The Morning Report — 2/ 27 /25

Good morning kids. Starting off on a sad note, screen actor extraordinaire Gene Hackman, who brought to life many iconic roles has passed away at the age of 95. This news comes just a few days after the passing at age 88 of equally talented R&B songstress Roberta Flack. Both feature prominently in the landscape of the memories of my youth in the 1970s. RIP and thanks for those great memories.

Now on to the news. As Trump continues to steamroll the Left and leaving them and their epicenter in the Democrat Party completely flummoxed as to respond, their natural instinct, beyond litigation is to lash out employing their typical tactics of subversion and even overt violence or threats thereof.

Last week Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) was interviewed by British journalist Steven Edginton of Britain’s GB News. After the conversation, Edginton mentioned Tucker Carlson, which caused Crenshaw to say the following that was captured on a 'hot mic.'
“We’ve talked a lot on Twitter,” referring to the exchanges he and Carlson have traded online, “If I ever meet him, I’ll f*cking kill him.”
. . . During the interview, he viciously criticized Carlson's stand against providing unlimited and unaccounted aid to Ukraine.

Yes, Dan Crenshaw is not technically a Democrat but his rhetoric, whether that could be construed as a legitimate death threat against TuCa or merely hot-under-the-collar schoolyard machismo blowhardism it demonstrates a mentality whereby when one cannot reasonably articulate a cogent and importantly persuasive argument for one's position, the default is to lash out in frustration. And as for Trump and his views on the Ukraine war, as CBD and I discussed on the latest edition of the podcast (here and in the sidebar), regardless of the fact that Putin's invasion is inexcusable, to not seek an end to this bloody conflict for humanity's sake all by itself but to think that courting a disastrous miscalculation by going to war with Vladimir Putin is what the US must do is insane. Period full stop. And the argument that Putin is going to roll all the way to the English Channel and then cross the Atlantic to invade America is ridiculous. But the salient point is, no argument that goes against the accepted memes, shibboleths and beliefs of the Leftist globalist enterprise shall not be countenanced. And that extends to the mere presence of Donald Trump as President of the USA, regardless of the fact that what he is doing has broad support of long-frustrated GOP voters and even the much vaunted independents as well as some Democrats.

From infantile bluster we go to actual organized criminal behavior that is likely funded by Leftists and leftist aligned malefactors given aid and comfort by Democrats in and out of office:

Anti-ICE protesters have been taking matters into their own hands by disrupting illegal immigration raids while publicly doxing the identities of federal agents. “Immigration rights activists have banded together to conduct patrols throughout Los Angeles communities and, in a few instances, have stopped raids as they were happening,” reported KTLA. One group of 100 volunteers, Community Self-Defense Coalition, interrupted ICE raids in the San Fernando and Alhambra areas. Video footage showed the volunteers driving up to the scene of the raid and saying, “There they are, there’s ICE, ICE spotted in Alhambra.”
The group says it patrols the streets to inform the public about ICE activity in the area.
“We denounce [ICE] and alert the community with megaphones,” volunteer Rob Gochez told KTLA. “We were there until the agents left. They didn’t kidnap anybody today.”
According to Fox News correspondent Bill Melguin, the anti-ICE protesters have taken to the extreme measures of doxing federal agents, putting their lives at risk.

Scratch the surface and somewhere in there has got to be La Raza, Mecha, ties to Soros and someone like tarantula faced Raul Grijalva amongst many others. I surely hope Pam Bondi and Kash Patel have a slew of RICO investigations that target the multi headed Hydra snake heads of this evil Medusa.

And then there's this:

A new letter released by the House Judiciary Committee reveals that under the Biden administration, an IRS contractor leaked the tax information of 405,427 taxpayers to news sources — including that of President Donald Trump. Yet Americans are supposed to be concerned about DOGE?
. . . According to a letter that Department of the Treasury Acting Commissioner Douglas W. O’Donnell sent to House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan on Feb. 14, Charles Littlejohn “inappropriately accessed or leaked” the information of 405,427 taxpayers, 89 percent of whom are “business entities.”
Littlejohn had previously been charged in 2023 for allegedly disclosing tax return information to two news organizations that were not explicitly listed. This taxpayer information was leaked to ProPublica, which used the data “to report its ‘Secret IRS Files’ series,” according to ProPublica.
“The vast dataset contained details on thousands of wealthy Americans, and ProPublica reported dozens of stories based on an analysis of it,” ProPublica said. ProPublica’s Editor-in-Chief Stephen Engelberg denied knowing the identity of the source when charges were made public.

To rejigger (racist?) the inanity of Jimmy Carter, who once declared we have an inordinate fear of communism (and then the Soviets invaded Afghanistan). My fear of Communism is not the kind that was based in Moscow but that took root in DC and became the Democrat/Leftist dominated Deep State.

May Trump and Musk do all that they can to at least put us on an inexorable path to rip it out and destroy it root and branch.

No wonder the current normal seems abnormal to the status quo of the recent past.

Well, the Revolution certainly wasn't televised but will, as Victor Davis Hanson describes as the Counter-Revolution? Certainly not in anything resembling an honest accounting, despite Jeff Bezos' sacking of the WAPo's editorial chief. He is not interested in honest reportage that promotes the free market and freedom of expression. He wants to bowdlerize those high ideals to be used as weapons against Trump and his agenda.

They will fail, miserably. And must, please God.

Stay tuned for Pam Bondi releasing some or the juicier bits of the Epstein files!!!! Oh boy.

Have a great day. And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

According to a letter that Department of the Treasury Acting Commissioner Douglas W. O’Donnell sent to House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan on Feb. 14, Charles Littlejohn “inappropriately accessed or leaked” the information of 405,427 taxpayers, 89 percent of whom are “business entities.”
IRS Contractor Leaked Information Of 405,000 Taxpayers — But We’re Supposed To Be Concerned About DOGE?
Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s first month is a shock treatment to decades of spending, open borders, and bureaucratic bloat—restoring what was lost while critics decry the cure more than the disease.
Who Caused the Counter-Revolution?
'It's pretty sick what the man did,' Bondi said.
Pam Bondi Says Some Epstein Files, Including Flight Logs, Will ‘Hopefully’ Be Released Thursday

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

Robert Spencer: Let the fumigation begin.
Tulsi Gabbard to Fire 100+ NSA Staffers Who Took Part in Hair-Raising Online Sex Chats
'Vast sums of U.S. money have been diverted to fund terrorists in Gaza, Syria, Yemen, and Afghanistan,' says Max Primorac
Ex-USAID Official Says Biden Ditched Vetting Reforms as His Junta Steered Grants to Terror Supporters
Former employees will be “escorted to their workspace” and undergo “x-ray machine screening upon entry” to the Ronald Reagan Building headquarters before gathering their items, according to USAID’s website. Staff were also warned against bringing any “prohibited items” — including, but not limited to, billy clubs, brass knuckles, martial arts weapons, axes or hatchets, BB guns, bows and arrows, dynamite or chlorine for pools and spas — with them during their allotted retrieval window.
USAID Staff Given 15 Minutes To Collect Belongings, Warned Against Bringing Weapons
In October 2024, Sen. Ernst and her staff were finally allowed to access the Ukraine assistance data and found that the agency had funded numerous businesses and start-ups in the country with only the most tenuous connections to actual aid needs related to the ongoing Russian invasion. The inquiry revealed millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars were allocated to various Ukrainian businesses, some of which included unexpected ventures such as a pet tracking app.
USAID Criticized for Spending on Ukrainian Pickle Maker and Pet Accessories.
America’s mail carrier needs a bold new vision to turn things around.
Amid Postal Chaos, Reform Direly Needed
NewsNation host Chris Cuomo confronted Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts on Tuesday over his opposition to the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) ongoing cost-cutting endeavors.
‘You’re Defending The Status Quo’: Chris Cuomo Confronts Dem Rep For Opposing DOGE Efforts To Cut Spending
Trump’s battle with bureaucracy faces judicial roadblocks, but court-packing remains premature—though stacking vacancies with loyal judges may shape the legal landscape for his reforms.
Time to Pack?
"BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
“Immigration rights activists have banded together to conduct patrols throughout Los Angeles communities and, in a few instances, have stopped raids as they were happening,” reported KTLA.
Anti-ICE Protesters Disrupt Raids, Publicly Dox Agents
The illegal alien is believed to be tied to a cartel that traffics fentanyl, meth, heroin, and humans into the United States.
EXCLUSIVE: Illegal Alien Captured At Colony Ridge Believed To Be Tied To Mexican Drug Cartel
Facts are stubborn things.
Biden’s Lies About The Border Are Now Plain For All To See
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller issued a statement on Tuesday confirming that rancher Antonio Céspedes Saldierna, 74, was killed when the truck he was driving struck an improvised explosive device (IED) in Brownsville, Texas. The explosive device, reportedly planted by cartel members, also took the life of Horacio Lopez Pena. Lopez’s wife, Ninfa Griselda Ortega, sustained severe injuries and is hospitalized.In the statement, Miller called for increased vigilance among Texas farmers, ranchers, and agricultural workers, especially those operating near the border or traveling to Mexico. He advised avoiding dirt roads, remaining on main roads, traveling during daylight, and steering clear of known cartel-controlled areas.
Texas Rancher Killed in Border IED Attack by Cartel.
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND BIDEN
Hamas fires rocket towards Israel while the funeral was underway.
Israel Bids Farewell to Murdered Hostages Shiri, Ariel, and Kfir Bibas
Shiri will share a casket with her sons to be close to them.
Yarden Bibas Delivers Heartbreaking Eulogy At Funeral Of His Wife And Sons
In return, Israel released over 600 convicted 'Palestinian' terrorists, who were sent to a variety of different locations.
Phase One Complete: Hamas Returns Bodies of 4 Hostages to Israel
Despite outrage in some quarters, some Gaza civilians have shown support for relocation. For instance, a 22-year-old law student told The Daily Wire, “In light of the suffering by the people of Gaza, the need to travel has become urgent, as it is no longer suitable for living a dignified life as other people live,” adding: “We want to feel safe and secure—to feel stability and live a normal life.”
Trump Proposes Ambitious ‘Trump Gaza’ Development Plan.
Much worse than a “cold peace.”
Egypt’s Arms Buildup and its Bases in the Sinai

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Georgetown group invites a terrorist to speak on campus, marketing him as a political prisoner; the next logical step in the university’s downward spiral.
Georgetown’s Cura Palestina: Caring for the Whole 'Palestine'
Sen. Joni Ernst told The Daily Wire that the campus administrators need to step up, or the Trump administration will.
Barnard Anti-Israel Protesters Take Over Buildings, Disrupt Classes As Bibas Family Laid To Rest
It was one more example of CUNY’s steep decline — from a proud institution of higher learning dedicated to seeking truth, to a cult-like clan intent on antisemitic indoctrination. Given the immense scrutiny the city’s public university has been under for its many recent antisemitic controversies, any sane, decent person must be asking “What the hell is going on at CUNY? Are they crazy?”
Top CUNY honchos OK’d antisemitic Hunter College course — now heads must roll (via KSM's rusty hacksaw- jjs)
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Daniel Greenfield: Will the oppression in Duluth never end?
First Muslim Queer Immigrant Councilwoman Says America Isn’t Free (Pink taqqiya/taco munching? - jjs)
Daniel Greenfield Part Deux: Voters may be ready, but politicians aren’t.
Can Europe Vote its Way Out of Islamization?
The horrifying and barbaric world of sex Jihad. (Coming our way... literally- jjs)
India: Muslim Gang Sexually Exploited Hindu Minors and Forced Them to Convert
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Crenshaw must understand that eliminating individuals will not stop the MAGA movement or the draining of the swamp.
Why Does Dan Crenshaw want to kill Tucker Carlson?
Lloyd Billingsley: The task ahead.
Eradicating Woke Ideology in the Government
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
He prefers you send him soiled panties - jjs
Luigi Mangione Pleads with Groupies to Stop Sending Him Photos in Jail
Once again, we're seeing how "compassion" for criminals, in the end, causes suffering for innocent people.
Criminals Are Taking Control Over Our Prisons And Nothing Is Being Done
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Elite liberal media goobers are kicking and screaming through one of their worst weeks ever. It shouldn’t come as a surprise since beltway journalists somehow manage to discredit and make a mockery of themselves nearly every day of every single week. But these past few days feel a bit different, and maybe that’s because they were severely lacking joy.
The Media Is Having Its Worst Week Ever, And We’re Only One Month Into Trump 2.0
Trump has long criticized the use of unnamed sources, arguing that corporate media shields itself from accountability by relying on unverifiable claims. “They are made up, defamatory fiction, and a big price should be paid for this blatant dishonesty,” he declared.While Trump has previously called for media reforms, his latest remarks suggest he may take direct legal action—or even push for legislative changes. “I’ll do it as a service to our Country. Who knows, maybe we will create some NICE NEW LAW!!!” he wrote, hinting at potential reforms targeting media anonymity.
Trump Hints at NEW LAW to Crack Down on ‘Anonymous Sources.’
Bezos made the announcement to the Post staff on Tuesday. “We’ll cover other topics too of course,” he added, “but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.”
WaPo Editor Quits After Bezos Orders Opinion Page to Defend Free Markets, Personal Liberty
One reporter called it a "massive encroachment."
~~Journalists~~ Propagandists Melt Down Over Bezos’ New Direction For WaPo Opinion Section
“They’ve only had four women of color host their own shows. They’ve now fired them ALL.”
After Joy Reid Firing, Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann Agree That MSNBC is a Hotbed of Racism
Jake Tapper is publishing a book on Joe Biden’s cognitive decline and the scandalous ‘cover-up’ after he participated in said scandal.
Jake Tapper Tries To Make Millions Exposing Biden’s Cognitive Decline After He Spent Years Hiding It
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Rollins stated, “[W]e, at USDA, are, tomorrow, going to be rolling out a plan that addresses the avian flu directly. But I do think it’s really important for everyone to understand that this problem did not just happen overnight, and it will take us a little while to get our arms around it. Vaccinations will continue to be looked at and reviewed. Only a handful of countries around the world actually use vaccinations for their egg-laying hens, for their chickens.”
USDA Sec’y: We’re Starting to Import Eggs to Help Shortage, We’ll Also Lift Regulations, Have a Plan Coming Out

RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
Members voted 52-47 along party lines.
Senate Rejects Dem Bid To Kill Trump’s Day-One Energy Emergency Declaration
The Biden EPA chose the Coalition for Green Capital (CGC) as an awardee of $5 billion in taxpayer funds through the administration’s massive Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) program in April 2024. Reed Hundt, the CGC’s former CEO and chairman, has personally donated nearly $60,000 to Democratic candidates and aligned political organizations going back to 2013, while Richard Kauffman — the group’s CEO who replaced Hundt in January — has personally donated more than $600,000 to help Democrats since 2020, according to FEC data. (RELATED: Biden-Harris Junta Handed Billions To Coalition Partnering With Stacey Abrams’ Org Dedicated To Turning Out Voters)
Turns Out Top Execs Of Org Picked For Billions By Biden EPA Are Big Time Democrat Donors
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE+Fauci-created CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
“While it is crucial that the Department [of] Health and Human Services (HHS) support pandemic preparedness, four years of the Biden junta's failed oversight have made it necessary to review agreements for vaccine production, including Vaxart’s,” Kennedy told the outlet in a statement.
Trump’s HHS Halts Multimillion-Dollar Biden-Era Contract to Create New COVID-19 Vaccine
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
The University of California’s program creates a stifling orthodoxy.
The Fellow-to-Faculty Pipeline Threatens Academic Freedom
More hero than tyrant, given the scope of this job.
Can Trump Do What Reagan Couldn’t, and End the Department of Education Con Job?
Homeschool co-ops are emerging as America’s last bastion of liberty.
The Education Exodus
ABORTION
Let me get this straight. Pre-born babies can already decide whether they want to switch genders, but they’re still not human enough to avoid being murdered.
Lawmaker Thinks Pre-Born Babies Can Decide Their Gender, But Aren't Human Enough to Live
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH AND 2024 SHENANIGANS
Without congressional action, the next leftist leading the executive branch could easily bring back Bidenbucks.
Trump Killed ‘Bidenbucks’ — Congress Needs To Bury It
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
DNC account 'FactPost' deletes false post after Trump Jr. representative denounces '100% fake AI generated audio'
DNC Operation To 'Combat Online Misinformation' Spreads Fabricated Audio of Donald Trump Jr. Calling To Arm Russia
MORE CONFIRMATION HEARING News and Views
‘Let’s go back to Korematsu. … As bad as it was, that court order was followed for years, was it not?’
Political tErrorist-linked Durbin Defends Enforcing SCOTUS Ruling That Upheld Japanese Internment In Attempted ‘Gotcha’ For Trump Nominee
As associate administrator of OIRA, Clark would work under the recently confirmed Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought to ensure federal agencies not only comply with Trump’s executive orders but also prioritize the Republican’s agenda when crafting agency rules.
SCOOP: Trump To Tap Democrat Lawfare Target Jeff Clark As White House Regulation Czar
Just three Cabinet-level picks remain.
Senate Republicans Go ’20-0′ In Confirming Trump Nominees
POLITICS
They’re also relieved no Cabinet Secretary is telling them all about their sexual preferences.
The Trump Cabinet meets; Elon Musk makes sense
Musk showed up at the meeting wearing his notorious “tech support” tee-shirt and dark MAGA hat, telling the group, “I actually just call myself humble ‘tech support’ here. “That is almost a literal description of the work the DOGE team is doing,” Musk added, explaining that they are helping to fix the government’s computer systems, which are outdated.
Trump Asks His Cabinet if Anyone is Unhappy With Elon Musk, They Respond With Applause For Musk
However, 66% of all registered voters think Congressional Democrats should “take more of a wait and see attitude towards his actions,” including 89% of Republican voters – and 70% of Independent/Other voters.
64% of Registered Democrats Want Their Party to ‘Oppose Everything that Trump Is Doing’
“Falling off a cliff.”
Democrat Party Is in the Intensive Care Unit
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
Dealmaker Donald Trump appears to have struck again, with Ukraine agreeing to sign a mineral rights deal without explicit future security guarantees. Both the U.S. and Ukraine say President Zelensky will go to Washington on Friday to seal the deal with President Trump in person.
Ukraine Agrees to Trump’s Rare Earth Minerals Deal, Zelensky to Sign in Washington on Friday
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Iran is increasingly preparing for a potential joint strike by the U.S. and Israel on its nuclear sites.
Iran Dramatically Increases Its Stockpile Of Enriched Uranium As Regime Grows Desperate
“It cannot be ruled out that it was a grey zone intrusion by China.”
Taiwan Detains China-Linked Ship Suspected of Cutting Undersea Cable
"Where is democracy, where are the partners who must defend democracy?"
Romanian police detain leading, conservative candidate for questioning, raid staffers' homes
Vance’s Munich speech warned Europe: uphold democracy or risk losing America’s support in the new Cold War—because a weakened, authoritarian-leaning Europe helps no one but our shared enemies.
V.P. Vance in Munich: ‘Does Europe Have America’s Back?’
AfD, now second-largest German party in the polls after a series of electoral victories in September, is for the first time a serious player in a national election.
What AfD's historic success in the German elections means
The inquiry follows nationwide protests prompted by CDU leader Friedrich Merz’s cooperation with the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) in a failed attempt to curb illegal immigration. The CDU notes that some of the protests appeared to be organized by “state-funded organizations,” amounting to “targeted party-political influence.”
German Right Targets NGOs for Political Bias After Election Win.
'The effort will balance genuine humanitarian relief with the need to use taxpayer dollars wisely to advance American interests at home and abroad,' internal memo says
State Department Completes Foreign Funding Review, Identifying 15,000 Grants Worth $60 Billion for Elimination
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
Content requiring removal also includes that which is counter to merit-based or color-blind policies (e.g., articles that focus on immutable characteristics, such as race, ethnicity, or sex) or promotes cultural awareness months as outlined in Secretary Hegseth’s January 31, 2025, Memorandum, “Identity Months Dead at DoD.”
Exclusive: Pentagon Orders the Removal of DEI from All Official Online Content

