Let Me Google That For You, Blue-Check "Journalist" Genius

This Pubic Intellectual claims, Without Evidence, to be a "WH Reporter."

Let's fact-check that.

I know facts are hard for reporters but here’s a helpful guide Brian. pic.twitter.com/9EhOGtY4I0
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) February 26, 2020

Speaking of Google:

I like this rant about the Corporate Justice Warriors who are way overepresented in conservative circles because they have donors paying them to peddle corporatist propaganda:

The interesting part of this ruling is that it's essentially saying that if I'm running an online business I can deny you a access to my service, even if I have an effective monopoly on the service.

Yes, there are other video sites... but not really. Not if you want to be seen.
— PoliMath (@politicalmath) February 26, 2020

Yep, lots and lots of right leaning folk in my mentions who are like "but we have to protect this monstrous corporation that effectively owns video ad distribution and their right to fuck over anyone they want for arbitrary reasons"

Well done, everyone, let's call it a day.
— PoliMath (@politicalmath) February 26, 2020

PragerU spent an enormous amount of time and money building their brand on YouTube with the expectation of certain behaviors from Google.

Google fucked them, destroying everything they worked to build.

And y'all think that's *great*, exactly how it should be.

I got nothing.
— PoliMath (@politicalmath) February 26, 2020

Remember, all True Conservatives fight passionately for the right of mega-monopolies' right to deprive conservatives of their rights.

Apparently we should also fight for Al Qaeda's right to buy explosives and send them across borders to kill us. To try to stop this would be compromising our free market religious maniac values.

"The Constitution is not a suicide pact," they say, but apparently free market zealotry is.

Posted by: Ace at 06:05 PM

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1 Yup.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at February 26, 2020 06:08 PM (DTX3h)

2 Foist, not.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at February 26, 2020 06:09 PM (+fPHo)

3 LOL

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2020 06:09 PM (uEbPt)

4 How much do journalists get paid on average? I'm thinking it's gotta be on the low side.

Posted by: kathysaysso at February 26, 2020 06:09 PM (vkS2Z)

5 Awesome humiliation.

Posted by: Ha at February 26, 2020 06:09 PM (EsGqq)

6 This is lolbertarianism in a nutshell, and it's why everyone else laughs at them.

Posted by: Pinochet's Sunglasses at February 26, 2020 06:10 PM (n+0Aw)

7 My God, that was a great self-pantsing that Brian Karem indulged in.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet has Sparkling Golden Trump-Do! Unleash your Inner Scalp Weasel! at February 26, 2020 06:10 PM (7ULem)

8
We should just call these Media Liars "1984's."

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at February 26, 2020 06:10 PM (Z1G6c)

9 Way too much time reading content.

Mr BlueCheck's defense is that he really really just cannot write. He means to say, "I don't know whether this is a pool presser or not," but goes all blooey with words because of his TDS.

The YouTube rant is far more serious a matter.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at February 26, 2020 06:11 PM (+fPHo)

10 Well, he didnt get that Cuban literacy infusion.

Posted by: henry at February 26, 2020 06:12 PM (J3Rfi)

11 Bret Beire has a huge smear of ashes on his forehead
This is the Catholic virtue signaling to the extreme

Posted by: JoeF. at February 26, 2020 06:12 PM (GIrYv)

12 Is that Neil Stevens that used to be with redstate?

Posted by: Ha at February 26, 2020 06:12 PM (EsGqq)

13 That other thread was getting quite *feisty*

Posted by: Cheriebebe at February 26, 2020 06:13 PM (a4qVe)

14 Ace, a suicide pact implies mutual death.

Quisling Republicans watching *you* die while they get paid off isn't a suicide pact, it's a sell-out.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 26, 2020 06:13 PM (cfSRQ)

15 In the words of the Bobs

"What is it you'd say you do here?"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 26, 2020 06:13 PM (KZzsI)

16 That guy is real rocket sturgeon

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2020 06:13 PM (X5wvm)

17 One commenter on Starbucks twitter feed suggested signing Karem up for Bernie's Cuban literacy program - heh

Posted by: Boswell at February 26, 2020 06:13 PM (32YRo)

18 I just saw the time was pushed back to 6:30. IMPEACH!!!

Posted by: toddg at February 26, 2020 06:13 PM (PoO61)

19 This is a problem.
We thought the internet was a public forum, but it's not.
It's a series of gated communities with subjective rules and if you aren't one of the rule-makers, you're shit out of luck.

So, Youtube is not a platform, but a publisher.

OK, then.

Let's get this party started?

Attorneys, start your engines!

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at February 26, 2020 06:14 PM (sy5kK)

20 It's getting to the point where I think there needs to be a law that any corporation that has hired a lobbyist(s) to influence legislation be subject to the same Constitutional requirements as the Federal Government: Free Speech, Association, Freedom of Religion, and so on. These mega-corps are essentially paragovernments allied with the real government and used to enact policy priorities.

Posted by: Pinochet's Sunglasses at February 26, 2020 06:14 PM (n+0Aw)

21 Brian Karem: "I'm an upstanding member of the Twitterati!"

No, Brian, you're just a standard run of the mill Twittiot.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at February 26, 2020 06:14 PM (RIAR/)

22 Just gonna say it: I hate the name "PragerU"

Posted by: Guy Smiley at February 26, 2020 06:14 PM (qaSBO)

23 >>>12 Is that Neil Stevens that used to be with redstate?

probably. if that's the cuck I'm barely remembering.

Posted by: ace at February 26, 2020 06:14 PM (PbpT7)

24 WTF is going on with Fox News? Many anchors and guests have black smudges on their foreheads! Is this the new virtue signalling bracelet/ribbon?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 26, 2020 06:14 PM (+y/Ru)

25 The 9th strikes again?

Posted by: DaveA at February 26, 2020 06:14 PM (FhXTo)

26 That other thread was getting quite *feisty*

Evidently I come across as too overbearing and pedantic

I am sorry if I do.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 26, 2020 06:14 PM (KZzsI)

27 11 Bret Beire has a huge smear of ashes on his forehead
This is the Catholic virtue signaling to the extreme
Posted by: JoeF.

---

Are you serious Joe?

We are to wear them all day, in public if we go out.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 26, 2020 06:14 PM (Y4EXg)

28 My combat-honed principles requirement to regularly cash checks from Google while singing the praises of liberty.

Posted by: David French at February 26, 2020 06:14 PM (cfSRQ)

29 >>>14 Ace, a suicide pact implies mutual death.

Quisling Republicans watching *you* die while they get paid off isn't a suicide pact, it's a sell-out.

...

yup.

Posted by: ace at February 26, 2020 06:14 PM (PbpT7)

30 I don't see what's so difficult about content must be treated neutrally and rules can't be changed at whim and if you do that then buh bye Section 230 protections.

Not difficult, people.

In somewhat related news, apparently several Youtube and Twitch channels who were streaming the CBS debate got taken down due to DMCA notices. The company that filed those notices has now basically disappeared into the ether.

These were left wing sites for the most part and people are yowling about what the hell.

Live by the automated DMCA, die by the automated DMCA.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at February 26, 2020 06:14 PM (GbPPJ)

31 You didn't nood. Assholes.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 26, 2020 06:15 PM (gd9RK)

32 Spenser knocked into Fox heads with a charred 2x4?

Posted by: henry at February 26, 2020 06:15 PM (J3Rfi)

33 "...black smudges on their foreheads"

Today is Ash Wednesday.

Posted by: attila the thrilla at February 26, 2020 06:15 PM (w7KSn)

34
I Nooded.

I, the creator of "Nood," nooded.

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at February 26, 2020 06:15 PM (Z1G6c)

35 I managed to pick up a P100 respirator this afternoon. If this whole situation turns out to be an empty bun as I hope it does, then at least I can use it to cosplay as Bane.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at February 26, 2020 06:15 PM (DTX3h)

36 Does poor, pathetic, Joe have the ash Wednesday mark? How about Nancy P?

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 26, 2020 06:15 PM (ki2Id)

37

I, Nood

by Isaac Soothimov

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at February 26, 2020 06:16 PM (Z1G6c)

38 Bander - yeah, there was a nood there.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 26, 2020 06:16 PM (Y4EXg)

39 Sense. WTF auto spell?

Posted by: henry at February 26, 2020 06:16 PM (J3Rfi)

40 You see, my wife (or should I say, the bull's girlfriend), wanted a larger bed, a total remodel with eye-bolts in the ceiling as well.

That meant I needed the cuckshed soundproofed, because her screams were interrupting my enjoyment of Queer as Folk.

Google had the money and I have the keyboard.

Posted by: David French at February 26, 2020 06:16 PM (cfSRQ)

41 I am sorry if I do.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Nah. You're good, bro.

Posted by: dagny at February 26, 2020 06:16 PM (nRWPy)

42 Remember, all True Conservatives fight passionately for the right of mega-monopolies' right to deprive conservatives of their right.

Yes. Because they don't believe in conservative principles as such, only in positions that are "conservative" in relation to leftist lunacy - the old "The Conservative Case for Abortion" joke.

Which reminds me that yesterday I got a notice in the mail from National Review "reminding" me to renew my subscription (I cancelled the day WFB died). I thought long and hard about calling and saying I would pull surprise anal on Maxine Waters than subscribe to their pathetic rag, but I realized I'd only be yelling at Sandeep in India.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 26, 2020 06:16 PM (Ki5SV)

43 Second look at Snow Crash?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2020 06:16 PM (X5wvm)

44 probably. if that's the cuck I'm barely remembering.

