Warming is to CA wildfires as Jussie Smolett is to Institutional white Supremacy

The deadliest wildfires ever are Socialism and Islam, and they will converge until the latter burns out the former.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 11, 2025 09:36 AM (x0n13)

199 Ordered something from the Amazon's, and they delivered something that wasn't even close to it. I returned it and they refused the return, saying that what I returned didn't match what I ordered. Had to call them and explain "No kidding, that's why I returned it".
Posted by: Thomas Paine

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The best part is knowing that red-flagged YOUR account and ramped up a potential ban, even as a $100+ Prime subscriber. And there's nothing you can do about it on your end.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, does your job make you feminine and inspirational or stressed and brittle? at January 11, 2025 09:36 AM (oz0LA)

200 You Know You're Drinking Too Much Coffee When

You haven't blinked since the last lunar eclipse.

Posted by: Ciampino - matchsticks for eyelids at January 11, 2025 09:37 AM (i0xsb)

201 Good morning all.
Do you ever have one of those weeks when you feel like life is on hold?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 11, 2025 09:37 AM (t/2Uw)

202 We purchased a pellet grill directly from the factory. After bumping around the country for 3 weeks the shipping carton was busted open and two of the items we purchased as accessories were gone.

I ordered my Recteq pellet grill from the factory and some dude in an 18-wheeler delivered it in a crate a few days later, took the Jaws of Life and light explosives to remove the packaging and liberate the grill from its container.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 11, 2025 09:38 AM (rHxhM)

203 Global Warming is to CA wildfires as Jussie Smolett is to Institutional white Supremacy

Waiting for the "Climate Change" narrative to pick up steam.

Posted by: BignJames at January 11, 2025 09:38 AM (Yj6Os)

204 Nope, not going to knock Amazon. Great business model started by a shitstain human being. Not an unprecedented thing, Henry Ford comes to mind. We live in the hinterlands and we try our best to buy local. Just not always possible.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 11, 2025 09:39 AM (2NHgQ)

205 200 You Know You're Drinking Too Much Coffee When

You haven't blinked since the last lunar eclipse.
Posted by: Ciampino - matchsticks for eyelids at January 11, 2025 09:37 AM (i0xsb)

When the Ty D Bowl Man begs for a cup of sugar and half and half after you relieve yourself.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 11, 2025 09:39 AM (x0n13)

206 What was the next court in line to appeal to that could have tossed the case based on it's demerits?
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 11, 2025 09:33 AM (3Ope

I believe NY Court of Appeals is up now that Merchan is finally finished. Many have a misconception as to what the hearings this last week; they weren’t about the merits of the case, they were about whether there should be an emergency intervention from a higher court to block the sentencing.
I think the SCOTUS refusal to get involved helped Trump more than it hurt him.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 11, 2025 09:40 AM (7MHHr)

207 Vlad, I don't quite agree with that take. Part of our current problem is the SC going beyond its intended purpose to "protect" supposed "oppressed" groups

I don't disagree with your assessment.

But your assessment has baked into it an assertion that doesn't really deny my premise. The fact that a given judge, judges or court may make a bastardization of want constitutes "oppression" does not entail that the founders did not have the intent to alleviate the possibility of government oppression.

The court (and society) has been complicit with the notion that all things are under the purview of the court when the founders were quite explicit in their limitation as to what the boundaries of federalism are and that things not enumerated lay with the states and the people to regulate their own societies and personal lives.

Posted by: Vlad at January 11, 2025 09:40 AM (Hadg9)

208 Do you ever have one of those weeks when you feel like life is on hold?
Posted by: Sharon

Weeks? How about decades?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 11, 2025 09:40 AM (mZWz7)

209 Sears also had prime real estate that could have stored product.

There are a gazillion companies now a distant memory that could have done things different, in hindsight. But the leadership was hidebound and sclerotic. If not a Monopoly, but they just don’t see the horizon. People have told me at the end, towards the end, it wasn’t very fun working there. At one time it was a pretty nice place to work.

There car maintenance was excellent for basics. I’d call up some place for tires or batteries or a tune up or whatever. “Bring it in next Tuesday at 3 PM. Heck I don’t want to do that.

Call up Sears auto. “Yeah, bring it in at 1 this afternoon”. How they could do that, I dunno.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 11, 2025 09:41 AM (tmGxn)

210 What was the next court in line to appeal to that could have tossed the case based on it's demerits?
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 11, 2025 09:33 AM (3Ope

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To be honest, I've not followed this at all because it's so pointless. I assume Trump tried state intervention before going federal.

I'm just not that interested in the topic.

God permit evil as a means to call the faithful to repent. It also exposes the crimes of sinners, who also experience chastisement.

The last year has been a massive demonstration of divine justice, and each time evil appears to prevail, it is in reality the prologue to more justice being meted out.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 09:41 AM (ZOv7s)

211 >Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 09:30 AM (ZOv7s)
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Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd Johnson is right

SCOTUS decided that Trump still had avenues of appeal available him, inferior to SCOTUS, and also mentioned the fact that the Merchan court had indicated its intent to discharge the case with no penalty

Trump will have his day, but it will take time

Posted by: Don Black at January 11, 2025 09:41 AM (AOsQT)

212 Unknown drip. Ours was also Recteq and the driver refused to deliver to the house. We had to drive out to him and he off loaded it onto our truck. Our packaging was pre-opened. Their customer service was excellent when dealing with our issues.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 11, 2025 09:42 AM (2NHgQ)

213 What was the next court in line to appeal to that could have tossed the case based on it's demerits?
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 11, 2025 09:33 AM (3Ope

If I was in SoCal, I would be really pissed at Climate Change for cutting the firefighting budget by $17 million.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 11, 2025 09:42 AM (7MHHr)

214 The Left are unable to correctly determine cause and effect. It's part of the list of mental defects shared by all Leftists.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 11, 2025 09:42 AM (D6PGr)

215 Unless I'm Wrong™️

Posted by: Don Black at January 11, 2025 09:42 AM (AOsQT)

216 The L.A. fires are a great example of this, and I urge people to look for stories of the miraculous and good rather than getting angry and worked up.

The fire on Maui was devastating, exposed great incompetence, but not much media reported on the fact that the Catholic parish there was miraculously spared from the fires, and served as a sanctuary for recovery effort. Churches are now doing the same thing in California.

These are blessings that otherwise would never have happened.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 09:43 AM (ZOv7s)

217 195
Merchan and the DA, Alvin Bragg didn't hatch this by themselves. Put the proverbial screws to them and see who they proffer up. Then, put the two of them away for life and hang the others.

Otherwise this sort of shit continues.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 11, 2025 09:35 AM (Q4IgG)
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↑↑↑↑↑↑
THIS!!

Posted by: Ciampino - retribution or I voted for nothing at January 11, 2025 09:44 AM (i0xsb)

218 If I was in SoCal, I would be really pissed at Climate Change for cutting the firefighting budget by $17 million.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 11, 2025 09:42 AM (7MHHr)

Just reported that Newsom cut fire prevention funds by $100 million a few weeks before the fires.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 11, 2025 09:44 AM (D6PGr)

219 The American Taliban!!!

Breaking911 @Breaking911 6h
🚨 Thieves cut fence, steal Humvees & equipment from California Army Reserve

https://tinyurl.com/3ctuxv6m

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 11, 2025 09:44 AM (iMpf5)

220 Posted by: Tom Servo at January 11, 2025 09:40 AM (7MHHr)

Thanks! That explains it well.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 11, 2025 09:44 AM (3Ope8)

221 203 Global Warming is to CA wildfires as Jussie Smolett is to Institutional white Supremacy

Waiting for the "Climate Change" narrative to pick up steam.
Posted by: BignJames at January 11, 2025 09:38 AM (Yj6Os)

On second thought my analogy is way off. While both Global warming and institutional white supremacy are myths, the wildfires are indeed real. And Jussie Galore is a real asshole.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 11, 2025 09:44 AM (x0n13)

222 There go my carbon credits for the ~~year~~ decade!

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 41m
JUST IN - Volcano erupts in Indonesia, spews hot lava and smoke

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 11, 2025 09:45 AM (iMpf5)

223 Sorry not weeks but months

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 11, 2025 09:45 AM (D6PGr)

224 Methos from Friday ONT:
Part of the problem we're facing as a nation is that progressives genuinely don't understand that their political views are political. They think it's just "common sense" and there's something wrong with everyone else for not simply falling in line with it.

I'm frankly not sure they even have the intellectual capacity to classify their own political views as being political.
Posted by: Methos

and vice-versa eg. ""Climate Change""

Posted by: DaveA at January 11, 2025 09:46 AM (FhXTo)

225 A decade can go by and nothing happens.
A week can go by and a decade happens.

Posted by: Old Russian Proverb at January 11, 2025 09:47 AM (dg+HA)

226

"We want Frankie Carbone credits!"

- - Henry Hill & Jimmy Conway

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 11, 2025 09:47 AM (x0n13)

227 If I was in SoCal, I would be really pissed at Climate Change for cutting the firefighting budget by $17 million.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 11, 2025 09:42 AM (7MHHr)

Yes. If they really believed that climate change increased the chances for wild fires, they would have prepared for them. They don't and they didn't.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 11, 2025 09:48 AM (SfhV1)

228 Ours was also Recteq and the driver refused to deliver to the house. We had to drive out to him and he off loaded it onto our truck. Our packaging was pre-opened. Their customer service was excellent when dealing with our issues.

I live a bit of a drive down an old oilsand road here deep in East Texas Oil Country. There is no way an 18 wheeler was going to make it back here - had to do the same thing you did.

Apparently, Recteq not only has the best pellet grills but also the best customer service, because not only did they hear your plight with the packaging, they clearly improved it in my case.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 11, 2025 09:48 AM (rHxhM)

229 The Left are unable to correctly determine cause and effect. It's part of the list of mental defects shared by all Leftists.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 11, 2025 09:42 AM (D6PGr)
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It's also a function of demonic influences. As long as you are rising that emotional high of wrath and pride, nothing else matters, and you'll find ways to keep it going, despite any logical progression.

One of the "tells" for all this was the blasphemous votive candles for Fauci, etc.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 09:49 AM (ZOv7s)

230 NPS had some veteran park pass thing, and even those with Dishonorable Discharge could get one. I thought that was pretty gay.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 11, 2025 09:49 AM (tmGxn)

231 I got a nice covfefe cup at Wally World. Contigo.

I now have hot covfefe for at least 10 to 15 minutes.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 11, 2025 09:50 AM (gbOdA)

232 Yes. If they really believed that climate change increased the chances for wild fires, they would have prepared for them. They don't and they didn't.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 11, 2025 09:48 AM (SfhV1)
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The carbon released is probably several orders of magnitude more than every EV ever built "saved."

It's a scam. If it was real, forest fire prevention would be fanatical.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 09:50 AM (ZOv7s)

233 Good Saturday morning, horde.

I went out and shoveled snow before I even had my coffee, but that's done.

Prayers said for those on the list. Now back to see what's in the comments.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 11, 2025 09:50 AM (OX9vb)

234 The research was led by Dr Lu Qi, from Tulane University, New Orleans

Dr Loki? Is he wearing a green outfit with horns?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 11, 2025 09:51 AM (t0Rmr)

235 Contigo makes very good coffee mugs, travel mugs. You can also get them on Amazon....

Posted by: runner at January 11, 2025 09:51 AM (g47mK)

236 SCOTUS decided that Trump still had avenues of appeal available him, inferior to SCOTUS, and also mentioned the fact that the Merchan court had indicated its intent to discharge the case with no penalty

So...it's OK to charge someone with 34 felonies, convict him of those felonies, and then impose no penalties solely because he can appeal that conviction. The one with no penalty. The one based on BS charges and made with a conflict of interest.

Gotcha. Thats totes reasonable. FFS.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 11, 2025 09:52 AM (3Ope8)

237 Yes. If they really believed that climate change increased the chances for wild fires, they would have prepared for them. They don't and they didn't.

You can't project your own standards of decency and morality on these corrupt reprobates.

"Climate Change" is the bogeyman that is going to destroy your way of life so you need to cough up more tax money and surrender even more of your liberty so that the government can protect you from the bogeyman. They take that money and piss it away on themselves and their luxury/vanity projects.

Then calamity hits, they remind you that this is the invincible Bogey Man that somehow would have been stopped if you surrendered even more money and liberty. Now they need federal funding to the tune of tens of billions to fight the bogeyman which gives them more money for the luxury/vanity projects.

Wash/Rinse/Repeat

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 11, 2025 09:52 AM (rHxhM)

238
Sam Moore of 'Sam and Dave' has passed away. When I worked at the vet, we had a client with a cat named Sam and a dog named Dave.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 11, 2025 08:26 AM

another grim milestone for the biden-harris administration

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 11, 2025 09:52 AM (tljrc)

239 203 Global Warming is to CA wildfires as Jussie Smolett is to Institutional white Supremacy

Waiting for the "Climate Change" narrative to pick up steam.
Posted by: BignJames at January 11, 2025 09:38 AM (Yj6Os)

This is why CA will never become or even get close to being a red state. They'll use Stalin's airbrush on Newsom and Bass and replace them with ideological clones while demanding billions to fight climate change that the latter could not achieve!

And Californians will nod and accept it as the way forward!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 11, 2025 09:52 AM (x0n13)

240 Newscum is looking like a fool for all to see. The press really can't cover for him anymore. I think his presidential aspirations are done.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 11, 2025 09:53 AM (dR6yv)

241 Thanks for the dandy Coffee Thread and Prayer Revival, Mis Hum and Annie!

Prayers up for all of God's children and may those who do not know Him come to know Him without delay.

And may God continue to bless the U.S.A. and Israel.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at January 11, 2025 09:53 AM (rxCpr)

242 Submitted for your consideration:

https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/
1878051017473896887

Posted by: Don Black at January 11, 2025 09:53 AM (AOsQT)

243 What are the politics of the court
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And there, we've found our problem.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 11, 2025 09:53 AM (4780s)

244 >>Churches are now doing the same thing in California.