DC AIRLINER/COPTER COLLISION, Philly, Toronto Air Crashes AFTERMATH
Time to reconsider the National Transportation Safety Board.
Planes Collide With DEI
The incident comes after several crashes happened last month, including one that involved a commercial passenger jet that collided with a helicopter.
American Airlines Flight Forced To Abort Landing To Avoid Another Plane Collision
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
Today’s surgical residency graduates are increasingly unprepared for professional practice.
I’m a Surgeon, and I’ve Never Been More Alarmed About My Profession
We have a pain treatment that works, but the government wants to make sure no one can have it
There’s Big Money in Withholding Pain Relief
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
The asteroid probe Lucy, on its way to the orbit of Jupiter to study numerous Trojan asteroids, has taken its first picture of the the main asteroid belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, which it will pass within 600 miles on April 20, 2025.
Lucy takes first picture of its next target asteroid
The launch also included NASA Lunar Trailblazer lunar orbiter, designed to map the Moon’s surface for evidence of water, and Astroforge’s first interplanetary probe, dubbed Odin, which will attempt the first close fly-by of an asteroid by a privately built and own space probe.
SpaceX launches Intuitive Machines’ Athena lunar lander
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
The former Sex Pistols and current PiL frontman shocked the world by introducing it to punk rock in the 1970’s. Now Lydon (AKA Johnny Rotten), says Trump is shocking the political world. “I’m sorry folks, but he is the Sex Pistols of politics. I like that he’ll do what he says. He doesn’t make banal promises. It’s not politics as usual. That’s why the BBC hate it. They and those like them are who caused this to happen.”
Lydon: Trump ‘Is The Sex Pistols Of Politics’
We have to transgress against modern morality – because modern morality is Leftist morality.
The 'Dark Right' is rising to lead America into its 'villain arc'
“Elon is the exception, not the new Republican norm.”
The GOP Is Still the Pro-Marriage Party
The survey also highlights that 29 percent of Americans now identify as religiously unaffiliated, a group that includes atheists, agnostics, and those who profess “nothing in particular.” This category had seen rapid growth but appears to have platued in recent years.
American Christian Population Decline Stabilizes.
Christian Toto: 'Daily Show' host's rage misplaced in overdue Age of DOGE
Jon Stewart’s Bloody Hand Says It All
Bye, Bye American DEI - The reckonings have been swift and dizzying.
DEI Was Built on Fear; Now It’s Collapsing Under Reality
Christopher F. Rufo: Conservatives can end the era of unjust left-wing social annihilation.
The Right Is Changing Cancel Culture’s Rules
John Stossel: Capitalism isn't perfect, but if we want a better future, and freedom, capitalism is the only thing that works.
Dumb Things Socialists Promise
HITHER & YON
Santa Fe County police discovered the body of the two-time Oscar winner, 95, and 63-year-old Arakawa — his wife of 34 years — and their dog on Wednesday afternoon.
Legendary actor Gene Hackman, wife Betsy and dog found dead inside New Mexico home: police
The classically trained singer-pianist only belatedly found fame when Clint Eastwood employed her 2-year-old version of “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” in his 1971 directorial debut “Play Misty for Me.”
Roberta Flack, ’70s R&B Vocalist Known for ‘Killing Me Softly,’ Dies at 88

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1 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 27, 2025 07:36 AM (ExV1e)

2 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 27, 2025 07:36 AM (Q4IgG)

3 Tech thread alerted.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 27, 2025 07:36 AM (ExV1e)

4 The doj needs to expend everything they can to track down and arrest those people doxxing federal agents.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 27, 2025 07:36 AM (e5NfL)

5 The State finally caught up to Gene Hackman

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 27, 2025 07:36 AM (Dgfn4)

6 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 27, 2025 07:37 AM (YfQh2)

7 JJ, you missed an article about Israel:

Blinken wanted sanctions on IDF Unit 504, Israel prevented it at last minute.

Former Israeli Ambassador to the US, Michael Herzog, also explained that there were severe tensions between Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu.

JPOST

https://tinyurl.com/4zrmrf4m

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 27, 2025 07:39 AM (YfQh2)

8 Bravo, JJ!

Merry Trumpmas!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 27, 2025 07:40 AM (RP0h0)

9
Deleted my FB account yesterday. My feed had turned into almost nothing but ads, AI-generated nonsense, political hysteria, anti-American ravings and Chinese propaganda. Couldn't stop it, couldn't change it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 27, 2025 07:41 AM (dxSpM)

10 I have a prayer request this am. Young lady who works on my team is 8 mos pregnant and this am has gone to ER she hasn't felt baby move in least day.

Hope it's new mom jitters.

But prayers for C and baby J.

Posted by: blaster at February 27, 2025 07:42 AM (QfvaV)

11 Aside from Uke attacks and NATO treaty breaking, Putin's actions are indeed inexcusable.

Posted by: puhleaze at February 27, 2025 07:42 AM (bbuBP)

12 Are we going to get any updates on the New Jersey drones?

Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at February 27, 2025 07:42 AM (RG1+r)

13 The American revolution was a revolt against the standard norms of the world. The counter-revolution started with the progressive movement at the turn of the 20th century. Trump and our fight is to restore the ideals of the revolution, this is a counter to the left's counter revolution. With all due respect to Mr Victor David Hanson, this is a Restoration.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 27, 2025 07:43 AM (Dv3i1)

14 Hackman was a great one.

RIP sir.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 27, 2025 07:43 AM (VUcYn)

15 *looks around stourly*

Posted by: fd at February 27, 2025 07:44 AM (uH1zk)

16 Good morning dear horde and happy birthday JJ

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 27, 2025 07:44 AM (RIvkX)

17 Wait. There's a podcast?

Posted by: Slow on the Uptake at February 27, 2025 07:44 AM (G5+As)

18 Putin as the new Stalin reconstituting the USSR and rolling tanks to the English Channel was always propagandistic nonsense.

Even if he wanted to, events in Ukraine over 3 years have proved conclusively his country has nowhere near the capabilities to carry it out.

The blame is 50-50…. Putin land grabbing takes half the blame. The other half goes to the west running a color revolution in a country on Putin’s border and insisting they join NATO which was madness. I might give more than half the blame to the west

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 27, 2025 07:44 AM (6RwsA)

19 12 Are we going to get any updates on the New Jersey drones?
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at February 27, 2025 07:42 AM (RG1+r)

Bruce Springsteen's adenoids are still two octaves flat.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 27, 2025 07:45 AM (x0n13)

20 My late-Boomer/early-Gen X MiL thinks that if we take Russia's side and France takes Ukraine's, therefore the Americans and French troops will be fighting each other in Ukraine soon. Pooky is trying to get her to understand that Trump is trying to move this from being a never-ending money pit to an actual ceasefire.

Posted by: pookysgirl is just glad Pooky's not in anymore at February 27, 2025 07:46 AM (Wt5PA)

21 Time to Pack?

Better to treat the utterances of the courts as advisory then to continually boost the number of judges to try and achieve a specific outcome. Let the judges rule as they may, say "I've heard them and I disagree so I shan't comply" and let Congress decide whether they have the balls and the unity to do something about it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 27, 2025 07:46 AM (ExV1e)

22
Are we going to get any updates on the New Jersey drones?
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete

Peasants! This is His Royal Rugness, Phil Murphy The Unaccountable's last full year in office!

You may resume your unseemly rifling through the trash heaps for your sustenance!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 27, 2025 07:46 AM (xG4kz)

23 Trump said he was going to get answers on the drones. So, what's the answer?

Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at February 27, 2025 07:46 AM (RG1+r)

24
Off to rob the condom machine at the transgender elementary school.

And they call ME criminally insane.

Posted by: Auspex at February 27, 2025 07:46 AM (j4U/Z)

25 good morning JJ, Horde

Gene Hackman RIP. There's no school like the old school.

Posted by: callsign claymore at February 27, 2025 07:47 AM (r0nAP)

26 But prayers for C and baby J.

Posted by: blaster at February 27, 2025 07:42 AM (QfvaV)
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This then imma back to sleep.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 27, 2025 07:47 AM (RIvkX)

27 We might need the military to clean out Colony Ridge. Also. Expose all the Texas Republicans that are making money off of the illegal settlement.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 27, 2025 07:47 AM (Dv3i1)

28 10
Prayers up for mother and child!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at February 27, 2025 07:49 AM (hOUT3)

29 18 Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 27, 2025 07:44 AM (6RwsA)

I do agree. Foggy Bottom ousting Yushenko for Yanukovich (or was it vice versa) and then rolling NATO to the East were huge provocations and our fault.

A full on invasion of Ukraine was a huge gamble and maybe there was another way to punish them and really our own Deep State without starting a war.

But what's done is done.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 27, 2025 07:49 AM (x0n13)

30 I just can't get over the depths of scumbaggery which Fake Jake Tapper has sunk, with that terrible book.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 27, 2025 07:50 AM (GbQ8u)

31 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at February 27, 2025 07:50 AM (53oGX)

32 IED's in TX? Yeah, that's an act of war. I don't care if the cartels did it, it still originated out of a foreign country.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 27, 2025 07:50 AM (tT6L1)

33
Off to rob the condom machine at the transgender elementary school.

And they call ME criminally insane.
Posted by: Auspex

A balloon animal maker down on one's luck has got to procure the tools of his trade from somewhere, man!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 27, 2025 07:50 AM (xG4kz)

34 Enough about the GD eggs already. People are so stupid they believed me when I sold them the idea of bacon and eggs as a great way to start the day. I should have sold them fish head soup as a great breakfast. Idiots.

Posted by: Zombie Ed Bernays, Propaganda Expert at February 27, 2025 07:51 AM (NAF5O)

35 I have a prayer request this am. Young lady who works on my team is 8 mos pregnant and this am has gone to ER she hasn't felt baby move in least day.

Hope it's new mom jitters.

But prayers for C and baby J.

Posted by: blaster at February 27, 2025 07:42 AM (QfvaV)

Oof. Hopefully it's just the baby saving up his energy for the big day. 🙏

Posted by: pookysgirl, listening to baby babble at February 27, 2025 07:51 AM (Wt5PA)

36 Hackman AND his 63yo wife were found dead. And their dog. Santa Fe police suspect no foul play. What?

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at February 27, 2025 07:51 AM (wzAuc)

37 Masturbatin. Per Karoline Leavitt, nbc link
https://tinyurl.com/yuvbf5n7

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at February 27, 2025 07:52 AM (2NHgQ)

38 64% of Registered Democrats Want Their Party to ‘Oppose Everything that Trump Is Doing’
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Like pouty teenagers when Dad takes the car keys away. Great look, losers.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 27, 2025 07:52 AM (Dv3i1)

39 Hackman was a great one.

RIP sir.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 27, 2025 07:43
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My favorite Hackman movie: Hoosiers

Posted by: WisRich at February 27, 2025 07:52 AM (Qgr0I)

40
I should have sold them fish head soup as a great breakfast. Idiots.
Posted by: Zombie Ed Bernays, Propaganda Expert at February 27, 2025 07:51 AM (NAF5O)

Don't forget the toast made of sawdust bread.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 27, 2025 07:52 AM (dxSpM)

41 Morning, J.J. Hope you have a grand day and thank you for all your hard work.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 27, 2025 07:53 AM (tT6L1)

42 > We might need the military to clean out Colony Ridge. Also. Expose all the Texas Republicans that are making money off of the illegal settlement.
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The place is so massive you can easily see it on Google Earth.

Outside the Texas town of Plum Grove, about 30 miles north of Houston.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 27, 2025 07:53 AM (Q4IgG)

43
Hackman AND his 63yo wife were found dead. And their dog. Santa Fe police suspect no foul play. What?
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at February 27, 2025 07:51 AM (wzAuc)

Frog One got him at last.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 27, 2025 07:53 AM (dxSpM)

44 [W]e, at USDA, are, tomorrow, going to be rolling out a plan that addresses the avian flu directly. But I do think it’s really important for everyone to understand that this problem did not just happen overnight, and it will take us a little while to get our arms around it. Vaccinations will continue to be looked at and reviewed. Only a handful of countries around the world actually use vaccinations for their egg-laying hens, for their chickens.

Really? What, pray ask, do they do? Do they routinely slaughter millions of egg lying hens? Because, until the waning days of the Reign of Error, I don't recall ever hearing breathless accounts of egg scarcity.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 27, 2025 07:54 AM (ExV1e)

45 Willowed from Tech Thread

168 >>>@161 Saw a mouse run across the living room floor last night. Sigh.....Posted by: pookysgirl is calling an exterminator at February 27, 2025 07:32 AM (Wt5PA)
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Greetings, PG ... This past winter we had improved "repelling" using oil of peppermint drizzled weekly onto wool dryer balls, and improved "catching" using Barlas brand dual-entry traps ... The best trap bait was a single mini marshmallow held in place by a dab of peanut butter.

Posted by: Kathy at February 27, 2025 07:54 AM (qpw89)

46 Correct, brother JJ, Trump understands that Russia is NOT the problem. Ukraine controlled by our Deep State is. See @MikeBenzCyber for a PhD lesson. Heck, our sanctions are actually helping Russia while pushing him closer to the CCP which Nixon worked to, correctly, avoid.

Trump understands the Chinese and Russian People are our allies while working leverage on their governments. Our lobbyists want war as usual, Trump wants a very easy peace.

Posted by: Danimal28 at February 27, 2025 07:54 AM (1E4GV)

47 The Trump administration stated that the drones were a known research project with flight plans filed with the FAA, although they expressed some confusion as to why nobody bothered to tell the public, and, in fact, denied it, fairly early on in the administration.

Posted by: American Hawkman at February 27, 2025 07:54 AM (9VDxG)

48 Are we going to get any updates on the New Jersey drones?
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete
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In a nutshell:

Government testing. Nothing to see, everything's fine. Never speak of this again.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 27, 2025 07:55 AM (Q4IgG)

49
Hackman AND his 63yo wife were found dead. And their dog. Santa Fe police suspect no foul play. What?
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer

That sounds like a signature accomplishment of carbon monoxide.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 27, 2025 07:56 AM (xG4kz)

50 How old was Hackman? Must have been in his nineties, at least.

Posted by: dantesed at February 27, 2025 07:56 AM (Oy/m2)

51 Can Trump Do What Reagan Couldn’t, and End the Department of Education Con Job?

If he does, we probably have covid to thank for it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 27, 2025 07:56 AM (ExV1e)

52 Regarding those NSA employees having sex chats at work…. It’s sick and reveals a complete breakdown of the culture at that agency. Really everyone there needs to be fired and start over. It’s shocking if you sit back and think about it for only a minute….. and who’s hiring all these trannies? It’s bizarre

Oh, and hi to NSA Bob… or is it NSA Roberta?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 27, 2025 07:56 AM (ANuwa)

53

Roberta Flack and Gene Hackman appear prominently in the works of Clint Eastwood.

And he's pushing 95!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 27, 2025 07:56 AM (x0n13)

54 50 How old was Hackman? Must have been in his nineties, at least.
Posted by: dantesed at February 27, 2025 07:56 AM (Oy/m2)

95

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 27, 2025 07:57 AM (x0n13)

55 29 I saw Yanukovich, and thought Yankovic. What have we come to, when we can't even trust Weird Al anymore?