Posted by: ace at February 26, 2020 06:14 PM (PbpT7)

Almost positive it's him.

He banned me during 08 R primary bc I referred to McCain as Cain. Just bc it was faster to type that way.

Posted by: Ha at February 26, 2020 06:16 PM (EsGqq)

45 before I check on the press con :

I had a prediction a few days ago , not sure if I posted here, that the government would only start widespread testing and /or release real numbers once there was either a vaccine or cure in hand.

I bet Trump's announcement tonight will be along those lines - the vax in trials btw watching x numbers in USA

Posted by: vmom 2020 v14 at February 26, 2020 06:16 PM (G546f)

46 Can't the Catholics just eat fish?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 26, 2020 06:16 PM (+y/Ru)

47 This is hate speach. I can't explain it in front of Congress but it wouldn't be blocked otherwise. So I have said.

Posted by: ryukyu at February 26, 2020 06:16 PM (vKhgw)

48 I was just watching a Praeger video a few hours ago, showing everyone the Top 3 ways that voting is corrupted in America.

It was only 5 minutes.

5 devastatingly honest minutes.

Our voting rolls are so rotten and corrupted, we're going to have to brush off the maggots before we pull the lever this time.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at February 26, 2020 06:16 PM (sy5kK)

49 >>>35 I managed to pick up a P100 respirator this afternoon. If this whole situation turns out to be an empty bun as I hope it does, then at least I can use it to cosplay as Bane.

They're selling N95's for like $270 for a three pack.

Posted by: ace at February 26, 2020 06:17 PM (PbpT7)

50 I don't see what's so difficult about content must be treated neutrally and rules can't be changed at whim and if you do that then buh bye Section 230 protections.

Well there's a lot of money in these companies, and that's hard for lawmakers to argue against. On the one hand, there's the law, truth, and morality and on the other there's this dumptruck full of cash outside my door

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 26, 2020 06:17 PM (KZzsI)

51 My Fifth grade teacher Sister Grace had nothing but contempt for Catholics who avoided Mass but were always first on line for ashes and palms
She called them A and P Catholics

Posted by: JoeF. at February 26, 2020 06:17 PM (GIrYv)

52

Nood Like Me
by
John Howard Griffinsoothsayer

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at February 26, 2020 06:17 PM (Z1G6c)

53 A little-known fact. Ash Wednesday is not a Holy Day of Obligation. It, and the receiving of ashes, is completely voluntary.

Posted by: JAS at February 26, 2020 06:17 PM (2BZBZ)

54 Hee's his explanation:

Brian J. Karem

Thanks for reading. Here's the latest: Updating NOW: WH still trying to determine location. Whether or not it will be a Pool event or Open press. And yet to determine who from the CDC will be present.

So, OrangeMan didn't specify *specifically* where in the WH, and whether it would be a pool event or the oddly-capitalized "Open press." And OrangeMan didn't spell out specifically, *in a Tweet* who *exactly* would be there from the CDC.

Uh huh. You go with that, Bri.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at February 26, 2020 06:18 PM (qaSBO)

55 yup.

Posted by: ace at February 26, 2020 06:14 PM (PbpT7)

---
Buy my new book! It's got vampires and guns. You'll like it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 26, 2020 06:18 PM (cfSRQ)

56 "some of my left-wing tech friends posted it"

There are no good left-wing techs. They don't understand basic logic.

Posted by: db at February 26, 2020 06:18 PM (Ps2wy)

57 8
We should just call these Media Liars "1984's."
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at February 26, 2020 06:10 PM (Z1G6c)

Sooth, I like this!

So very true.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at February 26, 2020 06:18 PM (sy5kK)

58 WTF is going on with Fox News? Many anchors and guests have black smudges on their foreheads! Is this the new virtue signalling bracelet/ribbon?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 26, 2020 06:14 PM (+y/Ru)

Remember the parable about the Pharisee praying in temple? This is the TV equivalent.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 26, 2020 06:18 PM (Ki5SV)

59 We are to wear them all day, in public if we go out.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 26, 2020 06:14 PM (Y4EXg)
-----------

Yep.

One of my supervisors has ashes on his forehead.

We had a marvelous discussion about the importance of Christ rising from the dead.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at February 26, 2020 06:18 PM (RIAR/)

60 I wanna be sedated!

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 26, 2020 06:18 PM (d7Ww2)

61 The first time I remember seeing a significant number of people celebrating Ash Wednesday was in the Philippines two years ago.

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 26, 2020 06:18 PM (ki2Id)

62 but were always first on line for ashes and palms
She called them A and P Catholics
Posted by: JoeF.

--

Ah, got it. I call them E and C. (Easter and Christmas) Same idea.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 26, 2020 06:18 PM (Y4EXg)

63 My plan is simple. As a retired person, I really don't have to go anywhere. I will stock up on food and hunker down here at de la maison JAS.

Posted by: JAS at February 26, 2020 06:19 PM (2BZBZ)

64 Remove, "Why," and turn it into the Four Ws and a lot of the bullshit goes away.

Posted by: davidt at February 26, 2020 06:19 PM (l3+k2)

65 Ash Wednesday.
It's an RCC thing.
First day of Lent.

Posted by: Winston a dreg of society at February 26, 2020 06:19 PM (4f3g0)

66 >>>He banned me during 08 R primary bc I referred to McCain as Cain. Just bc it was faster to type that way.

I only *think* I know who he is because I would occasionally watch this horrifyingly bad cuck YouTube "podcast," The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Friends.

JeffB. was on it.

I was fascinated by it because the "shows" would get literally 400 views per "show."

And at that level of viewership, IT MAKES MORE SENSE JUST TO INDIVIDUALLY CALL ALL OF YOUR AUDIENCE ON THE PHONE AND GIVE THEM AN UPDATE.

And the show was just so AWFUL. And everyone on it was so incompetent, and stuttering, and uncharismatic.

And SMUG. Every single one of them was so smug to be on a YouTube "show" which... 300 to 400 people would watch.

And I remember a guy I think was "Neil Stevens" being the most unwarrantedly smug of all.

Posted by: ace at February 26, 2020 06:19 PM (PbpT7)

67 Mayor Pete wears the ashes from the parts of the Bible he burned because he doesn't like them.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at February 26, 2020 06:19 PM (qaSBO)

68 Evidently I come across as too overbearing and pedantic

I am sorry if I do.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February

"*deep breath*

OK here we go again.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February"

So, were you not aware, Strunk and White suggests that this is nearly as offensive as "ok you sister fucking, cocksucking, meth addicted tranny retards who lost their vags."

It is not something I would use in a presentation where I was trying to persuade the client or win an assignment. However, I do recognize that there are differences of opinion aver this.

Posted by: not so at February 26, 2020 06:20 PM (HALdu)

69 27 TonyPete you are right

I just dont care for Baire and Im Catholic and know the rules

Posted by: JoeF. at February 26, 2020 06:20 PM (GIrYv)

70 Heard a government official on Hugh Hewitt that spelled out what the administration was doing, different already approved drugs might be used.

Posted by: Skip at February 26, 2020 06:20 PM (ZCEU2)

71 Rev is getting ready for his Ash Wednesday service right now. I told him not to be so heavy-handed as last year. People were smudged for a week.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 26, 2020 06:20 PM (lwiT4)

72 I expect that the DOJ will be warming up some well deserved Monopoly bustin' action after November when Trump is re-elected...YouTube will become All Ya'll Tubes soon enough.

Posted by: Boswell at February 26, 2020 06:20 PM (32YRo)

73 CRT it wasn't you, it was another nic I haven't seen much of that was getting a bit *pointed* and dickish to regular commentors

Posted by: Cheriebebe at February 26, 2020 06:20 PM (a4qVe)

74 11 Bret Beire has a huge smear of ashes on his forehead
This is the Catholic virtue signaling to the extreme
Posted by: JoeF. at February 26, 2020 06:12 PM (GIrYv)

no, it is standard practice on Ash Wednesday.

guessing Laura Ingraham will be similarly marked on her show this evening.

Laura is a big Catholic.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at February 26, 2020 06:20 PM (sy5kK)

75 Can't the Catholics just eat fish?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 26, 2020 06:16 PM (+y/Ru)

We do, today. In addition to fasting.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 26, 2020 06:20 PM (Ki5SV)

76 Remember, all True Conservatives fight passionately for the right of
mega-monopolies' right to deprive conservatives of their rights.
---
I have to pick this out as problematic.

The True Cons never fight at all.

They whine, they kvetch.

David French's idea of "going to war" was doing paperwork in Baghdad via direct commission.

(You know who else got a direct commission?)

They type. Go on cruises. Cash checks.

And lose. Every time.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 26, 2020 06:21 PM (cfSRQ)

77 Ask Gab how that whole "Just start your own twitter" thing goes.

Turns out that you have to follow twitters tos even if you are not twitter.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 26, 2020 06:21 PM (dNzKv)

78 WTF is going on with Fox News? Many anchors and guests have black smudges on their foreheads! Is this the new virtue signalling bracelet/ribbon?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 26, 2020 06:14 PM (+y/Ru)

Really?

