The Morning Report

The Morning Report - 3/4/22

Good morning, kids. The weekend is here and things are getting hot in the Ukraine -- literally.

A fire broke out at the Zaporizhzhia power plant in Ukraine as Russian forces bombard the facility, leading Ukrainian officials to claim that the threat is "10 times larger than Chernobyl."
"Russian army is firing from all sides upon Zaporizhzhia NPP, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe," Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba tweeted on Thursday evening. "Fire has already broke out. If it blows up, it will be 10 times larger than Chornobyl! Russians must IMMEDIATELY cease the fire, allow firefighters, establish a security zone!"

This is the kind of thing that worries me vis a vis the situation getting out of hand and going supercritical, pun absolutely intended. But you'll be relieved to know that responsible, cooler heads are prevailing amongst our leadership.

Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham called for the assassination of Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday.
"Is there a Brutus in Russia? Is there a more successful Colonel Stauffenberg in the Russian military?" the senator wrote on Twitter. "The only way this ends is for somebody in Russia to take this guy out. You would be doing your country -- and the world -- a great service.
"The only people who can fix this are the Russian people. Easy to say, hard to do," he continued. "Unless you want to live in darkness for the rest of your life, be isolated from the rest of the world in abject poverty, and live in darkness you need to step up to the plate."

Well, at least he didn't call for the CIA or SEAL Team 6 to do the wet work, so I guess that's something. Funny. As Bogie said about Wilmer Cook in The Maltese Falcon "the cheaper the crook the gaudier the patter." Unreal. Vladimir Putin, who has now gotten himself into a quagmire and whose own state of mind is being questioned, has absolute jerks over here calling for him to be taken out. Recall that Lindsay, the phony faygele, was wetting himself while exhorting the DC cops to open fire on unarmed American citizens who dared offend his sensibilities on 1/6/21. Right now, a Brutus over here ought to rip Lindsay's arms out of their sockets and beat Sean Hannity to death with them -- rhetorically speaking of course. Right now, we have a situation that is at or very near the point of spiraling out of control. It's bad enough that on our side of the coin we have a demented vegetable in the Oval Office being controlled by manifestly irresponsible ideologues and out of touch apparatchiks in Foggy Bottom, Langley and the Pentagon. That is, when they can control the mush coming out of his spittle-flecked cake-hole. I mean, which is worse; that his stating Putin could insert "just the tip" into Ukraine was a malaprop or an intentional green light?

That said, what worries me is that the longer this drags on without Ukraine crying uncle (Joe) or Putin seizing the strategic assets and territory that effectively captures the country, the more desperate he will get. The safest bet for him would be to be happy with the capture of Kherson and the Donbas, declare victory, withdraw from everywhere else and lick your wounds. Of course, will the world lift all sanctions now that the rhetoric of Putin being Hitler has flooded the airwaves? Can Biden and the rest of the world do that without further flushing their credibility down the shitter after "two weeks" (about 99 in real time) to flatten society? No, they can't. And Putin is not going to let the ruble disintegrate without a reaction.

But that's at a strategic level. The Ukrainians reportedly took out a big Russian general. What's to stop the Red Army version of General Jack D. Ripper going rogue and lighting off a suitcase nuke on Kyev? Or firing a MRBM on Incirlik Air Base in Turkey? That's why I was hard on the Beaver, er, Lindsay. We are in a pickle right now thanks to Obama, Biden and Clinton. The longer this goes on, the more likely we are going to get our hair mussed.

In successful systems, bad news flows to the top. In unsuccessful systems, underlings make sure it doesn't reach their superiors because they don't want to look bad.
In really unsuccessful systems, superiors make clear to their underlings that they don't want to hear the bad news. I think that's what's happened to Putin. I saw a video being passed around by pro-Putin trolls on the Web that showed him riding in limos and walking around to the tune of gangsta rap, but it didn't make him look powerful so much as isolated.
Now things haven't gone according to plan, and there doesn't appear to be a plan B because Putin never seriously considered the possibility of failure. Russia is isolated diplomatically and economically to an unprecedented degree, while it flounders militarily.
This doesn't make Putin less dangerous necessarily -- in some ways it makes him more so -- but it does mean that he's unlikely to behave in a clearheaded or objectively reasonable fashion.
Here in the United States, meanwhile, we have leadership problems of our own. [So-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden managed to stumble his way through an uninspired State of the Union address in which he confused Ukrainians and Iranians, but he has shown no signs of being capable of the kind of leadership we need. (Unlike the Germans, he's not even rethinking his dumb energy policies, which need to be changed to promote energy independence and weaken Putin further.) . . .
. . . Meanwhile, another big player, China, isn't much more impressive. President Xi Jinping, while younger than Biden and Pelosi at a sprightly 69, is in a tenuous position at home. China's zero-COVID policy has failed and the public resents it, a real-estate collapse looms even as other businesses teeter financially -- and Xi's power hangs by a thread as he faces challengers who don't like his one-man state or his saber-rattling abroad . . .
. . . Only in Europe do we see, surprisingly, glimmers of more sensible behavior, as fear of a Russian invasion concentrates the minds of leaders there.
The truth is, throughout the past two years of [Chinese] COVID panic, we've seen that the world's leadership class isn't up to the task. Now, facing a major diplomatic crisis, we have to hope it will do better. Hope and maybe pray a little.

Yes indeed, Glenn Reynolds. Around the globe. TOP. Men. Meanwhile, it's funny in a sick, twisted way that Joey Soft-Serve confused Iranians and Ukrainians. But it's not funny for a number of reasons. And in fact, it might be quite revelatory, because while we weren't looking . . .

A senior Russian official announced on Thursday that a new nuclear deal with Iran will be announced within 24 to 48 hours, signaling the Biden [junta's} continued reliance on and cooperation with Moscow even as it wages a full-scale war in Ukraine.
Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia's ambassador for Iran negotiations, made the announcement in a video now circulating on social media. Ulyanov also said that he does not see the deal falling apart as a result of Russia's war, and that the two issues remain separate.
The terms of the deal remain unknown as the Biden [junta] has sought to cut Congress out of the deal and prevent it from performing its legally mandated oversight. Under the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015, Congress must give its approval of any new agreement with Iran. While the Biden administration has promised to follow this law, Congress has not been presented with details of the deal or been asked to approve it before the United States signs.

Hallelujah! At long last, a victory for the Biden junta - - wait a second. Aren't we a red nether hair's breadth from sending US combat troops into Ukraine? Aren't we sanctioning the Russians out the wazoo because of Putin's Hitler-ish behavior? How could that be happening while at the same time we're working with them to give Iran the green light to build nukes?

So, okay. Some crazy Ivan or worse, crazy Vladimir, gave the go ahead to shell a Ukrainian nuke plant and risk Chernobyl times 100. If this treaty goes ahead - and it will go ahead because Valerie Jarrett, Ron Klain and Barack Obama couldn't care fuck-all for the now defunct US Constitution - the real action is going to be in and around the Persian Gulf.

It's insane. The one Achilles heel of Putin is oil, and we have a junta in power that is hell bent on literally sending America back into the dark ages by destroying our fossil fuel industry. Yet, at the same time, the blowback of $110 a barrel crude and $7.00 a gallon gas - and rising - has forced them not to back down from the insane green nightmare but to allow as the article reads "Sanctioned Russian ships ferrying illicit Iranian crude oil in new sanctions-busting scheme" and insist on our buying our oil from Iran.

1 - Fuel Putin's war machine while publicly having the vapors
2 - Buy Iranian oil to keep the peons in flyover country happy AND green light their nukes
3 - Completely impoverish America
4 - ???
5 - Profit!!!

High prices are by design, and they don't care if it hurts your family, your job, your food supply, or your ability to move freely about the country as long as their windmills and Chinese-made solar panels operate your cars and planes.
Don't ask questions.
The timing is spectacularly bad. Democrat authoritarians have begun removing mandates and lockdowns because the political science has changed and Leftist politicians are being hurt in public opinion polls. But these autocrats have re-imposed another kind of lockdown. They're making gas so expensive you won't be able to go anywhere.
Doubt me?
The Republican Party's RNC Research highlighted three key Democrats spouting off on energy policy and they said the quiet part out loud, as the saying goes. Before the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Remember when Joe Biden's Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm laughed when asked what she would do about gas prices hovering at $2.89? . . .
. . . This is the plan.
As the old saying goes, "you can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs." If you're wondering, we're the eggs. They'll still be able to take private jets to Davos and Aspen and parts in between to do the "people's business." Just to clarify, we're not "the people," either. They're the people.
And she's not the only one.
On Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, born 81-years-ago when gas was 18 cents per gallon, decreed she was opposed to importing Russian energy. Even as Biden has grossly increased Russian energy imports, Pelosi is now all for cutting them off and continuing the Biden [junta] policy of halting drilling on public lands. This has reduced supply and increased prices for everything: meat, produce, bread.
So, Nancy's reaction is, "Let them eat cake."

There's an old saying: Man plans and G-d laughs. All it takes is one crazy Ivan, or even crazier bastard in the West Wing, to miscalculate and the best laid plans of Putin, Biden/Jarret, Xi, Khamenei, Soros et al will go up like Hiroshima.

And in the immortal words of General Buck Turgidson, "Suge! Don't forget to say your prayers."

Have a good weekend. AND . . . if you can, please consider hitting Ace's and my tip jar? It helps keep the lights on and is truly appreciated.

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

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"Taiwan, Xi Jinping, and America's year of danger."
The Gathering Typhoon
"The federal student data system embedded in this bill is only one conference committee away from [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden signing it into law."
Almost-Law College Transparency Act Would Build Another National Surveillance System
Julie Kelly: "When half the country has lost its sense of pity for fellow citizens, and the ruling class reserves pity only for themselves and faraway lands, what can be left of American civilization?"
A Country Without Pity
"Western diplomats should be burning the midnight oil now, searching for ways to bring this conflict to a speedy halt and to fashion a final agreement acceptable, if not pleasing, to the parties. They should be restraining, not encouraging, the uninformed and overheated rhetoric." (start with ripping out Sean Hannity's vocal chords, rhetorically speaking - jjs)
Stop The Momentum Pushing Us Toward World War III
Daniel Greenfield: "A tough choice between Muslim Europe and Muslim Russia."
Islam is the Only Winner in the Ukraine War

RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR

"The nuclear facility is the largest of its kind in Europe and a possible explosion could cause a disaster '10 times larger than Chernobyl,' one Ukrainian official warned. Zaporizhzhia generates a quarter of the nation's electricity. One of its six reactors had been on fire after the shelling, a plant spokesman said, adding that it was not operating but contained nuclear fuel."
Ukraine Calls Russia "Nuclear Terror" as Nuke Plant Burns After Attack, Asks Europe to Intervene
Biden joined Zelensky in "urging Russia to cease its military activities in the area and allow firefighters and emergency responders to access the site."
Biden Responds to Russian Attack on Ukrainian Nuclear Plant

* * * * *
"Sanctioned Russian ships ferrying illicit Iranian crude oil in new sanctions-busting scheme."
Russia Involved in Plot To Help Iran Bust US Oil Sanctions
"The fall of Kherson, located in southern Ukraine on the Dnieper River, could provide crucial ground for Russian troops to advance deeper into the country."
Russia Seizes First Major Ukrainian City
Dmitri Simes: "Russia's progress on other fronts is moving more slowly. In the north, fierce fighting is continuing between Russian and Ukrainian troops for control of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city and a major industrial hub."
Russian Forces Advance in Southern Ukraine, While Offensive Stalls in Other Regions
"Republicans are using high oil prices to call for the production of more oil in the US. Psaki mocked the idea of Biden allowing the Keystone XL pipeline to go forward."
White House Opposes Ban on Russian Oil Imports; Urges World to Reduce Reliance on Oil to Punish Vladimir Putin
"French President Emmanuel Macron met with Putin in early February, telling sources that he was struck at how different the Russian president was compared to when he met him during the summer of 2021, according to Reuters."
What's Going On With Vladimir Putin's Weird Behavior?
Top Chinese banking regulator: "China won't join such sanctions." (Nelson Muntz plays sad trombone - jjs)
China Won't Recognize Biden's Sanctions on Russia
"We have good contact. I can tell you the truth," Zelenskyy told Yingst. "It's a pity it began after the beginning of this war, but we have it. My appreciation to him and to his team. We can speak now often."
Zelenskyy: Biden Only Gave Support to Ukraine "After" Russia Invaded
Pull off Hannity's arms and beat this schmuck to death with them, rhetorically speaking.
"Take This Guy Out": Fey Fraud Lindsey Graham Calls for Assassination of Putin
John Ratcliffe & Cliff Sims: "Trump not only successfully deterred Russia from acting against Ukraine, he effectively deterred a lot of bad behavior across the planet."
Fear of Donald Trump Kept Putin From Invading Ukraine. Here's How Trump Pulled It Off
Lloyd Billingsley: "Will Joe Biden, the second coming of George McGovern, give Putin what he really wants?"
Bombshell Revelations