Posted by: callsign claymore at February 27, 2025 07:58 AM (r0nAP)

56 That Gene Hackman story sounds like one of those carbon monoxide episodes

Posted by: Don Black at February 27, 2025 07:58 AM (AOsQT)

57 Senate Republicans Go ’20-0′ In Confirming Trump Nominees

It's sad that this warrants an article.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 27, 2025 07:59 AM (ExV1e)

58 .
Dox AntiFa. 4 Chan?

Posted by: Marooned at February 27, 2025 07:59 AM (kt8QE)

59 When Biden came in the Deep State upped their game to profit from Ukraine.

Now we can trace how little money made it to the battlefield and who got the rest. Spoiler alert: Most of it wound up in DC. There should be hell to pay.

Developing ...

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 27, 2025 07:59 AM (Gqoy+)

60 Posted by: Kathy at February 27, 2025 07:54 AM (qpw89)

Dankeschoen. Our house is 98 years old and about to have its windows replaced, so I'm hoping that helps seal entry points. But with an old cat, middle-aged dog, and a baby about to crawl, this problem needs to get solved ASAP.

Posted by: pookysgirl, listening to baby babble at February 27, 2025 07:59 AM (Wt5PA)

61
[W]e, at USDA, are, tomorrow, going to be rolling out a plan that addresses the avian flu directly. But I do think it’s really important ...

Please tell me this plan does not include that tottering fool, James Taylor, touring chicken farms and crooning "You've Got a Friend" to those poor, poor chickens. Lie if you must.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 27, 2025 08:01 AM (xG4kz)

62 First movie I saw Hackman in was Poseidon Adventure…. As a kid, his was the character that had charisma and attracted me. He was awesome in The Firm with Tom Cruise and Enemy of the State with Will Smith. Ironically I didn’t care for Unforgiven and never understood why it was Eastwood’s most lauded work…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 27, 2025 08:01 AM (ANuwa)

63 Hackman AND his 63yo wife were found dead. And their dog. Santa Fe police suspect no foul play. What?
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at February 27, 2025 07:51 AM (wzAuc)

Happens all the time. I suspect nothing! I see nothing!

Posted by: Police Det. Sergeant Schultz at February 27, 2025 08:01 AM (Aqu9a)

64 morning horde, late to the party, but thanks again for all you do jj

and happy birfday

and i already was in love with pam bondi, but her releasing epstein files RIGHT before the oscars is glorious...

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at February 27, 2025 08:01 AM (v6XNT)

65 Best picture has to be the Poseidon Adventure. Only Hackman could have handled Shelly Winters.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 27, 2025 08:05 AM (pLaQB)

66 “Elon is the exception, not the new Republican norm.”
The GOP Is Still the Pro-Marriage Party

Rich guy bangs gold diggers, film at 11. It's not proper and it shouldn't be the norm but it is what it is and it always has been.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 27, 2025 08:05 AM (ExV1e)

67
Maybe I'll finally get some company in here.

Posted by: Ghislaine The Enabler at February 27, 2025 08:05 AM (DobEs)

68 whether that could be construed as a legitimate death threat against TuCa or merely hot-under-the-collar schoolyard machismo blowhardism it demonstrates a mentality whereby when one cannot reasonably articulate a cogent and importantly persuasive argument for one's position, the default is to lash out in frustration
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I think it's mental unwellness.

People don't like being made to look stupid. Some take it on the chin, others will not tolerate the insult and so they move to a level where they think they can "win".

Because everyone knows if you kill someone for making you look stupid, you come out the real winner.

Posted by: ... at February 27, 2025 08:06 AM (If0wl)

69
Frog One got him at last.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

** Goof clap **

As thoroughly as that car was torn apart to ultimately find the heroin stashed in its rocker panels, how'd they manage to return it, seemingly unscathed, to Frog and company?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 27, 2025 08:06 AM (xG4kz)

70 The doj needs to expend everything they can to track down and arrest those people doxxing federal agents.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 27, 2025 07:36 AM (e5NfL)

Is doxxing a crime?

I agree that what they're doing is wrong, and that it's being done with ill intent, but is it a crime? And should it be?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 27, 2025 08:06 AM (ExV1e)

71
Jeebus ... GOLF clap

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 27, 2025 08:07 AM (xG4kz)

72 I saw Yanukovich, and thought Yankovic. What have we come to, when we can't even trust Weird Al anymore?
Posted by: callsign claymore at February 27, 2025 07:58 AM (r0nAP)

we can always trust weird al.

he's all improving other people's music for our betterment and enjoyment...

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at February 27, 2025 08:08 AM (v6XNT)

73
Jeebus ... GOLF clap
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison!

I read it as "Doof Clap".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 27, 2025 08:08 AM (dxSpM)

74 That Gene Hackman story sounds like one of those carbon monoxide episodes
Posted by: Don Black at February 27, 2025 07:58 AM (AOsQT)

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He had become a hermit, or more of a hermit, in his last years. So, its quite possible. I hope CO was the cause and not a Romeo and Juliet (and Rex) scenario. It was also a wellness visit discovery, so they must have died some time ago.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at February 27, 2025 08:09 AM (wzAuc)

75 I read it as "Doof Clap".
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 27, 2025 08:08 AM (dxSpM)

is there a pill for that?

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at February 27, 2025 08:10 AM (v6XNT)

76
Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2025 08:10 AM (NiXiP)

77 Is doxxing a crime?

I agree that what they're doing is wrong, and that it's being done with ill intent, but is it a crime? And should it be?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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What if the doxxees are doxxed in turn?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 27, 2025 08:11 AM (Dv3i1)

78 RIP to Gene Hackman. Another titan of an actor that is now gone. To compare most of today's Hollywood actors against these kinds of acting giants is a fool's folly. It's hard to see actors like this pass on. They're part of an era I grew up in.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 27, 2025 08:11 AM (qBdHI)

79 Enemy of the State might be the best movie ever made for us whacko conspiracy theorists. Hackman was one of my favorites.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 27, 2025 08:11 AM (LkLld)

80 Hackman report in brief doe non-clickers...

Breaking911 @Breaking911 3h
RIP: Legendary actor Gene Hackman, 95, and wife Betsy Arakawa, 63, found dead with their dog in their Santa Fe home. Sheriff: No foul play suspected. Cause of death unknown. Hackman won Oscars for "The French Connection" and "Unforgiven.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 27, 2025 08:11 AM (/tzYP)

81 Several days, maybe a week or so ago, there was a pretty lengthy discussion here about "doxing." Mostly whether it was acceptable, specifically to dox those people or entities that were petitioning federal judges to file TRO's against Trump, DOGE, his staff, whatever in an attempt to slowdown and/or stop his agenda.

In light of this, from the BREITBART article JJ linked in his essay above; "Anti-ICE protesters have been taking matters into their own hands by disrupting illegal immigration raids while publicly doxing the identities of federal agents."

Trump's team has adopted many of the tactics the left had been using on us. And is using them to pretty good effect. Identifying persons who are actively engaged in sabotaging his agenda need to be identified and dealt with. In that regard, we need to accept the tactic of "doxing" people as a legit method to root them out.

It can be a tool of persuasion... making people think twice about publicly identifying individuals if they face the same risk.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 27, 2025 08:11 AM (Q4IgG)

82 Oddly, with all the Weird Al talk, it's worth remembering that he lost his parents to the same sort of freak carbon gas leak issue that seems to be what killed Gene Hackman and his family yesterday.

Posted by: American Hawkman at February 27, 2025 08:11 AM (9VDxG)

83 Aside from Uke attacks and NATO treaty breaking, Putin's actions are indeed inexcusable.
Posted by: puhleaze at February 27, 2025 07:42 AM (bbuBP)

While I agree with your sentiment, and you left out US IC overthrowing the Uke government which started all this, I don't believe NATO actually broke any treaties. It was, if memory serves, a verbal promise from a couple US Presidents that NATO wouldn't expand to the east. So, faithlessness but not treaty violation.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 27, 2025 08:12 AM (ExV1e)

84 Today is National Chili Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 27, 2025 08:12 AM (NpAcC)

85 Best picture has to be the Poseidon Adventure. Only Hackman could have handled Shelly Winters.

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He was brilliant in that movie. But I can't think of any movie he's been in where his performance fell short.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 27, 2025 08:13 AM (qBdHI)

86 *looks around stourly*
Posted by: fd at February 27, 2025 07:44 AM (uH1zk)

Near as I can tell from my searching, stourly means resembling a mackerel. Not sure why you'd look around in that manner but...

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 27, 2025 08:13 AM (ExV1e)

87 But prayers for C and baby J.

Posted by: blaster at February 27, 2025 07:42 AM (QfvaV)
******
Prayers sent.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 27, 2025 08:13 AM (NpAcC)

88 From age 30 to 70, Hackman looked 50.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at February 27, 2025 08:13 AM (wzAuc)

89 It's also...
Fat Thursday.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 27, 2025 08:14 AM (NpAcC)

90 Hackman was great in Hoosiers

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 27, 2025 08:15 AM (Dv3i1)

91 As I mentioned, when the incident involving Eyepatch McCain first surfaced, one cannot dismiss a threat made by a former Navy SEAL.

I'd be willing to give Crenshaw a bit of a break, had he not doubled down on what he said.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 27, 2025 08:15 AM (tT6L1)

92
"Hoosiers" is his most memorable film for me. His "Who cuts your hair?" rejoinder to the local critics at the barbershop was perfect for that moment.

"The Conversation" and "Enemy of the State" are right up there, too.

This leaves Eastwood, Nicholson and Duvall as the great leading men of that generation, with only Clint still active in the craft.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 27, 2025 08:15 AM (xG4kz)

93 “The vast dataset contained details on thousands of wealthy Americans, and ProPublica reported dozens of stories based on an analysis of it,” ProPublica said. ProPublica’s Editor-in-Chief Stephen Engelberg denied knowing the identity of the source when charges were made public.

———

Maybe ProPublica can get the O’Keefe treatment like he got for the Ashley Biden diary.

Seems only fair.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 27, 2025 08:16 AM (Vh9CX)

94 It's also...
Fat Thursday.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 27, 2025 08:14 AM (NpAcC)

Annual physical today, in an hour. You don't have to insult me before the weigh-in.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 27, 2025 08:16 AM (Aqu9a)

95 Posted by: Lady in Black at February 27, 2025 08:11 AM (qBdHI)

What's become odd for me is that I don't give a shit about anyone famous who is under a certain age.

But that's not cynicism or world weariness on my part. It's because the Left infiltrated everywhere, few are where they are on talent, everyone is interchangeable and everything is dumb.

Look back at even the dullest sitcoms from the 80's. Many of the actors were still from the stage, timing and delivery mattered, you couldn't learn your lines three seconds before shooting (apologies to Alec Baldwin).

Posted by: ... at February 27, 2025 08:16 AM (If0wl)

96 Consider that, since 1980, $3.6 trillion were confiscated from American taxpayers and deployed by the agency, and the outcome is that roughly 30% of American eighth graders can read at grade level. Only 26% of American high school students are proficient at mathematics.

10% of the Debt.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 27, 2025 08:16 AM (gbOdA)

97 Even if he wanted to, events in Ukraine over 3 years have proved conclusively his country has nowhere near the capabilities to carry it out.

What if Russia has captured all the territory it wants? What if Russia could utterly defeat Ukraine but has no interest in doing so? What if western strategists/commentators misunderstand what Russia is doing because the fail to consider Russia's objectives and, therefore, fail to consider the manner in which they might o to achieve those objectives?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 27, 2025 08:16 AM (ExV1e)

98 So... Avian flu, real threat or pretend moneymaker for feds to exploit and break America/Americans?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You'd be prettier if you'd smile more at February 27, 2025 08:17 AM (sG4Li)

99 Then there was Robert Loggia who was kind of a bargain basement Gene Hackman.

Posted by: ... at February 27, 2025 08:17 AM (If0wl)

100 - Actual Science

If dinosaurs died out 65 million years before humans, then how is it that...?

https://tinyurl.com/hahh6mpm

1 hour. And stick with it. There's more, much more than just what the Bible says (though that should be enough) about those terrible lizards.

Posted by: TeeJ at February 27, 2025 08:17 AM (ItCQP)

101 >>While I agree with your sentiment, and you left out US IC overthrowing the Uke government which started all this, I don't believe NATO actually broke any treaties. It was, if memory serves, a verbal promise from a couple US Presidents that NATO wouldn't expand to the east. So, faithlessness but not treaty violation.

Trump has been hinting at it for weeks and flat out said it yesterday during the Q & A part of the Cabinet meeting. What started the invasion was the Biden administration suggesting that they were going to bring Ukraine into NATO.

This is not really news. Putin has been saying for at least the last nearly 2 decades that would cause him to attack. If we had a real media instead of leftist propaganda this would be common knowledge.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 27, 2025 08:17 AM (LkLld)

102
You don't have to insult me before the weigh-in.
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 27, 2025 08:16 AM (Aqu9a)

Park outside the loading dock.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 27, 2025 08:18 AM (dxSpM)

103 Morning again everyone. Thx JJ.
JJ the job posting for the "pro Palestinian" position at Hunter college is nuts. Might as well be an ad for Anti-Semites R Us

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 27, 2025 08:18 AM (EG7Bp)

104
Today is National Chili Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

Well, that explains why the beaver got two carrots in last night's Cafe thread.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 27, 2025 08:18 AM (xG4kz)

105 Fish head soup can be really good. A good sized codfish has some excellent meat between the eyes. Beautiful white meat, better than lobster.

Posted by: Roly-Poly Norseman at February 27, 2025 08:18 AM (G5+As)

106 And the argument that Putin is going to roll all the way to the English Channel and then cross the Atlantic to invade America is ridiculous.
- JJ

I get a chuckle watching the EUies on YouTube pull that argument out.

I’m pretty sure that even if Putin wanted to he couldn’t even invade Moscow at the moment.

This war has shown that the Russian military is FUBAR and are only good at one thing; leveling entire cities with air strikes and artillery.

Putin had to call in North Korea just attempt to repel the Ukes from Kursk, and they still haven’t finished the job.

The only EU nations that would have anything to worry about are the tiny Baltic countries, and it’ll take a decade or more before Russia could possibly make a genuine move.

It’s purely cynical fear-mongering to suggest the Russians are going to invade anywhere in Europe, anytime soon.

The only thing keeping Russia near the top as a world power is their nuclear arsenal.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 27, 2025 08:18 AM (6ydKt)

107 47 The Trump administration stated that the drones were a known research project with flight plans filed with the FAA, although they expressed some confusion as to why nobody bothered to tell the public, and, in fact, denied it, fairly early on in the administration.
Posted by: American Hawkman at February 27, 2025 07:54 AM (9VDxG)

———

Probably because the research was about drones infiltrating military bases.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 27, 2025 08:19 AM (Vh9CX)

108 Trump said he was going to get answers on the drones. So, what's the answer?
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at February 27, 2025 07:46 AM (RG1+r)

They were know to and approved by the FAA. He didn't say whether they were military/IC/private or what but they were US drones. Essentially, it was an op.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 27, 2025 08:19 AM (ExV1e)

109 IED's in TX? Yeah, that's an act of war. I don't care if the cartels did it, it still originated out of a foreign country.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 27, 2025 07:50 AM (tT6L1)

It was in Mexico.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 27, 2025 08:20 AM (ExV1e)

110 Joy Reids Final Episode

youtube parody, language

https://tinyurl.com/v2s7dchv

Posted by: Bruce at February 27, 2025 08:21 AM (lDh9G)

111 Distilling one of President Trump's arguments down, "Why are we, who are the furthest away from Ukraine, sending the most cash?"

President Trump is rightfully calling out the fecklessness of the EU regarding the war in Ukraine.

And, I really doubt EU politicians are not in on the graft flowing through Ukraine.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 27, 2025 08:21 AM (tT6L1)

112 At this point, I assume these lucrative book deals for uninteresting democrats the generate minimum sales were funded by USAIDS…how much does Jake “mirror Fapper” think he’ll get now?

Posted by: Cray Cray at February 27, 2025 08:21 AM (wo0Q4)

113 It was in Mexico.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 27, 2025 08:20 AM (ExV1e)
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Ah, I looked back through what J.J. had up to double check, couldn't find it and went with my comment.

Thanks for the correction.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 27, 2025 08:22 AM (tT6L1)

114 What are the odds that the Epstein F iles when they're released won't be highly blacked out?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at February 27, 2025 08:22 AM (tazkY)

115 Park outside the loading dock.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 27, 2025 08:18 AM (dxSpM)

Good idea! Thanks for the tip.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 27, 2025 08:22 AM (Aqu9a)

116 Annual physical today, in an hour. You don't have to insult me before the weigh-in.
Posted by: Count de Monet

Place your wallet on the table before getting on the scale. I hear yours is REAL thick.

Posted by: You Can't Hide Money at February 27, 2025 08:23 AM (G5+As)

117 Shit. The Russian military had issues a long time before now.

The reality is that they haven't been a serious conventional threat for years. And I'm saying at least twenty if not more.

About the only thing we have to worry about from there are mail order brides.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 27, 2025 08:23 AM (13bqY)

118 Today is National Chili Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

I forgive you for misspelling Chile.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at February 27, 2025 08:23 AM (tazkY)

119 Best picture has to be the Poseidon Adventure. Only Hackman could have handled Shelly Winters.

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He was brilliant in that movie. But I can't think of any movie he's been in where his performance fell short.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 27, 2025 08:13 AM (qBdHI)

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The Conversation, Unforgiven, Hoosiers, Crimson Tide, French Connection, The Firm, I Never Sang for My Father, on and on... he was the most compelling actor even when he wasn't the lead.

