The Morning Report

The Morning Report - 12/21/21

Good morning, kids. Tuesday and the dicotyledon formerly known as Joe Biden is evidently going to be propped up in front of the TV cameras a la John Gill with a crystal meth drip to give a speech tonight regarding what his handlers have planned in dealing with the current iteration of the Peking Pulmonary Pox otherwise known as Chinese COVID.

"For the unvaccinated, you're looking at a winter of severe illness and death for yourselves, your families, and the hospitals you may soon overwhelm," White House [Chinese] Coronavirus Response Coordinator Jeff Zients recently attempted to explain. "So, our message to every American is clear. . .

Surrender your lives, your children, your property and your freedom to us or "it gets the hose." "It" of course meaning all of us. The word here, of course, is fear. This Jeff Zients, which I think is supposed to rhyme with "science," is a pathetic milksop of a toady but his words, no doubt coming from the highest echelons of the Klain/Kalorama Klown Komintern, are chilling nonetheless.

This illegitimate junta is sending a message every bit as dangerous as the one that resulted in the torching of scores of American cities in the spring and summer of 2020, and that also caused a van to become self aware and mow down Christmas parade-goers in Waukesha, among other incidents that the media is complicit in weaponizing against us. Yes, gentle reader, if someone gets sick and dies - for whatever cause since this virus that came from China by way of Anthony Fauci and his merry band of Mengele mavens - you killed him by refusing to be vaccinated, wearing a diaper on your face or for the mildest of objections to anything declared as emmes truth by the Left.

This will never end. The more everything this junta does that ends in absolute disaster and catastrophe, the more it will resort to keeping America chained to the radiator in a basement in a desperate bid to hold on to power. Look what happened almost immediately after it became clear that this Build Bolshevism Biggerer poison was torpedoed by Joe Manchin.

The letters, sent to FAA Administrator Steve Dickson and CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, were signed by Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, along with Reps. Eric Swalwell of California, Donald Beyer of Virginia and Richie Torres of New York. The lawmakers cited the recent emergence of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus as justification for the request.
"Travel at our nation's airports has essentially returned to pre-pandemic levels but the risk from [Chinese] COVID-19, including from its new variant Omicron, continues to present a major public health threat," the lawmakers wrote. "Requiring proof of vaccination or a negative test for domestic flights would improve public health and address concerns that passengers have about flying."

Make the rubble that is the American economy bounce? What a great idea! All because of a Chinese-originated virus, like every other respiratory virus since Lucy traipsed the Olduvai Gorge searching for Moonwatcher and his bone, dangerous to only the most vulnerable among us and now with variants that are essentially as deadly as the common cold. The sad, bitter irony is that this insanity is from a truly lethal strain of disease that came straight out of Red China: Feinstein and Swalwell, both of whom have acted as paid agents of fortune for Chi-Coms for years, and in Feinstein's (and her husband's) case, decades.

But fear of course is a two-way street. They want all of us to be afraid because they in fact are deathly afraid of us. Primarily, because we have the power (in theory) to strip them of theirs come the elections. Forget the GOP. They are as useless as tits on a transexual. With the exception of the hardcore dead-ender base, Democrats are joining an ever-growing chorus of "Let's Go Brandon!" and fleeing the party. It's too bad the GOP has neither the ability nor sadly the desire to offer them a real alternative. That of course would be Trump and America first Trumpism.

Psaki-Psircling back, as I stated, any rejection of the globalist plan to dominate the world by destroying America as founded and serving up post-Magna Carta/Scottish Enlightenment/small "r" republican/Judeo-Christian western civilization to a small band of tyrannical "benevolent" dictators is blasphemy. Or, in practical terms, treason. Literally.

Democrats claim that democracy is under attack in America and Democrats must act decisively to protect it. They've been trying to end the filibuster, nationalize voting, and pack the Supreme Court. The most ominous "fix," which hinges on the myth of a "January 6 Insurrection," sees retired generals argue that the military must purge the ranks of Trump supporters and prepare for a military coup to block a future contested election. This is unconstitutional, illegal, and spells the end of American democracy. . .
. . . Three retired officers have signaled that they want to purge the military of Trump supporters, and then plan a takeover of the military and related federal agencies that coordinate with the military to effect a coup in 2024. Considering the current state of the Pentagon, this may be more than a progressive fantasy.
Thirty years ago, when I was a U.S. Army Infantry Officer, our military was unquestionably a politically neutral, colorblind institution. It was the single most well-integrated institution in our nation and, indeed, was the primary engine integrating our nation. But progressives have done everything they can to turn the military into a dysfunctional machine warped by racial, sexual, and gender identity divisions. This began with Obama, who injected the toxic myth of white supremacy and the tenets of critical race theory. . .
. . . Obama also purged the military of any flag rank officer not reliably progressive, a process Andrea Widburg document at her blog and at American Thinker (here and here). Those who remain today are nothing but progressive race hustlers, such as the odious Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, or traitorous politicians in uniform, such as General Mark "white rage" Milley . . .
.Enter now three retired U.S. Army Generals: Major Generals Paul D. Eaton and Antonio M. Taguba and Brigadier General Steven M. Anderson ("the Three"). In a Washington Post opinion piece, "3 retired generals: The military must prepare now for a 2024 insurrection," they contend that events in 2020 revealed an incipient military coup and that, to save our nation, the U.S. military must act preemptively -- radically and unilaterally. What they write should frighten every American.
The Three assert that those unarmed Americans who, on January 6, did nothing more than quite innocently enter Congress, walk around, and then leave voluntarily, were all insurrectionists. They spout this deadly canard although no one arrested has been charged with 18 U.S.C. #8239;2381 (Treason), #8239;2383 (Rebellion or insurrection), 2384 (Seditious conspiracy), or 2385 (Advocating overthrow of Government). The Three stick to their risible narrative because only through lies can they scare people enough to accept their unconstitutional and illegal recommendations that, if accepted, will put the final nail in our national coffin. . .
. . . the Three utter a sentence I never expected to come out of the mouths of our military leadership: "[T]he military cannot wait for elected officials to act...."
That's a stunning statement from anyone who understands our military history and our Constitution. The single most basic rule of our military is that it is wholly and completely under civilian control. So, what would the Three have the military do unilaterally? . . .
. . . The Posse Comitatus Act, 18 U.S. Code 1385, prevents the military from acting as a police force within the U.S. under all but the most limited of circumstances. If the Defense Department is unilaterally planning to take over "any agency that works hand in hand with the military" to ensure progressives remain in power if the next election is contested, then our modern military will have recast itself in the mold of a Third World military junta.

Assuming that Dao-Min Yen will not be a factor in both '22 and '24 - and as we all know, all things considered, that's not guaranteed - more and more people are absolutely disgusted at what they have been through these past 11 months. And there are 36 more to go. If the Dems are indeed wiped out in one or both of these elections, will Vanilli Milley make a move? I cannot imagine the reaction of the public should the Republicans trounce the Dems, regardless of who is at the top of the ticket, and the military rolls out the tanks and arrests the president-elect and the entire GOP. Especially if Trump is the nominee.

Hell, given the fear porn over Omigod Omicron, it's surprising the junta hasn't called out the military yet to force people to get vaccinated. In any case, as the elections get closer and closer and America disintegrates even faster, the potential for these defilers of the uniform to round up the usual suspects - that is, you and me - grows exponentially. Dangerous times.

The End of America: 100 Days That Shook the World available here.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"One child is 'struggling emotionally after being told to pretend to choke and die in a gas chamber.'"
'Traumatized': D.C. Third Graders Say School Forced Them to Reenact Holocaust
"When you consider both what Democrats have done to our military and their legislative plans, you should find the generals' proposal terrifying."
Three Retired Generals Loudly Demand a Military Coup in 2024

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

"They know the real reason."
Manchin Fires Back at the White House After Gloves-Off Statement Criticizes His Opposition to BBB
Someone tell this dim polliwog that if Joey Softserve could've done it, he would have 6 months ago.
Psycho Maoist Jayapal: Biden Should Use Executive Action To Implement "Build Back Better' Agenda
Funny how this is how they react to putatively their fellow Americans while after 9/11 they sought to find out why Muslims hated us so much and sought rapprochement.
Gay Bath House Shower Drain Remnant Bette Midler Apologizes After Attacking West Virginians as "Poor, Illiterate and Strung Out"
"Unfortunately for Schumer, polls show voters are not nearly as upset that the reconciliation bill is stalled as Democrats and their allies in the corporate media are . . . As the debate drags on, fewer voters seem likely to support [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden's signature legislation."
Cuck Schemer's Tough-Guy Act Could Backfire Spectacularly in 2022 and Beyond
"The Biden [junta] as well as congressional progressives need a lesson in basic arithmetic."
Math For Demmies
"We have been granted a reprieve, certainly, but that reprieve seems due more to a proud man's refusal to be bullied, than to a true stateman's courageous and eloquent adherence to principle."
Joe Manchin, Giant-Killer?
"His reasons are simple: 'If I can't go home and explain it to the people of West Virginia, I can't vote for it.' He also cited the madness of spending fresh trillions amid decades-high inflation, skyrocketing national debt and the ongoing pandemic. Cue the Squad whingeing."
The Only "Undemocratic" Thing About Manchin Killing BBB is the Squad's Crying
"Eggers noted that the Biden administration previously nominated Gayle Manchin, Joe Manchin's wife, to a government position relating to the distribution of taxpayer funding ostensibly designated for infrastructure. The position includes a $163,000 salary and authority over funding appropriated in the Build Back Better legislation."
Peter Schweizer: Joe Manchin "Resisted" Many Offers for "Cronyism," "Corruption," "Self-Enrichment" to Be Bought or Rented
CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
"The man, 28-year-old Devlyn Thompson, reportedly pled guilty earlier this year to 'assaulting, resisting or impeding officers while using a dangerous weapon,' according to the Washington, DC District Attorney's office. Following the completion of his 46-month prison term, he will have to serve a three-year period of supervised release." (I will assume there is zero proof and his family is being threatened by Garland, or else he snapped after nearly a year being tortured in that DC jail; prove me wrong - jjs)
January 6 Rioter Sentenced to 46 Months in Prison for Assaulting an Officer
AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
"Travel at our nation's airports has essentially returned to pre-pandemic levels but the risk from [Chinese] COVID-19, including from its new variant Omicron, continues to present a major public health threat. Requiring proof of vaccination or a negative test for domestic flights would improve public health and address concerns that passengers have about flying." (way to completely wreck the economy, guys - jjs)
Democrats Urge Health Officials To Require Vaccination or Negative Test For Domestic Flights
". . . But likely to double down on what hasn't worked."
Tuesday's Biden Chinese COVID Speech -- Desperately Seeking a Pandemic Exit Strategy
"Revelations."
Implantable Microchip Stores Your Chinese COVID Vaccination Status
It's closing your mind and emptying your wallets, all in the name of science, prole.
Fauci Urges Vaccinated Americans to Do More: "It Is More than Just Getting Vaccination"
"Controversial medical bureaucrat faces a growing trust gap among American voters."
I&I/TIPP Poll: 41% Don't Trust Fauci's Opinions on Chinese COVID-19
Someone tell this shriveled, desiccated coprolite to shut up already.
Debbie Stabenow Blames Maskless Republicans For Triple-Vaxxed Chinese COVID-Positive Booker and Warren
Outgoing NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins on Sunday called the Wuhan lab-leak theory a "huge distraction" for the country despite there being "no evidence" to back it.
Collins Goes Bats, Says Wuhan Lab Leak Theory a 'Distraction' as He Leaves NIH
"Joe Biden's vaccine mandate subverts the constitutional design."
Fit for a King
"Unlike [Chinese] COVID variants, authoritarian variants tend to produce stronger, harsher symptoms, not weaker ones."
Authoritarian Variants and Mutations

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"[Chinese] COVID-19 vaccinations have also been heavily linked to cardiovascular issues such as myocarditis, especially in young men. Though a majority of the mainstream news media's reportage has focused on Moderna's mRNA vaccine for [Chinese] COVID-19 and links to myocarditis, Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine has also been linked to the heart condition."
Pfizer is Buying a Cardiovascular Biopharma Company for $6.7 Billion
"Starting Tuesday, Israelis will need a special permit to fly to the U.S., which joins more than 50 other nations on Israel's travel ban list."
"Fifth Wave?" Israel Bans Travel to United States
"The reliance of vaccine advocates on Jacobson as authority for vaccine mandates is misplaced."
The Jacobson Decision: A Weak Precedent for Chinese COVID Vaccine Mandates
"Government failures created [Chinese] COVID and increased its spread and kill. Spin-ops then treated government actions as the solution. Buyer and citizen beware."
Chinese COVID Spin-Ops: Government Failures Buried, Government Actions Hyped
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"During Biden's tenure, his [junta] has probed fossil fuel leases and pipelines. It has rejoined the Paris Climate Accords, along with investigating oil companies for allegedly 'gouging people' at the pump."
Joe Biden Touts Supply Chain Crisis and Costly Gas Prices as 2021 Achievements
"Price inflation isn't the only kind of numerical manipulation in our world, but it may be the most pernicious."
Making It Harder To Size Up Our World
Salena Zito: "A staggering 6.8 percent surge in consumer costs has meant necessities like food and gas have become unaffordable for many, especially middle- and low-income households whose salaries haven't kept up."
How Inflation Is Squeezing Working American Families at Christmas
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Larry Elder: "When the demand for hate crimes exceeds the supply, what to do?"
Why Hasn't Jussie Smollett Been Charged with Perjury?
"While the report said there was no evidence Foxx was involved in the decision-making process because she recused herself, Webb found Foxx and her team committed five instances of abuse, including that Foxx exchanged 17 text messages and had five phone calls with Smollett's younger sister, actress Jurnee Smollett." (please, Kim Foxx is a rabid Maoist and wanted this case to be used as racialist napalm to further inflame the masses to hate America; whether she helped Smollett plan the incident in the first place is the real question - jjs)
Special Prosecutor's Report Found Kim Foxx's Office Mishandled Jussie "Galore" Smollett Case
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Mary Anne Franks, a professor at University of Miami School of Law and author of The Cult of the Constitution: Our Deadly Devotion to Guns and Free Speech, wrote an op-ed in the Boston Globe arguing the Constitution has "competing interpretations" that "inspire religious-like fervor" leading to "irrational results."
Law Professor Rewrites The First, Second Amendment, Which Doesn't Include Free Press or the Right to Bear Arms
"We're taking a look at what is not only best for me and my family in this situation, but also the community as well," he said. "We've been in touch with the Attorney General's office in Indianapolis. Let's just say that Indianapolis is not out of the woods yet.
Indianapolis Administrator Fired After Leaking School District's Social Justice Initiatives
"Students at NYU collectively borrowed $3.4 billion in federal Plus loans in the last decade, more than any other school, according to the WSJ. The university covered only 62% of financial need for its undergraduates, the lowest for any private school with at least a $1 billion endowment." ("School lunch program> Hey, eat fucking tree bark." - Richard Belzer)
One Of Nation's Most Expensive Universities Tells Students To Eat Fewer Meals To Save Money
"A review of all the school racially-based activities makes it very clear that if you are white and your children are attending this school, both you and your children are going to be treated as second-class citizens. You will not be made to feel welcome at most events, and your children might find themselves bullied and abused by the other kids, simply because their skin color is white, and it thus makes them evil as defined by the BLM and critical race theories touted by the school."
Today's Blacklisted American: Denver Elementary School Brings Back Segregation
"They want to tear at the fabric of our society and our culture," he said. "They want to delegitimize the founding of the country and the Constitution."
Desantis 'Stop WOKE Act' Would Ban CRT Indoctrination in Workplace, Making it Civil Rights Violation
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
Robert Spencer: "Governor Greg Abbott of Texas has announced that his state will be building the border wall that Biden's handlers won't build, and on Monday we saw yet again why this wall will come not a moment too soon"
"Potential Terrorist" From Saudi Arabia Caught After Crossing Biden's Open Border
THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH
"The legislation increases the likelihood of a disputed election and should be rejected outright, especially considering the chaos this country endured after the 2020 election."
Democrats Pivot Back To Radical Election Bill That Would Ban Voter ID
"If Senate Republicans continue to abuse the filibuster and prevent the body from considering this bill, the Senate will then consider changes to any rules which prevent us from debating and reaching final conclusion on important legislation,"
Cuck Schemer Vows To Bring Voting Bills, Rules Changes To Senate Floor
"Our election system isn't in peril, but the Democrats need a pretext to change the rules."
The Dangerous "Save Democracy" Movement
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"Campus activism for Palestinian self-determination has never been about statehood."
What Being Pro-Palestinian Really Means
OTHER DEMOCRAT, LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"Watchdog group calls for ethics investigation into USAID chief."
Samantha Power Underreported Investments by Nearly $1 Million Ahead of Senate Confirmation, Complaint Alleges (but Dinesh D'Souza gets thrown in the slammer for something tantamount to a chump-change innocent mistake - jjs)
POLITICS
"Just a year after a record 81 million Americans voted for Joe Biden, they're now being told it didn't work out."
Democrats Prepare To Dump Joe Biden Now That He's Served His Purpose
"The poll found that Republicans are much more enthusiastic about Trump's potential run on the GOP ticket than Democrats are about [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden."
Poll: Trump Dominates 2024 GOP Field with 60% Support
"When asked whether individuals approved or disapproved of Biden's handling of the presidency, 55% of those polled said they disapproved while just 41% said they approved, according to the poll."
Biden's Disapproval Rating Hits New High, Poll Finds
"Let's Go Brandon. Wooooooo! USA! USA! USA!"
Man Interrupts Malig-Nancy Pelosi's Press Conference
Robert Spencer: "The meltdown follows. . . It's also remarkable that Harris characterized being asked a tough question as her interviewer 'talkin' like a Republican.'"
Charlamagne Tha G0d Asks Kamala Who the Real President Is
"Boyle wrote that Murphy holds a patent for women's softball pants that her husband's company manufactures in China while trying to create the image that she is tough on China." (isn't "softball pants" really the story of Joe Biden? - jjs)
Malig-nancy Pelosi's Majority Crumbles: Vulnerable Florida Democrat Stephanie Murphy Will Not Run for Reelection in 2022
"The traveling gets to me."
Long-Time New Jersey Democrat Albio Sires Confirms Retirement Report
Conrad Black: "This is a way station on the rockslide of the Trump-hate myth."
The Gathering Cloud of Political Madness
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"At Rich Lowry's magazine, they're prepared to enter into 'bipartisan' cooperation with Democrats if that's what it takes to upset Donald Trump."
National Review's Surrender Caucus Folds on Elections
"In a city where Liberal Progressives have continually and unjustifiably attacked the characters of conservatives, including myself and my children, by calling us 'Nazis,' White Supremacists' and outright 'racists,' I am certain these students realize that this will almost certainly be scrutinized by the administration at this school which seems to embrace the Marxist views of a substantial amount of the Chicago Teacher's union members."
Chicago Police Sergeant Speaks Out After Department Launches Investigation into Support for TPUSA
"Throughout his essay, he places the blame on Donald Trump and his supporters for the infighting in the Republican Party."
New York Times Gives a Platform to NeverTrumper Matthew Continetti
"Blaming 'Israeli police actions.'"
How a XiNN Headline Reports a Terrorist Attack
ABORTION
"States have enacted 106 abortion restrictions this year."
Pro-Abortion Group Says 2021 Was "Worst Year for Abortion Rights" Since Roe
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"The U.S. and NATO aren't doing anything that might deter Russia's takeover of Ukraine."
Putin Eyes Ukraine
"Biden has stonewalled investigation into why State Department sanctioned Sali Berisha."
Zeldin Accuses State Department of Sanctioning Former Albanian President as Retribution for Loyalty to Republicans
Michael Anton: "The Chinese care about Taiwan infinitely more than we do. Is it wise to threaten, much less launch, a nuclear strike over a territory they see as a vital organ but is peripheral to us?"
Why It's Clearly Not In America's Interest To Go To War Over Taiwan
Dao-Min Yen could've at least made it look close -- like they did here in the US in 2020.
Communists Sweep Sham Hong Kong Election
At their meeting in western Ukraine the three [Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine] called jointly on Russia to withdraw its armed forces from near -- and from within -- Ukraine's borders."
US Ready For Dialogue With Russia, With Conditions; Poland Warns About Putin's "Blackmail"
"Western officials have stated their opposition to Russia's actions and demands, but one thing is clear: the crisis in Ukraine is no longer about Ukraine, if ever it really was."
A New Iron Curtain Descends, Thanks to Joe Biden
Caroline Glick: "The Jewish State stands alone."
The Israeli Generals' Belated Awakening
Michael Walsh: "From high atop the Swiss Alps, neo-Gauleiter Klaus Schwab, his buddies at the WEF (which has just called off its annual meeting in Davos from fear of the Dreaded Covid), Joe Biden and the Democrats, plus tech Karens and Big Brothers everywhere will soon know whether you've been naughty or nice. And so will the rest of the world. Smile!
Merry Christmas from the World Economic Forum!
"The 17 Christian missionaries were kidnapped by the 400 Mawozo gang after visiting a local orphanage in Port-au-Prince on October 16. The group, which was made up of Amish, Mennonite and other conservative Anabaptist communities, included 16 US citizens and one Canadian. Five of those kidnapped were children. Their Canadian driver was also kidnapped."
12 Missionary Hostages in Haiti Made Escape After Receiving Sign From G-d
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Robert Spencer: "There are many other incidents of this kind. And why not? Whenever a currency is created, it is counterfeited. The victimhood currency is the easiest to counterfeit of all the currencies in the world."
'Islamophobic Hate Crime' in Virginia Turns Out to Be Fake
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE, THE COURTS
"Many Democrats and some Republicans had expressed concern about the slow pace of nominations and confirmations, arguing that it has harmed national security." (yes, with 100% cronies and/or commies rammed through, our national security is guaranteed -- to completely crater - jjs)
Ahead Of Holiday, Senate Confirms Dozens Of Biden Nominees
"Can politics fuel a renaissance?"
Chicago At the Breaking Point
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"DEA warning that Mexican drug cartels are flooding US with fentanyl-laced counterfeit pills."
Fentanyl Now Leading Cause of Death in Americans Aged 18-45
"It's just like, what are we focusing on?" the medical physicist told Breitbart News. "Are we focusing on technology and advancements that are gonna help us fight cancer and help treat patients more safely? Or are we focused on, frankly, this political nonsense?"
Cancer Treatment Association Member Blasts Woke "Political Nonsense" Invading Medical World
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"The regulations will be enforced beginning with 2023 car models and will be revised with more stringent standards in 2027, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced. The EPA said the new emissions standards would ultimately quicken the transition from traditional engine vehicles to zero-emission cars."
"Truly Historic": Biden EPA Introduces New Regulations To Force Electric Vehicle Transition
"They're going along with the tax-and-spend climate policy model." Young Conservatives for Carbon Dividends
"It's up to us to ensure progress serves our ends."
Modern Science's Broken Bargain
"Blaming a tornado outbreak on a non-existent pattern of bad weather caused by climate change is intellectually lazy in the extreme."
Tornados, Tragedy, and Ghoulish Politicians
"The cost of lithium has skyrocketed more than 250% over the last 12 months, hitting its highest level ever, according to an industry index from Benchmark Mineral Intelligence. While the cost of manufacturing a lithium-ion battery for an electric vehicle (EV) has fallen sharply over the last decade, the decline has slowed in recent months due to rising lithium costs."
"A Mad Scramble": One Rare Mineral May Spell Doom For Electric Vehicle Market
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
". . . this was the 30th successful launch for SpaceX in 2021, which not only continues to extend its record for the most launches ever in a single year by a private company, it also exceeds the company's prediction of 29 launches for '21."
SpaceX Completes Second Launch in Less Than 16 Hours
"Capitalism in space: In what will likely be the first a a number of similar legal actions, a lawsuit was filed against Virgin Galactic earlier this month accusing the company and a number of upper management individuals of securities fraud."
Class Action Securities Fraud Lawsuit Filed Against Virgin Galactic
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Thad McCotter: "The woke are not merely retconning comic books; they are actively retconning our understanding of our republic and its history."
The Left's Retconned Republic: Revising the Past to Mold the Future
"NASCAR driver Brandon Brown has finally broken his silence about the 'Let's Go Brandon' chant that has swept the nation."
The Real Brandon Speaks: "I'm No Longer Going to Be Silent About Why Millions of Americans Are Chanting My Name"
"In Charlottesville it is not enough to remove the statue of Robert E. Lee. Now it must be melted down."
History as Ideology: Woke Politics and Grievance Retribution
Christian Toto: "The Cancel Culture victim lets the public decide his fate with Sorry special."
Why Louis C.K. Doesn't Deserve Permanent Cancellation
"The 60-year-old filmmaker's comments came in response to criticism over his casting of actor Javier Bardem, who is Spanish, to play Cuban Desi Arnez in the new film, Being the Ricardos."
West Wing Creator Aaron Sorkin Says Woke, Identity-Based Casting is "Mother of All Empty Gestures"