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Glenn Reynolds: "Only in Europe do we see, surprisingly, glimmers of more sensible behavior, as fear of a Russian invasion concentrates the minds of leaders there. The truth is, throughout the past two years of [Chinese] COVID panic, we've seen that the world's leadership class isn't up to the task. Now, facing a major diplomatic crisis, we have to hope it will do better. Hope and maybe pray a little."
The World's Weak Leadership Isn't Up to the Ukraine Crisis
"Recollections from the thawing of the Cold War as things now begin to heat up."
When I Met Putin
"Megalomaniac tyrants with excellent propaganda capabilities always run the risk of believing their own lies."
Cleanly Washed Russian Brains
"'Attitude tests' labeled 'silly and counterproductive.'"
Backlash Over Munich Orchestra Conductor Being Fired For Failure to Denounce Putin
"There is no moral equivalence between Ukraine and Russia, but neither country is Nazi Germany."
Everyone is Hitler
"The economic burden of the West's penalties against Russia will grow worse over time."
War By Sanctions
Sebastian Gorka: "As conservatives who fought against the scourge of communism and the Soviet Union, what is the best response now that the Cold War has been replaced with a hot war?"
The Right Response to the War in Ukraine
Oleg Atbashian (The People's Cube): "Russia can't beat the Azov battalion fighters on the battlefield, so it uses propaganda to libel them as Nazis."
About Those "Neo-Nazis" in Ukraine . . .
CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
"My dick is bigger than yours and the Italians. . . I have the biggest dick in Chicago." (no, you ARE the biggest dick in Chicago - jjs)
Chicago Mayor Lightfoot Accused of Raging Against Officials Who Wanted to Display Columbus Statue: Report
AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
". . . maybe it's too early to start burning your masks -- if you're the kind of person who follows mask mandates."
Of Course: A New Chinese COVID Variant Has Arrived Just in Time
"Teams are still required to adhere to local state and city requirements, but are no longer required by the NFL to wear masks while at the team facility, regardless of vaccination status."
NFL Drops All Chinese COVID-19 Protocols Effective Immediately
"The problem here really has less to do with the Wuhan panic and more to do with who is really in charge at these hospitals, which is certainly not the doctors and nurses, as it should be. Instead, policy is set by administrators and managers who have relatively little medical knowledge, and have no real business setting such employment health policy. In fact, these administrators have clearly proven their incompetence by the [Chinese] COVID policies they mandated in the past two years. If doctors truly cared about their patients, they would revolt, and wrest control of their practices away from these fools."
Today's Blacklisted Americans: Hundreds of Nurses Fired or Quit Over Hospitals' Chinese COVID Shot Mandate
Two years after he developed mild symptoms in March 2020, Kaine said he still "feels like all my nerves have had, like, five cups of coffee." (second hand smoke from Antifa sonny boy's crack pipe - jjs)
Tim Kaine Wants the Government To Study Medically Dubious "Long [Chinese] COVID"
"A nation itching for a return to normalcy and sensible health decisions became impatient with the Democrats trying to paint Republicans as 'anti-science' because they ditched the masks months ago, and voters will penalize the [so-called quote-unquote "president"] and his party for their stupidity and arrogance."
Democrats' Pivot on Masks Too Late to Save Them From Midterm Disaster
"The CDC changes its outdated, unreasonable [Chinese] COVID metrics well after the public had moved on."
Leading from Behind
"Science vs. Pseudo-Science."
Philosophy and the History of Science in the Age of Chinese COVID: Part V
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"High prices are by design, and they don't care if it hurts your family, your job, your food supply, or your ability to move freely about the country as long as their windmills and Chinese-made solar panels operate your cars and planes. . . Remember when Joe Biden's Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm laughed when asked what she would do about gas prices hovering at $2.89?" Biden and Democrats' "Let Them Eat Cake" Moment in Face of Exploding Gas Prices
"A word salad of bureaucratic bullshit."
Democrats Say To Fight Russia, Buy Oil From Iran
"Joe Biden's State of the Union plan to squelch inflation will only make it worse."
Sorry Mr. So-Called Quote-Unquote "president," But Inflation Isn't Due to "Greed"
"Pelosi had trouble articulating at times during this news conference, at one point drawing a dome with her hand as she failed to recall the words 'Strategic Petroleum Reserve.'"
Malig-Nancy Pelosi Slams Oil Companies, Says She's "Not for Drilling on Public Lands"
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"Rochester Community Schools Superintendent Robert Shaner admitted to monitoring social media posts made by parents and contacting at least two employers and one police department over parents' posts, according to a Feb. 15 deposition reported by the Detroit News. Parents are calling for his resignation amid the spying allegations, according to Fox News."
Michigan Superintendent Raked in Nearly $700,000 in Salary, Benefits as He Monitored Parents' Social Media
"A Virginia high school earned legal rebuke for its race-conscious admissions policy, but schools that keep quiet may get away with similar behavior."
Keep Your Discrimination Quiet
"After the March 1 primaries, invigorated Republican candidates are ready to take on radical education proposals by the horns."
Texas Parents Make Strong Showing In State School Board Primary
Relentless pounding on tables and yelling caused event to be halted: "We want you off this campus, that's what we want. . . We don't want to hear from you . . . Get out!"
Ilya Shapiro Shouted Down, Prevented From Speaking At UC-Hastings Law School: "Get Out!"
THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH
Margot Cleveland: "Special Counsel Michael Gableman vetted more than 90 nursing homes in five different counties and concluded there was 'widespread election fraud.'"
Wisconsin Special Counsel Finds "Widespread Election Fraud" in 2020 Nursing Homes
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"Company cut off Israeli manufacturer's 35-year contract after he refused to participate in 'illegal' boycott."
Manufacturer Sues Ben & Jerry's Over Israel Boycott
OTHER DEMOCRAT, LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"A handful of Republicans in the Virginia House of Delegates and Senate are thwarting Gov. Glenn Youngkin's campaign promises."
Republicans Thwart Pro-Life, Pro-Woman, Anti-Racist Bills In Virginia's Legislature
"It's not just that she was unhappy with her husband's peccadillos; it's also that she's got some interesting things to say about Jeffrey Epstein."
Bill Gates' Ex-Wife is Anxious to Distance Herself From Jeffrey Epstein
POLITICS
"What the establishment prefers to do is what Mitch McConnell has always done: run on nothing except how bad the other guy is." (and do nothing if they gain control - jjs)
Senate Republicans Trash Rick Scott For Telling Voters How He'll Work For Them
"Breitbart News reported that Purley, after he was fired from Feinstein's office for performance-related issues, entered the U.S. Capitol and smoked a marijuana blunt in the California Democrat's office." (it's a black lab, so what's the beef? - jjs)
Fired Dianne Feinstein Staffer: "Senator Cares More About Her Dog than Black People"
"Pelosi and Whoopi can attack me."
Lauren Boebert Says She'll "Take the Heat" to Honor the 13 Americans Killed in Afghanistan
"Celebrity doc's poll numbers drop amid barrage of attack ads." (no idea who McCormick is but Oz's association with Oprah IMHO is the kiss of death - jjs)
Free Beacon Poll: McCormick Overtakes Oz in PA Primary
Rabbi Dov Fischer: "Ukrainians, Iranians. Easy to confuse the two."
When Biden Said Putin Will Never Win Over the Iranian People, I - . . . - Ran
"How labor unions, working with American conservatives, could rescue America's middle class."
The Union Card
"Why are the men of the left so eager to become women if no one is going to protect them when they are hit in the face with a human mud pie? More lunacy! A store in Portland (of course) is closing for two to three weeks, depending on how long it takes for them to exorcise their demons of 'white supremacy.'"
The Lunatic Left Is Going Off the Rails on the Crazy Train (Again)
SUPREME COURT VACANCY
"I don't think she's an idiot. To the contrary, I think she's very cunning. I just think she happens to be heartless. And, to be completely honest, evil, that she would do this to a family."
Verdict on Ketanji Brown Jackson: "Supreme"-ly Heartless
"Why announce the sex and skin color of a Supreme Court nominee weeks in advance of naming the name? It's not just for woke virtue-signaling. . . Ketanji Brown Jackson is intended to be the pro-criminal, anti-LEO lobby's camel under the tent, to infect the Supreme Court itself with this malevolent attitude."
The Hidden Agenda Behind Joe Biden's Black, Female Supreme Court Pledge
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"The Senate Commerce Committee advanced Gigi Sohn's Federal Communication Commission (FCC) and Alvaro Bedoya's Federal Trade Commission (FTC) nominations, putting Democrats one step closer to being able to advance their leftist agenda, including censorship, at the agencies."
Democrats Advance Radical FCC, FTC Nominees to Senate for Confirmation
"You know Ginni Thomas really triggers the left when her heartfelt notes to clerks and spouses makes the left see conspiracies and corruption."
Media Smeared Clarence Thomas' Wife for "Agitating" on a Listserv. Here's the Sweet Thing She Actually Said
"The billionaire-backed OpenDemocracy website claims journalistic focus on Ukraine undermines ethnic minority trust in media."
Nazi Collaborator Soros Mag: Focus on White Deaths in Ukraine is Racist "Dog Whistle"
"Their slaver's organizing document is trash."
'Their Slaver's Organizing Document Is Trash': Low-Brow Nation Scribbler Elie Mystal Sez We Should Throw Out Constitution for Something "More Inclusive"
"This tells you all you need to know about the state of the media."
CNN Hires Colbert Producer as Its New President
"The Commission on Presidential Debates robbed the American people of a substantive discussion on foreign policy in 2020."
Reminder: The Presidential Debate Commission Worked To Hide Joe Biden's Foreign Policy From Voters
"The racism narrative is never about understanding. It's about making reality fit the preconceived conception."
How CNN Twists the Racial Narrative
ABORTION
"The governor . . . is not responding to outcry from pro-abortion activists."
Desperate Dems Spent Hours Trying to Stop a Florida Pro-Life Bill. They Just Failed.
"Perhaps leftists shouldn't think of pro-lifers as 'female body-control freaks.' Think of them instead as the voice for those who can't speak because THEY HAVEN'T BEEN BORN YET."
Being Pro-Abortion Isn't a Fight Against "Old White Men Trying to Control Women's Bodies," It's an Escape hosta for the Irresponsible
SECOND AMENDMENT
"This is like requiring protesters to purchase insurance before exercising their freedom of speech."
The Soft Disarmament of San Jose's Gun Insurance Requirement
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"A senior Russian official announced on Thursday that a new nuclear deal with Iran will be announced within 24 to 48 hours, signaling the Biden [junta's] continued reliance on and cooperation with Moscow even as it wages a full-scale war in Ukraine."
Russians Announce US-Iran Deal as Tanks Roll Across Europe
"Based on new satellite photos, it appears that an attempt by Iran to launch a satellite failed this week when the rocket exploded on the launchpad." (sound of Mossad agents snickering at "launch failure" - jjs)
Satellite Photos Suggest Iran Had a Launch Failure with Rocket Explosion on Launchpad
"Year one of Biden's foreign policy has damaged our republic. Unfortunately, things can easily get a whole lot worse, and fast."
Buckle Your Seatbelts for Three More Years of Biden Making the World More Dangerous
"Francis fiddles with 'fraternity' while Africa burns."
Has Church Policy Enabled Christian Persecution?
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
"And they more concerned about the budget than they are about their health," she continued. "Oh really, you just gave tax cuts in 2017 to the richest people in America – tax cuts for the rich, cancer for our veterans -- that's how we see this discussion." (filthy shit-whore criminal with the same tired blood-libels that sadly far too many swallow whole - jjs)
Watch: Malig-Nancy Pelosi Claims Republicans Want "Cancer for Our Veterans"
"Gorsuch accuses majority of shielding the government from 'embarrassment.'"
Supreme Court Denies Gitmo Detainee's Request for CIA Subpoena
Robert Spencer: "Woke and stupid."
As Russia Invades Ukraine, U.S. Army Gives Mandatory Training on Gender Identity
Peter Schweizer: "These are features of clear interest to clean energy proponents, to be sure, but also strong selling points for military planners developing weapons platforms that could be deployed at sea, in the air, or in space for long periods of time. Bill Gates appears remarkably blinkered, to say the least, about the Chinese Communist Party's desire and ability to weaponize the nuclear technology he wanted to share with them."
Red-Handed: Bill Gates Developed Nuclear Reactors That Help China Overtake the U.S. Military
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"The deal follows an earlier settlement that was appealed by eight states and Washington D.C. They agreed to sign on after the Sackler family -- who owns the company -- agreed to more money and accepted other terms, including an apology. The family would, in exchange, be protected from civil lawsuits."
Purdue Pharma, States Reach New Opioid Settlement
"The sad state of America's declining healthcare system."
John Stossel Video: Woke Medicine
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"Claiming that reducing PM-2.5 emissions from industrial sources will have this magically profitable effect on the American economy is a nothing but a scam. . . If the politicians and regulators who piously claim that 'they follow the science' truly did, you'd think they would admit that."
OUT: Ozone; IN: Particulate Matter
"Musk has called out Biden in the past for his favoritism of the unionized GM and Ford."
Elon Musk Trolls Joe Biden on Twitter, and It Is Epic
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"Russian engines are used on two American rockets, ULA's Atlas-5 and Northrop Grumman's Antares. The Atlas-4 however is being phased out, and has already received all the engines it needs for all of that rocket's remaining flights. ULA plans to replace it with its new Vulcan rocket, using Blue Origin's (long delayed) BE-4 engine."
Russia Blocks Future Rocket Engine Sales to US
"Those officials also said that losing Russia as a launch option will be a 'serious blow' to South Korea's entire space effort. I find that puzzling. There are plenty of other rocket companies now available. Why South Korea feels a need to depend on Russia seems short-sighted."
Launch of Two South Korean Satellites Threatened by Russia's Ukraine War
"Why Elon Musk's SpaceX is an underrated strategic national asset for the U.S.—and NASA deserves some credit."
To the Moon and Stars
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"With these people running in the hallway, screaming, I mean, at that point I was pretty scared for my life."
"Scared For My Life": Police Hide Texas Student in Closet From Black-Clad Mob Amidst Trans Directive Outrage
The gall of this vegetable's controllers pouring almost literal gasoline onto a fire is radiant.
Joe Biden: Texas Categorizing Transgender Procedures "Child Abuse" is "Government Overreach at Its Worst"
"'This is a victory for girls' sports in Iowa."
GIRLS ONLY: Iowa Bans Biological Males From Women's Sports
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Daniel Greenfield: "Dr. Seuss is too white to be Dr. Seuss."
Goodbye Dr. Seuss, Hello Ibram X. "Krement"
"The AAVMC's annual conference is considered one of the leading professional development events in international academic veterinary medicine."
Krylon-Hair Klown Krackpot Nikole Hannah-Jones to Discuss Diversity, Inclusion and Equity at a Veterinary Medicine Conference
Christian Toto: "Smart and brimming with empathy, this influencer is changing hearts, minds."
PragerU's Amala Ekpunobi Spills the Secrets to Her Social Media Success
You'll be relieved that the floor received only a few scuffs and minor soiling, and was right as rain within minutes.
Your Thursday Pick-Me-Up: Joy Behar Face-Plants Live on The View
HITHER & YON
"Concepts of death influence cultures; even atheists benefit from understanding them."
Lee Strobel's The Case for Heaven Presents a Christian View of Death