He was the master of the menacing chuckle.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at February 27, 2025 08:23 AM (wzAuc)

120 Also, pretty sure Jon Stewart was getting sweet sweet USAIDS dollars…key word “was”.

Posted by: Cray Cray at February 27, 2025 08:24 AM (wo0Q4)

121 Today’s surgical residency graduates are increasingly unprepared for professional practice.
I’m a Surgeon, and I’ve Never Been More Alarmed About My Profession

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This was an unsettling article, but certainly not a surprise. Remedial training for graduate surgeons is needed now? And, of course, the author highlights the terrible circumstances now in coddling DEI surgeons and those too afraid to do anything about it lest they get called racist. We're veering into scary waters in the medical field. These people aren't selling insurance. They're opening up human bodies without the skills or competence of their predecessors. That should scare the ever loving crap out of everyone.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 27, 2025 08:24 AM (qBdHI)

122 105 Fish head soup can be really good. A good sized codfish has some excellent meat between the eyes. Beautiful white meat, better than lobster.
Posted by: Roly-Poly Norseman at February 27, 2025 08:18 AM (G5+As)

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That may be true, but as a good ol’ American 20th/21st Century boy, I’ve been trained from birth not to eat anything with the eyes still in it.

Almost makes me gag just thinking about it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 27, 2025 08:25 AM (6ydKt)

123 > Trump said he was going to get answers on the drones. So, what's the answer?
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They were doing FAA stuff, they weren't enemy drones and shut up about it.

Which tells you the FAA was up to no good.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 27, 2025 08:25 AM (Q4IgG)

124 ‘You’re Defending The Status Quo’: Chris Cuomo Confronts Dem Rep For Opposing DOGE Efforts To Cut Spending
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And if the family hadn't fallen on hard times, Chris would be doing the same.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 27, 2025 08:25 AM (1bNHn)

125
What started the invasion was the Biden administration suggesting that they were going to bring Ukraine into NATO.

Why J'Blowme hasn't been baked over the coals for this January 2022 idiocy enrages me:

President Joe Biden’s prediction that Russia will invade Ukraine and his suggestion that the West’s response could be more muted for a “minor” incursion drew swift criticism ...with some accusing him of giving Russia the green light to attack.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 27, 2025 08:25 AM (xG4kz)

126 Annual physical today, in an hour. You don't have to insult me before the weigh-in.
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 27, 2025 08:16 AM (Aqu9a)
******
Don't eat anything before they weigh you. You can indulge afterwards.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 27, 2025 08:26 AM (NpAcC)

127 The French Connection...home of one of the top ten car chases of all time.

RIP man.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 27, 2025 08:26 AM (13bqY)

128 Actual Science

If dinosaurs died out 65 million years before humans, then how is it that...?

https://tinyurl.com/hahh6mpm

1 hour. And stick with it. There's more, much more than just what the Bible says (though that should be enough) about those terrible lizards.
Posted by: TeeJ

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Watch/listen to this if you haven't. It's a banned TED talk where a highly credentialed and accomplished scientist discusses "the science delusion", essentially that they, as scientists, understand much of anything and are required to repeat mantras and accepted dogma because thinking about things using actual science has the potential to collapse the established Official Science position and it's way, way too dangerous to allow that kind of examination and thought.

I don't get the feeling he's religious, but he does a great job of explaining why a valid hypothesis like "it appears quite clear that God created all of this" can be such a threat.

https://tinyurl.com/3x5n66av

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You'd be prettier if you'd smile more at February 27, 2025 08:26 AM (sG4Li)

129 As thoroughly as that car was torn apart to ultimately find the heroin stashed in its rocker panels, how'd they manage to return it, seemingly unscathed, to Frog and company?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 27, 2025 08:06 AM (xG4kz)

See Police Squad: "Testimony of Evil (Dead Men Don't Laugh)" for your answer.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 27, 2025 08:26 AM (0eaVi)

130 What if the doxxees are doxxed in turn?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 27, 2025 08:11 AM (Dv3i1)

If doxxing is not a crime then doxxing is not a crime. If they want to play stupid games then who am I to withhold their stupid prizes.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 27, 2025 08:27 AM (ExV1e)

131 I spent some time watching some pro Uke You tube videos.
They were recent and showed Uke drones destroying Russian Tanks and Apc's with ease. There are several which show drones killing individual troops.
Even though the Uke's are loosing, they seemed to be inflicting terrible casualties on the Russians.

Posted by: JACK at February 27, 2025 08:27 AM (W2EWw)

132 Doxxing, by the left, is always done with malicious intent. However, they'll tell you, "Hey, you deserved to know who it was, not our fault someone took the information and tried to kill you."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 27, 2025 08:29 AM (tT6L1)

133 90 Hackman was great in Hoosiers
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 27, 2025 08:15 AM (Dv3i1)

“Coach stays I play, he goes, I go” - Jimmy Chitwood

Best movie he ever made.

Posted by: TxAnn at February 27, 2025 08:29 AM (2dBO4)

134
I forgive you for misspelling Chile.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions

You ought to have socked that as "Augusto Pinochet"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 27, 2025 08:29 AM (xG4kz)

135 Looked up The Conversation which is a great movie. In the last two years Cindy Williams, Elizabeth McCrae, Frederick Forrest and now Hackman have died. Only Harrison Ford and Robert Duvall are alive.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 27, 2025 08:29 AM (EG7Bp)

136 Egyptian Judge Orders Trump to Unfreeze Aid to Egypt

.. this is rich

Posted by: SMOD at February 27, 2025 08:30 AM (RHGPo)

137 “We are currently undergoing maintenance on some services, which may temporarily affect access to subscription accounts and the E-edition. We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your patience as we work to resolve the issues.”

Ever since the USAID funding got cut, the very next day our local rag (and every other Lee Enterprise newspaper) has had this blurb at the top of the page. Sure is taking a long time to fix

Posted by: Common Tater at February 27, 2025 08:30 AM (+E7BZ)

138 ... RIP: Legendary actor Gene Hackman, 95, and wife Betsy Arakawa, 63,...

Heard that carbon monoxide is a common way for older Japanese off themselves. Not that it has anything to do with anything...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 27, 2025 08:30 AM (Dgfn4)

139 So... Avian flu, real threat or pretend moneymaker for feds to exploit and break America/Americans?
Posted by: Boron Cobbie

Pretend. Otherwise, there should be dead wild birds everywhere. Because those, or USDA inspectors, are the ones spreading it. Because the egg layers aren't traveling between farms.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2025 08:30 AM (NiXiP)

140 Worth a Read everyday...It's your $$$

Elon's Web Page: https://doge.gov

Posted by: PETE at February 27, 2025 08:30 AM (0Ctrb)

141 Republican Rep. Joe Wilson announces plan to propose $250 bill featuring Trump

Posted by: SMOD at February 27, 2025 08:31 AM (RHGPo)

142 There's also SWATing to be aware of....

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 27, 2025 08:31 AM (13bqY)

143 Posted on Pixy thread that Hackman as the blind hermit in Young Frankenstein is one of the funniest scenes in movie history.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 27, 2025 08:31 AM (EG7Bp)

144 That may be true, but as a good ol’ American 20th/21st Century boy, I’ve been trained from birth not to eat anything with the eyes still in it.

Almost makes me gag just thinking about it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

You've got to be taught before it's too late,
Before you are six, or seven, or eight,
To hate all the eyeballs your relatives hate,
You've got to be carefully taught.

Posted by: Roly-Poly Norseman. at February 27, 2025 08:31 AM (G5+As)

145 Membership in Nato requires unanimous consent. I doubt Viktor Orban will sell out. Do you??

And Russian trolls tell me the hypocritical Poles want to conquer a section of Ukraine for themselves so I doubt even the new President will sign on to it either.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 27, 2025 08:31 AM (/tzYP)

146 . . . During the interview, he viciously criticized Carlson's stand against providing unlimited and unaccounted aid to Ukraine.

Isn't it amazing how wanting to lose in Vietnam, Iraq and 'Stan were all "patriotic dissent" but disengaging from Ukraine...where we aren't formally at war and American soldiers aren't formally fighting is apparently high treason?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2025 08:31 AM (t0Rmr)

147 There's also SWATing to be aware of....
Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 27, 2025 08:31 AM (13bqY)
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Which is illegal.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 27, 2025 08:32 AM (tT6L1)

148 83 Aside from Uke attacks and NATO treaty breaking, Putin's actions are indeed inexcusable.
Posted by: puhleaze at February 27, 2025 07:42 AM (bbuBP)

While I agree with your sentiment, and you left out US IC overthrowing the Uke government which started all this, I don't believe NATO actually broke any treaties. It was, if memory serves, a verbal promise from a couple US Presidents that NATO wouldn't expand to the east. So, faithlessness but not treaty violation.
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Well said. I would add that the grift and NATO rice bowls are a key ingredients as well.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 27, 2025 08:32 AM (pLaQB)

149 38 Attorneys General Urge FDA To Offer Protection From Fake Weight Loss Drugs

The counterfeits pose a risk of ‘serious side effects’ to users, potentially leading to hospitalization, the attorneys general warned.

.. where there is money, there will be fraud

Posted by: SMOD at February 27, 2025 08:32 AM (RHGPo)

150 141 Republican Rep. Joe Wilson announces plan to propose $250 bill featuring Trump
Posted by: SMOD at February 27, 2025 08:31 AM (RHGPo)

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Somebody liked my idea. But not Trump, do three series one each of McKinley, Coolidge and Reagan.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 27, 2025 08:33 AM (Vh9CX)

151 “The vast dataset contained details on thousands of wealthy Americans, and ProPublica reported dozens of stories based on an analysis of it,” ProPublica said. ProPublica’s Editor-in-Chief Stephen Engelberg denied knowing the identity of the source when charges were made public.

So the woman that gave Ashley Biden's diary to the press got a prison sentence and those media sources were raided and threatened with prison as well...but publishing official private government information on citizens the government doesn't like is ok?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2025 08:33 AM (t0Rmr)

152 149 38 Attorneys General Urge FDA To Offer Protection From Fake Weight Loss Drugs

The counterfeits pose a risk of ‘serious side effects’ to users, potentially leading to hospitalization, the attorneys general warned.

.. where there is money, there will be fraud
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Ooo, ooo, ooo Ozempic....

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 27, 2025 08:34 AM (pLaQB)

153 So...I see 'tarantula faced Raul Grijalva' and I can't remember what he looks like, Google it and...HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, spit-take

Posted by: ragnarokpaperscissors at February 27, 2025 08:34 AM (sBGiW)

154 Only One Pope Lived Longer Than Francis

Leo XIII holds the record as the oldest reigning Pope, reaching the age of 93

Posted by: SMOD at February 27, 2025 08:34 AM (RHGPo)

155 >>Why J'Blowme hasn't been baked over the coals for this January 2022 idiocy enrages me:

I think the answer is what we are seeing with the exposing of USAID as a CIA cutout that has been not only funding NGOs such as the Atlantic Council which has been longtime partner of the Ukraine gov't and the home of numerous retired CIA and State drones but also the media to present a combined message about what they are doing around the world.

One question that never seems to get asked is why would we want Ukraine and Georgia in NATO? What's in it for us? Why would we give Article 5 protection to countries know primarily for corruption and instability?

Here's a clue from the Atlantic Council themselves from back in 2021.

https://tinyurl.com/yrpfzw5h

Posted by: JackStraw at February 27, 2025 08:34 AM (LkLld)

156 Doxxing, by the left, is always done with malicious intent. However, they'll tell you, "Hey, you deserved to know who it was, not our fault someone took the information and tried to kill you."
Posted by: blake

That when you doxx them, their children's names, where they go to school, siblings, their children, where they go to school, what bus they ride, etc.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2025 08:34 AM (NiXiP)

157 Egyptian Judge Orders Trump to Unfreeze Aid to Egypt

.. this is rich

Also Israel has to give us back our Jewish slaves

Posted by: Egyptian Judge/Pharoah at February 27, 2025 08:35 AM (t0Rmr)

158 It's impossible that Littlejohn leaked those IRS returns.
Absolutely impossible.
The left swears on everything they hold holy that their only complaint about the DOGE kids is "we don't know if they have been properly trained on protecting sensitive information."
This training is so extensive--and so perfect in protecting against leaks--that even federal judges have agreed to stop DOGE until they do.

Charles Littlejohn took, and passed, all the necessary training.
So there is no way, no way at all he leaked those tax returns.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 27, 2025 08:35 AM (iQHOh)

159 The AP posted a story about transgenders in Pakistan learning to cook. Don't know if USAID was involved.
Waiting for Islamic fundamentalists to attack the school. AP never stops or shows common sense

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 27, 2025 08:35 AM (EG7Bp)

160 The Process Of Rescinding The Endangerment Finding Has Begun

The so-called Endangerment Finding (EF) was an EPA regulatory action early in the Obama Administration (December 2009) that now provides the foundation for all government efforts to restrict and suppress the use of hydrocarbons in our economy. In one of his first day Executive Orders (“Unleashing American Energy”

, President Trump directed the incoming EPA Administrator to submit, within 30 days, “recommendations to the Director of OMB on the legality and continuing applicability of the Administrator’s findings.”

Posted by: SMOD at February 27, 2025 08:35 AM (RHGPo)

161 I spoke with a few PMC’s about the doxing of Datarepublican. They have volunteered to protect her for free. It’s going to be a FAFO moment for anyone who even entertains the idea of bringing her harm.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 27, 2025 08:35 AM (JXZdT)

162
Egyptian Judge Orders Trump to Unfreeze Aid to Egypt

.. this is rich
Posted by: SMOD

The papyrus scroll on which the order was written should arrive at the WH any day now.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 27, 2025 08:35 AM (xG4kz)

163 I’m starting to think the entire goal of DEI is to make us all equally incompetent.

It’s like somebody watched Idiocracy and decided “Yeah, that looks fun, let’s do that!”

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 27, 2025 08:35 AM (6ydKt)

164 I always hated traveling to the far east.

Most of their local food looks like a combination of a dare and frat hazing.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 27, 2025 08:36 AM (13bqY)

165 Mornin’, All. Happy Thursday.

Posted by: Bulg at February 27, 2025 08:36 AM (77rzZ)

166 >1 hour. And stick with it.
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if you could just give me the bullet points, that would be great

Posted by: Don Black at February 27, 2025 08:37 AM (AOsQT)

167 That when you doxx them, their children's names, where they go to school, siblings, their children, where they go to school, what bus they ride, etc.
Posted by: rickb223

Hey; they set the rules. They'll complain that we do it better than them.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 27, 2025 08:37 AM (svLOV)

168 . During the interview, he viciously criticized Carlson's stand against providing unlimited and unaccounted aid to Ukraine.

Crenshaw and people of that mentality have learned nothing from our experience with Vietnam, and our wars in the mideast that had no end in sight. When it comes to wars in foreign lands, the American people want limits.

Posted by: nerdygirl at February 27, 2025 08:37 AM (0Htd1)

169 After Joy Reid Firing, Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann Agree That MSNBC is a Hotbed of Racism
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How long before we start to hear that MSNBC is "far right"?

Posted by: Eeyore at February 27, 2025 08:37 AM (1bNHn)

170
So the woman that gave Ashley Biden's diary to the press got a prison sentence and those media sources were raided and threatened with prison as well...but publishing official private government information on citizens the government doesn't like is ok?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2025 08:33 AM (t0Rmr)

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Yeah, this is the first Ive heard of this ProPublica series. Seems like a pretty big scandal to me.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 27, 2025 08:37 AM (Vh9CX)

171 So...I see 'tarantula faced Raul Grijalva' and I can't remember what he looks like, Google it and...HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, spit-take
Posted by: ragnarokpaperscissors

New Mexico congressman Gabe Vasquez is striving to take his place.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at February 27, 2025 08:38 AM (tazkY)

172 Did the Egyptian judge get his law degree in Hawaii?

Posted by: dantesed at February 27, 2025 08:39 AM (Oy/m2)

173
It’s purely cynical fear-mongering to suggest the Russians are going to invade anywhere in Europe, anytime soon.

Let me add a more obvious proof that this is merely fear mongering...

Remember how Trump was trying to get our "allies" in NATO to meet their military spending obligations and when Biden came in he stopped pressuring them and they went back to spending a mere pittance? That hasn't changed since the start of the Uke war.

If Germany or France are afraid of Russia attacking them they would be dramatically expanding their military budgets - Europe's GDP is more than large enough to put together a larger military then Russia. And yet...nothing.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2025 08:39 AM (t0Rmr)

174 My wife once went to dinner with her college friend/roommate. The roommate ordered trout. It came to the table whole. The roommate told the waitress, "No, no, please take it back and have the chef remove the head". Some folks just don't like their food staring back at them.

Posted by: Eat Them Up! Yum! at February 27, 2025 08:39 AM (G5+As)

175 How do the anti-ICE people get the information on the agents anyway?

Posted by: Bulg at February 27, 2025 08:39 AM (77rzZ)

176 DNC Operation To 'Combat Online Misinformation' Spreads Fabricated Audio of Donald Trump Jr. Calling To Arm Russia

As we know, "misinformation" is defined by the blob as "any fact that's bad for the globalist/neo-feudalist left".

Posted by: Ian S. at February 27, 2025 08:39 AM (C/4uM)

177
The counterfeits pose a risk of ‘serious side effects’ to users, potentially leading to hospitalization, the attorneys general warned.

Now do the Coof mRNA "vaccines", cowards.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 27, 2025 08:39 AM (xG4kz)

178 How do the anti-ICE people get the information on the agents anyway?

Spies in the bureaucracy

Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2025 08:40 AM (t0Rmr)

179 Hard to imagine the state of civic troglodytism and moral depravity required to make a death threat against Elon Musk.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 27, 2025 08:42 AM (ZlOcj)

180 This war has shown that the Russian military is FUBAR and are only good at one thing; leveling entire cities with air strikes and artillery.