Yeah, no.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 11, 2025 09:54 AM (Y1sOo)

245 I've returned all kinds of stuff to Amazon. Never an issue. Some items over $300.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 11, 2025 09:54 AM (XMwZJ)

246 Donny two-scoops should say (hell, he might) “The 2nd Amendment is the Only Permit I need”. After all, they keep trying to kill him.

Progressives have really miscalculated just how informed people are and paying attention. Hence my Sears analogy. They can start screeching about the outrage du jure, but nobody is listening, or they are actively not listening to the point they will automatically disregard anything they say:

Posted by: Common Tater at January 11, 2025 09:54 AM (tmGxn)

247 I read an account of what the so called stars, celebrities and powerbrokers are up to at the swankiest, most expensive LA hotels in the aftermath of the fires where they lost they LA dwellings. You would not believe! Actually, quite believable, botox injections, and express deliveries of Ozempic.

Posted by: runner at January 11, 2025 09:55 AM (g47mK)

248 > Part of the problem we're facing as a nation is that progressives genuinely don't understand that their political views are political. They think it's just "common sense" and there's something wrong with everyone else for not simply falling in line with it.
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Their ideology IS their religion. They're also very passionate about it and want everyone else to be as passionate as they are.

Or dead.

It should sound, somewhat, familiar.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 11, 2025 09:55 AM (Q4IgG)

249 How did the Teslas perform during the recent evacuation of parts of LA?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 11, 2025 09:55 AM (dg+HA)

250 240 Newscum is looking like a fool for all to see. The press really can't cover for him anymore. I think his presidential aspirations are done.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 11, 2025 09:53 AM (dR6yv)

See me at 239. While Newsom is toast for this, plus being white male and hetero. The Democrat bench is dark (pun) and deep. They have cadres that will make him look positively MAGAn in comparison.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 11, 2025 09:56 AM (x0n13)

251 Stripping all the paint off a Lada with a laser:

youtube.com/watch?v=x4mMODe0Fkw
Posted by: fd at January 11, 2025 09:27 AM (vFG9F)

I do believe this is the same channel that winds up powering the Lada by running it off of 50 electric drills. Directly. With a serpentine belt.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 11, 2025 09:56 AM (D7oie)

252 Wash/Rinse/Repeat
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 11, 2025 09:52 AM (rHxhM)
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Things that can't go on forever, won't.

A lot of wealth just got destroyed. A lot of important people are now homeless and very, very angry. This did not just harm the proles, it harmed the Good People.

We'll see how things play out.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 09:56 AM (ZOv7s)

253 It is interesting that the left is running into problems just about everywhere. Maybe and hopefully, the left has met its nemesis.
Newsom , Bass and the entire Cali Dem establishment has shown a complete inability to govern . In England Starmer is being slammed for the rape gangs and his cover up and facilitation of them. Germany and the EU seem to be falling apart. The lawfare against Trump is going boink . The censorship tyrants are losing there grips. There is hope

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 11, 2025 09:56 AM (RLc6v)

254 248 It goes beyond being merely political. Their views are insane and provably flat out wrong as our history and human history show time and time again.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 11, 2025 09:57 AM (x0n13)

255 235 Contigo makes very good coffee mugs, travel mugs. You can also get them on Amazon....
Posted by: runner at January 11, 2025 09:51 AM (g47mK
I have one and it is…..not perfect. But then no travel cup is. You travel with the cup you have.

Posted by: Eromero at January 11, 2025 09:58 AM (jgmnb)

256 Altadena Community Church: Destroyed by the Eaton Fire on January 8, 2025.

St. Mark’s Episcopal Church: Destroyed by the Eaton Fire on January 8, 2025.

Pasadena Church of Christ: Destroyed by the Eaton Fire on January 8, 2025.

Community United Methodist Church in Pacific Palisades: Destroyed by the Palisades Fire on January 8, 2025.

Altadena United Methodist Church: Destroyed by the Eaton Fire on January 8, 2025.

Pacific Palisades Presbyterian Church: Believed to have been destroyed by the Palisades Fire on January 8, 2025.

Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center: Destroyed by the Eaton Fire on January 8, 2025.

Sacred Heart Church: Destroyed by the Eaton Fire on January 8, 2025.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 11, 2025 09:58 AM (Y1sOo)

257 I don’t know if most Californians will change.

I’m still baffled that the parents of Kate Steinle still support sanctuary cities when it was the proximate cause of their daughter’s murder.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 11, 2025 09:58 AM (D6PGr)

258 This is why CA will never become or even get close to being a red state. They'll use Stalin's airbrush on Newsom and Bass and replace them with ideological clones while demanding billions to fight climate change that the latter could not achieve!

And Californians will nod and accept it as the way forward!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 11, 2025 09:52 AM

california will never become a red state because anyone who is even remotely conservative is leaving the state. It's self selection and everyone that remains will lean ever more to the left until the state literally explodes in a mountain of debt and failed policies. los angeles is just the beginning.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 11, 2025 09:58 AM (Rcnd3)

259 247 I read an account of what the so called stars, celebrities and powerbrokers are up to at the swankiest, most expensive LA hotels in the aftermath of the fires where they lost they LA dwellings. You would not believe! Actually, quite believable, botox injections, and express deliveries of Ozempic.
Posted by: runner at January 11, 2025 09:55 AM (g47mK)

Where would you expect them to stay, at a Super 8 off the freeway?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 11, 2025 09:59 AM (LlO6+)

260 The Left are unable to correctly determine cause and effect. It's part of the list of mental defects shared by all Leftists.

I fully agree with Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd w/r/t the Spiritual elements.

The Left understand cause and effect as well as anyone else, they just don't care about you or any collateral damage. They got their money, their sinecures and their path to generational wealth and sex with minors and that is all that matters.

When your house burns to the ground or gets washed away by a flood, that only means opportunity to steal even more money and set up even grander schemes to gain more wealth, power and sex with children.

It is lizard brained and demonic.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 11, 2025 09:59 AM (rHxhM)

261 Actually, Amazon is killing itself by just being a front for fourth shift stolen IP goods out of China. I'm finding myself less and less likely to buy something from their website. In my neck of the woods, "Next Day" has turned into "Next Week" with a minimum of three days from order to fulfillment. I remember the days when I could order at 9PM and the product would be on my doorstep along with the morning newspaper.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 11, 2025 09:18 AM (rHxhM)

Amazon stuff here, many times, arrives a day or two earlier than promised. Never had anything arrive later than the promised date.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 11, 2025 09:59 AM (iODuv)

262 Shop local means Ace Hardware. They are good folks but the products are junk and I'm limited to maybe two options. I sometimes buy from Walmart but I've never enjoyed shopping with them. No problems with Amazon, including the bottle of stuff I just got with a hole in it and no liquid. I didn't have to send it back for a refund.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 11, 2025 09:59 AM (NQtI0)

263 The Malibu homes of A-listers burning to the ground is a Biblical Message, no? It's out of a novel. Like Day of the Locust.

Malibu wasn't always exclusively expensive. It became a status good as A-listers outspent each other. This isn't coming back. These locusts will move on to the next trendy place. Another pillar of LA knocked out.

Trump is going to make Gavin the poster child for Woke Government Malfeasance. He'll beat him like a pinata. Then he'll club him like a baby seal.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 11, 2025 10:00 AM (Gqoy+)

264 Back inside, gotvrid of lots of branches from high winds the other day

Posted by: Skip at January 11, 2025 10:00 AM (fwDg9)

265 So...it's OK to charge someone with 34 felonies, convict him of those felonies, and then impose no penalties solely because he can appeal that conviction. The one with no penalty. The one based on BS charges and made with a conflict of interest.

Gotcha. Thats totes reasonable. FFS.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 11, 2025 09:52 AM (3Ope

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Yeah, so this is why I hate these discussions. No one is saying it is okay. It is a travesty of justice and their are existing processes to work through those.

The SCOTUS cannot serve as a personal fire brigade for every injustice visited in this country, nor is it Trump's legal Praetorian Guard.

We should be basking in the glow of yet another win - and this WAS A WIN. The stupid judge didn't have the stones to actually punish Trump. The case is exposed to the world as a joke. All the leftists are stunned that nothing happened to Trump. The label will be unwound in due course in yet another win.

Can we not always look for something to bitch about?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 10:00 AM (ZOv7s)

266

Frankly, I'm shocked that execrable Commie Wog Ro Khanna wasn't tapped to take Feinstein's senate seat and somehow bug-eyed self-gasser Schiff-for-Brains got it. White male nd he's also got the Joo-cooties.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 11, 2025 10:00 AM (x0n13)

267 This is why CA will never become or even get close to being a red state. They'll use Stalin's airbrush on Newsom and Bass and replace them with ideological clones while demanding billions to fight climate change that the latter could not achieve!

Years ago they literally bragged about this and called the process "shark's teeth" such where if one is removed another will slide into place.

That is why elections don't matter because the Party Machine decides all elections.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 11, 2025 10:01 AM (rHxhM)

268 Let’s play what if…

What if there were a similar massive fire in Wyoming. And it was found out that the Governor was totally incompetent and his actions made the fires much worse than otherwise would have been.

Would Wyoming suddenly turn Democrat? Of course not.

Those saying this will mean some giant political shift to the right in Cali are dreaming. Shit doesn’t work like that.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 11, 2025 10:01 AM (LlO6+)

269 One if my favorite songs by Johnny Cash, "God will cut you down"

https://tinyurl.com/yfjx6r9f

And yes, of course I'm a sinner in need of God's grace and pray for forgiveness everyday. This song however , does make me feel more peaceful about people like Fauci who is doing none of those things because he said that he didn't need religion. His own set of ethics was good enough.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 11, 2025 10:02 AM (CxEdf)

270 256 Posted by: one hour sober at January 11, 2025 09:58 AM (Y1sOo)

Here comes a mass Mosque building boom! Then they make buildings go boom!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 11, 2025 10:03 AM (x0n13)

271 Merchan and the DA, Alvin Bragg didn't hatch this by themselves. Put the proverbial screws to them and see who they proffer up. Then, put the two of them away for life and hang the others.

Otherwise this sort of shit continues.

Posted by: Martini Farmer

Mary McCord is the primary author of the Trump lawfare offensive yet her name is rarely mentioned. Her husband, Sheldon Snook also happens to be the chief administrative counsel for SCOTUS chief Roberts. Nothing to see here.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at January 11, 2025 10:03 AM (rtSlS)

272 pre-opened
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Is that like pre-planning? I hate the pre-prefix with a passion. It’s like Cilantro, they put that shit in everything. I contend that “pre-heating” the oven in recipes was what got the ball rolling. It’s been a sordid decline ever since

I asked a lady on the phone how pre-registration differed from regular old registration, and she valiantly tried to claim there was some difference.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 11, 2025 10:03 AM (tmGxn)

273 Don Black, I to make 32oz of coffee, French press. Then sit and read here until its gone. Then I switch to tea and continue the process. Usually to 1pm, then nap.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 11, 2025 10:04 AM (4780s)

274 Posted by: one hour sober at January 11, 2025 09:58 AM (Y1sOo)

Are you posting this list to ask for prayers for those faith communities?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 11, 2025 10:04 AM (CxEdf)

275 268 Those saying this will mean some giant political shift to the right in Cali are dreaming. Shit doesn’t work like that.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 11, 2025 10:01 AM (LlO6+)

See me at 239. But, maybe this destruction presents a political and humanitarian opportunity for Trump and the MAGA movement, insofar as reconstruction based on our principles, if possible.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 11, 2025 10:05 AM (x0n13)

276 *Where would you expect them to stay, at a Super 8 off the freeway?*

We'll leave the light on for ya.

Posted by: Tom Bodette at January 11, 2025 10:05 AM (dg+HA)

277 When your house burns to the ground or gets washed away by a flood, that only means opportunity to steal even more money and set up even grander schemes to gain more wealth, power and sex with children.

It is lizard brained and demonic.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 11, 2025 09:59 AM (rHxhM)
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Every time a red state has a disaster, they gloat. "Hah! Where is your Sky God now?!"

That's demonic and it's the only joy they have.

They hate the very idea of prayers. That's another clue.

They won't be convinced, they will have to be converted.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 10:05 AM (ZOv7s)

278 Yes. No one has ever heard of someone being convicted of a felony and then absolutely nothing happening to them.

Well, the felon now can't vote nor pack heat, or for that matter get a service technician license or financial certification.

This is really an impediment to a multi-billionaire who is the leader of the "free world".
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 11, 2025 09:26 AM (rHxhM)

Well, the most powerful man on the planet needs to tell them to FOAD, "I've got the nuclear codes, assholes!!"

But, that's just me. I'm a vengeful son of a bitch. Must be those Magyar genes.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 11, 2025 10:05 AM (iODuv)

279 I love Amazon. I only had one problem and Amazon made it right. I like that I can compare products, see reviews. I like that when my supermarket discontinues something I really like, I can sometimes get the item deliveeed to my door. Like two jars of mustard. Or a particular Spice.
Covid changed everything and retail is just starting to understand that.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 11, 2025 10:06 AM (t/2Uw)

280 Good Saturday morning, Horde. It finally quit raining here (for the moment), so I'm off to do my first SOTA hike of the year. I expect I'll be half frozen by the end of it, but that'll make a late breakfast all the more rewarding. Have a good weekend!

Posted by: PabloD at January 11, 2025 10:06 AM (lAXlW)

281 What are those affected by the wildfires doing for food? I imagine the supermarkets burned down, along with the restaurants. And how do you get baby formula?

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 11, 2025 10:06 AM (SfhV1)

282 281 What are those affected by the wildfires doing for food? I imagine the supermarkets burned down, along with the restaurants. And how do you get baby formula?
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 11, 2025 10:06 AM (SfhV1)

Supply chain issues. A golden oldie from 2 years ago!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 11, 2025 10:07 AM (x0n13)

283
Well, the felon now can't vote nor pack heat, or for that matter get a service technician license or financial certification.

