The Morning Report

The Morning Report - 10/5/21

Good morning, kids. Tuesday and as we descend into an ever deepening and darkening dystopian nightmare, the chant of "Fuck Joe Biden" is rapidly becoming a national cri de coeur. A big reason is the reaction against the insanity of being forced to get injected with an at best minimally effective and at worst lethal chemical cocktail to combat a virus that was easily treated with cheap therapeutics ("was" since by now, Classic Chinese COVID has all but disappeared and mutated out of the environment). I'm only scratching the surface because Anthony Fauci, a twisted, megalomaniacal, malignant, rodentine dwarf who spent decades actually spreading disease and death while making money hand over fist via the pharmaceutical industry championing little more than very expensive snake oil, is placed on a pedestal as a demigod healer. And woe to anyone who dares question him, his motives and his record.

There's also the invasion from south of the border, and really from every rotten corner of the globe via land, sea and air now, with hundreds of thousands of third world dregs including a number of enthusiastic practitioners of "The Religion of Peace," the attempted final assault on whatever freedom and wealth we have left via these multi-trillion dollar bills and the disastrous and intentional handing over of Afghanistan to the Chi-Com/Islamikaze Axis and all the other depredations against us that make the refrain of "Let's Go Brandon!" warm the cockles of your heart. That said, they either fall on deaf ears or only make our overlords tighten the screws. Here's one example that I do not want to get lost in the sauce.

. . . when parents are horrified by what public schools are teaching their children -- Whites are inferior, kids can magically change sex, and masks forever -- that's a different story. On September 29, the NSBA wrote to Joe Biden begging for federal protection for school board members.
The letter alleges "the growing number of threats of violence and acts of intimidation occurring across the nation," beyond local police departments' abilities. However, John Hinderaker took the time to follow-up on the news stories the NSBA cited to justify its plea for the FBI and those allegations seem overwrought:

While the NSBA letter footnotes a number of news stories in support of its request, few of them document actual violence at school board meetings. There is this statement in a report on the famous Loudon County school board encounter: "A third person received a minor injury, officials said, without releasing details." And in Mendon, Illinois, "school officials attempted to escort Felde out of the meeting when he struck one of them before leaving the school." It doesn't sound like a national wave of violence that is too severe for local authorities to handle.
Nevertheless, for the NSBA, these were "heinous actions [that] could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes." Those are magic words. Suddenly, parents who oppose a hard-left agenda are "White Supremacists," who are "insurrecting." They've just been "otherized."
As you may recall from 2016, Obama and the Democrat party promised us that Merrick Garland, now the US Attorney General, was a "moderate." That's untrue. All you need to know is that it's Garland's DOJ, of which the FBI is just a subset, that is keeping people who protested at the Capitol on January 6 in solitary confinement under terrible conditions, arresting and abusing people who had done nothing wrong, and probably played a very large role in the January 6 protest. (Go to Julie Kelly's page at American Greatness, to see myriad articles detailing what Garland's DOJ is doing.)
Therefore, it's no surprise that Garland, upon hearing parents referred to as "domestic terrorists" committing "hate crimes," promptly agreed that the FBI should indeed crack down on things that are perfectly within the capabilities of local police departments. Oozing sympathy, he wrote that "there has been a disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence against" people "who participate in the vital work of running our nation's public schools . . . In the coming days, the Department will announce a series of measures designed to address the rise in criminal conduct directed toward school personnel."
Sundance, at The Conservative Treehouse, sums up perfectly what's going on here:
The goal is to label dissident parents, non-conforming free range citizens, as "Domestic Terrorists." The FBI will use the assembly of Big Tech social monitors to identify the targets for investigation. If parents do not want to see their child forced to wear a mask or have a needle injected into their arm while being told their skin color makes them less worthy of life, that person will become a target of the federal police.
In California, inquiries about homeschooling skyrocketed after Newsom's [Chinese] COVID vaccination mandate. I'm betting that the threat of having the FBI show up on a parent's doorstep because that parent dared challenge Critical Race Theory will have a whole lot of other parents across America pulling their kids out of FBI-supervised leftist school districts.

Well, how long before the Junta deems that keeping children out of public schools is a crime akin to or even statutory child abuse? One of the central tenets of Marxism is the destruction of the family. Everything they have done here and abroad both from a legal/political and structural standpoint has had the aim of weakening or destroying the family. Along with G-d, of course. Because once you get those out of the way THE STATE becomes parent and of course G-d.

But I digress. This Merrick Garland cancer is just another Globalist technocrat in service of dismantling America and serving it up on a platter to the Greater Xi Asian COVID Prosperity Sphere and the UN. Julie Kelly indeed has been doing outstanding real journalism in chronicling the souls rotting away in the Garland Archipelago for having the gall to object to the 2020 election being stolen and the nation overthrown, their petty misdemeanor of being duped into trespassing into the Capitol notwithstanding.

So, these people are demonized and are about to be railroaded into prison on trumped-up charges as having committed a crime worse than 9/11, the Civil War and the Holocaust combined. Yet when actual Nazi collaborator George Soros' bought and paid for thugs accost Kyrsten Sinema in a Senate toilet, Joe Towelette Biden dismissed it as "part of the process." Yeah, part of the process of political terrorism and intimidation. Now evidently, Sinema is being harassed everywhere she goes. Frankly, I'm at a point where we have got to start fighting fire with fire with these goons. They try to swarm Sinema or whoever, then we should be there with twice the number to intercede. Peacefully. Of course Reichsleiter Garland will have us arrested for insurrection, right?

One day, the chorus of "Fuck Joe Biden" is going to be akin to sticking your head into a jet airplane exhaust (or a Marshall amp at a circa '73 Deep Purple concert). And it won't be just aimed at that decrepit, demented asshole.

For me, Fuck Joe Biden = FUCK YOU, WAR. It had better be.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"When Obama nominated Merrick Garland for the Supreme Court, we were promised he was a moderate -- but what moderate does this?" (a moderate Reichsminister - jjs)
The U.S Attorney General is Siccing the FBI on Disgruntled Parents
"Prosecutors across the country have ceased prosecuting certain crimes in the name of racial and economic equity and social justice. This dangerous trend denies justice to victims and increases crime."
How Leftist Prosecutors Contributed To 2020's Massive Crime Spike
Lloyd Billingsley: "Biden pick Saule Omarova, a 'Lenin scholar' and Moscow State University alum, seeks to collectivize American banking."
Back in the USSR
Daniel Greenfield: "Biden's weakness fuels a Democrat civil war."
A Party Without a President Goes to War

$1 TRILLION "INFRASTRUCTURE" SELLOUT, $3.5 TRILLION SOCIALIST TRANSFORMATION, DEBT CEILING/BUDGETARY INSANITY

"Beyond Soros funding, LUCHA has received financial support from a political action committee (PAC) connected to several Democrat U.S. Senators, including Sens. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV). As of this writing, Menendez, Cortez Masto, and Padilla have all not publicly condemned the harassment of Sinema. Cortez Masto's connection to this group may complicate her reelection efforts next year as her Trump-backed GOP challenger, former Attorney General Adam Laxalt, is already ripping her for it."
Several Democrat Senators Including Vulnerable Catherine Cortez Masto Backed Group that Funded Leftists Who Harassed Kyrsten Sinema
"The incident comes after leftists creepily chased Sinema into a bathroom where they berated her over the weekend and recorded her as she used the bathroom." Left-Wing Activist Goons Harass Senator Sinema During Flight and at Airport
"Several activists repeatedly championed Biden's 'Build Back Better' agenda after chasing Sinema into a bathroom at Arizona State University, where they recorded her."
Biden on Kyrsten Sinema Being Harassed In Bathroom: "It Happens to Everybody," "Part of the Process"
"Leftwing billionaire George Soros funded the activist group that harassed Democrat Sen. Kyrsten Sinema in a bathroom last weekend, The Free Beacon reported."
Group That Harassed Kyrsten Sinema Funded by Nazi Collaborator and Leftwing Billionaire George Soros
"They are sponsored by people who hate America's large, prosperous, and politically independent middle class. These 'woke' Democrats are determined to break us."
Those $4.5 Trillion "Infrastructure" and "Reconciliation" Bills Are Far More Radical and Dangerous Than You Think
"Only Democrats support this gargantuan tax-and-spend plan. Republicans and Independents oppose it."
I&I/TIPP Poll: Most Independents Oppose Biden's Massive Spending Plan
And if it's not there Manchin is a no. So - in theory - still dead, or at least comatose.
Paypal Jayapal Would Vote No If Reconciliation Bill Includes Hyde Amendment
"The [so-called quote-unquote "president"] and his party seem determined to damage the economy."
The Research That Shows How Destructive the Biden Spending Will Be
"After insisting he can't support more than $1.5 trillion in new social spending, Sen. Joe Manchin asked his Democrat colleagues, 'How much is enough?' But he should ask himself the same question."
Biden's "Reduced" Spending Bill is Still Far Too Much
"The truth behind a trillion-dollar infrastructure bill and a multi-trillion dollar 'reconciliation' bill is that the grab-bag of free stuff the Democrats are pushing isn't popular."
Democrats at the Crossroads
"This is the master of Senate negotiation? The guy who said only he could reach across the aisle? Watching President Biden and his team try their hand at politics over the past two weeks, it's hard not to be reminded of Mets manager Casey Stengel: 'Can't anybody here play this game?'"
Joe Biden's Proving He's Pretty Inept at Politics
AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
He should only be bitten in the face by infected bats.
Fauci: Christmas Comment "Taken Completely Out of Context" -- "I Encourage" People to Have Normal Christmas
"Instead, to protect blue staters from the consequences of their obsessions, the New York Times punted."
The Chinese COVID Survey That Should Have Rocked the World
"After enforcing a vaccine mandate that could cost employees their jobs, Oschner Health will now charge employees with unvaccinated spouses up to $2,400 a year."
Louisiana Hospital Fines Employees For Having Unvaccinated Spouses
"It wasn't immediately clear why Rivera has refused the jab." (on the one hand, this is insanity, on the other hand she was appointed by Angel of Death Cuomo - jjs)
One of NY's Most Senior Judges Barred From Courthouse Over Refusal to Take Chinese COVID Injection
"An interview with Dr. Robert Malone, a pioneer of mRNA Vaccine technology."
Why This Doctor Is Risking the Nobel Prize to Speak Out Against Universal Chinese COVID-19 Vaccination
"Blackened e-mails returned to UK's Daily Mail make the case these 'experts' are hiding something about [Chinese] coronavirus origins."
Gov't Provides Nearly Blacked Out E-Mails on Secret Chinese COVID Origin Teleconference
"It's clear that a long period of heavy restrictions has not got us to zero cases," she said. "But it's OK... elimination was important because we didn't have vaccinations. Now we do, so we can begin to change the way we do things."
New Zealand PM Announces End To Zero-Chinese COVID Strategy
BIDEN AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER
"Today, as many as 65,000 Afghan evacuees flown out of Afghanistan under the President's orders now reside across eight military bases in the United States," the senators wrote. "The Biden [junta's] security vetting procedures to clear Afghans entering the country remain unclear and incomplete, and, unless changed, are insufficient to preserve the safety of the American homeland."
GOP Lawmakers Probe Reports Of Unvetted Afghans Departing U.S. Military Bases
"Not only did this violate standing orders against taking so-called war trophies, but those left behind have been or likely will be killed by the Taliban due to Donahue's actions."
HORRENDOUS: U.S. General Allegedly Abandoned Allies in Afghanistan for Souvenirs
"The consequences would be countrywide, but especially in Kabul. There will be blackout and it would bring Afghanistan back to the Dark Ages when it comes to power and to telecommunications," one of the few remaining employees of Afghanistan's state-run electricity company, Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS), told the WSJ. "This would be a really dangerous situation."
Taliban Stopped Paying Electricity Providers, Kabul Now Facing Blackout
Daniel Pipes: "Middle Easterners need to take responsibility for their brethren."
Middle East Migrants: Stay in Your Culture Zone
"Is the Scheller case really about enforcing the UCMJ and keeping our services apolitical? Or has ugly partisan politics infected the ranks of those who oversee our armed forces?"
Politics in the Case of Col. Scheller
Robert Spencer: "And so the Marines had to clear away their rude graffiti. We must not offend the Taliban. Why, after a few billion in aid, we will have won their hearts and minds for freedom! Right? Right?"
Before Marines Left Kabul, U.S. Commanders Made Them Remove Anti-Taliban and Anti-ISIS Graffiti
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"Waves of illegal immigrants flood across the U.S. southern border - with no end in sight."
Wholesale Invasion USA
"The Biden [junta's] new immigration-enforcement guidelines will have bad practical and political effects."
Unsustainable
CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Julie Kelly: "Channing Phillips is not colorblind, nor blind in the application of justice, as the American people expect."
The Radical Prosecutor in Charge of the January 6 Investigations
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
"One interviewee said, 'Brian had an outstanding analytic mind and great intellect, but as a leader he was piss poor with zero people skills. His leadership style was to execute in public and crush dissent. As such, folks were not willing to raise their head above their foxhole. From my perspective, the fear factor ran rampant in I&A [Intelligence and Analysis].'"
Internal DHS Review Finds Anti-Trump Whistleblower Brian Murphy Created "Toxic Atmosphere"
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"After going public about the radicalized and racialized curriculum changes that have increased racial tensions and distorted education, I have been the subject of escalating retaliation, some of which is racially-tinged, from colleagues and administrators."
Ramona Bessinger: I'm a Middle School Teacher Facing Retaliation After Blowing the Whistle on Critical Race Curriculum
"F" is for . . . Floyd.
Minnesota School Removes 'F' Grade and Allows Retests to Combat "Systemic Racism"
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"Cheap pandering at Israel's expense on George Mason visit."
Kamala's Hillary Moment
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS, AND OTHER CORRUPTION
"Given the congresswoman's tweet that taxing the rich more could help expand Medicare. what does she think of the Bidens' failure to pay nearly $395,000 in Medicare taxes?"
If Titty Caca AOC Wants to "Tax The Rich," Why Not Start With Joe Biden?
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"Meanwhile, the World Health Organization last week reported a decline in new [Chinese] COVID-19 cases and deaths around the globe."
Murder Pandemic: Fourth Straight Month With More Homicides than Chinese COVID Deaths in Washington, D.C.
"Dem Andy Beshear cited [Chinese] COVID pandemic to release 1,704 prisoners"
One-Third of Inmates Freed by Kentucky Gov Charged With Felony After Release
OTHER DEMOCRAT, LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"David Brock uses liberal media outlet to target voters, skirting campaign finance law."
Dark Money Dems Use Fake Newspaper To Influence Virginia Election
"Disgraced Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren, a Democrat from New York, agreed to a plea deal on Monday, allowing Warren to bypass trial on numerous charges and escape any potential prison time." (just lovely . . . - jjs
Democrat Mayor Pleads Guilty To Campaign Finance Crime, Satisfies Gun, Child Endangerment Charges
POLITICS
"Was Trump our last hope to drain it?" (he was not going to drain it; what he did was expose it for all to see and now it cannot be unseen; the question now is not whether Trump or any single person can overcome it. But can we collectively overcome it? - jjs)
It Took Biden to Prove the Swamp is Wide and Deep
Conrad Black: "The 45th president should lead responsible opposition to the damage to the American political system his haters mindlessly cheered and promoted for five years."
Trump Is Not the Cause of the Crimes Threatening America
"The onetime 2020 contender plans to launch a third party called Forward, according to POLITICO. Or as Yang himself put it, 'My political homelessness will last approximately 1 day.'"
It's Official: Andrew "Out the Ying" Yang Leaves the Democrats, Calls It "The Right Thing to Do"
Gov. DeSantis: "I am saddened to report that Florida's esteemed First Lady and my beloved wife has been diagnosed with breast cancer. As the mother of three young children, Casey is the centerpiece of our family and has made an impact on the lives of countless Floridians through her initiatives as First Lady."
Get-Well Wishes Pour In For Casey DeSantis Following Cancer Diagnosis
"Claiming that the state and not parents should control education, gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe has put himself in very hot water."
Why Virginians Should Be Terrified of Terry "Punk" McAuliffe
Rabbi Dov Fischer: "She has a singular inability to stare down an idea."
Kamala Harris Truly Is as Empty-Headed as a So-Called Quote-Unquote "Veep" Can Be
"The poll, commissioned by the left-leaning Mellman Group for The Nevada Independent, shows Cortez Masto with 45.5% support and Republican former State Attorney General Adam Laxalt with 41.2% support."
POLL: Democrat Nevada Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto Neck and Neck With GOP Challenger
"With strong majorities in both legislative chambers, Albany [NY] Democrats pursue a gerrymandering strategy."
It's Not Partisan When We Do It
Larry Elder: "How an embattled governor sent out a mayday call to Hollywood and to a former president." (he probably called Dao-Min Yen first, Larry - jjs)
California Recall: Enter Snoop and Barack
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"The social[ist] media behemoth's stock prices also crashed on Monday, making the company's already bad day even worse. The plummet in stock prices came as a Facebook executive was on CNBC defending the company against claims by a whistleblower that the company prioritized profit over the safety of young Facebook users."
Facebook Is Having a Very, VERY Bad Day (Cue World's Tiniest Violin)
"Sources: Former Obama administration communications guru Bill Burton and his company Bryson Gillette are working the high-profile campaign."
Top Democrat Operative Bill Burton Advising Facebook Whistleblower
"Looks like this 'whistleblower' is doing less whistling and more blowing."
Facebook "Whistleblower" Donated 36 Times to Democrats, Including to Anti-Primary Extremists and Titty Caca AOC
"The word 'misinformation' is always a tell that the person who says it wants to be in charge of who gets to speak and what we're supposed to believe."
People Like the Facebook "Whistleblower" Are Everything Wrong With Big Tech
"Leave aside Facebook's totalitarian manipulation of content on behalf of the liberal elite: Its most egregious crime is the mass manipulation of pre-teens and teenagers through the self-image terrorism of Instagram."
The Digital Revolution Eats Its Children
"When a social media user posted the link to the Seattle woman's obituary to Twitter, the social media honcho labeled the tweet as 'misleading' and prohibited other users from liking or sharing the post."
Twitter Censors Obituary of Woman Whose Family Says She Died from Chinese COVID Vaccine Complications
"The social media giant is systematically suppressing important, and provable facts, that put the lie to the climate change narrative."
John Stossel's Righteous Defamation Suit Against Facebook
John Stossel: "The Facebook army of malicious 'fact-checkers.'"
Smeared!
"Had expressed lack of motivation for scrutinizing 'generally factual' Biden."
Where's Daniel Dale? XiNN's Lead "Fact-Checker" Goes Missing
"Dowd claimed that it was a 'conspiracy theory' conjured up by Fox News before almost immediately admitting that he deleted up to 270,000 'old tweets.'" (old tweets about young boys - jjs)
WATCH: XiNN Grills Democrat Candidate Matthew Dowd Over Why He Deleted Thousands of Tweets
"Once again, this story illustrates starkly the oppressive future coming to America. It was the students at Oklahoma State who forced Farris to resign because they could not handle her opinion. And they were able to behave so intolerantly because they had the endorsement of the university faculty, including their teacher advisor, who apparently endorsed their decision to push Farris out because she had written something they disagreed with."
Today's Blacklisted American: Chief Editor on Oklahoma State U's Student Newspaper Forced to Resign for Holding a Dissenting Opinion
SECOND AMENDMENT
"Owning a gun isn't the same as knowing how to use it. Here are some suggestions for getting your defensive act together."
After You Buy a Gun for Self-Defense, Here's What to Do With It
ABORTION
"A publicly funded university is using federal grants to engage in grotesque experiments using aborted babies, yet those in positions to act have thus far been silent."
Public Officials Silent About Allegations of Nazi-Level Experiments at the University of Pittsburgh
"The move comes after Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) stated that he would not support a reconciliation bill that did not include the Hyde Amendment, which prevents federal taxpayer dollars from going to most abortions."
Biden Junta Reverses Policy Banning Federally-Funded Family Planning Clinics From Making Abortion Referrals
"It was a game."
Roe Baby Says She Will Never Forgive Her Biological Mother For Trying To Use Her For Attention
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"Taiwan's air force could be heard in radio warnings demanding the Chinese aircrafts 'turn around and leave immediately' when they entered the ADIZ." (Triple-A is not just a road assistance company - jjs)
China Sends 52 Warplanes Into Taiwan's Defense Zone, Largest Incursion Yet
"China's increasing willingness to violate Taiwanese airspace signals that Beijing is not concerned about agitating Taiwan and its allies, particularly the United States, which condemned the CCP's air operations but did nothing else."
China Threatens Taiwan on Twitter as Warplanes Swarm Island
"Looming large over the scene is the perception that China is becoming more dangerous because it is a declining power. As the American Enterprise Institute put it, based on a recent piece in Foreign Policy, 'The United States needs to prepare for a major war, not because its rival is rising but because of the opposite.'"
Is Beijing on Borrowed Time? Is the U.S.?
"China runs on coal. Environmental pledges to foreigners mean little to the Middle Kingdom unless those promises can be leveraged for other purposes. . . Might the PRC be preparing for conflict over Taiwan? If so, it might stockpile coal by curtailing consumption."
Why Is China Facing Mysterious Energy Blackouts? It Could Be Designs On Taiwan
Israeli prime minister's office: "This was a terrorist incident directed by Iran against Israeli businesspeople living in Cyprus."
Cyprus: Iranian Terror Plot to Kill Israeli Businessmen Foiled
"The Jewish state has one year to leave the 'Palestinian territories' -- or else. But or else what?"
Mahmoud Abbas' Ultimatum to Israel
"Indeed, more than 330 current and former politicians identified as beneficiaries of the secret accounts include Jordan's King Abdullah II, former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair, Czech Republic Prime Minister Andrej Babis, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso and associates of both Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and Russian President Vladimir Putin."
"PANDORA PAPERS": Trove of Leaked Records Reveal Offshore Financial Secrets of Global Elites
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Robert Spencer: "He had previously survived two attempts on his life. It is possible that he was killed in a third."
Muhammad Cartoonist Lars Vilks Killed in Suspicious Auto Accident
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE, THE COURTS
"Government at all levels in the U.S. must be 'right sized' to about 20% of GDP."
Let's Debate How To "Right Size" Government, Not How To Make It Bigger
He urged Republicans to "get out of the way" and let Democrats "save the country" from financial calamity, which he compared to "meteors headed to crash into our economy."
Biden Blames Trump, GOP for Not Raising Debt Ceiling
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"In August, the White House appealed to OPEC, asking it to boost oil production at a higher rate."
Oil Prices Skyrocket To Seven-Year High After OPEC Announces Gradual Output Boost
"Intrusive data collection on Americans' financial transactions threatens to undermine trust in our banking system and hits the middle class hardest."
IRS Wants Data on Your eBay Sales
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"Antarctica has posted its coldest winter since records began in 1957 with average temperatures of -61.1 degrees C. The previous record was -60.6 degrees C in 1976." (there goes the narrative - jjs)
Global Warming Shock. Antarctica Posts Coldest Winter Since Records Began
"Seven years ago, a similar survey found that only 19% of Americans believed electric cars are practical."
Poll: Only 25% of Americans Think Electric Cars Are Practical
"While proponents claim the RUC program is simply a 'pilot program' and not a permanent one, opponents ask when the government has ever given up the collection of a tax once it has begun? Um, never, which brings us back to that 'broader application' bit and why the program was extended and expanded in the first place." (go long on odometer-rigging - jjs)
Here's California's Latest Attack on Poor and Middle-Class Residents -- in the Name of "Equity," of Course
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"Capitalism in space: Blue Origin today announced that William Shatner will join three other passengers on its next New Shepard suborbital flight, presently scheduled for October 12th."
William Shatner to Fly on Next New Shepard Suborbital Flight
"This past weekend the European/Japanese duel-orbiter mission made its first flyby of Mercury, taking its first images of that planet."
Beppi/Colombo's First Images of Mercury
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"'As long as legislators continue to restrict the #ReproductiveRights of cis women, trans men & non-binary folx, there should be laws to address the responsibility of men who impregnate them!' Rabb tweeted." Dem Legislator Calls for Forced Vasectomies
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"In 2020, the season 46 premiere attracted 7.5 million viewers. This Saturday, only 3.5 million tuned in for the start of the season."
NBC's Far-Left Saturday Night Live Premiere Ratings Down More Than 50%
"A new book doesn't merely debunk the 1619 Project, it devastates it."
Debunking the 1619 Project
Unclean . . . and, yet, jerk.
Transgender Psychotic Freak Weightlifter Laurel Hubbard Wins "Sportswoman of the Year" Award
"After nearly 17,000 games, the Cleveland baseball team played their final game as the Indians Sunday afternoon. The iconic nickname since 1915 will be change to 'Guardians" next season for no good reason other than politics and a weak owner bullied by the woke mob."
Cleveland Indians Get Scalped by Woke Culture
"Under activist pressure, a British Columbia court upends millennia of tradition."
Pronoun Coercion in Canada
Sean Davis: "Christians will suffer because of what we believe. We must take the opportunity every single day, in every aspect of our lives, to demonstrate courage."
Christians Don't Need Fancy New Strategies Or Tactics To Tackle America's Problems. They Need Courage
"Not surprisingly, given the times we live in, race is at the heart of the movie's misfire."
Sopranos Prequel Goes Squishy on the Sixties
"Silverman is the kind of person who argues for inclusiveness by telling us all about who should be excluded from what."
In Latest Woke War on Action, Sarah Silverman Says Only Jews Should Play Jews
"The only hope for suffering people is the witness of the church -- the people who believe truth is still worth dying for."
If Christians Around the World Can Face Death for Their Faith, Americans Can Go to Church
HITHER & YON
Christian Toto: "Saints, Cry Macho and Eyes of Tammy Faye all stumbled out of the gate."
Oscar Season Beware: Adult-Minded Movies Are Dying at the Box Office
"Whether Tracy will be around to celebrate its centenary is an open question."
Dick Tracy Turns 90 -- He's Needed Now More Than Ever