Did you know that we sent a bunch of modern western arms, including Abrams tanks, to Ukraine and the Russians destroyed them?

I saw someone, a couple days ago, talking about Poland and South Korean tanks. What if the Russians could destroy all of those within a week? What European force could repel Russia if Russia were prepared to level western European cities?

Russia hasn't invaded the west because they don't want to. It's not in their interest to do so. Laughing at their "inability" to conquer and absorb a population which dislikes them seems a bit like whistling past the graveyard.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 27, 2025 08:42 AM (ExV1e)

181 I see the winning party in Germany refuses to cooperate with AfD, the second largest party. They will instead partner with the losing party. Their first order of business was to increase mohammedan immigration, which they specifically ran against. The two parties will exchange committee heads with each election, and do everything in their power to prevent the will of the people. Germany is finished.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 27, 2025 08:42 AM (lOjKE)

182 I’m starting to think the entire goal of DEI is to make us all equally incompetent.

The corporate left's goal has always been to make people into bland interchangeable widgets for hiring/work purposes. Feminism, trannyism, and DEI are all increasingly strong versions of that.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 27, 2025 08:42 AM (C/4uM)

183 Did Kash ever say anything about the DNC “bomber” and if he is going to look into that BS investigation.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 27, 2025 08:42 AM (Vh9CX)

184 *Some folks just don't like their food staring back at them.*

It can be a real problem.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at February 27, 2025 08:43 AM (DobEs)

185
Most of their local food looks like a combination of a dare and frat hazing.
Posted by: WitchDoktor

Whachoo goin' on about, Boolis?

Posted by: Bat Burger, Rare, with a Side Order of Pangolin Fries at February 27, 2025 08:44 AM (xG4kz)

186 Isn't it amazing how wanting to lose in Vietnam, Iraq and 'Stan were all "patriotic dissent" ?
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I was almost able to get my hippie uncle to stroke out by repeating all the anti-war slogans back at him. “What if they gave a war, and nobody came?” Etc. Never seen anything like it.

One of my more psychotic lefty friends, whom I’ve long used as a kind of barometer for the latest delusions, claimed “we owe it to the guys who fought and died in Viet Nam” to support the Ukraine. Square that circle! Leftist boomers believe “Ending the War” in Viet Nam amongst their greatest accomplishments. Even the most even handed analysis might suggest that following conflicts - Iraq, Afghanistan- one might have some reservations about yet another foreign entanglement.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 27, 2025 08:44 AM (+E7BZ)

187
... yummy!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 27, 2025 08:45 AM (xG4kz)

188 Leftist boomers believe “Ending the War” in Viet Nam amongst their greatest accomplishments.

Which directly led to millions of deaths AFTER the war at the hands of communists in Vietnam and Cambodia

Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2025 08:45 AM (t0Rmr)

189 Good morning JJ
Today's photoshop made me smile
Killdoger ftw

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 27, 2025 08:46 AM (GDrd7)

190 Even the most even handed analysis might suggest that following conflicts - Iraq, Afghanistan- one might have some reservations about yet another foreign entanglement.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 27, 2025 08:44 AM (+E7BZ)

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The left reacts to intellectual consistency like a vampire reacts to holy water.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 27, 2025 08:46 AM (tT6L1)

191 The article about pain meds tells the honest truth. The Federal government should not control access, they are WAY out of control. They want you to die miserable and hopeless. Fuck them and the gay donkey they rode in on.

Posted by: Opiates Work at February 27, 2025 08:46 AM (G5+As)

192 > That when you doxx them, their children's names, where they go to school, siblings, their children, where they go to school, what bus they ride, etc.
Posted by: rickb223

Hey; they set the rules. They'll complain that we do it better than them.
Posted by: NR Pax
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I doubt there's been but a couple of leftists who've been killed after being doxed. Probably by their own side.

It's a tool to use that may or may not deter people from doing stupid stuff that might endanger others. We need to embrace it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 27, 2025 08:47 AM (Q4IgG)

193 Looked up The Conversation which is a great movie. In the last two years Cindy Williams, Elizabeth McCrae, Frederick Forrest and now Hackman have died. Only Harrison Ford and Robert Duvall are alive.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 27, 2025 08:29 AM (EG7Bp)

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Terri Garr was in that, too.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at February 27, 2025 08:47 AM (wzAuc)

194 I know we have a lot of discussion about DEI here/ which I do not support- and unqualified women taking on work roles that men had before-but this woman- NY Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch- sounds pretty sensible. She so called "justice reforms" have made the city less safe and she wants to bring back the 1990's Bill Bratton ) Police commissioner) that cut crime dramatically. From
the "NY Post":

https://tinyurl.com/bdz3k62d

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 27, 2025 08:47 AM (gv8PV)

195 Reversing EPA finding that CO2 is a pollutant, which is prima facie ignorant, would be a victory ro savor.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 27, 2025 08:47 AM (vY6zr)

196 - @146. Thanks, Boron Cobbie

Here's another I've posted in the past. Sadly, it also won't be watched by someone who you'd think would love to see evidence that Genesis 1, which is written in a historical as opposed to a poetic narrative, is on the money.

https://tinyurl.com/5n94a6ms

Posted by: TeeJ at February 27, 2025 08:47 AM (ItCQP)

197 Bringing this over from the Tech Thread.

60 Hey guys, Ciampino's daughter here.
We just had to call an ambulance for Dad as he couldn't walk or even stand up. He's very weak. They just left with him a few minutes ago. Please keep him in your prayers.
Posted by: Joyenz at February 26, 2025 10:16 PM
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My sister just left the hospital. She said Ciampino (Dad) is more responsive and is being admitted. The nurse brought in three bags of fluids. That's all we will know for now. Thank you for all the prayers. I had her let him know all of you were praying for him.
Posted by: Joyenz at February 26, 2025 11:57

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 27, 2025 04:40 AM

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 27, 2025 08:48 AM (ViCCR)

198 Happy almost-Friday!

The Left is going nuts. A Loveland, CO Tesla dealership has had its cars vandalized, but now this: a 40-ish year old woman planted IEDs in cars on the lot. Not firecrackers, but legit explosives.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 27, 2025 08:49 AM (Cki93)

199 ...screen actor extraordinaire Gene Hackman, who brought to life many iconic roles has passed away at the age of 95. This news comes just a few days after the passing at age 88 of equally talented R&B songstress Roberta Flack.

So that makes the three. Roberta Flack, 39-year old actress Michelle Trachtenberg and Gene Hackman.

Trachtenberg's death yesterday was presumably due to complications from a recent liver transplant.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 27, 2025 08:49 AM (P5BPp)

200 My wife once went to dinner with her college friend/roommate. The roommate ordered trout. It came to the table whole. The roommate told the waitress, "No, no, please take it back and have the chef remove the head". Some folks just don't like their food staring back at them.
Posted by: Eat Them Up! Yum! at February 27, 2025 08:39 AM (G5+As)

There’s a funny scene in an old episode of Gunsmoke. Doc and Festus are in the diner… Doc’s fish comes to the table. Festus goes on and on about how you can’t eat fish “without the head on it, otherwise how do ya know it weren’t a mermaid?” Doc poo-poos that as utter nonsense, but Festus has gotten in his head, he can’t eat the fish. Doc leaves… Festus pitches in to eat the fish… he tricked Doc. It’s funny

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 27, 2025 08:49 AM (6RwsA)

201
I was almost able to get my hippie uncle to stroke out by repeating all the anti-war slogans back at him. “What if they gave a war, and nobody came?” Etc. Never seen anything like it.

"Are we back to playing geopolitical dominoes, Uncle?"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 27, 2025 08:50 AM (xG4kz)

202 RIP Gene Hackman

He's definitely on the Mt Rushmore of acting.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 27, 2025 08:50 AM (mzM2O)

203 @193SloPitch, thx forgot to put her in. Great movie. Coppola had that and Godfather II come out in 1974. Not a bad years work

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 27, 2025 08:50 AM (EG7Bp)

204 Don’t let the situation in Ukraine cloud your judgement on what Russia’s capabilities and intentions are. Their strategy has been to undertake operations against countries in their orbit. They use a combination of IW, government subversion and military incursions to achieve it. You can argue why they do it, and certainly one reason is to ensure the safety of their country, but that doesn’t quite cover it. Some of these countries are not a threat to them which leads one to ask- why?

Wisdom dictates that a nuclear armed country with a GDP close to Florida may have better levers to foster engagement than direct action. But the fact is Putin has largely seen some of that potential engagement as weakness and undertaken ops which are threatening to our national sovereignty.

There’s a lot to consider there.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 27, 2025 08:50 AM (0Eoy+)

205 Ah, I looked back through what J.J. had up to double check, couldn't find it and went with my comment.

Thanks for the correction.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 27, 2025 08:22 AM (tT6L1)

There was a warning put out to Border Patrol back in December to be on the lookout for IEDs so, apparently, someone was concerned about them being placed on our side of the border so the main point of your comment stands.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 27, 2025 08:51 AM (ExV1e)

206 Good morning good people. Happy birthday J.J.

You used the word 'flummoxed'. What a great word. Right up there with baba ghanoush.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 27, 2025 08:51 AM (cYBz/)

207 The Left is going nuts. A Loveland, CO Tesla dealership has had its cars vandalized, but now this: a 40-ish year old woman planted IEDs in cars on the lot. Not firecrackers, but legit explosives.

Under Biden this would be treated as a one off by some isolated person.

Are Patel and Bondi will to roll up this terrorist's network?

By the way is the terrorist actually a woman? The picture of "her" I see looks like a 40 year old guy...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2025 08:51 AM (t0Rmr)

208 Joyenz at February 26, 2025 11:57

Posted by: olddog

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Oh no. Thanks to both of you for the update. Hope you're reading the news and back posting with us soon, Ciampino.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You'd be prettier if you'd smile more at February 27, 2025 08:51 AM (sG4Li)

209 Today's the day. We find out the Epstein List.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 27, 2025 08:51 AM (mzM2O)

210 Their strategy has been to undertake operations against countries in their orbit. They use a combination of IW, government subversion and military incursions to achieve it. You can argue why they do it, and certainly one reason is to ensure the safety of their country, but that doesn’t quite cover it. Some of these countries are not a threat to them which leads one to ask- why?

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I enjoyed this immensely.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You'd be prettier if you'd smile more at February 27, 2025 08:52 AM (sG4Li)

211 Some of these countries are not a threat to them which leads one to ask- why?

The Uke war comes from Biden floating NATO membership to Ukraine, and Ukraine flouting the Minsk accords.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2025 08:52 AM (t0Rmr)

212 Well, time to wander. Pooch walking waits for no man.

Later!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 27, 2025 08:53 AM (tT6L1)

213 202 RIP Gene Hackman

He's definitely on the Mt Rushmore of acting.

Posted by: AlaBAMA

Amen to that, as long as there is also room for Carrot Top.

Posted by: Chairman of the Board at February 27, 2025 08:53 AM (G5+As)

214 Woke up this morning thinking it was Saturday. Not a good start.

Posted by: Josephistan at February 27, 2025 08:53 AM (bHGBC)

215 188 Leftist boomers believe “Ending the War” in Viet Nam amongst their greatest accomplishments.

Which directly led to millions of deaths AFTER the war at the hands of communists in Vietnam and Cambodia
Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2025 08:45 AM (t0Rmr)

The toxic idiocy, self-righteousness, and moral inversion of modern leftism in a nutshell.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 27, 2025 08:53 AM (ZlOcj)

216 211 The Uke war comes from Biden floating NATO membership to Ukraine, and Ukraine flouting the Minsk accords.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2025 08:52 AM (t0Rmr)

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False.

Putin wants to conquer Portugal.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 08:53 AM (GBKbO)

217
The Left is going nuts. A Loveland, CO Tesla dealership has had its cars vandalized, but now this: a 40-ish year old woman planted IEDs in cars on the lot. Not firecrackers, but legit explosives.
Posted by: Lizzy

Act of war, summarily execute, next case!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 27, 2025 08:54 AM (xG4kz)

218 You can argue why they do it, and certainly one reason is to ensure the safety of their country, but that doesn’t quite cover it. Some of these countries are not a threat to them which leads one to ask- why?

This also fits with our Dem administrations.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 27, 2025 08:54 AM (cYBz/)

219 The Gene Hackman story is weird. His wife and their dog were also found dead with him, yet the police are saying there was no foul play. Hmmm…

Posted by: Bulg at February 27, 2025 08:54 AM (77rzZ)

220 Did you know that we sent a bunch of modern western arms, including Abrams tanks, to Ukraine and the Russians destroyed them?

I saw someone, a couple days ago, talking about Poland and South Korean tanks. What if the Russians could destroy all of those within a week?

==

How vvverrrrrry interesting. I guess we need some funds to upgrade, re-develop and readjust. We will proposal this tomorrow !

----General Dynamics Land Systems

Posted by: runner at February 27, 2025 08:54 AM (g47mK)

221 215 The toxic idiocy, self-righteousness, and moral inversion of modern leftism in a nutshell.
Posted by: Ordinary American at February 27, 2025 08:53 AM (ZlOcj)

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The Max show The Sympathizer actually ended up showing the work camps in post-War Vietnam, which I found quite interesting.

Not happy fun places, it seemed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 08:55 AM (GBKbO)

222 Amen to that, as long as there is also room for Carrot Top.
Posted by: Chairman of the Board at February 27, 2025 08:53 AM (G5+As)

Is he even the best Red Head actor of all time?

Gotta win the regionals before you move on to state.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 27, 2025 08:55 AM (mzM2O)

223 Woke up this morning thinking it was Saturday. Not a good start.
Posted by: Josephistan

Nope - trash day: Thursday.

(Along with Sunday, the only days that stick out for me)

Posted by: Tonypete at February 27, 2025 08:55 AM (cYBz/)

224 The Gene Hackman story is weird. His wife and their dog were also found dead with him, yet the police are saying there was no foul play. Hmmm…
Posted by: Bulg at February 27, 2025 08:54 AM (77rzZ)

My guess would be carbon monoxide poisoning.

Posted by: Josephistan at February 27, 2025 08:55 AM (bHGBC)

225 "USAID Staff Given 15 Minutes To Collect Belongings, Warned Against Bringing Weapons"

That might not be enough time given the large caches of sex toys, condoms, Plan B pills etc...

Posted by: Ripley at February 27, 2025 08:56 AM (GUOwU)

226 - @166 Don Black

Way too many. See writings of eye witness accounts, drawings, carvings.

Posted by: TeeJ at February 27, 2025 08:56 AM (ItCQP)

227 219 The Gene Hackman story is weird. His wife and their dog were also found dead with him, yet the police are saying there was no foul play. Hmmm…
Posted by: Bulg at February 27, 2025 08:54 AM (77rzZ)

Yeah it's either monoxide poisoning or a suicide pact. Unless someone murdered them and the dog. Her death is odd. I'm getting Romeo and Juliet vibes.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 27, 2025 08:56 AM (mzM2O)

228 I was reading about the Diem assassination recently and what a clusterfuck.

Buddhists in Vietnam were mad about having a Christian political leader so Buddhist generals floated the idea of replacing him with one of them.

Kennedy went along with it and the US found out that unlike Diem these generals were corrupt scum bags with no real following in the country.

Arguably we lost Vietnam the day his admin gave the generals the go ahead to kill Diem.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2025 08:56 AM (t0Rmr)

229 Apparently, Tapper has been freaking out on X in people's DMs for about 24 hours straight because he's surprised that people kept the receipts of him demeaning anyone who thought Biden wasn't sharp as a tac.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 08:56 AM (GBKbO)

230 Egyptian Judge Orders Trump to Unfreeze Aid to Egypt

.. this is rich
Posted by: SMOD at February 27, 2025 08:30 AM (RHGPo)

In fairness, he's a US federal judge who's family emigrated from Egypt. It's not a judge in Egypt making this ruling. Not that this distinction makes it better.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 27, 2025 08:56 AM (ExV1e)

231 173 If Germany or France are afraid of Russia attacking them they would be dramatically expanding their military budgets - Europe's GDP is more than large enough to put together a larger military then Russia. And yet...nothing.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2025 08:39 AM (t0Rmr)

— —-

I agree there.
Trump also warned them back then to stop buying oil & gas from Russia, and they laughed at him, in the UN.

The Europeans are facing the same budget problems we are. The French & Germans would have to cut their welfare programs to afford a decent military and doing that is like trying to wrestle Gollum away from The Precious.

They’ve built an entire democratic-socialist economy on the back of America paying for their defense for 70 years.

Their arrogance won’t allow them to admit they were wrong about anything, so they’ll continue on doing what they’re doing until they’re part of the caliphate. And then, by the looks of it, the Americans and Russians will be forced to come save them again.

Maybe we’ll sit the next world war out and let them figure it out on their own for the first time in over a century?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 27, 2025 08:57 AM (6ydKt)

232 Only Harrison Ford and Robert Duvall are alive.
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Duvall may outlast Keith Richards.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 27, 2025 08:57 AM (pLaQB)

233 Moldova next!

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 27, 2025 08:57 AM (/tzYP)

234 False.

Putin wants to conquer Portugal.

===

From the Volga to the Med!

Posted by: runner at February 27, 2025 08:57 AM (g47mK)

235 These fraudulent clones are digital people created based on the identities of real people, with minor variations in name spelling, birth dates, and addresses. Multiple clones can be made based on the identity of a single real person. As a result, fraudsters can manufacture unlimited numbers of these cloned voters in the cyber world.

They estimate approximately two million cloned voters just on the Florida voter rolls alone.