Posted by: josephistan at February 26, 2020 06:21 PM (Izzlo)

79 And I remember a guy I think was "Neil Stevens" being the most unwarrantedly smug of all.

Posted by: ace at February 26, 2020 06:19 PM (PbpT7)

That's him! Smug as hell.

Posted by: Ha at February 26, 2020 06:21 PM (EsGqq)

80 >>>guessing Laura Ingraham will be similarly marked on her show this evening.

I have a white spot on my cheek and chin, is that the same thing?

Posted by: David "Curious" French at February 26, 2020 06:21 PM (PbpT7)

81 This Brian J. Karem person is really at the top of his game. The game of being Biggest Dunce, of course.

Thank you. And try the veal.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at February 26, 2020 06:21 PM (6eEQ+)

82 I have come to believe that when we control Congress again, we need to update and weaponize the old Sherman Anti-Trust Act, and use it to break up the large Tech organizations.

it would probably fuck up a lot of money going to California, too, so that's a nice bonus.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 26, 2020 06:21 PM (Kpl3J)

83 Ash Wednesday.

It's an RCC thing.

First day of Lent.

Posted by: Winston a dreg of society at February 26, 2020 06:19 PM (4f3g0)

Also Lutheran and Anglican. I don't know about those Methodists.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 26, 2020 06:22 PM (lwiT4)

84 I suppose the "purist" answer would be to use anti-monopoly laws against Google.

However, I suspect a lot of the "more pure than you" righty types wouldn't support that either.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 26, 2020 06:22 PM (9t0Zz)

85 I have zero issues with Bauer practicing his religion on national television. Haw many years have we been fighting Christian suppression in the public square and now people are bitching about how it looks.

Posted by: Jen the original at February 26, 2020 06:22 PM (Q3GR2)

86 The grift aspect to the corporation uber alles conservatism is annoying and all the "conservative" think tanks are indeed comprised at this point, but it's also a matter of ingrained reflex for many of these types.

Lots of them would be doing more or less the same thing for free ... too much Milton Friedman and Reagan-era nostalgia, not enough Edmund Burke.

The corporate payoffs just provide a nice reason not to re-evaluate their long-standing policy preferences in light of the present situation/facts.

Posted by: Frankovich's Monster at February 26, 2020 06:22 PM (hdzef)

87 no, it is standard practice on Ash Wednesday.

guessing Laura Ingraham will be similarly marked on her show this evening.

Laura is a big Catholic.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at February

she is going to look like northam at a frat party

Posted by: not so at February 26, 2020 06:22 PM (HALdu)

88 It is not something I would use in a presentation where I was trying to persuade the client or win an assignment.

Sorry, that was out of growing frustration. People keep misusing the term and its a very bad thing because watering down something like that leads to the ease of it returning. This isn't a discussion about Coke vs Pepsi or Bailey vs Jennifer. This is freaking NAZIS we're talking about.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 26, 2020 06:22 PM (KZzsI)

89 but were always first on line for ashes and palms
She called them A and P Catholics
Posted by: JoeF.

--

Ah, got it. I call them E and C. (Easter and Christmas) Same idea.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 26, 2020 06:18 PM (Y4EXg)

"Bear Catholics" because they only come out of hibernation for Easter and Christmas, as an old priest friend of mine used to put it.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 26, 2020 06:22 PM (Ki5SV)

90 Remember the parable about the Pharisee praying in temple? This is the TV equivalent.

-
I thought it was, "I care about coronavirus. And you don't. Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah!"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 26, 2020 06:22 PM (+y/Ru)

91 I believe that Brian Karem is the guy that got into with Sebastian Gorka in the Rose Garden at the WH social media summit.

Posted by: Tami at February 26, 2020 06:22 PM (cF8AT)

92 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJycFqj-I0w

fox feed for press conference

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at February 26, 2020 06:22 PM (LWu6U)

93 Ash Wednesday- the day catholics virtuesignal their religousosity

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 26, 2020 06:22 PM (dNzKv)

94 Also Lutheran and Anglican. I don't know about those Methodists.
Posted by: grammie winger at February 26, 2020 06:22 PM (lwiT4)
------------

I believe it is optional.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at February 26, 2020 06:23 PM (RIAR/)

95 Karem's lame-ass explanation is worse than the original Tweet.

Just admit that in your zeal to get a "gotcha" on OrangeManBad, ya fvcked up. Digging the hole deeper doesn't help.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at February 26, 2020 06:23 PM (qaSBO)

96 This election year Trump stock market is really helping his chances this Nov.

Posted by: Leo Gorcery at February 26, 2020 06:23 PM (aklv8)

97 >>>>77 Ask Gab how that whole "Just start your own twitter" thing goes.

Turns out that you have to follow twitters tos even if you are not twitter.

....

National Review cucks and that breed of Corporate Donor Welfare Queen always thinks "Gee, we never have any problem with YouTube and Google! In fact, Google donates to us!"

Meanwhile, they're actively writing pro-Google propaganda.

And yet Google doesn't retalliate against you. I WONDER THE FUCK WHY.

Posted by: ace at February 26, 2020 06:23 PM (PbpT7)

98 Excuse me.

Is this thread for argument or insult?

Posted by: Miklos, thanks in advance at February 26, 2020 06:23 PM (QzkSJ)

99 just got the pulse oximeter I ordered from Amazon

if someone in the family gets sick at least we'll have a way to check if they are starting to not get enough oxygen

Posted by: vmom 2020 v14 at February 26, 2020 06:23 PM (G546f)

100 62
but were always first on line for ashes and palms

She called them A and P Catholics

Posted by: JoeF.

--

Ah, got it. I call them E and C. (Easter and Christmas) Same idea.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 26, 2020 06:18 PM (Y4EXg)

C.E.O.s --- Christmas and Easter Only

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 26, 2020 06:23 PM (N39Ws)

101 btw less than $20 fyi

Posted by: vmom 2020 v14 at February 26, 2020 06:23 PM (G546f)

102 Anti Trust laws make me nervous, they can easily be abused to attack genuine free market advantage. But almost never do these gigantic megalopalies ever get that way out of the free market.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 26, 2020 06:23 PM (KZzsI)

103 My mom taught me to wash the ashes off as soon as you get home from Mass.

But then, she was a Methodist.

LOL. For the first time in a long time, I received them today and did not wash them off until later after dinner and when I brushed my teeth.

Posted by: JAS at February 26, 2020 06:24 PM (2BZBZ)

104 We are seeing the First Amendment being controlled by large corporations, functionally. If there was ever a definitive proof needed of the existence of the Deep State, look no further than twitter, facebook, google, bing, and the lesser rest. They ARE in collusion with the Judiciary, Washington generally, and the Media Entertainment Complex.

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2020 06:24 PM (90T4r)

105 "The Constitution is not a suicide pact," they say, but apparently free market zealotry is.

Free market for me, but not for thee.

Posted by: Corporate Justice Warriors, Inc. at February 26, 2020 06:24 PM (6eEQ+)

106 4 How much do journalists get paid on average? I'm thinking it's gotta be on the low side.
Posted by: kathysaysso

It depends. There's HUGE array of pay-levels, from pitiful to mind-boggling.

Local non=political journalists, and part-timers, and freelancers, get absolute peanuts.

The quickly-diminishing-to-zero demographic of middle-of-the-road middle-class journalists at mid-sized newspapers get mid-range salaries, but this entire category of job is now almost extinct.

And then there are the people who have landed jobs at the handful of Big Major Player outlets, and they generally get wildly overpaid. Six-figures plus, even for drone work.

TV gigs even more astronomically paid.

And at the top of the heap are the whores at Fake News outlets funded by leftist billionaires, who rake it in by the wagonload to parrot their masters' propaganda.

Posted by: zombie at February 26, 2020 06:24 PM (N9G0H)

107 Sorry, that was out of growing frustration. People keep misusing the term and its a very bad thing because watering down something like that leads to the ease of it returning. This isn't a discussion about Coke vs Pepsi or Bailey vs Jennifer. This is freaking NAZIS we're talking about.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February

didn't bother me either way. I have been screaming the "words have meaning thing" for years.

just offering the suggestion about phrasing.

Posted by: not so at February 26, 2020 06:25 PM (HALdu)

108
>>>She is going to look like northam at a frat party

snort!

Posted by: ace at February 26, 2020 06:25 PM (PbpT7)

109 M U H P R I N C I P L E S

Posted by: The Corporate Cons at February 26, 2020 06:25 PM (tVQUs)

110 49 They're selling N95's for like $270 for a three pack.

Posted by: ace at February 26, 2020 06:17 PM (PbpT7)

$6 + $$264 shipping, I'm guessing. I paid the regular price for the respirator (~$30) but had to drive ~75 minutes round-trip to pick mine up due to the traffic around here. Shit's crazy.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at February 26, 2020 06:25 PM (DTX3h)

111
Didn't fake news tell us Justin Smollett was due in court this week?

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at February 26, 2020 06:25 PM (Z1G6c)

112
The interesting part of this ruling is that it's essentially saying that if I'm running an online business I can deny you a access to my service, even if I have an effective monopoly on the service.

Sign in restaurant back in the bad old days:

We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 26, 2020 06:25 PM (aKsyK)

113 if someone in the family gets sick at least we'll have a way to check if they are starting to not get enough oxygen
Posted by: vmom 2020 v14

The barf bag goes over the mouth, not the whole head.