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1 hiya

Posted by: JT at October 05, 2021 06:44 AM (arJlL)

2 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 05, 2021 06:44 AM (T7iTv)

3 Let's go Brandon!

Posted by: Joe Blowout Biden at October 05, 2021 06:44 AM (/6GbT)

4 Rain, Rain, Rain. Ick.
Morning Morons.

Posted by: Ian Deal at October 05, 2021 06:45 AM (ZK0Rk)

5 Previous thread notified.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 05, 2021 06:45 AM (T7iTv)

6 Happy birthday, f'd and JJ.

Posted by: flounder at October 05, 2021 06:45 AM (KnJdm)

7 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 05, 2021 06:45 AM (yrol0)

8 Happy Tuesday, one and all. May there be enough coffee to get us through the day.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 05, 2021 06:46 AM (rF7rL)

9 Morning again, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo, Pontoon Captain* (like a real captain, only drunker) at October 05, 2021 06:46 AM (ju2Fy)

10 Watching President Biden and his team try their hand at politics over the past two weeks, it's hard not to be reminded of Mets manager Casey Stengel: 'Can't anybody here play this game?'"

The exact quote is "Doesn't anybody here know how to play this game ?"

After he removed his cap and threw it to the ground.

Posted by: JT at October 05, 2021 06:47 AM (arJlL)

11 Because it bears repeating:

Andy McCarthy
@AndrewCMcCarthy
Sorry Judge Merrick Garland didn't get day in the sun he deserves today, but he's superb choice to be AG. He was as good as it gets as top DOJ official in 90s: smart, committed, patriotic, terrific lawyer, and gentleman. We'll disagree on some policy, but DOJ in good hands.
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Posted by: blaster at October 05, 2021 06:48 AM (mbFEM)

12 After listening to Fauci over the past year and a half, it's hard to understand how anyone views him as credible. Just last week when someone asked him about whether people with natural immunity need vaccinations, he acted like he had not even considered the idea before. A year and a half in while vaccine mandates make so such exemption. He knew this backward and forward (there is no justification for requiring vaccines for those who had covid), but rather than acknowledge the obvious, he danced around the question.

Posted by: Ian Deal at October 05, 2021 06:48 AM (ZK0Rk)

13 Moderate nowadays means Leftist.

Posted by: f'd at October 05, 2021 06:48 AM (Tnijr)

14 May there be enough coffee to get you through to March, maybe April

Posted by: Common Tater at October 05, 2021 06:48 AM (mzTVj)

15 Remember how moderate Biden is.

Posted by: f'd at October 05, 2021 06:48 AM (Tnijr)

16 Good morning everyone

Posted by: Skip's Phone at October 05, 2021 06:48 AM (Ennl+)

17 JJ, not to be too much of a pedant, but the rallying cry is not "Fuck You Joe Biden" it is simple "Fuck Joe Biden" The standard staccato sports chant of two syllables followed by two more with a change of pace, then the clap-clap, clap-clap-clap beat. As in "Let's Go Panth-ers"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 06:48 AM (+IIqY)

18 Morning peeps from a very foggy and damp Bluegrass.

Fuck Joe Biden...

That is all.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 05, 2021 06:50 AM (BFigT)

19 The number of homicides in the United States increased around 30 percent in 2020 compared to the previous year, the Federal Bureau of Investigation reported last week, along with a 5.6 percent increase in violent crime in the same period.

FIB Response: GO after white parents that want school to teach.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 05, 2021 06:50 AM (yrol0)

20 I'm only scratching the surface because Anthony Fauci, a twisted, megalomaniacal, malignant, rodentine dwarf who spent decades actually spreading disease and death while making money hand over fist via the pharmaceutical industry championing little more than very expensive snake oil, is placed on a pedestal as a demigod healer.
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Never meet your heroes. He was put on that pedastal as the super-expert anti-Trump and now they're stuck with him. They also love his totalitarianism and his rationalizations for more of the same, so to that respect it was a happy accident. I do wonder, though, if any of the more intelligent members of the ruling class and the press lament that he has become their totem animal.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 06:50 AM (+IIqY)

21 As in "Let's Go Panth-ers"
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 06:48 AM (+IIqY)

Sounds like Let's Go Brandon!

Posted by: blaster at October 05, 2021 06:50 AM (mbFEM)

22 Nevertheless, for the NSBA, these were "heinous actions [that] could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes."

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We all see where this is going...

Objection to hard leftism, on any level, in any sector, is now going to be labeled a "hate crime." Subject to all the penalties and charges therein. It's where we're headed.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 05, 2021 06:51 AM (O+I8R)

23 If "good hands" means Marxist sure he is a swell guy.

Rat bastard is more fitting. And that RB will start the Gulag if he can.

Posted by: Skip's Phone at October 05, 2021 06:51 AM (bUL4f)

24 17 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 06:48 AM (+IIqY)

No, that's right. Changed it. Thanks.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 05, 2021 06:51 AM (s2VJv)

25 The most important journalist in America, James O'Keefe, comes through again. Reporting what the media desperately wants to smother and what Republicans apparently are terrified to talk about. Pharma company scientists in their own words -- "we exist on Covid money now, and your own antibodies are better than our fake ones."

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 05, 2021 06:52 AM (H8QX8)

26 Rookie mistake. Read the content.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 05, 2021 06:52 AM (OCTRt)

27 "he deleted up to 270,000 'old tweets."

270,000? Don't these people do anything else?

Posted by: f'd at October 05, 2021 06:52 AM (Tnijr)

28
Kamala Harris Truly Is as Empty-Headed as a ~~Veep~~ Democrat Can Be.

Fix'd

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 05, 2021 06:52 AM (/U27+)

29 Fauci: Christmas Comment "Taken Completely Out of Context"

No, it wasn't. You were just taken aback at the sheer hatred directed at you as opposed to the fellatio you've been getting last year. You had to use that excuse to save your sorry ass.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 05, 2021 06:53 AM (rF7rL)

30

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at October 05, 2021 06:53 AM (K2SnJ)

31
Rookie mistake. Read the content.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 05, 2021 06:52 AM (OCTRt)

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Don't do that again. Be better.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 05, 2021 06:53 AM (/U27+)

32 ... the NSBA wrote to Joe Biden begging for federal protection for school board members.
The letter alleges "the growing number of threats of violence and acts of intimidation occurring across the nation," beyond local police departments' abilities. ...
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If the things we have seen - harsh words, shouting matches, disruptions, the occasional scuffle and an extremely large uptick in paperwork - are the extent of what they're dealing with, they should consider themselves the luckiest people on earth.

They're deliberately stealing, corrupting and subverting people's children. They are not doing this by accident or through being misguided, but by design in the pursuit of evil. It is astounding to me that they're not being murdered indiscriminately. They should thank their lucky stars that no one out there has made the cruel calculation that it might be better to be carried by 12 (or judged by 12) than see their children destroyed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 06:53 AM (+IIqY)

33 Moronin', Hourde!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at October 05, 2021 06:54 AM (u7pQw)

34 FOIA requests are terrorism!

Posted by: blaster at October 05, 2021 06:54 AM (mbFEM)

35 It's Official: Andrew "Out the Ying" Yang Leaves the Democrats, Calls It "The Right Thing to Do"

So, his primary complaint is that the Democrats don't make election fraud easy enough?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 05, 2021 06:54 AM (T7iTv)

36 Now you go to a school board meeting and express your disagreement with the board.

At 2am, your block is evacuated and 100 officers from 6 different agencies, armored personnel carriers, automatic weapons, helicopters and fighters flying close air support destroy your house, kill your pets, put your kids in state custody and tell all of your neighbors that they are breaking up an extremely violent domestic terror ring. They will go on the news and inform the public that they found a "sizable" weapons cache and supplies which could be used to make bombs. They aren't sure what your plans were, but you used threatening language at a school board meeting, so they can only speculate that you planned to blow up a school and kill all of the kids inside. Thank God for the FBI.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 05, 2021 06:55 AM (0ryfU)

37 There's a reckoning coming.

Posted by: Jewells45 at October 05, 2021 06:55 AM (nxdel)

38 Good morning morons and thanks JJ

Tens of thousands of violent offenders released from prison and media wonders why there is a crime wave.

Capitol trespassers and Scheller languish in jail.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 05, 2021 06:55 AM (EZebt)

39 ... They will go on the news and inform the public that they found a "sizable" weapons cache and supplies which could be used to make bombs. They aren't sure what your plans were, but you used threatening language at a school board meeting, so they can only speculate that you planned to blow up a school and kill all of the kids inside. Thank God for the FBI.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 05, 2021 06:55 AM (0ryfU)
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Why, it's almost like you've seen this movie before and are terribly cynical...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 06:56 AM (+IIqY)

40 From JJ's link to Christians and Courage:

"We do not wait for the permission of earthly rulers before we obey our Heavenly King."

Amen. And I love this author's picture profile. I've always had a thing for long hair.

Posted by: grammie winger at October 05, 2021 06:56 AM (45fpk)

41 Good morning, JJ - and thanks for another plethora of links.

"or a Marshall amp at a circa '73 Deep Purple concert"

Perhaps "Marshall stack" better conveys the meaning!!

Posted by: Doof at October 05, 2021 06:56 AM (mZUr4)

42 Over at barnhardt.biz Ann has a video of a guy (physician?) with the lab work done after a patient got the two clotshots. Basically he has AIDS now. His immune system has tanked. The next "breakout" virus will finish him off.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at October 05, 2021 06:56 AM (xopIz)

43 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at October 05, 2021 06:57 AM (Zz0t1)

44 Fuck J O'Biden.

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at October 05, 2021 06:58 AM (Zz0t1)

45 From the Paper by Saule Omarova:

At the same time, allowing private banks to continue accepting deposits in competition with the central bank potentially creates significant problems from the perspective of systemic stability.
Universal availability of fully sovereign digital money will make it much easier for all bank depositors to run to safety in real time, thus taking the classic bank run problem to the next level.
Furthermore, private banks particularly, large ones nestled inside diversified financial conglomerates will have strong incentives to offer depositors not only higher interest rates on their accounts but also a
broader suite of high-risk, high-return financial products.

THIS IS SOME SCARY SHIT!

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 05, 2021 06:58 AM (yrol0)

46 ... Tens of thousands of violent offenders released from prison and media wonders why there is a crime wave. ...
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 05, 2021 06:55 AM (EZebt)
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That sure doesn't help any. But there's also the decriminalization of crime. What they're doing with things like not enforcing trespassing, not enforcing shoplifting, not enforcing vagrancy, not enforcing simple assault, etc. is the exact opposite of "broken windows" police theory. In broken windows theory, you stop petty crime and thus disrupt the pipeline to serious crime. It has worked where it has been tried. In the opposite, there are no consequences unless you commit serious crime, and even then they have to catch you. So why not go for it? Get your practice in and then go hard.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 06:58 AM (+IIqY)

47 IIRC doesn't the Department of Education have a large, well armed "Security Section" or SWAT? I seem to recall this making news quite awhile ago as it was listed along with a slew of Federal agencies that have armed (some heavily) security or LE sections.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 05, 2021 07:00 AM (BFigT)

48 Posted by: blaster at October 05, 2021 06:48 AM (mbFEM)

Levin used to have McCarthy on frequently until Mark grew exasperated with his pre Hannity bullshit about what dedicated public servants exclusively populate the DOJ and how they're above criticism.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at October 05, 2021 07:00 AM (y7DUB)

49 He should only be bitten in the face by infected bats.
Fauci: Christmas Comment "Taken Completely Out of Context" -- "I Encourage" People to Have Normal Christmas

I heard the sound clip. He was asked "so can we celebrate Christmas this year or is it to early to tell?"

As a psychopath who doesn't have any empathy so he doesn't know what normal human beings think or feel, he parroted the last words of the question.

There was no special context to it. Fauchi is a stupid, vain, petty psychopath who is in way over his head.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at October 05, 2021 07:00 AM (+LCoQ)

50 Re: Garland. Try to imagine if AG Bill Barr had directed the FBI to target liberal moms lobbying communities to declare their schools no-gun zones.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 05, 2021 07:01 AM (H8QX8)

51 ... Universal availability of fully sovereign digital money will make it much easier for all bank depositors to run to safety in real time, thus taking the classic bank run problem to the next level.
Furthermore, private banks particularly, large ones nestled inside diversified financial conglomerates will have strong incentives to offer depositors not only higher interest rates on their accounts but also a broader suite of high-risk, high-return financial products. ...
Posted by: rhennigantx at October 05, 2021 06:58 AM (yrol0)
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So. Private banks compete with the central bank (they don't - that's a lie) and offer a competitive interest rate environment. The goal of digitizing the currency altogether doesn't mesh well with that because it makes movement too fast and easy and can cause bank runs to worsen. Therefore, to get to a digital currency, all banks must be merged into the Fed and controlled top-down at every level down to the ATM on the street. For our own good. To reduce risk and increase safety.

What a totalitarian prick.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 07:02 AM (+IIqY)

52 After listening to Fauci over the past year and a half, it's hard to understand how anyone views him as credible. Just last week when someone asked him about whether people with natural immunity need vaccinations, he acted like he had not even considered the idea before...
Posted by: Ian Deal at October 05, 2021 06:48 AM (ZK0Rk)

We need a series of 20 year double blind studies to determine basic science. In the meantime, everyone MUST be required to take the vaccine from the company I'm invested in. Because SCIENCE!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 05, 2021 07:03 AM (T7iTv)

53 At 2am, your block is evacuated and 100 officers from 6 different agencies, armored personnel carriers, automatic weapons, helicopters and fighters flying close air support destroy your house, kill your pets, put your kids in state custody and tell all of your neighbors that they are breaking up an extremely violent domestic terror ring. They will go on the news and inform the public that they found a "sizable" weapons cache and supplies which could be used to make bombs. They aren't sure what your plans were, but you used threatening language at a school board meeting, so they can only speculate that you planned to blow up a school and kill all of the kids inside. Thank God for the FBI.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Next ten times they do that, one of them is shot in the face and killed, the 11th time they're going to have a hard time finding someone to go thru that front door. Once he's shot & killed, the twelfth guy is gonna think even longer and harder.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 05, 2021 07:03 AM (OCTRt)

54 IIRC doesn't the Department of Education have a large, well armed "Security Section" or SWAT? I seem to recall this making news quite awhile ago as it was listed along with a slew of Federal agencies that have armed (some heavily) security or LE sections.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 05, 2021 07:00 AM (BFigT)
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I doubt it is "large" as compared to the size of the country or the number of areas that might require it if parents are all converted into official terrorists. But all federal agencies have shock troops. It is something that should never have been permitted to happen, but Congress has been abdicating their responsibility for so long that I doubt they even noticed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 07:03 AM (+IIqY)

55 IIRC doesn't the Department of Education have a large, well armed "Security Section" or SWAT? I seem to recall this making news quite awhile ago as it was listed along with a slew of Federal agencies that have armed (some heavily) security or LE sections.

Yes, its call the Hostage Recue Team (HRT). They are the ones who are specially trained to shoot and immolate women and children of faith in their own home, when they aren't gunning down dogs, children and women standing in doorways cradling their baby in their arms.

The FBI has been an abomination since that cross-dressing freak was running it as his own Stasi.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at October 05, 2021 07:03 AM (+LCoQ)

56 They're deliberately stealing, corrupting and subverting people's children. They are not doing this by accident or through being misguided, but by design in the pursuit of evil. It is astounding to me that they're not being murdered indiscriminately. They should thank their lucky stars that no one out there has made the cruel calculation that it might be better to be carried by 12 (or judged by 12) than see their children destroyed.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 06:53 AM (+IIqY)

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Oakland "school advocate" shot and killed in his own home Sunday night, wife injured.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 05, 2021 07:04 AM (EZebt)

57 49 Posted by: Reuben Hick at October 05, 2021 07:00 AM (+LCoQ)

I'm no Frasier Crane but Fauci strikes me as more sociopath than psychopath. No empathy, no conscience. Just the overarching need to impose himself on everyone.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 05, 2021 07:04 AM (s2VJv)

58 Merrick Garland would be at home strutting around in a NKVD uniform and shooting helpless Kulaks in the back of the head.

Evil coward.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at October 05, 2021 07:04 AM (r8tC0)

59 Christmas? Who celebrates Christmas?

C'mon. Nobody celebrates Saternalia anymore.