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1 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2021 07:50 AM (yrol0)

2 Hi!

Posted by: Brett at December 21, 2021 07:50 AM (j7zpR)

3 Hello

Posted by: Chance99 at December 21, 2021 07:52 AM (Le3zB)

4 hiya

Posted by: JT at December 21, 2021 07:53 AM (arJlL)

5 "Travel at our nation's airports has essentially returned to pre-pandemic levels..."

This is, of course, completely false. Flights are being cut.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 21, 2021 07:53 AM (njfCw)

6 Thank you, J.J.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at December 21, 2021 07:53 AM (3D/fK)

7 Holy moly. A military coup? Demofascists are crazy.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 21, 2021 07:53 AM (aGF5M)

8 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 21, 2021 07:54 AM (j39Fc)

9 Good morning morons and thanks JJ

I like what Glenn Greenwald said about the White House statement, "both malicious and demented"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 21, 2021 07:55 AM (EZebt)

10 the dicotyledon formerly known as Joe Biden is evidently going to be propped up in front of the TV cameras a la John Gill with a crystal meth drip to give a speech tonight

Goo Brain's gonna be so loaded up on drugs, that -

Hunter's planned to drain some of Joe's blood and inject it into his penis.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 21, 2021 07:55 AM (5NkmN)

11 we keep sayin' "they're not bothering to hide it any more" and then they whip out another tentacle or compound eye to menace us.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (IJMH4) at December 21, 2021 07:55 AM (IJMH4)

12 Holy moly. A military coup? Demofascists are crazy.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 21, 2021 07:53 AM (aGF5M)

Well that is not what those Generals are saying. What they are saying is even worse, that the US Military should be turned against peacefully protesting Americans.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 21, 2021 07:56 AM (GPwVZ)

13 You know a "vaccine" is super efficacious when people start testing positive for the very thing they are allegedly "vaccinated" against.

Just like polio, rubella and small pox.

Or alternatively..

That's not how this works, that's not how any of this works.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 21, 2021 07:56 AM (OupRL)

14 Hell, given the fear porn over Omigod Omicron, it's surprising the junta hasn't called out the military yet to force people to get vaccinated.

If time and desire are all that is required for Kathy Hochul to implement this idea, plus camps, then desire is right there on the record so it merely a matter of time.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 21, 2021 07:57 AM (aGF5M)

15 Midler. Pot. Kettle.

Posted by: klaftern at December 21, 2021 07:57 AM (taPSh)

16 I'm traveling to TX to see the grandkids for Christmas. I sure hope fucking retardo joe doesn't fuck that up and make me have to drive...

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 21, 2021 07:58 AM (fLri9)

17 Dr Wu>Michellle Wu

Posted by: mr tmz at December 21, 2021 07:58 AM (m/Gc2)

18 Two Falcon launches in less than one day, launching for commercial purposes each time. Unreal. So great an achievement.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 21, 2021 07:59 AM (aGF5M)

19 Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 21, 2021 07:59 AM (zCLVB)

20 Democrats Urge Health Officials To Require Vaccination Or Negative Test For Domestic Flights

zeigen Sie uns Ihre Papiere

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2021 08:00 AM (yrol0)

21 I am glad to see the Mexican drug cartels are meeting the demand for fentanyl laced pills for their consumers here in the States.

It shows that even in these challenging times a little hard work and effort can pay off.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 21, 2021 08:00 AM (w9H27)

22 Good morning, JJ.

Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2021 08:00 AM (DU+/6)

23 Hunter's planned to drain some of Joe's blood and inject it into his penis.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 21, 2021 07:55 AM (5NkmN)

I mean, I've never been one to denigrate another family's Christmas traditions, but....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 21, 2021 08:01 AM (6FeV1)

24 They don't mean to give up power, no man of integrity does.

More and more, the tiller of the nation points toward a techno-fascist state-- the most modern methods of control Silicon Valley can muster to enforce their nightmare ideas discredited for hundreds of years.

Posted by: Lrrr at December 21, 2021 08:01 AM (jIL4c)

25 Well that is not what those Generals are saying. What they are saying is even worse, that the US Military should be turned against peacefully protesting Americans.
Posted by: Nevergiveup

At that point, their children and grandchildren become legitimate targets.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 21, 2021 08:01 AM (zCLVB)

26 zeigen Sie uns Ihre Papiere
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2021 08:00 AM (yrol0)

"Ausweiss", bitte.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 21, 2021 08:01 AM (6FeV1)

27 Memba how I said the Dems were going to push for interstate travel restrictions for the unvaccinated?

It's on the way. They are currently trying to get the FAA to require vaccination for all domestic flights.

Posted by: blaster at December 21, 2021 08:02 AM (m96l3)

28 If you look now compared to what we were a year ago, its extraordinarily much different in the positive sense. We now have multiple, multiple at home tests available, when we virtually had none a year ago. But we do need to do better, he said, expressing the need to flood the system with testing.

OK I test positive! What do I do next?

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2021 08:02 AM (yrol0)

29 Three retired officers have signaled that they want to purge the military of Trump supporters, and then plan a takeover of the military and related federal agencies that coordinate with the military to effect a coup in 2024. Considering the current state of the Pentagon, this may be more than a progressive fantasy.
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Of those, *only* the military is in question, and that question is increasingly less open as time goes on. I believe the rumors that the military told the president they wouldn't help with the riots, and would not activate if called upon and that is a reason for the lack of response. I have no trouble believing that, and that is troubling.

But the military is the only organization that I am not yet 100% certain is aligned against the interests of the country. The other federal agencies are absolutely already on board with a scheme like this, at least philosophically if not materially.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2021 08:03 AM (DU+/6)

30 What the hell is wrong with people? Re-enact the Holocaust? Is it warmup for the real thing?

Posted by: f'd at December 21, 2021 08:03 AM (Tnijr)

31 Also, apparently, the Omicron variant has displaced the delta variant to become the dominant variant in the US according to BioMedical Catel/Junta.

So, there's that:

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 21, 2021 08:03 AM (OupRL)

32 Good morning horde
Read 3 articles on last story about 3rd graders, NewNeo has picture of the "teacher ", she has a history of bad behavior.

Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 21, 2021 08:04 AM (weRhk)

33 Happy Holy-days and a safe winter.

Posted by: Marooned at December 21, 2021 08:04 AM (w6hJ9)

34 It's on the way. They are currently trying to get the FAA to require vaccination for all domestic flights.

Posted by: blaster at December 21, 2021 08:02 AM (m96l3)

Won't be able to enforce that so readily on privately chartered flights.

Airline's gotta survive this mess just like us, it's all I'm saying.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 21, 2021 08:04 AM (6FeV1)

35 You know the Holocaust reenactment thing is legit because the teacher who did it told the kids not to tell their parents about it.

That's the sign of true education right there!

Posted by: blaster at December 21, 2021 08:05 AM (m96l3)

36 I aint getting on no train and I aint takin no vax and me and my friends aint neither. Aint gonna do it.

Posted by: f'd at December 21, 2021 08:05 AM (Tnijr)

37 OK I test positive! What do I do next?
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2021 08:02 AM (yrol0)
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Eat chicken soup and consume large volumes of fluids. If you end up on death's door, go to the hospital . There, they might give you an inadequate dose of monoclonal antibodies that were administered too late anyway. If you worsen, they'll stick you on a vent and wait for you to die before collecting their COVID rebates.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2021 08:05 AM (DU+/6)

38 aint gonna use no 'postrophy neither.

Posted by: f'd at December 21, 2021 08:06 AM (Tnijr)

39 The FAA restrictions will just be the start. They will have checkpoints at state borders.

Watch.

Posted by: blaster at December 21, 2021 08:06 AM (m96l3)

40 You know the Holocaust reenactment thing is legit because the teacher who did it told the kids not to tell their parents about it.

That's the sign of true education right there!
Posted by: blaster at December 21, 2021 08:05 AM (m96l3)
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If anyone tells a kid to specifically *not* tell their parents about something, that kid should *immediately* tell his parents about it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2021 08:06 AM (DU+/6)

41 The Israeli government has issued a travel ban to the United States due to concerns over the omicron variant.

Starting Tuesday, Israelis will need a special permit to fly to the U.S., which joins more than 50 other nations on Israels travel ban list.

The Jews SS Drottningholm themselves.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2021 08:06 AM (yrol0)

42 Aw heck

Posted by: f'd at December 21, 2021 08:07 AM (Tnijr)

43 It's no surprise that, having been unable to win a single war in over 70 years-- even against the most primitive rock-hut dwellers-- the military is all fired up and raring to get on with killing innocent, unarmed Americans.

They cravev those adoring headlines from the New York Times almost as much as Congressional Republicans.

Posted by: Lrrr at December 21, 2021 08:07 AM (jIL4c)

44 If anyone tells a kid to specifically *not* tell their parents about something, that kid should *immediately* tell his parents about it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2021 08:06 AM (DU+/6)

But they said not to tell!

Posted by: blaster at December 21, 2021 08:07 AM (m96l3)

45 The other federal agencies are absolutely already on board with a scheme like this, at least philosophically if not materially.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2021 08:03 AM (DU+/6)

Why d'ya think every Department and Bureau has it's own battalion of MRAPs now?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 21, 2021 08:07 AM (6FeV1)

46 The FAA restrictions will just be the start. They will have checkpoints at state borders.

Watch.
Posted by: blaster at December 21, 2021 08:06 AM (m96l3)
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I think they'd like to. Internal passporting is strictly illegal, but we are also post-law. The real problem is practical. There are a *lot* of border crossings and none of them are controlled.

Of course, it might be easier to just ignore the borders and pull anyone with a foreign plate over.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2021 08:07 AM (DU+/6)

47 The "Military" is still Pro America and American Values. The Higher ups in the Pentagon and the Civilian Military leadership not so much. And they are gunning for conservatives in the Military. "Diversity Officers" are very much, if. not exactly, like the political Officers in the Soviet Military

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 21, 2021 08:08 AM (GPwVZ)

48 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 21, 2021 08:08 AM (Zz0t1)

49 We're screwed......

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 21, 2021 08:08 AM (Zz0t1)

50 What the heck happened to last night's powerball?

They don't have numbers?

How am I supposed to pick up my $363M?

Posted by: blaster at December 21, 2021 08:08 AM (m96l3)

51 Hell, the last two years showed it'll be a race between the military and the local police on who gets to bash in the most middle-aged skulls for daring to question their rulers.

Posted by: Lrrr at December 21, 2021 08:08 AM (jIL4c)

52 But they said not to tell!
Posted by: blaster at December 21, 2021 08:07 AM (m96l3)
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Right, which is why that point needs to be pounded into kids. "If anyone tells you something that they tell you to *not* tell me, you absolutely must tell me immediately. There will be no recriminations or punishments."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2021 08:09 AM (DU+/6)

53 Happy Tuesday, one and all! I shall be basking in the joy of a shortened work week.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 21, 2021 08:09 AM (4olE8)

54 You have to wonder what else they told the kids not to tell about.

Posted by: f'd at December 21, 2021 08:10 AM (Tnijr)

55 I think they'd like to. Internal passporting is strictly illegal, but we are also post-law. The real problem is practical. There are a *lot* of border crossings and none of them are controlled.

Of course, it might be easier to just ignore the borders and pull anyone with a foreign plate over.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2021 08:07 AM (DU+/6)

They don't have to get every border crossing.

Just have a checkpoint at each Interstate crossing a state line. Not all that many of those. Imagine the backups.

Posted by: blaster at December 21, 2021 08:10 AM (m96l3)

56 How many followers did Trump lose with his pushing the vaccine? I'm soured......

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 21, 2021 08:10 AM (Zz0t1)

57 The airline CEOs testify that masks are unnecessary in flight because there is so much filtration and air exchange on aircraft.

The progressive response is to ramp up the hysteria and double down by demanding vaccine passports and negative tests.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 21, 2021 08:11 AM (ITZWU)

58 They don't have numbers?

How am I supposed to pick up my $363M?
Posted by: blaster at December 21, 2021 08:08 AM (m96l3)

It means the Winning Numbers is the null set. Everyone who didn't buy a ticket wins and gets to split the jackpot.

I demand my $0.0063 in lump sum. They ain't fleecin' me with taxes. I ain't no dummy.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 21, 2021 08:12 AM (6FeV1)

59 You willowed me, you bastards!!

305 230 Wishing you and yours
A winter of death and despair
Merry Christmas
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Who'd have thunk that this was a Christmas song of our times.

https://youtu.be/ZAAKPJEq1Ew
Posted by: Puddleglum

Posted by: Puddleglum at December 21, 2021 08:12 AM (sAmhv)

60 ""Diversity Officers" are very much, if. not exactly, like the political Officers in the Soviet Military"

The spelling.

Spellings different.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at December 21, 2021 08:12 AM (3D/fK)

61 53 Happy Tuesday, one and all! I shall be basking in the joy of a shortened work week.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 21, 2021 08:09 AM (4olE

I thought this said baking, and I was like "yup, doing that too b/c thumbprint cookies are gone, so now it's peanut butter cookies with allergy free chocolate chips today"...batch #6 for Christmas cookies, and I still have none left for Christmas...

And with my Polish guest staying longer (thanks Lufthansa and Germany), I now have to figure out how to make Kompat for Christmas (and with no rhubarb)...I'm thinking cranberries take the role...

Posted by: Nova local at December 21, 2021 08:12 AM (exHjb)

62 How am I supposed to pick up my $363M?
Posted by: blaster at December 21, 2021 08:08 AM (m96l3)
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With a truck. $363M jackpot, of which half will be taken for taxes. That leaves you with about 181.5 million. That's 1.815 million $100 bills. Each bill weighs about a gram. That is 1.815 million grams, which is about 4,000 pounds. An F-250 would be a decent choice.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2021 08:12 AM (DU+/6)

63 Pelosi disavowed the Brandon comment. She also disavowed the USA chant. Miserable ghoulish cunt.

Posted by: Eli Cash at December 21, 2021 08:12 AM (zNl8d)

64 One Of Nation's Most Expensive Universities Tells Students To Eat Fewer Meals To Save Money

And do not laugh or drink for 11 days in honor of Obamas annual Hawaii vacation.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2021 08:12 AM (yrol0)

65 You have to scan your implanted vaccine chip before your car will start.

We aren't forcing anyone to get an implanted vaccine chip. It is just a basic safety measure to ensure our roads are safe.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 21, 2021 08:13 AM (ITZWU)

66 Glenn Greenwald retweeted someone named Shant Mesrobian who makes this, I think, true point: It's pretty obvious at this point, that "The President" is just a chaotic collection of out-of-touch White House staffers who take their cues from Twitter, a few podcasts and Vox dot com.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 21, 2021 08:13 AM (ATwMM)

67 Just have a checkpoint at each Interstate crossing a state line. Not all that many of those. Imagine the backups.
Posted by: blaster at December 21, 2021 08:10 AM (m96l3)
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Which will in turn encourage the use of uncontrolled crossings on state and county highways. A 4-hour backup or a 3-hour detour? Easy math.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2021 08:13 AM (DU+/6)

68 The airline CEOs testify that masks are unnecessary in flight because there is so much filtration and air exchange on aircraft.