Posted by: Miklos, pretty sure at February 26, 2020 06:25 PM (QzkSJ)

114 The first time I remember seeing a significant number of people celebrating Ash Wednesday was in the Philippines two years ago.

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 26, 2020 06:18 PM (ki2Id)

I did not know until recently that peeps in the Philippines start celebrating Christmas in September.

Might have to wait til then to go and check it out.

Posted by: Emperor Country Boy at February 26, 2020 06:25 PM (m7eoM)

115 if someone in the family gets sick at least we'll have a way to check if they are starting to not get enough oxygen

You know how I can tell one of my patients is not getting enough oxygen?

They are short of breath.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 26, 2020 06:25 PM (dNzKv)

116 Seeing Bloomberg ads on youtube now.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 26, 2020 06:25 PM (oVJmc)

117 National Review cucks and that breed of Corporate
Donor Welfare Queen always thinks "Gee, we never have any problem with
YouTube and Google! In fact, Google donates to us!"

Meanwhile, they're actively writing pro-Google propaganda.

And yet Google doesn't retalliate against you. I WONDER THE FUCK WHY.

Posted by: ace at February 26, 2020 06:23 PM (PbpT7)

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Well, if you're not smart enough to suck up to big money, you get what you deserve!

Also, check out our rates to rehab convicted pedophiles. We've got a Harvey Weinstein on article in our next issue!

Posted by: National Review at February 26, 2020 06:26 PM (cfSRQ)

118 CRT it wasn't you, it was another nic I haven't seen much of that was getting a bit *pointed* and dickish to regular commentors

Posted by: Cheriebebe at February 26, 2020 06:20 PM (a4qVe)

It was our old friend Scog Dog with his latest alias. His brand of condescending assholery is hard to miss

Posted by: josephistan at February 26, 2020 06:26 PM (Izzlo)

119 Most "Catholics" haven't been in a church in years. I am of the opinion that only the regulars bother with it today.

Posted by: JAS at February 26, 2020 06:26 PM (2BZBZ)

120 Wait, are we talking religion here, or what? This place gets confusing.

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2020 06:26 PM (90T4r)

121 84 I suppose the "purist" answer would be to use anti-monopoly laws against Google.

Smash it to dust, burn it, then salt the earth it stood on. As for management, that's what the build dungeons for.

Posted by: Braenyard - Bernie says work harder to earn more credits for free stuff. It's your right. at February 26, 2020 06:26 PM (gpmLW)

122 And SMUG. Every single one of them was so smug to be on a YouTube "show" which... 300 to 400 people would watch.

OK, I will freely admit that I am not particularly up on YouTube and "monetizing" and whatever, but I will also say that, if I had a YouTube show and had 300-400 people watching it, I would think it was a success.

But that's me.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 26, 2020 06:26 PM (Ki5SV)

123 Also Lutheran and Anglican. I don't know about those Methodists.
Posted by: grammie winger at February 26, 2020 06:22 PM (lwiT4)

Wonder what episcopagans burn to get ashes?

Posted by: dagny at February 26, 2020 06:26 PM (nRWPy)

124 Sign in restaurant back in the bad old days:

We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot

Dammit

Posted by: Miklos, no shirt, no shoes at February 26, 2020 06:26 PM (QzkSJ)

125
I did not know until recently that peeps in the Philippines start celebrating Christmas in September.

==

as soon as the months start ending in brrr, it's Christmas season!

Posted by: vmom 2020 v14 at February 26, 2020 06:27 PM (G546f)

126 I'll go for my smudging after work. Mass at 7pm. I'll say a prayer for your heathen souls.

and mine too.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 26, 2020 06:27 PM (d7Ww2)

127 >>>OK, I will freely admit that I am not particularly up on YouTube and "monetizing" and whatever, but I will also say that, if I had a YouTube show and had 300-400 people watching it, I would think it was a success.

But that's me.

...

nah son

Posted by: ace at February 26, 2020 06:27 PM (PbpT7)

128 The tough part is getting lawmakers to ignore the vast sums of cash Google has and act against the donations and influence. That's a steep hill to climb.

In my opinion. Just a thought.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 26, 2020 06:27 PM (KZzsI)

129 124 Sign in restaurant back in the bad old days:

We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot

Dammit
Posted by: Miklos, no shirt, no shoes at February 26, 2020 06:26 PM (QzkSJ)

Still up on the door of a favorite bar and grill I am a regular at. The wings are outstanding!!

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2020 06:28 PM (90T4r)

130 Who's the hottie in the green?

Posted by: davidt at February 26, 2020 06:28 PM (l3+k2)

131 Most "Catholics" haven't been in a church in years. I am of the opinion that only the regulars bother with it today.
Posted by: JAS at February 26, 2020 06:26 PM

Nope, hordes who rarely go to mass show up for the ashes. They think theyrecgetting free stuff. It's not even a holy day.

Some call and ask, "What time are the ashes?"
Masses are at, 7, 9, .....etc
"No, I don't want mass, just ashes..."

Posted by: dagny at February 26, 2020 06:28 PM (nRWPy)

132 Money is the mother's-milk of politics - Jesse Unruh (Calif. politician)

Posted by: JAS at February 26, 2020 06:28 PM (2BZBZ)

133 Some of those YouTube channels make millions. Then, in a whim, google decides they don't like you and ban the channel.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 26, 2020 06:28 PM (dNzKv)

134 Jeebus people. I'm 64 and have had ashes the last 62 years of my life. It's not some foreign cult deal that just cropped up in the last 12 months. Brett Baer has always had ashes on his forehead on Ash Wednesday. As have many others who are not assholes like he is.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at February 26, 2020 06:29 PM (y3cwg)

135 126 I'll go for my smudging after work. Mass at 7pm. I'll say a prayer for your heathen souls.

and mine too.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 26, 2020 06:27 PM (d7Ww2)

Include my Protestant hide too, please, nurse.

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2020 06:29 PM (90T4r)

136 the ashes and the palms are magic

Posted by: vmom 2020 v14 at February 26, 2020 06:29 PM (G546f)

137 OK, I will freely admit that I am not particularly up on YouTube and "monetizing" and whatever, but I will also say that, if I had a YouTube show and had 300-400 people watching it, I would think it was a success.

When I was regularly blogging I was happy whenever I had an increase in readership, it grew up to around 500 a day which when I started was unthinkable. Back when there was this scale of blog success, I'd reached the top third of the list.

But every new milepost I reached, I soon became dissatisfied with and felt I was failing because I could have more. I got spikes of several thousand readers a day, which is nothing to sneeze at, but I mean... Ace gets that from an open thread on a Sunday night.

You quickly become jaded, in my experience. Maybe that's not true for everyone.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 26, 2020 06:29 PM (KZzsI)

138 For the first time in a long time, I received them today and did not wash them off until later after dinner and when I brushed my teeth.

Posted by: JAS at February 26, 2020 06:24 PM (2BZBZ)

That's some pretty poor aim you got going there.

Posted by: Emperor Country Boy at February 26, 2020 06:29 PM (m7eoM)

139 Our priest loves to say loudly "We do not do drive-through. Get your ashes in the church!"

Posted by: JAS at February 26, 2020 06:29 PM (2BZBZ)

140 119
Most "Catholics" haven't been in a church in years. I am of the opinion that only the regulars bother with it today.

Posted by: JAS at February 26, 2020 06:26 PM (2BZBZ)

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The 8:30 mass was pretty sparse. Last year I did the 6:30 mass and it had a lot more people.

Then again, we had bad weather this morning - snow over ice.

Posted by: National Review at February 26, 2020 06:29 PM (cfSRQ)

141 I am from a non-ash faith background, so for me it really would be virtue signaling, so I am staying home from church tonight.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 26, 2020 06:30 PM (lwiT4)

142 The biggest money-maker on Youtube is some six-year-old kid who unwraps presents from his parents. Rakes in $30+ million per year. Seriously.

Posted by: zombie at February 26, 2020 06:30 PM (N9G0H)

143 >>>Brett Baer has always had ashes on his forehead on Ash Wednesday

i haven't seen the ash in question, but I think what people are saying is that he's wearing an ostentatious amount of ash, possibly to signal he's a REAL CONSERVATIVE or something.

I hate his guts so I understand people leaping to uncharitable theories.

Posted by: ace at February 26, 2020 06:30 PM (PbpT7)

144 "No, I don't want mass, just ashes..."

What time ish communion?

Posted by: Wino man at February 26, 2020 06:30 PM (Tnijr)

145

Starting shortly.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 26, 2020 06:30 PM (vEIlU)

146 I saw Condescending Assholery open for the Butthole Surfers at Preston Beach in '14.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 26, 2020 06:31 PM (Ki5SV)

147 Trump is back in Washington DC already?

Wasn't he in India this morning?

Posted by: rd at February 26, 2020 06:31 PM (+0uDE)

148 When if Trump supposed to speak?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 26, 2020 06:31 PM (SMh/7)

149 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJycFqj-I0w

starting now

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at February 26, 2020 06:31 PM (LWu6U)

150 rett Baer has always had ashes on his forehead on Ash Wednesday

i haven't seen the ash in question, but I think what people are saying is that he's wearing an ostentatious amount of ash, possibly to signal he's a REAL CONSERVATIVE or something.