Crazy demented people.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at October 05, 2021 07:04 AM (xopIz)

60 Is it possible principled conservative Matthew Dowd has skeletons in his closet?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, the Phillips screwdriver of the gods at October 05, 2021 07:04 AM (cSyAR)

61 Oakland "school advocate" shot and killed in his own home Sunday night, wife injured.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 05, 2021 07:04 AM (EZebt)
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I'll wait to offer my congratulations until motive is established. It is Oakland. It could have random violence or gang-related.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 07:05 AM (+IIqY)

62 Fauci has classic "Napoleon complex" symptoms.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at October 05, 2021 07:05 AM (xopIz)

63 But all federal agencies have shock troops.

There was a story some time ago where the Department of Education sent in para-military operators to smash down the door, tear the house apart and chain up some dude half naked in the yard for six hours on the claim that they were looking for his estranged wife who skipped out on her college loans.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at October 05, 2021 07:06 AM (+LCoQ)

64 There was a story some time ago where the Department of Education sent in para-military operators to smash down the door, tear the house apart and chain up some dude half naked in the yard for six hours on the claim that they were looking for his estranged wife who skipped out on her college loans.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at October 05, 2021 07:06 AM (+LCoQ)
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I haven't heard that, but it wouldn't surprise me. It was either a mistake (the response kept escalating and no one intervened to stop it until it blew up) or they were testing the waters.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 07:07 AM (+IIqY)

65 "... wife who skipped out on her college loans."

Classic Democrat city council member.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at October 05, 2021 07:07 AM (xopIz)

66 63 But all federal agencies have shock troops.

There was a story some time ago where the Department of Education sent in para-military operators to smash down the door, tear the house apart and chain up some dude half naked in the yard for six hours on the claim that they were looking for his estranged wife who skipped out on her college loans.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at October 05, 2021 07:06 AM (+LCoQ)

I'm curious to see if there are actual uniforms for DoE SWAT personnel etc.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 05, 2021 07:07 AM (s2VJv)

67 Good morning, JJ, Horde,

Just 15 days to flatten the curve!

Posted by: callsign claymore at October 05, 2021 07:08 AM (vJZpZ)

68 Over at barnhardt.biz Ann has a video of a guy (physician?) with the lab work done after a patient got the two clotshots. Basically he has AIDS now. His immune system has tanked. The next "breakout" virus will finish him off.
Posted by: JAS,

Tell me that's not on purpose.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 05, 2021 07:08 AM (OCTRt)

69 Mornin', all,

A good resource for those needing advice on religious exemptions from the vax, from Alex Berenson's site: https://tinyurl.com/2htfpwmw

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at October 05, 2021 07:08 AM (/XOcP)

70 I'm no Frasier Crane but Fauci strikes me as more sociopath than psychopath. No empathy, no conscience. Just the overarching need to impose himself on everyone.

The distinctions are fuzzy and almost always ends up a long bow or cross bow argument.

My rule is: Bill Clinton is a psychopath, Hillary Clinton is a sociopath.

Fauci dopes sociopath, the problem is that psychopaths win over the hearts and minds of weak people, especially women. There are a LOT of women who want to bear Fauci's children, that add data points to the psycho.

YMMV

Posted by: Reuben Hick at October 05, 2021 07:09 AM (+LCoQ)

71 Ann thinks that it IS on purpose.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at October 05, 2021 07:09 AM (xopIz)

72 Minnesota School Removes 'F' Grade and Allows Retests to Combat "Systemic Racism"

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So students flunk because they haven't studied or don't put effort into their classwork, and they're causing their own systemic racism. Is that about the size of it? That's the rationale they're trying to peddle.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 05, 2021 07:10 AM (O+I8R)

73 I'll wait to offer my congratulations until motive is established. It is Oakland. It could have random violence or gang-related.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 07:05 AM (+IIqY)
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Police chief said yesterday it was a targeted attack but the specific motives aren't established. Neither is what the advocate advocated for..

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 05, 2021 07:10 AM (EZebt)

74 Christian Toto: "Saints, Cry Macho and Eyes of Tammy Faye all stumbled out of the gate."

I saw the trailer for the Tammy Faye movie and wondered why they were making a movie about her in 2021 or if anyone under 45 even knew who she was.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 05, 2021 07:10 AM (Yqpb4)

75 Re: Garland. Try to imagine if AG Bill Barr had directed the FBI to target liberal moms lobbying communities to declare their schools no-gun zones.

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Good analogy, OA. Cities would burn.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 05, 2021 07:10 AM (O+I8R)

76 Do you think those goons harassing Manchin and Sinema are getting paid?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 05, 2021 07:10 AM (EZebt)

77 I haven't heard that, but it wouldn't surprise me. It was either a mistake (the response kept escalating and no one intervened to stop it until it blew up) or they were testing the waters.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

They will claim "unfortunate series of events", but we all know it was testing the waters.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 05, 2021 07:10 AM (OCTRt)

78 Biden's end is near. His defense on raising the debt limit was spectacularly bad, even by his standards. The meteor comment was stunning.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at October 05, 2021 07:11 AM (oWBc3)

79 Biden's end is near. His defense on raising the debt limit was spectacularly bad, even by his standards. The meteor comment was stunning.

They clearly want to drag him across the line where Kumalot would be eligible for two terms afterwards, but at this point I don't think that's possible.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 05, 2021 07:12 AM (Yqpb4)

80 62 Fauci has classic "Napoleon complex" symptoms.
Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at October 05, 2021 07:05 AM (xopIz)

His secret to success seems to be the fact he "hides in plain sight." In one sense, he's part of a culture of high-functioning quasi-sociopaths or wanna-bes, in another sense it is beyond the comprehension or experience of most people watching that he could be as bad as all that. Also, he's so totally, pathologically defiant of criticism that many see this as virtue or strength.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 05, 2021 07:12 AM (H8QX8)

81 66 I'm curious to see if there are actual uniforms for DoE SWAT personnel etc.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 05, 2021 07:07 AM (s2VJv)

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To show their opposition to bigotry, the uniforms should be rainbows.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 07:13 AM (LvTSG)

82 One of these days or nights, there will be "the night of the long knives" and Sinema, Manchin, et. al will be murdered in public.

Oh, and the Internet will go down, so we won't know anything about it until later, if at all.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at October 05, 2021 07:13 AM (xopIz)

83 I'm no Frasier Crane but Fauci strikes me as more sociopath than psychopath. No empathy, no conscience. Just the overarching need to impose himself on everyone.

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The same can be said of 90% of democrat politicians.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 05, 2021 07:13 AM (O+I8R)

84 Good morning!

How is it that a squirmy 2 year old who can;t keep his mask on is marched off a plane w/his parents while that demented illegal immigrant was allowed to harass a Senator???

Posted by: Lizzy at October 05, 2021 07:14 AM (bDqIh)

85 Biden's end is near. His defense on raising the debt limit was spectacularly bad, even by his standards. The meteor comment was stunning.
Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at October 05, 2021 07:11 AM (oWBc3)

They might be able to get rid if him with the 25th, but then they're stuck with Kamala, whose primary skillset is more normally found in filter feeders and vacuum cleaners.

Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at October 05, 2021 07:14 AM (B+JA6)

86 I've written a good draft of my religious exemption letter. I hit 4 points: that the vaccines were developed using aborted cell lines, and that abortion is anathema to my religious belief; that my body is a temple and using any of these abortion-derived vaccines would pollute it and put my soul in moral peril; that coerced medical treatment goes against my conscience; and that as a member of the Confraternity of Our Lady of Fatima, I believe it a sin to participate in this because of the crime of abortion. No medical details or legal protests, just statements of my belief.

I do, however, end it with a note that I am not waiving any of my legal rights.

Sound good?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at October 05, 2021 07:14 AM (/XOcP)

87 68 It's all on purpose. The globalist maniacs want 95% of us in the ground.

Posted by: callsign claymore at October 05, 2021 07:15 AM (vJZpZ)

88 Minnesota School Removes 'F' Grade and Allows Retests to Combat "Systemic Racism"
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Why bother? I mean that seriously. If they're going to do this, why not just revert to Dewey's "progressive education" and not grade or measure at all? This change will be meaningless. I have personal experience in this.

At one of my elementary schools, we had a newfangled grading system that replaced the five-point (A-D; F) scale. It was three points: E (excellent), S (satisfactory) and N (Needs improvement). It made no different. All it did was cheaper the "A" by blending it with "B." "S" was still a "C" and "N" handled the bottom. It rearranged the deck chairs but did nothing, and we all knew what it meant.

At my last elementary school, it was a progressive experimental "school" (the one I got kicked out of) and it had no grades or testing at all other than the state-mandated Iowa test. I could watch another kid read or do arithmetic and then guess with shocking accuracy how long they had been there. The ones who came in during Kindergarten or first grade were illiterate and innumerate. The earlier the entered, the worse. No achievement at all without grades and assessment.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 07:15 AM (+IIqY)

89 How is it that a squirmy 2 year old who can;t keep his mask on is marched off a plane w/his parents while that demented illegal immigrant was allowed to harass a Senator???
Posted by: Lizzy

While that demented male wetback was allowed to harass a FEMALE senator in a FEMALE ONLY BATHROOM???

Posted by: rickb223 at October 05, 2021 07:16 AM (OCTRt)

90 They're deliberately stealing, corrupting and subverting people's children. They are not doing this by accident or through being misguided, but by design in the pursuit of evil. It is astounding to me that they're not being murdered indiscriminately. They should thank their lucky stars that no one out there has made the cruel calculation that it might be better to be carried by 12 (or judged by 12) than see their children destroyed.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 06:53 AM (+IIqY)
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I think it's only a matter of *when* not *if* at this point...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 05, 2021 07:16 AM (ZIoLS)

91 A big reason is the reaction against the insanity of being forced to get injected with an at best minimally effective and at worst lethal chemical cocktail to combat a virus that was easily treated with cheap therapeutics ("was" since by now, Classic Chinese COVID has all but disappeared and mutated out of the environment). I'm only scratching the surface because Anthony Fauci, a twisted, megalomaniacal, malignant, rodentine dwarf who spent decades actually spreading disease and death while making money hand over fist via the pharmaceutical industry championing little more than very expensive snake oil, is placed on a pedestal as a demigod healer. And woe to anyone who dares question him, his motives and his record.

This is interesting cuz I'm assuming this is comedian is a leftist. Not really funny, but judging by this, even the leftards are starting to get tired of the vaccine shuffle:

"The Sarah Vaccine"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmDkhF8sS54

This might be funny if edited severely. It's easily 10-11 minutes too long.
Anyway if you ever wanted to see Pee Wee Herman starring in "Reanimator" and "Pink flamingoes", here you go.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 05, 2021 07:16 AM (5NkmN)

92 Well, uniparty, you arrogant asses, you've killed us all! All the grifting is going to destroy the Republic.

Posted by: Andrej Bonovia to Captain Tupulov at October 05, 2021 07:16 AM (sIv7i)

93 Minnesota School Removes 'F' Grade and Allows Retests to Combat "Systemic Racism"

So they're saying blacks are failures? And *we're* the racists?

Posted by: Ian S. at October 05, 2021 07:16 AM (Yqpb4)

94 I haven't heard that, but it wouldn't surprise me.

Quick DDG search: https://tinyurl.com/buvcp3c9

The story was originally told as school loans, but the DOE later said it was part of a criminal investigation.

They were real quick to smash down the door and terrorize the man and his children. Mom skipped out long before they showed up. Yet another reminder that their research is poor and they just don't care if their information is wrong. Smash down, point guns at people, humiliate, beat down, then never apologize but mumble something and never follow up.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at October 05, 2021 07:16 AM (+LCoQ)

95 Minnesota School Removes 'F' Grade and Allows Retests to Combat "Systemic Racism"
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So sick of this crap. Failing is not the result of "systemic racism" which doesn't actually exist in our schools (except against whites and Asians).

Years ago there was a lawsuit against a municipality in the northeast, alleging "systemic racism" was the cause of blacks failing a written firefighter test at much higher rates than white applicants. The test questioned applicants about their knowledge of firefighting techniques, accelerants, burn rates, burn patterns, etc., -- IOW, science.

As a result of the lawsuit, the test was re-written to make it less "racist" (i.e. dumbed down), the black applicants who had failed were given firefighting jobs anyway, and lots of money was paid out by taxpayers.

A data analysis group decided to conduct a survey to find out what accounted for the difference in white and black pass rates on the test. They compiled a survey questionnaire that asked applicants to detail how they had prepared to take the firefighter test. Turned out that the whites spent more more than 3X as much time studying for the test as the blacks did.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at October 05, 2021 07:16 AM (k4dH2)

96 85 Biden's end is near. His defense on raising the debt limit was spectacularly bad, even by his standards. The meteor comment was stunning.
Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at October 05, 2021 07:11 AM (oWBc3)

They might be able to get rid if him with the 25th, but then they're stuck with Kamala, whose primary skillset is more normally found in filter feeders and vacuum cleaners.
Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at October 05, 2021 07:14 AM (B+JA6)

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The political fallout from the party in power getting rid of its own president because he's incompetent in the first year of his presidency will be interesting to watch. They hid Wilson and FDR's incapacities for a reason.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 07:16 AM (LvTSG)

97 Sounds great. Also add that the vaccine is poison.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at October 05, 2021 07:17 AM (xopIz)

98 Well, uniparty, you arrogant asses, you've killed us all! All the grifting is going to destroy the Republic.

The Republic has been dead, this is just the buzzards picking over the carcass.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at October 05, 2021 07:17 AM (+LCoQ)

99 At one of my elementary schools, we had a newfangled grading system that replaced the five-point (A-D; F) scale. It was three points: E (excellent), S (satisfactory) and N (Needs improvement). It made no different. All it did was cheaper the "A" by blending it with "B." "S" was still a "C" and "N" handled the bottom. It rearranged the deck chairs but did nothing, and we all knew what it meant. . . .

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021

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Oddly, my grammar school, 1960-65, had that system. It vanished when I got to junior high.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at October 05, 2021 07:17 AM (/XOcP)

100 They clearly want to drag him across the line where Kumalot would be eligible for two terms afterwards, but at this point I don't think that's possible.

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I have a bit of trouble with the belief there is this strong undercurrent wanting desperately to have Harris get 2 terms. What difference would it make? It's a serious question. They could get any leftist stooge in there. When elections no longer matter, and let's face it, by 2024, there isn't going to be anything left of America as we know it, I assume she'd get 1 term (if Noodle Brain hangs on for a while longer), then they just shuffle in with another communist to run in '28. I say "run," but it's only for show. They'll install whomever they want, despite the will of the people. Elections don't matter. So the figurehead they have in the Oval Office is just that...a figurehead, easily replaced and switched out for another. We all know there's an endless stream of them.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 05, 2021 07:18 AM (O+I8R)

101 86 WA, doesn't the Confraternity supply a letter for its members signed by Bishop Schneider?

Posted by: callsign claymore at October 05, 2021 07:18 AM (vJZpZ)

102 At my last elementary school, it was a progressive experimental "school" (the one I got kicked out of) and it had no grades or testing at all

Joe Mannix - I was in a school like that in 9th grade administered by the University of Illinois. I learned close to zero that year.

Posted by: grammie winger at October 05, 2021 07:18 AM (45fpk)

103 While that demented male wetback was allowed to harass a FEMALE senator in a FEMALE ONLY BATHROOM???

The entire point of the trans movement increasingly seems to be to provide cover for the Uniparty to strip biological women of their rights. It's been noted before that they ignore male critics of trannies, but come down like a ton of bricks on female ones (like JK Rowling).

Posted by: Ian S. at October 05, 2021 07:19 AM (Yqpb4)

104 Internal DHS Review Finds Anti-Trump Whistleblower Brian Murphy Created Toxic Atmosphere

Murphy is asshoe!

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 05, 2021 07:19 AM (yrol0)

105 The harassments of Sinema is an Op. She knows it, because she herself has seen Demofascist Ops in the last election, she has seen BLM/Antifa (all Ops), she has seen Republicans shot, she saw the Las Vegas massacre.

The difference is, this time it is directed at her. Mild now, but lets see what happens next, when the Demofascists really get riled.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 05, 2021 07:19 AM (sIv7i)

106 Oddly, my grammar school, 1960-65, had that system. It vanished when I got to junior high.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at October 05, 2021 07:17 AM (/XOcP)
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It has been around for a long time and they keep trying it. John Dewey's legacy is one of our national nightmares. That grading scale is a half-step toward Dewey's ideal.

If I had a time machine and could go back in time and stifle one person in the cradle, it would be John Dewey. I'd be doing the world a tremendous favor.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 07:20 AM (+IIqY)

107
Forcing people to get a flu shot for last years version is absurd, but then it's probably part of the overall plan:

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." - Voltaire

I would place the 3am overturning of the 2020 election results as an atrocity.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus, Vaccine and Massage Parlor at October 05, 2021 07:21 AM (dQvv7)

108 At one of my elementary schools, we had a newfangled grading system that replaced the five-point (A-D; F) scale. It was three points: E (excellent), S (satisfactory) and N (Needs improvement). It made no different. All it did was cheaper the "A" by blending it with "B." "S" was still a "C" and "N" handled the bottom.

Combined with the Minnesota "no failure for blacks" story, I think we know what "N" actually means here.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 05, 2021 07:21 AM (0A/JS)

109 How is it that a squirmy 2 year old who can;t keep his mask on is marched off a plane w/his parents while that demented illegal immigrant was allowed to harass a Senator???
Posted by: Lizzy at October 05, 2021 07:14 AM (bDqIh)
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What race is the 2 year old?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 05, 2021 07:22 AM (EZebt)

110 The Republic has been dead, this is just the buzzards picking over the carcass.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at October 05, 2021 07:17 AM (+LCoQ)

It died the moment that the courts decided that defrauded citizens had no standing to challenge electoral fraud. How the hell does the victim of a crime lack standing to seek legal redress?

A monumental absurdity. An absolute travesty. The death rattle of a nation of laws.

Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at October 05, 2021 07:22 AM (B+JA6)

111 I think it's only a matter of *when* not *if* at this point...

These sadists are convinced that they can torture and humiliate people without consequence and then someone comes up to their face and reminds them that there are consequences for this display of depraved indifference to the lives of children.

They violate all kinds of laws, then call in law enforcement when people challenge their disregard for the law.

They should be glad that they are receiving threats. The ones who actually put them into the ground will not be issuing warnings.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at October 05, 2021 07:22 AM (+LCoQ)

112 Cock Curious Fauci opposed closing the bathhouses which was a public health disaster and caused many many AIDS deaths. He also claimed, like an idiot, AIDS was increasingly a heterosexual disease, that mothers could transmit it to their children in the kitchen and had a bizarre fixation on how it impacted Africans.

Why is it up to me to point this out instead of the homos?

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at October 05, 2021 07:22 AM (y7DUB)

113 You can get rid of "F's"?

I was discriminated against in 8th grade biology!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 05, 2021 07:22 AM (sIv7i)

114 At one of my elementary schools, we had a newfangled grading system that replaced the five-point (A-D; F) scale. It was three points: E (excellent), S (satisfactory) and N (Needs improvement). It made no different.

Jesus Christ.
E, S, & N were the social skills like talking in class, keeping your ass in your seat. NOT Mathematics, History, Social Studies, ect.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 05, 2021 07:22 AM (OCTRt)

115 Joe Mannix - I was in a school like that in 9th grade administered by the University of Illinois. I learned close to zero that year.
Posted by: grammie winger at October 05, 2021 07:18 AM (45fpk)
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The whole idea of a free environment in which to pursue "self-directed learning" (e.g., to allow autodidacts to thrive) might - maybe - work for a small population of high school aged kids. At that time, you're mature enough to pursue it if that's your thing. It is an unmitigated disaster for younger children and even for the older kids it requires guidance and influence from teachers because left to their own devices (speaking for myself, anyway), even the older kids who are inclined toward success in such a system will focus obsessively on the things that interest them and let everything else die on the vine. Even for the older kids, the model as envisioned doesn't work and if the model were tweaked to make it work, it would only work for the minority of kids who are autodidacts. As a general-purpose schooling concept, it's a nightmare.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 07:23 AM (+IIqY)

116 HA

DC reported COVID deaths
June: 7
July: 8
August: 12
September: 15

DC reported homicides
June: 14
July: 21
August: 24
September: 18

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 05, 2021 07:23 AM (yrol0)

117 You can get rid of "F's"?

I was discriminated against in 8th grade biology!
Posted by: Huck Follywood

I was discriminated against in K-12.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 05, 2021 07:23 AM (OCTRt)

118 The political fallout from the party in power getting rid of its own president because he's incompetent in the first year of his presidency will be interesting to watch.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 07:16 AM (LvTSG)

Interesting if it ever happens, but it won't. Biden is not going anywhere unless he croaks. He's just the blunt tool they're using to achieve goals, and they're achieving them.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 05, 2021 07:25 AM (H8QX8)

119 "In California, inquiries about homeschooling skyrocketed after Newsom's [Chinese] COVID vaccination mandate. I'm betting that the threat of having the FBI show up on a parent's doorstep because that parent dared challenge Critical Race Theory will have a whole lot of other parents across America pulling their kids out of FBI-supervised leftist school districts."

Every school district has something called 'Count Day'. This is the day that districts do a count of the number of kids in their schools, for the fall and spring semesters. The number of students in school for that day determines funding for the district. If parents were to pull their kids out for homeschooling, the schools lose funding for that student for the year. If parents who don't homeschool wanted to be sneaky, they could pull students out before Count Day, then re-enroll them afterwards.