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1 Good morning, everyone. Happy Friday.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 04, 2022 07:41 AM (nRMeC)

2 Morning!

Posted by: Rosasharn at March 04, 2022 07:41 AM (yEBFM)

3 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 04, 2022 07:41 AM (yrol0)

4 Whoa

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 04, 2022 07:41 AM (Do5/p)

5 Hiya JJ !

Posted by: JT at March 04, 2022 07:41 AM (arJlL)

6 Thank you, J.J.!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 04, 2022 07:42 AM (3D/fK)

7 Good morning.

Posted by: Ironwood at March 04, 2022 07:43 AM (6YMId)

8 Happy Friday, everyone.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 04, 2022 07:43 AM (4olE8)

9 I have few if any truly trusted sources anymore. Maybe this is the price of truly accepting the truth about most of mankind--tied to making a buck and not meaningful principles.

Posted by: IanDeal at March 04, 2022 07:44 AM (MGjjz)

10 Mornin!

Posted by: Hawkpilot at March 04, 2022 07:44 AM (Vn5FQ)

11 Morning

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at March 04, 2022 07:44 AM (CjFDo)

12
~sob-sob~

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at March 04, 2022 07:46 AM (frY9J)

13
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 04, 2022 07:46 AM (DUIap)

14 Great MR
Thanks JJ

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 04, 2022 07:46 AM (204zP)

15 Everything is an Op, You are being lied to and they want you to die.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 04, 2022 07:46 AM (1gtSk)

16 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at March 04, 2022 07:46 AM (zxnLN)

17 repost:
The same people who have been trying to steal my freedom, my vote, my voice, my money, my job, my face are telling me to "stand with Ukraine" and cancel all things Russians.
Sure, I'll get right on that.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 04, 2022 07:46 AM (204zP)

18 Funny J.J. "The Maltese Falcon" has a line about Wilmer being a "gunsel." Miss Lindsey is a gunsel, a catamite.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 04, 2022 07:47 AM (lKAqb)

19 Moronin', Hourde

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at March 04, 2022 07:47 AM (u7pQw)

20 I'm pro Russia now. Have to be. Soros is against it.

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 04, 2022 07:47 AM (DcKNO)

21 18 Funny J.J. "The Maltese Falcon" has a line about Wilmer being a "gunsel." Miss Lindsey is a gunsel, a catamite.
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 04, 2022 07:47 AM (lKAqb)

I thought that that was a reference to a gun, not a pederast. Ha!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 04, 2022 07:48 AM (s2VJv)

22 Babylon Bee: US-Mexico Border disguised as Ukrainian Border so Democrats will defend it.

Posted by: buzzion at March 04, 2022 07:48 AM (vMCab)

23 The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which recently celebrated the CTAs passage, has a long history of pushing to remove the current federal ban on a national student database.

My guess is one of the first uses will be to mine for children that can be sex trafficked.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 04, 2022 07:49 AM (yrol0)

24 vmom, that was awesome.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 04, 2022 07:49 AM (PiwSw)

25 American slang.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/gunsel

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 04, 2022 07:49 AM (lKAqb)

26 The more I hear bleating about evil Russia versus pristine Ukraine from the usual sources, the more suspicious I become about the situation.

Meanwhile, the most incompetent administration in history is in charge, so I have to assume things will get much worse for us, here.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 04, 2022 07:49 AM (5kI0z)

27 Everything about this Russia/Ukraine thing stinks, something just seems off. I don't know what it is, but my spidey senses are up. Tin foil hat off.

Posted by: spypeach at March 04, 2022 07:49 AM (wAxm0)

28 Amazon has Gladius-es for sale from $25-$200, all available in time for an Ides of March reenactment at the US Senate.

Posted by: Modern day SPQR at March 04, 2022 07:49 AM (Qwz9s)

29 I thought that you would know. From the Yiddish gunzel and German G�nslein

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 04, 2022 07:50 AM (lKAqb)

30 Willowed

301 It is quite astounding how quickly the dems and their enablers pivoted from the covid is gonna kill us all to Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine. My goodness my cynicism was surprised by the speed of it. I knew something was up when Blumenthal and Murphy were holding a vigil for the Ukes like 6 weeks ago on the steps of the CT capital It was all so premature and contrived. But here we are talking duck and cover. Thank team D. Thanks Brandon.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 04, 2022 07:48 AM (rjpjQ)

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 04, 2022 07:50 AM (rjpjQ)

31 24 vmom, that was awesome.

---
Thankee kindly
*curtsies*

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 04, 2022 07:50 AM (204zP)

32 by 1910, American English underworld slang, from hobo slang, "naive young boy," but especially "a catamite;" specifically "a young male kept as a sexual companion, especially by an older tramp," from Yiddish genzel, from German G�nslein "gosling, young goose" (see goose (n.)). The secondary, non-sexual meaning "young hoodlum" seems to be entirely traceable to Dashiell Hammett, who sneaked it into "The Maltese Falcon" (1929) while warring with his editor over the book's racy language:

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 04, 2022 07:50 AM (i0slg)

33 I'm so glad that Russia and the US are cooperating on giving nuclear technology to Iran, while Iran is feverishly working on ICBM technology.

There is certainly nothing to fear with experts in charge. There is no way Iran will couple those two things in order to achieve their lifelong goals.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 04, 2022 07:52 AM (5kI0z)

34 Lindsey Graham thinks it isn't fedposting when he does it.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 04, 2022 07:52 AM (ybIRR)

35 The Germans are so thoroughly scared of the Russia/Ukraine mess that they now intend to have a functioning, fully equipped military by 2025.

Should have listened to Trump.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 04, 2022 07:52 AM (Yk3/2)

36 An interesting read in my inbox this morning from a substack I follow:

"How did Volodymyr Zelensky rise from a comedian acting as President in a TV show to becoming the President of Ukraine? Who is behind his rise? These are legitimate questions particularly when Zelensky became a household name in the US for the key role he played in the first impeachment of President Trump, which was also attached to the Trump-Russia hoax and the discredited Steele Dossier."

https://tinyurl.com/yckutzma

Posted by: one of the quiet ones at March 04, 2022 07:52 AM (T823z)

37 Burn it down.
Scatter the stones.
Salt the earth where it stood.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 04, 2022 07:52 AM (tcZnS)

38 32 Posted by: Ignoramus at March 04, 2022 07:50 AM (i0slg)

'I'm going to give my girl a GOOSE . . . for Christmas..."

- - Benny Bell

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 04, 2022 07:52 AM (s2VJv)

39 But maybe not if it's a nuclear power plant.

Just sayin'.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 04, 2022 07:53 AM (tcZnS)

40 Great article JJ.

I'm going to go with Satan Doesn't Cast Out Satan, so this war and all the BS around it is an OP.

Western "leaders" absolutely, unambiguously hate We The People and have in the last two years amped up their unrelenting war against We The People in order to humiliate, impoverish and then depopulate because they are sick, depraved evil mother fuckers.

So when people who hate us are using the EXACT SAME PROPAGANDA techniques and Nazi psychological treatment as they used on Trump, GangGreen, C19 and now on this whole Russia/Ukraine imbroglio, once again this is an OP to destroy us and bring to an end American Exceptionalism because AE is an affront and offense to Satan and his minions.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 04, 2022 07:53 AM (lD3vL)

41 "we've seen that the world's leadership class isn't up to the task."

Ridiculous understatement. Then I realized it was Instapundit. Of course.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 04, 2022 07:53 AM (H8QX8)

42
Funny J.J. "The Maltese Falcon" has a line about Wilmer being a "gunsel." Miss Lindsey is a gunsel, a catamite.
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 04, 2022 07:47 AM

I thought that that was a reference to a gun, not a pederast. Ha!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 04, 2022 07:48 AM

in noir, "gunsel" was more used as slang for a young hoodlum / gun-man

Elijah Cook, Jr. kinda defined the role

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 04, 2022 07:53 AM (DUIap)

43 Thank you the link-a-palooza, Mr Sefton.

What gets me about the Slavic mess, is that people who were saying, just a few weeks ago, how the govt and media were liars (vis-a-vis coof) and now, all of a sudden, believe every word coming from the saintly, always truthful mouths of the govt and their cronies in the media.

It is perplexing.

Posted by: Flyover at March 04, 2022 07:53 AM (Rbu5d)

44 Do we have another James Wilkes Booth or a Lee Harvey Oswald to rid us of that Nancy Boy Lindsey Graham?

You would be doing yourself and the world a great service!

Unless you want to be led around by the nose by a closeted sodomite breech loader for the rest of your lives you need to step up to the plate!

Posted by: Vlad Putin at March 04, 2022 07:54 AM (uVDu4)

45 Good morning morons and thank you JJ

Very thorough analysis this morning

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 04, 2022 07:54 AM (EZebt)

46 I personally think the Russia/Ukraine thing is being horrendously overanalyzed (including by me)

Russia wants to expand their influence. A power and credibility vacuum in the West gave them yet another opening. They took it.

That's all that is happening. You leave an expansionist nation room to take what it wants, it's going to take it. "World Peace" is a weak and largely fictitious byproduct of hegemony.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 04, 2022 07:54 AM (6FeV1)

47 Biden has been publicly in favor of a nuclear armed Iran ever since 2008. He is a traitor to common sense.

The Junta lead negotiator on Iran was raised in France until his parents were expelled back to the U.S. for being communist sympathizers to the PLO.

We are in the worst of hands.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 04, 2022 07:55 AM (Yk3/2)

48 A fully functioning German military? What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 04, 2022 07:56 AM (oWBc3)

49 Good morning everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 04, 2022 07:56 AM (Msys3)

50 27 Everything about this Russia/Ukraine thing stinks, something just seems off. I don't know what it is, but my spidey senses are up. Tin foil hat off.
Posted by: spypeach at March 04, 2022 07:49 AM (wAxm0)

Yep. It's like a stage show but with real cities being blasted. Yeah it's all bad, but the dems REALLY want you all in on UKRAINE UKRAINE UKRAINE. You aren't supposed to notice the inflation until they brand it FUNFLATION.

Price of a side salad with chicken 1 year ago at the lunch counter in the bldg $7. Now, $11. Thanks Brandon.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 04, 2022 07:56 AM (rjpjQ)

51 Sanctioned Russian tankers are carrying illicit Iranian oil, providing a fresh financial lifeline for Tehran and highlighting significant gaps in the Biden administrations enforcement of sanctions.

So buying Russian oil is REALLY buying Iranian oil!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 04, 2022 07:56 AM (yrol0)

52 The Germans are so thoroughly scared of the Russia/Ukraine mess that they now intend to have a functioning, fully equipped military by 2025.

Doesn't matter, their "leadership" crippled the country permanently with their energy policies. Unless the Germans only care to fight when the sun is out and the wind is blowing, its all paper.

Besides the Eurotrash that is their population wouldn't stand up for their own women when the Muslims came in and had their way unopposed with them. Their culture is dead and isn't worth fighting for - and everyone knows it.

Militaries exist today only to keep the oligarchs and elite in power.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 04, 2022 07:56 AM (lD3vL)

53 Good morning horde TGIF

Posted by: Skip's Phone at March 04, 2022 07:57 AM (6ZVAb)

54 39 But maybe not if it's a nuclear power plant.

Just sayin'.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 04, 2022 07:53 AM (tcZnS)

"Hey, Allen? Why are these stones glowing?"

"Oi! Less talkee, more scatteree!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 04, 2022 07:57 AM (6FeV1)

55 A stan divided against itself cannot stand.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 04, 2022 07:57 AM (4I/2K)

56 If Israel bombs Iran in coming days, will anyone be surprised?

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 04, 2022 07:58 AM (Yk3/2)

57 Popular right now;

"If prices go up at the pump...it's temporary fallout. Think of it as the price of freedom.
You aren't sitting on a concrete floor in a train terminal holding your cat."

Can't wait for this virtue signaling with Ukraine to end.

Posted by: JROD at March 04, 2022 07:58 AM (0jZnq)

58 "Russia wants to expand their influence. "

After the fall of the Soviet Union, the US wanted to expand NATO for reasons, even while it became a military paper tiger. This was provocative and dangerous. Do we really want Latvia (which is half ethnic Russian to be a doomsday device).