The progressive response is to ramp up the hysteria and double down by demanding vaccine passports and negative tests.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 21, 2021 08:11 AM (ITZWU)

The Southwest CEO then said, after being strong armed by the unions, masks should remain required on all flights.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 21, 2021 08:14 AM (Zz0t1)

69 "Diversity Officers" are very much, if. not exactly, like the political Officers in the Soviet Military

The spelling.
Spellings different.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at December 21, 2021 08:12 AM (3D/fK)
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I have long said that the Russian term for "HR Employee" is "Commissar."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2021 08:14 AM (DU+/6)

70 ""Diversity Officers" are very much, if. not exactly, like the political Officers in the Soviet Military"

The spelling.

Spellings different.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at December 21, 2021 08:12 AM (3D/fK)

It's getting bad sigh. Your son ever say anything?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 21, 2021 08:14 AM (GPwVZ)

71 "who take their cues from Twitter, a few podcasts and Vox dot com."

* Ahem*

Posted by: Magic 8-Ball at December 21, 2021 08:15 AM (3D/fK)

72 68 The Southwest CEO then said, after being strong armed by the unions, masks should remain required on all flights.

Balls of Jello. He went down like Kumala on a first date.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 21, 2021 08:15 AM (njfCw)

73 I'd like to see them try to block the State borders. A little more chaos would be good.

Posted by: f'd at December 21, 2021 08:15 AM (Tnijr)

74 Almost 2 years into this and it's just getting worse everyday. I'm so damn sick of these jerkoffs constantly lying to our face, running around screaming like their hair is on fire. The mildest variant has produced one death that I know of. One. It's like a having a really bad flu season. It needs to end.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at December 21, 2021 08:15 AM (nxdel)

75 [T]he military cannot wait for elected officials to act....

How many more of the Right's favorite institutions - like the military and police - will have to turn on them, before the Right stops insisting on building and maintaining big, powerful institutions ? For a group that dismisses the premises of the Left as incompatible with basic human nature - they don't seem to understand much about human nature.

Posted by: Mr. Obvious at December 21, 2021 08:15 AM (Wux4A)

76 I'm surprised that the teacher was having them act out the Holocaust and not life for the slaves on a plantation.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 21, 2021 08:16 AM (j268e)

77 "It's getting bad sigh. Your son ever say anything? "

All the time.

He is fortunate to have a better than most junior Sailor understanding of the politics of the military.

And a good grasp on when to speak, and when to just .....not speak.

Posted by: Magic 8-Ball at December 21, 2021 08:17 AM (3D/fK)

78 The mildest variant has produced one death that I know of. One. It's like a having a really bad flu season. It needs to end.
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at December 21, 2021 08:15 AM (nxdel)

We have 60,000 deaths in a bad flu season.

One death is a happenstance.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 21, 2021 08:17 AM (Zz0t1)

79 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 21, 2021 08:16 AM (j268e)

I'm sure the teacher has done that already.

Posted by: dantesed at December 21, 2021 08:17 AM (88xKn)

80 I have long said that the Russian term for "HR Employee" is "Commissar."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2021 08:14 AM (DU+/6)

I'd love to dissect the corroding influence that the psychology of treating Humans as a "resource" has had on business practices and ethics over the years.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 21, 2021 08:18 AM (6FeV1)

81 Be off me, you spherical random answer generator sock.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at December 21, 2021 08:18 AM (3D/fK)

82 I'm surprised that the teacher was having them act out the Holocaust and not life for the slaves on a plantation.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 21, 2021 08:16 AM (j268e)

And if I am not mistaken the principal or vice principal is Jewish

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 21, 2021 08:18 AM (GPwVZ)

83 32# Don't let the name fool you on woman

Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 21, 2021 08:18 AM (weRhk)

84 Next week, the 3rd Graders are enacting the Stalinist Purges.

Guess who the "good guys" are?

Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 21, 2021 08:18 AM (njfCw)

85 61
I thought this said baking, and I was like "yup, doing that too b/c thumbprint cookies are gone, so now it's peanut butter cookies with allergy free chocolate chips today"...batch #6 for Christmas cookies, and I still have none left for Christmas...

Posted by: Nova local at December 21, 2021 08:12 AM (exHjb)

My wife is very fond of baking and I have seen near war break out in my office when I bring pesto bread. Good luck finding good Kompot recipe. It sounds rather interesting.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 21, 2021 08:18 AM (4olE8)

86 out out stray tag

Posted by: NR Pax at December 21, 2021 08:19 AM (4olE8)

87 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at December 21, 2021 08:12 AM (3D/fK)

I am so glad my kids are no longer in the military. I hope all is well with your Airedale.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 21, 2021 08:19 AM (fLri9)

88 It's like a having a really bad flu season. It needs to end.
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at December 21, 2021 08:15 AM (nxdel)

Buh...buh muh hawspital bedz....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 21, 2021 08:19 AM (6FeV1)

89 News from Florida this morning.

Stephanie Murphy announced she will not seek reelection. Florida 7 will flip from Dem to GOP.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at December 21, 2021 08:20 AM (tc0ln)

90 What the hell is wrong with people? Re-enact the Holocaust? Is it warmup for the real thing?
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12 years ago, we "elected" a man whose mentor dreamed of killing up to 25% of Americans.
Even Pol Pot, their dear hero, only managed something like 10-12%.
The lifelong friend and master of Obama sees the murder of 78 million Americans as merely "breaking a few eggs."
That dream inflames the party from top to bottom more today than ever.

Posted by: Lrrr at December 21, 2021 08:21 AM (jIL4c)

91 The Holocaust re-enactment is troubling for a couple of reasons. First, the kids are *way* too young to be able to contextualize something like that. When I was in junior high, my school did an Ellis Island re-enactment along those lines. It was hard enough to contextualize even for a junior high school kid, and that's not a particularly difficult topic.

What is the purpose of re-enacting the Holocaust instead of just studying it, assuming the lesson is age-appropriate? I could think of some reasons. It's all in the framing. "This is what happened. Men like *you* pulled the trigger. Understand that. Guard against that. Never let yourself be convinced to participate in mass evil. Be wary of the warning signs of mass psychosis. You and you alone stand between the next Hitler and the next mass grave."

But I doubt the framing was anything like that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2021 08:21 AM (DU+/6)

92 The worst part of getting to the short part of the short work week, is getting through this first part. Half the office off, severely short staffed. Yesterday was a gauntlet and today and tomorrow are going to be worse.

(On top of the normal year end use-it-or-lose-it and holiday time off, "I got the booster and now I'm sick" is the new "my car won't start.")

Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 21, 2021 08:22 AM (njfCw)

93 89 News from Florida this morning.

Stephanie Murphy announced she will not seek reelection. Florida 7 will flip from Dem to GOP.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at December 21, 2021 08:20 AM (tc0ln)

==========

23 House Democrat retirements and its not even 2022 yet.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 21, 2021 08:22 AM (LvTSG)

94 HR ended the core of my ex-employer. Made it impossible to hire actual electronical techs and any kind of enginerd.

Posted by: klaftern at December 21, 2021 08:22 AM (taPSh)

95 Hallmark can have a whole line of FJB holiday greeting cards.

Oh!
When the weather outside is frightful
The fires of Hell burn brightful
For the unvaccinated
Happy Holidays!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 21, 2021 08:23 AM (ITZWU)

96 23 House Democrat retirements and its not even 2022 yet.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 21, 2021 08:22 AM (LvTSG)

Just the words "Speaker McCarthy" send a tingle up my leg!

Posted by: blaster at December 21, 2021 08:23 AM (m96l3)

97
Run Run Kulak
Go and get that jab right now
Biden says to hurry
Go get two or three in town
Run Run Kulak
Or you might not be around

Posted by: Stalin Claus at December 21, 2021 08:24 AM (Tnijr)

98 Another surprise is that WaPo, being the newspaper of record for the Demofascist elites, decided to even publish a call for a military assault on peaceful civilians and military government.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 21, 2021 08:24 AM (aGF5M)

99 12 years ago, we "elected" a man whose mentor dreamed of killing up to 25% of Americans.
Even Pol Pot, their dear hero, only managed something like 10-12%.
The lifelong friend and master of Obama sees the murder of 78 million Americans as merely "breaking a few eggs."
That dream inflames the party from top to bottom more today than ever.
Posted by: Lrrr at December 21, 2021 08:21 AM (jIL4c)
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Pol Pot might have gotten a quarter of Cambodians. No one really knows. But the intent is clear. If you're a monster where people argue over whether you were successful on your own terms because you only killed 15% of your population instead of 25% before some foreign wrecker went and ruined your party, then your evil is manifest and clear. Your intent puts you in the highest echelon of human monsters. Bill Ayers is certainly there right along with the likes of Pol Pot and Mao and Stalin and HItler.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2021 08:24 AM (DU+/6)

100 To all the valued music-consuming commenters here, Feliz Navidad!

Posted by: Jose Feliciano at December 21, 2021 08:24 AM (a3Q+t)

101 But I doubt the framing was anything like that.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2021 08:21 AM (DU+/6)

Children can be ghastly little creatures. More than a few of them probably internalized the lesson: "If shit goes sideways, make sure you're the one cracking skulls if you want to survive".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 21, 2021 08:24 AM (6FeV1)

102 Regarding the IN administrator who got fired for releasing presentations:

The very instant you hear "You can't record and you can't bring a lawyer," you do both and dare them to fight you.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 21, 2021 08:24 AM (4olE8)

103 12 years ago, we "elected" a man whose mentor dreamed of killing up to 25% of Americans.

The most fervent on the Left continues to state, plainly and openly, their most extreme desires. And for whatever reason, the most moderate on the Right continue to plead "don't listen - they don't mean it".

I'm pretty sure its not just idle talk on their part.

Posted by: Mr. Obvious at December 21, 2021 08:25 AM (Wux4A)

104 But fear of course is a two-way street. They want all of us to be afraid because they in fact are deathly afraid of us.

--

I hate to go against the grain, but I have to here. I don't believe they're deathly afraid of us. All they care about is angling, deceit, cheating and fomenting enough hatred to win, by any means necessary. They aren't focused on us as a threat. They're focused on militantly defeating us, and using every conniving trick, every lie, every usurping of the Constitution they can wrangle to get to the end goal. They're only goal is to overtake us, and with us, the Constitutional limits placed on them. They aren't afraid in the sense that I want them to be.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 21, 2021 08:25 AM (sVtYq)

105 Children can be ghastly little creatures. More than a few of them probably internalized the lesson: "If shit goes sideways, make sure you're the one cracking skulls if you want to survive".
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 21, 2021 08:24 AM (6FeV1)
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Yet another reason that, even if the framing was sound and the purpose non-awful (I am sure neither of those is true), elementary school is way too damn young to even think of trying to teach a lesson like that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2021 08:25 AM (DU+/6)

106 Fentanyl Now Leading Cause of Death in Americans Aged 18-45

I remember when young people died from the good stuff, alcohol, car wrecks, and workplace violence.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2021 08:26 AM (yrol0)

107 The teacher that made that kid reenact being gassed should be boiled in oil until their skin falls off. And never, ever be allowed to teach children again...in any setting, in any district. What a foul, sorry excuse of a human being. Pure scum.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 21, 2021 08:27 AM (sVtYq)

108 lol.. reading about Tom Brady's temper tantrum the other day. This is why I can't stand that jerk. He cannot lose with grace. Fucking crybaby.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at December 21, 2021 08:27 AM (nxdel)

109 How Inflation Is Squeezing Working American Families at Christmas
____

This is so true, though it could be much worse for a lot of us.

Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at December 21, 2021 08:28 AM (Tzr2/)

110 When the weather outside is frightful
The fires of Hell burn brightful
For the unvaccinated
Happy Holidays!
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 21, 2021 08:23 AM (ITZWU)

For the Holiday season, I send you best wishes,
Just wishing that you don't sleep with the fishes
Because you didn't get your fourteenth booster.

Love,

Mom

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 21, 2021 08:28 AM (6FeV1)

111 As you gather around for your family feast
Remember that Omicron is a beast
And Holodomor is a feature
Thats a fact.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 21, 2021 08:28 AM (ITZWU)

112 I pretty much knew they'd try to institute a travel ban on the unvaccinated. It won't just be "voluntary" by airlines either. I am surprised they didn't do it before the Christmas travel season... but I presume there's still time to halt the unvaxed from traveling regardless of tickets held.

Overland travel restrictions are next. Expect checkpoints along major interstate and national highways, especially at state borders.

International travel won't be affected. The border will remain open. But Americans won't be permitted to leave their home state.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2021 08:29 AM (BFigT)

113 morning horde. running behind today. thankfully it's a home office day so i can easily play catchup. not like there's a lot happening though

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at December 21, 2021 08:29 AM (8D42x)

114 Mele Kalikimaka, Hau'oli Makahiki Hou e Jewells. : )

Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at December 21, 2021 08:29 AM (Tzr2/)

115 New York Times Gives Platform to NeverTrumper Matthew (In)Continetti.

These people keep unmasking themselves. Probably Trump's greatest gift to conservatives is exposing all these people for the grifters they are.

Recall that his first gift to Republicans was taking all the heat while forcing Obama to release his long-form birth certificate. They never really returned the favor. Idiots.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 21, 2021 08:29 AM (mdjgu)

116 To all the valued music-consuming commenters here, Feliz Navidad!
Posted by: Jose Feliciano at December 21, 2021 08:24 AM (a3Q+t)

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Eka.bj ARG/.JBB/R/B.Jbrgjb/RJB/

Posted by: George Shearing at December 21, 2021 08:29 AM (flINI)

117 With apologies to The Bard:

Now is the winter of our death and despair
Made inglorious by this son of a Biden
And all the corpses from unvaxxed households
In the deep bosom of the earth buried.

Now are our faces bound with ridiculous sheaths
Our jabbed arms hung up for booster shots
Our stern Karens harangue with verbal beatings
Their dreadful mandates to destructive measures.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 21, 2021 08:29 AM (njfCw)

118 A 4-hour backup or a 3-hour detour? Easy math.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2021 08:13 AM

A three-hour cruise immortalized us on this Smart Military Blog.

Posted by: Ginger and Mary Ann at December 21, 2021 08:30 AM (a3Q+t)

119 Posted by: Lady in Black at December 21, 2021 08:27 AM (sVtYq)

The teacher will probably get suspended temporally with full pay.

Posted by: dantesed at December 21, 2021 08:30 AM (88xKn)

120 In a normal world, or in years past, it would be like, Hey, theres a new report on CT quality assurance for this type of cancer and how to protect pediatric patients from too much radiation. But now, theyre listing out recently formed task groups that say,

Hey, we formed a task group for sexual and gender minority physicists.

So a few kids die for equity, whats the problem??

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2021 08:30 AM (yrol0)

121 >>International travel won't be affected. The border will remain open. But Americans won't be permitted to leave their home state.

Do you think at some point someone might remind them there is an election next year?

Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2021 08:30 AM (ZLI7S)

122 International travel won't be affected. The border will remain open. But Americans won't be permitted to leave their home state.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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St Louis, MO relies on many, many people who live in IL.

Will be interesting to see how that will work out.

Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at December 21, 2021 08:30 AM (Tzr2/)

123 LiB - I think they are afraid of waking us up. Think about the many times leftist groups like Code Pink have stormed Congress only to be applauded. But some grannies walk in and take a few pics and they're all cowering in the corners? (my BFF told me she'd been terrified the whole time waiting to start hearing explosions here in TX. I did not tell her she was crazy but I looked it) I think they know they're poking the bear.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at December 21, 2021 08:31 AM (8548M)

124 "23 House Democrat retirements and its not even 2022 yet."

And the GOP will see it as an obvious rejection of both the left and Trumpism. Meaning McConnell and McCarthy will go right back as being the controlled opposition.

Posted by: lowandslow at December 21, 2021 08:32 AM (4thlk)

125
A three-hour cruise immortalized us on this Smart Military Blog.
Posted by: Ginger and Mary Ann at December 21, 2021 08:30 AM (a3Q+t)

That, and your lovely bunch of coconuts.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 21, 2021 08:32 AM (6FeV1)

126 23 Democrats have announced they are not running for reelection.

They'll never beat Ryan's record of conning 40 to retire by perpetuating the collision lie.

And no way any but the most enemy agent will match his feat of getting most of them to retire _after_ the primary announcement deadlines had passed--leaving only the Dem challenge to the field

Posted by: Lrrr at December 21, 2021 08:32 AM (jIL4c)

127 124 And the GOP will see it as an obvious rejection of both the left and Trumpism. Meaning McConnell and McCarthy will go right back as being the controlled opposition.
Posted by: lowandslow at December 21, 2021 08:32 AM (4thlk)

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We'll see how raucous the Freshmen Republicans are. I don't think McCarthy has the same killer instinct that Boehner had in keeping the Tea Party Caucus to the sidelines.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 21, 2021 08:33 AM (LvTSG)

128 Boycott the Airlines... drive them into the ground!!!

Posted by: qmark at December 21, 2021 08:33 AM (nGOuT)

129
"For the unvaccinated, you're looking at a winter of severe illness and death for yourselves, your families, and the hospitals you may soon overwhelm," White House [Chinese] Coronavirus Response Coordinator Jeff Zients recently attempted to explain.

Nice sentiment, you elitist prick.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 21, 2021 08:33 AM (jmIQu)

130 I'm waiting for New York City to build walls to keep the evil COVID out, especially those unvaccinated folks.
Of Course, this will eventually be use for the next remake of "Escape From New York".

Posted by: SMOD at December 21, 2021 08:33 AM (RHGPo)

131 lol.. reading about Tom Brady's temper tantrum the other day. This is why I can't stand that jerk. He cannot lose with grace. Fucking crybaby.
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at December 21, 2021 08:27 AM (nxdel)
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I don't know about the incident, but it is typical behavior. He is unquestionably the best quarterback who has ever played the game (and I say that as a former Denver Broncos fan), yet he and his coach still cheated regardless. He didn't need to. He likely gained next to nothing from it. He just wanted to.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2021 08:33 AM (DU+/6)

132 Last night, we saw the "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" Christmas special from Season 6, Episode 13.

It's hilarious. Awful people have an awful Christmas.

And it's even literary! There's a clear(and funny) call back to the Edogawa Rampo short story "The Human Chair".

So, you can laugh and be all sophisticated and such with your literary pontifications at the same time.

Streaming on Hulu.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 21, 2021 08:33 AM (5NkmN)

133 What the hell is wrong with people? Re-enact the Holocaust? Is it warmup for the real thing?

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You know what's extra ironic about this? We now live in an age where actual history is airbrushed out. We can't talk about it. We can't show things like Nazi symbolism and the like for fear of some nebulous offense to some nebulous group who aren't adult enough to handle historical events. And here we have this "teacher" reenacting actual gassing of Jews, and telling their students "Jews ruined Christmas." Every parent in that teacher's classroom of students should have stormed the front office demanding that pathetic teacher be fired.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 21, 2021 08:33 AM (sVtYq)

134 There is something wonderful and heartwarming about that Haiti story. Interesting too that our government was utterly incompetent at freeing them.

Posted by: Corona-exile lost in spaces at December 21, 2021 08:33 AM (bRG/3)

135 The standards are the most ambitious rules of their kind ever put into place, the EPA said. They are projected to cut car emissions by 3 billion tons over the next three decades, the equivalent of half the carbon dioxide emitted in the U.S. per year.

UNPOSSIBLE

About 40% of oil goes for gas. About 40% of gas is used for automobile transportation.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2021 08:34 AM (yrol0)

136 Matthew Continetti? Isn't he Bill Kristol's SIL?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 21, 2021 08:34 AM (aGF5M)

137 Do you think at some point someone might remind them there is an election next year?

Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2021 08:30 AM (ZLI7S)

Do you think anyone in the IC or the DoJ gives two shits about elections? I don't, and it's sure looking like that's who's running this op.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 21, 2021 08:34 AM (fLri9)

138 Do you think at some point someone might remind them there is an election next year?

If we get to highway checkpoints - there won't be an election in any meaningful form.

Posted by: Mr. Obvious at December 21, 2021 08:34 AM (Wux4A)

139 "For the unvaccinated, you're looking at a winter of severe illness and death for yourselves, your families, and the hospitals you may soon overwhelm,"

**

It's Christmas.

Shouldn't we already be dying and dead instead of not even having 20,000 "also tested positive for COVID" deaths nationwide over the last two weeks?