This is one tangible way that parents could 'strike', and hit these districts where it hurts.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 05, 2021 07:25 AM (mdjgu)

120 Posted by: rhennigantx at October 05, 2021 07:23 AM (yrol0)
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Huh. September showed a marked reduction in relative homicides. What is DC doing to end the homicide desert and close the murder gap?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 07:25 AM (+IIqY)

121 As a general-purpose schooling concept, it's a nightmare.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 07:23 AM (+IIqY)

I was handed a geometry textbook at the beginning of the year, then at the end of the year I was told to give myself a final grade. Guess what grade I got in Geometry? Guess what I learned in Geometry?

Posted by: grammie winger at October 05, 2021 07:25 AM (45fpk)

122 If I had a time machine and could go back in time and stifle one person in the cradle, it would be John Dewey. I'd be doing the world a tremendous favor.

We should all be reading the biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and consider how we measure up.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at October 05, 2021 07:25 AM (+LCoQ)

123 Is what I hear right?

McConnell will force the Ds to use their one-shot at reconciliation to raise the debt ceiling. Else the USA goes broke on Oct 18, or soon after.

So game over for the Big Bill.

If the Ds don't go along, they still don't have the votes.

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 05, 2021 07:25 AM (ZHVt1)

124 While that demented male wetback was allowed to harass a FEMALE senator in a FEMALE ONLY BATHROOM???
Posted by: rickb223 at October 05, 2021 07:16 AM (OCTRt)

"FEMALE ONLY" is a hate crime.

Posted by: blaster at October 05, 2021 07:25 AM (mbFEM)

125 I read that article about right sizing the govt, and I don't disagree, but how would that actually be achieved? Trump came the closest to reducing government and even he couldn't get it smaller.

I was in Montessori for elementary school. We didn't have grades at all that I remember. I did really well with Montessori, but it's not right for every kid.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at October 05, 2021 07:26 AM (8548M)

126 Schools first, certifications next. Best check professional registration dates for your next engineer, nurse or doctor.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at October 05, 2021 07:26 AM (oWBc3)

127 Ever since the decision I've referred to in post 110, the United States of America is no more. It continues to exist in name only, having betrayed its own laws and ideals. We are now under the rule of an illegal usurper regime.

Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at October 05, 2021 07:26 AM (B+JA6)

128 " You can get rid of "F's"? "

I've been banned by the best. Go ahead and try!

Posted by: f'd at October 05, 2021 07:26 AM (Tnijr)

129 118 Interesting if it ever happens, but it won't. Biden is not going anywhere unless he croaks. He's just the blunt tool they're using to achieve goals, and they're achieving them.
Posted by: Ordinary American at October 05, 2021 07:25 AM (H8QX

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Yeah, I don't think he's going either. It would be interesting, though.

Still, he's gonna be there through 2024. He's president, dammit, no one can tell him what to do. Now get him some fucking ice cream, boy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 07:27 AM (LvTSG)

130 They hid Wilson and FDR's incapacities for a reason.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 07:16 AM (LvTSG)

Thinking about them as anything other than a cult is a mistake.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at October 05, 2021 07:27 AM (y7DUB)

131 "So the figurehead they have in the Oval Office is just that...a figurehead, easily replaced and switched out for another. We all know there's an endless stream of them.

Posted by: Lady in Black"

They would be perfectly happy with Warren or Booty-gig or Newsome or... There is little difference between any of them and they will all be puppets anyway. To think any national Dem would be a strong leader and make decisions that defy the Deep State and Dem establishment is delusional.

Posted by: Ripley at October 05, 2021 07:28 AM (MxEKc)

132 Posted by: rhennigantx at October 05, 2021 07:23 AM (yrol0)
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Do masks prevent COVID? Do they promote murder? Just asking.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 05, 2021 07:28 AM (EZebt)

133 I remember those grading systems. I got a ding against me "Clean But Tousled", guess my hair was disheveled or something after recess, probably.

I'm still trying!

Posted by: Common Tater at October 05, 2021 07:28 AM (mzTVj)

134 Is what I hear right?

McConnell will force the Ds to use their one-shot at reconciliation to raise the debt ceiling. Else the USA goes broke on Oct 18, or soon after.

So game over for the Big Bill.

If the Ds don't go along, they still don't have the votes.

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 05, 2021 07:25 AM

That is the plan. Heck he can even lose 2-3 squishes like romney and it still will work.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at October 05, 2021 07:29 AM (JUOKG)

135 This is one tangible way that parents could 'strike', and hit these districts where it hurts.

There are a lot of single mothers who have made a lengthy career out of serial bad choices who, while thinking they are immune to property tax hikes living in government subsidized apartments, will gladly vote for each and every school bond and millage increase to keep the kennels open for the free babysitting, medicine and food service for their spawn.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at October 05, 2021 07:29 AM (+LCoQ)

136 People who do not send their children to government school are anti-government extremists.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 05, 2021 07:29 AM (EZebt)

137 Ever since the decision I've referred to in post 110, the United States of America is no more. It continues to exist in name only, having betrayed its own laws and ideals. We are now under the rule of an illegal usurper regime.
Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at October 05, 2021 07:26 AM (B+JA6)
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I think it was earlier. I've been giving this a rethink. We're not only not a republic, we haven't been for a long time. We're in our late-stage empire now, and the Republic died before most of us were born. I'm starting to come around to something like this, approximately. I am not convinced of any of it yet:
1. The First Republic: Revolution through Articles of Confederation
2. The Second Republic: Constitution through the War Between the States.
3. The Third Republic: War Between the States through WWII.
4. Early Empire: WWII through 1970
5. Middle Empire: 1971-2017
6. Late Empire: 2017-present

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 07:29 AM (+IIqY)

138 Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon."

Isaiah 55:6-7

Posted by: Marcus T at October 05, 2021 07:29 AM (VpIIl)

139 Engineering will be lit as fuck in the latter part of the 21st century with all these woke students building woke shit that won't work.

* Say that 3 times real fast

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 05, 2021 07:30 AM (BFigT)

140 134 That is the plan. Heck he can even lose 2-3 squishes like romney and it still will work.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at October 05, 2021 07:29 AM (JUOKG)

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It's a good thing Democrats are trying to do everything at once and acting like the failure to do everything at once is bad for them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 07:30 AM (LvTSG)

141 My request for reasonable accommodation currently just says I request exemption from the mandate due to sincerely held religious beliefs that proscribe getting the shots. Haven't been asked for details yet. They're still waiting for "guidance" to determine how to handle requests.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at October 05, 2021 07:30 AM (8548M)

142 The Indians rejected my suggestion of the "Trendians" as a new name. I was combining the last syllable of Indians with "Trendy", on the grounds we needed to always stay trendy with changing morality. I even pushed the name on a sports board with lots of woke posters, and they were offended. They took my suggestion as jeering at them, and couldn't believe I didn't understand the rightness! of their position, and the inherent the racism in the old name.

"Only racists still feel attached to the old name!", they said. I just shook my head, as their hole got deeper.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 05, 2021 07:30 AM (sIv7i)

143 They can only hide Biden saying things like harassing Sinema is "just the way things are" or saying to Republicans, "just get out of the way" for so long. For some perverse reason they think they have a mandate and can just bill rush all their idiocy through. Not sustainable.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at October 05, 2021 07:30 AM (oWBc3)

144 "When Obama nominated Merrick Garland for the Supreme Court, we were promised he was a moderate -- but what moderate does this?"

I get - and support - much of the McConnell hate here, but the two things he deserves full credit for are keeping Republicans on-side over the Obamacare vote in the Senate, and shutting Garland out of SCOTUS consideration.

He needs to go ASAP, but let's send him away with a gold watch for those two accomplishments.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 05, 2021 07:30 AM (mdjgu)

145 Bull rush

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at October 05, 2021 07:30 AM (oWBc3)

146 Engineering will be lit as fuck in the latter part of the 21st century with all these woke students building woke shit that won't work.

* Say that 3 times real fast
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 05, 2021 07:30 AM (BFigT)

Haven't they re-invented the water fountain, tent camping and meetings?

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at October 05, 2021 07:31 AM (Zz0t1)

147 There are a lot of single mothers who have made a lengthy career out of serial bad choices who, while thinking they are immune to property tax hikes living in government subsidized apartments, will gladly vote for each and every school bond and millage increase to keep the kennels open for the free babysitting, medicine and food service for their spawn.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at October 05, 2021 07:29 AM (+LCoQ)
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The vote should be tied to skin in the game. Only property owners should be allowed to vote on property taxes. On people with net-positive tax burdens should be allowed to vote for politicians or any measure to do with funding.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 07:31 AM (+IIqY)

148 The equality they seek is that we all become louses.
When the entire country is lousy, we have equality.
(courtesy of author Ignazio Silone).

Posted by: Ziba at October 05, 2021 07:31 AM (S1hrL)

149 Christian Toto: "Saints, Cry Macho and Eyes of Tammy Faye all stumbled out of the gate."

"Cry Macho" is a very good movie and easily the type of family friendly movie that so many, even those on this here blog, say they want to see.

So, of course, it will fail. No assplosions or super heroes.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 05, 2021 07:31 AM (5NkmN)

150 Wickard v. Filburn is the beginning of the end imo, but there's probably a good argument for the end having started even before that.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at October 05, 2021 07:32 AM (8548M)

151 ... was combining the last syllable of Indians with "Trendy", on the grounds we needed to always stay trendy with changing morality. ...
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 05, 2021 07:30 AM (sIv7i)
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:: channels Sponge ::

You asked for it:
https://youtu.be/rCVQoGe-4k8

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 07:32 AM (+IIqY)

152 "On the third question, a more nuanced one, Republicans were more likely to believe that asymptomatic carriers could not spread Covid."

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And I'll say again that this is either utter bullsh*t or it's promoted in a way that there is no right answer and the correct answer is up to the diversity hire grading the paper.

Can an asymptomatic person spread a cold virus? Sure. Will a cold virus thrive if people aren't snotty, coughing, sneezing, etc.? No.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Someone found the blueprint for what we're seeing worldwide at October 05, 2021 07:32 AM (/BX3R)

153 143 They can only hide Biden saying things like harassing Sinema is "just the way things are" or saying to Republicans, "just get out of the way" for so long. For some perverse reason they think they have a mandate and can just bill rush all their idiocy through. Not sustainable.
Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at October 05, 2021 07:30 AM (oWBc3)

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If they think they're in power forever, there would be no need to harass anyone. Just wait until the cheat gets them 11 more Democratic Senators and pass everything they want then.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 07:33 AM (LvTSG)

154 Thanks for that, Marcus T

Posted by: grammie winger at October 05, 2021 07:33 AM (45fpk)

155 "So the figurehead they have in the Oval Office is just that...a figurehead, easily replaced and switched out for another. We all know there's an endless stream of them.

Doesn't the replacement figurehead have a say in the supporting staff? I would think that the crew supporting Veep Throat are salivating at the prospects of near dictatorial power they are entitled to once their meat puppet gets transferred to the West Wing.

Taking power away from those who are addicted to despotism is like a weak Christian attempting to perform exorcisms on the Speaker of the House. There will be backlash.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at October 05, 2021 07:33 AM (+LCoQ)

156 Fuck Joe Biden

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, Fuck Joe Biden at October 05, 2021 07:33 AM (cch7k)

157 Blanche Brown, the ostensibly feckless wife:

Listen, she may have him at the moment, but come inauguration day and hes up there on the platform being sworn in, Ill be the bitch holding the Bible.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 05, 2021 07:34 AM (yrol0)

158 I think it was earlier. I've been giving this a rethink. We're not only not a republic, we haven't been for a long time.

Marbury v Madison or Lincoln v Southern States.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 05, 2021 07:34 AM (OCTRt)

159 WA, doesn't the Confraternity supply a letter for its members signed by Bishop Schneider?
Posted by: callsign claymore at October 05, 2021

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A certificate, yes, and I have it and will attach it to my statement.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at October 05, 2021 07:34 AM (/XOcP)

160 149 "Cry Macho" is a very good movie and easily the type of family friendly movie that so many, even those on this here blog, say they want to see.

So, of course, it will fail. No assplosions or super heroes.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 05, 2021 07:31 AM (5NkmN)

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I still haven't watched it, but it's becoming obvious that being available on HBO Max at the same time is a killer for box officer takes. Disney had it right when they made their big moves cast extra on Disney+. It still wasn't great, never working as well as the first time with Mulan, but it's definitely better.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 07:35 AM (LvTSG)

161 If they think they're in power forever, there would be no need to harass anyone. Just wait until the cheat gets them 11 more Democratic Senators and pass everything they want then.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 07:33 AM (LvTSG)
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There may be limits to the cheat, though I sort of doubt it - not with a guaranteed 25% of the vote every time no matter what, as an absolute minimum. But there are other factors. They want it all now. They're still making up for lost ground under Trump and are moving fast because they want to and feel like they need to. They're also tired of the Long March. The older crew is fine with continuing it, but the younger crowd has had enough of incrementalism. They're going for the brass ring now.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 07:35 AM (+IIqY)

162 "Cry Macho" is a very good movie and easily the type of family friendly movie that so many, even those on this here blog, say they want to see.

So, of course, it will fail. No assplosions or super heroes.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 05, 2021 07:31 AM (5NkmN)

A good film, but it is full of toxic masculinity.

But that's not the real problem. The real problem is that ATT has decreed that Warner products will go on HBO Max as well as the theaters. BUT ONLY FOR THE FIRST 31 DAYS. Because reasons. Obviously this is dumb, and eats into the theater market during the crucial opening weeks without any corresponding drive to subscriptions.

When HBO Max launched they said get it and Wonder Woman 84 is included! Now what?

Posted by: blaster at October 05, 2021 07:35 AM (mbFEM)

163 Ahoy!

Posted by: Brandon at October 05, 2021 07:35 AM (Xrfse)

164 excellent verse for today, Marcus T. thanks.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 05, 2021 07:35 AM (sIv7i)

165 Even in rural Texas the number of non tax paying and tax frozen (elderly) that support mind numbing cost per student tax bills and yes, bonds to build new band halls is startling. And they look at people like me who oppose same because my taxes keep,going up as "evil". Upwards of 20% of the kids in our district are illegals - the blood boils.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at October 05, 2021 07:35 AM (oWBc3)

166 "On the third question, a more nuanced one, Republicans were more likely to believe that asymptomatic carriers could not spread Covid."

Wow. A highly variable question that demands a binary answer.

It seems that the one asking the question is too stupid to be asking the questions, let alone grading that which is far beyond their capability to understand.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at October 05, 2021 07:36 AM (+LCoQ)

167 "Posted by: grammie winger at October 05, 2021 07:33 AM (45fpk) "

Amen.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 05, 2021 07:36 AM (VpIIl)

168 Had an interesting convo with my BFF yesterday... A month or so back, he (a medical professional) kinda jumped my bones for my lack of vax compliance. Rather than argue, I just said "I hear you".

Anyhow, he related a story about one of his cow orkers having a pretty severe reaction to the 3rd booster shot.

On the brighter side, he no longer thinks I am crazy for refusing the vax. Yay.

Thanks for the roundup, and happy birthday JJS!

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 05, 2021 07:36 AM (F0YaR)

169 I still haven't watched it, but it's becoming obvious that being available on HBO Max at the same time is a killer for box officer takes. Disney had it right when they made their big moves cast extra on Disney+. It still wasn't great, never working as well as the first time with Mulan, but it's definitely better.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 07:35 AM (LvTSG)

HORDE MIND!

Posted by: blaster at October 05, 2021 07:36 AM (mbFEM)

170 Upthread:

FIFY: They can hide Biden as long as they want.
And they will.

It's the meetings with foreign leaders that are problematic.

Posted by: Ziba at October 05, 2021 07:37 AM (S1hrL)

171 Engineering will be lit as fuck in the latter part of the 21st century with all these woke students building woke shit that won't work.

* Say that 3 times real fast
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 05, 2021 07:30 AM (BFigT)

Haven't they re-invented the water fountain, tent camping and meetings?
Posted by: Sponge

"Farming on Tarps with Potting Soil"

Posted by: rickb223 at October 05, 2021 07:37 AM (OCTRt)

172 Yesterday I saw a big-ass Dodge truck with an American flag on the window and bumpersticker that said CHINA WON

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Someone found the blueprint for what we're seeing worldwide at October 05, 2021 07:37 AM (/BX3R)

173 161 There may be limits to the cheat, though I sort of doubt it - not with a guaranteed 25% of the vote every time no matter what, as an absolute minimum. But there are other factors. They want it all now. They're still making up for lost ground under Trump and are moving fast because they want to and feel like they need to. They're also tired of the Long March. The older crew is fine with continuing it, but the younger crowd has had enough of incrementalism. They're going for the brass ring now.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 07:35 AM (+IIqY)

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After months of mail in vote cheating (which they won't be able to replicate nearly as well again), they still had to shut down voting in six states in the middle of the night to ballot box stuff like Tammany Hall.

I think even Democrats know that there's a limit to their cheating, and there's no way they'll be able to cheat as much as they did in 2020 again. The only way will be more brazen and completely obvious frauds, and the people will only take that so much.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 07:37 AM (LvTSG)

174 They compiled a survey questionnaire that asked applicants to detail how they had prepared to take the firefighter test. Turned out that the whites spent more more than 3X as much time studying for the test as the blacks did.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at October 05, 2021 07:16 AM (k4dH2)

How much time does it take to call a civil rights lawyer? Studying is for chumps.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 05, 2021 07:37 AM (T7iTv)

175 Had an interesting convo with my BFF yesterday... A month or so back, he (a medical professional) kinda jumped my bones for my lack of vax compliance. Rather than argue, I just said "I hear you". ...
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 05, 2021 07:36 AM (F0YaR)
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I don't think that "jumped my bones" means what you think it means...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 07:37 AM (+IIqY)

176 Republicans were more likely to believe that asymptomatic carriers could not spread Covid.

Huh. I believe it because that is the, umm, science.

Posted by: blaster at October 05, 2021 07:37 AM (mbFEM)

177 I think even Democrats know that there's a limit to their cheating, and there's no way they'll be able to cheat as much as they did in 2020 again. The only way will be more brazen and completely obvious frauds, and the people will only take that so much.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 07:37 AM (LvTSG)
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They took it last time.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 07:38 AM (+IIqY)

178 I appreciate the shoutout and support. And Happy Birthday, JJ!

Posted by: Brandon at October 05, 2021 07:38 AM (a3Q+t)

179
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 05, 2021 07:39 AM (eIGQa)

180 Anyhow, he related a story about one of his cow orkers having a pretty severe reaction to the 3rd booster shot.

On the brighter side, he no longer thinks I am crazy for refusing the vax. Yay.

**

It really is something that Smart People didn't consider.

I am middle aged. I can catch the COVID (already been exposed, but go with the premise) and risk getting sick once.

OR I can get a shot and re-shot every four months and risk getting sick each and every time.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Someone found the blueprint for what we're seeing worldwide at October 05, 2021 07:39 AM (/BX3R)

181 Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at October 05, 2021 07:35 AM (oWBc3)

Are the "tax frozen" native Texans or liberal transplants who support open borders?

Posted by: CN at October 05, 2021 07:39 AM (ONvIw)

182 WA, doesn't the Confraternity supply a letter for its members signed by Bishop Schneider?
Posted by: callsign claymore at October 05, 2021
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A certificate, yes, and I have it and will attach it to my statement.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at October 05, 2021

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They also have a letter template. I've adapted some of the text for my use.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at October 05, 2021 07:39 AM (/XOcP)

183 177 They took it last time.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 07:38 AM (+IIqY)

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They didn't rise up in open rebellion last time, but considering the actions of Republican office holders since Mitch tried (and hilariously failed) to purge the party of Trump in late January, I'd say the people have made it very well known to their elected officials that something has to be done in ways that speak to these officeholders.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 07:39 AM (LvTSG)

184 1. The First Republic: Revolution through Articles of Confederation
2. The Second Republic: Constitution through the War Between the States.
3. The Third Republic: War Between the States through WWII.
4. Early Empire: WWII through 1970
5. Middle Empire: 1971-2017
6. Late Empire: 2017-present
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 07:29 AM (+IIqY)

That's pretty solid, really. Coming out of WWII as one of two superpowers really changed the national character.

Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at October 05, 2021 07:39 AM (AlFcG)

185 159 Good. Best of success to you.

Bishop Schneider is on a very short list of solid prelates who fight. Archbishops Vigan� and Lenga, Bishop Gracida down in Corpus Christi, the other Kazakhstan bishop...

Posted by: callsign claymore at October 05, 2021 07:39 AM (vJZpZ)

186 I think even Democrats know that there's a limit to their cheating, and there's no way they'll be able to cheat as much as they did in 2020 again. The only way will be more brazen and completely obvious frauds, and the people will only take that so much.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 07:37 AM (LvTSG)

2020 cheating is a floor, not a ceiling.

Mail in voting exists to normalize cheating. As well as early voting. The new Jim Crow Georgia law enshrined early voting.

Posted by: blaster at October 05, 2021 07:39 AM (mbFEM)

187 76 I do, the tell will be if they get charged for stalking and harassment as well as violation filming in a bathroom so if not they are on the payroll.