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 04, 2022 07:58 AM (i0slg)

59 55 A stan divided against itself cannot stand.
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 04, 2022 07:57 AM (4I/2K)

Yup.

Posted by: Hindustan at March 04, 2022 07:58 AM (6FeV1)

60 So, about 45 years ago, I a sitting there watching "The Maltese Falcon" with my mom, a well-read Southern Methodist gal. I asked her "What's a gunsel?" She replied "a catamite." I had to go look that up.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 04, 2022 07:59 AM (lKAqb)

61 Good morning, JJ.

Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 04, 2022 07:59 AM (DU+/6)

62 I see America is enjoying its newest spectator sport, Russia vs Ukraine. We do love our news cycles.

Posted by: kraken at March 04, 2022 07:59 AM (Vr12I)

63 Morning, Horde...How goes it?

Are we boned yet?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 04, 2022 07:59 AM (YIVH2)

64 Morning peeps.

If I were the likes of Miss. Lindsey or one of the other warmongers calling for Putin's death I'd be a bit more circumspect. Putin actually kills his detractors.

On the other hand, you go Lindsey girl! Go get him!

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 04, 2022 08:00 AM (BFigT)

65 "If prices go up at the pump...it's temporary fallout. Think of it as the price of freedom.
You aren't sitting on a concrete floor in a train terminal holding your cat."
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Not yet, but that's clearly where the Left wants me to be while I wait for the train to take me to the new and improved "Happy Fun Camps!"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 04, 2022 08:00 AM (YIVH2)

66 56 If Israel bombs Iran in coming days, will anyone be surprised?
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 04, 2022 07:58 AM (Yk3/2)

Pleased if not surprised.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 04, 2022 08:00 AM (H8QX8)

67 Putin Ukraine Putin Ukraine Putin Ukraine Putin Ukraine

Posted by: Mr Gaga at March 04, 2022 08:00 AM (KiBMU)

68 Sanctioned Russian tankers are carrying illicit Iranian oil, providing a fresh financial lifeline for Tehran and highlighting significant gaps in the Biden administrations enforcement of sanctions.

So buying Russian oil is REALLY buying Iranian oil!
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 04, 2022 07:56 AM (yrol0)
=====================
Because Biden can be bought, he thinks everyone else can also be bought. So he is spending American money on Russian and Iranian oil, in hopes the new cash is enough to entice them to behave themselves. In the face of all the proof to the contrary, Biden believes in the power of the almighty dollar. What a dumbass.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 04, 2022 08:00 AM (Yk3/2)

69 The Junta lead negotiator on Iran was raised in France until his parents were expelled back to the U.S. for being communist sympathizers to the PLO.

We are in the worst of hands.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Wow. I use to think the folks appointed/selected for 'service' for us were only incompetent.

I now know they are, and most probably always have been, enemies of America.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 04, 2022 08:00 AM (Msys3)

70 Heh. I listened to a genius 'splain to me that the mullahs will never nuke Israel because of the palis. Feature, not bug. Nobody really wants them.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 04, 2022 08:00 AM (lz5hY)

71 I will say that our oligarchs seem genuinely alarmed by Putin; unlike the fake Covid fear if last year.
Maybe.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 04, 2022 08:01 AM (204zP)

72 1 - It's been, what, 7 days? I don't think it's been long enough to say anything except that it's been 7 days of fighting and it's not over yet. As someone pointed out yesterday (I think), it took us about 3 weeks to take Bagdad in Iraq II - Electric Boogaloo, and - for all their propaganda - I doubt Russia is much more combat ready than we were back then, and Ukraine is probably a bit tougher of a nut to crack than Iraq was.

Will the Ukrainians fend off Vlad and team? Maybe. But one week in is WAY too early to start talking about how "bad" it's going for Russia.

2 - Russia's invasion of Ukraine is not the highest thing on my priority list just now. We have tyrants much closer at hand who need to be dealt with.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 04, 2022 08:01 AM (tcZnS)

73 Good morning.

More coffee.

Posted by: dantesed at March 04, 2022 08:01 AM (88xKn)

74 57 Popular right now;

"If prices go up at the pump...it's temporary fallout. Think of it as the price of freedom.
You aren't sitting on a concrete floor in a train terminal holding your cat."

Can't wait for this virtue signaling with Ukraine to end.
Posted by: JROD at March 04, 2022 07:58 AM (0jZnq

The old "you are lucky it, could be worse" from the people control both punishments.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 04, 2022 08:01 AM (rjpjQ)

75 Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm laughs when asked about Biden's plans to bring gas prices down.

"Ha ha ha. That is hilarious!"

Amid surging gas prices, Nancy Pelosi says she's "not for drilling on public lands."

FUCK YOU, PEASANTS!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 04, 2022 08:01 AM (yrol0)

76 kee-YEF

kee-YEV

Fuck this KEEV shit.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at March 04, 2022 08:02 AM (KiBMU)

77 56 If Israel bombs Iran in coming days, will anyone be surprised?
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 04, 2022 07:58 AM (Yk3/2)

I think when they say "Never Again" they mean it.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 04, 2022 08:02 AM (PiwSw)

78 Total bullshit about the nuclear power plant...

Nobody "bombed" it. There was a small fire in the administration building when ground forces attacked and took over. Some dick head on Tucker Carlson talked about worrying the place was going to "blow up". How can they let assholes like that on the air? "The radiation levels appear to be normal today" oh, boy. I'll sleep better tonight.

Fuck.

Posted by: jwest at March 04, 2022 08:02 AM (/BlEx)

79 "The more I hear bleating about evil Russia versus pristine Ukraine from the usual sources, the more suspicious I become about the situation.
Posted by: Thomas Paine"

Same here. I was mostly indifferent at first , neutral or possibly slightly pro-Ukraine because of how badly Russia screwed them under communism. But anytime the ruling class, Big Tech , MSM start putting out a unified, repetitive message I automatically have to assume it is all lies and deception. This goes way beyond the war/border. Maybe the goal it to get rid of Putin and Russia on board with the WEF New Normal.

Posted by: Ripley at March 04, 2022 08:02 AM (MxEKc)

80 JJS, I couldn't help but notice you are using two spellings for Linds(a,e)y Graham.

It is with an e, or fartclam, your choice.

Lindsey 1.0 is the predominant version of sucker of cock, though he breaks out into 2.0 when politically convenient.

C'mon, SC voters, you can do better. Without breaking a sweat better. Be better, you jackwagons.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 04, 2022 08:02 AM (F0YaR)

81 I personally think the Russia/Ukraine thing is being horrendously overanalyzed (including by me)

Russia wants to expand their influence. A power and credibility vacuum in the West gave them yet another opening. They took it.

I can go with this. A couple weeks ago we were all subject matter experts on macro economics; before that, supply chains; before that C19... A Twitter University education can take you places.

Ignoring all of the propaganda, it seems to be an alignment of planets with demographics, oil, debt, bio-weapons, Crimea, NATO, buffer zones, economics, China, and a very weak and exposed West.

But mostly Brandon is weak, if not down-right traitorous.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 04, 2022 08:02 AM (lD3vL)

82 76 kee-YEF

kee-YEV

Fuck this KEEV shit.
Posted by: Mr Gaga at March 04, 2022 08:02 AM (KiBMU)

Hey, what did I do now?

Posted by: Keef Richards at March 04, 2022 08:02 AM (PiwSw)

83 If Israel bombs Iran in coming days, will anyone be surprised?

No reason to kinetic. Stuxnet II.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 04, 2022 08:02 AM (KY22T)

84 Jennifer Griffin Jennifer Griffen Jennifer Griffen

I just don't give a shit.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at March 04, 2022 08:02 AM (KiBMU)

85 Heh. I listened to a genius 'splain to me that the mullahs will never nuke Israel because of the palis. Feature, not bug. Nobody really wants them.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 04, 2022 08:00 AM (lz5hY)
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The palis would happily sacrifice themselves to the last man, woman, and child if it meant they could take down one more Jew with them.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 04, 2022 08:03 AM (YIVH2)

86 Remember the Canadian trucker protest? That was so February.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 04, 2022 08:03 AM (4I/2K)

87 71 I will say that our oligarchs seem genuinely alarmed by Putin; unlike the fake Covid fear if last year.
Maybe.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 04, 2022 08:01 AM (204zP

Let's see they spent two years flogging ineffective solutions to covid while Russia made plans to annex Ukraine and then did. They are only alarmed that you might notice they suck at everything.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 04, 2022 08:04 AM (rjpjQ)

88 The palis would happily sacrifice themselves to the last man, woman, and child if it meant they could take down one more Jew with them.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 04, 2022 08:03 AM (YIVH2)

I'll throw on a yarmulke if we can make this happen

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 04, 2022 08:04 AM (6FeV1)

89 I asked her "What's a gunsel?" She replied "a catamite."
================
Wow, really? I always assumed a "gunsel" was another word for low-level gunman. A crook. I will follow your mom's advice and look that up. A new word!

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 04, 2022 08:04 AM (Yk3/2)

90 Maybe the goal it to get rid of Putin and Russia on board with the WEF New Normal.

Russia has oil, food and fertilizers. All of these things the WEF hates because you are supposed to die and these things are the fundamentals of life.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 04, 2022 08:04 AM (lD3vL)

91 The safest bet for him would be to be happy with the capture of Kherson and the Donbas, declare victory, withdraw from everywhere else and lick your wounds. Of course, will the world lift all sanctions now that the rhetoric of Putin being Hitler has flooded the airwaves? Can Biden and the rest of the world do that without further flushing their credibility down the shitter after "two weeks" (about 99 in real time) to flatten society? No, they can't. And Putin is not going to let the ruble disintegrate without a reaction.
++++
I don't entirely agree. Russia is embargoed and hurting and this is bad for Putin, but it may be a matter not so much of getting foreigners to relieve their sanctions, but of waiting them out. Russian energy is important for much of the world and their potash is crucial, especially in a time of fertilizer shortages. Their other mineral exports are non-trivial as well. In some respects, it looks to me like the sanctions and embargoes on Russia are just as tenuous as Russia's invasion of Ukraine. It cannot be sustained forever. Russia has a fairly small economy, all things considered - but some of what they provide is strategically vital.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 04, 2022 08:04 AM (DU+/6)

92 Remember "Whip Inflation Now"? At least it was well-intentioned. The saboteurs running things now want inflation.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 04, 2022 08:05 AM (H8QX8)

93 @65 "Perfessor Squirrel'-Something about STFU about your high gas prices at the pump, you could be in Ukraine in the message makes me want to be violent.

Posted by: JROD at March 04, 2022 08:05 AM (0jZnq)

94 Are the camps finished yet? Can we start rounding up all the russians and shipping them into their new quarters?

Can we get Catholic Charities to do the "resettlement," same as they did for about a million illegals recently?

Posted by: Mr Gaga at March 04, 2022 08:05 AM (KiBMU)

95 As the old saying goes, "you can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs."

Brandon updated that to "if ya wanna make an omelet, ya gotta shit your pants"

Posted by: JT at March 04, 2022 08:05 AM (arJlL)

96 Remember the Canadian trucker protest? That was so February.
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 04, 2022 08:03 AM (4I/2K)
===================
Did Castreau keep citizen bank accounts?

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 04, 2022 08:05 AM (Yk3/2)

97 " gunsel". Looked it up. 3 definitions. Everyone here is correct.

Posted by: kraken at March 04, 2022 08:05 AM (Vr12I)

98 Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm laughs when asked about Biden's plans to bring gas prices down.

In fairness, what else do you expect her to do? She can't say "drill, baby, drill" because that would lose too much of the base too close to an election. On the other hand, that same base is ALSO complaining about $5/gal gasoline and the only thing that will reduce the price is increasing the supply with a stable (read: not one prone to random wars) source. That would be us.

I, too, would laugh hysterically in the face of such a catch 22.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 04, 2022 08:06 AM (tcZnS)

99 "I personally think the Russia/Ukraine thing is being horrendously overanalyzed (including by me)

Russia wants to expand their influence. A power and credibility vacuum in the West gave them yet another opening. They took it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko"

So a no-conspiracy theory? That's crazy talk.

Posted by: Ripley at March 04, 2022 08:06 AM (MxEKc)

100 Sam Spade: When I slap you, you'll take it and like it.
Joel Cairo (Peter Lorre) was a little light in his loafers, no?

At a time when homosexuality was in the closet, Falcon got a lot by the censors. Later it was Paul Lynde

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 04, 2022 08:06 AM (i0slg)

101 The truth is, throughout the past two years of [Chinese] COVID panic, we've seen that the world's leadership class isn't up to the task. Now, facing a major diplomatic crisis, we have to hope it will do better. Hope and maybe pray a little.
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Why? Hoping and praying that incompetent, vain, arrogant, corrupt scoundrels suddenly become competent statesmen is not a reasonable strategy. Our elites are all of the former type, with the latter type nowhere to be found. Not now. Competent, honest, passionate men do exist, of course, but they are not in our ruling class.

It will not "do better" until it is replaced.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 04, 2022 08:06 AM (DU+/6)

102 Bill Gates' Ex-Wife is Anxious to Distance Herself From Jeffrey Epstein

Melinda did not hang herself.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 04, 2022 08:07 AM (yrol0)

103 Given that Ukraine is nearly the size of Texas, and many remaining citizens are armed and dangerous, Russia has a long-term problem ahead of them.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 04, 2022 08:07 AM (Yk3/2)

104 Where is the Democrat Commie Club when their socialist brother Putin is shelling a nuclear power plant?

Bernie Sanders? AOC? Bill DiBlasio?