As another moron pointed out, this is cowpox. The fact that they're making this statement instead of celebrating the natural and predictable evolution into something that everyone can catch, possibly get some sniffles (if that), and then develop robust natural immunity to the other COVIDs tells you everything you need to know.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Did you know the kids vaccine formula wasn't tested at all? at December 21, 2021 08:34 AM (GBJJh)

140 our modern military will have recast itself in the mold of a Third World military junta.

So? What's the big deal?

Posted by: our modern military at December 21, 2021 08:35 AM (xo4jO)

141 47 The "Military" is still Pro America and American Values. The Higher ups in the Pentagon and the Civilian Military leadership not so much. And they are gunning for conservatives in the Military. "Diversity Officers" are very much, if. not exactly, like the political Officers in the Soviet Military
Posted by: Nevergiveup

The Pentagon is just another tentacle inside the Federal Leviathan. So no, not really the military.

Posted by: Puddleglum at December 21, 2021 08:35 AM (sAmhv)

142 The standards are the most ambitious rules of their kind ever put into place, the EPA said. They are projected to cut car emissions by 3 billion tons over the next three decades, the equivalent of half the carbon dioxide emitted in the U.S. per year.

UNPOSSIBLE

About 40% of oil goes for gas. About 40% of gas is used for automobile transportation.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2021 08:34 AM (yrol0)
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Today. But they're also planning on simultaneous emissions reductions by continuing their open war on electricity production and industry. Today's motor vehicle emissions may well be half of the emissions they're projecting in 2050 (assuming motor vehicle emissions remain constant) because there won't be many power plants or factories left...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2021 08:36 AM (DU+/6)

143 Speaking of crazy people. At my extended family Exmas, my lunatic cousin who spent 2020 in complete lockdown where no one was allowed to leave her house and everything was delivered and sanitized when it arrived (spoiler: she got covid, after having had the shots) mused out loud that perhaps locking down hadn't been the best choice. NO SHIT SHERLOCK. But it's too late for your 4yo kid with severe mental issues and language delay who didn't get treatment for OVER A FUCKING YEAR, you negligent bitch. (I didn't say that)

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at December 21, 2021 08:36 AM (8548M)

144 He is unquestionably the best quarterback who has ever played the game

Absolutely, which makes his behavior even more boorish. Show some class for Heavens sake.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at December 21, 2021 08:36 AM (nxdel)

145 Omicron Virus, Omicron Virus
How lovely are thy spikes!

Omicron Virus, Omicron Virus
How lovely are thy spikes!

Posted by: SMOD at December 21, 2021 08:37 AM (RHGPo)

146 15 Midler. Pot. Kettle.
____________

I've always loathed that cow, and her nasty remarks just confirm my low opinion of her.

Imagine Midler saying something similar about inner-city blacks: "Lawrence [congresswoman for Detroit] just wants the rest of us to be like her constituents: stupid, illiterate, drug-dealing pimps and 'hos!"

Of course, we all know Midler and her fellow lefties would never disrespect blacks that way. But poor whites can be mocked and ridiculed and disparaged with impunity.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2021 08:37 AM (k4dH2)

147 I stopped bothering to hate on Brady long ago, and as a fan of an AFC East opponent (for most of his career)- I was born and bred to hate him.

But at some point I had to say, the guy has played at the highest level for far longer than most mortals. He's won and won and won. He's done amazing things. You simply do not have the career he's had because of some stolen signals or a few deflated footballs. I realized I sounded like a whiny baby parroting that stuff, so I stopped.

C'est la vie. He's the GOAT or close to it. I'm over it. As he gets further and further above the age of 29, I kind of root for him now.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 21, 2021 08:37 AM (njfCw)

148 Manchin rebuffed attempts to be purchased or rented by political supporters of the Build Back Better bill, Schweizer stated.

The most surprising thing yet, about the BBB/Manchin to-do.

My guess was he would cave once he was offered enough.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 21, 2021 08:37 AM (aGF5M)

149 "For the unvaccinated, you're looking at a winter of severe illness and death for yourselves, your families, and the hospitals you may soon overwhelm," White House [Chinese] Coronavirus Response Coordinator Jeff Zients recently attempted to explain.

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And when that doesn't happen, will you do us all a favor, put a gun to your head and pull the trigger?

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 21, 2021 08:37 AM (sVtYq)

150 "Today's motor vehicle emissions may well be half of the emissions they're projecting in 2050 "

At the rate we are going there will be more emmisions from burning dung than anything else.

Posted by: Joe Biteum at December 21, 2021 08:38 AM (Tnijr)

151 I'm waiting for New York City to build walls to keep the evil COVID out, especially those unvaccinated folks.
Of Course, this will eventually be use for the next remake of "Escape From New York".
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lol

Think I'd actually watch that remake.

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His birth at December 21, 2021 08:38 AM (Tzr2/)

152 I am surprised and appalled, though probably should not be, by the absolute political thralldom to the vaccine. It appears that no deviation from presumptive support for the idea of the vaccines is possible. The best republicans can do is add the milquetoast caveat of "personal choice" -- but always after "I encourage getting it," or "I've gotten it."

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 21, 2021 08:38 AM (H8QX8)

153 >>Do you think anyone in the IC or the DoJ gives two shits about elections? I don't, and it's sure looking like that's who's running this op.

23 Democrats in the House so far seem to think so. And more will be "retiring" to spend more time with their families.

I heard they were going to steal the VA governors race. That didn't happen. They almost got smoked in NJ as well.

There was a prefect storm of convergence in 2020 and they could not have accomplished what they did without mass mail in voting. They will always cheat, have since Tammany Hall, but I don't think they can cheat the way they did in 2020 again.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2021 08:38 AM (ZLI7S)

154 Strategic geniuses they'd be to set up checkpoints at major state crossings.

Go ahead. Spread your butter out over three million square miles of bread for no other reason than to flex.

Fucking idiots. I bet they'd actually try it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 21, 2021 08:39 AM (6FeV1)

155 143 Speaking of crazy people. At my extended family Exmas, my lunatic cousin who spent 2020 in complete lockdown where no one was allowed to leave her house and everything was delivered and sanitized when it arrived (spoiler: she got covid, after having had the shots) mused out loud that perhaps locking down hadn't been the best choice. NO SHIT SHERLOCK. But it's too late for your 4yo kid with severe mental issues and language delay who didn't get treatment for OVER A FUCKING YEAR, you negligent bitch. (I didn't say that)
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at December 21, 2021 08:36 AM (8548M)

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"Do you still think that I'm a monster for refusing to lockdown? If you do not consider me a monster anymore on that matter, are there other political matters where the establishment of the Democratic Party insisted something was true that you are willing to question now?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 21, 2021 08:39 AM (LvTSG)

156 I am surprised and appalled, though probably should not be, by the absolute political thralldom to the vaccine. It appears that no deviation from presumptive support for the idea of the vaccines is possible. The best republicans can do is add the milquetoast caveat of "personal choice" -- but always after "I encourage getting it," or "I've gotten it."
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 21, 2021 08:38 AM (H8QX

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It's monomania, and its common in government. Government latches onto an answer and then pursues it to the exclusion of everything else - and that's just the normal behavior of a nominally honest state. Add in all the perverse incentives, the press control, the diabolical evil of various powerful men and the other various corrupt facets, and it becomes even easier to understand.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2021 08:40 AM (DU+/6)

157 Posted by: Mrs. Peel at December 21, 2021 08:36 AM (8548M)

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OMG, what is wrong with people!! 2020 has shown me some very scary insights into just how ignorant, ridiculous, uncritical and outright bananas people are (or have become). Absolutely no critical thinking or doing one's own research (which is right at their fingertips if they bothered to look). All I can do is shake my head.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 21, 2021 08:40 AM (sVtYq)

158 I actually don't know O Tannenbaum in English. I mean, I can translate it, but I don't know the right words for the English version of the song. How do you sing "You are green not only in summertime, no, also in winter when it snows"?

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at December 21, 2021 08:40 AM (8548M)

159 And when that doesn't happen, will you do us all a favor, put a gun to your head and pull the trigger?
Posted by: Lady in Black

The stories are already written. They are just waiting for the personal anecdotes of the young father who died on christmas day because he was unjabbed.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 21, 2021 08:40 AM (ITZWU)

160 > Do you think at some point someone might remind them there is an election next year?

I don't think they care. Even if they're successful in locking people down for only a few weeks, or months, they'll have made their point. The GOP isn't doing anything about the overreach now. Why would next year be any different? They don't need a majority to bitch about things.

Lastly, I'm not onboard with the so-called "red wave" amounting to much of anything. They had their chance with Trump's first 2 years and squandered it on petty infighting and impeachment.

Until this administration, all of it, is ousted they can pretty much do what they please.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2021 08:41 AM (BFigT)

161 hahaha, go read the official EPA documentation regarding the rule change, especially the section on comments.

"Comments from organizations representing environmental, public health, and consumer
groups as well as comments from many states and local governments generally state that in this
rulemaking EPA should address public health, climate change, and social equity in a robust
manner."

Everyone wants this, citizen!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Did you know the kids vaccine formula wasn't tested at all? at December 21, 2021 08:41 AM (GBJJh)

162 98 Another surprise is that WaPo, being the newspaper of record for the Demofascist elites, decided to even publish a call for a military assault on peaceful civilians and military government.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 21, 2021 08:24 AM (aGF5M)

They aren't afraid of us. I am thinking they should be. But they aren't.

Posted by: blaster at December 21, 2021 08:41 AM (m96l3)

163 OMG, what is wrong with people!! 2020 has shown me some very scary insights into just how ignorant, ridiculous, uncritical and outright bananas people are (or have become). Absolutely no critical thinking or doing one's own research (which is right at their fingertips if they bothered to look). All I can do is shake my head.
Posted by: Lady in Black
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Yeah, I find myself shaking my head a lot.

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His birth at December 21, 2021 08:41 AM (Tzr2/)

164 link to EPA, comments on page 8

https://tinyurl.com/4xrcndm2

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Did you know the kids vaccine formula wasn't tested at all? at December 21, 2021 08:41 AM (GBJJh)

165 "For the unvaccinated, you're looking at a winter of severe illness and death for yourselves, your families, and the hospitals you may soon overwhelm," White House [Chinese] Coronavirus Response Coordinator Jeff Zients recently attempted to explain.

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And when that doesn't happen, will you do us all a favor, put a gun to your head and pull the trigger?
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 21, 2021 08:37 AM (sVtYq)

Mama, life had just begun
Now I've gone and thrown it all away
Mama! Oooohooheehooh. - Jeff Zients

Posted by: Count de Monet, PureBlood. Biden Say I Did The Wrong Thing And Must Be Suitably Punished at December 21, 2021 08:42 AM (4I/2K)

166 148 Manchin rebuffed attempts to be purchased or rented by political supporters of the Build Back Better bill, Schweizer stated.
The most surprising thing yet, about the BBB/Manchin to-do.
My guess was he would cave once he was offered enough.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 21, 2021 08:37 AM (aGF5M)

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He's the scapegoat for a bill that Schumer couldn't pass. Manchin represents a state that Trump won by almost 40% in 2020. If there are any plans for him to seek re-election, he can't do that while supporting something like BBB. He has to be THE moderate.

He was cover for people like Kelly, Warnock, and Masto who couldn't expect to survive their general elections in 2022 if they voted for it. The whole affair makes Schumer look like an idiot (which he is), but that's really the only damage to the Democratic Party in the Senate.

Manchin comes out a hero to the people of WV, and the other three can say whatever they want about their support or lack thereof to whatever audience they're in front of at any time to help their reelection chances.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 21, 2021 08:42 AM (LvTSG)

167 Every day I thank God I retired from the Army when I did.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 21, 2021 08:42 AM (ITZWU)

168 Do you think at some point someone might remind them there is an election next year?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2021 08:30 AM (ZLI7S)

Name the politician who has been rebuked at the ballot box for COVID hysteria.

Posted by: blaster at December 21, 2021 08:43 AM (m96l3)

169 Yeah, I find myself shaking my head a lot.
Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His birth at December 21, 2021 08:41 AM (Tzr2/)

Ha!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 21, 2021 08:43 AM (6FeV1)

170 ... "Comments from organizations representing environmental, public health, and consumer groups as well as comments from many states and local governments generally state that in this rulemaking EPA should address public health, climate change, and social equity in a robust manner." ....
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Did you know the kids vaccine formula wasn't tested at all? at December 21, 2021 08:41 AM (GBJJh)
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Huh. I don't see "citizens" in that list, nor do I see "industry" or even "labor." Just their pet crowd.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2021 08:43 AM (DU+/6)

171 We still have Obamacare. We'll still have the EPA ban on gasoline vehicles. We'll still have whatever gun ban the ATF passes next month.

Vote harder.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Did you know the kids vaccine formula wasn't tested at all? at December 21, 2021 08:43 AM (GBJJh)

172 29
But the military is the only organization that I am not yet 100% certain is aligned against the interests of the country.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2021 08:03 AM (DU+/6)
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Go ahead and be 100% certain that they would be aligned against us. The officers certainly are. As far as enlisted, some questions need to be asked. What percentage of them are children of illegals (anchor babies), and will gladly follow orders to go after those who want to enforce border security? What percentage of them come from broken homes or from homes where they never even knew a father figure, and will reflexively take orders from those officers, who are probably the only authority figures they've ever known? What percentage of them have been dumbed down by "public education" to the point that they are essentially a blank slate, and indoctrinated with "the state is always right" propaganda since early childhood? What percentage of them joined simply to push a gay/trans agenda?

Answer to all these questions: high. Very high.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at December 21, 2021 08:44 AM (lNHqD)

173 My wife is very fond of baking and I have seen near war break out in my office when I bring pesto bread. Good luck finding good Kompot recipe. It sounds rather interesting.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 21, 2021 08:18 AM (4olE

Yeah, I already had to share that fresh rhubarb doesn't seem to be a US product, so we're gonna try a cranberry sub. Thanksfully, my HMart has most of the other fruits.

I figure the poor kid should have something from his Xmas here, since he's stuck...and Kompat plus our normal cinnamon rolls seems like a great Xmas morning combo.

Posted by: Nova local at December 21, 2021 08:44 AM (exHjb)

174 They will always cheat, have since Tammany Hall, but I don't think they can cheat the way they did in 2020 again.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2021 08:38 AM (ZLI7S)
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Philadelphia County election judges will prove the exception to this. What they did in 2020 is what they have usually done and they will always do.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 21, 2021 08:44 AM (aGF5M)

175 Good morning, kids....

As I approach 29 asymptotically, let me tell you that ibuprofen is your friend.

Now, let's see what fresh hell jjs et al has cooked up for us.

RIP Tami; it's hard to believe the hole she has left here. I'm sure her family and friends agree.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 21, 2021 08:44 AM (F0YaR)

176 What threat of force will Biden's puppet masters decree today, I wonder?

Posted by: Eisenhorn at December 21, 2021 08:45 AM (fCVVw)

177 As I said yesterday, there are two factions fighting in the Dem party.
One, that wants to minimize the 2022 bloodbath by getting back to regular issues. And the other, that sees Covid fear (and eliminating election laws), as their only chance.

The response from the left to Molester in Chief's speech will tell us who's winning

Posted by: Lrrr at December 21, 2021 08:45 AM (jIL4c)

178 I just saw this in the sidebar of twitter - A plan forms in Mexico: Help Americans get abortions.

Some days I think the smiting is coming.

Posted by: blaster at December 21, 2021 08:45 AM (m96l3)

179 Why It's Clearly Not In America's Interest To Go To War Over Taiwan
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I know it's a footnote, and I remain a fan of Anton's, but this is the 2nd article I've seen where he falsely says the last carrier we lost was USS Yorktown, at Midway. No. It was her sister, USS Hornet, at Santa Cruz. Five and a half months later.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 21, 2021 08:45 AM (7X3UV)

180 (raises cup of coffee to Tami)

News of her passing made me sad. She could've easily had her own place that I'd visited alongside ace's with the links she posted here.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Did you know the kids vaccine formula wasn't tested at all? at December 21, 2021 08:46 AM (GBJJh)

181 And we still have the EPA refusing to allow coal-fired electric gen plants to come online in an emergency to save people from freezing to death (over 200!) in a Texas Freeze Blackout. I'd sure like to take a shit in their hallway, for starters.

Posted by: Count de Monet, PureBlood. Biden Say I Did The Wrong Thing And Must Be Suitably Punished at December 21, 2021 08:46 AM (4I/2K)

182 I am surprised and appalled, though probably should not be, by the absolute political thralldom to the vaccine.

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This applies to all political persuasions, which is quite jarring. My own aunt and uncle, both very conservative, both very anti-Biden, very anti-Clinton, very anti-Obama, just got their boosters, after having had the initial 2-shot series earlier in '20. My uncle doesn't understand why anyone would be against the vaccines. He's older, so that probably plays into it on two fronts: his own risk, and that he grew up at a time where vaccines were vaccines and that's what he knows them to be. These being no different than the others. They aren't the only ones by any stretch. I know loads of conservatives who unquestioningly lined up for their shots.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 21, 2021 08:46 AM (sVtYq)

183 174 They will always cheat, have since Tammany Hall, but I don't think they can cheat the way they did in 2020 again.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2021 08:38 AM (ZLI7S)
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Philadelphia County election judges will prove the exception to this. What they did in 2020 is what they have usually done and they will always do.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 21, 2021 08:44 AM (aGF5M)

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Philly will just do as it always does. Doesn't mean that MI or GA will do what they did in 2020. In fact, the cheating ceiling in PA was lowered by the PA legislature repealing all of Wolf's emergency powers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 21, 2021 08:46 AM (LvTSG)

184
Of course, we all know Midler and her fellow lefties would never disrespect blacks that way. But poor whites can be mocked and ridiculed and disparaged with impunity.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2021 08:37 AM (k4dH2)

That piece of shit watched "The Wonderful Whites of West Virginia" or whatever it was called and thinks that's the entire fucking state, Midwest and south lands.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 21, 2021 08:46 AM (Zz0t1)

185 C'est la vie. He's the GOAT or close to it. I'm over it. As he gets further and further above the age of 29, I kind of root for him now.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 21, 2021 08:37 AM (njfCw)

The more Brady accomplishes the more it makes Belichick look not the GOAT who was a mediocre, at best, head coach of the Browns who caught lightning in a bottle with Brady as the 200th player drafted. I'll concede he's a much better head coach now than then, but that he won't talk about his experience with the Browns diminishes him imo.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at December 21, 2021 08:47 AM (y7DUB)

186 Although I will say, and I say it sincerely, that if the Democrats nuke the filibuster and Republicans somehow miraculously manage to get back in control at some point, I 100% expect the Republicans to replace the filibuster before removing any of the damage the Democrats had done.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Did you know the kids vaccine formula wasn't tested at all? at December 21, 2021 08:47 AM (GBJJh)

187 Golfer and Trump supporter, John Daly and his son were on F&F this morning as they were the winners at the PNC championship against Tiger Woods and his son.
He looks exactly like Santa Claus now.

https://tinyurl.com/3n2zhk2u

Posted by: redridinghood at December 21, 2021 08:47 AM (NpAcC)

188 Philly will just do as it always does. Doesn't mean that MI or GA will do what they did in 2020. In fact, the cheating ceiling in PA was lowered by the PA legislature repealing all of Wolf's emergency powers.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 21, 2021 08:46 AM (LvTSG)

Something something whistling, something something graveyard.

But, hey, that's where the voters are!

Posted by: blaster at December 21, 2021 08:48 AM (m96l3)

189 A three-hour cruise immortalized us on this Smart Military Blog.
Posted by: Ginger and Mary Ann at December 21, 2021 08:30 AM (a3Q+t)

That, and your lovely bunch of coconuts.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Once, on the Gong Show, a well endowed woman sang "I've got a lovely bunch of Coconuts" holding her hands beneath her breasts when she said coconuts.
And Jaye P. Morgan gonged her.

Coconut envy is a terrible thing.

Posted by: JT at December 21, 2021 08:48 AM (arJlL)

190 >>Until this administration, all of it, is ousted they can pretty much do what they please.

Well not including the biggest reason Brandon was installed, Build Back Better. I agree we aren't going to get anything on our agenda until we take the WH back with Trump or someone like him but we might stop the bleeding.