Posted by: Skip's Phone at October 05, 2021 07:40 AM (bUL4f)

188 Oakland "school advocate" shot and killed in his own home Sunday night, wife injured.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 05, 2021 07:04 AM (EZebt)
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I'll wait to offer my congratulations until motive is established. It is Oakland. It could have random violence or gang-related.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 07:05 AM (+IIqY)

I am not sure what he was advocating for other than trying make schools better including charter schools. Not sure I would offer congratulations, here.

Posted by: flounder at October 05, 2021 07:40 AM (KnJdm)

189 186 2020 cheating is a floor, not a ceiling.

Mail in voting exists to normalize cheating. As well as early voting. The new Jim Crow Georgia law enshrined early voting.
Posted by: blaster at October 05, 2021 07:39 AM (mbFEM)

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Early voting is one thing, it's been a thing for decades. Sending mail in ballots to everyone is something else.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 07:40 AM (LvTSG)

190 I have a friend that just moved her mom into a retirement community. She just found out that they give the residents the CNN channel for free and no other cable news channel. I guess for CNN this is their new airport.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 05, 2021 07:40 AM (NpAcC)

191
I ran across this paper last night that has profound implications for vaccinating pregnant women:

https://tinyurl.com/7uajfbs6

"The results indicated that certain
anti-COVID-19 spike antibodies went through the
placenta, bound to the fetal tissues, activated the
self-attack immune responses, and led to the systematic inflammation and injuries of multiple organs such as the lungs, kidneys, heart, and brain."

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at October 05, 2021 07:40 AM (Mzdiz)

192 Turned out that the whites spent more more than 3X as much time studying for the test as the blacks did.

**

It's because the black applicants were having to spend that time trying to find apples and bananas in gas stations near their homes, racist.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Someone found the blueprint for what we're seeing worldwide at October 05, 2021 07:41 AM (/BX3R)

193 165 Even in rural Texas the number of non tax paying and tax frozen (elderly) that support mind numbing cost per student tax bills and yes, bonds to build new band halls is startling. And they look at people like me who oppose same because my taxes keep,going up as "evil". Upwards of 20% of the kids in our district are illegals - the blood boils.
Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at October 05, 2021 07:35 AM (oWBc3)

Park Slope, in Brooklyn, is one of most liberal parts of a liberal NYC. Good school districts, so people in neighboring areas outside of Park Slope go to great lengths to enroll their kids in PS schools. Park Slope administrators spend a lot of time following kids home, to make sure they truly live in the neighborhood. Those that don't are promptly kicked out - or parents are presented with a bill for $20,000 to educate their youth.

Park Slope voters fully support open national borders, on the other hand. The contradictions are completely lost on them.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 05, 2021 07:41 AM (mdjgu)

194 They took it last time.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 07:38 AM (+IIqY)

And they'll continue to take it as Garland in happy AF to lock up people and deny them their rights. Increasingly I think they want to provoke people so they can shoot more than Ashli Babbitt.

Posted by: CN at October 05, 2021 07:41 AM (ONvIw)

195 Rookie mistake. Read the content.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 05, 2021 06:52 AM

It's always tempting, but stay strong. Texas strong!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 05, 2021 07:41 AM (a3Q+t)

196 Sooo, Garland, under the guise of "investigating terrorism" is hoping to provoke something that will lead to an even more draconian crackdown?

Well, if the FBI follows orders, Garland may very well get his wish.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at October 05, 2021 07:42 AM (2SdPm)

197 "And they look at people like me who oppose same because my taxes keep,going up as "evil". Upwards of 20% of the kids in our district are illegals - the blood boils.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks"

You would think at some point people would realize it is not a money problem. Real sending per student has tripled over the past 40 years with ever worse results, yet there is always some metric that show we don't spend enough, which is BS. We have one of the highest per student spending in the world, if not the highest.

It's as if there are some other factors besides money involved here. But saying out loud what the problems are will get you branded a racist and shouted down and cancelled.

Posted by: Ripley at October 05, 2021 07:42 AM (MxEKc)

198 Cry Macho is a good flick, but Eastwood needed to do this when he was Unforgiven or Gran Torino age - there's broken down cowboy and just broken down.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at October 05, 2021 07:42 AM (oWBc3)

199 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 07:29 AM (+IIqY)

I'd use Watergate as the transition between Early Empire and Middle Empire. It was another major turning point, and a lot of lawful Presidential authority was lost to unelected bureaucrats in the legislation that followed.

Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at October 05, 2021 07:42 AM (AlFcG)

200 Early voting is one thing, it's been a thing for decades. Sending mail in ballots to everyone is something else.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 07:40 AM (LvTSG)

Well, yeah. They are two different terms because they are different things.

But early voting is part of the fraud infrastructure. And our side has agreed to the terms of surrender.

Posted by: blaster at October 05, 2021 07:42 AM (mbFEM)

201
I still haven't watched it, but it's becoming obvious that being available on HBO Max at the same time is a killer for box officer takes. Disney had it right when they made their big moves cast extra on Disney+. It still wasn't great, never working as well as the first time with Mulan, but it's definitely better.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 07:35 AM (LvTSG)

Yeah, that's right.

However, I think it was a smart one year(?) move for HBOMax. Esp. As a try to reach big daddy stats in streaming before the inevitable collapse and buy outs that will be coming in the near future. Right now, Netflix is the only one I'd bet on surviving the crush.

That said, I suspect that policy will disappear early in 2022. And then I'll drop HBOMax pretty much instantly.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 05, 2021 07:42 AM (5NkmN)

202 I am middle aged. I can catch the COVID (already been exposed, but go with the premise) and risk getting sick once.

OR I can get a shot and re-shot every four months and risk getting sick each and every time.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Someone found the blueprint for what we're seeing worldwide at October 05, 2021 07:39 AM (/BX3R)
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Right, this is the core problem. If you get the 'Rona, you run a risk - small but very real - of a serious case. If you get a serious case, you run a risk - small but very real - of death. That sucks bigly.

If you get the shot, you run a risk - small (as far as we know at this moment) but very real - of serious complications. Each time you get that shot, you run the risk again. Every time. If you're young and strong/healthy, then your risks from the known side effects of the shots exceeds your risks from the 'Rona from moment zero. If your reasonably healthy at middle age and are facing the prospect of 2-3 boosters every year, your risks from the shots will exceed your 'Rona risk fairly quickly - within a year or two.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 07:43 AM (+IIqY)

203 Park Slope voters fully support open national borders, on the other hand. The contradictions are completely lost on them.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 05, 2021 07:41 AM (mdjgu)

Absolutely true, the best thing would be to start demanding public housing in Park Slope.

Posted by: CN at October 05, 2021 07:43 AM (ONvIw)

204 Even in rural Texas the number of non tax paying and tax frozen (elderly) that support mind numbing cost per student tax bills and yes, bonds to build new band halls is startling. And they look at people like me who oppose same because my taxes keep,going up as "evil". Upwards of 20% of the kids in our district are illegals - the blood boils.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at October 05, 2021 07:35 AM

My "elderly tax freeze" kicks in next year and I for one am glad, because paying $4,500 in school taxes every year for 25+ years without having had a kid in a Texas school is a bit much IMO.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at October 05, 2021 07:43 AM (JUOKG)

205 Do gluttons know there is a limit to their gluttony?

Do Democrats know there is a limit to their cheating?

Posted by: Ziba at October 05, 2021 07:43 AM (S1hrL)

206 Global Warming theory seems to be wrong and unfounded. Who would have guessed that?!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 05, 2021 07:44 AM (sIv7i)

207 200
But early voting is part of the fraud infrastructure. And our side has agreed to the terms of surrender.
Posted by: blaster at October 05, 2021 07:42 AM (mbFEM)

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I'd say it's a minor part of that infrastructure. Like anything else, including day of balloting with voter ID and purple fingers, it's open to fraud.

However, Republicans have been winning in places with early voting for a very long time. It's the mail in voting that's killer. Compared between the two, early voting is an anthill.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 07:44 AM (LvTSG)

208 >>Do you think those goons harassing Manchin and Sinema are getting paid?

Of course. Probably a salary as professional activists.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 05, 2021 07:44 AM (bDqIh)

209 205 Do gluttons know there is a limit to their gluttony?

Do Democrats know there is a limit to their cheating?
Posted by: Ziba at October 05, 2021 07:43 AM (S1hrL)

"Fuck off!"

- - Mr. Creosote

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 05, 2021 07:44 AM (s2VJv)

210 4. Early Empire: WWII through 1970
5. Middle Empire: 1971-2017
6. Late Empire: 2017-present

I would back up the Early Empire to Middle back to the early 1960s. There was a tremendous amount of social upheaval. Additionally, JFK won through massive vote fraud, was murdered, and replaced by what would be a series of post turtles until the Reagan Anomaly which was similar to the Trump Anomaly. Neither was supposed to happen though the public was ripe for the change.

The Middle Empire I think ran until the Deep State completely took over everything which happened approximate to Reagan's second term.

There is no republic. There is a regulatory state, backed up by a judiciary for all of the ad hoc laws. The executive and legislative have blended into a huge grifting machine for the multi-trillion dollar international slush fund.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at October 05, 2021 07:44 AM (+LCoQ)

211 I give government skools an "A" grade.

"A" as in "Abolish".

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at October 05, 2021 07:44 AM (r8tC0)

212 Interesting photo up top, JJ. I think Garland should be the one holding the gun.

More coffee.

Posted by: dantesed at October 05, 2021 07:45 AM (88xKn)

213 We have one of the highest per student spending in the world, if not the highest.

Most of the money goes to administration, not the students. My dad was a school superintendent. He was raking it in. And then came time for his pension....

Posted by: grammie winger at October 05, 2021 07:45 AM (45fpk)

214 198 Cry Macho is a good flick, but Eastwood needed to do this when he was Unforgiven or Gran Torino age - there's broken down cowboy and just broken down.
Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at October 05, 2021 07:42 AM (oWBc3)

It is kind of ridiculous when you watch it and think "that guy is 90."

But like most actors, he looks younger. Heck, he looks young enough to be President!

I expect that this movie will be looked at differently in the future, as it is probably his last.

Posted by: blaster at October 05, 2021 07:45 AM (mbFEM)

215 This administration and Democrats are focused on crushing righteous dissent, undermining people's liberties, subverting civil rights and using the government to accomplish it. Never in our history has such despotism existed, or been so blatantly used against the citizenry. Along with their accomplices in the tech and media sectors, they have undermined the First Amendment and proliferated propaganda in order to crush our republic.

Never surrender. Never be intimidated. Never quit.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 05, 2021 07:46 AM (VpIIl)

216 There was a tremendous amount of social upheaval. Additionally, JFK won through massive vote fraud, was murdered, and replaced by what would be a series of post turtles

There has never been a more apt description of something than a "post turtle".

Posted by: rickb223 at October 05, 2021 07:46 AM (OCTRt)

217 I'd use Watergate as the transition between Early Empire and Middle Empire. It was another major turning point, and a lot of lawful Presidential authority was lost to unelected bureaucrats in the legislation that followed.
Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at October 05, 2021 07:42 AM (AlFcG)
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I picked Nixon detethering the currency from gold and disrupting the entire global financial system while retaining the Forex implications of Bretton Woods. That wasn't exactly his fault - the massive "guns and butter" spending under Johnson and to a lesser degree under Kennedy were huge deciding factors - but he did it and I picked it. We could pick Watergate or we could pick the first Arab oil embargo, too, with fair arguments. Probably a couple of others, too. But they were all pretty close in time.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 07:46 AM (+IIqY)

218 Of course. Probably a salary as professional activists.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 05, 2021 07:44 AM (bDqIh)
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The protesters somehow had the money to follow Sinema onto her flight and harass Sinema as she headed back to DC.

Some definitely is paying the freight.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at October 05, 2021 07:46 AM (2SdPm)

219 "The results indicated that certain
anti-COVID-19 spike antibodies went through the
placenta, bound to the fetal tissues, activated the
self-attack immune responses, and led to the systematic inflammation and injuries of multiple organs such as the lungs, kidneys, heart, and brain."

**

I was wondering about this when someone was asking about ivermectin in regards to people who had meningitis and how it can apparently pass through the brain-blood barrier (I think I'm remembering that correctly).

We can't give the injection to anyone under 12, but we can give it to babies in the womb? And are encouraging it?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Someone found the blueprint for what we're seeing worldwide at October 05, 2021 07:47 AM (/BX3R)

220 I am not sure what he was advocating for other than trying make schools better including charter schools. Not sure I would offer congratulations, here.
Posted by: flounder at October 05, 2021 07:40 AM (KnJdm)
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If that's the case, then no. I read "school advocate" and I think "agitator for more and more of the same, only bigger." Someone like you're describing I would more likely describe as a "reformer." There is a reason they always use vague language.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 07:47 AM (+IIqY)

221 201 That said, I suspect that policy will disappear early in 2022. And then I'll drop HBOMax pretty much instantly.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 05, 2021 07:42 AM (5NkmN)

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AT&T demanded it because they wanted a cash cow in HBO Max, thinking that they were ready to get a money making machine. A year later, they're trying to sell Warner Brothers because it's just not the massive money maker they wanted it to be.

Streaming is a paper tiger, backed up by massive amounts of debt. It's a chase for content, but you can't really charge per content, or at least no one is really doing that outside of Amazon Video (who are also trying the streaming thing with Prime). All except Netflix are backed by other larger corporations that are keeping the streaming options afloat with the promise of becoming king of streaming. It's honestly just not working out.

There's a reason studios are still releasing films in theaters and celebrating Venom making $90 million in a weekend again.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 07:47 AM (LvTSG)

222 Jack Posobiec
@JackPosobiec
Two leading transgender medics warn children should not be given puberty blockers, that too many are being given gender reassignment surgery and reveal NYT turned down their op-ed on the subject
https://tinyurl.com/2zwbfzrw

Posted by: redridinghood at October 05, 2021 07:48 AM (NpAcC)

223 >>It's as if there are some other factors besides money involved here. But saying out loud what the problems are will get you branded a racist and shouted down and cancelled.

It's not racist to note the the number of administrative staff at public schools (and universities, too) has skyrocked. I would imagine that in addition to the graft, the cost perstudent is covering a lot mor administrative cost.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 05, 2021 07:48 AM (bDqIh)

224 However, Republicans have been winning in places with early voting for a very long time. It's the mail in voting that's killer. Compared between the two, early voting is an anthill.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 07:44 AM (LvTSG)

We are in violent agreement. But still my point is reinforced - it is a vector for fraud, and Republicans are more than okay with it.

Posted by: blaster at October 05, 2021 07:49 AM (mbFEM)

225 People who do not send their children to government school are anti-government extremists.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 05, 2021 07:29 AM (EZebt)

Guilty as charged.

Posted by: flounder at October 05, 2021 07:49 AM (KnJdm)

226 Park Slope needs an injection of Haitians in their midst. Diversity is healthy.

Posted by: Ziba at October 05, 2021 07:49 AM (S1hrL)

227 After you reach 65 in Texas, taxes on homesteads are frozen at current levels, old time residents or newbies. My blunder for registering property in my not quite that age wife's name.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at October 05, 2021 07:49 AM (oWBc3)

228 It is kind of ridiculous when you watch it and think "that guy is 90."

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Go find some youtube clips on post-production anti-aging filters on big Hollywood movies. It's incredible. And apparently a common thing in contracts. Tom Cruise comes to mind as someone who was mentioned in one of the articles I read, but I'm sure it's even more popular among the womenses.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Someone found the blueprint for what we're seeing worldwide at October 05, 2021 07:49 AM (/BX3R)

229 224 We are in violent agreement. But still my point is reinforced - it is a vector for fraud, and Republicans are more than okay with it.
Posted by: blaster at October 05, 2021 07:49 AM (mbFEM)

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*punches blaster*

I AGREE!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 07:49 AM (LvTSG)

230 198 Cry Macho is a good flick, but Eastwood needed to do this when he was Unforgiven or Gran Torino age - there's broken down cowboy and just broken down.
Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at October 05, 2021 07:42 AM (oWBc3)

Without giving away too much personal info, the script for Cry Macho was bought by the producer, Al Ruddy, BEFORE 1996. He and Clint are best friends and did Million Dollar Baby together. Clint remembered Cry Macho and wanted to do it, but it was extensively rewritten for a 90-year-old lead from the original story about a guy in his 40s.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 05, 2021 07:49 AM (s2VJv)

231 My "elderly tax freeze" kicks in next year and I for one am glad, because paying $4,500 in school taxes every year for 25+ years without having had a kid in a Texas school is a bit much IMO.
Posted by: Mister Scott

I've done it for 30 years.
Doing everything I can to have 47 & 1/2 acres ag exempted out of the 48 we have.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 05, 2021 07:49 AM (OCTRt)

232 ...Well, how long before the Junta deems that keeping children out of public schools is a crime akin to or even statutory child abuse?...

Actually, the Left has long demonized "home schoolers " as religious fanatics et al; to which I reply

Suck my Rebel dick.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 05, 2021 07:50 AM (F0YaR)

233 ... All except Netflix are backed by other larger corporations that are keeping the streaming options afloat with the promise of becoming king of streaming. It's honestly just not working out. ...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 07:47 AM (LvTSG)
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It doesn't work Netflix either. They had massive first-mover advantage, but it's a cash furnace that is kept afloat by credulous investors. When that credulity wanes, it will likely wane all at once.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 07:51 AM (+IIqY)

234 A new Rasmussen Reports survey revealed that only 25% of American adults believe electric cars are practical.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 05, 2021 07:52 AM (yrol0)

235 "The results indicated that certain
anti-COVID-19 spike antibodies went through the
placenta, bound to the fetal tissues, activated the
self-attack immune responses, and led to the systematic inflammation and injuries of multiple organs such as the lungs, kidneys, heart, and brain."
Posted by: publius

Thalidomide redux?

Posted by: Infidel at October 05, 2021 07:52 AM (iorxD)

236
We are in violent agreement. But still my point is reinforced - it is a vector for fraud, and Republicans are more than okay with it.
Posted by: blaster at October 05, 2021 07:49 AM (mbFEM)

They were happy to "certify" the 2020 fraud.

Posted by: CN at October 05, 2021 07:52 AM (ONvIw)

237 233 It doesn't work Netflix either. They had massive first-mover advantage, but it's a cash furnace that is kept afloat by credulous investors. When that credulity wanes, it will likely wane all at once.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 07:51 AM (+IIqY)

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Netflix seems to be kept alive by the unreality of the stock market. The capital from the stock price is probably one of the only things keeping the lights on at this point.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 07:52 AM (LvTSG)

238 2020 cheating is a floor, not a ceiling.

Mail in voting exists to normalize cheating. As well as early voting. The new Jim Crow Georgia law enshrined early voting.

--

I'm sadly going to agree with you. It's only going to be honed from here on out. The coordinated steal, which is very much what happened in '20. Not that it wasn't a lost cause to begin with, but CA just went to universal mail-in voting. I foresee other D governors and legislatures doing the same while they have the ability. There's no end to the cheating. What's anybody going to do??? Film crews of people moving boxes of ballots at 2am? Project Veritas getting a whitleblower here or there? Pockets of right-leaning websites detailing point-by-point the irregularities? Testimony from 100s of people as to the same irregularities? The point here is that nobody did anything about all of that last year. Not the state legislatures, not even the flipping Supreme Court of the United Flipping States. They will not stop. And nobody that has any power to stop them will do so. Yeah, forgive me. I'd love to be wrong. It's going to take a miracle to restore our elections.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 05, 2021 07:52 AM (O+I8R)

239 Park Slope, in Brooklyn, is one of most liberal parts of a liberal NYC. Good school districts, so people in neighboring areas outside of Park Slope go to great lengths to enroll their kids in PS schools. Park Slope administrators spend a lot of time following kids home, to make sure they truly live in the neighborhood. Those that don't are promptly kicked out - or parents are presented with a bill for $20,000 to educate their youth.

Park Slope voters fully support open national borders, on the other hand. The contradictions are completely lost on them.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 05, 2021 07:41 AM (mdjgu)

Park Slope voters don't live near the borders they want open.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 05, 2021 07:52 AM (T7iTv)

240 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 07:29 AM (+IIqY)

My variant of the Mannix Theory of History:
1st Republic - Revolution through Constitution ratified
2nd Republic - Constitution through Civil War
3rd Republic - Civil War - WWI
Rise of the Empire - WWI-WWII
Empire Ascendant - WWII - Watergate
Bureaucracy Ascendant - Watergate - Trump Impeachment
One Way Road to Ruin - Trump Impeachment to Present

Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at October 05, 2021 07:52 AM (AlFcG)

241 If Haitians want to live in Park Slope only racists would oppose them. Also, every median strip on Broadway from Lincoln Center to Columbia should become a tent city for Haitians, or anyone else who chooses to live there, and they are freely allowed to tax people trying to cross the street.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 05, 2021 07:52 AM (sIv7i)

242 @JackPosobiec
Two leading transgender medics warn children should not be given puberty blockers, that too many are being given gender reassignment surgery and reveal NYT turned down their op-ed on the subject
Posted by: redridinghood at October 05, 2021 07:48 AM (NpAcC)
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If the number is greater than zero, it is "too many." We're talking about kids here. Once you turn 18 (or 21) and become a legal adult, you are free to pursue whatever self-destructive insanity you wish. Until then, you're not. Puberty blockers (by definition for children), hormone replacement therapies and sex change operations should not be in play, period, for anyone who is not a legal adult who can sign an informed consent form. Any number greater than zero is unacceptable.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 07:53 AM (+IIqY)

243 Morning JJ and Happy Birthday. The 4.5T infrastructure bill link brings up the Morning Report.. Oh and top 250?

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - Not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at October 05, 2021 07:53 AM (jOXVr)

244 Someone like you're describing I would more likely describe as a "reformer." There is a reason they always use vague language.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 07:47 AM (+IIqY)

Yeah, I couldn't track down in limited research whether this was CRT and globo-homo sex ed for kids. But it sounded like he had a big focus on charter schools in bad districts, Oakland being the archtype. As you note, more info needed. He could have been a pedo and the "targeting" was by a victim for all we know .