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Felons can vote in Florida.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 11, 2025 10:08 AM (LlO6+)

284 What are the politics of the court
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And there, we've found our problem.

You're mistaken. Judges have no politics, ever.

Posted by: Chief Justice Roberts at January 11, 2025 10:08 AM (xCA6C)

285 Snows getting deeper.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 11, 2025 10:08 AM (YeGMU)

286 278 But, that's just me. I'm a vengeful son of a bitch. Must be those Magyar genes.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 11, 2025 10:05 AM (iODuv)

"Az-anya pitchaya" as my Debrecener mother might say to someone who pissed her off!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 11, 2025 10:09 AM (x0n13)

287 28-14 is not 'barely escaping'
it's winning
OSU won
Posted by: Don Black at January 11, 2025 09:23 AM (AOsQT)
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Texas was about to score, at 4th and goal and even up the game with 2 minutes left, when Sawyer knocked the ball loose. It bounced off the carpet and right into his hands and to his great surprise he found himself galloping untouched all the way down the field. Instead of the tie score Texas felt like they were going to get, Jack Sawyer put the game out of reach. After Texas won in overtime last week another overtime game would have felt like a repeat in the making. But Sawyer and the outstanding defense changed all that. Great game. Great win. But glad to get out of that one.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 11, 2025 10:09 AM (eDRva)

288 What if there were a similar massive fire in Wyoming. And it was found out that the Governor was totally incompetent and his actions made the fires much worse than otherwise would have been.

Would Wyoming suddenly turn Democrat? Of course not.

Those saying this will mean some giant political shift to the right in Cali are dreaming. Shit doesn’t work like that.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 11, 2025 10:01 AM (LlO6+)

I don’t necessarily disagree with you that the CA Dems won’t change. I just think the example is a little off.

It’s not like the policies that caused these fires were unknown. If the same progression of incompetence and cuts were attempted in Wyoming the people of Wyoming would not have let it happen and the other State Republicans would not let it happen. The Governor wouldn’t be allowed to be that incompetent. They don’t need a wake up call.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 11, 2025 10:09 AM (D6PGr)

289 The man credited for being the primary architect for all of the lawfare against Trump is a former Obama administration official named Norm Eisen. He was an impeachment counsel working for Pelosi et al while that was going on, and he’s believed to have had a great deal of influence in setting the strategy for every one of the lawfare cases against Trump.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 11, 2025 10:10 AM (7MHHr)

290 Years ago they literally bragged about this and called the process "shark's teeth" such where if one is removed another will slide into place.

That is why elections don't matter because the Party Machine decides all elections.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 11, 2025 10:01 AM (rHxhM)
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Well, if that's what they want, they will get more of it.

Other than prayer, there's not much I can do to move that particular needle, so I'll focus on my town, my parish and my family - and of course the Horde.

I know I can be viciously snarky (hey, I am Gen X, it is the language of my people), but I try to offer positive thoughts, prayers and examples of good things happening.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 10:10 AM (ZOv7s)

291 "While both Global warming and institutional white supremacy are myths, the wildfires are indeed real."

They're tenets of faith for an ersatz religion. Some believers will wake up, but most will double down in their faith. It's a recurring pattern for Cults.

The Left and its GOPe fellow travellers have lost popular support they won't regain, but they still run a lot of things.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 11, 2025 10:10 AM (Gqoy+)

292 Will Trump have access to the John Roberts blackmail file?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 11, 2025 10:10 AM (YeGMU)

293 Was thinking while burning, if the Socialist wannabes really wanted to go all Communist there would be bodies hanging from posts with sign around their stretched necks
Arson

Posted by: Skip at January 11, 2025 10:10 AM (fwDg9)

294 Brentwood is now being threatened by fire. The winds are shifting all over.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 11, 2025 10:10 AM (RLc6v)

295 292 Will Trump have access to the John Roberts blackmail file?
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 11, 2025 10:10 AM (YeGMU)

Deep State has that sealed so tight Roman Polanski wants to marry it.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 11, 2025 10:11 AM (x0n13)

296 Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 11, 2025 10:09 AM (eDRva)

Good example of ‘context matters’

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 11, 2025 10:11 AM (D6PGr)

297 Hm.

I think you are trying to make an equivalency between the parties that doesn’t exist. They are not symmetrical or mirror images.

Remember the goal here is not to get the right people into government. It is to force the wrong people to do the right thing. They will try to find some “good tough competent democrats” to run things in Cali but they are extinct.

Call yourself whatever you want, but if you can’t do the job you are elected to do, GTFO.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 11, 2025 10:11 AM (tmGxn)

298 So the OSU coach called a pick 6?
Good move.

Posted by: Tim Wallzz at January 11, 2025 10:11 AM (dg+HA)

299 I think there may be a market in mobile homes soon. As soon as a lot of really pissed off rich people bludgeon the state of California into backing off

Posted by: Kindltot at January 11, 2025 10:12 AM (D7oie)

300 "Az-anya pitchaya" as my Debrecener mother might say to someone who pissed her off!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 11, 2025 10:09 AM (x0n13)

Better than being "the catcher". Oh, wait.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 11, 2025 10:12 AM (iODuv)

301 It’s not like the policies that caused these fires were unknown. If the same progression of incompetence and cuts were attempted in Wyoming the people of Wyoming would not have let it happen and the other State Republicans would not let it happen. The Governor wouldn’t be allowed to be that incompetent. They don’t need a wake up call.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 11, 2025 10:09 AM (D6PGr)
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I saw a clip of Justine Bateman hammering home the point that it's time for Californians to stop carrying about party and just look at competence. They're literally dying from it.

Will that kind of appeal work? Maybe. Living under the fear that your house might be incinerated and never rebuilt can focus the mind in new ways.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 10:13 AM (ZOv7s)

302 Is the Hollywood sign ok?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 11, 2025 10:13 AM (YeGMU)

303 Marc K. Siegel, clinical professor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center, said that it takes four cups of black - absolutely black - coffee to help your heart and cardiovascular system.
He is very positive about the effects of black coffee.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 11, 2025 10:13 AM (TRSaI)

304 298 So the OSU coach called a pick 6?
Good move.
Posted by: Tim Wallzz at January 11, 2025 10:11 AM (dg+HA)

If they called that on every play they’d never lose!

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 11, 2025 10:13 AM (7MHHr)

305 Was thinking while burning, if the Socialist wannabes really wanted to go all Communist there would be bodies hanging from posts with sign around their stretched necks
Arson
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You misspelled “Climate Denier”

Posted by: Common Tater at January 11, 2025 10:13 AM (tmGxn)

306 Norm Eisen. Harvard Law classmate of Obama. Coincidence?

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 11, 2025 10:13 AM (Gqoy+)

307 I will also point out that East Germany had a political machine, too.
It is a guarantee of no competition, not of success.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 11, 2025 10:14 AM (D7oie)

308 Yeah, so this is why I hate these discussions. No one is saying it is okay. It is a travesty of justice and their are existing processes to work through those.

The SCOTUS cannot serve as a personal fire brigade for every injustice visited in this country, nor is it Trump's legal Praetorian Guard.

We should be basking in the glow of yet another win - and this WAS A WIN. The stupid judge didn't have the stones to actually punish Trump. The case is exposed to the world as a joke. All the leftists are stunned that nothing happened to Trump. The label will be unwound in due course in yet another win.

Can we not always look for something to bitch about?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 10:00 AM

Add in the fact that the corrupt judge very publicly announced that he was not going to sentence Trump with anything. That pretty much was a chicken $hit move to try and force SCOTUS to take a pass on the case because Trump literally received no sentence for them to consider. Anyway the appeals process is going to be lit.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 11, 2025 10:14 AM (Rcnd3)

309

Evveryone who works in every department of every agency will be insubordinate to the greatest extent possible. From a toilet attendant all the way up to the highest level non-Trump appointee/ civil servant.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 11, 2025 10:14 AM (x0n13)

310 Marc K. Siegel, clinical professor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center, said that it takes four cups of black - absolutely black - coffee to help your heart and cardiovascular system.

Okay, but what about the rest of the morning?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 11, 2025 10:14 AM (xCA6C)

311 @288 Cali voters might bounce Newsom and Bass, but the Dems will simply go back to there playbook and the voters will forget. Those who don't forget will leave the state. Every Dem in the state would have to die to turn that state red(not including being on fire)

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 11, 2025 10:14 AM (RLc6v)

312 I'm with AHL here. 9 days til everything changes. We won. We are still winning. The left still thinks they have influence but nobody cares. They are only talking to the die hard 30% while everyone else has moved on.
Politicians in the middle are going to see that if they want to continue to line their pockets, they need to work with the new administration. You can count on securing the grift is the most important thing to them. So win win for us.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 11, 2025 10:14 AM (t/2Uw)

313 Thanks, folks, for the prayers for my son. Things continue to go well, praise God, and while he'd rather be doing botanical research, this is a a job in his field of study, he's making some money and his boss seems to like him.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 11, 2025 10:14 AM (1P3tj)

314 *302 Is the Hollywood sign ok?*

Unfortunately it's still white.

Posted by: So it's not diverse at January 11, 2025 10:15 AM (dg+HA)

315 Amazon stuff here, many times, arrives a day or two earlier than promised. Never had anything arrive later than the promised date.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 11, 2025 09:59 AM (iODuv)

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I've had Amazon miss the delivery date a few times. What I find fascinating is that Amazon's delivery tracking is very precise, even going so far as to tell you how many stops away the driver is.

That is, until the delivery is missed. Then suddenly it's "if you don't get it in a week, let us know, and we'll refund the money"

Posted by: No One of Consequence at January 11, 2025 10:15 AM (OGOaV)

316 300 "Az-anya pitchaya" as my Debrecener mother might say to someone who pissed her off!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 11, 2025 10:09 AM (x0n13)

Better than being "the catcher". Oh, wait.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 11, 2025 10:12 AM (iODuv)

My spelling as you know is transliterated from how I heard and remember it as she never taught me the language.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 11, 2025 10:15 AM (x0n13)

317
It’s not like the policies that caused these fires were unknown. If the same progression of incompetence and cuts were attempted in Wyoming the people of Wyoming would not have let it happen and the other State Republicans would not let it happen. The Governor wouldn’t be allowed to be that incompetent. They don’t need a wake up call.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 11, 2025 10:09 AM (D6PGr)

Substitute anything else for a fire. Let’s say event X fucked shit up badly for a lot of people. And Event X was due to the actions of lots of Republicans.

What would happen? Almost certainly the current Republicans would be voted out. But they wouldn’t be suddenly replaced with socialist Democrats. They’d just be replaced with other Republicans.

That’s kinda my point. Maybe Bass will resign in disgrace. Maybe this is a fatal blow to Newsom’s presidential hopes. But the next mayor will be a Democrat as will the next governor. They’ll swap out names and faces but not ideology.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 11, 2025 10:15 AM (LlO6+)

318 LAFD is being led by lesbians who were promoted to the top with an alternative career path where they were never put at risk of having to run into a burning building to save the life of a stranger. One has even bragged that large-bodied men should have the sense to not get caught in fires.

I know a few FDNY and knew three who died on 9/11. It still burns me up.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 11, 2025 10:16 AM (Gqoy+)

319 Add in the fact that the corrupt judge very publicly announced that he was not going to sentence Trump with anything. That pretty much was a chicken $hit move to try and force SCOTUS to take a pass on the case because Trump literally received no sentence for them to consider. Anyway the appeals process is going to be lit.

Trump clearly sees his "conviction" as an opportunity to further embarrass and marginalize the left and its apparatus of oppression.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 11, 2025 10:16 AM (xCA6C)

320 9 I think there may be a market in mobile homes soon. As soon as a lot of really pissed off rich people bludgeon the state of California into backing off
Posted by: Kindltot at January 11, 2025 10:12 AM (D7oie)

Malibu had a high dollar trailer park. I wonder if it got hit.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 11, 2025 10:16 AM (D6PGr)

321 There are all these other cities across yhe ftuited plane. I wonder how many more they plan to burn. Step one of build back better is raze to the ground.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 11, 2025 10:17 AM (YeGMU)

322 306 Norm Eisen. Harvard Law classmate of Obama. Coincidence?
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 11, 2025 10:13 AM (Gqoy+)

His life is just full of coincidences. Norm’s also got a lot of coincidental ties to George Soros. Seems like he moves in pretty high circles.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 11, 2025 10:18 AM (7MHHr)

323 318 I know a few FDNY and knew three who died on 9/11. It still burns me up.
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 11, 2025 10:16 AM (Gqoy+)

All too sad and True, but your phrasing is a bit wince-inducing.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 11, 2025 10:18 AM (x0n13)

324 Jim Rockford had a trailer right on the beach.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 11, 2025 10:18 AM (YeGMU)

325 320 Malibu had a high dollar trailer park. I wonder if it got hit.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 11, 2025 10:16 AM (D6PGr)

They got it bad with the 1993 wildfire.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 11, 2025 10:19 AM (x0n13)

326 The man credited for being the primary architect for all of the lawfare against Trump is a former Obama administration official named Norm Eisen. He was an impeachment counsel working for Pelosi et al while that was going on, and he’s believed to have had a great deal of influence in setting the strategy for every one of the lawfare cases against Trump.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 11, 2025 10:10 AM (7MHHr)

Tom, always remember, it is never one man.

Posted by: runner at January 11, 2025 10:19 AM (g47mK)

327 I love the breathless coverage of snowstorms in the South. It always gives me a chortle. The local weatherman here calls them "Frozen Precipitation Events."

It's a running joke between me and Joe Mannix. "How ya handling' the FPE, bud? Still alive?"

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 11, 2025 10:19 AM (BI5O2)

328 Policies...

It is known that there are wildfire mitigation policies that if followed would have (as it says right there in the name) mitigated the destruction by fire. Those policies are written down... filed away. And ignored.