I really don't think it's sunk how big a defeat that was for the international socialists who have been trying to change the country forever. It wasn't just the spending, that was ruinous for the economy, but things like nationalizing elections which would have pretty much cemented and Democrat majority forever.

That was a crushing defeat that not only gave us a reprieve but is going to cause a lot of infighting in the Democrat party between the communists and what's left of establishment Democrats.

I'm pretty happy watching Democrats running around screaming and stabbing each other in the back at the moment.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2021 08:48 AM (ZLI7S)

191 What happens to all the gas guzzling cars when electric cars are mandated. Landfills galore.

Posted by: Ziba at December 21, 2021 08:48 AM (S1hrL)

192 Go ahead and be 100% certain that they would be aligned against us. The officers certainly are.

That is catagorically false

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 21, 2021 08:49 AM (GPwVZ)

193 ... I know loads of conservatives who unquestioningly lined up for their shots.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 21, 2021 08:46 AM (sVtYq)
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Which is fine. If you want the shot, get it. I think there is enough data to be very troubled, but that's my assessment. Others have their assessments. Or they make no assessment and just go for it. Fine.

It's the compulsion that's unconscionable.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2021 08:49 AM (DU+/6)

194 ...Forget the GOP. They are as useless as tits on a transexual.

Milk duds? I *used* to like those.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 21, 2021 08:49 AM (F0YaR)

195 JackStraw -
I don't think the IC and the DoJ care who retires, or what party they're from. The current regime is nothing but a mask. People like Garland, Wray and Burns act with impunity. It's those guys who seem to call the shots.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 21, 2021 08:49 AM (fLri9)

196 bill belichick looks like a damned vagrant and should be ejected for his appearance alone

Posted by: zombie tom landry at December 21, 2021 08:49 AM (QU5/8)

197 I wonder what Melakon will put on the teleprompter today.

Posted by: MichiCanuck at December 21, 2021 08:49 AM (t5tp6)

198 It's the compulsion that's unconscionable.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

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Summed up nicely, thanks.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Did you know the kids vaccine formula wasn't tested at all? at December 21, 2021 08:49 AM (GBJJh)

199 Unrelated to anything posted. I just liked it. Jack Russell terrier races to beat his owner coming down a snowy hill on a sled. You can give it a political caption if you want:

https://tinyurl.com/yjhbv3kj

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 21, 2021 08:49 AM (j268e)

200 RIP Tami; it's hard to believe the hole she has left here. I'm sure her family and friends agree.
Posted by: GnuBreed at December 21, 2021 08:44 AM (F0YaR)
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RIP Tami. I miss her sense of humor and great comments. Sorry she is gone.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 21, 2021 08:50 AM (aGF5M)

201 The Real Truth About the Shepherds on That First Christmas Night

https://tinyurl.com/2ubuxedu

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His birth at December 21, 2021 08:50 AM (Tzr2/)

202 I'm pretty happy watching Democrats running around screaming and stabbing each other in the back at the moment.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2021 08:48 AM (ZLI7S)

I'm more of a fan of front stabbing myself.

Posted by: blaster at December 21, 2021 08:50 AM (m96l3)

203 The 4 stages of Santa Claus:
1. You believe in Santa Claus
2. You don't believe in Santa Claus
3. You are Santa Claus
4. You look like Santa Claus

Posted by: redridinghood at December 21, 2021 08:50 AM (NpAcC)

204 Hey Fen!

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His birth at December 21, 2021 08:50 AM (Tzr2/)

205 I got the vaccine. I also got covid.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 21, 2021 08:50 AM (aGF5M)

206 "...dicotyledon formerly known as Joe Biden..."

Whew! Not us!

Posted by: Monocots at December 21, 2021 08:51 AM (Rbu5d)

207 Fascinating discussion on the Brit podcast Triggernometry with historian Giles Udy on his book on the Russian gulags and the relationship between Russia and the British Left.

He wonders aloud about how such unspeakable cruelty could come about, how a people could allow it to happen and tolerate it for so long; this resonates today in chilling ways. Stalin criminalized private property ownership and sent almost 2 million small land-holding peasants to Siberia. Marx said if you could distill Communism down to one single idea it would be to end private property. If you don't realize that right now the American Left is working on this same project, you're not paying attention.

https://tinyurl.com/3wwwbkv2

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 21, 2021 08:52 AM (H8QX8)

208 It's the compulsion that's unconscionable.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2021 08:49 AM (DU+/6)

Yup. Make the vaccine available. Shut up while people take it. Suppress any bad news about it. Virus eventually attenuates away regardless of what you did. Claim victory. Slam dunk victory.

But no, they don't want political victory. They want revolution. They want not just regime change, but complete and total political and societal upheaval.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 21, 2021 08:52 AM (6FeV1)

209 bill belichick looks like a damned vagrant and should be ejected for his appearance alone
Posted by: zombie tom landry at December 21, 2021 08:49 AM (QU5/

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He has a reason for that, and I don't mind it. In his old stuff, he wore a suit on the sideline. He took after basketball coaches in that respect. Then the NFL mandated that coaches all wear team gear. He objected. They insisted.

So he complied to the letter but not the spirit. He buys something like one outfit at the start of each year and wears the same one all year as it decays and starts to look like shit. It's vindictive compliance if I understand it correctly, and that I can get behind.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2021 08:52 AM (DU+/6)

210 The Real Truth About the Shepherds on That First Christmas Night

https://tinyurl.com/2ubuxedu
Posted by: SMH

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Thank you for that. I'm printing out a copy for my Sunday school class.

The animal sacrifice element is really neat.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Did you know the kids vaccine formula wasn't tested at all? at December 21, 2021 08:52 AM (GBJJh)

211 192 Go ahead and be 100% certain that they would be aligned against us. The officers certainly are.

That is catagorically false

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 21, 2021 08:49 AM (GPwVZ)
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Pretty good chance that, before too long, we'll get to see which of us is actually right. I really hope it's you, but I'm afraid it's me.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at December 21, 2021 08:52 AM (lNHqD)

212 Although I will say, and I say it sincerely, that if the Democrats nuke the filibuster and Republicans somehow miraculously manage to get back in control at some point, I 100% expect the Republicans to replace the filibuster before removing any of the damage the Democrats had done.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Did you know the kids vaccine formula wasn't tested at all? at December 21, 2021 08:47 AM

Why? mcconnel actually nuked the changes reid made even further for SCOTUS Judges.

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at December 21, 2021 08:53 AM (bVYXr)

213 Refusing offers of up to $50,000 to buy the statue, local legislators voted to give the statue to a museum to be melted down and turned into something to

reflect racial justice and inclusion.

But is will always be the Robert E Lee statue. Melting it and reforming into a new statue will not change a thing.

It is just as easy to beat plowshares into swords as beating swords into plowshares.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2021 08:53 AM (yrol0)

214 The 4 stages of Santa Claus:
1. You believe in Santa Claus
2. You don't believe in Santa Claus
3. You are Santa Claus
4. You look like Santa Claus
Posted by: redridinghood
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I love this, thank you.

Hubby is at stage 4. Seeing little kids eyes light up at the supermarket is so fun to watch, especially when he's wearing his red hoodie.

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His birth at December 21, 2021 08:53 AM (Tzr2/)

215 "Well, we are working together closely," Stabenow agreed, adding, "People on my side of the aisle are uniformly wearing masks, unfortunately, people on the Republican side, the majority are not, which is also frustrating

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So, she's acknowledging that six feet of social distancing doesn't prevent spread of the disease?

Here's the thing. Politicians and the news media have very little capability for understanding gradients of anything. Everything has to be couched in binary terms. If you are over 65 years old you are at high risk, but if you are 64 years, 363 days, your hunky dory. If you are six feet apart you're safe, if you are 5'9" apart, Katy bar the door. If your BP is 136.86 you're gonna die, but if it's 134/84 you'll live to 100! Examples are plentiful.

This overly simplistic black and white view of how health risks actually work is fatally flawed and incredibly divisive, when used as a political bludgeon.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 21, 2021 08:53 AM (m45I2)

216 A Man's Life:
1. You believe in Santa
2. You don't believe in Santa
3. You are Santa
4. You look like Santa

I am moving from Stage 3 to Stage 4. Got that round belly what shakes like a bowl full of jelly thing going. Hair is not white yet, though.

Posted by: Count de Monet, PureBlood. Biden Says I Did The Wrong Thing And Must Be Suitably Punished at December 21, 2021 08:53 AM (4I/2K)

217 your -> you're

Posted by: Muldoon at December 21, 2021 08:54 AM (m45I2)

218 Tami passed away? Good grief, I didn't know that. Prayers to her family.

Posted by: dantesed at December 21, 2021 08:54 AM (88xKn)

219 The animal sacrifice element is really neat.
Posted by: Moron Robbie
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That is so amazing and definitely helps explain why the angel appeared to the shepherds first to proclaim the good news of His birth.

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His birth at December 21, 2021 08:54 AM (Tzr2/)

220 Those 3 generals....wow! Buckle up people.

Posted by: observer at December 21, 2021 08:54 AM (7I1kG)

221 Why? mcconnel actually nuked the changes reid made even further for SCOTUS Judges.
Posted by: Mister Scot

**

They don't want that responsibility. They want to be the team playing the Harlem Globetrotters, not the Globetrotters themselves.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Did you know the kids vaccine formula wasn't tested at all? at December 21, 2021 08:55 AM (GBJJh)

222 RIP Tami; it's hard to believe the hole she has left here. I'm sure her family and friends agree.
Posted by: GnuBreed at December 21, 2021 08:44 AM (F0YaR)
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RIP Tami. I miss her sense of humor and great comments. Sorry she is gone.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 21, 2021 08:50 AM (aGF5M)
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Definitely. I thought about her all day yesterday and how one day you're on this earth and you never know if this is your last day.

I wish we still had access to the comments in the archives because I would have loved to have reread her comments before 11/29.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 21, 2021 08:56 AM (NpAcC)

223 Wait... Santa isn't actually real? Bullshit. A joke is a joke, but that's just going too far, i should say.

Posted by: Warai-otoko is still at step 1 at December 21, 2021 08:57 AM (6FeV1)

224 I wish we still had access to the comments in the archives because I would have loved to have reread her comments before 11/29.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 21, 2021 08:56 AM (NpAcC)

Me too.

Posted by: grammie winger at December 21, 2021 08:57 AM (45fpk)

225 ... Everything has to be couched in binary terms. If you are over 65 years old you are at high risk, but if you are 64 years, 363 days, your hunky dory. If you are six feet apart you're safe, if you are 5'9" apart, Katy bar the door. If your BP is 136.86 you're gonna die, but if it's 134/84 you'll live to 100! Examples are plentiful. ...
Posted by: Muldoon at December 21, 2021 08:53 AM (m45I2)
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It has to be this way to scale. Absolute rules based on averages and then enforce whatever it is. If you stop to think about it or add granularity or context, you can't do it. Your structures won't scale and everything falls apart. It's low-resolution and unsophisticated and doesn't work well, but it is the only method that can work at all at government scale. Government simply cannot do better because systems at scale cannot accommodate specifics. Breadth precludes depth.

Which is one of many, many reasons that government should be minimized to the point that it *can* handle exceptions. An example of this is homicide. There's that whole category of "justifiable homicide" like self defense. The system has to be narrow enough to handle exceptions individually.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2021 08:57 AM (DU+/6)

226 bill belichick looks like a damned vagrant and should be ejected for his appearance alone
Posted by: zombie tom landry at December 21, 2021 08:49 AM (QU5/
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He has a reason for that, and I don't mind it. In his old stuff, he wore a suit on the sideline. He took after basketball coaches in that respect. Then the NFL mandated that coaches all wear team gear. He objected. They insisted.

If you can find him in a suit on the sidelines post a link for it because I only remember him dressing like a bum. I do admire how he jobs the Goodell type stuffed shirts at every opportunity, like previously listing Brady as "questionable" in the injury reports every week to fuck with the bookies.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at December 21, 2021 08:58 AM (y7DUB)

227 Hey! Good news! One of the "Three Generals" is not a graduate of West Point!

Posted by: blaster at December 21, 2021 08:58 AM (m96l3)

228 223 Wait... Santa isn't actually real? Bullshit. A joke is a joke, but that's just going too far, i should say.
Posted by: Warai-otoko is still at step 1 at December 21, 2021 08:57 AM (6FeV1)

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Junior figured it out at six. I made Dolley agree to not lie to him about Santa fucking Claus of all things, so when he started asking questions she admitted that he wasn't real.

I'd much rather have a seven year old that doesn't believe in Santa than a 13 year old that does.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 21, 2021 08:58 AM (LvTSG)

229 "We have been granted a reprieve, certainly, but that reprieve seems due more to a proud man's refusal to be bullied, than to a true stateman's courageous and eloquent adherence to principle."

I'll take the proud man's help, certainly.

Posted by: Flyover at December 21, 2021 08:59 AM (Rbu5d)

230 The Real Truth About the Shepherds on That First Christmas Night

https://tinyurl.com/2ubuxedu

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Thank you for that, SMH.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 21, 2021 08:59 AM (sVtYq)

231 I think the GOP wins big in 2022, like everyone seems to believe. But, like most here, I fully expect the gains will be squandered on the most meaningless political shows they can think of.

It may not even matter, since the set-in-stone administrative state Philip Hamburger warned us about, and the swamp plus the Propaganda Press, combined together to overthrow the Trump attempts to save America and will again if Republicans look threatening. The Roberts-led judiciary will assist whomever looks like they are in charge.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 21, 2021 08:59 AM (aGF5M)

232 I know loads of conservatives who unquestioningly lined up for their shots.

I'm a contractor. We were told flat out that we would not be allowed on client sites if we didn't get the holy shot. I got it because frankly, I have a wife and a mortgage to worry about and my dogs haven't evolved to where they can shop for their food.

But that's the end. I did my part, I got the shot, I don't need boosters. If they try forcing that, I will look into exemptions until they get tired of dealing with me.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 21, 2021 08:59 AM (4olE8)

233 I'll never forget the day I felt a dicotyledon growing expodentially bigger inside my pineal gland. Now it occupies my whole cranium! I bet you MAGA losers can't top that!

Posted by: Joe "Castor Bean" Biden at December 21, 2021 08:59 AM (AMIL/)

234 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THE HORDE MAKE MOSLEM-GOAT JOKES ALL THE TIME.

Posted by: Ben Roethlisberger at December 21, 2021 08:59 AM (UHVv4)

235 Hey! Good news! One of the "Three Generals" is not a graduate of West Point!
Posted by: blaster at December 21, 2021 08:58 AM (m96l3)

"Xing Jiang National Military Academy"....

Sunuvabitch.

Posted by: Warai-otoko is still at step 1 at December 21, 2021 08:59 AM (6FeV1)

236 223 Wait... Santa isn't actually real? Bullshit. A joke is a joke, but that's just going too far, i should say.
Posted by: Warai-otoko is still at step 1 at December 21, 2021 08:57 AM (6FeV1)

Exactly - all my kids know St Nick was and is a real person, and his continued direct influence is why we buy the gifts...if mom and dad didn't believe in St Nick, there wouldn't be gifts under the tree...

Now, that said, we always talked about the fat old guys in red suits being stand ins, and not the real thing, so my kids never got confused on that issue...they believed the St directly brought the gifts til informed that he takes a more supporting role

...

Posted by: Nova local at December 21, 2021 09:00 AM (exHjb)

237 Mmm. Hamburger.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 21, 2021 09:00 AM (UHVv4)

238 > I'm pretty happy watching Democrats running around screaming and stabbing each other in the back at the moment.

Me too. And I agree the defeat of BBB was a pretty big blow to the ultra left/socialist/communist bloc of the Democrat party. Which is most of them.

I'd like to get a readout on which D senators were not in favor... other than the two publicly mentioned. They're probably the only partially sane Democrats left in the party.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2021 09:01 AM (BFigT)

239 You're welcome, Lady in Black. : )

The story of His birth is even more miraculous than I ever imagined.

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His birth at December 21, 2021 09:01 AM (Tzr2/)

240 231 I think the GOP wins big in 2022, like everyone seems to believe. But, like most here, I fully expect the gains will be squandered on the most meaningless political shows they can think of.

It may not even matter, since the set-in-stone administrative state Philip Hamburger warned us about, and the swamp plus the Propaganda Press, combined together to overthrow the Trump attempts to save America and will again if Republicans look threatening. The Roberts-led judiciary will assist whomever looks like they are in charge.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 21, 2021 08:59 AM (aGF5M)

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The flip side of House Republicans (and most likely House Senators) simply not doing anything but being Never Biden is that they're opening up the Republican platform to whomever gets the nomination for president in 2024.

And that's 99% going to be Trump.

By doing nothing, they're opening up the entire Republican agenda to be taken over by Trump. This time, without Russian collusion.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 21, 2021 09:01 AM (LvTSG)

241 ... Everything has to be couched in binary terms. If you are over 65 years old you are at high risk, but if you are 64 years, 363 days, your hunky dory. If you are six feet apart you're safe, if you are 5'9" apart, Katy bar the door. If your BP is 136.86 you're gonna die, but if it's 134/84 you'll live to 100! Examples are plentiful. ...

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Companies whose employees total 100>, vaccines for all. Companies whose employees total <99, you're good. The danger only arises at a certain numerical point.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 21, 2021 09:01 AM (sVtYq)

242 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2021 08:57 AM (DU+/6)

Small is better. Federalism. The gov't that governs least governs best. Freedom, Liberty, and Consent of the Governed.

Such quaint notions, all lost like tears in the rain.

Posted by: Count de Monet, PureBlood. Biden Says I Did The Wrong Thing And Must Be Suitably Punished at December 21, 2021 09:01 AM (4I/2K)

243 today's parents should just level with their cell-phone-and-iPad- having kids: there's no santa, mammon got them all those lavish presents

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 21, 2021 09:02 AM (QU5/8)

244 >>I don't think the IC and the DoJ care who retires, or what party they're from. The current regime is nothing but a mask. People like Garland, Wray and Burns act with impunity. It's those guys who seem to call the shots.

To a large extent I agree and have been saying that for quite some time. But they still need a host party to infest and the Democrat party is imploding right in front of us.

Despite controlling 95% of the media they can't cover for Biden and they can't easily replace him because Harris is the replacement. Rock meet hard place. They have the least popular leadership perhaps ever and we are still less than 1 year into this train wreck. You'd be hard pressed to find a political prognosticator on either side of the aisle who doesn't think Republicans will take the House next fall and a good chance the Senate as well. What they are arguing about now is how big the wave will be not if there will be one.

The country is turning against virus politics. Reality is winning over fear porn and people want their lives back and the harder they push with things like CRT and indoctrinating our kids the more people are starting to fight back.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2021 09:02 AM (ZLI7S)

245 Great line from a survivor of the Communist camps. When he arrived in western Europe and met self-proclaimed communists, he said "my soul puked blood."

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 21, 2021 09:02 AM (H8QX8)

246 238 I'd like to get a readout on which D senators were not in favor... other than the two publicly mentioned. They're probably the only partially sane Democrats left in the party.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2021 09:01 AM (BFigT)

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I'd bet real money that out of Kelly, Warnock, and Masto (the three most vulnerable D Senators for 2022), that maybe only Warnock would have actually voted for it. And Warnock would have made a show of it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 21, 2021 09:02 AM (LvTSG)

247 Everything has to be couched in binary terms. If you are over 65 years old you are at high risk, but if you are 64 years, 363 days, your hunky dory. If you are six feet apart you're safe, if you are 5'9" apart, Katy bar the door. If your BP is 136.86 you're gonna die, but if it's 134/84 you'll live to 100! Examples are plentiful. ...
Posted by: Muldoon at December 21, 2021 08:53 AM

Having this very discussion with my doctor about my BP. First number is most times over the magical 130 mark and he has given me two blood pressure pills that put my heart out of rhythm to the point I was considering going to the ER. One of the pills got my heart rate so low (29 bpm) that I couldn't do anything but sit in a chair. Stopped that one after day two.

I have no family history of any heart issues or stroke and told him that, I finally convinced him to let it go until I see my heart doctor next March.