I'm sure this is all good for Gaia.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 04, 2022 08:08 AM (KY22T)

105 @91

>>Their other mineral exports are non-trivial as well.

They are the number one producer of palladium as well, so that chip, electronics and new car shortage is only going to get worse.

We are being led by dangerous children.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 04, 2022 08:09 AM (0C60m)

106 I have no living memory of an assassination of a leader of a nuclear power.

It'll be interesting to add that to my lived experiences.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 08:09 AM (LvTSG)

107 I'm sure this is all good for Gaia.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 04, 2022 08:08 AM (KY22T)

Watch what they do, not what they say.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 04, 2022 08:09 AM (6FeV1)

108 War crimes for Putin.

But Assad?

Posted by: Mr Gaga at March 04, 2022 08:09 AM (KiBMU)

109 @65 "Perfessor Squirrel'-Something about STFU about your high gas prices at the pump, you could be in Ukraine in the message makes me want to be violent.
Posted by: JROD at March 04, 2022 08:05 AM (0jZnq)
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I feel the same way. There are deranged lunatics in this country who would welcome an American Holodomor because they believe--in their fevered imaginings--that it would only affect us "deplorables." THEY would still have access to food, energy, and all of the comforts of life. WE should be starving and shivering in the dark.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 04, 2022 08:09 AM (YIVH2)

110 I, too, would laugh hysterically in the face of such a catch 22.

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It's not a catch-22 for that witch Granholm. She wants this. You can feel the glee in her words. She's basically saying we're going to make you miserable and you'll like it because "green," whatever the hell that means other than a regression to the stone age. Oh, and being a lot poorer.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 04, 2022 08:09 AM (sVtYq)

111 110 It's not a catch-22 for that witch Granholm. She wants this. You can feel the glee in her words. She's basically saying we're going to make you miserable and you'll like it because "green," whatever the hell that means other than a regression to the stone age. Oh, and being a lot poorer.
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 04, 2022 08:09 AM (sVtYq)

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It worked in the computer model.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 08:10 AM (LvTSG)

112 I have no living memory of an assassination of a leader of a nuclear power.

It'll be interesting to add that to my lived experiences.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa

JFK

Posted by: JT at March 04, 2022 08:10 AM (arJlL)

113 Did Castreau keep citizen bank accounts?
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 04, 2022 08:05 AM (Yk3/2)

Don't know. I did read of of few individuals' accounts being unfrozen but haven't seen anything widespread. Curious news blackout, eh?

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 04, 2022 08:10 AM (4I/2K)

114 It will not "do better" until it is replaced.

And it will not be replaced until it completely collapses.

Too many people think that our present level of security and comfort is the norm. They don't realize how brutal (and often short) life has been for the vast majority of the human race even up until the 1900s. They "don't care about politics."

If people *did* care about politics, over half of the Representatives in the House would be out of a job every 4 - 6 years.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 04, 2022 08:10 AM (tcZnS)

115 108 War crimes for Putin.

But Assad?
Posted by: Mr Gaga at March 04, 2022 08:09 AM (KiBMU)

Putin laughs when the left screams war crimes. It what they do when they got nothing.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 04, 2022 08:10 AM (rjpjQ)

116 112 I have no living memory of an assassination of a leader of a nuclear power.

It'll be interesting to add that to my lived experiences.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa

JFK
Posted by: JT at March 04, 2022 08:10 AM (arJlL)

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How old do you think I am?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 08:10 AM (LvTSG)

117 JFK
Posted by: JT at March 04, 2022 08:10 AM (arJlL)

That was 60 years ago...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 04, 2022 08:11 AM (6FeV1)

118 Maybe John Kerry can go over and explain to the Russians that burned out nuclear power plant contribute to climate change.

At least in the radioactive climate of the 2000 mile radius.

Get James Taylor on that stool and sing, goddammit!

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 04, 2022 08:11 AM (KY22T)

119 117 JFK
Posted by: JT at March 04, 2022 08:10 AM (arJlL)

That was 60 years ago...
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 04, 2022 08:11 AM (6FeV1)

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"And we'll never forgive you right-wingers for it!"
-The Left

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 08:11 AM (LvTSG)

120 JFK
Posted by: JT at March 04, 2022 08:10 AM (arJlL)

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How old do you think I am?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa

Don't YOU know ?

Posted by: JT at March 04, 2022 08:12 AM (arJlL)

121 "couldn't help but notice you are using two spellings for Linds(a,e)y"

Funny, have the same problem with one of my favorite porn stars.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 04, 2022 08:12 AM (i0slg)

122 Can somebody with more knowledge of the oil and gasoline markets help me with something?

Oil is over $110 right now and gas prices are around $4 in most of the country, with cheaper places being about 25 cents lower than that and more expensive places are around a dollar higher.

In 2008, oil hit $180 in June and the highest average all formulations gas price peaked at $4.12, with only CA (IIRC) exceeding $5. We're about to exceed the record gas price, but oil is still *way* off its historical peak. Why? Is it tax artifacts (many places raised gas taxes when oil was cheap), is it the rate of increase and hedging, is it something else?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 04, 2022 08:12 AM (DU+/6)

123 > Bill Gates' Ex-Wife is Anxious to Distance Herself From Jeffrey Epstein

Melinda did not hang herself.
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I think the power brokers are getting a bit sick of the weirdo with a slide rule and the thick glasses they hired to conjure up a plan to kill off a couple hundred million people. He's not one of the "cool kids" anymore.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 04, 2022 08:12 AM (BFigT)

124 Bill Gates' Ex-Wife is Anxious to Distance Herself From Jeffrey Epstein

Melinda did not hang herself.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 04, 2022 08:07 AM (yrol0)

She still hasn't atoned for Clippy.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 04, 2022 08:12 AM (4I/2K)

125 Frankly, I suspect that a majority of world politicians are getting a cut of the foreign aid money sent to Ukraine, and all of the screaming is because their personal bank accounts are suffering, and they are afraid the illegal gravy train will stop.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 04, 2022 08:12 AM (5kI0z)

126 In the fog of war figuring out what is true can be tough. But one glaringly obvious thing is true: we are led by loony tunes. Idiots with an ideological agenda and zero common sense.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 04, 2022 08:13 AM (SkjKc)

127 Can we get Catholic Charities to do the "resettlement," same as they did for about a million illegals recently?
Posted by: Mr Gaga at March 04, 2022 08:05 AM (KiBMU)

Sure....just give us more cash.

I'll get Father O'Toole on it right away once he gets back from the Rectory.

Posted by: Pope Frankie The Sodomite at March 04, 2022 08:13 AM (uVDu4)

128 120 How old do you think I am?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa

Don't YOU know ?
Posted by: JT at March 04, 2022 08:12 AM (arJlL)

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NOOO!!!

*weeps bitterly but manfully*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 08:13 AM (LvTSG)

129 78 Total bullshit about the nuclear power plant...

To be fair jwest, when Tucker taped that show it was all "Breaking News".

Call it The Fog Of War or The 24 Hour Rule, but he did talk to a Fox News contributor on the ground there.

Your backseat driving analysis is less than convincing.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 04, 2022 08:13 AM (F0YaR)

130 It's amazing how the Russian equivalent of a drive by shooting can be turned into the end of the world these days.

Posted by: pawn at March 04, 2022 08:13 AM (Cfk8j)

131 If the Biden regime makes deals with Iran, provides intelligence to China, and continues to buy Russian gas then it is attempting to ally itself with Putin

Posted by: Chicago Vota at March 04, 2022 08:13 AM (ts6Zs)

132 If Granholm weren't Canadian-born the Left would have made her POTUS.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 04, 2022 08:14 AM (i0slg)

133 Ivan seized the nuclear power plant because he wanted to turn it off and commit genocide. Oh, wait, he wanted the Ukrainians to finance their own DOOM!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 04, 2022 08:14 AM (PEbbU)

134 Putin is only attacking Ukraine because he wants to date me.

Posted by: AOC at March 04, 2022 08:14 AM (KY22T)

135 In 2008, oil hit $180 in June and the highest average all formulations gas price peaked at $4.12, with only CA (IIRC) exceeding $5. We're about to exceed the record gas price, but oil is still *way* off its historical peak. Why? Is it tax artifacts (many places raised gas taxes when oil was cheap), is it the rate of increase and hedging, is it something else?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Add inflation. The dollar is worth much less than it was in 2008.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 04, 2022 08:15 AM (5kI0z)

136 so anything happenin ?

Posted by: REDACTED at March 04, 2022 08:15 AM (us2H3)

137
It's not a catch-22 for that witch Granholm. She wants this. You can feel the glee in her words. She's basically saying we're going to make you miserable and you'll like it because "green," whatever the hell that means other than a regression to the stone age. Oh, and being a lot poorer.
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 04, 2022 08:09 AM (sVtYq)

Frys my bacon that they always get away with talking about destroying the petroleum economy without ever being made to explain what they are going to replace it with. She nearly said it out loud...."Nothing". They want half the planet gone and 90 % of those left eating bugs and soylent green.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 04, 2022 08:15 AM (rjpjQ)

138 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 04, 2022 08:15 AM (Zz0t1)

139 I just think it is not sustainable for Putin to wage a war of aggression against a civilian population in today's Europe. It is too visible and too costly. He will always be the man who either waged a genocidal war and/or the dictator who became an emperor.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 04, 2022 08:15 AM (EZebt)

140 Add inflation. The dollar is worth much less than it was in 2008.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 04, 2022 08:15 AM (5kI0z)

Less than 1/20th of a bloojie.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 04, 2022 08:16 AM (6FeV1)

141 If we're going to start calling for assassinations, we need to start with the TRUE evils in this world and go after Gates and Soros, then the WEF.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 04, 2022 08:16 AM (Zz0t1)

142 I'm watching the Russia/Ukraine crisis carefully as my husband had to fly out quickly to Poland earlier this week, working on the humanitarian side of those fleeing Ukraine. What a mess.

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 04, 2022 08:16 AM (8I+CL)

143 ULA plans to replace it with its new Vulcan rocket, using Blue Origin's (long delayed) BE-4 engine.

Another description of the "long delayed" BE-4 engine is "entirely fictional"

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 04, 2022 08:16 AM (SkjKc)

144
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NOOO!!!

*weeps bitterly but manfully*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa

LOL !!!

You're a good sport, James Monroe !

Posted by: JT at March 04, 2022 08:16 AM (arJlL)

145 But one glaringly obvious thing is true: we are led by loony tunes.
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Hey, now, that's a little unfair. Elmer Fudd, Sylvester, and Marvin the Martian are far more competent...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 04, 2022 08:16 AM (YIVH2)

146 She's basically saying we're going to make you miserable and you'll like it because "green," whatever the hell that means other than a regression to the stone age. Oh, and being a lot poorer.

Funny thing about that... the people she most wants to make miserable are the ones least likely to be made miserable by such plans.

A much higher percentage of Deplorables would be just as happy living on an acre, growing their own food, and just being left alone than would Progressives.

I drive a diesel truck and I have 160 acres of pretty good (if often dry) farmland. Give me 2 years and I'll have a redundant solar and wind setup with batteries for uninterrupted power (perfect at the individual level, breaks down once you get up above about 3 or 4 powered buildings - but that's not my problem). As long as I've got any kind of support system (I do) me and mine can survive just fine without things that would make the average Progressive think the world was ending.

But thinking things through has never been a hallmark of the Progressive mind.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 04, 2022 08:16 AM (tcZnS)

147 Add inflation. The dollar is worth much less than it was in 2008.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 04, 2022 08:15 AM (5kI0z)
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Sure, but in nominal terms the spread between the oil price per barrel and the gasoline price per gallon is much, much smaller than it was 2008. In a sense, inflation doesn't matter for this question because it's about the relative price of the two commodities.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 04, 2022 08:17 AM (DU+/6)

148 I haven't seen anything so overblown since Shamala lipped docked on my Kielbasa

Posted by: Willie at March 04, 2022 08:17 AM (us2H3)

149 102 Bill Gates' Ex-Wife is Anxious to Distance Herself From Jeffrey Epstein

Melinda did not hang herself.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 04, 2022 08:07 AM (yrol0)

Bill was not hung . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 04, 2022 08:17 AM (s2VJv)

150 106 I have no living memory of an assassination of a leader of a nuclear power.

It'll be interesting to add that to my lived experiences.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 08:09 AM (LvTSG)

F'n youngsters.

Posted by: JFK at March 04, 2022 08:18 AM (F0YaR)

151 144 LOL !!!

You're a good sport, James Monroe !
Posted by: JT at March 04, 2022 08:16 AM (arJlL)

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This is a dirty lie.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 08:18 AM (LvTSG)

152 I keep hearing that Putin is in a bunker somewhere and does not have much information. Does not have a mobile phone and does not know what the world is saying. Who knows if he even has a grasp on any of it at this point. There is so much more to this than we will ever know.

Yet we are buying fuel from Russia (as Ace wrote yesterday). This is mind boggling. So who is really in charge is always the question.

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 04, 2022 08:18 AM (8I+CL)

153 Curious news blackout, eh?
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 04, 2022 08:10 AM (4I/2K)
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That "funny" feeling morons are referencing is the dog wagging.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 04, 2022 08:18 AM (EZebt)

154 so anything happenin ?
Posted by: REDACTED

No, but guard yer clamfart.