Instead, California chose to follow some sort of environmental wacked out policy about leaving the forests alone. The public accepted it. Accepts it now. And will accept it tomorrow.

That can't be fixed. Not with voting anyway.

People who would change the policy would never get elected there.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 11, 2025 10:20 AM (Q4IgG)

329 Evveryone who works in every department of every agency will be insubordinate to the greatest extent possible. From a toilet attendant all the way up to the highest level non-Trump appointee/ civil servant.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 11, 2025 10:14 AM (x0n13)
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There is a marvelous symmetry between conservative nightmares and leftist fever dreams.

I'm going to say this isn't going to happen.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 10:20 AM (ZOv7s)

330 He’s a crazy though.

Maybe stop building homes in places that tend to get burned down every couple of decades?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 11, 2025 10:21 AM (LlO6+)

331 Are you posting this list to ask for prayers for those faith communities?

244 >>Churches are now doing the same thing in California.

Yeah, no.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 11, 2025 10:21 AM (Y1sOo)

332 329 There is a marvelous symmetry between conservative nightmares and leftist fever dreams.

I'm going to say this isn't going to happen.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 10:20 AM (ZOv7s)

Let's hope Trump is prepared and is willing to be ruthless in dealing with it, the reactions be damned.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 11, 2025 10:22 AM (x0n13)

333 Braenyard: read up on Tea. I don’t care too much for it, but it is first and foremost a medicinal. Tannins and polyphenols have very interesting properties. I doubt they help much loaded with cream and sugar or full stomach. Coffee has tannins as well, but tea seems to work better.

If you’re getting into intermittent fasting, both black coffee and tea are excellent. If you just have to have a splash of milk or cream it’s probably OK, but.

Researchers note tea has a strong anti-microbial or bacteria effect on teeth and gums. Maybe not pearly whites but better than gum disease. Note that oral infections can rapidly turn to sepsis or whatever and kill people. And the tannin’s internally act like a sort of natural nano-medicine, with an affinity to protein. “Bad” bacteria in our guts are inhibited whilst leaving “good” bacteria to re-populate. If you happen to have gut or digestive issues, it’s worth trying and can’t hurt.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 11, 2025 10:22 AM (tmGxn)

334 Two things: Anita Bryant was still alive?

And she was JUST 84??

Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2025 10:23 AM (lH8E4)

335 Boss Moss I think so, know my nephew, at least last I heard, lives within walking distance from it and as of last night is still secure in his residence.

Posted by: Skip at January 11, 2025 10:23 AM (fwDg9)

336 330 He’s a crazy though.

Maybe stop building homes in places that tend to get burned down every couple of decades?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 11, 2025 10:21 AM (LlO6+)

See also places impacted by hurricanes.

What about places that get molotov-cocktailed and looted???

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 11, 2025 10:24 AM (x0n13)

337
Jim Rockford had a trailer right on the beach.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 11, 2025 10:18 AM

so did Martin Riggs

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 11, 2025 10:25 AM (tljrc)

338 Cali voters might bounce Newsom and Bass, but the Dems will simply go back to there playbook and the voters will forget. Those who don't forget will leave the state. Every Dem in the state would have to die to turn that state red(not including being on fire)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 11, 2025 10:14 AM (RLc6v)
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These predictions are based on static analysis and pessimism. The fact is we are in a period of remarkable change and upheaval. Immigration enforcement is ten days away, and a bunch of folks are going to look at the charred remains of LA and go back home. The California National Guard will likely be federalized (to secure funding), which will eliminate state control, further convincing illegals to leave.

Meanwhile, the facts on the ground are world-changing for a lot of people. Having your safe, trendy house trashed can bring about an existential crisis in what you believe.

Leftists routinely dehumanize conservatives; let's not fall into the same trap.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 10:25 AM (ZOv7s)

339 I love the breathless coverage of snowstorms in the South. It always gives me a chortle. The local weatherman here calls them "Frozen Precipitation Events."

It's a running joke between me and Joe Mannix. "How ya handling' the FPE, bud? Still alive?"
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 11, 2025 10:19 AM (BI5O2)

I lived in the South for a few years. It cracked up too. Yeah I get it you don’t have the infrastructure to remove snow and nobody has snow tires and all that. But holy shit, it’s not WW3 either. Chill the fuck out people.

Every winter I lived down there there was snow. Sometimes more than once in the same winter. It wasn’t THAT uncommon. Yet people and especially the local news acted like it was a once in a thousand year event each time it happened.

And then 36 hours later it warmed up, snow melted and everyone went on with their lives. It was hilarious.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 11, 2025 10:25 AM (LlO6+)

340 California is on a path to ruin and it's likely irreversible. Productive people are fleeing to other states, not just A-listers. The killer is job loss from new business that would have gone to CA but will now go elsewhere. This is a slow-eating cancer.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 11, 2025 10:26 AM (Gqoy+)

341 Well, California has it worse than most. You can find reckless, incompetent, devil-may-care authoritarian government across the breadth and depth of America. It's the form of Our Sacred Democracy. But in California, everyone is silly and shallow and vacuous, so it takes on an added, pathologically childish dimension. "Delta smelt," indeed!

Nobody does imperial decline like those phony baloney plastic banana good time rock 'n' rollers.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 11, 2025 10:26 AM (BI5O2)

342

Yeah, don't build in places prone t o natural disasters. Only if Lefties don't start bitching about business not wanting to open or closing in high-crime neighborhoods, and food deserts, etc. Or no colored people of non-color "gentrifying" them.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 11, 2025 10:27 AM (x0n13)

343 Let's hope Trump is prepared and is willing to be ruthless in dealing with it, the reactions be damned.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 11, 2025 10:22 AM (x0n13)
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I'm sure there will have to be some examples made, but if we know one thing, it is that Trump learned from last time, and so will be better able to root out obstructionists.

Honestly, the return to office work requirements will have a bigger impact. Lots of folks will retire rather than do that.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 10:27 AM (ZOv7s)

344 I use Amazon a lot. If I lived in the city, I would probably do a lot more local selection, but for rural living, you really can't beat Amazon.

I'm mindful of the Chinese counterfeit market, and buy US made whenever possible.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 11, 2025 10:27 AM (OX9vb)

345 Yeah, don't build in places prone t o natural disasters.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 11, 2025 10:27 AM (x0n13)
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I already live in Michigan.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 10:27 AM (ZOv7s)

346 We have a candidate for LA mayor, after Angelinos force that Bass disaster out of office. Seems a good one - Rick Caruso. Caruso for mayor of LA. (He ran in 2022 and of course lost to bass , probably from the dead of night ballot drop).

Posted by: runner at January 11, 2025 10:27 AM (g47mK)

347 Retailers fled the legal shoplifting zones.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 11, 2025 10:28 AM (YeGMU)

348 Yeah, don't build in places prone t o natural disasters.

Build wherever the hell you want to. Just don't come crying to me for a bailout when it all goes tango uniform.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 11, 2025 10:28 AM (xCA6C)

349 Marxist true believer == stupid
Stupid == incompetent
Ergo, Marxist true believer == incompetent
Note, some "Marxists" were not completely incompetent (e.g., Stalin), but they weren't true believers, but mostly psychopathic criminal opportunists. California democrats are some combination of true believers, psychopaths, criminals, and opportunists. And mostly incompetent.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 11, 2025 10:28 AM (XMwZJ)

350 345 Yeah, don't build in places prone t o natural disasters.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 11, 2025 10:27 AM (x0n13)
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I already live in Michigan.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 10:27 AM (ZOv7s)

Leftism is an unnatural disaster . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 11, 2025 10:28 AM (x0n13)

351 It is a travesty of justice and their are existing processes to work through those[i/]

Being convicted as a felon based on made up charges by a judge with a readily observable conflict of interest is not OK even if there is 'a process to work through it'. Well back when honor meant something. SCOTUS could have said hey this whole thing is BS. Charges and a conviction but no penalty? And now the guy has to spend more money to exercise 'the process?'

Not to put too fine a point on it but 'the process' should never have been an option. I'm not bitchin, just pointing out the complete lack of credibility that SCOTUS displayed.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 11, 2025 10:28 AM (3Ope8)

352 If anything maybe those who can and got wiped out will get out of Leftifornia

Posted by: Skip at January 11, 2025 10:29 AM (fwDg9)

353 FFS

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 11, 2025 10:29 AM (3Ope8)

354 I'm just amused and happy with the idea of a National Championship game without an SEC team

variety is the spice of life

Posted by: Don Black at January 11, 2025 10:29 AM (AOsQT)

355 Build wherever the hell you want to. Just don't come crying to me for a bailout when it all goes tango uniform.

You don't even have to do the research yourself; the insurance companies already to it for you.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 11, 2025 10:29 AM (xCA6C)

356 Is there such a thing as a counterfeit anymore ? They are so good and made at the same chinese factories, and by the same chinese laborers as the authentic ones, sometimes you can't tell the difference !

Posted by: runner at January 11, 2025 10:29 AM (g47mK)

357 I'm going to say this isn't going to happen.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 10:20 AM (ZOv7s)

I agree with you, the left is leaderless and has had their heart stomped on - this isn’t 2016.

This may be a stretch, but look at how everyone was acting at Carter’s funeral. I think this may be a sign as to how the different Democrat factions are dealing with this. Hillary looked like the most pissed off person in the world, but mostly just sat there doing nothing. Kamala was a complete non-person, Biden not only didn’t speak to her, he never even looked at her. And then in the back Obama and Trump were yukking it up like Carson and Rickles, looked like a sign that Obama’s people have decided it’s better to work with Trump now rather than against him.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 11, 2025 10:30 AM (7MHHr)

358 Two words: fire tornadoes.

https://is.gd/zbsUOs

When I was a kid, I read about the fire bombing of Hamburg. It said the fire storm created such strong winds that people were sucked into the fire. I don't think LA is quite there. Yet.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 11, 2025 10:30 AM (L/fGl)

359 There is a reason the insurance companies stopped writing policies.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 11, 2025 10:31 AM (YeGMU)

360 I use Amazon a lot. If I lived in the city, I would probably do a lot more local selection, but for rural living, you really can't beat Amazon.

I'm mindful of the Chinese counterfeit market, and buy US made whenever possible.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 11, 2025 10:27 AM (OX9vb)
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As an Amazon author, Prime works well for me and I get more out of Amazon than it gets out of me.

But I am broadening my shopping. Ebay has lots of the same stuff, but cheaper. Big box retailers have upped their game considerably of late. In-store pickup is even faster than shipping, and I do a lot of that now.

For example, my Keurig died on Thursday. [Moment of silence.] Best Buy was actually cheaper than Amazon and had free shipping. Oh, and I got rewards, making it an even better deal.

Same with Petsmart. yes, it is weird having two gay guys holding a gerbil serving as their celebrity endorsers, but I order the stuff, get a discount, and so it's cheap and easy.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 10:31 AM (ZOv7s)

361 Posted by: one hour sober at January 11, 2025 10:21 AM (Y1sOo)

Sorry. Churches are doing the same thing as what? Burning? Yep. We already had a brief discussion in the morning thread about that., churches and synagogues are not immune from disasters. We have a song in our hymnal “ The church is not a building. The church is not a steeple…the church is a people. “ It’s true of course. but just as houses were people had spent many years , people are attached to churches where they were baptized, got married and saw their children and grandchildren married and worshipped for many years it must be a terrible blow to them. So yes, I will pray for those communities and leave God to determine whose heart is right and whose is not.

So you’re not asking

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 11, 2025 10:32 AM (AuOJF)

362 There seems to be legit concern that the Pallisades fire is gonna jump the 405.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 11, 2025 10:32 AM (3Ope8)

363 Nobody under 30 shops in person anymore. Well legally shops in person. Retailers closing physical locations is simply a response to how people shop.

Also see fast food. Walk into most fast food joints and they’re usually pretty empty. Not because people aren’t eating their food. But because an ever increasing portion of that food is via delivery apps.

There is a trend now for fast food locations to no longer have a dining area. 100% drive through or to go locations are popping up.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 11, 2025 10:32 AM (LlO6+)

364 Add in the fact that the corrupt judge very publicly announced that he was not going to sentence Trump with anything. That pretty much was a chicken $hit move to try and force SCOTUS to take a pass on the case because Trump literally received no sentence for them to consider. Anyway the appeals process is going to be lit.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 11, 2025 10:14 AM (Rcnd3)

The problem I have with these discussions is that so many people focus on the people involved. It's not about Trump. It's not about this corrupt judge, and the cowards like Ami Cummy Barrett.

It's about this so-called republic, and the fact that corruption is built into the whole damn facade, and people more or less take it.

Whenever someone roots for this or that outcome from a court case, or even an election, and if you get it, you cheer, if you don't, you grumble and whine.

In that sense, getting wrapped up in outcomes means you're part of the whole damned mess. A participant in it.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2025 10:32 AM (lH8E4)

365 >>Build wherever the hell you want to. Just don't come crying to me for a bailout when it all goes tango uniform.

Lost our home to Hurricane Sally. We did not apply for, nor did we receive, any FEMA money. We also didn't apply for a zero interest loan from SBA which we would've otherwise qualified for.

Am I still in good standing with you.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 11, 2025 10:32 AM (Y1sOo)

366 I’ve hiked for many years in the backcountry, read hiking forums, know how they think.

To some, they start out “the loss of life and property is tragic (but) the loss of animal and plant life blah blah”. A horse is a goose is a mosquito is a human. Many on the left wish to see humanity itself destroyed.

They will fall over themselves discussing “leave no trace” techniques. All well and good, but they treat humans as aliens. They suggest not smoothing out the pebbles to make a flat comfortable spot to pitch their (nylon!) tent, because micro-organisms live under the pine needles and pebbles.

“The Bears were here first!” Yeah, I don’t care. I’m here second. Much of “environmental” policy long ago is just geared to excluding humans altogether.