I hate his guts so I understand people leaping to uncharitable theories.

Posted by: ace at February

those are not ashes, he missed a spot when he was washing his blackface off, maybe.

Posted by: not so at February 26, 2020 06:31 PM (HALdu)

151 I suppose the "purist" answer would be to use anti-monopoly laws against Google.

However, I suspect a lot of the "more pure than you" righty types wouldn't support that either.
Posted by: bonhomme

________________

Yep, but conveniently decide to ignore doing anything about the millions of pages of regulations.

But this one area of potential government interference that effects our access to speech and who we elect, corporations must not be interferred with!!!

Posted by: Blago at February 26, 2020 06:31 PM (sjTfF)

152 141 I am from a non-ash faith background, so for me it really would be virtue signaling, so I am staying home from church tonight.
Posted by: grammie winger at February 26, 2020 06:30 PM (lwiT4)

Me too, grammie. Question, how often does your church do Communion?

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2020 06:31 PM (90T4r)

153 33 "...black smudges on their foreheads"

Today is Ash Wednesday.

Posted by: attila the thrilla at February 26, 2020 06:15 PM (w7KSn)

I sincerely thank you for giving us the heads up on that.

FYSA, here's a YooBoob link for the press conference:

https://youtu.be/j_0iw62a6PQ

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at February 26, 2020 06:31 PM (DTX3h)

154 Not sure about the Protestant religions, but for us Catholics, lent is like the playoffs for the clergy and Easter is the Super bowl, baby!

Posted by: Boswell at February 26, 2020 06:31 PM (32YRo)

155 We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.

I'm divided on that one, too.

Its morally wrong to refuse someone service in your restaurant because, say, they're black or because they are wearing a MAGA hat.

But at the same time its your property, your business, and your money so you should have the right to do exactly that: be stupid and self destructive and refuse service to someone based on your asinine jackassery.

At least, if there's reasonable alternatives and you aren't offering a critical life service. Hospitals, for instance (and yes, new rules are being written in England which might allow their national health service to refuse service to people who use 'transphobic' or 'racist' language).

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 26, 2020 06:31 PM (KZzsI)

156 presser starting

Posted by: davidt at February 26, 2020 06:31 PM (l3+k2)

157 You don't get to choose your ash amount. It varies. My kid came out with no visible ashes from school, but I saw kids with ashes. Maybe he's just sweaty.

Posted by: dagny at February 26, 2020 06:31 PM (nRWPy)

158 It's just ashes. What is better? Getting ashes once a year or partaking of the bread of life weekly or even daily?

Posted by: JAS at February 26, 2020 06:32 PM (2BZBZ)

159 I did not know until recently that peeps in the Philippines start celebrating Christmas in September.

==

as soon as the months start ending in brrr, it's Christmas season!

Posted by: vmom 2020 v14 at February 26, 2020 06:27 PM (G546f)

Yep, another tidbit of my southeast Asian ongoing education.

Posted by: Emperor Country Boy at February 26, 2020 06:32 PM (m7eoM)

160 Meh...this guy needs to put on his big boy pants. Here's the deal...start ups can't set up due to Silicon Valley conspiring between themselves to deny a foothold. For example...payment distribution services like Pay Pal will do Google or Twitter a solid and refuse to do business with a selective start up. As a result, no competitor every comes close to challenging them and forcing them to change their discriminatory behavior.

That is blatant violation of the RICO Act. So, what are we waiting for? Criminal Suits, Civil Suits (Class Action). It will stop once there are a number of competitors on equal ground...and that, my friends, is Capitalism.

Posted by: Orson at February 26, 2020 06:33 PM (1boAz)

161 147 Trump is back in Washington DC already?

Wasn't he in India this morning?
Posted by: rd at February 26, 2020 06:31 PM (+0uDE)

That was Melania in a fat suit.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 26, 2020 06:33 PM (Ct55T)

162 if I had a YouTube show and had 300-400 people watching it, I would think it was a success.

There are a lot of successful channels that have >1,000,000 subscribers and get millions of views. It's actually a sizeable industry once you get successful enough.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 26, 2020 06:33 PM (oVJmc)

163 I bought a two pack of N95s at Menards. It's the same mask to protect against sawdust.

Posted by: Cheriebebe at February 26, 2020 06:33 PM (a4qVe)

164 But at the same time its your property, your business, and your money so you should have the right to do exactly that: be stupid and self destructive and refuse service to someone based on your asinine jackassery.

Business decision. Try not to piss people off usually works.

Posted by: dagny at February 26, 2020 06:33 PM (nRWPy)

165 142 The biggest money-maker on Youtube is some six-year-old kid who unwraps presents from his parents. Rakes in $30+ million per year. Seriously.

That could buy lots of presents

Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2020 06:33 PM (6XlcD)

166
>>>157 You don't get to choose your ash amount. It varies. My kid came out with no visible ashes from school, but I saw kids with ashes. Maybe he's just sweaty.

unless you bring your own ash and apply it like makeup before your hit

Posted by: ace at February 26, 2020 06:33 PM (PbpT7)

167 159 I did not know until recently that peeps in the Philippines start celebrating Christmas in September.

==

as soon as the months start ending in brrr, it's Christmas season!

Posted by: vmom 2020 v14 at February 26, 2020 06:27 PM (G546f)

Yep, another tidbit of my southeast Asian ongoing education.
Posted by: Emperor Country Boy at February 26, 2020 06:32 PM (m7eoM)

So it's like a McCain funeral?

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2020 06:33 PM (90T4r)

168 ace. Depends on the priest or helper. Our church had smudge pot type ashes today. We all looked like we survived a fire.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at February 26, 2020 06:33 PM (y3cwg)

169 CDC and HHS people standing around the podium. Waiting for Trump still...

Posted by: Tami at February 26, 2020 06:33 PM (cF8AT)

170 155 We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.

I'm divided on that one, too.

Its morally wrong to refuse someone service in your restaurant because, say, they're black or because they are wearing a MAGA hat.

But at the same time its your property, your business, and your money so you should have the right to do exactly that: be stupid and self destructive and refuse service to someone based on your asinine jackassery.

At least, if there's reasonable alternatives and you aren't offering a critical life service. Hospitals, for instance (and yes, new rules are being written in England which might allow their national health service to refuse service to people who use 'transphobic' or 'racist' language).
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 26, 2020 06:31 PM (KZzsI)

It is the concentration of power that makes monopolies and cartels dangerous. Which hey, look at that, under existing law many of these companies are monopolies and should be trust busted!

Posted by: Someguy at February 26, 2020 06:33 PM (Zm+LZ)

171 Me too, grammie. Question, how often does your church do Communion?

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2020 06:31 PM (90T4r)

Rev's church (Lutheran) serves communion each week, but I cannot partake as I am not Lutheran. However, in the summer, Rev is semi-retiring so I will be free to return to my own old church, where I can take communion - probably once a month or so.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 26, 2020 06:33 PM (lwiT4)

172 I'm not from an ashing tradition. Maybe I can find a Jesus is Just Alright t-shirt.
I'm sorry. I just wanted to say that. I'm a bad person.

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 26, 2020 06:33 PM (ki2Id)

173 My anecdote on N95 availability - can't order from Amazon unless you want to pay flipper prices. Probably the same on Ebay, didn't look. All local Home Depots and Harbor Freights have zero on the shelves and none to ship. I popped into one store with limited availability to find they actually had none. They were telling a Chinese family as I arrived at the aisle.

I live in L.A. County, near a Chinese-Chinese enclave. That's to say, it's full of mainland Chinese who smuggled out their wealth and bought property here in the last 10 years. Their children may be Chinese-American, but the elders are definitely not. All of the local N95 stock has been bought up and likely shipped back home. Fortunately I have some for work around the house but it's unsettling to see that you actually can't get the masks if you want to. At least not here. Just my anecdote.

Posted by: Chunk Hunger at February 26, 2020 06:34 PM (uM6CE)

174 I hate the ashes display.

"oh look at meeeeeeee, i have ashes on my head even though i havent been to church in years, fuck my neighbors lesbian wife every day, bear false witness, vote for baby killers, and fap myself sideways at the prospect of Bernie bringing gulags to America! Look how holy I ammmmm!"

Fuck off.

Posted by: Two Weeks From Everywhere at February 26, 2020 06:34 PM (+dsLj)

175 I just stayed home and made an ash of myself.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 26, 2020 06:34 PM (oVJmc)

176 Rev's church (Lutheran) serves communion each week, but I cannot partake as I am not Lutheran. However, in the summer, Rev is semi-retiring so I will be free to return to my own old church, where I can take communion - probably once a month or so.
Posted by: grammie winger at February

What are you?

Posted by: not so at February 26, 2020 06:34 PM (HALdu)

177 Our priest loves to say loudly "We do not do drive-through. Get your ashes in the church!"
Posted by: JAS at February 26, 2020 06:29 PM (2BZBZ)

One of the local churches here does ashes early in the morning at the train station for any commuters who can't make it to church.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 26, 2020 06:34 PM (Ki5SV)

178 Guarantee you Biden will get his face on TV with his smudge.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 26, 2020 06:35 PM (dNzKv)

179 For the curious, the ashes are made from leftover palm leaves from last year's "Palm" Sunday.

Posted by: JAS at February 26, 2020 06:35 PM (2BZBZ)

180 That is blatant violation of the RICO Act. So, what are we waiting for? Criminal Suits, Civil Suits (Class Action). It will stop once there are a number of competitors on equal ground...and that, my friends, is Capitalism.
Posted by: Orson at February 26, 2020 06:33 PM (1boAz)

Yes but when the government regulating bodies let this stuff slide despite bringing lawsuits then what do you do?