Posted by: flounder at October 05, 2021 07:53 AM (KnJdm)

245 226 Park Slope needs an injection of Haitians in their midst. Diversity is healthy.
Posted by: Ziba at October 05, 2021 07:49 AM (S1hrL)

Nah, Afghans and people from the Bronx. Haitians are too civilized.

Posted by: CN at October 05, 2021 07:53 AM (ONvIw)

246 Of course. Probably a salary as professional activists.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 05, 2021 07:44 AM (bDqIh)
---------------

The protesters somehow had the money to follow Sinema onto her flight and harass Sinema as she headed back to DC.

Some definitely is paying the freight.
Posted by: blake

The wetback had a government id good enough to use to get on a plane. Think hard about that one.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 05, 2021 07:54 AM (OCTRt)

247 Netflix seems to be kept alive by the unreality of the stock market. The capital from the stock price is probably one of the only things keeping the lights on at this point.

**

I trade a lot.

It was bizarre watching Google and the big sites yesterday. Pretty much a complete news freeze on real-time happenings with facebook.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - get vaxxed so you can be 50% protected for two months at October 05, 2021 07:54 AM (x7OL5)

248 Netflix seems to be kept alive by the unreality of the stock market. The capital from the stock price is probably one of the only things keeping the lights on at this point.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 07:52 AM (LvTSG)
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Yes, precisely. That's "investor credulity." The stock price and market capitalization act as collateral of sorts against their shocking pile of debt. Eventually, a bond investor is going to demand a risk-compensated return and that will crash the stock - or the stock declines too much and forces bond investors to demand better covenants. The specific trigger can be in either space, but when it eventually happens, the bloodletting will be fairly extreme.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 07:55 AM (+IIqY)

249 I"t's not racist to note the the number of administrative staff at public schools (and universities, too) has skyrocked. I would imagine that in addition to the graft, the cost perstudent is covering a lot mor administrative cost.

Posted by: Lizzy"

Pointing that out gets you branded anti-education (instead of racist). Don't you want world class credentialed experts in charge of teaching your children?

Posted by: Ripley at October 05, 2021 07:55 AM (MxEKc)

250 The onetime 2020 contender plans to launch a third party called Forward,

Avanti!

Talk about tone deaf and historically ignorant...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 05, 2021 07:55 AM (m+jkK)

251 AT&T demanded it because they wanted a cash cow in HBO Max, thinking that they were ready to get a money making machine. A year later, they're trying to sell Warner Brothers because it's just not the massive money maker they wanted it to be.
....
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 07:47 AM (LvTSG)

Eh.

It was a board chasing easy .com (yeah, I know, that's an old nomenclature) money with a huge physical infrastructure company. They spend BILLIONS on putting more and more fiber and buying more and more bandwidth and their stock price kept declining. While Netflix and Amazon and Disney were darlings for their vertically integrated streaming services, and ATT wanted that bump. Except they had no idea how to do it. Ma Bell (again, old nomenclature) just isn't a "creative" company.

Posted by: blaster at October 05, 2021 07:55 AM (mbFEM)

252 However, Republicans have been winning in places with early voting for a very long time. It's the mail in voting that's killer. Compared between the two, early voting is an anthill.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 07:44 AM (LvTSG)

We are in violent agreement. But still my point is reinforced - it is a vector for fraud, and Republicans are more than okay with it.
Posted by: blaster at October 05, 2021 07:49 AM (mbFEM)

Early voting is just a chipping away from the initial practice of showing up at the polls on election day. Maybe voting isn't supposed to be convenient.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at October 05, 2021 07:55 AM (y7DUB)

253 And what about Park Avenue?! Very white over there on the east side; section 8 housing is needed.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 05, 2021 07:55 AM (sIv7i)

254 Photo above makes me think of the movie Downfall (sigh).

Posted by: Ziba at October 05, 2021 07:55 AM (S1hrL)

255 Until someone pays dearly for vote fraud it's the normal way for now on.

Posted by: Skip's Phone at October 05, 2021 07:55 AM (bUL4f)

256 How much time does it take to call a civil rights lawyer? Studying is for chumps.
_____________

That's the lesson of these stupid court rulings and idiotic school board decisions that insist that "systemic racism" is why blacks fail.

The real reason they fail is because they don't put in the effort to succeed. At least, not in academic pursuits. When it comes to something like basketball, they'll put many hours of effort each week into improving those skills. But they're taught that studying and showing up in class and listening are "white" behaviors. Even the friggin' Smithsonian is parroting that racist bullshit now, putting out charts saying that behaviors like initiative and determination and hard work and self-reliance are "white" traits.

And blacks are happy to go along with it. Why work hard when you don't have to? They can get the same rewards (or better) as whites, just by screaming "systemic racism."

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at October 05, 2021 07:56 AM (k4dH2)

257 Why is it up to me to point this out instead of the homos?

According to ATC, the homos *did* point this out. There was apparently an entire Village Voice issue circa 1987/88 dedicated to bashing Fauci about AIDS.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 05, 2021 07:56 AM (y+iNp)

258 Pointing that out gets you branded anti-education (instead of racist). Don't you want world class credentialed experts in charge of teaching your children?
Posted by: Ripley at October 05, 2021 07:55 AM (MxEKc)
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No. I want competent people teaching the basics needed. I don't care one whit about credentials, especially not today.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 07:56 AM (+IIqY)

259 "Leftwing billionaire George Soros funded the activist group that harassed Democrat Sen. Kyrsten Sinema in a bathroom"

Ace said that was a crime (the filming/harassing in bathroom part) ... and they did this while working for Soros, doing his bidding. He should be prosecuted, and sued. ... I'm sure his lawyers have put up some walls of protection ... and since none of his past crimes (except insider trading in France) get wiped away (like with a cloth) ... we must have regime change or other hot war to see prosecution of the left's terrorism.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 05, 2021 07:56 AM (Cus5s)

260
Jack Posobiec
@JackPosobiec
Two leading transgender medics warn children should not be given puberty blockers, that too many are being given gender reassignment surgery and reveal NYT turned down their op-ed on the subject
https://tinyurl.com/2zwbfzrw
Posted by: redridinghood at October 05, 2021 07:48 AM (NpAcC)

The world is awash in evil.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 05, 2021 07:57 AM (T7iTv)

261 Pointing that out gets you branded anti-education (instead of racist). Don't you want world class credentialed experts in charge of teaching your children?
Posted by: Ripley at October 05, 2021 07:55 AM (MxEKc)

The credentialed expert has tenure and might publish one absolute piece of drek of a study per year to keep it.

The undergrads are taught by grad students.

Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at October 05, 2021 07:58 AM (AlFcG)

262 Garland and the Left know very well the particular soft spot of Republicans (in an oleaginous mass of softness), i.e., that they will not be caught dead defending anything that remotely resembles "white nationalism" or anything the Left says is tied to it.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 05, 2021 07:58 AM (H8QX8)

263 The great thing about digital central bank currency is that every digital dollar is serialized and easy to track.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 05, 2021 07:59 AM (8+5Rw)

264 My company's HR hive mind informed me that October is now apparently "Global Diversity Awareness Month."

So we have that going for us.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 08:00 AM (+IIqY)

265 TJM -- Not sure if you watch Netflix, and apologies if you already know about this.

Mrs Doof and I recently stumbled upon a series on Netflix called "The Movies That Made Us". Documentary type episodes that give details behind the making of iconic movies. Lots of focus on things from the perspective of the studio and/or producers. Insight into casting, filming, script revisions, etc. We've watched a few and have enjoyed them. Season 1 had 4 episodes -- Dirty Dancing, Home Alone, Ghostbusters, Die Hard. We watched a few from Season 2 - Back to the Future and Pretty Woman. Worth checking out.

Posted by: Doof at October 05, 2021 08:00 AM (mZUr4)

266 255 Until someone pays dearly for vote fraud it's the normal way for now on.
Posted by: Skip's Phone at October 05, 2021 07:55 AM (bUL4f)

notgonnahappen.com

You want to clean up elections? The Republicans need to get good at cheating. Then there will be action. Not before.

Posted by: blaster at October 05, 2021 08:00 AM (mbFEM)

267 I really liked the article from "The Federalist" on going to church (Of course, I'm biased) and I am inspired that that young man, Mr. Feucht, has worship rallies around the country in troubled cities. However, the older folks in churches are dying off and their kids or grandkids say that they don't believe in God, they believe in "science" or they worship on their own (I don't necessarily believe all them, but that's what they say) or the grandchildren want bands and big screens and projections. However, if the church dies something will take its place; I expect it will be Islam; They have some young energy behind them. It may be hateful, exclusive energy of radical Islam but it's energy and group commitment and unlike many modern churches that are progressivism with a little dab of Jesus thrown in, Muslims actually believe in something.

An yes, I expect the persecution will get worse. The church is a soft target.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 05, 2021 08:00 AM (lQj4a)

268 Pointing that out gets you branded anti-education (instead of racist). Don't you want world class credentialed experts in charge of teaching your children?

**

Some high school biology (f*cking BIOLOGY) teacher got in trouble for being caught on video telling the students that if you don't wear a mask and you're unvaccinated that you'll magically create a new variant that will kill millions of people.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - get vaxxed so you can be 50% protected for two months at October 05, 2021 08:00 AM (x7OL5)

269 It hasn't even been a year.

Posted by: Shenanigans at October 05, 2021 08:01 AM (ZR7kf)

270 I already miss Facebook silence. Perhaps an National Day of BigTech Silence is worth putting into law.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 05, 2021 08:01 AM (sIv7i)

271 So a national built on God, hard work, standards and accountability jettisons all 4 and we are now surprised with the outcome. Got it.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at October 05, 2021 08:01 AM (oWBc3)

272 263 The great thing about digital central bank currency is that every digital dollar is serialized and easy to track.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 05, 2021 07:59 AM (8+5Rw)
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It is, but that's only one goal. The other major goal, and it may be the dominant one, is that it enabled theft beyond compare. "Negative interest rates" (that is, wealth taxes) don't work if you can take money out of the banking system, after all.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 08:01 AM (+IIqY)

273 "Global Diversity Awareness Month"

*

So American employees are literally supposed to be celebrating foreign visa workers and illegal aliens.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - get vaxxed so you can be 50% protected for two months at October 05, 2021 08:02 AM (x7OL5)

274 This whole trans thing is probably being driven by 5 people, and thousands who are afraid to speak out for fear of being cancelled or labeled transphobic.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 05, 2021 08:02 AM (8+5Rw)

275 271 So a national built on God, hard work, standards and accountability jettisons all 4 and we are now surprised with the outcome. Got it.
Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at October 05, 2021 08:01 AM (oWBc3)

Insert "That's Rayciss!" meme here.

Posted by: blaster at October 05, 2021 08:02 AM (mbFEM)

276
Thalidomide redux?

Posted by: Infidel at October 05, 2021 07:52 AM (iorxD)

Time will tell. I sure as shit hope not.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 05, 2021 08:02 AM (F0YaR)

277 Why is it up to me to point this out instead of the homos?

According to ATC, the homos *did* point this out. There was apparently an entire Village Voice issue circa 1987/88 dedicated to bashing Fauci about AIDS.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 05, 2021 07:56 AM (y+iNp)

But he's still in place. Meanwhile there are "hate crime" laws named after Matthew Shepard, a drug dealer murdered by his fellow homos.

Maybe they should have protested harder about Fauci.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at October 05, 2021 08:02 AM (y7DUB)

278 I thought October was Hispanic month? Must work harder to keep up.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at October 05, 2021 08:03 AM (oWBc3)

279 An yes, I expect the persecution will get worse. The church is a soft target.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 05, 2021 08:00 AM (lQj4a)

Fen got woke y'all.

(In the Schlichterian sense).

Posted by: blaster at October 05, 2021 08:03 AM (mbFEM)

280 "Two leading transgender medics"...

Ok then.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at October 05, 2021 08:03 AM (r8tC0)

281 This whole trans thing is probably being driven by 5 people, and thousands who are afraid to speak out for fear of being cancelled or labeled transphobic.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 05, 2021 08:02 AM (8+5Rw)
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The math has changed some over the past decade since it became trendy, but without the coddling and subsidy, more people believe that powerful government officials are lizard aliens wearing human skin suits than are transgendered. By a pretty wide margin.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 08:03 AM (+IIqY)

282 Any voting methodology that deviates from in-person, ID verified, one day voting and tabulation on "ELECTION DAY!!!!," is fraud.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 05, 2021 08:04 AM (d8rgz)

283 278 I thought October was Hispanic month? Must work harder to keep up.
Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at October 05, 2021 08:03 AM (oWBc3)

National Hispanic Heritage month is Sept 15 - Oct 15.

Because reasons.

Posted by: blaster at October 05, 2021 08:04 AM (mbFEM)

284 253 And what about Park Avenue?! Very white over there on the east side; section 8 housing is needed.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 05, 2021 07:55 AM (sIv7i)

A nice big housing project in Central PArk?

Posted by: CN at October 05, 2021 08:04 AM (ONvIw)

285
Link fixed to "Those $4.5 trillion..." etc.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 05, 2021 08:04 AM (s2VJv)

286 Some high school biology (f*cking BIOLOGY) teacher got in trouble for being caught on video telling the students that if you don't wear a mask and you're unvaccinated that you'll magically create a new variant that will kill millions of people.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - get vaxxed so you can be 50% protected for two months at October 05, 2021

***
To which the proper answer is, "Good -- shorter lines at the drive through!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at October 05, 2021 08:04 AM (/XOcP)

287 >>The wetback had a government id good enough to use to get on a plane. Think hard about that one.

Eh, she likely used a state drivers license, right?
It's outrageous, but many states do that now.

It's also why we now have Read ID, righ?
But notice how the deadline for Real ID required for airplane travel and other things, October 2020, has been pushed out, to beyond 2022 voting IIRC.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 05, 2021 08:04 AM (bDqIh)

288 "My company's HR hive mind informed me that October is now apparently "Global Diversity Awareness Month."

So we have that going for us.

Posted by: Joe Mannix "

They should call it White Genocide Appreciation Month. Because that is what the end goal of diversity programs are.

Posted by: Ripley at October 05, 2021 08:04 AM (MxEKc)

289 Posted by: Reuben Hick at October 05, 2021 07:29 AM (+LCoQ)

Nice mini-rant.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 05, 2021 08:05 AM (H8QX8)

290 Any voting methodology that deviates from in-person, ID verified, one day voting and tabulation on "ELECTION DAY!!!!," is fraud.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 05, 2021 08:04 AM (d8rgz)
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Suggested addendum: stacked result reporting. Results must be reported in order of population. The cities have to report first. No more of this playing catch-up against the rest of the state.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 08:05 AM (+IIqY)

291 The FBI
https://tinyurl.com/3fm4yjzp

Posted by: redridinghood at October 05, 2021 08:05 AM (NpAcC)

292 My company's HR hive mind informed me that October is now apparently "Global Diversity Awareness Month."

Mine announced that we all need to support trannies, gays, blacks, Latin-X, and Asians because of "Tikkun Olam". I have no idea what Judaism has to do with diversity.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 05, 2021 08:05 AM (j+u5i)

293 I"t's not racist to note the the number of administrative staff at public schools (and universities, too) has skyrocked. I would imagine that in addition to the graft, the cost perstudent is covering a lot mor administrative cost.

Posted by: Lizzy"

Pointing that out gets you branded anti-education (instead of racist). Don't you want world class credentialed experts in charge of teaching your children?

Posted by: Ripley at October 05, 2021 07:55 AM (MxEKc)

Obligatory: Thomas Sowell on Institutions

https://youtu.be/mS5WYp5xmvI?t=390

Posted by: flounder at October 05, 2021 08:06 AM (KnJdm)

294 "Global Diversity Awareness Month"

What the millions at the border in our face and eating our lunch isn't enough? Who makes up this sh*t?

Posted by: Ziba at October 05, 2021 08:06 AM (S1hrL)

295 I thought October was Hispanic month? Must work harder to keep up.

Twitter was pushing that October is a second LGBTXYZ month. Black activists were wondering why those people get two months.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 05, 2021 08:07 AM (y+iNp)

296 Because reasons.
Posted by: blaster at October 05, 2021 08:04 AM (mbFEM)

I just assume they didn't want to lumber the poor dears with 9\11 in the middle of "their" month..

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 05, 2021 08:07 AM (VbtgJ)

297 When's White Old Lady month?

Posted by: grammie winger at October 05, 2021 08:07 AM (45fpk)

298 Twitter was pushing that October is a second LGBTXYZ month. Black activists were wondering why those people get two months.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 05, 2021 08:07 AM (y+iNp)
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They're trendier and more useful than black people. Sorry black people, you got used. You should have seen it decades ago, but better late than never.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 08:07 AM (+IIqY)

299 Doof, I watched all of those. They were quite good and very entertaining. Lots of trivia I didn't know especially Back to the Future. Eric Stoltz??

Posted by: Jewells45 at October 05, 2021 08:08 AM (nxdel)

300 An yes, I expect the persecution will get worse. The church is a soft target.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 05, 2021 08:00 AM (lQj4a)

Have you ever read the Muslim descriptions of the end times. Strangely, Jesus plays a central role.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 05, 2021 08:08 AM (Y5qcH)

301 My company's HR hive mind informed me that October is now apparently "Global Diversity Awareness Month."

So we have that going for us.

Posted by:�Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)�at October 05, 2021 08:00 AM (+IIqY)

I'd make a satirical poster. Have a moth drawn up with the all-seeing eye on both wings.

Caption it "Global Diversity Awareness Moth wants to know if you are celebrating diversity."

Include a few sinister symbols in the moth body (like the Facebook f). Wait and see how long it takes anyone to realize it's creepy and not some silly HR thing.

Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at October 05, 2021 08:08 AM (AlFcG)

302 Transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard, who was the first male-to-female transgender individual to compete in a womens Olympic event, was named

Sportwoman of the Year

Seems the best woman for the job often turns out to be a man!

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 05, 2021 08:09 AM (yrol0)

303 Posted by: blaster at October 05, 2021 08:03 AM (mbFEM)

I don't really know what that means. Yes; I know who Kurt Schlichter is. I've been saying the church is a target for some time.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 05, 2021 08:09 AM (lQj4a)

304 >>This whole trans thing is probably being driven by 5 people, and thousands who are afraid to speak out for fear of being cancelled or labeled transphobic.

May have been started by some well-connected activists (e.g. Pritzker dude-ette), but I'm pretty sure is is now a huge cash cow for pharmaceuticals and Planned Parenthood (who are "treating" trans patients).

IIRC, Noem's long-time progressive aid, the one identified as advising her to not support bathoom bans and other cnservative legislation, is a lobbyist for pharma ceuticals and said they are mikking a ton of money from trans drugs.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 05, 2021 08:09 AM (bDqIh)

305
Mine announced that we all need to support trannies, gays, blacks, Latin-X, and Asians because of "Tikkun Olam". I have no idea what Judaism has to do with diversity.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 05, 2021 08:05 AM (j+u5i)

My former synagogue and many others (Central Synagogue in NYC included) are actively supporting CRT, Transgenderism, and open borders because of tikkun olam-repair the world. Ibram Kendi is on many reading` lists.

Posted by: CN at October 05, 2021 08:09 AM (ONvIw)

306 "Global Diversity Awareness Month"

Julius Caesar is not amused by this.

Posted by: dantesed at October 05, 2021 08:09 AM (88xKn)

307 Twitter was pushing that October is a second LGBTXYZ month. Black activists were wondering why those people get two months.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 05, 2021 08:07 AM (y+iNp)

Thats easy! Front Hole Month and Front Pole Month.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 05, 2021 08:09 AM (yrol0)

308 I'd make a satirical poster. Have a moth drawn up with the all-seeing eye on both wings.

Caption it "Global Diversity Awareness Moth wants to know if you are celebrating diversity."

Include a few sinister symbols in the moth body (like the Facebook f). Wait and see how long it takes anyone to realize it's creepy and not some silly HR thing.
Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at October 05, 2021 08:08 AM (AlFcG)
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It would be left alone and not touched for fear of crossing HR. Everyone would believe it. It might not be taken down ever.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 08:10 AM (+IIqY)

309 Seems the best woman for the job often turns out to be a man!

My new conspiracy theory is that the whole trans thing is a way for male "elites" to push biological women back into the kitchen without feminism objecting.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 05, 2021 08:10 AM (j+u5i)

310 Most people won't subscribe to more than one or two streaming services. Netflix ,may have an advantage here, as its built up a large library of content, mostly cheap stuff.