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at December 21, 2021 09:03 AM (bVYXr)

248 The real Brandon speaks, says nothing, and nobody is listening anyway, reason being they give no fuks.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 21, 2021 09:04 AM (o2MD2)

249 "It is going to be tough. We can't walk away from that, Jake. We can't, because, with Omicron that we're dealing with, it is going to be a tough few weeks to months as we get deeper into the winter," he [Fauci] added.

All those winter colds are going to be tough, Jake!

Posted by: Flyover at December 21, 2021 09:04 AM (Rbu5d)

250 If you can find him in a suit on the sidelines post a link for it because I only remember him dressing like a bum. I do admire how he jobs the Goodell type stuffed shirts at every opportunity, like previously listing Brady as "questionable" in the injury reports every week to fuck with the bookies.
Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at December 21, 2021 08:58 AM (y7DUB)
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Suits common outside the stadium. Apparently I was wrong on that detail - I can't find a picture. There is an article in USA Today about the vicious compliance, though:
According to sources through the years, after Reebok inked a reported $250 million deal as the official outfitter of the NFL in the early 2000s, one of the tenets of the contract was that coaches would wear their gear. Belichick rejected the concept on principle, arguing that some NFL executive in New York shouldn't be telling grown men how to dress. ... Belichick purposefully chose what he believed was the least fashionable choice ... the humble grey hoodie. He soon even chopped the sleeves off of it, often with crooked and sloppy cuts, perhaps in an effort to make it less attractive.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2021 09:05 AM (DU+/6)

251 I think the SOTU address might get cancelled, seeing as how we all will be dead.

Posted by: Count de Monet, PureBlood. Biden Says I Did The Wrong Thing And Must Be Suitably Punished at December 21, 2021 09:05 AM (4I/2K)

252 I can't see Belichek in a suit...

Posted by: George Shearing at December 21, 2021 09:06 AM (flINI)

253 220 Those 3 generals....wow! Buckle up people.

Posted by: observer at December 21, 2021 08:54 AM (7I1kG)

Meh. They are potential festive lamppost decorations.

Nothing more, and nothing less.

Every army has their 'Dreamers'. Very few succeed, and they still wind up as decorations. Bring it, bitches. I will not be bowed. Maybe dead, never bowed.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 21, 2021 09:06 AM (F0YaR)

254 I think the SOTU address might get cancelled, seeing as how we all will be dead.
Posted by: Count de Monet, PureBlood. Biden Says I Did The Wrong Thing And Must Be Suitably Punished at December 21, 2021 09:05 AM (4I/2K)
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Biden's glorious State of the Union address marks the end of our dark winter.

Posted by: MSM at December 21, 2021 09:06 AM (DU+/6)

255 Interesting photo up top, JJ. Who are they?

Posted by: dantesed at December 21, 2021 09:06 AM (88xKn)

256 "Xing Jiang National Military Academy"....
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Uncle Ho's Correspondence School.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 21, 2021 09:07 AM (UHVv4)

257 Wait... Santa isn't actually real? Bullshit. A joke is a joke, but that's just going too far, i should say.
Posted by: Warai-otoko is still at step 1 at December 21, 2021 08:57 AM (6FeV1)

==========

Junior figured it out at six. I made Dolley agree to not lie to him about Santa fucking Claus of all things, so when he started asking questions she admitted that he wasn't real.

I'd much rather have a seven year old that doesn't believe in Santa than a 13 year old that does.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

For all you cheap bastiges out there, this year's the year to tell the kiddos Santa didn't beat the Coof.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 21, 2021 09:07 AM (zCLVB)

258 250 - I get it. I really do. The man has my sympathies. But pretty much everyone who isn't retired has to regularly dress how someone else tells them to.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 21, 2021 09:07 AM (QU5/8)

259 Local News Story:

A Local Pig Sanctuary Seeks Help.
A local pig sanctuary is looking for funding after Covid has put them at risk of closing.

*****

It's nice that they are rescuing and caring for lo-ccal pigs.

I called to donate a case of Stubbs BBQ sauce and lend them my Traeger but the lady hung up on me.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 21, 2021 09:07 AM (m45I2)

260 >>>People like Garland, Wray and Burns act with impunity.
================

Wray launching one insurrection show after another, in Michigan and (it looks like) in Washington, truly amazes me. The Proud Boys and Oath Keepers and all the other FBI front groups are also just incredible. WHo thinks this shit up? Is there an Office of Entrapment that I've never heard about?

I mean, it's the government, you just know they have org charts even for their treasons.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 21, 2021 09:07 AM (aGF5M)

261 I wish we still had access to the comments in the archives because I would have loved to have reread her comments before 11/29.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 21, 2021 08:56 AM (NpAcC)

Me too.
Posted by: grammie winger at December 21, 2021 08:57 AM (45fpk)

Comments for archived threads can be viewed by using the url {acecomments.mu.nu/?post=XXXXXX} where XXXXXX is the 6-digit number in the archive thread's url.

Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2021 09:07 AM (mZUr4)

262 Having this very discussion with my doctor about my BP. First number is most times over the magical 130 mark and he has given me two blood pressure pills that put my heart out of rhythm to the point I was considering going to the ER. One of the pills got my heart rate so low (29 bpm) that I couldn't do anything but sit in a chair. Stopped that one after day two.

I have no family history of any heart issues or stroke and told him that, I finally convinced him to let it go until I see my heart doctor next March.
Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at December 21, 2021 09:03 AM (bVYXr)

Do you have your own BP arm monitor? I use mine every week (used to be every day) since I get elevated BP at my doc. When I was too high at home (high 140s-150s/high 90s-100s), that's when I went to the doc and got BP meds, and right now, I take 1/2 the dose I started at by using my own monitor and measuring long term. My docs offered to change the med since I'm taking a lower dose that they now agree with, but I refused and said chopping the pill was easy...and now I figure I have a barterable item if SHTF b/c I've already got 3 months extra...

Posted by: Nova local at December 21, 2021 09:08 AM (exHjb)

263
For all you cheap bastiges out there, this year's the year to tell the kiddos Santa didn't beat the Coof.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 21, 2021 09:07 AM (zCLVB)

Tiny Tim told me he died from AIDS way back.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 21, 2021 09:08 AM (Zz0t1)

264 The pic up top is

Enter now three retired U.S. Army Generals: Major Generals Paul D. Eaton and Antonio M. Taguba and Brigadier General Steven M. Anderson

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2021 09:08 AM (yrol0)

265 Interesting photo up top, JJ. Who are they?
Posted by: dantesed at December 21, 2021 09:06 AM (88xKn)

***

The one on the right is Tito Jackson

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 21, 2021 09:08 AM (flINI)

266
Enter now three retired U.S. Army Generals: Major Generals Paul D. Eaton and Antonio M. Taguba and Brigadier General Steven M. Anderson
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2021 09:08 AM (yrol0)

So, they should be put in front of a firing squad for attempted war against the US citizenry?

They seem to be suggesting that.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 21, 2021 09:09 AM (Zz0t1)

267 Democracy IS under attack. From the Left. From the ones who are warning that democracy is under attack.

Posted by: red speck at December 21, 2021 09:09 AM (gS3OW)

268 Democracy IS under attack. From the Left. From the ones who are warning that democracy is under attack.
Posted by: red speck at December 21, 2021 09:09 AM (gS3OW)

EVERYTHING they accuse the right of doing, they're already doing tenfold.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 21, 2021 09:10 AM (Zz0t1)

269 Warnings and Promises: How the 7 Churches in Revelation Reflect Today's Church

https://tinyurl.com/2hue2awm

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His birth at December 21, 2021 09:10 AM (Tzr2/)

270 Remember through everything they say and you read or hear that
"Our Democracy" != "Democracy"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2021 09:10 AM (DU+/6)

271 "It is going to be tough. We can't walk away from that, Jake. We can't, because, with Omicron that we're dealing with, it is going to be a tough few weeks to months as we get deeper into the winter," he [Fauci] added.

All those winter colds are going to be tough, Jake!
Posted by: Flyover

Winter is on it's way out. Every day after today get longer.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 21, 2021 09:10 AM (zCLVB)

272 So, they should be put in front of a firing squad for attempted war against the US citizenry?

They seem to be suggesting that.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 21, 2021 09:09 AM (Zz0t1)

Now does the 50 bastards in the Senate (ok 49).

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2021 09:10 AM (yrol0)

273 270 Remember through everything they say and you read or hear that
"Our Democracy" != "Democracy"
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2021 09:10 AM (DU+/6)

=========

Our Democracy = The Power of the Democratic Party to do whatever it wants no matter what the people say.

It's a subtle difference.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 21, 2021 09:10 AM (LvTSG)

274 Feinstein, et al: "Requiring proof of vaccination or a negative test for domestic flights would improve public health and address concerns that passengers have about flying."

Improve public heath? By how much? Are we going to regress into "If it saves the life of one child we must do it" policy-making?

A true doctor or scientist or a non-Prog bureaucrat would tell them, "Please quantify the improvement. I cannot take the extreme action you demand unless I can adequately compare the benefits of the action and the impacts to airport and airline operations and consequent local and national economic impacts."

Posted by: Gref at December 21, 2021 09:11 AM (AMIL/)

275 >>Democracy IS under attack. From the Left. From the ones who are warning that democracy is under attack.

If there is one thing the left is absolutely consistent about it's that they are always accusing others of doing exactly what they are already doing.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2021 09:11 AM (ZLI7S)

276 I think the SOTU address might get cancelled, seeing as how we all will be dead.
Posted by: Count de Monet
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Hmmm, being with the Lord vs listening to Biden...tough choice.

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His birth at December 21, 2021 09:11 AM (Tzr2/)

277 Anyone hear about DJT at least thinking about making some appearances with Bill O'Reilly? Barnes was talking about it last night as a particularly tone deaf plan with that fake populist gasbag hawking Factor gear and trinkets.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at December 21, 2021 09:12 AM (y7DUB)

278 Your Feds are planning on issuing 500-million "free" C-19 tests! That'll beat the Moronic.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 21, 2021 09:12 AM (UHVv4)

279 Said Khatibzadeh, a spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, announced this morning the death of Hassan Arlo, his country's ambassador to the Houthis in Yemen, due to "complications of contracting the corona virus."

Khatibazadeh said Arlo contracted corona in Yemen "but returned to Iran in poor health because some countries refused to cooperate to bring him back to Iran for treatment."

This is a severe blow to Iran, this man has waged an entire campaign in Yemen and not only, for a little over a year since arriving secretly he has changed many moves of Iran including Hezbollah activities.

Posted by: SMOD at December 21, 2021 09:12 AM (RHGPo)

280 By doing nothing, they're opening up the entire Republican agenda to be taken over by Trump. This time, without Russian collusion.
--
What's amazing is, this agenda is already set-- the constituents are already there: The populist, working and middle-class, America-first.

The NeverTrump and GOPe aren't even 1% as smart as they claim. Because they could claim this mantle, steal it from Trump with ease if they acted now. A simple 5-point action agenda, the points they have promised for years.

Instead, they're going with the only thing they love more than graft--sucking up to liberals.

Posted by: Lrrr at December 21, 2021 09:13 AM (jIL4c)

281 >>Anyone hear about DJT at least thinking about making some appearances with Bill O'Reilly? Barnes was talking about it last night as a particularly tone deaf plan with that fake populist gasbag hawking Factor gear and trinkets.

He's already doing it. Did a couple appearances together in FL in the last couple weeks.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2021 09:13 AM (ZLI7S)

282 Have you noticed? "Cold and Flu Season" no longer exists. Funny, that...

Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at December 21, 2021 09:13 AM (+S1Fy)

283 Your Feds are planning on issuing 500-million "free" C-19 tests! That'll beat the Moronic.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 21, 2021 09:12 AM (UHVv4)
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The single cheapest and most effective action we could take to start standing down on COVID madness is to stop testing asymptomatic people.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2021 09:13 AM (DU+/6)

284 Interesting photo up top, JJ. Who are they?
Posted by: dantesed at December 21, 2021 09:06 AM (88xKn)

***

The one on the right is Tito Jackson
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 21, 2021 09:08 AM (flINI)

The vodka maker? Jermain is the bass player.

Posted by: Count de Monet, PureBlood. Biden Says I Did The Wrong Thing And Must Be Suitably Punished at December 21, 2021 09:13 AM (4I/2K)

285 Hmmm, being with the Lord vs listening to Biden...tough choice.
Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His birth at December 21, 2021 09:11 AM (Tzr2/)

"Power of And"....

Sitting with the Lord on a big heavenly couch with a big heavenly bowl of snacks, watching the demented pervert make an ass of himself and laughing your faces off together.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 21, 2021 09:13 AM (6FeV1)

286 277 Anyone hear about DJT at least thinking about making some appearances with Bill O'Reilly?
Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at December 21, 2021 09:12 AM (y7DUB)

I believe he already has.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 21, 2021 09:14 AM (H8QX8)

287 I may be just talking like a republican, but I fantasize about being the meat betwixt a Joy Behar and Bette Midler sandwich.

That would be like getting front-row tickets to see Kathy Griffin!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 21, 2021 09:14 AM (r0ADi)

288 280 The NeverTrump and GOPe aren't even 1% as smart as they claim. Because they could claim this mantle, steal it from Trump with ease if they acted now. A simple 5-point action agenda, the points they have promised for years.

Instead, they're going with the only thing they love more than graft--sucking up to liberals.
Posted by: Lrrr at December 21, 2021 09:13 AM (jIL4c)

=========

They're not because the donors fucking freak out when McConnell or McCarthy start really talking populist. "You don't actually mean this, do you? We really need some assurances that you're not going to actually harm our bottom line in any way."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 21, 2021 09:14 AM (LvTSG)

289 So, Biden gets a new German Shepherd puppy and kicks Major to the curb.
I read that Major is being rehomed with family friends.
I suppose Biden will be getting a cat soon to help with the PR for the midterms and his re-election campaign.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 21, 2021 09:15 AM (NpAcC)

290 The single cheapest and most effective action we could take to start standing down on COVID madness is to stop testing asymptomatic people.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2021 09:13 AM (DU+/6)

I thought I heard something about that being the new NFL policy.

Posted by: grammie winger at December 21, 2021 09:15 AM (45fpk)

291 Actually, them removing any conservatives from the military removes any trepidation about who you might be shooting at. Target clarification, if you will.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 21, 2021 09:15 AM (o2MD2)

292 Instead, they're going with the only thing they love more than graft--sucking up to liberals.
Posted by: Lrrr at December 21, 2021 09:13 AM (jIL4c)

Better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2021 09:16 AM (yrol0)

293 "If the Dems are indeed wiped out in one or both of these elections, will Vanilli Milley make a move?"

No doubt McConnell and McCarthy will step up and protect 'their' voters and the Constitution when the Woke Military makes its move./...cosmic sarc

Posted by: Voter theater. at December 21, 2021 09:16 AM (FCPbW)

294 The Feds are issuing free at home covid tests?

Buy Abbott Labs stock, I guess. But what a silly waste. Only Washington politicos (and a couple of idiot Democrat local politicians) are truly afraid of covid these days. Get over it, Washington.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 21, 2021 09:16 AM (aGF5M)

295 Have you noticed? "Cold and Flu Season" no longer exists. Funny, that...
Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at December 21, 2021 09:13 AM (+S1Fy)

Covid cured the flu. I mean, being a heavier version of the flu wiped out the weaker strains.

It's all covid scariants now.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 21, 2021 09:16 AM (Zz0t1)

296 Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2021 09:02 AM (ZLI7S)

Well, we seem to think alike in that there is still a need for a 'host party' for the malignancy that the IC and the DoJ has become. I would posit that the only difference between the democrats and the republicans is the name. Furthermore, until the 'host' manages to eradicate the malignancy, it's only going metastasize. It's gonna take a whole lotta accountability and sunlight to do that.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 21, 2021 09:16 AM (fLri9)

297 289 So, Biden gets a new German Shepherd puppy and kicks Major to the curb.
I read that Major is being rehomed with family friends.
I suppose Biden will be getting a cat soon to help with the PR for the midterms and his re-election campaign.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 21, 2021 09:15 AM (NpAcC)

I hear he was going to the Obamas for the Christmas Feast.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2021 09:16 AM (yrol0)

298 223 Wait... Santa isn't actually real? Bullshit. A joke is a joke, but that's just going too far, i should say.
Posted by: Warai-otoko is still at step 1 at December 21, 2021 08:57 AM (6FeV1)
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I guess we aren't doing spoiler alerts anymore

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at December 21, 2021 09:17 AM (qQU8E)

299 IRONY ALERT: A local all-news station is running an interview right now with a 'mental health specialist' about Covid panic affecting mental health especially during this wintertime Christmas season; meanwhile the news chyrons have just run about eight in a row of "record Covid cases in...." different countries like France and NSW, Australia, and the WHO claiming it's too early to say that the Moronic is milder than other coronavirus strains.

Assholes.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 21, 2021 09:17 AM (UHVv4)

300 Hmmm, being with the Lord vs listening to Biden...tough choice.
Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His birth at December 21, 2021 09:11 AM (Tzr2/)

Yup. Amazing Grace last verse. I gotta go with bright shining as the sun.

Posted by: Count de Monet, PureBlood. Biden Says I Did The Wrong Thing And Must Be Suitably Punished at December 21, 2021 09:17 AM (4I/2K)

301 The single cheapest and most effective action we could take to start standing down on COVID madness is to stop testing asymptomatic people.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2021 09:13 AM (DU+/6)

That's the scam. Did you see the lines in NYC to get tested?

CAN they test for this omicron bullshit? Or is it still "testing for 12 different things" and anything positive is "positive for Covid" crap.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 21, 2021 09:17 AM (Zz0t1)

302 Major => roast beast.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 21, 2021 09:17 AM (o2MD2)

303 Hi grammie winger!

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His birth at December 21, 2021 09:18 AM (Tzr2/)

304 Major => roast beast.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 21, 2021 09:17 AM (o2MD2)

From Kalorama's kitchens....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 21, 2021 09:18 AM (6FeV1)

305 Hiya SMH! Merry pre-Christmas to you!

Posted by: grammie winger at December 21, 2021 09:18 AM (45fpk)

306 Anyone hear about DJT at least thinking about making some appearances with Bill O'Reilly? Barnes was talking about it last night as a particularly tone deaf plan with that fake populist gasbag hawking Factor gear and trinkets.
He's already doing it. Did a couple appearances together in FL in the last couple weeks.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2021 09:13 AM (ZLI7S)

Yup....lot of old fart fake populist gasbags with money like Bill O'Reilly, phone sex prevert.

People are stupid. Doesn't mean President Trump shouldn't take their money as the old fart's are bored and need something to do as they get entertained while waiting for their viagra to kick in.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 21, 2021 09:18 AM (w9H27)

307 . the Three utter a sentence I never expected to come out of the mouths of our military leadership: "[T]he military cannot wait for elected officials to act...."
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So if the 2024 elections don't go their way, are they suggesting a coup?

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His birth at December 21, 2021 09:19 AM (Tzr2/)

308 Democracy IS under attack. From the Left. From the ones who are warning that democracy is under attack.

Their go to move - and it works. Call themselves fascist fighters while being street fascists. Call themselves diverse while eradicating any diverging thought.

It fools most people. Because most people are fools.

Posted by: Mr. Obvious at December 21, 2021 09:19 AM (Wux4A)

309 Same to you, grammie!

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His birth at December 21, 2021 09:19 AM (Tzr2/)

310 Mouthwash. Mouthwash prevents Wuflu and lessens the viral load. Just using water helps. Vietnam did this and has had 35 deaths from Wuflu. I expect them to outlaw mouthwash soon.

https://youtu.be/ldFRt-i3QzY

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at December 21, 2021 09:20 AM (YynYJ)

311 ___

So if the 2024 elections don't go their way, are they suggesting a coup?
Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His birth at December 21, 2021 09:19 AM (Tzr2/)

Yes. They're suggesting rounding up Trumpian style Americans and doing something to them.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 21, 2021 09:20 AM (Zz0t1)

312 Reality: Mental Health has not been affected by Covid. Our mental health has been affected by the government's response to Covid.

Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at December 21, 2021 09:20 AM (+S1Fy)

313 So if the 2024 elections don't go their way, are they suggesting a coup?
Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His birth at December 21, 2021 09:19 AM (Tzr2/)

Yes.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 21, 2021 09:20 AM (H8QX8)

314 CAN they test for this omicron bullshit? Or is it still "testing for 12 different things" and anything positive is "positive for Covid" crap.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 21, 2021 09:17 AM (Zz0t1)
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As far as I know, the test is the same and has the same foibles. The only way to determine strain is to do sequencing, which they do against subsets of positive tests. Once a new variant exceeds some threshold of the total, the variant is "dominant" and positive tests are assumed to be that variant since it is now endemic.

I think that's how it works, anyway.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2021 09:20 AM (DU+/6)

315 It's not really a coup d'etat if you're already le etat.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 21, 2021 09:20 AM (6FeV1)

316 Speaking of binary. Biden admin to provide at-home test kits for COVID to all Americans. Everyone will be getting a quarter in the mail. Best 4 out of 7 results determine your status.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 21, 2021 09:21 AM (m45I2)

317 I expect them to outlaw mouthwash soon.

Oh dear.

Posted by: Kitty Dukakis at December 21, 2021 09:21 AM (QU5/8)

318 The Babylon Bee interview with Elon Musk ought to be lit.

Very much looking forward to it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 21, 2021 09:22 AM (aGF5M)

319 I expect them to outlaw mouthwash soon.

Oh dear.
Posted by: Kitty Dukakis at December 21, 2021 09:21 AM (QU5/8 )

Why this place is the best in the universe.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 21, 2021 09:22 AM (Zz0t1)

320 "Manchin Fires Back at the White House After Gloves-Off Statement Criticizes His Opposition to BBB:

I wonder if that statement was the work of another Mistress of Disaster (the other is Jamie Gorelick): Susan Rice. She is Biden's top Domestic Policy Commissar. HER overall Progressive domestic policy and plan recommendations (and ValJar's?) go down in flames without BBB and the Federalization of voting.

She is incompetent enough to be tone-deaf when dealing with a key Senator. Angry Joe would approve an angry Rice statement.

Posted by: Gref at December 21, 2021 09:23 AM (AMIL/)

321 219 The animal sacrifice element is really neat.
Posted by: Moron Robbie
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That is so amazing and definitely helps explain why the angel appeared to the shepherds first to proclaim the good news of His birth.
Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His birth at December 21, 2021 08:54 AM (Tzr2/

SMH, thanks for the link. A very interesting essay, and it clears up some big questions for me as well.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 21, 2021 09:23 AM (mdjgu)

322 Stupid, racist, and way off key.

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1471961371872927744

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His birth at December 21, 2021 09:23 AM (Tzr2/)

323 So, Biden gets a new German Shepherd puppy and kicks Major to the curb.
I read that Major is being rehomed with family friends.
I suppose Biden will be getting a cat soon to help with the PR for the midterms and his re-election campaign.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 21, 2021 09:15 AM (NpAcC)

Donks are without shame in how they use pets as props and then desert them. Or in the case of Slick letting the Chocolate Lab Buddy, named after one of his trash relatives, get hit by car instead of assigning one of his secret service guys to walk him. And the Beast gave Socks the cat to Betty Currie so at least she went to a better setting. Cats are low maintenance but I guess that was too much responsibility for The Omen.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at December 21, 2021 09:23 AM (y7DUB)

324 Yes, Bill O'Reilly and Trump have been having a traveling history tour. I think more are scheduled. Here is a photo from Houston. You could find on O'Reilly's site probably where the other appearances are scheduled for:

https://tinyurl.com/mryt66k5

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 21, 2021 09:23 AM (0rBDt)

325 Yes. They're suggesting rounding up Trumpian style Americans and doing something to them.
---------------
So just like Ace throwing people into the barrel?

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 21, 2021 09:23 AM (D8mow)

326 After i mind fuck the kids, I'll come back for your dog Toto.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at December 21, 2021 09:23 AM (WQrjF)

327 277 Anyone hear about DJT at least thinking about making some appearances with Bill O'Reilly?
Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at December 21, 2021 09:12 AM (y7DUB)

I believe he already has.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 21, 2021 09:14 AM (H8QX

*********
It's called the History Tour. Trump was in Houston on Saturday and then went to Dallas the next day.
They are traveling all over the country.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 21, 2021 09:24 AM (NpAcC)

328 Heard a little while ago on Fox News, if you are unboosted, you are essentially unvaccinated against Omicron.

Also apparently, Omicron is now the dominant variant in the world.

This is never going to end.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 21, 2021 09:24 AM (OupRL)

329 I recall the story of Teddy Roosevelt, how all the big money (probably more real-world power than all of tech today) joined forces to buy the Presidency.
And thought themselves clever by sidelining that troublesome New Yorker by locking him in the dead-end VP job.

All their money couldn't stop the wave of populism from sweeping away their power a few years later ....

Posted by: Lrrr at December 21, 2021 09:24 AM (jIL4c)

330 Anyone from New York and knows more about proposed bill to empower governor to round up citizens for placement in quarantine camps?

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 21, 2021 09:24 AM (H8QX8)

331 Mitch McConnell says Joe Manchin 'certainly welcome' to join GOP

Posted by: SMOD at December 21, 2021 09:24 AM (RHGPo)

332 You're welcome, Darrell.

Just as the roads Rome built were used to help spread the Gospel, the Internet is being used for the exact same purpose, Praise God.

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His birth at December 21, 2021 09:25 AM (Tzr2/)

333 ++++
As far as I know, the test is the same and has the same foibles. The only way to determine strain is to do sequencing, which they do against subsets of positive tests. Once a new variant exceeds some threshold of the total, the variant is "dominant" and positive tests are assumed to be that variant since it is now endemic.

I think that's how it works, anyway.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2021 09:20 AM (DU+/6)

So, when my bud went in to the ER because he waited too long and was pretty sick, they did tests on him. They tested for MULTIPLE things, not just Covid. However, he popped for SARS, which is similar, but not Covid, per se. That means it came back positive for one of the multiples, so POSITIVE FOR COVID. They tested for the flu and strep as a part. If he had strep, the COVID test came back positive because, well, it was a COVID test.

What they're doing is wrong on SOOOOO many levels.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 21, 2021 09:25 AM (Zz0t1)

334 Thanks for the links, SMH.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at December 21, 2021 09:26 AM (khAeP)

335 Mitch McConnell says Joe Manchin 'certainly welcome' to join GOP
Posted by: SMOD at December 21, 2021 09:24 AM (RHGPo)'

They should simply swap......

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 21, 2021 09:26 AM (Zz0t1)

336 Health Canada recalls several generic-brand powdered cold and flu medications over potential health risks.

I guess they include Ivermectin and so cure the New WuFlu and we can't have that!

DDG tells me that it's over shelf-life issues! Untested mRNA shots are okay but ...

Health Canada says CellChem Pharmaceuticals Inc. "could not demonstrate that products remain safe and of good quality until the expiry date" after an inspection.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 21, 2021 09:26 AM (UHVv4)

337 Stupid, racist, and way off key.

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/ 1471961371872927744
Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His birth at December 21, 2021 09:23 AM (Tzr2/)
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Canal duty for him and all like him.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2021 09:26 AM (DU+/6)

338 OT: Fed Ex has still not delivered Chekov's Rx food. According to their website, the delivery is "pending" (!), and it apparently "departed Fed Ex location" (???) at 10 pm last night (??!!??). Chewy wanted my feedback about the shipment. I gave them a blistering earful, telling them that their competitor Petco uses USPS; maybe they should too. Dammit.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 21, 2021 09:27 AM (txdEq)

339 #299 BTW, the interview is headlined, "Mental Check On Pandemic Panic"!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 21, 2021 09:27 AM (UHVv4)

340 Nobody gets the flu anymore.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 21, 2021 09:27 AM (NpAcC)

341 Posted by: Kurt at December 21, 2021 09:26 AM (g2v4z)

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THIS IS IMPORTANT NEWS AND MUST BE SPREAD NATIONWIDE!!!!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 21, 2021 09:27 AM (LvTSG)

342 ---------------
So just like Ace throwing people into the barrel?
Posted by: Puddin Head at December 21, 2021 09:23 AM (D8mow)

The barrel is there as a deterrent. You put yourself in there by screwing up the blog.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 21, 2021 09:27 AM (Zz0t1)

343 306- wow. That was quite the diatribe against old farts. I really don't care if Bill O'Reilly has phone sex. He's not a stupid man and has some good things to say

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 21, 2021 09:27 AM (Sdj7x)

344 339 OT: Fed Ex has still not delivered Chekov's Rx food. According to their website, the delivery is "pending" (!), and it apparently "departed Fed Ex location" (???) at 10 pm last night (??!!??). Chewy wanted my feedback about the shipment. I gave them a blistering earful, telling them that their competitor Petco uses USPS; maybe they should too. Dammit.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 21, 2021 09:27 AM (txdEq)

I got my couz a shirt that was to be delivered around the 5th. Still not there.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2021 09:28 AM (yrol0)

345 278 Your Feds are planning on issuing 500-million "free" C-19 tests! That'll beat the Moronic.
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WTF is the point of mailing out half a million tests, which certainly are not "free" because drug companies don't manufacture shit for "free" nor do they give away hundred of millions of products for "free."

People who have cold/flu symptoms already know it, and people who don't have cold/flu symptoms already know it, and people can not have cold/flu symptoms on one day and yet have them on some following day.

So what exactly is the point of these tests? It seems like a giant waste of taxpayers' money (because we all know that's who is really paying for these hundreds of millions of "free" tests). People who are already sick can get tested at their doc's or a clinic or the drugstore, people who are not sick don't need to be tested, and people who have minor symptoms can just do what anybody should do when they have minor cold/flu symptoms, which is stay home and take meds until the symptoms have resolved.

Sending out hundreds of millions of tests is just a stupid waste of money, something to do to make it look like something is being done.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2021 09:28 AM (k4dH2)

346 Posted by: Kurt at December 21, 2021 09:26 AM (g2v4z)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at December 21, 2021 09:28 AM (Zz0t1)

347 Posted by: Kurt at December 21, 2021 09:26 AM (g2v4z)

Glad you agree that we shouldn't be told to get vaccinated.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 21, 2021 09:28 AM (H8QX8)

348 Ok, weirdly, Jonah Goldberg posted something awesome on twitter. Crazytown! Now that he is retired and out of the public eye entirely, he must have had a moment of inspiration and that moment should not go unrecognized. (link goes to Dudes Posting Their W's twitter page, not Jonah Goldbrick McPlagiarist)

https://tinyurl.com/2p88n65c

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 21, 2021 09:28 AM (aGF5M)

349 Over at This Ain't Hell, more info regarding the three ignorant of history generals:

General Fear Monger Warns of Civil War, Coup
https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=120881

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His birth at December 21, 2021 09:28 AM (Tzr2/)

350 "Forget the GOP. They are as useless as tits on a transexual."

Let's not be too hasty here! Trans-ladies that TRY to look like ladies often show off a nice pair of knockers. Everyone appreciates seeing nice boobehs, and as long as you never know, at least you get SOME benefit out of it!

The GOP, uh...yeah, nothing positive to say there.

Posted by: Sexually Confused Moron at December 21, 2021 09:29 AM (JCZqz)

351 Doubtful Manchin will switch parties. His grifting lifelines are all established and he'd be low man on the GOP's pole for said grift if he switched.

It's all about the money and Manchin was not offered anywhere near enough to sell out his state over BBB.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2021 09:29 AM (BFigT)

352 And no, I haven't attended a tour show with O'Reilly and Trump. Too far away, I'm not getting on a plane and nobody in this house is on viagra

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 21, 2021 09:29 AM (Sdj7x)

353 Democrats Urge Health Officials To Require Vaccination or Negative Test For Domestic Flights

I specifically remember Administration people stating during the summer that they had no intention of requiring vaccines for domestic travel. And that was during the "deadly" "delta" variant circulating. Now that a common-cold-level variant of "omicron" is spreading, they want to push vaccine requirement for domestic travel.

As updated Melvin Udall says about writing Leftists so well... "I think of a conservative, and I take away reason and accountability."

Nothing but politics and lies, lies and politics, 24/7/infinity for the Left.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 21, 2021 09:30 AM (Do5/p)

354 >>>JJ pretends didn't happen fake news
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Does anyone speak Kurt?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 21, 2021 09:30 AM (aGF5M)

355 Flu Report Week 48:
No. of specimens tested
70,157
588,384
No. of positive specimens (%) 2,438 (3.5%) 7,516 (1.3%)

It usually runs about 30% positive. WTF are they test for?

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2021 09:31 AM (yrol0)

356 352 Doubtful Manchin will switch parties. His grifting lifelines are all established and he'd be low man on the GOP's pole for said grift if he switched.

It's all about the money and Manchin was not offered anywhere near enough to sell out his state over BBB.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2021 09:29 AM (BFigT)

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He doesn't need to do anything anymore to guarantee his next reelection. That Schumer isn't actually punishing Manchin shows you how mad he actually is at him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 21, 2021 09:31 AM (LvTSG)

357 Does anyone speak Kurt?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 21, 2021 09:30 AM (aGF5M)

*helpless shrug*

Posted by: Barbara Billingsley at December 21, 2021 09:31 AM (6FeV1)

358 And no, I haven't attended a tour show with O'Reilly and Trump. Too far away, I'm not getting on a plane and nobody in this house is on viagra
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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lol...umm...what does viagra have to do with going to a political function on an airplane?

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His birth at December 21, 2021 09:31 AM (Tzr2/)

359 Any general officer making noises about acting without civilian leadership should get summarily tossed out. But that's for another timeline.

Posted by: Count de Monet, PureBlood. Biden Says I Did The Wrong Thing And Must Be Suitably Punished at December 21, 2021 09:31 AM (4I/2K)

360 Sending out hundreds of millions of tests is just a stupid waste of money, something to do to make it look like something is being done.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2021 09:28 AM (k4dH2)
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I could see a reason for it. Include a test as a part of a "COVID response kit" that includes a course of Ivermectin (with instructions about side effects and that you should call your doctor with any questions), Zinc and vitamins D and C. If you get sick, do the rapid test, If you hit positive, immediately start the treatment course. If you don't hit positive, wait one day and then do another test. If positive, immediately start the treatment course. If not better after five days, go to the hospital for monoclonal antibodies. Go to your local public health office for a replacement kit at any time.

I could see doing that. Would probably cost about $15 per head, or about $5.5 billion. That would be money well spent.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2021 09:31 AM (DU+/6)

361 Does anyone speak Kurt?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 21, 2021 09:30 AM (aGF5M)

Mongo does

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2021 09:31 AM (yrol0)

362 In his pronouncements today Retartdo has ONE goal--induce enough Omicron fear to make certain cheat-by-mail decides the 2022 midterms.

In the most conceivable perverse way the Omicron scam is our last chance to avoid the unleashing of the NEXT Covid monster that kills with impunity...and officially makes 'elections' into selections.

Posted by: Voter theater. at December 21, 2021 09:31 AM (FCPbW)

363 I saw Tits On A Tranny open for Lactating Ladyboys at the Celebrity Theatre in '89.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 21, 2021 09:32 AM (r0ADi)

364 Am I the only one that's actually slightly offended by the name "Charlamagne Tha G0d"?

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 21, 2021 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

365 I saw Tits On A Tranny open for Lactating Ladyboys at the Celebrity Theatre in '89.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 21, 2021 09:32 AM (r0ADi)
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I don't wanna know what ladyboy lactation looks like, do I?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2021 09:32 AM (DU+/6)

366 Am I the only one that's actually slightly offended by the name "Charlamagne Tha G0d"?
Posted by: Sponge
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More than a little offended here, but the Lord will make 'ol Char see the errors of his ways, one way or the other.

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His birth at December 21, 2021 09:33 AM (Tzr2/)

367 Mongo does

I am pawn in game of life.

Posted by: Mongo at December 21, 2021 09:33 AM (Wux4A)

368 >>>That Schumer isn't actually punishing Manchin shows you how mad he actually is at him.
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It may just demonstrate the limits of power over a Senator in a tied Senate where every vote is necessary to pass any future bill.

Schumer is plenty mad at Manchin, I think. Especially since it may motivate AOC to keep up or even increase her annoying maneuvering against Schumer in NY.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 21, 2021 09:34 AM (aGF5M)

369 The second part of Trump's statement which the dunce failed to mention was that getting vaccinated was a personal decision and there should be no mandates.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2021 09:34 AM (ZLI7S)

370 Nobody gets the flu anymore.
Posted by: redridinghood

*****

You misspelled 'goes to the Poconos'...

Posted by: Muldoon at December 21, 2021 09:35 AM (m45I2)

371 The viagra comment was a response to HairyBackGuy above who doesn't like old farts and who thinks they are attending a rally with O'Reilly and Trump because they're waiting for their viagra to kick in

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 21, 2021 09:35 AM (Sdj7x)

372 Mary Anne Franks, a professor at University of Miami School of Law and author of The Cult of the Constitution: Our Deadly Devotion to Guns and Free Speech, wrote an op-ed in the Boston Globe arguing the Constitution has "competing interpretations" that "inspire religious-like fervor" leading to "irrational results."

Law Professor Rewrites The First, Second Amendment, Which Doesn't Include Free Press or the Right to Bear Arms

With a name like that, you would think she would look into Anne Frank and learn some life lessons based on her life. Alas...

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 21, 2021 09:35 AM (Do5/p)

373 WTF is the point of mailing out half a million tests,
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Dem Party kickbacks.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 21, 2021 09:35 AM (UHVv4)

374 Am I the only one that's actually slightly offended by the name "Charlamagne Tha G0d"?
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 21, 2021 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

No but if you make a big deal over it he'll come back with something much much worse.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at December 21, 2021 09:35 AM (y7DUB)

375 It's all about the money and Manchin was not offered anywhere near enough to sell out his state over BBB.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2021 09:29 AM (BFigT)

Money and power. Manchin is courted by the entire Democrat party apparatus. If he switched parties what would he be?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 21, 2021 09:35 AM (Q9lwr)

376 ou misspelled 'goes to the Poconos'...
Posted by: Muldoon at December 21, 2021 09:35 AM (m45I2)

Nascar does

Sun., Jul 24 Explore the Pocono Mountains 350 Pocono Raceway

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2021 09:36 AM (yrol0)

377 re: fentanyl
Why would China do this? Why would they help us get rid of our druggies?

Posted by: Chuck C at December 21, 2021 09:36 AM (EughT)

378 369 Schumer is plenty mad at Manchin, I think. Especially since it may motivate AOC to keep up or even increase her annoying maneuvering against Schumer in NY.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 21, 2021 09:34 AM (aGF5M)

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Schumer should be mad at himself and no one else.

He made a big production out of trying to get this thing passed when it was obvious that it probably wasn't going to happen at all. By doing this, he's just made himself look like an ineffective boob.

If he actually wants to lash out at Manchin to protect his left flank, he can punish Manchin by kicking him off of committees or pulling promised funding for his next re-election effort.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 21, 2021 09:36 AM (LvTSG)

379 Ok, weirdly, Jonah Goldberg posted something awesome on twitter.
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"Pixel Pushers"??

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 21, 2021 09:37 AM (UHVv4)

380 re: fentanyl
Why would China do this? Why would they help us get rid of our druggies?
Posted by: Chuck C at December 21, 2021 09:36 AM (EughT)

George Floyd OD'd. Look how that worked out.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 21, 2021 09:37 AM (Zz0t1)

381 For Trump's Houston rally on 12/18, tickets started at $125 IIRC. Above $100 in any case.

Posted by: Count de Monet, PureBlood. Biden Says I Did The Wrong Thing And Must Be Suitably Punished at December 21, 2021 09:37 AM (4I/2K)

382 And the really stellar/s comment by HairyBackGuy was # 306.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 21, 2021 09:37 AM (zMkRm)

383 With a name like that, you would think she would look into Anne Frank and learn some life lessons based on her life. Alas...
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 21, 2021 09:35 AM (Do5/p)

She is the type that would tell the Nazis she has seen the little Jew gal and then point to the attic door.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2021 09:37 AM (yrol0)

384 Manchin comes from a long line of Democrat politicians. I don't see him switching unless he is pushed to the limit.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2021 09:38 AM (ZLI7S)

385 If Joe Manchin joined the GOP he would be less of a fukkin Rino than Bitch Mitch.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 21, 2021 09:38 AM (o2MD2)

386 The viagra comment was a response to HairyBackGuy above who doesn't like old farts and who thinks they are attending a rally with O'Reilly and Trump because they're waiting for their viagra to kick in
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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Ooookay.