Posted by: Cheriebebe at February 26, 2020 06:35 PM (a4qVe)

181 Include my Protestant hide too, please, nurse.
Posted by: tubal

done!

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 26, 2020 06:35 PM (d7Ww2)

182 Chris Stirewalt came out with his face all covered in Boston cream but that was a donut thing, not a church thing

Posted by: ace at February 26, 2020 06:35 PM (PbpT7)

183 If the un-wrapper kid is making 30m I hope my favorite piano playing beagle is making some loot.

Posted by: Braenyard - Bernie says work harder to earn more credits for free stuff. It's your right. at February 26, 2020 06:35 PM (gpmLW)

184 ]i\I'm not from an ashing tradition. Maybe I can find a Jesus is Just Alright t-shirt.

Now I gotta listen to more Doobies

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 26, 2020 06:35 PM (KZzsI)

185 171 Me too, grammie. Question, how often does your church do Communion?

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2020 06:31 PM (90T4r)

Rev's church (Lutheran) serves communion each week, but I cannot partake as I am not Lutheran. However, in the summer, Rev is semi-retiring so I will be free to return to my own old church, where I can take communion - probably once a month or so.
Posted by: grammie winger at February 26, 2020 06:33 PM (lwiT4)

Ah thanks. We do a weekly communion at the church I'm currently perched in. They have an open table policy, and no cover charge either.

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2020 06:35 PM (90T4r)

186 Biden tried to get Pope Clement to apply his ashes, but the pope didn't answer the dictaphone.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 26, 2020 06:35 PM (dNzKv)

187 The biggest money-maker on Youtube is some six-year-old kid who unwraps presents from his parents. Rakes in $30+ million per year. Seriously.
Posted by: zombie

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Earth is doomed.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 26, 2020 06:36 PM (Y4EXg)

188 the good news is that 3M actually does make masks here in America

Posted by: vmom 2020 v14 at February 26, 2020 06:36 PM (G546f)

189 So, is Youtube a platform or a publisher, it matters since they lobbied Congress and received protections as a platform so they could not be sued.

Posted by: rgranger at February 26, 2020 06:36 PM (uaYXs)

190 Ace maybe It signals he is a practicing catholic. Like wearing a cross does across Christianity. I would not be surprised if Flotus has ashes today.

Posted by: Jen the original at February 26, 2020 06:36 PM (Q3GR2)

191 It's just ashes. What is better? Getting ashes once a year or partaking of the bread of life weekly or even daily?

Posted by: JAS at February 26, 2020 06:32 PM (2BZBZ)

My friends elderly dad, once he became infirmed, had an alter installed in his home and the priest came by every day and they had mass before he dies...needless to say he was a big donor to the Parish - but still, that's real devout Catholicism for you...

Posted by: Boswell at February 26, 2020 06:36 PM (32YRo)

192 Good night.

Posted by: josephistan at February 26, 2020 06:36 PM (Izzlo)

193 Jeebus people. I'm 64 and have had ashes the last 62 years of my life. It's not some foreign cult deal that just cropped up in the last 12 months. Brett Baer has always had ashes on his forehead on Ash Wednesday. As have many others who are not assholes like he is.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine

One coworker had went to mass before work and had ashes applied. I was glad the priest was a priest and not a proctologist.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 26, 2020 06:36 PM (SMh/7)

194 What are you?

Posted by: not so at February 26, 2020 06:34 PM (HALdu)

My old soon-to-be-again church is a non-denominational evangelical church. I come from an Evangelical Free Church background.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 26, 2020 06:37 PM (lwiT4)

195 186 Biden tried to get Pope Clement to apply his ashes, but the pope didn't answer the dictaphone.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 26, 2020 06:35 PM (dNzKv)

Telegram would've worked

Posted by: Roy at February 26, 2020 06:37 PM (ABjxW)

196 I hate the ashes display.

I don't mind conspicuous displays of faith, as long as they are genuine, and who am I to know the heart of someone who does so? You can sometimes tell, like the pharisee beating his breast and thanking God he's not like that sinner in public but usually you have to take people at face value.

I'm not into that kind of thing but it wouldn't matter if I was. Nobody would see me anyway, except my brothers.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 26, 2020 06:37 PM (KZzsI)

197 The "there can be only one" mentality/reality has made certain BigNames dominant via Go-Go stock mentality of our "markets". All Americans now "invest" savings mostly blindly, into the hottest stocks via their mutual funds. A few get so big (trillion dollar companies now) that they can buy all competition, (the way Bloomberg said he bought the /house of Reps).

Yes this IS capitalism, and it is why we are NOT a Capitalist Government. Government protects the individual rights FROM totalitarianism, whether that is commie/socialist control freaks OR corporate control freaks that buy up our government on the cheap.

The fundamental job of our Republic is to protect us FROM the bullies, even if they use the corporation ("capitalism") to exert their subversive policies. We don't have a "capitalist government" (except to the extent we have been using monetary policy to enrich the richest, failing to protect the American Worker from those building monopolies, using foreign slaves to do it)

Posted by: illiniwek at February 26, 2020 06:37 PM (Cus5s)

198 Breaking: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports 7 people are dead, including the suspect, after a shooting at a MillerCoors facility in Milwaukee. The suspect was reportedly a former employee.

-
And scumbag of the day award goes to . . .

Zach Everson@Z_Everson
MillerCoors chairperson through 2011, Pete Coors, appeared in ads for the NRA.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 26, 2020 06:37 PM (+y/Ru)

199 Trump up

Posted by: davidt at February 26, 2020 06:37 PM (l3+k2)

200 DJT on TV re: coronavirus. Holy shit a shooting in Milwaukee??

Posted by: vivi at February 26, 2020 06:37 PM (11H2y)

201 Trump up

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 26, 2020 06:37 PM (vEIlU)

202 Trump up....talking first about the gunman in Milwaukee.

Posted by: Tami at February 26, 2020 06:37 PM (cF8AT)

203 174
I hate the ashes display.

"oh look at meeeeeeee, i have ashes on my head even though i havent
been to church in years, fuck my neighbors lesbian wife every day, bear
false witness, vote for baby killers, and fap myself sideways at the
prospect of Bernie bringing gulags to America! Look how holy I ammmmm!"

Fuck off.

Posted by: Two Weeks From Everywhere at February 26, 2020 06:34 PM (+dsLj)

---
Since when did being Catholic become a social status marker???

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 26, 2020 06:37 PM (cfSRQ)

204 The biggest money-maker on Youtube is some six-year-old kid who unwraps presents from his parents. Rakes in $30+ million per year. Seriously.
Posted by: zombie at February 26, 2020 06:30 PM (N9G0H)

I'm going to be honest.

A story like that doesn't just make me think, "What the fuck am I doing with my life?" it makes me want to put an injection of hot lead through my silly skull.

Where the actual fucking fuck did I go wrong? Some stupid kid and his parents are making fuck you money hand over fist and here I am punching away at a keyboard every damn day to afford a fucking roof over my head.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 26, 2020 06:37 PM (Ki5SV)

205 Some call and ask, "What time are the ashes?"
Masses are at, 7, 9, .....etc
"No, I don't want mass, just ashes..."

Isn't Mass only like one hour?

Up until very recently LDS services were a three hour block. It's two hours now.

Thirty plus years ago services were three hours all spread out on Sunday. You basically couldn't do anything else on Sunday because you were going to pack up and go back to church shortly.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 26, 2020 06:37 PM (9t0Zz)

206 >>>Some call and ask, "What time are the ashes?"
Masses are at, 7, 9, .....etc
"No, I don't want mass, just ashes..."

"Just go ahead and do your own ashes. If someone asks tell them I said you could."

Posted by: mikethemoose at February 26, 2020 06:37 PM (EMrMF)

207 Some of you folks need to take a chill pill. Ashes are part of several Christian denominations. I'm not virtue signalling. I'm practicing my faith. If you don't like it.
Fuck off.
And good night all. There are several people on here tonight that are just downright assholes.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at February 26, 2020 06:38 PM (y3cwg)

208

He still has a cold. Been weeks now.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 26, 2020 06:38 PM (vEIlU)

209 Chris Stirewalt came out with his face all covered in Boston cream but that was a donut thing, not a church thing

Posted by: ace at February 26, 2020 06:35 PM (PbpT7)

I bet for a second Sneaky Pete's heart skipped a beat...

Posted by: Boswell at February 26, 2020 06:38 PM (32YRo)

210 My old soon-to-be-again church is a non-denominational evangelical church. I come from an Evangelical Free Church background.
Posted by: grammie winger at February

I have never heard of Protestant church getting hot and bothered if a Christian took communion there. Catholics yes, but that is because it is a different thing for them.

Posted by: not so at February 26, 2020 06:38 PM (HALdu)

211 Wait. Your husband is a Lutheran minister and prohibits you from partaking in the body of Christ because you are not Lutheran. But you are saved? No?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 26, 2020 06:38 PM (dNzKv)

212 LOL

https://twitter.com/Zachary31411891/status/
1232088444517654530

The coronavirus foot shake

Posted by: vmom 2020 v14 at February 26, 2020 06:38 PM (G546f)

213 WTF?! Bake the cake you haters!
How can they be denied whenevery bkare/florist/photog ahs to ater to the freaks wishes?