Except for the party faithful.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 11, 2025 10:32 AM (tmGxn)

367 Sorry; Didn’t mean to add part of the last line.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 11, 2025 10:32 AM (AuOJF)

368 Maybe stop building homes in places that tend to get burned down every couple of decades?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 11, 2025 10:21 AM (LlO6+)

See also places impacted by hurricanes.

What about places that get molotov-cocktailed and looted???
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 11, 2025 10:24 AM (x0n13)

Seriously. Ohio isn't big enough for everybody to move here out of the danger zones.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 11, 2025 10:33 AM (OX9vb)

369 "Obama and Trump were yukking it up like Carson and Rickles,"

Trump to Obama: "Your boys missed."

Obama back: "Yeah, Slow Joe can't do anything right."

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 11, 2025 10:33 AM (Gqoy+)

370 If you think Newsom or Bass will be bounced for their massive incompetence you know nothing about one-party political systems.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 11, 2025 10:34 AM (RIvkX)

371 And then in the back Obama and Trump were yukking it up like Carson and Rickles, looked like a sign that Obama’s people have decided it’s better to work with Trump now rather than against him.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 11, 2025 10:30 AM (7MHHr)
I believe ubama will never work with anybody in a positive way. He’s all about destroying America, that’s what he signed up for.

Posted by: Eromero at January 11, 2025 10:34 AM (jgmnb)

372 359 There is a reason the insurance companies stopped writing policies.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 11, 2025 10:31 AM (YeGMU)

The reason is California wouldn’t let them increase prices enough to cover the risk. It’s not the media narrative that insurance companies just walked away. They were forced to walk away.

It’s moot anyway. That sweet sweet government money will cover everyone’s losses.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 11, 2025 10:34 AM (LlO6+)

373 I still claim that Chernobyl was a key element to the unraveling of the Soviet Union. It ground home the fact that all the sacrifice and deprivation in the name of some glorious future mismanaged by well meaning ideologues was actually just oppression and brutalization for the purpose of oppressing and brutalizing citizens so they wouldn't disobey.
I think these fires are going to teach a similar lesson, and the future this week is far different than what the future was two weeks ago.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 11, 2025 10:34 AM (D7oie)

374 > Is there such a thing as a counterfeit anymore ? They are so good and made at the same chinese factories, and by the same chinese laborers as the authentic ones, sometimes you can't tell the difference !
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Women's purses. There is a HUGE market for knockoffs. And the details between counterfeit and authentic are sometimes nearly impossible to see.

My wife.... she knows ALL the details about it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 11, 2025 10:35 AM (Q4IgG)

375 Is there such a thing as a counterfeit anymore ? They are so good and made at the same chinese factories, and by the same chinese laborers as the authentic ones, sometimes you can't tell the difference !
Posted by: runner

The last time I was in China there was a mall that sold (dirt cheap) thousands of products that were made there for export to the US, including DVDs of movies that were still in the theater here.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 11, 2025 10:35 AM (Z4ecj)

376 Simple joys: my granddaughter is now using "grown up" utensils, so she has to make a point of selecting it herself, because she is now a Big Girl. Her brother, being a year younger, is not. She likes to point this out at every meal.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 10:35 AM (ZOv7s)

377 Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh
REPORTER: Can you give us a sense as to who you're considering for a pardon in the next 10 days?

BIDEN: "It depends on some of the expectations that Trump broadcasts in the last couple days here as to what he's gonna do. The idea that he would punish people for not adhering to what he thinks is outrageous. But, there are still consideration of some folks."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 11, 2025 10:35 AM (L/fGl)

378 Yes, that trailer park was hit and destroyed

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 11, 2025 10:36 AM (NQtI0)

379
See also places impacted by hurricanes.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 11, 2025 10:24 AM (x0n13)

Yeah agreed. It’s not if it’s when a house on the beach in Florida will get wiped out. Sorry but don’t come crying to me about expensive insurance if that’s where you choose to live.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 11, 2025 10:36 AM (LlO6+)

380 I think old Joe dozed off during the Carter service

https://tinyurl.com/yymn8d6z

Posted by: Don Black at January 11, 2025 10:36 AM (AOsQT)

381 307 I will also point out that East Germany had a political machine, too.
It is a guarantee of no competition, not of success.
Posted by: Kindltot
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Merkel Merkin grew up in East Germany.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 11, 2025 10:37 AM (TRSaI)

382 Logging, mining, ranching, 4WD, hunting, fishing. Living there.

They don’t want anything to do with any of it. They treat the entire West like it’s a Museum. Every place is always “a unique blah blah”. You’ll never them say “Oh that, yeah there’s plenty of that to go around. Pretty much like everywhere else, in fact. Kind of boring, really. Too many mosquitos.”

It’s Elitist as hell. They have noticed it’s all lily-white whack jobs, and are doing their best to call everyone else racist because black folks don’t like to play homeless for some weird reason. Somehow, this is my fault.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 11, 2025 10:37 AM (tmGxn)

383 Not to put too fine a point on it but 'the process' should never have been an option. I'm not bitchin, just pointing out the complete lack of credibility that SCOTUS displayed.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 11, 2025 10:28 AM (3Ope

The process was created, by the lawyers, for the lawyers, and is made up of the lawyers.

Actual humans just have to live in it.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2025 10:38 AM (lH8E4)

384 Just on X. Fires are spreading. More evacuations. We are here already talking about aftermath, like it is just another political topic. That it will be gone in a few days and we will all move on.
I don't think that is what is going to happen.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 11, 2025 10:38 AM (t/2Uw)

385 Build wherever the hell you want to. Just don't come crying to me for a bailout when it all goes tango uniform.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 11, 2025 10:28 AM (xCA6C)

Maybe local communities should vote on local tax collections to keep in reserve for disasters that are known to happen in their localities*. And if they reject said taxation, well, there ya go. Should not be a federal responsibility, though.

*Assuming local governments wouldn't cannibalize such a fund for whatever their pet causes might be.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 11, 2025 10:39 AM (OX9vb)

386 I don’t understand a darn thing about women’s purse or shoes and don’t care. I use my purse till it wears out and then I get another one. I realize some women feel differently.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 11, 2025 10:40 AM (AuOJF)

387 Merkel Merkin grew up in East Germany.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 11, 2025 10:37 AM (TRSaI)

and she recreated the machine, and we can see how well that is working. Why democracy is going so well they are considering jailing members of the opposition party for the threat they pose to it.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 11, 2025 10:40 AM (D7oie)

388 Is there a place in the US not susceptible to natural disaster?

fire
flood
tornado
hurricane
blizzard
ice storm
hailstorm
earthquake
volcano
Democrats

Posted by: Don Black at January 11, 2025 10:40 AM (AOsQT)

389 @380 San Franpsycho, I live in NY a one party state and we've had two leftist governors bounced because they embarrassed the party and made themselves toxic, Spitzer and Andrew Cuomo. Changes happen in one party states when a leader screws up so bad they threaten the "revolution". Newsom and Bass are at that point

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 11, 2025 10:40 AM (RLc6v)

390 I believe ubama will never work with anybody in a positive way. He’s all about destroying America, that’s what he signed up for.
Posted by: Eromero at January 11, 2025 10:34 AM (jgmnb)
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These people are all in it for themselves, though. None of them will sacrifice so much as a fingernail for someone else's success. That is their core weakness. Evil can never trust anyone. They would sell out their parents and trade away their kids rather than suffer, and they know their "allies" feel the same.

The Obamas did their bit. They now want out. Trump is negotiating their exit fee. I thought it was funny how Dubya thumped Obama in the gut rather than shaking his hand.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 10:41 AM (ZOv7s)

391 t’s Elitist as hell. They have noticed it’s all lily-white whack jobs, and are doing their best to call everyone else racist because black folks don’t like to play homeless

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This is a thing with skiing now. Omg everyone who ski is is white, why is skiing such a Racist sport? Uhm you asswipes realize anyone white or black can ski right? There’s no guard at the resort checking skin color and only letting in Whitey.

But that’s the definition now. If minority group X has no interest in doing Y, everyone who does Y is a Klansman.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 11, 2025 10:41 AM (LlO6+)

392 But I am broadening my shopping. Ebay has lots of the same stuff, but cheaper. Big box retailers have upped their game considerably of late. In-store pickup is even faster than shipping, and I do a lot of that now.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

I have found that as new product quality has decreased, buying used items made several years ago via eBay is a good option as well.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 11, 2025 10:41 AM (HHA/C)

393 The first rule of progressive Democrat fire storm is you don't talk about progressive Democrat fire storm.

Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh
BREAKING: California Governor Gavin Newsom demands Biden "deal with misinformation" surrounding the wildfires.
What's that supposed to mean?
"I ask you - we've got to deal with this misinformation. There are hurricane force winds of misinformation lies. People want to divideth is country, and we're gonna have to address that."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 11, 2025 10:42 AM (L/fGl)

394 Trump to Obama: "Your boys missed."

Obama back: "Yeah, Slow Joe can't do anything right."
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 11, 2025 10:33 AM (Gqoy+)

Trump: I noticed your manwife didn't show up.

Obama: Yeah, he hates me as much as he hates you.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2025 10:42 AM (lH8E4)

395 Build wherever the hell you want to. Just don't come crying to me for a bailout when it all goes tango uniform.

Lost our home to Hurricane Sally. We did not apply for, nor did we receive, any FEMA money. We also didn't apply for a zero interest loan from SBA which we would've otherwise qualified for.

Am I still in good standing with you.

I don't know you, and if I'm not paying for your choices, I'm happy. I don't know why you have a problem with that.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 11, 2025 10:42 AM (xCA6C)

396 >>It’s not if it’s when a house on the beach in Florida will get wiped out. Sorry but don’t come crying to me about expensive insurance if that’s where you choose to live.

Lost our home to Hurricane Sally. We pay our insurance premiums every month without crying about it.

Am I still in good standing with you?

Posted by: one hour sober at January 11, 2025 10:42 AM (Y1sOo)

397 I've had luck with Ebay, but some sellers seem sketchy as shit. Caveat emptor, and all that...

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 11, 2025 10:42 AM (XMwZJ)

398 Lost our home to Hurricane Sally. We pay our insurance premiums every month without crying about it.

Am I still in good standing with you?
Posted by: one hour sober at January 11, 2025 10:42 AM (Y1sOo)

You’re a great American!! 😀

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 11, 2025 10:43 AM (LlO6+)

399 The process was created, by the lawyers, for the lawyers, and is made up of the lawyers.

Actual humans just have to live in it.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2025 10:38 AM (lH8E4)
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There has never been a period in history, let along American history, where perfect justice prevailed. I'm not going to wring my hands over that. Injustice also serves a purpose, and of all the miscarriages of justice I have seen, Trump's joke conviction is barely worth a mention, let alone getting upset over.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 10:43 AM (ZOv7s)

400 --------
Women's purses. There is a HUGE market for knockoffs. And the details between counterfeit and authentic are sometimes nearly impossible to see.

My wife.... she knows ALL the details about it.
Posted by: Martini Farme
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In NYC, pre-Giuliani, one could by all sorts of goods, watches, purses from street vendors and shops along the street with leather goods, dresses etc all high fashion names (wink wink). Bought my wife a gold Gucci watch (told her it was a knock off). She wore it for four years before the gold started pealing off.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 11, 2025 10:43 AM (TRSaI)

401 Something to ponder.

First Tokyo raid in 1945 Curtis LeMay burnt out 16 sq miles of the city.

So far the LA fires have burnt out 55 sq miles.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 11, 2025 10:43 AM (MBS2I)

402 So the New Yorker does a story
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has become fixated on child sexual exploitation in deindustrialized English towns—much of which took place more than a decade ago. What is he after?
http://nyer.cm/22KsiBh

Posted by: steevy at January 11, 2025 10:44 AM (KQk9m)

403 Obama was like a single guy at a wedding who saw another guy he knows by himself and started chatting. And they probably were like, man this place is full of fucking losers, can’t wait to hit the bar.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 11, 2025 10:45 AM (LlO6+)

404 I have found that as new product quality has decreased, buying used items made several years ago via eBay is a good option as well.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 11, 2025 10:41 AM (HHA/C)
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Ebay's used books are cheaper and have a much wider selection than Amazon. Beating Bezos at his own game.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 10:45 AM (ZOv7s)

405 Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh
BREAKING: California Governor Gavin Newsom demands Biden "deal with misinformation" surrounding the wildfires.
What's that supposed to mean?
"I ask you - we've got to deal with this misinformation. There are hurricane force winds of misinformation lies. People want to divideth is country, and we're gonna have to address that."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 11, 2025 10:42 AM (L/fGl)

People are saying there's more oil in his hair than in all the Arabian desert.

It's hurtful.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2025 10:45 AM (lH8E4)

406 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 10:35 AM (ZOv7s)

Are you looking after them most or all of the time? If so, that is kind of you and I’m glad you’re finding joy in the midst of what must sometimes tiring and stressful. God bless you and your family!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 11, 2025 10:46 AM (AuOJF)

407 BREAKING: California Governor Gavin Newsom demands Biden "deal with misinformation" surrounding the wildfires.
What's that supposed to mean?
"I ask you - we've got to deal with this misinformation. There are hurricane force winds of misinformation lies. People want to divideth is country, and we're gonna have to address that."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 11, 2025 10:42 AM (L/fGl)
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He wants Biden to crack the whip on media again, and make Facebook and Instagram and etc. censor unfavorable news.