My guess the same is in the SS system.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 27, 2025 08:58 AM (gbOdA)

236 "USAID Staff Given 15 Minutes To Collect Belongings, Warned Against Bringing Weapons"

Why so long?

Posted by: Tonypete at February 27, 2025 08:58 AM (cYBz/)

237 > A Loveland, CO Tesla dealership has had its cars vandalized, but now this: a 40-ish year old woman planted IEDs in cars on the lot.

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actually the perp is a man, pretending to a woman, because he's not right

in the head

https://tinyurl.com/5n9ydbts

Posted by: Don Black at February 27, 2025 08:58 AM (AOsQT)

238 > Did you know that we sent a bunch of modern western arms, including Abrams tanks, to Ukraine and the Russians destroyed them?
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Not all of them. More like "a couple."

More to the point; we showered Ukraine with a lot of our most capable and modern weaponry... had American missiles and the systems to make them work installed on Soviet era warplanes. An incredibly stupid thing to do should they fall into Russian hands.

Same for "gifting" Ukraine advanced air-to-air missiles, GPS guided munitions and so on.

Russia has had years to examine our weapons and tactics that use them. Stupid.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 27, 2025 08:58 AM (Q4IgG)

239 In fairness, he's a US federal judge who's family emigrated from Egypt. It's not a judge in Egypt making this ruling. Not that this distinction makes it better.

If he's more loyal to Egypt than the US, he needs to be removed from the bench and sent home.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 27, 2025 08:59 AM (svLOV)

240 >>The Uke war comes from Biden floating NATO membership to Ukraine, and Ukraine flouting the Minsk accords.

I don’t necessarily disagree but I would state it differently. We gave them the pretext they needed and Putin knew how Biden would respond. The fact is the war in Ukraine is stupid and unnecessary. But the Russians have been stomping on countries sovereignty in part because Putin pines for the Soviet days of control. He has also pushed the boundaries of counter operations against the US and other nations in Europe. Conversely we’ve done some of the same things via the agency and other means. That doesn’t make it right, it just means there was an important balance which was destroyed. You can say that was done by some of the ops Russia was launching against us, especially cyber, and at the same time say we went to far (really the Euro Trash did) with NATO expansion. But either way rapprochement is the best path now.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 27, 2025 08:59 AM (0Eoy+)

241 233 Moldova next!
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They make wonderful wine. Plus, every farmer's market can set you up with ground to air missiles and launchers.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 27, 2025 08:59 AM (pLaQB)

242 230 Egyptian Judge Orders Trump to Unfreeze Aid to Egypt

.. this is rich
Posted by: SMOD at February 27, 2025 08:30 AM (RHGPo)

In fairness, he's a US federal judge who's family emigrated from Egypt. It's not a judge in Egypt making this ruling. Not that this distinction makes it better.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 27, 2025 08:56 AM (ExV1e)

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Also, Roberts issued a stay on the guy's orders last night.

Dude has been a judge for 90 days and got smacked down, hard, by the boss of the entire branch of government.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 09:00 AM (GBKbO)

243
I saw someone, a couple days ago, talking about Poland and South Korean tanks. What if the Russians could destroy all of those within a week?

The most important lesson from the Uke war - if the enemy can see your assets it can kill them missile, drones or artillery

So baring achievements in stealth tech for land units, you need to make sure that your offensive land units are cheap and easily replaceable.

This is the antithesis of how America likes to fight wars so I suspect we will intentionally refuse to learn anything.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2025 09:00 AM (t0Rmr)

244 If he's more loyal to Egypt than the US, he needs to be removed from the bench and sent home.
Posted by: NR Pax

You spelled 'draw and quartered' incorrectly.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 27, 2025 09:00 AM (cYBz/)

245 Egyptian Judge Orders Trump to Unfreeze Aid to Egypt

.. this is rich

Also Israel has to give us back our Jewish slaves

Posted by: Egyptian Judge/Pharoah at February 27, 2025 08:35 AM (t0Rmr)
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I know a pyramid scheme when I see one!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 27, 2025 09:00 AM (YfQh2)

246 There's a herring in the pan for you, Old Man,
There's a herring in the pan for you, Old Man,
Well, the head's for you and the tail's for me,
But the middle is for the Lodgin' Man.

Posted by: Obscure Irish Folk Music at February 27, 2025 09:00 AM (G5+As)

247 One of my favorite GH scenes was in A Bridge Too Far when he, the Polish paratroop commander, blatantly inspects the British planner for Market-Garden. When asked why, he says, "Just making sure whose uniform you are wearing." (or words to that effect).

Posted by: goatexchange at February 27, 2025 09:00 AM (hyS0X)

248 239 In fairness, he's a US federal judge who's family emigrated from Egypt. It's not a judge in Egypt making this ruling. Not that this distinction makes it better.
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The Empire of Ghettos is everywhere. Its your job to feed the beast.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 27, 2025 09:00 AM (pLaQB)

249 Republican Rep. Joe Wilson announces plan to propose $250 bill featuring Trump
Posted by: SMOD at February 27, 2025 08:31 AM (RHGPo)

While a $250 bill might make sense, and Trump deserves some recognition, no living person should be on money. He's not a king.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 27, 2025 09:01 AM (ExV1e)

250 Across Florida, Ticktin has uncovered 592,335 VBM “No-No” ballots issued to requestors who did not provide the required identification but were mailed a ballot anyway. Of these illegally issued ballots, 475,340 were returned to their counties, where they were processed and counted as votes.

No last 4 SS
or
No DL #

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 27, 2025 09:01 AM (gbOdA)

251 A Loveland, CO Tesla dealership has had its cars vandalized, but now this: a 40-ish year old woman planted IEDs in cars on the lot.

-

(lays $20 on table)

We'll find out it's a man before the weekend.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You'd be prettier if you'd smile more at February 27, 2025 09:02 AM (sG4Li)

252 The most important lesson from the Uke war - if the enemy can see your assets it can kill them missile, drones or artillery
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You have nowhere to hide. Cereally.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 27, 2025 09:02 AM (pLaQB)

253 There's also SWATing to be aware of....
Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 27, 2025 08:31 AM (13bqY)
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Which is illegal.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 27, 2025 08:32 AM (tT6L1)

Pretty sure that's 2-3 crimes all rolled into one.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 27, 2025 09:02 AM (ExV1e)

254 >>First principles, Clarice. Read Marcus Aurelius. Of each particular thing ask: what is it in itself? What is its nature? What does he do, this man you seek?

Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country. The Black Sea region is a potentially massive source of oil and gas. Take a look at a map of the Black Sea and the various players in the region.

Energy is not just wealth it is an enormous lever of power.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 27, 2025 09:02 AM (LkLld)

255 >>My wife once went to dinner with her college friend/roommate. The roommate ordered trout. It came to the table whole. The roommate told the waitress, "No, no, please take it back and have the chef remove the head". Some folks just don't like their food staring back at them.

Heh. I have a friend from the Philippines who eats the head -- the whole fish. She says it can freak out waitstaff who see an empty plate

Posted by: Lizzy at February 27, 2025 09:03 AM (Cki93)

256 According to director William Friedkin, Hackman wanted out of The French Connection not soon after filming began. Hackman was uncomfortable in the role of Popeye Doyle--he couldn't handle the character's racism and general brutality. Friedkin wasn't sympathetic and told him to deal with it. Obviously, he did, and thanked Friedkin later.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 27, 2025 09:03 AM (ZlOcj)

257 Jeff Bezos is muzzling the Washington Post’s opinion section. That’s a death knell
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This Guardian headline is typical. The left equates a celebration of personal liberty as "muzzling" and says its a "death knell" to change from Stalinist orthodoxy.

Horses asses hate even the slightest movement toward freedom.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 27, 2025 09:03 AM (OxSSV)

258 Also, Roberts issued a stay on the guy's orders last night.

Dude has been a judge for 90 days and got smacked down, hard, by the boss of the entire branch of government.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

It is interesting to me that the libs have no issue with destroying decades of trust and/or respect for entire swaths of (formerly) respectable authority.

The judiciary, the medical community, teachers, public servants, etc. After a time, we normies just started to ignore them - to their own detriment.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 27, 2025 09:03 AM (cYBz/)

259 We'll find out it's a man before the weekend.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You'd be prettier if you'd smile more at February 27, 2025 09:02 AM (sG4Li)
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Yesterday's news. He's a trans-am fan.

Nice dress, though, if you have the figure for it.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 27, 2025 09:03 AM (YfQh2)

260 China is a more credible threat than Russia.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 27, 2025 09:03 AM (IcEkX)

261 258 It is interesting to me that the libs have no issue with destroying decades of trust and/or respect for entire swaths of (formerly) respectable authority.

The judiciary, the medical community, teachers, public servants, etc. After a time, we normies just started to ignore them - to their own detriment.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 27, 2025 09:03 AM (cYBz/)

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Power uber alles.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 09:04 AM (GBKbO)

262 >>(lays $20 on table)

We'll find out it's a man before the weekend.

I'll let you know! Naturally, the tv news did not show a mugshot. Why protect the lady bomber?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 27, 2025 09:04 AM (Cki93)

263 >We'll find out it's a man before the weekend.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie
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yes
see #237

Posted by: Don Black at February 27, 2025 09:04 AM (AOsQT)

264 know a pyramid scheme when I see one!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 27, 2025 09:00 AM (YfQh2)

This is tomb much

Posted by: ... at February 27, 2025 09:04 AM (If0wl)

265 A Loveland, CO Tesla dealership has had its cars vandalized, but now this: a 40-ish year old woman planted IEDs in cars on the lot.

----

actually the perp is a man, pretending to a woman, because he's not right

in the head

https://tinyurl.com/5n9ydbts
Posted by: Don Black

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Dang, we found out before the end of the thread.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You'd be prettier if you'd smile more at February 27, 2025 09:04 AM (sG4Li)

266 @ScottPressler

Every conservative in America should be talking about the Wisconsin Supreme Court election on April 1st.

George Soros is trying to buy the Court, so liberals can gerrymander Wisconsin congressional maps & take the House in 2026.

I’m shocked at how many people don’t care.
11:15 AM · Feb 26, 2025

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 27, 2025 09:05 AM (ViCCR)

267 Biden's Dog, does Smotrich have an X account that is in english?

Posted by: Ben Had at February 27, 2025 09:05 AM (mB6WH)

268 The top 10% of earners—households making about $250,000 a year or more—are splurging on everything from vacations to designer handbags, buoyed by big gains in stocks, real estate and other assets.
Those consumers now account for 49.7% of all spending, a record in data going back to 1989, according to an analysis by Moody’s Analytics. Three decades ago, they accounted for about 36%.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 27, 2025 09:06 AM (gbOdA)

269 China is gonna win the AI drone war. That's a much bigger issue than Russia and its expansionism.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 27, 2025 09:06 AM (mzM2O)

270 my posts are not visible in this country

Posted by: Don Black at February 27, 2025 09:06 AM (AOsQT)

271 Correction: a MENTALLY ILL man.

Posted by: Let's be honest at February 27, 2025 09:06 AM (DobEs)

272 know a pyramid scheme when I see one!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 27, 2025 09:00 AM (YfQh2)

This is tomb much

Posted by: ... at February 27, 2025 09:04 AM (If0wl)
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Tut, tut!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 27, 2025 09:06 AM (YfQh2)

273 254 >>First principles, Clarice. Read Marcus Aurelius. Of each particular thing ask: what is it in itself? What is its nature? What does he do, this man you seek?

Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country. The Black Sea region is a potentially massive source of oil and gas. Take a look at a map of the Black Sea and the various players in the region.

Energy is not just wealth it is an enormous lever of power.
------------------
The Black Sea has always been the receiving port for the Silk Road. Now add Ukraine's Titanium deposits and the Nuke Power to refine it and you've got yourself a meaningful investment. The Russians aren't going to lose these assets without one hell of a fight.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 27, 2025 09:06 AM (pLaQB)

274 @ScottPressler

Every conservative in America should be talking about the Wisconsin Supreme Court election on April 1st.

George Soros is trying to buy the Court, so liberals can gerrymander Wisconsin congressional maps & take the House in 2026.

I’m shocked at how many people don’t care.
11:15 AM · Feb 26, 2025

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 27, 2025 09:05 AM (ViCCR)

Just wanted to repeat this. Wisconsin is in peril.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 27, 2025 09:06 AM (SfhV1)

275 Biden's Dog, does Smotrich have an X account that is in english?

Posted by: Ben Had at February 27, 2025 09:05 AM (mB6WH)
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Dunno but X has a translate option.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 27, 2025 09:07 AM (YfQh2)

276 [Future Sir] Anthony Blunt, fag Soviet agent, warned the Germans 48 hours ahead of time about Market Garden. That's why the large German force was in Arnhem and not for some R&R.

Field Marshal Model's aide: Field Marshal, thousands of paratroops have landed in this area, three kilometres from here.
Field Marshal Model: What? Why? There is nothing important here... me! I'm important! They must've landed here just to capture me.
[stands from his lunch and moves to the door]
Field Marshal Model: Get my car ready.
[makes to leave]
Field Marshal Model's aide: Yes, sir!
[about to leave himself]
Field Marshal Model: [pops back in and shouts] And don't forget my cigars!

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 27, 2025 09:07 AM (/tzYP)

277 George Soros is trying to buy the Court, so liberals can gerrymander Wisconsin congressional maps & take the House in 2026.

I’m shocked at how many people don’t care.
11:15 AM · Feb 26, 2025
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Have you seen Fargo?

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 27, 2025 09:08 AM (pLaQB)

278 *Nice dress, though, if you have the figure for it.*

I wore it better.

Posted by: Jamie Farr at February 27, 2025 09:08 AM (DobEs)

279 Biden's Dog, thank you .

Posted by: Ben Had at February 27, 2025 09:08 AM (mB6WH)

280 don’t necessarily disagree but I would state it differently. We gave them the pretext they needed and Putin knew how Biden would respond. The fact is the war in Ukraine is stupid and unnecessary. But the Russians have been stomping on countries sovereignty in part because Putin pines for the Soviet days of control. He has also pushed the boundaries of counter operations against the US and other nations in Europe. Conversely we’ve done some of the same things via the agency and other means. That doesn’t make it right, it just means there was an important balance which was destroyed. You can say that was done by some of the ops Russia was launching against us, especially cyber, and at the same time say we went to far (really the Euro Trash did) with NATO expansion. But either way rapprochement is the best path now.
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You know what, "Marcus T" , even Ukrainians and Poles no longer blabber this out in public. (Although the likes of that insane Katja Kallas do, and that is why Rubio refused to see her). Because it is embarrassingly incorrect, reeks of illiterate, insular read of geopolitics, current Russian state, and global threats.

Posted by: runner at February 27, 2025 09:08 AM (g47mK)

281 Read something which cracked me up. One of Tapper's first "journalism" jobs was at a DC paper called Washington City. One of his first reports: I Dated Monica Lewinsky. Apparently before she honked on Bubba's bobo

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 27, 2025 09:08 AM (EG7Bp)

282 258 It is interesting to me that the libs have no issue with destroying decades of trust and/or respect for entire swaths of (formerly) respectable authority.

This is because they don't see the world in terms of long-term civic integrity and social health, but only in expedient terms of power and control. Institutions aren't mean to serve the people and so a commonweal of trust and respect is meaningless. Those institutions are meant to serve THEM, to be their instruments of power and control over the people.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 27, 2025 09:08 AM (ZlOcj)

283 Trump Killed ‘Bidenbucks’ — Congress Needs To Bury It
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Given what he did to the value of our currency, oughtn't we call them "Bidencents"?

Posted by: Eeyore at February 27, 2025 09:09 AM (1bNHn)

284 Biden's Dog, does Smotrich have an X account that is in english?

Posted by: Ben Had at February 27, 2025 09:05 AM (mB6WH)
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Dunno but X has a translate option.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 27, 2025 09:07 AM (YfQh2)
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If you're going to go the translation route, follow Moshe Feiglin:

https://x.com/moshefeiglin/

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 27, 2025 09:09 AM (YfQh2)

285 Here's a clue from the Atlantic Council themselves from back in 2021.

https://tinyurl.com/yrpfzw5h
Posted by: JackStraw at February 27, 2025 08:34 AM (LkLld)

Maybe. I just think it's people whose entire career has been about resisting the might of the Soviet empire - despite there no longer being a Soviet empire. Goodness knows we have people in these very comments who forget that.

Couple this with an unaccountable set of mischief-makers from the various IC communities, hell bent on establishing a global world order under the flag of Big Homo - as evidenced by the recent revelations from the NSA - and, probably, a bit of graft from Chynah, and you get the world as we have it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 27, 2025 09:10 AM (ExV1e)

286 Also, pretty sure Jon Stewart was getting sweet sweet USAIDS dollars…key word “was”.
Posted by: Cray Cray at February 27, 2025 08:24 AM (wo0Q4)

interestingly enough, i went to AP for an article today, and there was an ad soliciting donations.

i'm sure that's not connected at all...

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at February 27, 2025 09:10 AM (v6XNT)

287 Yeah. Putin isn't Stalin, he's Peter the Great.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 27, 2025 09:11 AM (/tzYP)

288 *Nice dress, though, if you have the figure for it.*

I wore it better.