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 05, 2021 08:10 AM (ZHVt1)

311 Until someone pays dearly for vote fraud it's the normal way for now on.

Posted by: Skip's Phone at October 05, 2021 07:55 AM

The Maricopa County audit found 262 dead people that voted in the November 2020 election and no one has said or done squat about it.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at October 05, 2021 08:10 AM (JUOKG)

312 @290

>>Suggested addendum: stacked result reporting. Results must be reported in order of population. The cities have to report first. No more of this playing catch-up against the rest of the state.

Excellent addition.

Bottom line, voting in most locales, in most states is a joke and illegitimate and the further we get away from what I suggested simply add's layers and layers to the Onion of Fraud.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 05, 2021 08:10 AM (d8rgz)

313 Lots of trivia I didn't know especially Back to the Future. Eric Stoltz??
Posted by: Jewells45 at October 05, 2021 08:08 AM (nxdel)

Whatever happened to that guy?

He kinda disappeared after "The Fly 2".

Is he now still in the biz or running a Dairy Queen in Frog's Ass, Mississippi?

Posted by: naturalfake at October 05, 2021 08:11 AM (5NkmN)

314 Depriving people of their Constitutional rights, is still a federal crime, as is conspiring to oppress those rights. Of course, since the DOJ is both the party who gets to charge people with those crimes, as well as the one who is committing the crimes, who is there left to stop the DOJ from doing what they are doing?

There are only 3 possible answers to that question. 1. Complaining to the Inspector General of the DOJ.
2. I'm not going to discuss the legal maneuver I have in mind.
3. A national level "Athens Revolt".

Of course option 3 is what the leftist thugs think they want, but options 2 and 3 are what they are going to get.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at October 05, 2021 08:12 AM (QgHo2)

315 When speaking at a School Board Meeting becomes an act of domestic terrorism, then you are obviously no longer a Free People. What value is Democracy when it simply provides a check box for the terms of your enslavement?

Posted by: ErikInTexas at October 05, 2021 08:12 AM (M9SBl)

316 I wonder how many times Garland (SPIT) edited the letter from the NSBA before he got to the final version mailed to him by NSBA. I'm going with three. This crap is straight out of the Democrat playbook.

Posted by: Gref at October 05, 2021 08:13 AM (AMIL/)

317 When's White Old Lady month?

Posted by: grammie winger at October 05, 2021 08:07 AM (45fpk)

Every month, because white privilege.

Posted by: flounder at October 05, 2021 08:13 AM (KnJdm)

318 India which gets 70% of its power from coal is down to 4 days of reserve supply of same as the government has co tinted to flirt with renewables and green energy investment. I guess the greens won't be happy until they kill millions with this insanity

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at October 05, 2021 08:13 AM (oWBc3)

319
Also, if you haven't yet seen it, Denninger posted a good one yesterday, here:

https://market-ticker.org/cgi-ticker/
akcs-www?post=243789

First is an analysis of CMS data. Basically, everyone over 65 is on Medicare, and thus CMS has all the medical data on them. Makes a damn good cohort to tell you what the jabs are doing, etc. It shows just how public health authorities are lying through their teeth. They're telling us one thing while their own damn data is saying the opposite.

Second, another study shows absolutely no correlation at the country level between vaccination and infection rates. Also, same thing at the county level in the United States.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at October 05, 2021 08:13 AM (Mzdiz)

320 Doof, I watched all of those. They were quite good and very entertaining. Lots of trivia I didn't know especially Back to the Future. Eric Stoltz??
Posted by: Jewells45 at October 05, 2021 08:08 AM (nxdel)

I was aware of Eric Stoltz originally being casted as Marty McFly. Would be interesting to hear his take on how things went down with him being fired.

We were surprised by the back story of Forrest Gump. We had no idea how long they tried to get that movie made before finally getting approval.

Posted by: Doof at October 05, 2021 08:13 AM (mZUr4)

321 My new conspiracy theory is that the whole trans thing is a way for male "elites" to push biological women back into the kitchen without feminism objecting.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 05, 2021 08:10 AM (j+u5i)

Now you just need to figure out to get that theory launched into feminist circles, so distrust can work its magic.

Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at October 05, 2021 08:14 AM (AlFcG)

322 JJ. Well done. Happy Birthday and that image is frigging hysterical and spot the f*ck on.

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at October 05, 2021 08:14 AM (Zz0t1)

323 The maricopa audit just showed the dems what worked, and what they need to do better next time.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 05, 2021 08:14 AM (8+5Rw)

324 India which gets 70% of its power from coal is down to 4 days of reserve supply of same as the government has co tinted to flirt with renewables and green energy investment. I guess the greens won't be happy until they kill millions with this insanity

I saw something the other day where some European country shut down their nuclear plants to become "green" (which doesn't even make sense) and now has to burn thousands of gallons of oil a day to keep the lights on.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 05, 2021 08:14 AM (j+u5i)

325 310 Most people won't subscribe to more than one or two streaming services. Netflix ,may have an advantage here, as its built up a large library of content, mostly cheap stuff.
Posted by: Ignoramus at October 05, 2021 08:10 AM (ZHVt1)

The Warner Bros catalog is tremendous, and that part of the ATT/TW strategy sounds great on paper. They have a LOT of content. A lot of quality content. Well loved movies.

But the way they promote that and give access to it, well, sucks. Their streaming crew is a bunch of younger people who don't appreciate the richness of the catalog and only go with what is #trending. So that huge volume of stuff is hidden in the interface.

Posted by: blaster at October 05, 2021 08:14 AM (mbFEM)

326 Huh?

For those of you over 29....they're now talking about a large COLA increase for SS. As much as 6%.

Welp. There's a pretty good admission by the gov't that inflation is high. And probably higher than 6%. COLAs never are quite as high as the real inflation numbers.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 05, 2021 08:14 AM (5NkmN)

327 Most people won't subscribe to more than one or two streaming services. Netflix ,may have an advantage here, as its built up a large library of content, mostly cheap stuff.
Posted by: Ignoramus at October 05, 2021 08:10 AM (ZHVt1)
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The magic number is probably $20 per month. $50 if it includes live TV. What fits in there, you do. This is going to lead to - if it hasn't already - mercenary behavior by customers. Take my scenario. I pay under $35/month. I have a live TV service without sports or news ($21), my service that streams Oriental shows ($8.33) and OAN ($2.50). That's where I am, and I am unwilling to spend more. So if I wanted, say, Disney+, then I'd cancel the Oriental service to make room. When I tired of Disney+ or wanted something else, I would cancel it - say, to add Netflix.

I suspect a lot of people will start subscribing for 2-3 months, consume what they want, cancel, get something else, and repeat the process. Maybe get Netflix, for example, for three months every 18. Something like that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 08:15 AM (+IIqY)

328 The FBI
https://tinyurl.com/3fm4yjzp
Posted by: redridinghood at October 05, 2021 08:05 AM (NpAcC)

LOL.

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at October 05, 2021 08:15 AM (Zz0t1)

329 India which gets 70% of its power from coal is down to 4 days of reserve supply of same as the government has co tinted to flirt with renewables and green energy investment. I guess the greens won't be happy until they kill millions with this insanity

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at October 05, 2021 08:13 AM

Why are China and India running out of coal? I mean they literally have enough in the ground to run their Countries for centuries. Something weird is going on. China could have 100,000 extra people out there digging coal in a single day but they aren't doing in and they are running out of coal.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at October 05, 2021 08:16 AM (JUOKG)

330 "Even the friggin' Smithsonian is parroting that racist bullshit now, putting out charts saying that behaviors like initiative and determination and hard work and self-reliance are "white" traits."

I was raised Lutheran, but not sure much of it really stuck (as far as hard doctrine goes). Just recently I saw some things about Luther and "individualism", probably related to every person studying and being accountable for themselves. Self reliance maybe.

Most of the founders were Protestant, very WASPy. USA was distinct in setting God above King or Pope, in governing at least. Land of Opportunity is not the same as Land of Free Shit. Those Bill of Rights conditionals for being American were set up by WASPy men, indeed -- which over time made "Black America" the richest/freest "nation" of blacks in the world.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 05, 2021 08:16 AM (Cus5s)

331 Welp. There's a pretty good admission by the gov't that inflation is high. And probably higher than 6%. COLAs never are quite as high as the real inflation numbers.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 05, 2021 08:14 AM (5NkmN)

Gotta keep those living standards eroding while Congress loots the social security fund.

Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at October 05, 2021 08:16 AM (AlFcG)

332 National Hispanic Heritage month is Sept 15 - Oct 15.

Because reasons.
Posted by: blaster at October 05, 2021 08:04 AM

You can't seriously expect black and brown peoples to show up on time to the white man's "month", can you? Concepts like timeliness are not a part of their culture you white supremacist hater, you!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 05, 2021 08:16 AM (m+jkK)

333 It's not racist to note the the number of administrative staff at public schools (and universities, too) has skyrocked. I would imagine that in addition to the graft, the cost perstudent is covering a lot mor administrative cost

Last week I ran some back of the envelope numbers where I assumed that children would have no less than Class A executive office facilities, could be fed all of their meals by various food trucks and escorted to the school by professional limo services and the teacher could pull in a quarter of a million annually in total compensation and there be money left over.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at October 05, 2021 08:16 AM (+LCoQ)

334 This might have been mentioned, Soros goons accosted Sinema in the plane now. Hounding The poor woman. She needs secret service protection. These are the same characters who went after Collins during Kavanaugh hearing, I bet. Dont fkng tell me this is not massively organized by Bidet and Nanzi to pressure , after Bidets sweet talk failed. He gave OK FOR THIS.

Posted by: runner at October 05, 2021 08:17 AM (ZXJxj)

335 The FBI will use the assembly of Big Tech social monitors to identify the targets for investigation.

This is Fascism

Posted by: SMOD at October 05, 2021 08:17 AM (RHGPo)

336 I have a job interview today. Let's hope they are not vaccine mandaters, but who knows.

Fingers crossed!

Posted by: squeakywheel at October 05, 2021 08:17 AM (NXy9v)

337 For those of you over 29....they're now talking about a large COLA increase for SS. As much as 6%.

Welp. There's a pretty good admission by the gov't that inflation is high. And probably higher than 6%. COLAs never are quite as high as the real inflation numbers.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 05, 2021 08:14 AM

That might cover about half of the actual real inflation.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at October 05, 2021 08:17 AM (JUOKG)

338 Fuck 'em. Fuck 'em all.

Posted by: Archer at October 05, 2021 08:17 AM (gmo/4)

339 I saw something the other day where some European country shut down their nuclear plants to become "green" (which doesn't even make sense) and now has to burn thousands of gallons of oil a day to keep the lights on.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 05, 2021 08:14 AM (j+u5i)

Germany.

Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at October 05, 2021 08:17 AM (AlFcG)

340 I thought Oct was pink ribbon titty month? Not seeing ANY of that. Transwomen are more importanter than real women.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 05, 2021 08:17 AM (8+5Rw)

341 335 The FBI will use the assembly of Big Tech social monitors to identify the targets for investigation.

This is Fascism
Posted by: SMOD at October 05, 2021 08:17 AM (RHGPo)

Zuck and Dorsey are totes cool with fascism as long as they keep the billions.

Posted by: CN at October 05, 2021 08:18 AM (ONvIw)

342 Last week I ran some back of the envelope numbers where I assumed that children would have no less than Class A executive office facilities, could be fed all of their meals by various food trucks and escorted to the school by professional limo services and the teacher could pull in a quarter of a million annually in total compensation and there be money left over.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at October 05, 2021 08:16 AM (+LCoQ)
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Yup. Throw in a gym membership and a subsidy for musical instruments and you're still under the current budgets. Get rid of some of the absurdities in your scenario by adding contracted food services and transit cards (for junior high or above), and the prices *really* move down.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 08:18 AM (+IIqY)

343 China could have 100,000 extra people out there digging coal in a single day but they aren't doing in and they are running out of coal.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at October 05, 2021 08:16 AM

*recalls Holodmor*

Almost like planned, da?

Posted by: Zombie Joseph Stalin at October 05, 2021 08:18 AM (m+jkK)

344 My new conspiracy theory is that the whole trans thing is a way for male "elites" to push biological women back into the kitchen without feminism objecting.

I presume its to deal with the de facto polygamy the elites want. If each mover and shaker has a wife, a couple of mistresses, and a few friends with benefits that reduces the number of women for the lower classes.

So...what to deal with those incels? Turn some into trannyies, and hook other ones up with those trannies

Posted by: 18-1 at October 05, 2021 08:18 AM (ESjRY)

345 Doesn't Sinema have some sort of MMA bona fides ?

Posted by: SMOD at October 05, 2021 08:18 AM (RHGPo)

346 325
But the way they promote that and give access to it, well, sucks. Their streaming crew is a bunch of younger people who don't appreciate the richness of the catalog and only go with what is #trending. So that huge volume of stuff is hidden in the interface.
Posted by: blaster at October 05, 2021 08:14 AM (mbFEM)

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The supposed connection is that a library keeps customers but new content attracts new customers. That gets real expensive from the production point of view real fast because movies are inefficient beasts to produce. The kind of stuff that gets traction (outside of the random smaller stuff that blows up for an afternoon before being forgotten almost immediately) are massive things meant to be spectacles like The Tomorrow War.

These providers need to be producing at least a dozen of these things a year, along with a hundred other smaller things, hoping that some of it attracts enough customers to buoy the streaming channel as a whole for another month. The accounting on all this has got to be a nightmare.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 08:18 AM (LvTSG)

347 Last week I ran some back of the envelope numbers where I assumed that children would have no less than Class A executive office facilities, could be fed all of their meals by various food trucks and escorted to the school by professional limo services and the teacher could pull in a quarter of a million annually in total compensation and there be money left over.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at October 05, 2021 08:16 AM (+LCoQ)

Did you factor in dem political contributions and kickbacks?

Posted by: flounder at October 05, 2021 08:19 AM (KnJdm)

348 I thought Oct was pink ribbon titty month? Not seeing ANY of that. Transwomen are more importanter than real women.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 05, 2021 08:17 AM (8+5Rw)
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Men clearly make the best women...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 08:19 AM (+IIqY)

349 My former synagogue and many others (Central Synagogue in NYC included) are actively supporting CRT, Transgenderism, and open borders because of tikkun olam-repair the world. Ibram Kendi is on many reading` lists.
Posted by: CN at October 05, 2021 08:09 AM (ONvIw)

***

And they wonder why people no longer attend...

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at October 05, 2021 08:19 AM (flINI)

350 334 This might have been mentioned, Soros goons accosted Sinema in the plane now. Hounding The poor woman. She needs secret service protection. These are the same characters who went after Collins during Kavanaugh hearing, I bet. Dont fkng tell me this is not massively organized by Bidet and Nanzi to pressure , after Bidets sweet talk failed. He gave OK FOR THIS.
Posted by: runner at October 05, 2021 08:17 AM (ZXJxj)

There is a Congressional Protective Service, comes out of the Capitol Police. That would be the appropriate agency. But you know who determines if you get that protection?

Posted by: blaster at October 05, 2021 08:19 AM (mbFEM)

351 Hollywood's behind-the-scenes crews vote to authorize strike

https://tinyurl.com/h247v3p8

Posted by: SMH - The War has been won, only the battles remain, as usual at October 05, 2021 08:19 AM (BBsY9)

352 For those of you over 29....they're now talking about a large COLA increase for SS. As much as 6%.
Welp. There's a pretty good admission by the gov't that inflation is high. And probably higher than 6%. COLAs never are quite as high as the real inflation numbers.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 05, 2021 08:14 AM (5NkmN)

Abolish Social Security.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at October 05, 2021 08:19 AM (r8tC0)

353 Alright, time to learn about AFUDC.

Fun.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 08:19 AM (LvTSG)

354 "Even the friggin' Smithsonian is parroting that racist bullshit now, putting out charts saying that behaviors like initiative and determination and hard work and self-reliance are "white" traits."

Japan clearly beat the US at that game. Look how the countries that were reduced to rubble at the end of WW2 ended up being the top automobile manufacturers in the world eclipsing the victors.

It was done because they were harder workers, more initiative and self-reliance (as opposed to lying supine to the unions)

Posted by: Reuben Hick at October 05, 2021 08:20 AM (+LCoQ)

355 I'm sorry, I meant options 1 and 2. 3 follows when those fail.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at October 05, 2021 08:20 AM (QgHo2)

356 mornin' y'all

Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at October 05, 2021 08:20 AM (Adlwz)

357 I have a job interview today. Let's hope they are not vaccine mandaters, but who knows.

Fingers crossed!

Posted by: squeakywheel at October 05, 2021 08:17 AM (NXy9v)

Knock 'em dead. Then there will be more openings at the Co.

Posted by: flounder at October 05, 2021 08:20 AM (KnJdm)

358 Well, they are also provoking her. She is a public figure, so can't very well punch their lights out.

Posted by: runner at October 05, 2021 08:20 AM (ZXJxj)

359 For those of you over 62, ....they're now talking about a large COLA increase for SS. As much as 6%.

Posted by: SMOD at October 05, 2021 08:20 AM (RHGPo)

360 >>My company's HR hive mind informed me that October is now apparently "Global Diversity Awareness Month."

So we have that going for us.

Maybe you can join in by informing co-workers of each day's designated celebration topic, such as:

Sept 5th is National Cheese Pizza Day! Sept 30th is Podcast Day! October is National Egonomics Month! And National Cookbook Month! And Right Brainers Rule Month! And. . . Self-promotion Month!

December is National Tie Month!

Celebrate is so dang hard the ridiculousness of these random "National day/months" is obvious, while pretending to take is seriously.

*I didn't make up any of these

Posted by: Lizzy at October 05, 2021 08:20 AM (bDqIh)

361 For those of you over 29....they're now talking about a large COLA increase for SS. As much as 6%.

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The Boomers must never suffer.

Posted by: SH (Non-Expert) at October 05, 2021 08:21 AM (E1ego)

362 At issue is a contract standstill over requests for more reasonable conditions for the craftspeople, technicians and laborers working for streaming companies like Netflix, Apple and Amazon, including better pay, reasonable rest periods, safer hours and guaranteed meal breaks.

EQUITY, but not really.

The left. Slavery proponents since 1680.

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at October 05, 2021 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)

363 Hey, about china, I thought *this* was fascinating
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKbLB_T-IjY

Posted by: Gman at October 05, 2021 08:21 AM (GfWuY)

364 Fuck 'em. Fuck 'em all.
Posted by: Archer at October 05, 2021 08:17 AM

"The spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy and bruised."

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 05, 2021 08:21 AM (m+jkK)

365 There is a Congressional Protective Service, comes out of the Capitol Police. That would be the appropriate agency. But you know who determines if you get that protection?

So if Sinema had that detail, those perps following her in to the restroom would have both been shot in the head at close range.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at October 05, 2021 08:21 AM (+LCoQ)

366 Global Diversity Awareness Month.

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Is there a separate National Diversity Awareness Month?

Posted by: SH (Non-Expert) at October 05, 2021 08:21 AM (E1ego)

367 She is a public figure, so can't very well punch their lights out.
Posted by: runner at October 05, 2021 08:20 AM (ZXJxj)

Why not? New world, new rules. If she had kicked the bitch to the floor and dragged her out by her hair, then lambasted Biden for coddling this outrage, she'd be a national hero today.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 05, 2021 08:22 AM (H8QX8)

368
I suspect a lot of people will start subscribing for 2-3 months, consume what they want, cancel, get something else, and repeat the process. Maybe get Netflix, for example, for three months every 18. Something like that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 08:15 AM (+IIqY)

There is software for sale that can copy videos on Netflix, HBO, and other streaming sites you are subscribed to onto your hard drive. I have not bought one of the packages yet. I plan to buy in time for Christmas. Search the web. Not cheap, but may be worth it to you.

Posted by: Gref at October 05, 2021 08:22 AM (AMIL/)

369 Abolish Social Security.

I could have wisely invested all the money that was confiscated from me over the years for SSA and been better off.

Posted by: Archer at October 05, 2021 08:22 AM (gmo/4)

370 blaster, I want to see them formally deny her request. The brouhaha.

Posted by: runner at October 05, 2021 08:22 AM (ZXJxj)

371 Coal is the lowest density fuel and requires a robust shipping or rail infrastructure to use effectively. If China has a coal shortage, I would look at rail or shipping. We already know that shipped is jacked up, and I believe that China does import a significant quantity of coal.

Or they have repurposed their rail to move their Army.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 05, 2021 08:22 AM (Y5qcH)

372 September was Hispanic Heritage Month.
October used to be Breast Cancer Awareness Month
November hasn't been taken, or has it? Colonoscopy Month?
December: Cancel Christmas month.

Posted by: Ziba at October 05, 2021 08:22 AM (S1hrL)

373
And they wonder why people no longer attend...
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at October 05, 2021 08:19 AM (flINI)

My former synagogue is begging former members for donations as well as planning on charging affluent members more in dues in order to pay the bills. They are using the slogan "don't let the light go out" as if by not supporting their agenda, we are extinguishing our faith.