That's the thing a lot of people are missing - these guys are so stupid, they can barely tie their shoes. When times were good, no one noticed, but letting your state burn to a crisp is kind of a big deal. Hard to hide.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 10:46 AM (ZOv7s)

408 I think these fires are going to teach a similar lesson, and the future this week is far different than what the future was two weeks ago.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 11, 2025 10:34 AM (D7oie)

Every now and then we bring up the ancient Chinese concept of The Mandate of Heaven. It’s not really religious, since they have never been a very religious people, it’s more of an observation of How Things Work over a long period of time. The idea is that when the rulers lose The Mandate of Heaven, *everything* goes wrong. Cities burn down, plagues and starvation sweeps the land, enemies get arrogant and attack, and in short everything that can go wrong does go wrong.
And when the people see that happening, then the people have not only the right, but the Duty to overthrow their ruling system and install some new ruler in its place.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 11, 2025 10:46 AM (7MHHr)

409 I wonder if Bass can top Lamay.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 11, 2025 10:47 AM (YeGMU)

410 I see the media is focusing like a laser beam on an empty reservoir...

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 11, 2025 10:47 AM (MBS2I)

411
What is he after?
http://nyer.cm/22KsiBh
Posted by: steevy at January 11, 2025 10:44 AM (KQk9m)

________

I mean, what's the fuss? Let's move on.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 11, 2025 10:47 AM (dxSpM)

412 Apparently the New York Times' editors feel that rape and trafficking of grade school aged girls is a crime with a shelf life.
you know, like forgetting to pay taxes and it not getting noticed by the state.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 11, 2025 10:47 AM (D7oie)

413 So the New Yorker does a story
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has become fixated on child sexual exploitation in deindustrialized English towns—much of which took place more than a decade ago. What is he after?
http://nyer.cm/22KsiBh
Posted by: steevy at January 11, 2025 10:44 AM (KQk9m)

Ooh, ooh! I know!

He's after your friends who are all into child exploitation!!

What do I win.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2025 10:47 AM (lH8E4)

414 121 Does anybody REALLY give a shit about this Merchan bullshit? [ . . . ]
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent
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It's very meaningful in blue areas otherwise it's an irritant.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 11, 2025 10:47 AM (TRSaI)

415 Biden Says He At Least Won't Pardon Himself

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His word as a Biden.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 11, 2025 10:48 AM (L/fGl)

416 A.H. Lloyd--right. Merchan's show trial can be ignored, but it's also a symptom of the ugly truth beneath it, the injustice applied to ordinary people by lefty governance. See Derek Chauvin, Daniel Penny, and Kyle Rittenhouse.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 11, 2025 10:49 AM (XMwZJ)

417 Idiotic woke term of the day: "misogynoir", meaning prejudice against black women specifically.

I suspect the same brain trust came up with this that gave us "Latinx".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 11, 2025 10:49 AM (W5ArC)

418 412 Apparently the New York Times' editors feel that rape and trafficking of grade school aged girls is a crime with a shelf life.
you know, like forgetting to pay taxes and it not getting noticed by the state.
Posted by: Kindltot
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Thing is; It's still going on big as ever.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 11, 2025 10:49 AM (TRSaI)

419 Are you looking after them most or all of the time? If so, that is kind of you and I’m glad you’re finding joy in the midst of what must sometimes tiring and stressful. God bless you and your family!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 11, 2025 10:46 AM (AuOJF)
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Yes, they live with us full time. A burden but also a blessing. They crack me up constantly.

God be with you as well.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 10:49 AM (ZOv7s)

420 How do you tell an empty reservoir from a hole in the ground?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 11, 2025 10:50 AM (YeGMU)

421 What is he after?
http://nyer.cm/22KsiBh
Posted by: steevy at January 11, 2025 10:44 AM (KQk9m)

________

I mean, what's the fuss? Let's move on.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 11, 2025 10:47 AM (dxSpM)

It's not like kids who are abused, when they grow up... the ones who are ALLOWED to grow up... carry the damage with them the rest of their lives, and sometimes inflict similar abuse on the next generation.

I mean, duh.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2025 10:50 AM (lH8E4)

422 Is Bidet's word better than Baldwin promising not to shoot anyone else? Or Vindaloomon promising to give up the Bearclaws?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 11, 2025 10:50 AM (MBS2I)

423 Yes, they live with us full time.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 10:49 AM (ZOv7s)

You're a good man, sir.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 11, 2025 10:51 AM (3Ope8)

424 A.H. Lloyd--right. Merchan's show trial can be ignored, but it's also a symptom of the ugly truth beneath it, the injustice applied to ordinary people by lefty governance. See Derek Chauvin, Daniel Penny, and Kyle Rittenhouse.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 11, 2025 10:49 AM (XMwZJ)
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I think those cases are going to get a lot of scrutiny under Trump's DoJ.

Remember folks, sue and settle goes both ways. I'm thinking a lot of federal regulations and laws will be disposed of this way.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 10:51 AM (ZOv7s)

425 That's the thing a lot of people are missing - these guys are so stupid, they can barely tie their shoes. When times were good, no one noticed, but letting your state burn to a crisp is kind of a big deal. Hard to hide.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 10:46 AM (ZOv7s)

Just look at the level of stupidity it takes to think that Joe Biden of all people could do anything at all on his way out the door.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 11, 2025 10:51 AM (7MHHr)

426 Did Biden say swearsies?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 11, 2025 10:51 AM (YeGMU)

427 San Franpsycho, I live in NY a one party state and we've had two leftist governors bounced because they embarrassed the party and made themselves toxic, Spitzer and Andrew Cuomo. Changes happen in one party states when a leader screws up so bad they threaten the "revolution". Newsom and Bass are at that point
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 11, 2025 10:40 AM (RLc6v)
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True.

However they were bounced because of their own personal behaviors and crimes, not for systemic policy failures in furtherance of the Marxist agenda. Those crimes are inherently permissible.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 11, 2025 10:51 AM (RIvkX)

428 Miso gy noir?

What Stacey Abrams writes about Alex.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 11, 2025 10:51 AM (MBS2I)

429 Idiotic woke term of the day: "misogynoir", meaning prejudice against black women specifically.

I suspect the same brain trust came up with this that gave us "Latinx".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 11, 2025 10:49 AM (W5ArC)

we had a misogynoir for a while, but mom kept it in the back bedroom by the window to keep the Christmas cactuses on, but the pots leaked, and the laminate top got ruined.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 11, 2025 10:52 AM (D7oie)

430 What is he after?
http://nyer.cm/22KsiBh
Posted by: steevy

https://is.gd/OVjBEg

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 11, 2025 10:52 AM (L/fGl)

431 I use my purse till it wears out and then I get another one. I realize some women feel differently.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 11, 2025 10:40 AM (AuOJF)

If it doesn't fit in my pockets, I don't need to take it with me. When I worked away from home, I took water bottle and lunch, but any old tote bag works for that.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 11, 2025 10:52 AM (OX9vb)

432 Miso gy noir?

What Stacey Abrams writes about Alex.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 11, 2025 10:51 AM (MBS2I)

I will not touch that soup.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 11, 2025 10:52 AM (D7oie)

433 Apparently the New York Times' editors feel that rape and trafficking of grade school aged girls is a crime with a shelf life.
you know, like forgetting to pay taxes and it not getting noticed by the state.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 11, 2025 10:47 AM (D7oie)
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I'm beginning to think that the media outrage about pervert priests was mostly that they were cutting into their market share.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 10:53 AM (ZOv7s)

434 Mysogynoir sounds like a Japanese soup made from French black women.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 11, 2025 10:53 AM (JkO4W)

435 Prayers for those who need them, including all those who have lost their homes due to natural disasters.

My Left eye has a 'splotch' (technical term used by retina doctor!) right where the eye focuses (macula). Some scar tissue will heal naturally, some doesn't. It is wait and 'see' now.
Thank you all for your prayers!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 11, 2025 10:53 AM (hMBkz)

436 Nikola Tesla dies, and the ONLY person allowed access to his safe—the one containing all his most secret inventions—is John G. Trump, a brilliant MIT scientist and, oh yeah, Donald Trump’s uncle, who conveniently says, “nothing to see here” while the government quietly packs up Tesla’s life’s work

then, in 1958, a Trackdown episode features a conman named Walter Trump selling people a “magic wall” to save them from the end of the world

but WAIT—it gets weirder: back in the 1890s, Ingersoll Lockwood writes about Baron Trump, a kid from “Castle Trump” going on wild adventures with a guide named Don, and then writes The Last President, where chaos breaks out in America after the election of an outsider

fast forward to 1953 and Wernher von Braun—the father of rocket science—publishes a book about humans colonizing Mars led by a guy literally called Elon!!!

and today we’ve got Elon Musk, who runs Tesla (named after Nikola Tesla!) and is obsessed with getting us to Mars and is not only working with Trump but quite literally got him elected and has even visited his magic wall

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingersoll_Lockwood
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_G._Trump

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 11, 2025 10:53 AM (TRSaI)

437 It’s not the media narrative that insurance companies just walked away. They were forced to walk away.
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People who have never run a business should not generally be involved in politics. Progressives have this weird idea that businesses can and should be forced to run at an operating loss. It is quite literally crazy. The corrolary is people who do not have skin in the game should not be voting. Universal Suffrage (even illegal aliens, children, mentally handicapped, genuine felons, dead people et al) + whack job politicians = Disaster

Posted by: Common Tater at January 11, 2025 10:53 AM (tmGxn)

438 How do you tell an empty reservoir from a hole in the ground?
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 11, 2025 10:50 AM (YeGMU)

E Jean Carroll called and said you can fill up THIS empty reservoir any time you like, big boy. Just, you know, surprise me.

She said it, I didn't.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2025 10:54 AM (lH8E4)

439 Or something you'd learn about in Film Studies.

Posted by: Just the punchline at January 11, 2025 10:54 AM (dg+HA)

440 The white grooming gang being the BBC....

Posted by: steevy at January 11, 2025 10:55 AM (KQk9m)

441 Gavin Newsom Invites Trump to California to View Fire Damage

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And to listen to him play Devil Went Down to Georgia on the fiddle.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 11, 2025 10:55 AM (L/fGl)

442 “ So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.”

1 Corinthians 10:31

Posted by: Marcus T at January 11, 2025 10:56 AM (Jl4aj)

443 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 10:49 AM (ZOv7s)

Thanks. I appreciate that. Being able to laugh is a gift from God. I’m old enough to remember that show’ “Kids say the darn dest things” . And they do, and it sometimes continues when they’re not kids. Our son used to study regularly at the school library. I asked him during one phone call if he had been to the library and he said, “I had no exigency to go to the library today”. Who talks like that ?😉
I remembered that and laughed when we got half way down to his school and he then said w we needed to go back home for something he had left behind.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 11, 2025 10:56 AM (cE41s)

444 They could have packed the reservoir floor with sodium bentonite and relieved themselves of the problems associated with plastic liners.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 11, 2025 10:57 AM (TRSaI)

445 Is there such a thing as a counterfeit anymore ?

Coach bags used to be my go-to gift item for the "hard to buy for." I got a couple for my mother over the years, one for the MIL, a girlfriend or two spread out in there. They were made of leather, in Brooklyn.

While Sara Lee owned them, they started using upholstery fabric more and more, and moved their workshops to lower-labor-cost countries. I stopped buying; the prices did not go down.

The last shoulder bag I got for my wife was Italian military surplus, NIB. The leather and stitching were every bit as nice as the old Coach bags. I had to do some oil work to put a proper top finish on it, but I used to burnish the Coaches too.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 11, 2025 10:57 AM (zdLoL)

446 If it doesn't fit in my pockets, I don't need to take it with me. When I worked away from home, I took water bottle and lunch, but any old tote bag works for that.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 11, 2025 10:52 AM (OX9vb)

I was standing in a line to get into a gunshow, and some guy who apparently had never been to one asked me why all the guys had shoulder bags and I had to tell him if you buy a couple of boxes of ammo here, or some springs and parts there, it is too big to stick in a pocket and too awkward to carry them by hand.
Lots of guys carry canvas bags at gunshows, it leaves your hands free to play with the toys on display.
I like the term "musette bag" but no one knows what that is anymore

Posted by: Kindltot at January 11, 2025 10:57 AM (D7oie)

447 Speaking of which...

Pope Francis has decided to continue his joyride of doom, this time elevating Cardinal McElroy to the Diocese of Washington D.C. He's reliably liberal, will loudly oppose Trump, but he's also compromised regarding pedo priests.

A lot of people are upset, but this is yet another example of people doing God's work. Cardinal McElroy is a terrible choice, with zero moral authority. Any time he opens his mouth, Trump (and his surrogates) will respond "Gosh, Your Excellency, if only you got this worked up over your predecessor's predatory sex practices."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 10:57 AM (ZOv7s)

448 407 BREAKING: California Governor Gavin Newsom demands Biden "deal with misinformation" surrounding the wildfires.
What's that supposed to mean?

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It means that Newsom's political career is burning faster than a celebrity's porte cochere.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 11, 2025 10:57 AM (JkO4W)

449 Read fair amount on firestorm from bombing in WWII, it didn't happen very often even though maybe a thousand boring raids. It takes a very specific occurrence to happen.
Doubt anywhere in LA it could.

Posted by: Skip at January 11, 2025 10:58 AM (fwDg9)

450 Not with the chance so I drink coffee all day long.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at January 11, 2025 10:58 AM (17s+e)

451 Gavin Newsom Invites Trump to California to View Fire Damage

Thereby forcing Trump to give CA vast gobs of OPM.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 11, 2025 10:58 AM (xCA6C)

452 Gavin Newsom Invites Trump to California to View Fire Damage

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And to listen to him play Devil Went Down to Georgia on the fiddle.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 11, 2025 10:55 AM (L/fGl)

Don't go, Don Trump!

And find out which of your underlings set it up.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2025 10:58 AM (lH8E4)

453 I fell into a burning ring of fire

Posted by: JackStraw at January 11, 2025 10:59 AM (LkLld)

454 Outgoing ICE Director Decides Now a Good Time to Admit Biden Should Have Acted Sooner on Immigration

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Also that Hitler fellow bears watching.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 11, 2025 10:59 AM (L/fGl)

455 LAFD is being led by lesbians who were promoted to the top with an alternative career path where they were never put at risk of having to run into a burning building to save the life of a stranger. One has even bragged that large-bodied men should have the sense to not get caught in fires.
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Everybody wants to start out at the top. Everybody wants to wear a Nomex flight suit, Ray Bans, and a big watch. They don’t want to spend the time going to flight school and flying tough missions. Everybody wants to wear scrubs and a stethoscope and drive around in a Lexus, but they don’t want to go to medical school and spend years in Residency and 18 hour shifts.