Posted by: Jamie Farr at February 27, 2025 09:08 AM (DobEs)
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Personally, I could never squeeze into a section 8.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 27, 2025 09:11 AM (YfQh2)

289 I spoke with a few PMC’s about the doxing of Datarepublican. They have volunteered to protect her for free. It’s going to be a FAFO moment for anyone who even entertains the idea of bringing her harm.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 27, 2025 08:35 AM (JXZdT)

PMC?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 27, 2025 09:11 AM (ExV1e)

290 >>actually the perp is a man, pretending to a woman, because he's not right
in the head
https://tinyurl.com/5n9ydbts

Thanks, and. . . Dang! Should've known when they didn't show the mugshot on the news. Thought maybe they were hiding ethnicity, but of course it's a "woman," not a woman who did it.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 27, 2025 09:11 AM (Cki93)

291 287 Yeah. Putin isn't Stalin, he's Peter the Great.
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 27, 2025 09:11 AM (/tzYP)

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Being Russian, especially a Russian leader, seems...complicated.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 09:11 AM (GBKbO)

292 Yeah. Putin isn't Stalin, he's Peter the Great.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 27, 2025 09:11 AM (/tzYP)
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Not Ivan the So-So?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 27, 2025 09:11 AM (YfQh2)

293 The Gene Hackman story is weird. His wife and their dog were also found dead with him, yet the police are saying there was no foul play. Hmmm…
Posted by: Bulg at February 27, 2025 08:54 AM (77rzZ)

Wasn't there a nationwide cold snap last week? And I would imagine houses in New Mexico aren't necessarily built for the cold and people might rely on space heaters.

Back in 2010 I knew an elderly couple in Texas that died from a space heater in winter. Up until then I didn't know gas space heaters were a thing.

Posted by: pookysgirl, listening to baby babble at February 27, 2025 09:12 AM (Wt5PA)

294 Yeah. Putin isn't Stalin, he's Peter the Great.
Posted by: andycanuck

The Paolo says, how you say, Excuse Me?

Posted by: The Paolo at February 27, 2025 09:12 AM (cYBz/)

295 Being Russian, especially a Russian leader, seems...complicated.
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It's just... Terrible.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 27, 2025 09:12 AM (/tzYP)

296 Posted by: Lizzy at February 27, 2025 09:03 AM (Cki93)

Next time she should order fava beans and a chianti with it

Posted by: ... at February 27, 2025 09:12 AM (If0wl)

297 Being Russian, especially a Russian leader, seems...complicated.
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They are Viking Kings. See Hamlet for the details. Oh, and they are very Asiatic as well.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 27, 2025 09:12 AM (pLaQB)

298 295 Being Russian, especially a Russian leader, seems...complicated.
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It's just... Terrible.
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 27, 2025 09:12 AM (/tzYP)

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Fucking ~~Todd~~ Ivan...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 09:12 AM (GBKbO)

299 >>The Black Sea has always been the receiving port for the Silk Road. Now add Ukraine's Titanium deposits and the Nuke Power to refine it and you've got yourself a meaningful investment. The Russians aren't going to lose these assets without one hell of a fight.

Add in the fact Putin was never going to let NATO expand onto not just Russia's doorstep but a country he rightly considers largely ethnic Russian and Russian aligned.

The evidence that our deep state/intel blob, whatever you want to call it is not just corrupt but operating off the leash and in their interest not necessarily ours is overwhelming. It's not a defense of Putin to say elements supposedly on our side helped ignite this war.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 27, 2025 09:12 AM (LkLld)

300 @256 Hackman at first didn't want to do Unforgiven because he was sick of movie violence. Clint explained what he wanted to do and Hackman accepted

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 27, 2025 09:13 AM (EG7Bp)

301 SCOTUS appeared to lean toward making it easier for people from "majority backgrounds," such as white or straight people, to pursue workplace discrimination claims, as they heard an appeal by an Ohio woman who claims she was denied a promotion and demoted because she is heterosexual.

Ames said she had a gay supervisor in 2019 when she was passed over for a promotion in favor of a gay woman and demoted in favor of a gay man - both of whom, she asserted, were less qualified than her.

How can someone be denied a promotion "because they are heterosexual" ? That is absolutely absurd! SCOTUS has gone off the deep end.

She's 60? Discrimination may be happening, but may be a different type.

I want to see the proof the "minorities" are less qualified. I speculate she had issues dealing with the LGTBQ community and the supervisor wanted to minimize her contact.

Maybe she isn't a people person? If any part of her job means dealing with people, maybe she didn't cut the mustard.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 27, 2025 09:13 AM (JCZqz)

302 I think the only thing better than the fact that the left lost in November, better than the fact that they don't know why they lost, and even better than the fact that the don't want to know why they lost, is the fact that they also don't know that the vast majority of Americans are not listening to them anymore.

They are so stuck inside their space capsule greenhouse ecosystem, they still believe that the networks are the only way people get news.
So, five of them show up, yell into a microphone, scurry home to see that every channel is covering their stunt and strut around their houses crowing "we're winning, we're winning!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 27, 2025 09:13 AM (iQHOh)

303 Hey.... isn't it only about a week before Trudeau is supposed to step down?

I thought I saw a jab on X by Trump... aiming at Trudeau's inability to rally around being the 51st state. More trolling I'm sure... but made me think Trudeau's time is about up.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 27, 2025 09:13 AM (Q4IgG)

304 Crenshaw and people of that mentality have learned nothing from our experience with Vietnam, and our wars in the mideast that had no end in sight. When it comes to wars in foreign lands, the American people want limits.
Posted by: nerdygirl at February 27, 2025 08:37 AM (0Htd1)

Diffnic's Rules For US Involvement In War

1. Congress must declare war.
2. The US military goes in, full bore, and kills everything that moves until the enemy surrenders.
3. The enemy surrenders and we leave. I will permit that taxpayers erect a statue with the words - in the local language - "Don't make us come back".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 27, 2025 09:13 AM (ExV1e)

305
Moldova next!
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP)

** Transnistria starts throwing elbows **

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 27, 2025 09:14 AM (xG4kz)

306 "It is interesting to me that the libs have no issue with destroying decades of trust and/or respect for entire swaths of (formerly) respectable authority."

It came a surprise to me during covid how much the left long-marched through the medical community, which use to be on the conservative side decades ago, especially doctors. They have been completely overrun, almost as thoroughly as education.

Posted by: Ripley at February 27, 2025 09:14 AM (GUOwU)

307 I still think Russia will eventually join NATO.

The war will have to be ended, and it will take some time to get to the table to do the deal but I think that’s Trump’s grand plan, ATM.

It will have to be named something else, though, because Trump loves renaming things after he remakes them.

AERO or something like that would fit.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 27, 2025 09:14 AM (6ydKt)

308 NATO Highest Defense Expenditures (by % of 2023 GDP)
#1 Poland 3.9%

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 27, 2025 09:14 AM (/tzYP)

309 >>know a pyramid scheme when I see one!

>>This is tomb much

>>Tut, tut!

Clearly, you're in da Nile!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 27, 2025 09:14 AM (Cki93)

310 I think the clever agreement that Z is about to sign, gives us access to ports.

Posted by: runner at February 27, 2025 09:14 AM (g47mK)

311 301 How can someone be denied a promotion "because they are heterosexual" ? That is absolutely absurd! SCOTUS has gone off the deep end.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 27, 2025 09:13 AM (JCZqz)

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Intentional blindness or just stupidity?

I know which way I'm leaning.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 09:14 AM (GBKbO)

312 The Gene Hackman story is weird. His wife and their dog were also found dead with him, yet the police are saying there was no foul play. Hmmm…
Posted by: Bulg at February 27, 2025 08:54 AM (77rzZ)

My wife, an EMT for over 30 years, has seen this a number of times. Carbon monoxide poisoning. In most cases, it was an elderly couple and their pets as well. Not all that uncommon.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at February 27, 2025 09:14 AM (dgRL6)

313 So when does Elon save the stranded astronauts on the Space Station?

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 27, 2025 09:14 AM (pLaQB)

314 ** Transnistria starts throwing elbows **
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2-minute penalty!

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 27, 2025 09:15 AM (/tzYP)

315
Just saw a news article that stated-

Gene Hackman, his wife, and his dog were all found dead in their NM home.

What is going on with that?

CO accident, suicide, murder, murder suicide.

Strange ending .

Posted by: naturalfake at February 27, 2025 09:15 AM (iJfKG)

316 3. The enemy surrenders and we leave.

After we help ourselves to their natural resources.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 27, 2025 09:15 AM (svLOV)

317 How can someone be denied a promotion "because they are heterosexual" ? That is absolutely absurd! SCOTUS has gone off the deep end

At one company I worked at it became clear that they were no longer promoting straight white men.

One guy that I had worked had been absolutely essential in his area for years with no positive results for him.

Then he went tranny and within 6 months got promoted.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2025 09:16 AM (t0Rmr)

318
It came a surprise to me during covid how much the left long-marched through the medical community, which use to be on the conservative side decades ago, especially doctors. They have been completely overrun, almost as thoroughly as education.
Posted by: Ripley

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Well worth the read:

"Over the past decade, the Pritzkers of Illinois, who helped put Barack Obama in the White House and include among their number former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, current Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, and philanthropist Jennifer Pritzker (a male), appear to have used a family philanthropic apparatus to drive an ideology and practice of disembodiment into our medical, legal, cultural, and educational institutions."

https://tinyurl.com/37fctj33

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You'd be prettier if you'd smile more at February 27, 2025 09:16 AM (sG4Li)

319 312 The Gene Hackman story is weird. His wife and their dog were also found dead with him, yet the police are saying there was no foul play. Hmmm…
Posted by: Bulg at February 27, 2025 08:54 AM (77rzZ)

My wife, an EMT for over 30 years, has seen this a number of times. Carbon monoxide poisoning. In most cases, it was an elderly couple and their pets as well. Not all that uncommon.
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You would think living in Santa Fe that you would enjoy open windows this time of year.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 27, 2025 09:16 AM (pLaQB)

320 Beaten to the punch.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 27, 2025 09:16 AM (iJfKG)

321 It's national chili day!
Still have the rest of the day to get carrots. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at February 27, 2025 09:16 AM (Cki93)

322 In Maine, where gender and queer theories reign supreme, at least 57 of its 192 school districts have policies that exclude parents from knowing whether their children start identifying as transgender.

Because the teachers want to fuck the kids.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 27, 2025 09:16 AM (gbOdA)

323 I want to see a Photoshop of the big rig in the movie Maximum Overdrive that had the clown face on the front. I want it to have a Trump head on it. I want the silly scared humans at the gas station to be prominent demoncrats. Pelosi, Schumer, Schiff, Murkowski, and a few others.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at February 27, 2025 09:17 AM (4XwPj)

324 Re: Hackman

Epstein list?

Posted by: ... at February 27, 2025 09:18 AM (If0wl)

325 "So when does Elon save the stranded astronauts on the Space Station?
Posted by: Pudinhead"

If there was hot, young, potential baby mama there it would have been done already.

Posted by: Ripley at February 27, 2025 09:18 AM (GUOwU)

326
It came a surprise to me during covid how much the left long-marched through the medical community, which use to be on the conservative side decades ago, especially doctors. They have been completely overrun, almost as thoroughly as education.

It was the most to larger companies. In the old days there were many independent clinics and DR offices, often run BY the doctor. So you'd get a range of medical opinions and if you didn't like Dr Smith's office you could switch to Dr Jones

But now? Biden leaned on the megacorps to push the clot shot and any doctor that disagreed was fired and perhaps lost his license.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2025 09:18 AM (t0Rmr)

327 >>How can someone be denied a promotion "because they are heterosexual" ?

I know a baker in CO who has some experience with discrimination for being heterosexual (and Christian). . .

Posted by: Lizzy at February 27, 2025 09:18 AM (Cki93)

328 Oh man what to wake up to. He absolutely ran away with Unforgiven. "I guess you might think I'm kicking you, Bob..."

Posted by: gKWVE at February 27, 2025 09:20 AM (yYROg)

329 The article about pain meds tells the honest truth. The Federal government should not control access, they are WAY out of control. They want you to die miserable and hopeless. Fuck them and the gay donkey they rode in on.
Posted by: Opiates Work at February 27, 2025 08:46 AM (G5+As)

Sort of related... yesterday afternoon I was diagnosed with appendicitis. Doctor prescribed antibiotics and said "if the pain becomes unbearable, go to the ER". My first thought was "no shit", my second thought was "I'm already in a lot of pain, how about you give me something for it" - although, in the morning, upon more sober reflection, I decided that he probably didn't want to risk anything preventing me from going to the ER soon enough.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 27, 2025 09:20 AM (ExV1e)

330 >>know a pyramid scheme when I see one!

>>This is tomb much

>>Tut, tut!

Clearly, you're in da Nile!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 27, 2025 09:14 AM (Cki93)
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What a nefretirious accusation!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 27, 2025 09:20 AM (YfQh2)

331 In Maine, where gender and queer theories reign supreme, at least 57 of its 192 school districts have policies that exclude parents from knowing whether their children start identifying as transgender.

I see there is a thread in Farcebook for my town where a parent found out the school was trying to secretly trans his daughter. He got her out in time but...these assholes will not stop trying to destroy children.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2025 09:20 AM (t0Rmr)

332 One guy that I had worked had been absolutely essential in his area for years with no positive results for him.

Then he went tranny and within 6 months got promoted.
Posted by: 18-1

That's wonderful! He finally accepted who he really was, and with the burden of hiding his true self for so long lifted, his attitude and job performance probably skyrocketed, resulting in an immediate promotion!

Posted by: Dylan Mulvaney at February 27, 2025 09:20 AM (JCZqz)

333 Diffnic's Rules For US Involvement In War

1. Congress must declare war.
2. The US military goes in, full bore, and kills everything that moves until the enemy surrenders.
3. The enemy surrenders and we leave. I will permit that taxpayers erect a statue with the words - in the local language - "Don't make us come back".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 27, 2025 09:13 AM

Cut. Jib. Newsletter?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 27, 2025 09:21 AM (Wnv9h)

334 AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_ 5h
Legendary actor Gene Hackman, his wife Betsy Arakawa and their dog found dead at their New Mexico home. Hackman was 95 and Arakawa was 63; no indication of foul play. -- The Mirror
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Hmm. Did they own a cat??

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 27, 2025 09:21 AM (/tzYP)

335 AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_ 6h
Sky News: Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan are reportedly on a flight from Romania to the United States after previously having travel restrictions imposed on them.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 27, 2025 09:22 AM (/tzYP)

336
I know a pyramid scheme when I see one!

>>This is tomb much
>>Tut, tut!

Clearly, you're in da Nile!
Posted by: Lizzy at February 27, 2025 09:14 AM (Cki93)
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What a nefretirious accusation!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

Would all of you please stop glyphing out?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 27, 2025 09:22 AM (xG4kz)

337 That's wonderful! He finally accepted who he really was, and with the burden of hiding his true self for so long lifted, his attitude and job performance probably skyrocketed, resulting in an immediate promotion!/i]

The irony is a couple of years later the company ran out of money and laid most of the employees off...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2025 09:22 AM (t0Rmr)

338 Beaten to the punch.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 27, 2025 09:16 AM (iJfKG)
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"I'll drink to that!" - Dick Martin

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 27, 2025 09:22 AM (YfQh2)

339 I know a baker in CO who has some experience with discrimination for being heterosexual (and Christian). . .
Posted by: Lizzy

The baker is a Nazi bigot discriminating against people!!!! He's the bad guy, suffering the consequences of his fascist actions!!!!

Posted by: Rabid Antifa Leftist at February 27, 2025 09:22 AM (JCZqz)

340 AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_ 5h
Legendary actor Gene Hackman, his wife Betsy Arakawa and their dog found dead at their New Mexico home. Hackman was 95 and Arakawa was 63; no indication of foul play. -- The Mirror
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Hmm. Did they own a cat??
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 27, 2025 09:21 AM

*shifty eyes*

No...why? What have you heard?

*shifty eyes*

Posted by: The Cat at February 27, 2025 09:23 AM (Wnv9h)

341 I know a pyramid scheme when I see one!

>>This is tomb much
>>Tut, tut!

Clearly, you're in da Nile!
Posted by: Lizzy at February 27, 2025 09:14 AM (Cki93)
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What a nefretirious accusation!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

Would all of you please stop glyphing out?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 27, 2025 09:22 AM (xG4kz)
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I'll sphinx about it.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 27, 2025 09:23 AM (YfQh2)

342 The Uke war comes from Biden floating NATO membership to Ukraine, and Ukraine flouting the Minsk accords.

The Georgia incursion came, IIRC, from Obama floating NATO membership to Georgia.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 27, 2025 09:23 AM (ExV1e)

343 You would think living in Santa Fe that you would enjoy open windows this time of year.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 27, 2025 09:16 AM (pLaQB)

Depends. I'm sure the temperature drops at night, possible enough to necessitate the use of a heater of some sort. At the age of 95, a person doesn't tolerate the cold very well. My wife has been on calls where the older person in the dwelling has the thermostat cranked up to 85! I'm still leaning towards a faulty heater that, possibly, did not see much use, and wasn't maintained.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at February 27, 2025 09:24 AM (dgRL6)

344 An administrative law judge I used to appear in front of posted a long screed on Facebook about how there all kind of checks to make sure government workers are working . He says the allegation the gov workers bare lazy is a lie. The usual leftists purred in concurrence.
Trump and DOGE can't slow down these dingbats are stumbling after them

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 27, 2025 09:24 AM (EG7Bp)

345 337 That's wonderful! He finally accepted who he really was, and with the burden of hiding his true self for so long lifted, his attitude and job performance probably skyrocketed, resulting in an immediate promotion!

The irony is a couple of years later the company ran out of money and laid most of the employees off...
Posted by: 18-1

THAT sounds familiar! Transphobic customers!

Posted by: Dylan Mulvaney at February 27, 2025 09:24 AM (JCZqz)

346 At 95 I'd not mind checking out by CO, but I'm not bringing my wife and dog.

Posted by: gKWVE / Yyrog at February 27, 2025 09:24 AM (yYROg)

347 Sky News: Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan are reportedly on a flight from Romania to the United States after previously having travel restrictions imposed on them.