Posted by: JT at March 04, 2022 08:18 AM (arJlL)

155 " without ever being made to explain what they are going to replace it with. "

On top of all the other impracticalities, how do you charge cars in a city. Do we all run extension cords from our apartments out to the street?

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 04, 2022 08:19 AM (i0slg)

156 Public opinion is overrated.

Posted by: Vlad P. at March 04, 2022 08:19 AM (Cfk8j)

157 Commenting on that Ilya Shapiro link, it's high time...way past high time to rethink this entire college experience and what's going on at these institutions. The entire education system has so grossly failed our kids. They have cultivated an entire generation(s) of maniacs. These "educated" kids are nothing but violent, immature babies. It's really frightening.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 04, 2022 08:19 AM (sVtYq)

158 This nuclear plant thing, to the extent that any of the news is accurate, seems obvious:

1) Cause incident at nuclear plant
2) Greta Thunberg elected head of the EU, bans all nuclear
3) Russian oil for everyone

Posted by: Ian S. at March 04, 2022 08:19 AM (ciXcx)

159 155 " without ever being made to explain what they are going to replace it with. "

On top of all the other impracticalities, how do you charge cars in a city. Do we all run extension cords from our apartments out to the street?
Posted by: Ignoramus at March 04, 2022 08:19 AM (i0slg)

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This sounds suspiciously like the plan to implement communism...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 08:19 AM (LvTSG)

160 Eh, next month it'll be something else, new and fresh, for the 24 hour news cycle. We are Media Driven.

Posted by: kraken at March 04, 2022 08:20 AM (Vr12I)

161 Speaking of inflation, the thing that has inflated the most, and which is the greatest threat to the future and sovereignty of the US, is the sheer pomposity, arrogance, hubris and brazenness which fuels the DemoNcrats' demonic drive to accomplish the Luciferic Marxist/globalist ideal of "transforming" this fine nation, of re-writing its history based upon the hatred of such, and of the physical/moral/academic destruction of this sacred country and of its divine beginnings, nature and mission.

Posted by: Toss another plate of caviar on the Left's Funeral Pyre at March 04, 2022 08:20 AM (8m/Xb)

162 Frys my bacon that they always get away with talking about destroying the petroleum economy without ever being made to explain what they are going to replace it with. She nearly said it out loud...."Nothing". They want half the planet gone and 90 % of those left eating bugs and soylent green.

I would also love for someone to ask, "If we shift completely away from oil, how are we supposed to get plastics? Do you even know what all contains plastics? Do you know where plastic comes from?"

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 04, 2022 08:20 AM (tcZnS)

163 "If prices go up at the pump...it's temporary fallout. Think of it as the price of freedom.
You aren't sitting on a concrete floor in a train terminal holding your cat."

Can't wait for this virtue signaling with Ukraine to end.
Posted by: JROD at March 04, 2022 07:58 AM (0jZnq)
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I don't know if you watch any TV news, but if you don't then I recommend maintaining that habit. It is 100% propaganda and virtue signaling to the exclusion of everything else. CBS' morning news program called Zelensky the new Churchill today.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 04, 2022 08:20 AM (DU+/6)

164 In fairness, you might have living memory of the assassination of the leader of a nuclear power. People always forget about Andropov being gunned down by an actual, no-fooling random lunatic in the Soviet Union during the Reagan administration.

Posted by: AmericanHawkman at March 04, 2022 08:20 AM (VfMhS)

165 > ULA plans to replace it with its new Vulcan rocket, using Blue Origin's (long delayed) BE-4 engine.
__________
Jeff Bezos... a bald dickheaded shell of man who's dick shaped rockets cannot achieve O (rbit).

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 04, 2022 08:20 AM (BFigT)

166 (Unlike the Germans, he's not even rethinking his dumb energy policies, which need to be changed to promote energy independence and weaken Putin further.) . . .

they CANNOT admit Trump was right

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 04, 2022 08:21 AM (8I+CL)

167 "Texas Parents Make Strong Showing In State School Board Primary"

Let's pray that conservative parents all across the country get elected to school boards in November so that we can expose and destroy the poisonous curriculum being taught.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 04, 2022 08:21 AM (NpAcC)

168 I keep hearing that Putin is in a bunker somewhere and does not have much information.

In Delaware-grad.

Far from the prying eyes of the enemies of the state.

Posted by: Yuri Andropov at March 04, 2022 08:22 AM (KY22T)

169 Completely spitballing based on nothing but supposition here:

WHY would Russia bomb a nuke plant directly to their own west? They wouldn't. That would be ridiculous.

But hey would try to capture it. And the people there running it would not be able to defend it. So they would shut the plant down as best they could and set the control room on fire to keep it from being used by the invaders.

Complete speculation on my part. But at least plausible.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 04, 2022 08:22 AM (6FeV1)

170 In fairness, you might have living memory of the assassination of the leader of a nuclear power. People always forget about Andropov being gunned down by an actual, no-fooling random lunatic in the Soviet Union during the Reagan administration.
Posted by: AmericanHawkman at March 04, 2022 08:20 AM (VfMhS)
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Don't forget the near assassination of Reagan himself.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 04, 2022 08:22 AM (YIVH2)

171 It's not a catch-22 for that witch Granholm. She wants this. You can feel the glee in her words. She's basically saying we're going to make you miserable and you'll like it because "green," whatever the hell that means other than a regression to the stone age. Oh, and being a lot poorer.
Posted by: Lady in Black

What they are too stupid to realize, is, they are going back to the stone age with us. There's no magical high flying lives for them and gruel for us.

They get their high flying lives beWE make the stuff for them.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 04, 2022 08:22 AM (Hica+)

172 "Right now, a Brutus over here ought to rip Lindsay's arms out of their sockets and beat Sean Hannity to death with them "

Best thing I have read in decades, bravo!

Posted by: Gomjabber at March 04, 2022 08:22 AM (gx8aE)

173 @122 Joe Mannix- Could be a number of things different blend requirements for an area: boutique blends. Whether they've began to add ethanol for winter blends. Depending on which refineries they receive gasoline from, the price per barrel of oil(batch) they paid when they purchased it.

Posted by: JROD at March 04, 2022 08:22 AM (0jZnq)

174 170 In fairness, you might have living memory of the assassination of the leader of a nuclear power. People always forget about Andropov being gunned down by an actual, no-fooling random lunatic in the Soviet Union during the Reagan administration.
Posted by: AmericanHawkman at March 04, 2022 08:20 AM (VfMhS)
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Don't forget the near assassination of Reagan himself.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 04, 2022 08:22 AM (YIVH2)

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I was 3 when Reagan stepped down and Bush the Elder was elected, so not quite.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 08:22 AM (LvTSG)

175 149 I needed a laugh this morning. . . . badly. . . .. gracie tanto, amico.

Posted by: Toss another plate of caviar on the Left's Funeral Pyre at March 04, 2022 08:22 AM (8m/Xb)

176 131 If the Biden regime makes deals with Iran, provides intelligence to China, and continues to buy Russian gas then it is attempting to ally itself with Putin
Posted by: Chicago Vota at March 04, 2022 08:13 AM (ts6Zs)

I agree; which is why we should now NOT speak in favor of Putin or anything he does; in fact, everything we say and advocate should be aimed at forcing this administration to live up to its rhetoric. Make them stop buying Russian oil. Yes, the economic consequences will be disastrous; but that is coming to us this year no matter what course we take. Make that work for us, not against us. Make the Biden administration destroy the energy markets.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 04, 2022 08:23 AM (evAgx)

177 Sure, but in nominal terms the spread between the oil price per barrel and the gasoline price per gallon is much, much smaller than it was 2008.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

The spread has gotten smaller due to efficiency. However, the cost to get fuel to the station has increased (trucking costs are rising fast). Also, in 2008, futures incorporated the knowledge that fracking was going to improve the situation, so supply could catch up. Now, considering who the decision makers are, there is no projection of things getting better. Essentially, the futures market is expecting things to get worse, with no relief in sight.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 04, 2022 08:23 AM (5kI0z)

178 Won't it be fun in America when 200 million cars are on the highways and waiting in hours' long lines full of hundreds of people to charge their wind-up cars at the battery stations?

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 04, 2022 08:24 AM (sVtYq)

179 So, how many US Presidents have been killed while in office? Three, right?

Posted by: dantesed at March 04, 2022 08:24 AM (88xKn)

180 I would also love for someone to ask, "If we shift completely away from oil, how are we supposed to get plastics? Do you even know what all contains plastics? Do you know where plastic comes from?"
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 04, 2022 08:20 AM (tcZnS)
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They are perfectly happy with eliminating plastics as well. They want oil to remain in the ground for all eternity because...reasons.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 04, 2022 08:24 AM (YIVH2)

181 so, Zelenski has been compared to

Washington
Reagan
Patton
Churchill

and now thanks to Linda

Caesar

and it's only Friday

Posted by: REDACTED at March 04, 2022 08:24 AM (us2H3)

182 People always forget about Andropov being gunned down by an actual, no-fooling random lunatic in the Soviet Union during the Reagan administration."

Say what? Andropov died of kidney failure, in a hospital.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 04, 2022 08:25 AM (evAgx)

183 179 So, how many US Presidents have been killed while in office? Three, right?
Posted by: dantesed at March 04, 2022 08:24 AM (88xKn)

4.

Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and JFK

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 04, 2022 08:25 AM (s2VJv)

184 183 179 So, how many US Presidents have been killed while in office? Three, right?
Posted by: dantesed at March 04, 2022 08:24 AM (88xKn)

4.

Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and JFK
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 04, 2022 08:25 AM (s2VJv)

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And yet...none actually in their offices. Now that's what you call ironic.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 08:25 AM (LvTSG)

185 179 So, how many US Presidents have been killed while in office? Three, right?
Posted by: dantesed at March 04, 2022 08:24 AM (88xKn)

4 - Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, JFK.

Posted by: Nova local at March 04, 2022 08:25 AM (exHjb)

186 I would also love for someone to ask, "If we shift completely away from oil, how are we supposed to get plastics? Do you even know what all contains plastics? Do you know where plastic comes from?"
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 04, 2022 08:20 AM (tcZnS)
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These people are mental children. They are convinced of one premise - "oil is bad." Because oil is bad, everything that eliminates oil results in goodness as a consequence.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 04, 2022 08:25 AM (DU+/6)

187
I would also love for someone to ask, "If we shift completely away from oil, how are we supposed to get plastics? Do you even know what all contains plastics? Do you know where plastic comes from?"
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 04, 2022 08:20 AM (tcZnS)

Oil is in so many items we devour today, it's mind boggling. The world largely stops if they ban oil and oil related products.

Our betters are trying to kill us all.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 04, 2022 08:25 AM (Zz0t1)

188 183 179 So, how many US Presidents have been killed while in office? Three, right?
Posted by: dantesed at March 04, 2022 08:24 AM (88xKn)

4.

Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and JFK
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 04, 2022 08:25 AM (s2VJv)

You and your facts!

Posted by: kraken at March 04, 2022 08:25 AM (Vr12I)

189 @163 Joe Mannix-No TV for me but when I cruise Facebook I get to see it. The elevating of Zelensky to some god like status has been sickening.

Posted by: JROD at March 04, 2022 08:26 AM (0jZnq)

190 @137

>>Frys my bacon that they always get away with talking about destroying the petroleum economy without ever being made to explain what they are going to replace it with. She nearly said it out loud...."Nothing".

Because they are legitimately insane, there is no alternative to our current petroleum/coal/nuclear based system.

Just as a data point..

The largest solar farm has 1.7 million panels on 8 square miles of land, in the best of scenarios, it generates 500 megawatts of power.

Diablo Canyon nuclear power plants 1 and 2 sitting on 700 acres generates 2.5 Gigawatts of power.

These people are just f***ing crazy, i hate them all.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 04, 2022 08:26 AM (0C60m)

191 actually kinda disturbing, there isn't a single doomsday scenario up above that moves my give-a-crap-o-meter needle off the pin.
all I can do is all I can do, and I have done / am doing it.
whatever the best and brightest *spit* do with the world that they think they own is a matter of indifference to me this morning.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (NDCP0) at March 04, 2022 08:26 AM (NDCP0)

192 179 So, how many US Presidents have been killed while in office? Three, right?
Posted by: dantesed at March 04, 2022 08:24 AM (88xKn)

I read that as "orifice"

Posted by: REDACTED at March 04, 2022 08:26 AM (us2H3)

193 I would also love for someone to ask, "If we shift completely away from oil, how are we supposed to get plastics? Do you even know what all contains plastics? Do you know where plastic comes from?"
Posted by: AllenG #Texit

If we shift away from oil, THEIR standard of living approaches zero long before mine does.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 04, 2022 08:26 AM (Hica+)

194 The attack on the nuclear plant displays nothing else but Putin's fear. He fears the single source of his wealth and respect will be wiped out as people move to nuclear power. He is trying to play on people's fear and pathos, rather then logic and intellectual decision making. Trying to imply threats of attack if countries move to nuclear is the move of a coward. He should not only be called out on it, but countries should double-down on their move towards more nuclear, and less Russian gas. Never give in. Never quit.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 04, 2022 08:26 AM (VpIIl)

195 If Zelinsky has been compared to 4 white men, how long before Nikkole Bae Wells jumps in with her BLM hot take?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 04, 2022 08:26 AM (PiwSw)

196 "And Putin is not going to let the ruble disintegrate without a reaction."