They never seem to complain about the dearth of jobs in construction or roofing, however.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 11, 2025 11:00 AM (tmGxn)

456 >>>You’re a great American!!

Well, thanks, but my point is that it's a misnomer that "rich people living on the beach if Florida" cry for government money after a hurricane blows through.

There is means-testing built into the FEMA application approval process. Folks who own houses on the beach typically don't qualify for FEMA assistance.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 11, 2025 11:00 AM (Y1sOo)

457 452 Gavin Newsom Invites Trump to California to View Fire Damage

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In other news, 14th century Scots invite English king in to mediate succession crisis.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 11, 2025 11:01 AM (JkO4W)

458 But I am broadening my shopping. Ebay has lots of the same stuff, but cheaper. Big box retailers have upped their game considerably of late. In-store pickup is even faster than shipping, and I do a lot of that now.

For example, my Keurig died on Thursday. [Moment of silence.] Best Buy was actually cheaper than Amazon and had free shipping. Oh, and I got rewards, making it an even better deal.

Same with Petsmart. yes, it is weird having two gay guys holding a gerbil serving as their celebrity endorsers, but I order the stuff, get a discount, and so it's cheap and easy.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 10:31 AM (ZOv7s)

I can actually order many smaller items from Home Depot and get free delivery the same day. Can't beat that.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 11, 2025 11:01 AM (iODuv)

459 Misogynoir is a term referring to the combined force of anti-Black racism and misogyny directed towards black women.[1][2]

The term was coined by black feminist writer Moya Bailey in 2008[3] to address misogyny directed toward black transgender[4] and cisgender women[5] in American visual and popular culture.[6]

The concept of misogynoir is grounded in the theory of intersectionality, which analyzes how various social identities such as race, gender, class, age, ability, and sexual orientation interrelate in systems of oppression.[7]
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Yeee Haw

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 11, 2025 11:01 AM (TRSaI)

460 Fire didn’t destroy people’s homes. It was largely their indifference and parti pris.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 11, 2025 11:02 AM (Jl4aj)

461 the basic assumption of Marxist economics is that all profit is exploitation, any interaction that is not equal is exploitative.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 11, 2025 11:02 AM (D7oie)

462 Mornin', Horde.

Asking for prayers for my friend's 4 yr old granddaughter, C. She had 80% of a tumor around her spine removed last year, and the docs hoped that it wouldn't grow back quickly. This week they found that it is growing back, much faster than predicted. Complicating this is that it's near/around, a nerve, and surgery is very difficult because of that.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 11, 2025 11:02 AM (Wnv9h)

463 BREAKING: California Governor Gavin Newsom demands Biden "deal with misinformation" surrounding the wildfires.
What's that supposed to mean?

Daddy, make them stop talking!

Posted by: Guvenour Pondscum at January 11, 2025 11:03 AM (YtQZg)

464 What was important was the law followed the progression up the chain of command, with each stage turning a blind eye to the circumstances (conflict of interest) and the charges (bogus/made up). And the highest court in the land which had ruled that the preznit can't be charged with anything, then indicated that it would be acceptable to convict him of something. It did nothing but diminish what little credibility the SCOTUS had.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 11, 2025 09:26 AM (3Ope

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We've all been bamboozled into believing that the legal system has anything to do with justice. With 25,000 laws out there, justice is simply the fig leaf covering the naked power exercised by the elite.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 11, 2025 11:03 AM (Vh9CX)

465 Frankly, I'm shocked that execrable Commie Wog Ro Khanna wasn't tapped to take Feinstein's senate seat and somehow bug-eyed self-gasser Schiff-for-Brains got it. White male nd he's also got the Joo-cooties.

The first rule of machine politics: it was Adam’s turn.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 11, 2025 11:03 AM (QZThv)

466 The concept of misogynoir is grounded in the theory of intersectionality, which analyzes how various social identities such as race, gender, class, age, ability, and sexual orientation interrelate in systems of oppression.[7]
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Yeee Haw
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 11, 2025 11:01 AM

There just isn't enough facepalm in the world for this.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 11, 2025 11:04 AM (Wnv9h)

467 415
'Biden Says He At Least Won't Pardon Himself'

Why does this bastard ever bother saying anything? Everyone knows he's lying as soon as he opens his mouth.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 11, 2025 11:04 AM (3wi/L)

468 >>Thereby forcing Trump to give CA vast gobs of OPM.

You mean the guy Trump calls Gavin Newscum? The guy Trump has been telling to do proper forrest management for 6 years?

Trump's pimp hand is a whole lot bigger than it was when some were saying there's no way he can win. Nobody is forcing Trump to do dick and certainly not Governor Hair Gel.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 11, 2025 11:04 AM (LkLld)

469 I'll believe it when I see it.

Adam Carolla Says Los Angeles Fires Will Drive Californians To Abandon Democrats: “They’re Going to Convert”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 11, 2025 11:04 AM (L/fGl)

470 I mentioned it earlier, but Merchan and Biggs didn't hatch the lawfare effort to "get Trump" by themselves.

I want to find out who ordered this "code red."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 11, 2025 11:04 AM (Q4IgG)

471 'Biden Says He At Least Won't Pardon Himself'

Why does this bastard ever bother saying anything? Everyone knows he's lying as soon as he opens his mouth.

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I predict "changed circumstances" sometime in the next nine days.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 11, 2025 11:05 AM (JkO4W)

472 We've all been bamboozled into believing that the legal system has anything to do with justice. With 25,000 laws out there, justice is simply the fig leaf covering the naked power exercised by the elite.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 11, 2025 11:03 AM (Vh9CX)

As I like to say, a system of, by, and for the lawyers, shall not perish from this earth.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2025 11:05 AM (lH8E4)

473 >>Thereby forcing Trump to give CA vast gobs of OPM.

You mean the guy Trump calls Gavin Newscum? The guy Trump has been telling to do proper forrest management for 6 years?

Trump's pimp hand is a whole lot bigger than it was when some were saying there's no way he can win. Nobody is forcing Trump to do dick and certainly not Governor Hair Gel.

Fair. I should have said "attempting to force". I'd still bet the amount of Federal bailout dollars will be enormous.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 11, 2025 11:06 AM (xCA6C)

474 Misogynoir sounds like old-school detective fiction. But when the dame with gams who's trouble barges into Spillane's office, he beats her ass with a coat hanger and rummages through her purse for spare cash. "Daddy says get outta my office, toots." I kind of want to read this now. Seems like something National Lampoon would have done back in the day.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 11, 2025 11:06 AM (YtQZg)

475 Yes. Shopping around pays. Best deal on appliance #1 came from Best Buy and #2 from Home Depot (1/2 of Amazon's price).
Home Depot allows you to place your order in the store and pay cash. That is appealing.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 11, 2025 11:06 AM (TRSaI)

476 Maybe stop building homes in places that tend to get burned down every couple of decades?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Really? Everyone in the west should move into urban,high rise apartments? Build where you see fit but understand that most places come with risks that you can mitigate but not eliminate. I live in a heavily wooded area. Fires are part of life. In the last 5 years I have been put under evacuation notice twice. The second time, Mrs. Sock left with a loaded car while I remained. I don't have fire insurance. I have taken steps to reduce the risk of my house burning should a fire come through. I accept the risk and don't spend time worrying. If disaster were to happen I don't have an expectation that my loss is a responsibility someone else should pay for. The real issue is government incompetence which amplifies the magnitude of the disaster. Life comes with risk.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at January 11, 2025 11:07 AM (rtSlS)

477 Well, thanks, but my point is that it's a misnomer that "rich people living on the beach if Florida" cry for government money after a hurricane blows through.

There is means-testing built into the FEMA application approval process. Folks who own houses on the beach typically don't qualify for FEMA assistance.

Oh, then I guess it's all a misunderstanding.

Here’s a look at the $100 billion in disaster relief in the government spending bill

https://is.gd/esvn6o

Posted by: Archimedes at January 11, 2025 11:07 AM (xCA6C)

478 Alec Baldwin Calls Himself “Scapegoat” - Sues Prosecutors, Investigators From Dismissed “Rust” Manslaughter Case

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"Scapegoat"? I could think of some other words.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 11, 2025 11:07 AM (L/fGl)

479 I'll believe it when I see it.

Adam Carolla Says Los Angeles Fires Will Drive Californians To Abandon Democrats: “They’re Going to Convert”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 11, 2025 11:04 AM (L/fGl)

Everyone thinks Adam Carolla is some sort of based conservative. But he still lives in LA, is still friends with people like Jimmy Kimmler, and likes to do the "a pox on both their houses" schtick, when he can get away with it.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2025 11:08 AM (lH8E4)

480 'Biden Says He At Least Won't Pardon Himself'

Consider the last two SCOTUS decisions.

Biden gets immunity from being charged, no one has charged him.

Trump was charged before the SCOTUS decision, and SCOTUS said that a president can be sentenced on previous charges.

Biden doesn't need to pardon himself because SCOTUS said that he is immune against all of his criminal activity in office - or at least that is it will be perceived and handled by the Babylon DC legal system.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 11, 2025 11:08 AM (rHxhM)

481 but WAIT—it gets weirder: back in the 1890s, Ingersoll Lockwood writes about Baron Trump, a kid from “Castle Trump” going on wild adventures with a guide named Don, and then writes The Last President, where chaos breaks out in America after the election of an outsider.

Somebody’s been time traveling through the Magic Wall.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 11, 2025 11:09 AM (7MHHr)

482 "Scapegoat"? I could think of some other words.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 11, 2025 11:07 AM (L/fGl)
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Assgoat? Scapehole? I'm just spitballin' here.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 11, 2025 11:10 AM (6K6Eu)

483
I've been told you can't vote your way out of communism, but western Europe, North American government, courts and media are all communists screaming that your opposition is disinformation and you need to be jailed or fined for it.

Trump cannot be gentle with their revolution. The illegals everywhere as a buffer against justice being delivered to them.

Posted by: Auspex at January 11, 2025 11:10 AM (j4U/Z)

484 Alec Baldwin Calls Himself “Scapegoat” - Sues Prosecutors, Investigators From Dismissed “Rust” Manslaughter Case

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"Scapegoat"? I could think of some other words.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 11, 2025 11:07 AM (L/fGl)

I'd like to think, wherever he goes, for the rest of his life, when people see him anywhere, they're going to shout "BANG!" And "I didn't know it was loaded!"

Everywhere he goes. All the time.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2025 11:10 AM (lH8E4)

485 470 I mentioned it earlier, but Merchan and Biggs didn't hatch the lawfare effort to "get Trump" by themselves.

I want to find out who ordered this "code red."
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 11, 2025 11:04 AM (Q4IgG)

This. You'd onto pull this level of crazy Ivan unless you got the go ahead from a boss and know you have political cover.

Prediction, Biden to pardon merchan and Bragg to prevent "politically driven" retribution by trump.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 11, 2025 11:10 AM (OA79/)

486 Really? Everyone in the west should move into urban,high rise apartments? Build where you see fit but understand that most places come with risks that you can mitigate but not eliminate. I live in a heavily wooded area. Fires are part of life. In the last 5 years I have been put under evacuation notice twice. The second time, Mrs. Sock left with a loaded car while I remained. I don't have fire insurance. I have taken steps to reduce the risk of my house burning should a fire come through. I accept the risk and don't spend time worrying. If disaster were to happen I don't have an expectation that my loss is a responsibility someone else should pay for.

Then there is no argument.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 11, 2025 11:10 AM (xCA6C)

487 Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 11, 2025 11:02 AM (Wnv9h)

Of course. Dear little girl.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 11, 2025 11:11 AM (uLUnp)

488 Damn disinformation!

Canada's Trudeau Whines He Was Forced to Resign Because of "Disinformation, Right-Wing Attacks"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 11, 2025 11:11 AM (L/fGl)

489 Adam Carolla Says Los Angeles Fires Will Drive Californians To Abandon Democrats: “They’re Going to Convert”

Conversion is impossible unless regenerated by the Holy Spirit.

Being Red is an ideological difference than being Blue. It isn't like one is cheering for the Cowboys, but after being humiliated and discouraged enough switches cheering for Kansas City.

Those who vote Blue do not have the kind of character or ideology that is compatible with Conservatives. That is why Conservatives are frustrated with Red Politicians because Red Politicians are actually Marxists who hate America as much as your typical Blue Politician.

Carolla referred to a "Trumpian" candidate. We all know a "Trumpian" candidate is abhorred by much of the Red Politicians like Romney, McConnell, Cheney, Ryan, et al.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 11, 2025 11:13 AM (rHxhM)

490 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 11, 2025 11:11 AM

Thanks, Fen.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 11, 2025 11:14 AM (Wnv9h)

491 >>>Somebody’s been time traveling through the Magic Wall.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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It's entertaining, to say the least, how all of those truths were cobbled together.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 11, 2025 11:14 AM (TRSaI)

492 462 Mornin', Horde.

Asking for prayers for my friend's 4 yr old granddaughter, C. She had 80% of a tumor around her spine removed last year, and the docs hoped that it wouldn't grow back quickly. This week they found that it is growing back, much faster than predicted. Complicating this is that it's near/around, a nerve, and surgery is very difficult because of that.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 11, 2025 11:02 AM (Wnv9h)

Blessings on little C., RMBS.

Posted by: m at January 11, 2025 11:14 AM (VnUSN)

493 351
'I'm not bitchin, just pointing out the complete lack of credibility that SCOTUS displayed.'