They are an interesting case. They had an investigation for sex trafficking that came up with nothing then a few years later Tate got in a public fight with Saint Greta and suddenly both the US and Romania investigated him again for the same crime and this time it looks like they are going to find him guilty

Is it true? Eh he's certainly not a good guy but the reason he's in trouble looks pretty clearly because he poked people you aren't allowed to poke.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2025 09:25 AM (t0Rmr)

348 Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47 12h
🚨 @AGPamBondi: I think tomorrow [i.e. today], you’re going to see some Epstein information being released by my office… A lot of flight logs, a lot of names. A lot of information.”

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 27, 2025 09:25 AM (/tzYP)

349 Horde mother and baby are fine! Just maybe as suggested resting up for the big day.

Horde prayer is strong.

Posted by: blaster at February 27, 2025 09:25 AM (QfvaV)

350 All these ancient-Egypt puns are starting to take a ptolla me.

Posted by: Bulg at February 27, 2025 09:25 AM (77rzZ)

351 "An administrative law judge I used to appear in front of posted a long screed on Facebook about how there all kind of checks to make sure government workers are working."

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Posted by: goatexchange at February 27, 2025 09:26 AM (hyS0X)

352 The Georgia incursion came, IIRC, from Obama floating NATO membership to Georgia.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

The Georgia invasion happened under W.

Posted by: Bulg at February 27, 2025 09:27 AM (77rzZ)

353 Ukranian and Georgia's memberships in NATO were not just "floated". Bush in 2008 :

Key excerpt : "President Bush is calling for them (NATO) to do more in Afghanistan, and to do more to bring in former Soviet states like Ukraine and Georgia. Russia doesn't like that idea, but President Bush says it should realize the Cold War is over."

https://tinyurl.com/52zanvf2

Posted by: runner at February 27, 2025 09:27 AM (g47mK)

354 Would all of you please stop glyphing out?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 27, 2025 09:22 AM (xG4kz)

Papyrus.

I ran out of ideas.

Posted by: ... at February 27, 2025 09:27 AM (If0wl)

355 I'm prepared to be underwhelmed with the Epstein list reveal later on today. Probably a lot of "duh" moments as names we've suspected all along are listed.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 27, 2025 09:28 AM (Q4IgG)

356 BTW, I'm going to burn own the local Elks' office because they're potentially stealing members from the Optimists.

Bastards.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 27, 2025 09:28 AM (/tzYP)

357 Gene Hackman was great in everything!
Loved him in The Royal Tenenbaums and The Replacements in additions to movies already mentioned.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 27, 2025 09:28 AM (Cki93)

358 2008 is like 17 years ago !

Posted by: runner at February 27, 2025 09:28 AM (g47mK)

359 351 "An administrative law judge I used to appear in front of posted a long screed on Facebook about how there all kind of checks to make sure government workers are working."

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Posted by: goatexchange at February 27, 2025 09:26 AM (hyS0X)

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100% of the 5.1 million federal employees (including the military) are productive at least 80% of the time.

And to imply that even 1% of them are not is racism.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 09:28 AM (GBKbO)

360 I'm prepared to be underwhelmed with the Epstein list reveal later on today. Probably a lot of "duh" moments as names we've suspected all along are listed.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

I heard a lot are redacted.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2025 09:28 AM (NiXiP)

361 North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

If it isn't limited to North Atlantic countries, then rename the fucking thing and reassess the reason it even exists.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 27, 2025 09:28 AM (PzXaK)

362 To further my Gene Hackman comment, the temperature in Santa Fe NM is 29 degrees at 9:27 EST. So, again, some type of heater is necessary at times. CO poisoning was probably the cause of death.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at February 27, 2025 09:29 AM (dgRL6)

363 Steak'n'Shake becomes the first national fast food chain to switch back to beef tallow for cooking fries.

The planet is truly beginning to heal.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 27, 2025 09:29 AM (W5ArC)

364 >>All these ancient-Egypt puns are starting to take a ptolla me.

The bastets won't ease up on 'em!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 27, 2025 09:29 AM (Cki93)

365 More Bush (200

: ""NATO should welcome Georgia and Ukraine into the membership action plan, and NATO membership must remain open to all of Europe's democracies that seek it," the president said."

Posted by: runner at February 27, 2025 09:29 AM (g47mK)

366 >>Key excerpt : "President Bush is calling for them (NATO) to do more in Afghanistan, and to do more to bring in former Soviet states like Ukraine and Georgia. Russia doesn't like that idea, but President Bush says it should realize the Cold War is over."

Within days of that summit Putin invaded Georgia.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 27, 2025 09:29 AM (LkLld)

367
"An administrative law judge I used to appear in front of posted a long screed on Facebook about how there all kind of checks to make sure government workers are working."

I can well imagine said administrative law judge triumphantly thinking, "There! I sure showed them what's what!" as he pushed the Send button.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 27, 2025 09:30 AM (xG4kz)

368 The Georgia invasion happened under W.
Posted by: Bulg

Happened under Grant & Sherman.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2025 09:30 AM (NiXiP)

369 All these ancient-Egypt puns are starting to take a ptolla me.
Posted by: Bulg at February 27, 2025 09:25 AM (77rzZ)

I guess next time we'll roll out the welcome ma'at

Posted by: ... at February 27, 2025 09:30 AM (If0wl)

370 365 More Bush (200: ""NATO should welcome Georgia and Ukraine into the membership action plan, and NATO membership must remain open to all of Europe's democracies that seek it," the president said."
Posted by: runner at February 27, 2025 09:29 AM (g47mK)

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This at the same time W was trying to make nice with Russia, right?

I remember criticisms of him being too chummy with Putin.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 09:30 AM (GBKbO)

371 356 BTW, I'm going to burn own the local Elks' office because they're potentially stealing members from the Optimists.

Bastards.
Posted by: andycanuck

What about us?

Posted by: Odd Fellows at February 27, 2025 09:30 AM (G5+As)

372 @367 yup, arrogant guy

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 27, 2025 09:30 AM (EG7Bp)

373 94% of federal workers were WFH.

Some jobs can be done perfectly fine from home.

Others can be done somewhat fine from home.

But...94%?!? So border inspectors, forest rangers, building guards, people that actually directly do stuff for the public are only 6% of federal workers?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2025 09:30 AM (t0Rmr)

374
A
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Posted by: rhennigantx at February 27, 2025 09:30 AM (gbOdA)

375 Gene Hackman in Bite the Bullet.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 27, 2025 09:31 AM (mB6WH)

376 took me some time to figure out what 'unforgiven' means

Posted by: Don Black at February 27, 2025 09:31 AM (AOsQT)

377 Noodus gratia artis

Posted by: Bulg at February 27, 2025 09:31 AM (77rzZ)

378 Steak'n'Shake becomes the first national fast food chain to switch back to beef tallow for cooking fries.

The planet is truly beginning to heal.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

TRUMP stopped the oceans from rising. Not Obola.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2025 09:31 AM (NiXiP)

379 >>"An administrative law judge I used to appear in front of posted a long screed on Facebook about how there all kind of checks to make sure government workers are working."

Productive at what -- producing queer puppet shows in Brazil, harassing Amish farmers selling raw milk, shutting down farmers in CA to save a tiny fish, pre-dawn raids and arrest of peaceful abortion clinic protesters. . .?

Productivity is only one issue of many.
The federal government is too dang big and has long ceased to serve toe American public.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 27, 2025 09:32 AM (Cki93)

380 Huffington Post and Reuters are the latest propaganda outlets to get kicked out of the White House.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 27, 2025 09:32 AM (W5ArC)

381
Who'll turn up from among the Bush family as recipients of USAID GraftCash?

Jeb! for sure. Little Georgie P? I sure hope so!

Don't get me started on the Cheyney clan.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 27, 2025 09:33 AM (xG4kz)

382 If it isn't limited to North Atlantic countries, then rename the fucking thing and reassess the reason it even exists.
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Maybe the Warsaw Pact.

Oh.

That one's already been used.

Never mind.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 27, 2025 09:33 AM (/tzYP)

383 On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House,” Illinois Gov. JB “Fat Boy” Pritzker (D) argued that “the prices at the grocery store are going up because democracy is being taken away.” And “The impact on you in terms of your health care, 770,000 people in Illinois will lose health care as a result of what Donald Trump and Elon Musk and the Republican Congress are doing right now, it’s a danger to your way of life, and that’s what people need to understand.” Pritzker said.

Posted by: SMOD at February 27, 2025 09:33 AM (RHGPo)

384 >>Who'll turn up from among the Bush family as recipients of USAID GraftCash?

W's daughter Barbara. IIRC, she has a healthcare non-profit that exists to funnel grants/aid to other organizations that do the actual work.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 27, 2025 09:34 AM (Cki93)

385 770,000 people in Illinois will lose health care as a result of what Donald Trump and Elon Musk and the Republican Congress are doing right now

And of course, the trained seals of the media will bark and clap in unison and anyone who challenges this will be considered an insurrectionist.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 27, 2025 09:35 AM (svLOV)

386 Supreme Court Blocks Order From Lunatic Judge Amir Ali That Would've Forced Trump to Unfreeze Foreign Aid

Posted by: SMOD at February 27, 2025 09:36 AM (RHGPo)

387 Steak'n'Shake becomes the first national fast food chain to switch back to beef tallow for cooking fries.

The planet is truly beginning to heal.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

**claps hands**

Posted by: Heart Surgeons Of America at February 27, 2025 09:36 AM (dgRL6)

388 Hundreds of birds in the same family as the falcon were found dead on Sunday in the western Negev, leading investigators to believe they drank from poisoned water.

A suspected poisoning incident has led to the deaths of 335 birds, including Greater Spotted Eagles, Black Kites, Spur-Winged Lapwings, and Hooded Crownears in the western Negev settlement of Patish, inspectors from the Nature and Parks Authority reported Saturday.

Posted by: SMOD at February 27, 2025 09:39 AM (RHGPo)

389 This training is so extensive--and so perfect in protecting against leaks--that even federal judges have agreed to stop DOGE until they do.

Charles Littlejohn took, and passed, all the necessary training.
So there is no way, no way at all he leaked those tax returns.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 27, 2025 08:35 AM

The training is most likely the same one that I've had to take: a 30-minute online course on "Safeguarding PII".

Posted by: Bert G at February 27, 2025 09:41 AM (VARTN)

390 >>770,000 people in Illinois will lose health care as a result of what Donald Trump and Elon Musk and the Republican Congress are doing right now

Because they, and illegal immigrants, are not entitled to it? Or because they've obtained it fraudulently?

Please clarify who these 770k are, governor.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 27, 2025 09:46 AM (Cki93)

391 94% of federal workers were WFH.

Some jobs can be done perfectly fine from home.

Others can be done somewhat fine from home.

But...94%?!? So border inspectors, forest rangers, building guards, people that actually directly do stuff for the public are only 6% of federal workers?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2025 09:30 AM (t0Rmr)

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If a lot of government workers can WFH, I'm fine with it if they can spread out across the USA. In fact, make it a requirement that they have to live in an area that is at 95% of national cost of living. Also all online meetings should be viewable by the public.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 27, 2025 09:54 AM (Vh9CX)

392 I keep seeing this "economic blackout" protest that dumb leftist are being socked in to promoting, which is hilarious on multiple levels.

A) basically you're (leftist) admitting that since you lost you want to do what you can to hurt America and everyone here.

B) you're saying it's against these evil billionaires, ignoring that your fake protest is bankrolled by billionaires who (unlike Walmart, Amazon or others who at least offer some service) made their money just allocating from people and trying to destroy countries economically, for their item financial gain (not to mention the literal nazi collaborator being the biggest backer of this shit)

Posted by: Rbastid at February 27, 2025 09:59 AM (D0axs)

393 “I thought it sounded to me like my friend, Sen. Durbin, was defending the Korematsu decision, which I think is one of the worst and most abhorrent decisions in the history of the United States,” Hawley said.
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Yippee ki-yay, [My Friend].

Posted by: Another Anon at February 27, 2025 10:06 AM (QNMaY)

394 "The Media Is Having Its Worst Week Ever, And We’re Only One Month Into Trump 2.0"

/homer simpson
"It's worst week SO FAR"
/homer simpson

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 27, 2025 10:14 AM (N1tpc)

395 Good morning, all, and thanks, J.J.

Another great, Gene Hackman, is gone at age 95. I hope we learn what caused his, his wife's and even their dog's death together. Carbon monoxide, perhaps.

Strange how it's quiet about the contractor for whom Littlejohn worked, and on more than one occasion. Do note that the feds do have an odd habit of rehiring the same contractors that have cause harm.

Then >The New York Times, Jun 9, 2013 - Booz Allen Grew Rich on Government Contracts.
"In January, Booz Allen announced that it was starting work on a new contract work perhaps as much as $5.6 billion over five years ..."

Now > Booz Allen (investor dot boozallen dot com) 'Booz Allen Recognized as the Leading Provider of Cybersecurity to the Federal Government, Nov. 19, 2024
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But -
DOJ dot gov, Office of Public Affairs, News, Press Release, Friday, January 3, 2025
Booz Allen Agrees to Pay $15.875M to Settle False Claims Act Allegations

In part, "Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation (Booz Allen) has agreed to pay the United States $15,875,000 to resolve allegations that Booz Allen Hamilton Engineering Services LLC (BES), a wholly owned subsidiary of Booz

Cont'd

Posted by: L - Another fine day at February 27, 2025 11:01 AM (NFX2v)

396 Allen violated the False Claims Act by knowingly submitting fraudulent claims to the United States in connection with a General Services Administration (GSA) task order to supply computer military training simulators and systems to Department of Defense (DoD) agencies, including the Air Force. ..."

And,
DOJ, Office of Public Affairs, Press Release
Booz Allen Agrees to Pay $377.45 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations, Friday, July 21, 2023

In part, "The settlement announced today resolves allegations that from approximately 2011 to 2021, Booz Allen improperly charged costs to its government contracts and subcontracts that instead should have been billed to its commercial and international contracts. ..."
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NBC News, Aug. 29, 2023, 'Doing the right thing' was worth $40 million to this Marine veteran and mother of three' When Sarah Feinberg left the Corps, she took a job at a prestigious D.C. contractor. But when she suspected it was overcharging taxpayers $500 million, she became a whistleblower.

(Can you imagine the bravery that took?)
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But who cares?
Huntsville Business Journal, Aug 9, 2024, Booz Allen Hamilton secures spot on FBI’s $8 Billion IT contract

Posted by: L - Another fine day at February 27, 2025 11:02 AM (NFX2v)

397 So, since DOGE is the hot topic, FYI not just the US Digital Service (USDS now DOGE) but other "outside" tech groups were created & embedded in various agencies since O&Joe. Has DOGE found them?

A must read, imo: Georgetown Public Policy Review, Policy Shaping Our Future, Sep. 20, 2022, '10 Years Later: Reviewing the Promise of a Tech-Forward U.S. Government'

The Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF) created in 2012 & likely still working with the Millennial Challenge Corporation, among others. In 2013, two new teams were started: USDS and 18F.

In 2016, Technology Transformation Services (TTS) under the General Services Administration (GSA) was created as a new home for 18F, PIF, and the Office of Products and Programs (OPP).

GSA, A Brief History of TTS Solutions
A brief history of TTS Solutions is hard to write: our work spans six decades and ten administrations! Moreover, we haven't always been Solutions: pre-2016, we were known as the Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies (OCSIT), and from 2016-2019 we were known as the Office of Products and Programs (OPP).

Read the 'History and values of 18F' - 18F stands on the shoulders of giants!

Posted by: L - Another fine day at February 27, 2025 11:02 AM (NFX2v)

398 They "...equalize the government, making it inclusive and accessible for everyone."

What's that? 🤷‍♀️
Congressional Budget Justification, FY 2025
Millennium Challenge Corporation (.gov)
MCC's FY 2025 budget proposal to Congress includes $937 million in discretionary funding to deliver on its mission to reduce poverty.

Wikipedia, The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is a bilateral United States foreign aid agency established by the U.S. Congress in 2004. It is an independent agency separate from the State Department and USAID.
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When you get to what you think is the end of searching, keep going. Who or what is at the very top of creation & holdings is always fascinating.

All above, imo.
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🙏🕯 Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas were buried in a single casket. Thousands of Israelis lined the streets to pay their respects.

Posted by: L - Another fine day at February 27, 2025 11:03 AM (NFX2v)

399 Tucker needs to show up at a bunch of public functions where Eyepatch is, complete with video crew. "So you want me dead? Do it now. I dare you, I double dare you motherfucker. No? Then shut your filthy sewer hole, you pussy."

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 27, 2025 11:50 AM (FoIOl)

400 Addendum to 395 through 398:

>taxnotes dot com/research/federal/court
Class Action Suit Filed Against IRS, Booz Allen for Tax Info Leak, Jan. 24, 2025
Alarm Concepts Inc. v. IRS
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IRS Report to Congress
Inflation Reduction Act S10301(1)(B), IRS-run Direct e-File Tax Return System May 16, 2023, Publication 5788 (5 -2023

"The IRS created a Direct File Task Force, a cross-functional group of IRS employees, supported by the United States Digital Service (USDS), to conduct this study." ...

"Current state: The IRS report does not indicate whether a potential Direct File system would be implemented in a secure cloud environment. However, IRS IT currently maintains several FedRAMPed cloud environments, which would be available for use by a potential Direct File system and contain a number of standard security controls that could be inherited by a potential Direct File system hosted in those environments.
For application development capacity, the IRS is in a good position to leverage collaboration with USDS to ensure that a technical vendor is procured with a high level of expertise in building applications securely in a cloud environment."
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More tomorrow, luvs.

Posted by: L - Another fine day at February 27, 2025 01:10 PM (NFX2v)

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