Ya' think?

He'll nuke us before pResident Penetrating Fingers is out of the cardboard Oval Office photo stage.

How many hits, or how much tonnage (remember his ally, China, wants useable farmland) we've never been so weak, with so many who hate us now *inside* our borders.

Better stock up on face masks, that'll help.

Posted by: Ju at March 04, 2022 08:26 AM (aTmM/)

197 How many presidents have been killed *out* of office?

Hamilton? Who else?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 04, 2022 08:26 AM (6FeV1)

198
They almost got FDR but nailed Mayor Cermak instead. If Henry Wallace was Veep at that time, he'd have been the first Commie president and not Obama.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 04, 2022 08:27 AM (s2VJv)

199 They are perfectly happy with eliminating plastics as well. They want oil to remain in the ground for all eternity because...reasons.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 04, 2022 08:24

Then medical science grinds to a halt. It runs on plastics.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 04, 2022 08:27 AM (H8QX8)

200 They are perfectly happy with eliminating plastics as well.

Except... they aren't.

They want their own cars (and boats, and airplanes). They want their own clothes. They want shelf-stable food. They want medicines. They want medical gear to be available when they're sick or injured. They want houses and paint and power lines and phones and cellular towers and...

Well, the list goes on.

The fact they *think* they're okay with all oil products going away just means they don't know what all are oil products.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 04, 2022 08:27 AM (tcZnS)

201 As I said yesterday, everything the Democrats do can be explained in seven words.

"Americans must be punished for electing Trump."

Posted by: Robert the Cat (TM) at March 04, 2022 08:27 AM (p+1gI)

202 so, Zelenski has been compared to

Washington
Reagan
Patton
Churchill...
Caesar

==

"And he's dreamy and sexy!"

It was at that moment that I knew something was off.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 04, 2022 08:27 AM (sVtYq)

203 Our "leadership" and 30% of Democrats get physically aroused over the though of innocent people being killed.

Currently, it's Russians ("more sanctions") but that's just a proxy until they can turn back to their true hate: Americans.

The only reason they pretend to care about the innocent Ukrainians is that currently aligns with their money interest.

Watch them become the Two-Minute Hated the second they announce theyre seizing all foreign bank accounts to fund the war.

Posted by: Well at March 04, 2022 08:27 AM (jeBfR)

204 Oil is in so many items we devour today, it's mind boggling. The world largely stops if they ban oil and oil related products.

Our betters are trying to kill us all.
Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 04, 2022 08:25 AM (Zz0t1)
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Some are. A lot of them are merely idiot children playing with matches. But oil is in everything. Everything we eat, everything we use, everything we burn. The only thing that even comes close in terms of importance is corn. Corn is everything we use, too, and not because of ethanol subsidies. Corn is a major industrial input.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 04, 2022 08:27 AM (DU+/6)

205 42>Elijah Cook Jr was the shit as a bad guy. Ha, can't believed someone actually remembers him.

Posted by: sidney at March 04, 2022 08:27 AM (LJJah)

206 197 How many presidents have been killed *out* of office?

Hamilton? Who else?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 04, 2022 08:26 AM (6FeV1)

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Hamilton was president?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 08:27 AM (LvTSG)

207 195 If Zelinsky has been compared to 4 white men, how long before Nikkole Bae Wells jumps in with her BLM hot take?
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 04, 2022 08:26 AM (PiwSw)

If he were compared to MLK, they'd bitch about that being racist.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 04, 2022 08:27 AM (s2VJv)

208 179 So, how many US Presidents have been killed while in office? Three, right?
Posted by: dantesed at March 04, 2022 08:24 AM (88xKn)

Killed: Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, Kennedy.

died in office of natural causes: Harrison, Taylor, Harding, FDR.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 04, 2022 08:28 AM (evAgx)

209 Remember the young child whose father fought in a Texas court to prevent the insane mother from "transitioning" the poor kid? Now the father is running for office in Texas and was scheduled to speak at North Texas (used to be "North Texas State", a great music school, but now "University of North Texas").

The JJS link shows what happened next, "I was scared for my life". Unreal stuff.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 04, 2022 08:28 AM (G+CYN)

210 And in moments a completely fictitious jobs report will be vomited forth from the BLS.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 04, 2022 08:28 AM (0C60m)

211 Hamilton was president?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 08:27 AM (LvTSG)

No, but he had a hip hop musical named after him. And he probably slept in a Holiday Inn once.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 04, 2022 08:29 AM (evAgx)

212 I'm a conspiracy buff, but I rate them on scale of how plausible they are.

With JFK, it's highly plausible that Oswald did the shooting. It was not a hard shot for anyone trained in the Marines. "Other shooters" involved is much less plausible, and a distraction from Oswald doing it.

Question is why? Oswald could have just been a nut, but his back story is highly suspicious. Most plausible is that he was a Manchurian Candidate acting on orders from Khruschev and Castro, who both had motive. It's been known that Oswald went to the Cuban embassy in Mexico City just before the shooting. It was recently declassified that he met with a KGB agent.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 04, 2022 08:29 AM (i0slg)

213 200 They are perfectly happy with eliminating plastics as well.

Except... they aren't.

They want their own cars (and boats, and airplanes). They want their own clothes. They want shelf-stable food. They want medicines. They want medical gear to be available when they're sick or injured. They want houses and paint and power lines and phones and cellular towers and...

Well, the list goes on.

The fact they *think* they're okay with all oil products going away just means they don't know what all are oil products.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 04, 2022 08:27 AM (tcZnS)

I think they are happy enough making them "elite products" unaffordable by anyone but them, so they live longer while we don't...think Prada for oil-based products...

Posted by: Nova local at March 04, 2022 08:29 AM (exHjb)

214 Then medical science grinds to a halt. It runs on plastics.
Posted by: Ordinary American at March 04, 2022 08:27 AM (H8QX

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Oh, I'm very much aware of how much plastic is integrated into just about everything we use, from food to medicine to technology, etc. THEY are clinically insane. Completely divorced from all reason. It's quite breathtaking to behold their complete lack of rationality.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 04, 2022 08:29 AM (YIVH2)

215 210 And in moments a completely fictitious jobs report will be vomited forth from the BLS.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 04, 2022 08:28 AM (0C60m)

========

And yet, the public opinion of the economy won't be swayed. Weird, huh?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 08:29 AM (LvTSG)

216 It's just a war between white peepul.
--Whoopsie Goldberg

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 04, 2022 08:29 AM (EZebt)

217 Per CNBC and Ukrainian energy company the power plant is under Russian control but Russia has allowed firefighters in who have extinguished the fire that was in the training center and they are allowing Ukrainian staff in to run the plant. Photos show a damaged and burned section of the typical soviet style multi story building.

Posted by: Jen the original at March 04, 2022 08:29 AM (ane7J)

218 Keep your eye on Odessa. The Russians are slowly but steadily occupying Ukraine's Black Sea coast. If the Russians take Mariupol in the east (they have it surrounded now), and in the west take Odessa and push a bit more southwest to the Dneister river, they will have made Ukraine a land-locked country. All of Ukraine's seaborne imports and exports will have to go through Rumanian and Polish ports. Or Ukraine will have to pay Putin to use Russian-controlled Odessa. This will increase the cost of commodities and goods in Ukraine, and cost of its exports.

The possibility of handing Odessa back to Ukraine would be a huge bargaining chip for Putin in any cease-fire talks and any negotiations about a divided Ukraine.

Posted by: Gref at March 04, 2022 08:30 AM (AMIL/)

219 210 And in moments a completely fictitious jobs report will be vomited forth from the BLS.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 04, 2022 08:28 AM (0C60m)

"W ..... B ..... L ..... S ..... #1!, where you hear..."

- - NYC memory from the 70s

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 04, 2022 08:30 AM (s2VJv)

220 Hamilton was president?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 08:27 AM (LvTSG)

Nevermind. I thought he was in there somewhere.

Dammit.

I still catch myself thinking Franklin was president at one point or another.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 04, 2022 08:30 AM (6FeV1)

221 Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and JFK
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

If we're talking brain dead, we can include "you know who"

But he was brain dead LONG before he assumed office.

Posted by: JT at March 04, 2022 08:30 AM (arJlL)

222 Good morning. I see the world is still full of lunatics.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 04, 2022 08:30 AM (nxdel)

223 205 42>Elijah Cook Jr was the shit as a bad guy. Ha, can't believed someone actually remembers him.
Posted by: sidney at March 04, 2022 08:27 AM (LJJah)

He was also in The House from Haunted Hill (the Vincent Price original) and was Kirk's lawyer in a ST:TOS episode.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 04, 2022 08:30 AM (PiwSw)

224 If we shift away from oil, THEIR standard of living approaches zero long before mine does.

Exactly.

I would be pissed because modern insulin production is heavily reliant on plastics, and I have two cousins who are both Type 1 diabetics and heavily insulin dependent.

But, for me and my wife and kids? We'd probably be fine for quite a while. Like I said, give me 2 years and I think I can be all but off grid.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 04, 2022 08:30 AM (tcZnS)

225 You guys playing cards?

Posted by: Anwar Sadat at March 04, 2022 08:30 AM (4I/2K)

226 The JJS link shows what happened next, "I was scared for my life". Unreal stuff.

==

Like I said above, they are violent, immature babies. And really frightening. They are programmed animals. Devolved human beings. And they were made that way by our very own educational institutions.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 04, 2022 08:30 AM (sVtYq)

227 Putin and Simple Joe were hiding out in the same bunker, having a good time and playing Chinese Checkers until Joe began packing the marbles into his fartclam.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 04, 2022 08:31 AM (PEbbU)

228 They almost got FDR but nailed Mayor Cermak instead. If Henry Wallace was Veep at that time, he'd have been the first Commie president and not Obama.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 04, 2022 08:27 AM (s2VJv)
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*Shaking my head* thinking about how close the country came to total disaster there. Thank the lord above we got Truman instead.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 04, 2022 08:31 AM (G+CYN)

229 222 Good morning. I see the world is still full of lunatics.
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 04, 2022 08:30 AM (nxdel)

Hey Jewells!

Posted by: kraken at March 04, 2022 08:31 AM (Vr12I)

230 The truth is, throughout the past two years of [Chinese] COVID panic, we've seen that the world's leadership class isn't up to the task. Now, facing a major diplomatic crisis, we have to hope it will do better. Hope and maybe pray a little.

This is so true and it is hard to fathom. There is no leader to look to for rational common sense and a firm grip on reality.

The Squatter in Chief is embarrassment and no one is going to him seriously for any discussion or advice. They are laughing at him. At this point, I hope they are worried. They all wanted this.

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 04, 2022 08:31 AM (8I+CL)

231 I'll add an extension to the "Oil is bad" sentiment.

Oil is bad because I don't have any. So no one should. But they all drive cars. Everyone of them.

Posted by: pawn at March 04, 2022 08:31 AM (Cfk8j)

232
I read that as "orifice"
Posted by: REDACTED at March 04, 2022 08:26 AM (us2H3)

Orifice = Fartclam

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 04, 2022 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)

233 BULLFUCKING SHIT!!!!!!!

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 04, 2022 08:32 AM (0C60m)

234 Corn is everything we use, too, and not because of ethanol subsidies. Corn is a major industrial input.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 04, 2022 08:27 AM (DU+/6)
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No love for frozen concentrated orange juice??

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 04, 2022 08:32 AM (EZebt)

235 Why is it that none of our media (even on the right) mention that Viktor Yanukovych was voted president of Ukraine in 2010 in free and fair Jimmy Carter monitored elections? Barack Obama promised that if the elections were certified fair by the UN, he would support whoever the winner was. Yanukovych was pro-Russian, as is half of Ukraine. Of course, our thug-run clown show of a CIA couldn't leave things along and backed/instigated a coup in 2014. Wouldn't want to confuse people who are getting a media-run narrative of victim and villain.

Posted by: jwest at March 04, 2022 08:32 AM (/BlEx)

236 Empire of lies.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 04, 2022 08:32 AM (ybIRR)

237 I still catch myself thinking Franklin was president at one point or another.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 04, 2022 08:30 AM (6FeV1)

I've done the same.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 04, 2022 08:32 AM (H8QX8)

238 Jobs report 678,000. Much better than expected LOL.

Posted by: Jen the original at March 04, 2022 08:33 AM (ane7J)

239 I have always been fascinated by this:

1860 Lincoln, assassinated
1880 Garfield, assassinated
1900 McKinley re-elected, assassinated
1920 Harding, died in office, somewhat mysteriously
1940 Roosevelt, died in office
1960 Kennedy, assassinated
1980 Reagan, attempted assassination
2000 Bush, targeted for assassination by aircraft
2020 ?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 04, 2022 08:33 AM (5kI0z)

240 Sponge, that does it! *crosses arms, taps foot on ground in motherly fashion*

You brought up the "F" word! Go to your room, young man.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 04, 2022 08:33 AM (sVtYq)

241 If FDR hadn't died, he'd STILL be prez.

Posted by: JT at March 04, 2022 08:33 AM (arJlL)

242 Jobs report 678,000. Much better than expected LOL.
Posted by: Jen the original at March 04, 2022 08:33 AM (ane7J)
++++
Cool. I'll take any good news I can get.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 04, 2022 08:33 AM (DU+/6)

243 The US added 678,000 jobs
Unemployment falls to 3.8% in February

Posted by: redridinghood at March 04, 2022 08:33 AM (NpAcC)

244 While there are a lot of complexities in the details the basic reason there is a war in Ukraine is pretty simple and has been well known for a long time. Putin has been abundantly clear for many years that he would not accept further eastward expansion of NATO and specifically not in Georgia and Ukraine. NATO, especially our recent leadership not including Trump, did not listen.