I think is the part that angers me the most. The Supreme Court whether they intend to are endorsing:
-lawfare
-criminalization of political views
-2 tier justice.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 11, 2025 11:14 AM (3wi/L)

494 >'Biden Says He At Least Won't Pardon Himself'

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he explained 'I didn't do anything wrong'

which implies the people he pardons, did

Liz Cheney, the evil Dr Fow Chee, and of course his execrable offspring Hunter

Posted by: Don Black at January 11, 2025 11:14 AM (AOsQT)

495 Being Red is an ideological difference than being Blue. It isn't like one is cheering for the Cowboys, but after being humiliated and discouraged enough switches cheering for Kansas City.
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Frankly, I'll settle for humiliation and discouragement.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 11, 2025 11:14 AM (6K6Eu)

496 Ahh. The ostrich gambit.

Liberal Politicians in Britain Vote Against National Inquiry Into Grooming Gangs

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 11, 2025 11:14 AM (L/fGl)

497 Canada's Trudeau Whines He Was Forced to Resign Because of "Disinformation, Right-Wing Attacks"

What are they attacking, and what exactly is the disinformation?

Or is the definition of "disinformation" mean "facts that hurt me politically"

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 11, 2025 11:15 AM (rHxhM)

498 488 Damn disinformation!

Canada's Trudeau Whines He Was Forced to Resign Because of "Disinformation, Right-Wing Attacks"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 11, 2025 11:11 AM (L/fGl)

LOL

Posted by: m at January 11, 2025 11:15 AM (VnUSN)

499 Canada's Trudeau Whines He Was Forced to Resign Because of "Disinformation, Right-Wing Attacks"

He's been PM for 10 years. It was apparently a very slow-moving offensive.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 11, 2025 11:16 AM (xCA6C)

500 500

Posted by: m at January 11, 2025 11:16 AM (VnUSN)

501 Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 11, 2025 11:06 AM (YtQZg)

Are you a fiction writer? If not. Yiu should consider it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 11, 2025 11:16 AM (uLUnp)

502 Or is the definition of "disinformation" mean "facts that hurt me politically"
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 11, 2025 11:15 AM (rHxhM)
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"It's true, but it clashes with my worldview/grift."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 11, 2025 11:16 AM (6K6Eu)

503 To the head and previous heads of LA DPW “What is it you’d say you do here?”

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at January 11, 2025 11:17 AM (17s+e)

504 Ahh. The ostrich gambit.

Liberal Politicians in Britain Vote Against National Inquiry Into Grooming Gangs
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 11, 2025 11:14 AM (L/fGl)
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I think it was Labour. Do the Liberals even have any seats?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 11:17 AM (ZOv7s)

505 Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 11, 2025 11:02 AM (Wnv9h)
Lord, please illuminate the path this little girl’s doctors must follow as they operate this time. Give them wisdom and stamina, and shower the patient with your loving kindness.
Amen

Posted by: Eromero at January 11, 2025 11:18 AM (jgmnb)

506 Can't any public official give a briefing without a posse of nodding heads standing behind?

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 11, 2025 11:18 AM (gm9Sb)

507 I think it was Labour. Do the Liberals even have any seats?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 11:17 AM (ZOv7s)
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I think the Liberal Party has been dead since the late 40s.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 11, 2025 11:19 AM (6K6Eu)

508 Whole bunch of Juan Smithos.

Ohio Meat Company Fined $4 Million for Scheme to Use Stolen Identities to Hire Illegals

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 11, 2025 11:19 AM (L/fGl)

509 I think is the part that angers me the most. The Supreme Court whether they intend to are endorsing:
-lawfare
-criminalization of political views
-2 tier justice.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 11, 2025 11:14 AM (3wi/L)
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Actually, if they had intervened, that would have created two-tier justice. They are treating this like every other case.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 11:19 AM (ZOv7s)

510 Canada's Trudeau Whines He Was Forced to Resign Because of "Disinformation, Right-Wing Attacks"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,
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Trudeau's resignation with accompaniment. If you haven't seen it
it is a must watch. It's short.

https://tinyurl.com/32rejc92

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 11, 2025 11:19 AM (TRSaI)

511 The absolute #1 first order of business of Kash Patel when he takes over at the FBI is:
Order every electronic device be turned in, no exceptions.
Anyone who fails to turn over their device will be charged with theft of government property; no plea deal offered or accepted.

And then a fine-tooth complete forensic audit of every device to recover all data deleted.
Then do the servers. Find every deleted file, mark every file moved or edited in the last 6 months and who did it.

Send it to AI to filter to find who was working against Trump and what they tried to hide.
They ain't as smart as they think they are and they think you're as stupid as them.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 11, 2025 11:19 AM (5IYed)

512 I think the Liberal Party has been dead since the late 40s.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 11, 2025 11:19 AM (6K6Eu)
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No, they changed the name to Liberal Democrats and had a coalition government with the Tories about a decade back.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 11:20 AM (ZOv7s)

513 The order states:

The application for stay presented to Justice Sotomayor and by her referred to the Court is denied for, inter alia, the following reasons. First, the alleged evidentiary violations at President-Elect Trump’s state-court trial can be addressed in the ordinary course on appeal. Second, the burden that sentencing will impose on the President-Elect’s responsibilities is relatively insubstantial in light of the trial court’s stated intent to impose a sentence of “unconditional discharge” after a brief virtual hearing.

no where in there does it say 'we are totally cool with lawfare'

YMMV

Posted by: Don Black at January 11, 2025 11:20 AM (AOsQT)

514 No, they changed the name to Liberal Democrats and had a coalition government with the Tories about a decade back.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 11:20 AM (ZOv7s)
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Ah. Wolf in different sheep's clothing.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 11, 2025 11:21 AM (6K6Eu)

515 Hello from the smokey San Fernando valley.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with festive little hats and interpretive dance. at January 11, 2025 11:21 AM (obk/l)

516 ---
I think it was Labour. Do the Liberals even have any seats?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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It was Labor and Tories. They all, but a few, voted against it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 11, 2025 11:21 AM (TRSaI)

517 390
'I thought it was funny how Dubya thumped Obama in the gut rather than shaking his hand.'

If W had been thumping Obola politically during his term and after, I wouldn't have so much contempt for him.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 11, 2025 11:22 AM (3wi/L)

518 > The absolute #1 first order of business of Kash Patel when he takes over at the FBI is:

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I believe the FBI will be destroying or losing a whole bunch of stuff between now and the 20th

Posted by: Don Black at January 11, 2025 11:22 AM (AOsQT)

519 Hello from the smokey San Fernando valley.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with festive little hats and interpretive dance. at January 11, 2025 11:21 AM (obk/l)
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You're in Van Nuys, IIRR?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 11, 2025 11:22 AM (6K6Eu)

520 Posted by: Tom Bodette at January 11, 2025 10:05 AM (dg+HA)

Why Tom? Why you leave us hanging like this?

Posted by: Motel 6 at January 11, 2025 11:23 AM (89Sog)

521 Send it to AI to filter to find who was working against Trump and what they tried to hide.
They ain't as smart as they think they are and they think you're as stupid as them.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 11, 2025 11:19 AM (5IYed)
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Dumb people always think you are dumb too.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 11, 2025 11:23 AM (RIvkX)

522 Frankly, I'll settle for humiliation and discouragement.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 11, 2025 11:14 AM (6K6Eu)
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That's a very important point. For most of my life, Christians have tried to downplay judgement, both in terms of hell and expressing moral disapproval.

The result has been disastrous, and any effort to revive the faith must include using clear moral language, including that of condemnation. We ceded that the left, and it was a huge mistake.

Sinful behavior is wrong, and it is right to point it out and condemn it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 11:23 AM (ZOv7s)

523 Fair. I should have said "attempting to force". I'd still bet the amount of Federal bailout dollars will be enormous.

Agreed. Newscum will end up getting tens of billions more of slush fund money from Babylon DC - that is his "punishment" for turning a disaster into an epic disaster.

Government incompetency and deliberate malfeasance pays supremely well. Willy Sutton wasted his time robbing banks, he should have engineered spectacular disasters.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 11, 2025 11:23 AM (rHxhM)

524 >>Oh, then I guess it's all a misunderstanding.

I don't see anything there that counters what I stated.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 11, 2025 11:23 AM (Y1sOo)

525 mentally ill public (e.g. Babs Streisand) that refuse to see the truth and parrot the lies of the other mentally ill folks.

Hey, don't blame us!
- Int'l Parrots Union

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with festive little hats and interpretive dance. at January 11, 2025 11:23 AM (obk/l)

526 Nood

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 11, 2025 11:24 AM (2UnvF)

527 More damn Disinformation!

Ben Domenech@bdomenech
"There is no shortage of water in the Los Angeles area. The reservoirs are at or above historical levels. The water is there." - @CNN fact checker Daniel Dale

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 11, 2025 11:24 AM (L/fGl)

528 To the head and previous heads of LA DPW “What is it you’d say you do here?”
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable

8 of the 10 highest paid LA county employees are DPW employees. $ 4.2 million in salaries in 2023.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at January 11, 2025 11:24 AM (rtSlS)

529 That's a very important point. For most of my life, Christians have tried to downplay judgement, both in terms of hell and expressing moral disapproval.

God uses government to judge people. Disasters are just theaters for government to show their character and to reveal the judgement.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 11, 2025 11:25 AM (rHxhM)

530 When the Babylonian Empire surrendered to Cyrus the Great, Cyrus was "gracious" to their king, did not punish him, and appointed him governor of one of his provinces.

At this point Cyrus enters history as "The King of Kings."

Trudeau should be reminded of this on a daily basis.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 11, 2025 11:25 AM (zdLoL)

531 8 of the 10 highest paid LA county employees are DPW employees. $ 4.2 million in salaries in 2023.

I never want to hear any government official bitch about CEO compensation.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 11, 2025 11:25 AM (rHxhM)

532 Speaking of twisted leftist morality, an Episcopalian priest in Virginia has effectively placed an interdiction on his parish regarding Communion until society meets his social justice demands.

You can't make this up. (Link to my blog on it.)

https://tinyurl.com/493sf3b6

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 11, 2025 11:26 AM (ZOv7s)

533 523 Fair. I should have said "attempting to force". I'd still bet the amount of Federal bailout dollars will be enormous.

Agreed. Newscum will end up getting tens of billions more of slush fund money from Babylon DC - that is his "punishment" for turning a disaster into an epic disaster.
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It will be interesting to watch how the new administration interprets the FedGov's responsibility toward California.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 11, 2025 11:26 AM (TRSaI)

534 Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 11, 2025 11:19 AM (TRSaI)

That is hilarious. Fortunately it’s unlikely that I will ever meet with Musk’s disapproval.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 11, 2025 11:27 AM (SV12s)

535 You're in Van Nuys, IIRR?
Yep. Think we're ok, Tugunga wash to the east a firebreak, railroad tracks and another LA river channel to the south.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with festive little hats and interpretive dance. at January 11, 2025 11:28 AM (00s3K)

536 I believe the FBI will be destroying or losing a whole bunch of stuff between now and the 20th

Seen in a different way, Kash Patel will be blessed by Congress shortly after all of the evidence has been destroyed.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 11, 2025 11:29 AM (rHxhM)

537 I believe the FBI will be destroying or losing a whole bunch of stuff between now and the 20th
Posted by: Don Black at January 11, 2025 11:22 AM (AOsQT)

Nah. We're already done.

Posted by: Fed Gov. at January 11, 2025 11:30 AM (xcIvR)

538 405 Fwy to the west another firebreak.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with festive little hats and interpretive dance. at January 11, 2025 11:30 AM (00s3K)

539 It will be interesting to watch how the new administration interprets the FedGov's responsibility toward California.

Two things we know about Trump:

• he is transactional, animosity will not factor in.
• Trump has never said "No" to spending tax dollars.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 11, 2025 11:30 AM (rHxhM)

540 Prayers for the people in LA. Lord protect them from the fires and from the idiots. Apparently Oregon sent 75 trucks and 300 firefighters. They arrived Wednesday morning but had to stop in Sacramento because California required DOT inspections and they couldn't fit them in until 4:30 pm. Wonder how many rigs failed? As Mrs. Sock said that's not only incredibly stupid but it's insulting as well.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at January 11, 2025 09:34 AM (rtSlS)

All it would take is ONE phone call from Gavin Newscum, telling CALDOT to waive those inspections, but the flaming fag retard can't even do that. Almost as though he doesn't want out of State firefighters to see how badly Cali's firefighting infrastructure has crumbled.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 11, 2025 11:32 AM (8zz6B)

541 Hmm, notice mayor Karen Bass absent from this morning's propaganda news presser.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with festive little hats and interpretive dance. at January 11, 2025 11:33 AM (roSd3)

542 >>Two things we know about Trump:

• he is transactional, animosity will not factor in.
• Trump has never said "No" to spending tax dollars.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure >
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Right. However, the allocation and requirements to qualify will be interesting.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 11, 2025 11:37 AM (TRSaI)

543 >>>he doesn't want out of State firefighters to see how badly Cali's firefighting infrastructure has crumbled.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Last year they donated a lot of their equipment to......Ukraine.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 11, 2025 11:39 AM (TRSaI)

544 Yeah agreed. It’s not if it’s when a house on the beach in Florida will get wiped out. Sorry but don’t come crying to me about expensive insurance if that’s where you choose to live.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 11, 2025 10:36 AM (LlO6+)

Or build a house that is stout enough to not get blown down by hurricane winds. It is possible.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 11, 2025 11:53 AM (8zz6B)

545 Prayers for all.

Posted by: Mick at January 11, 2025 11:56 AM (gYvAB)

546 Re: Sears
The reasons Sears and K-Mart failed are named Eddie Lampert. He bought K-Mart, leveraged the value of its leases to buy Sears then proceeded to do nothing but drain value. Sold the Craftsman and Kenmore brands, killed Land’s End and let it all die.

Might have happened anyway given the struggles of stores other than Wal-Mart and Target to remain relevant but EL had a plan and it wasn’t to revamp the businesses. Last time I went to Sears 10 years ago in Queens, the store was awful..

Posted by: Grapeape at January 11, 2025 12:21 PM (rCSYB)

547 I am proud to announce that I will be awarding the Presidental Medals of Freedom to Mayor Bass of LA and to Gov. Newsome for all their all work in fighting the Global Warming fires in LA County created by Trump's policies.

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