Yeah, I've noticed comments from some here that denigrate older people, but I usually scroll past the usual suspects that make them.

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His birth at December 21, 2021 09:38 AM (Tzr2/)

387
No but if you make a big deal over it he'll come back with something much much worse.
Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at December 21, 2021 09:35 AM (y7DUB)

He's going with the Ghostbusters mentality, then.

But I don't know that it really gets much worse than blasphemy. That seems pretty high on the list.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 21, 2021 09:38 AM (Zz0t1)

388 I'm good, Fen...lol.

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His birth at December 21, 2021 09:39 AM (Tzr2/)

389 The viagra comment was a response to HairyBackGuy above who doesn't like old farts and who thinks they are attending a rally with O'Reilly and Trump because they're waiting for their viagra to kick in
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

The guys I here brag about the blue pill are in the 40s trying to be in their 20s.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2021 09:39 AM (yrol0)

390 Heh...

Twitter sidebar item about "most common Omicron symptoms" accompanied by a picture of a woman...blowing her nose.

I mean...if they're trying to scare someone it's not that good of an effort.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 21, 2021 09:39 AM (LvTSG)

391 387- Thanks. I will scroll past them in the future

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 21, 2021 09:40 AM (zMkRm)

392 Democracy means leftists always get their way. This is science people!!

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss the Delta Variant at December 21, 2021 09:40 AM (pT+ia)

393 In fairness, pretty much every demo known to man gets denigrated in the comments here.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 21, 2021 09:40 AM (QU5/8)

394 I mean...if they're trying to scare someone it's not that good of an effort.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 21, 2021 09:39 AM (LvTSG)

It's an attempt at association.

"Got the sniffles this winter? You're prolly gonna die. "

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 21, 2021 09:41 AM (6FeV1)

395 Twitter sidebar item about "most common Omicron symptoms" accompanied by a picture of a woman...blowing her nose.
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I've been sneezing and have had a runny nose for the past week.

Once upon a time, that was known as a cold.

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His birth at December 21, 2021 09:41 AM (Tzr2/)

396 I could see a reason for it. Include a test as a part of a "COVID response kit" that includes a course of Ivermectin (with instructions about side effects and that you should call your doctor with any questions), Zinc and vitamins D and C. If you get sick, do the rapid test, If you hit positive, immediately start the treatment course.

I could see doing that. Would probably cost about $15 per head, or about $5.5 billion. That would be money well spent.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2021 09:31 AM (DU+/6)

Joe can't change horses from vaxxing to Ivermectin and supplements. Because that's what OrangeManBad was pushing 18 months ago. While Joe was saying Trump had no plan to defeat COVID, but he (Joe) did. (He never gave us even one step or detail of his plan - there weren't any.)

Joe went all-in on vaccines, per the recommendation of Fauci, Zeke Emmanuel, and career Deep Staters at CDC and NIH. Now here we are, with no effective plan or actions from Joe. Joe is too stubbornly stupid and partisan to do the right thing.

Posted by: Gref at December 21, 2021 09:41 AM (AMIL/)

397 In fairness, pretty much every demo known to man gets denigrated in the comments here.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 21, 2021 09:40 AM (QU5/

Look at you, you hockey puck!

Posted by: Zombie Don Rickles at December 21, 2021 09:42 AM (4I/2K)

398 I got my couz a shirt that was to be delivered around the 5th. Still not there.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2021

***
USPS seems to be on the ball. I ordered a new pipe, domestic order, and a friend in PA sent me some sample tobacco. Both arrived within a few days. I thought the FedEx and UPS people were supposed to be so much better?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 21, 2021 09:42 AM (txdEq)

399 Schumer should be mad at himself and no one else.

He made a big production out of trying to get this thing passed when it was obvious that it probably wasn't going to happen at all. By doing this, he's just made himself look like an ineffective boob.

Shecky is like a gift from the donks. Kind of like Paul Ryan was for the GOP.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at December 21, 2021 09:42 AM (y7DUB)

400 No one liked my comment that tits on a transexual = Milk Duds?

Fuckity, but this crowd is hard to please.

Alex Baldwin can speak to the power of duds.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 21, 2021 09:42 AM (F0YaR)

401 What is it exactly the Democrats want to do with voting laws?

Posted by: observer at December 21, 2021 09:42 AM (7I1kG)

402 400 Shecky is like a gift from the donks. Kind of like Paul Ryan was for the GOP.
Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at December 21, 2021 09:42 AM (y7DUB)

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When Reid retired I knew that Schumer was an idiot.

I have no idea how he maintains any kind of power base because he's pretty obviously bad at his job. It must be the money and "institutionalism".

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 21, 2021 09:43 AM (LvTSG)

403 Joe can't change horses from vaxxing to Ivermectin and supplements. Because that's what OrangeManBad was pushing 18 months ago. While Joe was saying Trump had no plan to defeat COVID, but he (Joe) did. (He never gave us even one step or detail of his plan - there weren't any.) ...
Posted by: Gref at December 21, 2021 09:41 AM (AMIL/)
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Oh, I get that. I didn't mean to imply that I *expected* something like that to happen. It won't. Ever. I was just saying that I could see a place for a rapid, disposable COVID test being widely distributed in that kind of context. The notion itself is ludicrous, of course.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2021 09:43 AM (DU+/6)

404 390 LOL

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 21, 2021 09:43 AM (KwVy/)

405 In fairness, pretty much every demo known to man gets denigrated in the comments here.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
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True.

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His birth at December 21, 2021 09:44 AM (Tzr2/)

406 He doesn't need to do anything anymore to guarantee his next reelection. That Schumer isn't actually punishing Manchin shows you how mad he actually is at him.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 21, 2021 09:31 AM (LvTSG)

THIS. Operate from an assumption that these pols are all about presenting a public face to the rubes in the cheap seats, and you won't go wrong.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 21, 2021 09:44 AM (mdjgu)

407 @396

>>While Joe was saying Trump had no plan to defeat COVID, but he (Joe) did.

Joe never had a plan to defeat COVID, only a plan to defeat us.

What is going on is evil and as antithetical to logic, reason and science as can be imagined.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 21, 2021 09:44 AM (OupRL)

408 >>>JJ pretends didn't happen fake news
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Does anyone speak Kurt?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 21, 2021 09:30 AM (aGF5M)

***

I'll give it a go...

Posted by: Barbara Billingsley at December 21, 2021 09:44 AM (flINI)

409 Biden speech about Moronic on Tuesday
White House: Speech not about a lockdown but a stark warning to the unvaxxed.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 21, 2021 09:44 AM (UHVv4)

410 >>What is it exactly the Democrats want to do with voting laws?

Nationalize them. No more states rights.
Outlaw voter ID.
Legalize ballot harvesting everywhere.
Mass mail in voting everywhere.

Those are just some of the high points.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2021 09:45 AM (ZLI7S)

411 Nevermind, I read it. The Democrats want to solidify the process by which they cheat and make it the law of the land.

Posted by: observer at December 21, 2021 09:45 AM (7I1kG)

412 401 What is it exactly the Democrats want to do with voting laws?
Posted by: observer at December 21, 2021 09:42 AM (7I1kG)

no ID
anyone can get mail in ballot (even 3rd party can request yours)
same day reg and vote on real ballot

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2021 09:45 AM (yrol0)

413 White House: Speech not about a lockdown but a stark warning to the unvaxxed.
Posted by: andycanuck
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So, am I supposed to be scared?

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His birth at December 21, 2021 09:46 AM (Tzr2/)

414 Paul Ryan? Now that JJS is relocated to southern Cheesehead, Ryan must be his former Congressman.

That's a debate line-up in the making, right there.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 21, 2021 09:46 AM (aGF5M)

415 NOOD.

But not what you'd think......

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 21, 2021 09:46 AM (Zz0t1)

416 "The 60-year-old filmmaker's comments came in response to criticism over his casting of actor Javier Bardem, who is Spanish, to play Cuban Desi Arnez in the new film, Being the Ricardos."

It should've been a cross-dresser.

Posted by: Flyover at December 21, 2021 09:46 AM (Rbu5d)

417 "Also apparently, Omicron is now the dominant variant in the world."

Can someone show me how patients are tested for omicron? Or delta?

How is it so many people are considered positive for omicron when they haven't been tested for omicron.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 21, 2021 09:46 AM (C7jzY)

418 Remember, Schumer selected and groomed and mentored Anthony Weiner for higher offices.

Posted by: Count de Monet, PureBlood. Biden Says I Did The Wrong Thing And Must Be Suitably Punished This Wint at December 21, 2021 09:46 AM (4I/2K)

419 "First, they demand that the House Select Committee and Justice Department prosecute the 'leaders who inspired' the 'insurrection.'"

Oh, I'd like to see the leaders of the "insurrection" arrested. That would include the head of the FBI and various folks working for them, Nancy Pelosi, and numerous other dems and traitors, but I repeat myself.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 21, 2021 09:46 AM (ynpvh)

420 Joe Manchin doesn't need the money. That's why he could vote the way he does.

No other D can get elected in WV.

It's not more complicated than that. Take him at his word.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 21, 2021 09:47 AM (HM0Ep)

421 Please do not quote the (departed) troll.

House rules.

It's even in the AoSHQ Style guide.
Page 37, near the bottom.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at December 21, 2021 09:47 AM (3D/fK)

422 Schumer is likely pissed at Manchin for not toeing the party line. I doubt he was courted to be a scapegoat. They could have found someone with an even lower profile and in an easy reelection seat. Maybe Manchin has a soul and didn't like the offer he got for it?

I think if there were some carveouts for WV instead of the total destruction of the coal industry he might have played along.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2021 09:47 AM (BFigT)

423 417 "Also apparently, Omicron is now the dominant variant in the world."

Can someone show me how patients are tested for omicron? Or delta?
How is it so many people are considered positive for omicron when they haven't been tested for omicron.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 21, 2021 09:46 AM (C7jzY)

And they refused to call it the Xi variant...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 21, 2021 09:47 AM (ynpvh)

424 So, am I supposed to be scared?
Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His birth at December 21, 2021 09:46 AM (Tzr2/)
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No, Mr. Unvaxxed, I expect you to die!

Posted by: President Auric Goldfinger-McJunta at December 21, 2021 09:47 AM (aGF5M)

425 Yes Joe. I'm going to die. But the great thing is, YOU will die before me. Your body should follow your brain into the pickle jar.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 21, 2021 09:47 AM (o2MD2)

426 401 What is it exactly the Democrats want to do with voting laws?

Posted by: observer at December 21, 2021 09:42 AM (7I1kG)

The KY jelly is optional. The result is not.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 21, 2021 09:48 AM (F0YaR)

427 403 Joe can't change horses from vaxxing to Ivermectin and supplements. Because that's what OrangeManBad was pushing 18 months ago. While Joe was saying Trump had no plan to defeat COVID, but he (Joe) did. (He never gave us even one step or detail of his plan - there weren't any.) ...
Posted by: Gref at December 21, 2021 09:41 AM (AMIL/)
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Oh, I get that. I didn't mean to imply that I *expected* something like that to happen. It won't. Ever. I was just saying that I could see a place for a rapid, disposable COVID test being widely distributed in that kind of context. The notion itself is ludicrous, of course.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2021 09:43 AM (DU+/6)

Roger. My take on the Send Tests To Everyone Plan is that it is feasible, but when a lot of Karens do the test wrong or get false positives it may create more fear and stampeding the hospitals than we have now. Perhaps that's what The Junta wants.

Posted by: Gref at December 21, 2021 09:49 AM (AMIL/)

428 What is it exactly the Democrats want to do with voting laws?
Posted by: observer at December 21, 2021 09:42 AM (7I1kG)

no ID
anyone can get mail in ballot (even 3rd party can request yours)
same day reg and vote on real ballot
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2021 09:45 AM (yrol0)

GOP cluelessness has led to a lot of this. Back when Slick was shilling for motor voter it should have been fought tooth and nail instead of sucking donor class cock or Rove trying to offset it with MOAR IMMIGRANTS.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at December 21, 2021 09:49 AM (y7DUB)

429 "Truly Historic": Biden EPA Introduces New Regulations To Force Electric Vehicle Transition

As Miracle Max stated, "Don't rush me sonny, you rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles."

"The cost of lithium has skyrocketed more than 250% over the last 12 months, hitting its highest level ever, according to an industry index from Benchmark Mineral Intelligence. While the cost of manufacturing a lithium-ion battery for an electric vehicle (EV) has fallen sharply over the last decade, the decline has slowed in recent months due to rising lithium costs."

"A Mad Scramble": One Rare Mineral May Spell Doom For Electric Vehicle Market

And here leftist policies work against one another. They want to force electrification, while their policies make it impossible and financially non-feasible for companies to go full electrification. All this, because while the vast majority of people know "climate change" is a hoax, for the people in power, it is their religion. And they will force their religion on the world.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 21, 2021 09:51 AM (Do5/p)

430 Nobody has a plan to defeat Covid since it cannot be defeated. Might as well say you have a plan to defeat gravity. It would be as effective.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss the Delta Variant at December 21, 2021 09:51 AM (pT+ia)

431 WSJ:

The Post, like most major publications, experienced an audience surge during the Trump years, when readers flocked to stories about the controversial Republican administration. Now, the Post is facing a slump that has triggered some soul-searching at the paper, including over the need to invest more in coverage areas outside of politics, according to people familiar with the news outlet's operations and internal documents viewed by The Wall Street Journal.

One document provided a stark snapshot: The site had about 66 million monthly unique visitors in October, down 28% from last year.

Several of the Post's rivals, including the New York Times, the Journal, Vox Media and CNN, had smaller declines in that time frame, according to the document, which cited data from Comscore. Other politics-focused publications, including the Hill and Politico, had traffic declines greater than the Post's during that period, according to the document.

Posted by: SMOD at December 21, 2021 09:51 AM (RHGPo)

432 413 White House: Speech not about a lockdown but a stark warning to the unvaxxed.
Posted by: andycanuck
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So, am I supposed to be scared?

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His birth at December 21, 2021 09:46 AM (Tzr2/)

The Junta is giving up on the message that the unvaxxed are a deadly risk to the vaxxed? I hope so, but need to hear that to believe it.

Posted by: Gref at December 21, 2021 09:52 AM (AMIL/)

433 28-year-old Devlyn Thompson, reportedly pled guilty earlier this year to 'assaulting, resisting or impeding officers while using a dangerous weapon,' according to the Washington, DC District Attorney's office. Following the completion of his 46-month prison term, he will have to serve a three-year period of supervised release.

Was any useful tunnel video ever released for his defense? I also wonder how much regulatory pressure (e.g. IRS) was placed on his family. From what I read, the police instigated the tunnel kerfuffle and turned it into mayhem, yet the Gov't keeps trying to keep all video "secret" like they have something to hide...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 21, 2021 09:55 AM (ynpvh)

434 Lets see. Im not old. Im not obese. I had the Rona already which means I have more protection than any vax. So fuck off Brandon, I will be just fine without the Pfizer poison.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss the Delta Variant at December 21, 2021 09:55 AM (pT+ia)

435 "NASCAR driver Brandon Brown has finally broken his silence about the 'Let's Go Brandon' chant that has swept the nation."

The Real Brandon Speaks: "I'm No Longer Going to Be Silent About Why Millions of Americans Are Chanting My Name"

Brown takes care to qualify his statements. "I have no interest in leading some political fight. I race cars. I am not going to endorse anyone, and I am certainly not going to tell anyone how to vote." Then he adds, "But I'm also no longer going to be silent about the situation I find myself in, and why millions of Americans are chanting my name. I hear them, even if Washington does not. ... I will use what free time I have to highlight the struggle we all feel and share, as Americans."

Major kudos to Brandon Brown. In today's cancel culture climate, it takes major courage to say even the mild things he says here. Good on him.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 21, 2021 09:56 AM (Do5/p)

436 I'd much rather have a seven year old that doesn't believe in Santa than a 13 year old that does.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 21, 2021 08:58 AM (LvTSG)

Hey! I'm right here!!

Posted by: Joe Biteme Resident at December 21, 2021 10:01 AM (Zvtjl)

437 Biden speech about Moronic on Tuesday

White House: Speech not about a lockdown but a stark warning to the unvaxxed.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 21, 2021 09:44 AM

There's no need to lockdown anymore. The goal is "vaccine passports" and China-style social credit system. Control. So in lieu of lockdowns, they will just warn Americans, like other Western nation leaders have warned their citizens, that if they don't get "vaccinated", their lives will be restricted. No vaccine passport, no air travel, no going to entertainment events, no going on cruises, no going to restaurants (like has been implemented in NYC), etc.

This is what I am betting the "stark warning" will be.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 21, 2021 10:01 AM (Do5/p)

438
89 News from Florida this morning.

Stephanie Murphy announced she will not seek reelection. Florida 7 will flip from Dem to GOP.

Hot damn. As one of her constituents I couldn't be happier.

Hell, I want to help whoever runs for her seat!

Posted by: weew at December 21, 2021 10:01 AM (+m+uH)

439 RT is reporting that U.S. private military companies are prepping a false flag chemical attack as a provocation in Ukraine.

RT link, hat tip to Vox Day.

https://tinyurl.com/4ffpd48z

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 21, 2021 10:02 AM (OssQ4)

440 Junior figured it out at six. I made Dolley agree to not lie to him about Santa fucking Claus of all things, so when he started asking questions she admitted that he wasn't real.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 21, 2021 08:58 AM

6 years old is what, Kindergarten? So, serious question... what did you tell him about sharing his knowledge about Santa not being real with his friends? Considering most parents perpetuate the lie long past age 6 with their kids.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 21, 2021 10:06 AM (Do5/p)

441 When I see all these recent MSM articles about Russia planning to invade the Ukraine, I have to force myself to remember the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect, and that everything the MSM says is probably a lie.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 21, 2021 10:07 AM (OssQ4)

442 441 When I see all these recent MSM articles about Russia planning to invade the Ukraine, I have to force myself to remember the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect, and that everything the MSM says is probably a lie.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 21, 2021 10:07 AM (OssQ4)

If Russian and China coordinate their attacks on Ukraine and Taiwan, how would we stop them short of nuclear war?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 21, 2021 10:12 AM (ynpvh)

443 And sleepy Joe and his handlers would never do that.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 21, 2021 10:12 AM (ynpvh)

444 I'll take the hose.

Posted by: sidney at December 21, 2021 10:28 AM (LJJah)

445 I have a friend that predicted a few months ago that Biden would declare martial law before Christmas.

Perhaps tonight is the night?

Posted by: Been Lurking, but clearly been posting too at December 21, 2021 10:33 AM (rDgjh)

446 56 How many followers did Trump lose with his pushing the vaccine? I'm soured......
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 21, 2021 08:10 AM (Zz0t1)

Me, for one.

Posted by: Bonnie Blue - says FU at December 21, 2021 10:35 AM (hlxe7)

447 439 RT is reporting that U.S. private military companies are prepping a false flag chemical attack as a provocation in Ukraine.

RT link, hat tip to Vox Day.

https://tinyurl.com/4ffpd48z
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 21, 2021 10:02 AM (OssQ4)

Agent Orange Revolution?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 21, 2021 10:43 AM (JG+0H)

448 https://archive.ph/7DIVh

Mennonite Busload
of Hostages,finally able
to regain Freedom

Posted by: zigzag at December 21, 2021 10:56 AM (pks52)

449 What is the purpose of re-enacting the Holocaust instead of just studying it, assuming the lesson is age-appropriate? I could think of some reasons. It's all in the framing. "This is what happened. Men like *you* pulled the trigger. Understand that. Guard against that. Never let yourself be convinced to participate in mass evil. Be wary of the warning signs of mass psychosis. You and you alone stand between the next Hitler and the next mass grave."

But I doubt the framing was anything like that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2021 08:21 AM

The students were "just following orders" of the teacher.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 21, 2021 11:38 AM (Do5/p)

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