Posted by: CN at October 05, 2021 08:22 AM (ONvIw)

374
Why not? New world, new rules. If she had kicked the bitch to the floor and dragged her out by her hair, then lambasted Biden for coddling this outrage, she'd be a national hero today.
Posted by: Ordinary American at October 05, 2021 08:22 AM (H8QX

If it's good enough for Running Backs, it should be good enough for congressional women.

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at October 05, 2021 08:22 AM (Zz0t1)

375 Twitter was pushing that October is a second LGBTXYZ month.

Black activists were wondering why those people get two months.
Posted by: Ian S.

Because they go both ways.
Black activists only go black.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 05, 2021 08:23 AM (OCTRt)

376 Real men can chest feed human babies

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at October 05, 2021 08:23 AM (flINI)

377 I could have wisely invested all the money that was confiscated from me over the years for SSA and been better off.

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I could have unwisely spent it on blow and hookers and been better off (worked for Hunter). Its my money after all. I can squander it if I want to.

Posted by: SH (Non-Expert) at October 05, 2021 08:23 AM (E1ego)

378 The Boomers must never suffer.

Posted by: SH (Non-Expert) at October 05, 2021 08:21 AM (E1ego)

Darn tootin'.

Posted by: grammie winger at October 05, 2021 08:23 AM (45fpk)

379 China could have 100,000 extra people out there digging coal in a single day but they aren't doing in and they are running out of coal.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at October 05, 2021 08:16 AM

Eh. China always plays the long game.

Why use up their coal reserves when they can bank it for the future? They can let us use up ours cuz we're selling it cheap.

This "green" energy silliness won't last forever. It's the very definition of unsustainable. Nuke power maybe but we're giving that away too. Run by geniuses we are.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 05, 2021 08:23 AM (5NkmN)

380 She is a public figure, so can't very well punch their lights out.
Posted by: runner at October 05, 2021 08:20 AM (ZXJxj)

Why not. I believe some senator almost caned another senator to death once upon a time.

Posted by: Archer at October 05, 2021 08:23 AM (gmo/4)

381 Abolish Social Security.

I could have wisely invested all the money that was confiscated from me over the years for SSA and been better off.

Posted by: Archer at October 05, 2021 08:22 AM

If I had put all of that Social Security money into a 401k I would be a millionaire now.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at October 05, 2021 08:24 AM (JUOKG)

382 Real men can chest feed human babies
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at October 05, 2021 08:23 AM (flINI)
++++
Speciesist. Bigotry has no home here, TMR.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 08:24 AM (+IIqY)

383 Speaking of wasted money - since the cold war the US government has spent about $1M/taxpayer.

Anyone think they could have done better spending that mil then the feds?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 05, 2021 08:24 AM (ESjRY)

384 I man claiming October for me.

Posted by: runner at October 05, 2021 08:24 AM (ZXJxj)

385 "Even the friggin' Smithsonian is parroting that racist bullshit now, putting out charts saying that behaviors like initiative and determination and hard work and self-reliance are "white" traits."

Smithsonian has been woke for a number of years now. Can't stand to look at it anymore, it is like reading studies by some liberal NGO.

Posted by: Ripley at October 05, 2021 08:24 AM (MxEKc)

386 Abolish Social Security.

More coffee.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy
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Most of us don't have to worry about SS, since we're never gonna receive it.

Posted by: SMH - The War has been won, only the battles remain, as usual at October 05, 2021 08:24 AM (BBsY9)

387 Anyone think they could have done better spending that mil then the feds?
Posted by: 18-1 at October 05, 2021 08:24 AM (ESjRY)
++++
Shoveling it into a furnace would have been a better use of it. At least then it would have kept folks warm.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 08:25 AM (+IIqY)

388

, I am and for meeeee

Posted by: runner at October 05, 2021 08:25 AM (ZXJxj)

389 My new conspiracy theory is that the whole trans thing is a way for male "elites" to push biological women back into the kitchen without feminism objecting.

Or it could be the exact same crap that was going on in ancient Mesopotamia, first century Rome and pretty much everywhere else where prosperity made people lazy and indulgent.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at October 05, 2021 08:25 AM (+LCoQ)

390 I could have wisely invested all the money that was confiscated from me over the years for SSA and been better off.

Posted by: Archer at October 05, 2021 08:22 AM (gmo/4)

And have the ability to bequeath your remaining assets to your beneficiaries.

Posted by: grammie winger at October 05, 2021 08:25 AM (45fpk)

391 371 Coal is the lowest density fuel and requires a robust shipping or rail infrastructure to use effectively. If China has a coal shortage, I would look at rail or shipping. We already know that shipped is jacked up, and I believe that China does import a significant quantity of coal.

Or they have repurposed their rail to move their Army.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 05, 2021 08:22 AM (Y5qcH)

Australia is a big source of their coal. They are stockpiling as a hedge against global reaction after they invade Taiwan.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 05, 2021 08:26 AM (s2VJv)

392 The Boomers must never suffer.

Posted by: SH (Non-Expert) at October 05, 2021 08:21 AM (E1ego)

Darn tootin'.

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They even got their Cubs victory. Unlike the generation before.

Posted by: SH (Non-Expert) at October 05, 2021 08:26 AM (E1ego)

393 , I am and for meeeee
Posted by: runner at October 05, 2021 08:25 AM (ZXJxj)

You asked for it.......

https://youtu.be/x6hXKx2p3rA?t=4

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at October 05, 2021 08:26 AM (Zz0t1)

394 Alright, time to learn about AFUDC.

Fun.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 08:19 AM (LvTSG)

Utility accounting? Wow, then you can learn CWIP and Mirror CWIP! Bring lots of coffee.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at October 05, 2021 08:26 AM (y7DUB)

395 For those of you over 29....they're now talking about a large COLA increase for SS. As much as 6%.

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The Boomers must never suffer.
Posted by: SH

Sorry. When illegals make more than people who had their money stolen at gunpoint their entire working lives....

Posted by: rickb223 at October 05, 2021 08:27 AM (OCTRt)

396 313 Lots of trivia I didn't know especially Back to the Future. Eric Stoltz??
Posted by: Jewells45 at October 05, 2021 08:08 AM (nxdel)

Whatever happened to that guy?

He kinda disappeared after "The Fly 2".

Is he now still in the biz or running a Dairy Queen in Frog's Ass, Mississippi?
Posted by: naturalfake at October 05, 2021 08:11 AM (5NkmN)

He was an executive producer, director, and actor in the series Madame Secretary.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 05, 2021 08:27 AM (mdjgu)

397 They even got their Cubs victory. Unlike the generation before.

Posted by: SH (Non-Expert) at October 05, 2021 08:26 AM (E1ego)

Life is beautiful.

Posted by: grammie winger at October 05, 2021 08:27 AM (45fpk)

398 Sorry. When illegals make more than people who had their money stolen at gunpoint their entire working lives....
Posted by: rickb223
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Yep.

Posted by: SMH - The War has been won, only the battles remain, as usual at October 05, 2021 08:27 AM (BBsY9)

399 Oh and I don't think the elites really want a wife that can cook - they've got staff for that.

They want one that is young, hot, and does whatever the cool kids on pronhub are into today...and doesn't mind their side chicks.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 05, 2021 08:28 AM (ESjRY)

400 These providers need to be producing at least a dozen of these things a year, along with a hundred other smaller things, hoping that some of it attracts enough customers to buoy the streaming channel as a whole for another month. The accounting on all this has got to be a nightmare.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 08:18 AM (LvTSG)

Again, yes. And this would theoretically make WB a good bet because that is the business that they are in. Netflix and Amazon aren't really production houses they are just buying content and putting their label on it. (yes, some few productions are actually funded from the get go by those guys, but that's way more the exception than the rule.)

But it is also why what seems like a good idea on paper is not - for ATT to turn new productions into new subs they have to cannibalize theater showings. Blockbusters which have that power then suffer the "disappointing" BO numbers that kill their blockbuster-ness.

The new Dune movie is going to be on HBO Max opening day and I will be watching it. But I know that it threatens the sequel.

Posted by: blaster at October 05, 2021 08:29 AM (mbFEM)

401 394 Utility accounting? Wow, then you can learn CWIP and Mirror CWIP! Bring lots of coffee.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at October 05, 2021 08:26 AM (y7DUB)

==========

Yes...My eyes are already crossing and I'm having flashbacks to grad school.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 08:29 AM (LvTSG)

402 Sinema's bathroom event was in AZ, not DC. I'm not sure every single Congress douchebag gets protection when not in the capitol city. She apparently didn't.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 05, 2021 08:29 AM (BFigT)

403 the FBI needs a "Jan 6" moment at one of these school board meetings to smear parents

so they are no doubt planning to stage something soon

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at October 05, 2021 08:29 AM (L9Ewk)

404 They want one that is young, hot, and does whatever the cool kids on pronhub are into today...and doesn't mind their side chicks.
Posted by: 18-1
___

Sounds like a common fantasy of some here.

Posted by: SMH - The War has been won, only the battles remain, as usual at October 05, 2021 08:30 AM (BBsY9)

405 400
The new Dune movie is going to be on HBO Max opening day and I will be watching it. But I know that it threatens the sequel.
Posted by: blaster at October 05, 2021 08:29 AM (mbFEM)

=========

It's probably made enough money overseas, with an approved China release, to guarantee the sequel at this point.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 08:30 AM (LvTSG)

406 Sinema's bathroom event was in AZ, not DC. I'm not sure every single Congress douchebag gets protection when not in the capitol city. She apparently didn't.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

AZ is open carry. She should have dusted both and claim she was jumped.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 05, 2021 08:30 AM (OCTRt)

407 Nood.

Art.

Humbling.

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at October 05, 2021 08:30 AM (Zz0t1)

408 NYPost: Former Vice President Mike Pence said Monday that he has a "strong relationship" with former President Donald Trump and added that the two had sat down and "talked through" their differences in the days after the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the US Capitol. "Look, you can't spend almost five years in a political foxhole with somebody without developing a strong relationship," Pence told Fox News' Sean Hannity.

Posted by: SMOD at October 05, 2021 08:31 AM (RHGPo)

409 so they are no doubt planning to stage something soon
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at October 05, 2021 08:29 AM (L9Ewk)

With a double dose of fake racism to justify Garland's fervor for CRT

Posted by: CN at October 05, 2021 08:31 AM (ONvIw)

410 How's this for a caveat? My PC needs service and the guy is coming today to do the repair. Maybe. He'll be here today in a certain time window, "pending part availability." I'm left with specifics - a time window for service - but with no guarantee of service. It's like the manufacturer is playing Calvinball at this point.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 08:31 AM (+IIqY)

411 What happened to the expansion of the Capitol Police?

It didn't help Sinema.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 05, 2021 08:31 AM (UuD2k)

412 How about Tear Down a Statue Month? Torch a Southern Mansion Month? Deface Classical Architecture Month?

The possibilities are endless. Hehe.

Posted by: Ziba at October 05, 2021 08:31 AM (S1hrL)

413 'Where did you go Ahmad Shah Mahsood? Afghanistan turns it's lonely eyes to you...whoo whoo whooo.....'

Posted by: Eromero at October 05, 2021 08:31 AM (0OP+5)

414 Look, you can't spend almost five years in a political foxhole with somebody without developing a strong relationship," Pence told Fox News' Sean Hannity.
Posted by: SMOD at October 05, 2021 08:31 AM (RHGPo)

I don't believe it for a second. Did Pence discuss his 4M book deal, too?

Posted by: CN at October 05, 2021 08:32 AM (ONvIw)

415 Sounds like a common fantasy of some here.

There are some universal parts of the human condition. There is no serious difference in what people want in 2021 then what they did in 21 or 6021 BC.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 05, 2021 08:32 AM (ESjRY)

416 Real men can chest feed human babies
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at October 05, 2021 08:23 AM (flINI)
++++
Speciesist. Bigotry has no home here, TMR.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 08:24 AM (+IIqY)

Reptilophobe!

Posted by: Cato, possible dragon. at October 05, 2021 08:33 AM (I3QRX)

417 the FBI needs a "Jan 6" moment at one of these school board meetings to smear parents

so they are no doubt planning to stage something soon
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at October 05, 2021 08:29 AM (L9Ewk)
***********
It's just a matter of time. There are too many in the FIB that are blinded by their hate for anything that goes against the Dems and their policies.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 05, 2021 08:34 AM (NpAcC)

418 The Boomers must never suffer.
Posted by: SH

Sorry. When illegals make more than people who had their money stolen at gunpoint their entire working lives....

You can't have it both ways. You can't criticize the Boomers for being obsessed by earning money their entire working careers then turn around and criticize them further when you are pissing away their wealth they built up on windmills, fake pussies, and illegal aliens to do all of your labor.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at October 05, 2021 08:35 AM (+LCoQ)

419 Sinema's bathroom event was in AZ, not DC. I'm not sure every single Congress douchebag gets protection when not in the capitol city. She apparently didn't.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 05, 2021 08:29 AM (BFigT)

Was she in a federal building? If so they have their own security and keeping a US Senator from being attacked, even verbally, used to be a high priority.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at October 05, 2021 08:35 AM (y7DUB)

420 It's just a matter of time. There are too many in the FIB that are blinded by their hate for anything that goes against the Dems and their policies.
Posted by: redridinghood at October 05, 2021 08:34 AM (NpAcC)

The new Committee on Un-American Activities will be led by Garland and will target non-communists.

Posted by: CN at October 05, 2021 08:35 AM (ONvIw)

421 Joel Kotkin of Newsweek. They just can't resist

To be sure, a serious public hazard like Covid-19 requires that steps be taken to protect the vulnerable and develop vaccines and treatments. Resisting a jab, as all too many Americans have done, does suggest that there is no vaccine for stupidity, as one writer put it.

Posted by: steevy at October 05, 2021 08:37 AM (CYnTg)

422 47 IIRC doesn't the Department of Education have a large, well armed "Security Section" or SWAT? I seem to recall this making news quite awhile ago as it was listed along with a slew of Federal agencies that have armed (some heavily) security or LE sections.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 05, 2021 07:00 AM (BFigT)

Prepping during the Obama years, if I recall.

Posted by: Bonnie Blue no longer gives a shit at October 05, 2021 08:38 AM (hlxe7)

423 Every Federal agency has an armed force . EVERY one

Posted by: steevy at October 05, 2021 08:39 AM (CYnTg)

424 Tang, the orange-flavored drink mix that intrepid American astronauts took into space, wasn't selling so well until it famously went into orbit. And there's at least one astronaut who wishes it never left the ground.

Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, the second person to step foot on the moon, told the audience of the 2013 Spike TV Guys Choice awards that "Tang sucks."

Posted by: SMOD at October 05, 2021 08:39 AM (RHGPo)

425 The sooner everybody on the Right accepts this and unites under nationalism, the better chance we have.
Conservatism is Dead.
What comes next?

https://treeofwoe.substack.com/p/conservatism-is-dead

Conservatism is dead.

Who would stand athwart history and shout "Stop" at this moment in time? America today is a dystopia.

The ruling class has pilfered the wealth and productivity of three generations of workers, financialized it into securities, and sold it to the globe. Now the factories and infrastructure of the country decay, and with them go our productive capacities. As productivity declines, purchasing power declines, so more currency is printed for billionaires. Productive wages languish while financial wealth soars. The hyperinflation of our currency spells doom for our consumption. "You will own nothing," and you will not be happy. (Cont...)

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at October 05, 2021 08:40 AM (jz8uA)

426 Was she in a federal building? If so they have their own security and keeping a US Senator from being attacked, even verbally, used to be a high priority.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at October 05, 2021 08:35 AM (y7DUB)

She was at ASU. So the state of AZ. I think.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, Fuck Joe Biden at October 05, 2021 08:40 AM (cch7k)

427 Prepping during the Obama years, if I recall.
Posted by: Bonnie Blue no longer gives a shit at October 05, 2021 08:38 AM (hlxe7)

They bought lots of ammo as I recall. Also we should probably call it "regulation enforcement" as it's changeable on a whim and nobody went to the trouble of actually passing laws.

Posted by: CN at October 05, 2021 08:40 AM (ONvIw)

428 Man's Law is failing, the Elite are criminals who use the Law to protect themselves from us.

they control everything in this world

they can predict my movements, my activities, they know who my friends and family are, they know everything about me, they think that makes them the controller of my life, that I am theirs to play with as they see fit.

they are wrong

Posted by: Shoey77 at October 05, 2021 08:40 AM (fcWVN)

429 "(f*cking BIOLOGY) teacher got in trouble for being caught on video telling the students that if you don't wear a mask and you're unvaccinated that you'll magically create a new variant that will kill millions of people."

everything they accuse us of, they are doing.

Malone and several other real experts in the field, say mass vaccination into a pandemic will "help" the virus develop resistant variants. (They also say it could make for more dangerous variants).

Natural immunity deals with all variants ... they claimed the vaccine still works on Delta, but they change constantly ... now boosters forever, (useless/harmful) masks forever. BigPharma/Fauci celebrate ... Democracy dies in darkness.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 05, 2021 08:42 AM (Cus5s)

430
they are wrong

Posted by: Shoey77 at October 05, 2021 08:40 AM (fcWVN)

We are not just theirs to play with, as we saw with Ashli, we are theirs to kill.

Posted by: CN at October 05, 2021 08:45 AM (ONvIw)

431 Biden blaming reckless Trump policies for ballooning debt LOL

Posted by: steevy at October 05, 2021 08:48 AM (CYnTg)

432 She was at ASU. So the state of AZ. I think.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, Fuck Joe Biden at October 05, 2021 08:40 AM (cch7k)

Campuses have their own police, usually most adept at giving out parking tickets, and who knows how the fake pandemic has impacted them. Having a US Senator their is a kind of big deal although she might just blow off any concerns.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at October 05, 2021 08:48 AM (y7DUB)

433
We are not just theirs to play with, as we saw with Ashli, we are theirs to kill.
Posted by: CN at October 05, 2021 08:45 AM (ONvIw)

God sees everything they do, I have no other answers

Posted by: Shoey77 at October 05, 2021 08:52 AM (fcWVN)

434 "Productive wages languish while financial wealth soars. The hyperinflation of our currency spells doom for our consumption"

Or if "they" try to fight inflation and raise interest rates, they sink many ships. Bill Gross with Consuelo Mack (old school old people) on Evergrande and inflation.

https://tinyurl.com/majk866u

Posted by: illiniwek at October 05, 2021 08:56 AM (Cus5s)

435 You do know the Irish were sympathetic to the NAZIs. This might explain Biden.

Posted by: Puddin Head at October 05, 2021 08:57 AM (tiR3O)

436 434 "Productive wages languish while financial wealth soars. The hyperinflation of our currency spells doom for our consumption"
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This and the realization that the US is governed by a party at war with itself tells you to BUY MOAR BITCOIN. Oh, and use CoinBase to make Puddin Head happy.

Posted by: Puddin Head at October 05, 2021 08:59 AM (tiR3O)

437 @431

>>Biden blaming reckless Trump policies for ballooning debt LOL.

Not to buoy anything the meat puppet says but the GOP has had control of the purse strings for 20 of the last 28 years so, if the GOP wanted to control spending they could have controlled spending.

Trump's first budget was balanced and Paul Ryan and the usual GOP suspects told him it was DOA.

And then Mr. Regular Order and The GOP chuckleheads proceeded to pass one CR, Omnibus and Cromnibus after another down the countries throats until Mr. Regular Order decided that he'd rather slink off to a FOX News Board Sinecure and snipe from the shadows.

Or alternatively..

The GOP is a useless pile of dogshit.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 05, 2021 09:05 AM (d8rgz)

438 The GOP is a useless pile of dogshit.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 05, 2021 09:05 AM (d8rgz)

absolutely, verifiably true and nothing will change until that changes.

sure, I hate the commie/Dems, who doesn't? but I now hate the grifters, sociopaths and megalomaniacs of the GOP even worse.

Posted by: Shoey77 at October 05, 2021 09:15 AM (fcWVN)

439 I hate to be a language nazi but the plural of aircraft is NOT aircrafts, it is aircraft.

Posted by: Bill R. at October 05, 2021 09:26 AM (wzzJf)

440
I ran the numbers one time. Boomers were not old enough to vote when it was enacted, HOWEVER, they were the first generation to pay into with every pay check they received for half a century or more.

Blaming them for the disaster is like blaming Gorden Lightfoot for the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus, Vaccine and Massage Parlor at October 05, 2021 09:52 AM (dQvv7)

441 JJ
Covid feathsczte now down to only 700 per day as compared to 50 gin homicides per day

("feathsczte" - dude, you have got to stop huffing glue, m'kay? Stick to giving head in the subway toilet - jjs)

Posted by: Kurt at October 05, 2021 10:51 AM (9f7IQ)

442 Julie Kelly is the best reporter in America. She is one of the very, very few, that can even be called reporters. The rest are all Democrat shills

Posted by: BurkeanMama at October 05, 2021 01:17 PM (7PzLn)

443 I would have gone to see the new Clint Eastwood movie. But Eastwood endorsed Bloomberg for President and he is now dead to me. I assume the rest of these "adult" movies are just woke preaching so I never bother to look further.

Posted by: BurkeanMama at October 05, 2021 01:20 PM (7PzLn)

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