Posted by: free tibet at February 26, 2020 06:38 PM (Zo1XC)

214 Trump on now.

Posted by: Joe Mama at February 26, 2020 06:38 PM (We5+z)

215 My friends elderly dad, once he became infirmed, had an alter installed in his home and the priest came by every day and they had mass before he dies...needless to say he was a big donor to the Parish - but still, that's real devout Catholicism for you...
Posted by: Boswell

My mom's great aunt had to get a special dispensation from the Bishop of St. Louis to attend my mom & dad's wedding because it wasn't in a Catholic Church.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 26, 2020 06:38 PM (SMh/7)

216 214 Trump on now.
Posted by: Joe Mama

Can't watch

please to be updating me

Posted by: vmom 2020 v14 at February 26, 2020 06:39 PM (G546f)

217 and here I am punching away at a keyboard every damn day to afford a fucking roof over my head.

But you write damned fine books. I endorse them to everyone. Everywhere I go that books come up.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 26, 2020 06:39 PM (KZzsI)

218 nood, trump presser

Posted by: ace at February 26, 2020 06:39 PM (PbpT7)

219 194 What are you?

Posted by: not so at February 26, 2020 06:34 PM (HALdu)

My old soon-to-be-again church is a non-denominational evangelical church. I come from an Evangelical Free Church background.
Posted by: grammie winger at February 26, 2020 06:37 PM (lwiT4)

Me, I'm Reformed. Well, not so very much, personally. More like denominationally. I'm the kind of Christian that other Christians shake their heads over, at times. But I DO believe, guess it's gotta count for something.

Posted by: tubal at February 26, 2020 06:39 PM (90T4r)

220 Look who's talking about lack of credibility!

Brian Stelter@brianstelter
Since the dawn of the Trump era, countless experts have warned that the president's lack of credibility would imperil the country in the event of an emergency.

As the coronavirus outbreak worsens, those fears may be coming true...

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 26, 2020 06:39 PM (+y/Ru)

221 183 If the un-wrapper kid is making 30m I hope my favorite piano playing beagle is making some loot.
Posted by: Braenyard

The highest-paid YouTubers of 2019

Ryan Kaji - $26 million.

https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Ryan%27s_World

"The Verge has described the channel as "a mash-up of personal vlog and 'unboxing' video, a blend of innocent childhood antics and relentless, often overwhelming consumerism.""

Posted by: zombie at February 26, 2020 06:40 PM (N9G0H)

222 My friends elderly dad, once he became infirmed, had an alter installed in his home and the priest came by every day and they had mass before he dies...needless to say he was a big donor to the Parish - but still, that's real devout Catholicism for you...
Posted by: Boswell

WHen I was off work for health reasons, I had the opportunity to go to daily Mass. It was amazing.

WHenever I have a day off, I go to the 645 service.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 26, 2020 06:40 PM (d7Ww2)

223 I have never heard of Protestant church getting hot and bothered if a Christian took communion there.

Well, there ya go.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 26, 2020 06:40 PM (lwiT4)

224 I hate to be THAT GUY, but here I am. I warn people and warn people about alphabet/goggle.
Once again:

PEOPLE, IF YOU ARE USING GOOGLE, PLEASE STOP!

There are other search engines and you'll get the hang of it. duckduckgo or startpage or . . .

Posted by: Murrican Ninja War Eeyore at February 26, 2020 06:40 PM (xptlg)

225 Well, there ya go.
Posted by: grammie winger at February

what is the reasoning?

Posted by: not so at February 26, 2020 06:40 PM (HALdu)

226
I have never heard of Protestant church getting hot and bothered if a Christian took communion there. Catholics yes, but that is because it is a different thing for them.
Posted by: not so at February 26, 2020 06:38 PM (HALdu)

I always thought Lutherans and Episcopalians were basically Catholic minus Rome....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 26, 2020 06:40 PM (Ct55T)

227 I saw that Brian Karem Tweet earlier today. Dumb and drunk isn't a good way to go through life.

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 26, 2020 06:41 PM (ZVgXE)

228 Since when did being Catholic become a social status marker???

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 26, 2020 06:37 PM (cfSRQ)

Wasn't in Beaufort SC where I grew up - that's for sure!

Posted by: Boswell at February 26, 2020 06:41 PM (32YRo)

229 180 That is blatant violation of the RICO Act. So, what are we waiting for? Criminal Suits, Civil Suits (Class Action). It will stop once there are a number of competitors on equal ground...and that, my friends, is Capitalism.
Posted by: Orson at February 26, 2020 06:33 PM (1boAz)

Yes but when the government regulating bodies let this stuff slide despite bringing lawsuits then what do you do?
Posted by: Cheriebebe at February 26, 2020 06:35 PM (a4qVe)

____________________________

You can file a class action civil suit. And, believe me, there are many many many small start ups that got stomped by the big guys. Finding plaintiffs wouldn't be a problem. But, someone has to organize... Personally, I think this is the kind of stuff Mark Levine should take on. His Landmark Legal (of which I'm not sure he is affiliated with anymore) was set up for stuff like this.

Conceivably, we're talking damages in the billions if you get enough plaintiffs to sign on.

Posted by: Orson at February 26, 2020 06:41 PM (1boAz)

230 Those million dollar YouTube channels put a lot into production they aren't just a kid with a cellphone camera.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 26, 2020 06:41 PM (dNzKv)

231 The attitude of the press is everything Trump does is a fouled up mess. Even when...it obviously isn't.

I heard someone in the press ranting on how Trump had praised Modi in India. They went on to explain that Modi has enacted polices, just like Trump, that targets Muslims.

Um. Yeah. or he was just saying nice things about his host, in a foreign country. because doing otherwise would be a dick move. And maybe, in private, he had a few different things to say. And by the way, India is a democracy, and Modi is their democratically elected leader. And what Modi was doing and what trump did were totally different things. Modi passed a law saying people (Christians, Hindus, Jews, etc.) could become Indian citizens if they entered India due to religious persecution in adjoining Muslim countries. Naturally Muslims are exempt from that rule - they can't claim religious persecution in majority Muslim countries.

Posted by: Inspector Kemp at February 26, 2020 06:41 PM (+DS2f)

232 If you can't get N95 masks, just pee on your handkerchief and wear it like a mask. When the Hun gassed us in the Great War, that's what I had my boys do before we went over the top.

Posted by: Joe Biden, man of the people at February 26, 2020 06:41 PM (C1Lsn)

233 I always thought Lutherans and Episcopalians were basically Catholic minus Rome....
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February

I am not an expert, however, there is no transubstantiation in the Protestant commmunion as there is in the Catholic

Posted by: not so at February 26, 2020 06:42 PM (HALdu)

234 Wait. Your husband is a Lutheran minister and prohibits you from partaking in the body of Christ because you are not Lutheran. But you are saved? No?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 26, 2020 06:38 PM (dNzKv)

I was once denied communion in a Lutheran church because I was the "wrong" kind of Lutheran.

Needless to say, I never went back.

Posted by: Emperor Country Boy at February 26, 2020 06:42 PM (m7eoM)

235 I was once denied communion in a Lutheran church because I was the "wrong" kind of Lutheran.

Needless to say, I never went back.
Posted by: Emperor Country Boy at February

That is fucked

Posted by: not so at February 26, 2020 06:43 PM (HALdu)

236 Ah, got it. I call them E and C. (Easter and Christmas) Same idea.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 26, 2020 06:18 PM (Y4EXg)
C.E.O.s --- Christmas and Easter Only
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 26, 2020 06:23 PM (N39Ws)

my favorite riff on this was in Futurama - Fry is in New New York, and he travels underneath the city to find the ruins of Old New York, which is populated by mutants.
They go to the ruins of a cathedral;

Fry: Oh WOW! You guys really do have an old atomic bomb that you worship as a god!!!
Mutant: Yeah, but it's mostly a C and E thing.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 26, 2020 06:43 PM (Kpl3J)

237 220 Look who's talking about lack of credibility!

Brian Stelter@brianstelter
Since the dawn of the Trump era, countless experts have warned that the president's lack of credibility would imperil the country in the event of an emergency.

As the coronavirus outbreak worsens, those fears may be coming true...

I bet he orgasmed when he tweeted that.

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 26, 2020 06:43 PM (ZVgXE)

238 Close the borders, Don!

Posted by: vivi at February 26, 2020 06:43 PM (11H2y)

239 Radio said the stock market was like a roller coaster today. _ Mortimer and Randolf made a lot of money.

Posted by: Braenyard - Bernie says work harder to earn more credits for free stuff. It's your right. at February 26, 2020 06:44 PM (gpmLW)

240 , "What the fuck am I doing with my life?"

I think the same thing when reading something like that. How come I can't do something incredibly stupid and make millions? (see Kardatassians) Life's not fair though and I've resigned myself to make the best of it.

Posted by: freaked at February 26, 2020 06:44 PM (Tnijr)

241 I come from an Evangelical Free Church background.

So your church is the Church of No Evangelicals Allowed!!?

Posted by: bonhomme at February 26, 2020 06:44 PM (9t0Zz)

242 MP4 I was thinking that very same thing!!
How do I do this you tube thing?! Because the dough would certainly help!

Posted by: Cheriebebe at February 26, 2020 06:44 PM (a4qVe)

243 62 but were always first on line for ashes and palms
She called them A and P Catholics
Posted by: JoeF.

--

Ah, got it. I call them E and C. (Easter and Christmas) Same idea.
&&&&&&&&&&&

CEOs; Christmas, Easter, and One other time during the year.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at February 26, 2020 06:45 PM (hrRsI)

244 >>>oh look at meeeeeeee

Amen I say to you, they have received their reward.

However for the devout Catholic today always acts as a sort of public outing, inviting crypto-commies to aggressively interrogate your wrong think on their pet topics, and "expose" you for being an actual Christian.

To the devout ashes are tedium which is why we don't rub them off.

To the less than devout they are a personal performative display which is why they don't rub them off.

Posted by: mikethemoose at February 26, 2020 06:46 PM (EMrMF)

245 " ...
"Just go ahead and do your own ashes. If someone asks tell them I said you could."

Posted by: mikethemoose at February 26, 2020 06:37 PM (EMrMF) "

Saw someone do that once, many years ago, from a handy ashtray.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at February 26, 2020 06:46 PM (zlgJP)

246 Radio said the stock market was like a roller coaster today. _ Mortimer and Randolf made a lot of money.

Posted by: Braenyard - Bernie says work harder to earn more credits for free stuff. It's your right. at February 26, 2020 06:44 PM (gpmLW)

Dow futures jumped 800 points from last night's low before taking another crap during the day.

The roller coaster is moving along almost 24/7 these days.

Posted by: Emperor Country Boy at February 26, 2020 06:46 PM (m7eoM)

247 55
yup.

Posted by: ace at February 26, 2020 06:14 PM (PbpT7)

---
Buy my new book! It's got vampires and guns. You'll like it.

what about vampire guns? like catapults, only smaller and with vampires instead of cats.

Posted by: Anachronda at February 26, 2020 06:46 PM (sGtp+)

248 Ash Wednesday- the day catholics virtuesignal their religousosity
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 26, 2020 06:22 PM (dNzKv)

I also say grace before meals, even if I am out to dinner. Ashes are just today. From dust to dust. But you knew that. :-)

Posted by: free tibet at February 26, 2020 06:46 PM (8ruUE)

249 >>I was once denied communion in a Lutheran church because I was the "wrong" kind of Lutheran.

When I was an alter boy the nuns wouldn't let you partake in Mass unless you'd been to confession - "Ya dirdie deveels cahn gah straht ta ell!"

Posted by: Boswell at February 26, 2020 06:46 PM (32YRo)

250 115,
I am always short of breath. People look at me in the stores because my breathing is so loud. But it doesn't mean my O2 levels are low. I've checked them enough now that I can tell if they are down in the 80s or 70s. I used it to check my husband's O2 levels too. It's a cheap tool, just like the ones tge doctor uses.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 26, 2020 06:46 PM (Lqy/e)

251 We call them APECs (aepecks)

It means what you think it does.

Posted by: mikethemoose at February 26, 2020 06:47 PM (EMrMF)

252 I love my president. And my vice president.

Posted by: vivi at February 26, 2020 06:47 PM (11H2y)

253 Conservative Lutherans fence their table. If you are a confirmed member of their church, you get to partake. If not, no, more than likely, although the pastor can decide to let you partake after a discussion, to see if you believe what they believe. They take it seriously, and that's just fine.

Posted by: lizabth at February 26, 2020 06:47 PM (L3Rsz)

254 Trump putting Pence in charge of the corona task force.

Posted by: Tami at February 26, 2020 06:48 PM (cF8AT)

255 "220 Look who's talking about lack of credibility!

Brian Stelter@brianstelter
Since the dawn of the Trump era, countless experts have warned that the president's lack of credibility would imperil the country in the event of an emergency.

As the coronavirus outbreak worsens, those fears may be coming true...
"

Says the God-cursed chimptato hybrid.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at February 26, 2020 06:49 PM (zlgJP)

256 Trump putting Pence in charge of the corona task force.

Posted by: Tami at February 26, 2020 06:48 PM (cF8AT)

Oh man - first look at Cruz as VP next year?

Posted by: Boswell at February 26, 2020 06:49 PM (32YRo)

257 One of the best things my dad ever taught me before he died was that life is not fair and only a fool expects it to be. You take what you're given and do the best you can with it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 26, 2020 06:50 PM (KZzsI)

258
Why can't they be regulated as common carriers? UPS can't refuse conservative mail.

Does Youtube get paid by the people who post there? No payment, i.e. no consideration, is how they get away with it. The service is a gift and the terms of service are not a contract.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 26, 2020 06:50 PM (1q+L9)

259 Trump putting Pence in charge of the corona task force.
Posted by: Tami

Where'd you go, Sheriff Joe?

Posted by: Miklos, ze probleme, she ees solved at February 26, 2020 06:50 PM (QzkSJ)

260 VP Pence I take it is taking control of the Coronozombie virus task force.

Posted by: Skip at February 26, 2020 06:50 PM (ZCEU2)

261 Hope Pence doesn't sweat like ....

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at February 26, 2020 06:50 PM (8lcRG)

262 There's a nood presser thread...

Posted by: Tami at February 26, 2020 06:51 PM (cF8AT)

263 Conservative Lutherans fence their table. If you are a confirmed member of their church, you get to partake. If not, no, more than likely, although the pastor can decide to let you partake after a discussion, to see if you believe what they believe. They take it seriously, and that's just fine.
Posted by: lizabth at February

That is not the norm even for the conservatives.

Posted by: not so at February 26, 2020 06:51 PM (HALdu)

264 Good call on naming Pence...he's a competent, calming sort of person. I

Posted by: lizabth at February 26, 2020 06:51 PM (L3Rsz)

265 I'm watching an Adele video. Same voice but she's lost a boat load of weight

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 26, 2020 06:53 PM (ki2Id)

266 Pence is the point man on COVID-19 and he sounds really strong.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 26, 2020 06:54 PM (dmiLK)

267 Joe remembers when he was put in charge of response to the black plague

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 26, 2020 06:54 PM (ki2Id)

268 'Close' communion was the thing in the LCMS when we were members. It's been a few years, though. Has that changed?

Posted by: lizabth at February 26, 2020 06:55 PM (L3Rsz)

269 A box of latex gloves are cheap as dirt. Use once throw away.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 26, 2020 06:57 PM (dmiLK)

270 'Close' communion was the thing in the LCMS when we were members. It's been a few years, though. Has that changed?
Posted by: lizabth at February

It was not the Missouri Synod church we attended.

Not sure why anyone would make it a thing.

Posted by: not so at February 26, 2020 06:57 PM (HALdu)

271 Well, because the LCMS takes communion seriously, that's why. Kinda like the Catholics, and some other groups.

Fortunately, there are all sorts of Lutherans, and you can find pretty much anything to suit you, from hard-core to Episcopalian-like.

ELCA and the Episcopalians trade pulpits frequently.

Posted by: lizabth at February 26, 2020 07:03 PM (L3Rsz)

272 Conservative Lutherans fence their table. If you are a confirmed member of their church, you get to partake. If not, no, more than likely, although the pastor can decide to let you partake after a discussion, to see if you believe what they believe. They take it seriously, and that's just fine.

Posted by: lizabth at February 26, 2020 06:47 PM (L3Rsz)

That's exactly what happened to me. The pastor took me aside, literally before service started, and asked some questions.

We were in complete agreement. And then I was denied.

Posted by: Emperor Country Boy at February 26, 2020 07:03 PM (m7eoM)

273 Was that a WELS church?

Posted by: lizabth at February 26, 2020 07:04 PM (L3Rsz)

274 I don't understand the apparent animosity about Catholics with ashes on Ash Wednesday; Orthodox Jews wear tzitzit and nobody loses their minds.

It's a religious tradition that reminds us to repent. It's not 'ooh I"m holy, look at meee." It's 'I am a sinner who got a big reminder that Christ died for my sins."

Posted by: vivi at February 26, 2020 07:06 PM (11H2y)

275 Well said, vivi. Quite agree.

Posted by: lizabth at February 26, 2020 07:07 PM (L3Rsz)

276 The Feds allowed Google to buy YouTube, Facebook was allowed to buy Instagram.

Posted by: MAGA at February 26, 2020 07:15 PM (YqSM0)

277 don't understand the apparent animosity about Catholics with ashes on Ash Wednesday; Orthodox Jews wear tzitzit and nobody loses their minds.

It's a religious tradition that reminds us to repent. It's not 'ooh I"m holy, look at meee." It's 'I am a sinner who got a big reminder that Christ died for my sins."
Posted by: vivi at February

read for detail. There was not any animosity directed at Catholics, there was animosity directed at some that seem tv folks that seem to be using ashes. See the difference?

Posted by: not so at February 26, 2020 07:20 PM (HALdu)

278 they hate us, what else is new.

Posted by: cuckoo at February 26, 2020 07:47 PM (aZkKl)

279 Being a journalist means taking pride in one's ignorance.
If he doesn't understand something, it just means that anyone who understands must be a Russian spy.

Posted by: PG at February 26, 2020 11:19 PM (iqCkn)

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