In 2008 Putin attacked Georgia. And while he left there are still a couple autonomous and disputed regions.

In 2014 we ran a coup and took out Yanukovych and replaced him with Poreshenko and shortly thereafter Putin took Crimea.

Last October Lloyd Austin indicated that NATO was still open to Ukraine and Georgia. And now Putin is responding again by taking Ukraine.

We can argue forever about what a thug Putin is and his right to do this but the reason he is doing this is not a mystery and was entirely predictable. Putin drew a red line and we crossed it.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 04, 2022 08:34 AM (ZLI7S)

245 "so, Zelenski has been compared to

Washington
Reagan
Patton
Churchill

Posted by: REDACTED"

He better hope never said anything mean about gay people or even a joke that has been recorded anywhere.

Posted by: Ripley at March 04, 2022 08:34 AM (MxEKc)

246 The jobs report will show a slight miss but it will still be strong. Unemployment should remain low. But that isn't the problem. Inflation, stagflation and a possible recession are still on the table. Future corporate earning are also coming into question, as is what a Fed rate hike will do to the largest extension of consumer credit in our history, most of which is based off floating rates.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 04, 2022 08:34 AM (VpIIl)

247 And in moments a completely fictitious jobs report will be vomited forth from the BLS.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 04, 2022 08:28 AM (0C60m)
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You called it: "surprisingly strong" 670,000 jobs.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 04, 2022 08:34 AM (G+CYN)

248 I took a slug to the chest. Gave my speech. Rubbed dirt on it and walked it off. Bully!

Posted by: Teddy Roosevelt at March 04, 2022 08:34 AM (4I/2K)

249 244 We can argue forever about what a thug Putin is and his right to do this but the reason he is doing this is not a mystery and was entirely predictable. Putin drew a red line and we crossed it.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 04, 2022 08:34 AM (ZLI7S)

=========

"I thought red lines were, like, a joke."
-Obama

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 08:34 AM (LvTSG)

250 They will not ban THEIR use of oil. They will benefit from cheap fuel for their jets, limos and yachts. Fuel for THEM will be plentiful and inexpensive.

You will be stuck with wind and solar power, suffer brown and blackouts on a daily basis and be subject to energy rationing as they eat wagyu beef and caviar high atop temple mount.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 04, 2022 08:34 AM (Zz0t1)

251 The fact they *think* they're okay with all oil products going away just means they don't know what all are oil products.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 04, 2022 08:27 AM (tcZnS)

I think they are happy enough making them "elite products" unaffordable by anyone but them, so they live longer while we don't...think Prada for oil-based products...
Posted by: Nova local

Except it doesn't work that way. They need US to make their shit. As I said, their standard of living approaches zero long before mine does.

Higher they are, faster and harder they fall.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 04, 2022 08:34 AM (Hica+)

252 In other news. It's 9 degrees right now, tomorrow it's supposed to be 50 with thunderstorms.
March; in Wisconsin.

Posted by: lowandslow at March 04, 2022 08:34 AM (4thlk)

253 1980 Reagan, attempted assassination
2000 Bush, targeted for assassination by aircraft
2020 ?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 04, 2022 08:33 AM (5kI0z)
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One could make an argument that Trump was metaphorically "assassinated" through the election shenanigans.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 04, 2022 08:34 AM (YIVH2)

254 Alrighty, y'all. The Man is calling and I like regular paychecks, so...

Don't break the blog.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 04, 2022 08:35 AM (tcZnS)

255 "Jobs report 678,000. Much better than expected LOL. "

Wait for the revised number next month...

Posted by: Marcus T at March 04, 2022 08:35 AM (VpIIl)

256 The US added 678,000 jobs
Unemployment falls to 3.8% in February
Posted by: redridinghood at March 04, 2022 08:33 AM (NpAcC)

No. Fucking. Way.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 04, 2022 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)

257 Test

Posted by: Bulgaoctonus at March 04, 2022 08:36 AM (sEEBp)

258 217 Per CNBC and Ukrainian energy company the power plant is under Russian control but Russia has allowed firefighters in who have extinguished the fire that was in the training center and they are allowing Ukrainian staff in to run the plant. Photos show a damaged and burned section of the typical soviet style multi story building.
Posted by: Jen the original at March 04, 2022 08:29 AM (ane7J)

OH NOES...
Not the training center! That's where all the nuclear coolant lines go. When Putin bombs those, radioactive water will contaminate Europe in a disaster 1 billion times worse than Chernobyl.

At least that's the expert take at CNN.

Posted by: jwest at March 04, 2022 08:36 AM (/BlEx)

259 Yikes, reading that account of what happened in TX when some people tried to have a meeting about the anti-trans shit there. Hundreds of black-clad antifa-type assholes show up and storm the building, running from floor to floor as cops are forced to hide the female organizer of the event in a janitor's closet to protect her life.

These "trans" loons and their enablers are bat-shit insane, and I'm really getting f*cking sick and tired of their insistence that nobody can express any opinion that differs from their own, and if they do, then they have the right to hunt that person down and kill them.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at March 04, 2022 08:36 AM (k4dH2)

260 @162 AllenG-They plan on getting plastics from corn and soy. Also google STIN UCO/Chinausedcookingoil and MotionEco. All this "renewable fuels" bullshit is going to use used cooking oil from China. Some guys at Phillips 66 explained it to me.

Posted by: JROD at March 04, 2022 08:36 AM (0jZnq)

261 >>> "rip Lindsay's arms out of their sockets and beat Sean Hannity to death with them"

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If there was a Pulitzer prize for phrases...

Posted by: 496 at March 04, 2022 08:36 AM (VJsqe)

262 Alrighty, y'all. The Man is calling and I like regular paychecks, so...

Don't break the blog.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 04, 2022 08:35 AM (tcZnS)

It's in a perpetual state of 'broken,' so.......

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 04, 2022 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)

263 Catturd
@catturd2
36m
Liberal IQ test ...
I'm drinking some Russian vodka this weekend.

Joe Biden is giving Russia 36 million dollars a day for oil.

Which one of us will you call the Putin puppet?

Posted by: redridinghood at March 04, 2022 08:36 AM (NpAcC)

264 It's been known that Oswald went to the Cuban embassy in Mexico City just before the shooting. It was recently declassified that he met with a KGB agent.
Posted by: Ignoramus at March 04, 2022 08:29 AM (i0slg)

What I always found odd about Lee Harvey was he was able to travel hither and yon, willy-nilly all over the place, even to and back from the Soviet Union, all at the height of the Cold War and with no financial assets to speak of.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 04, 2022 08:37 AM (uVDu4)

265 253 And don't forget the video produced by that Barack Insane Odildo lineage lotion gulper Snoop Dogg. . . . . I still explode over the hypocrisy of that. . . . . . ..if someone had done that about the Odildo (shooting him), we would have never heard the end of it from BLM nation.

Posted by: Toss another plate of caviar on the Left's Funeral Pyre at March 04, 2022 08:38 AM (8m/Xb)

266 @162 AllenG-They plan on getting plastics from corn and soy. Also google STIN UCO/Chinausedcookingoil and MotionEco. All this "renewable fuels" bullshit is going to use used cooking oil from China. Some guys at Phillips 66 explained it to me.
Posted by: JROD at March 04, 2022 08:36 AM (0jZnq)

You can't grow enough corn and soy. The Earth will be turned into one be farm and the soil will be sapped in a matter of years.

We'll all starve because food is going into gas tanks instead of our stomachs.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 04, 2022 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

267 Alrighty, y'all. The Man is calling and I like regular paychecks, so...

Don't break the blog.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 04, 2022 08:35 AM (tcZnS)
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I'm sure ace will be along eventually to blow out the margins or usher in the Italicans sometime later today...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 04, 2022 08:38 AM (YIVH2)

268 >>"I thought red lines were, like, a joke."
-Obama

Putin might be a monster but he is a serious person. Our leadership is a bunch of circus clowns. Unfunny ones.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 04, 2022 08:38 AM (ZLI7S)

269 264 What I always found odd about Lee Harvey was he was able to travel hither and yon, willy-nilly all over the place, even to and back from the Soviet Union, all at the height of the Cold War and with no financial assets to speak of.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 04, 2022 08:37 AM (uVDu4)

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All I know is that the writers of Quantum Leap were so peeved by Oliver Stone's movie JFK that they wrote a two-parter to counter it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 08:38 AM (LvTSG)

270 255 "Jobs report 678,000. Much better than expected LOL. "

Wait for the revised number next month...
Posted by: Marcus T at March 04, 2022 08:35 AM (VpIIl)

Have to have data that justifies the .25 rate increase the Fed has to do...really, it should be .50, but we've talked about why that will never happen...

Posted by: Nova local at March 04, 2022 08:38 AM (exHjb)

271 268 Putin might be a monster but he is a serious person. Our leadership is a bunch of circus clowns. Unfunny ones.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 04, 2022 08:38 AM (ZLI7S)

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I prefer mimes, to be honest.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 08:39 AM (LvTSG)

272 255. December and January have both been revised up. Labor force participation up tenth percent.

Posted by: Jen the original at March 04, 2022 08:39 AM (ane7J)

273 Elon Musk describing Biden, "A damp sock puppet in human form"

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 04, 2022 08:39 AM (G+CYN)

274 Russian armor pull into the parking lot. Looks around. No one comes out. They shoot the place up a bit.

End of the WORLD!!!!!Reeeeeee!!!!

Posted by: pawn at March 04, 2022 08:39 AM (Cfk8j)

275 "If prices go up at the pump...it's temporary fallout. Think of it as the price of freedom.
You aren't sitting on a concrete floor in a train terminal holding your cat."

There is absolutely no need to have the price go up at the pump. The prices will forever go up because of suicidal energy policies for the past generation. When the junta took power the very first actions were to permanently cripple domestic thermal energy industry while simultaneously green-lighting Russia's ambitions.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 04, 2022 08:39 AM (lD3vL)

276 All I know is that the writers of Quantum Leap were so peeved by Oliver Stone's movie JFK that they wrote a two-parter to counter it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 08:38 AM (LvTSG)
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I think Red Dwarf came up with the definitive account of what *really* happened that day....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 04, 2022 08:39 AM (YIVH2)

277
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I prefer mimes, to be honest.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 08:39 AM (LvTSG)

Marcel Marceau TRAPPED IN A BOX!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 04, 2022 08:39 AM (Zz0t1)

278 Government statistics are the absolute truth and are never faked. Swearsies.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 04, 2022 08:40 AM (EZebt)

279 Now recruiting for Green Energy jobs.

Posted by: MasterBlaster at March 04, 2022 08:40 AM (4I/2K)

280 The US added 678,000 jobs
Unemployment falls to 3.8% in February
Posted by: redridinghood

Yeah, yeah... I'll bank on that

Posted by: MkY at March 04, 2022 08:40 AM (lAVPT)

281 277 Marcel Marceau TRAPPED IN A BOX!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 04, 2022 08:39 AM (Zz0t1)

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NON!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 08:40 AM (LvTSG)

282 Perhaps a musical interlude would help everyone relax.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgOSrw9Q8rc

- Zelensky

Posted by: Marooned at March 04, 2022 08:40 AM (w6hJ9)

283 I can believe job numbers are good. They've been complete shit for two years, and now prices are going up and people can't live off of savings, grifting, hustling, or welfare anymore.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 04, 2022 08:41 AM (6FeV1)

284 Elon Musk describing Biden, "A damp sock puppet in human form"
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 04, 2022 08:39 AM (G+CYN)

Shut your stinkin' TRAP!!!!

- - Skank the Sock Puppet

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 04, 2022 08:41 AM (Zz0t1)

285 Marcel Marceau TRAPPED IN A BOX!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 04, 2022 08:39 AM (Zz0t1)

Good. He wouldn't be in my movie!

Posted by: Mel Funn at March 04, 2022 08:41 AM (PiwSw)

286 Marcel Marceau TRAPPED IN A BOX!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 04, 2022 08:39 AM (Zz0t1)

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Does he mind? Because, honestly, he hasn't said a word.

Posted by: 496 at March 04, 2022 08:41 AM (VJsqe)

287 One President was shot and survived - and he wasn't even President at the time...

Teddy Roosevelt

Posted by: Boswell at March 04, 2022 08:41 AM (5iUNf)

288 Most "crazy" world leaders were actually half rational.

Saddam Hussien is an example. The Rumalia oil field is one of the biggest in the world, and 95% in Iraq and 5% in Kuwait. The Kuwaitis went wild drinking Saddam's milk shake. He told them to knock it off and they didn't. He massed troops on the Kuwaiti border.

Then, our woman ambassador to Iraq didn't give Saddam clear direction that an invasion would be met with counter-force. Instead she went all Kumbaya. The rest is history,

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 04, 2022 08:41 AM (i0slg)

289 Of the many, many easily debunked parts of the "JFK conspiracy" the funniest one - and you see this in ALL the conspiracy books - is the famous photo of the Dallas police office handing down the "real murder weapon" from the roof of the TSBD. "REEE, that's the ROOF not the 6th floor - REEE!"

Um, that's a shotgun. Which no one in the history of ever has tried to claim was the murder weapon. Not only that, it's the (shocka) same exact make and model of shotgun provided to DPD offciers at the time. Anyone who ever watched an episode of SWAT knows what the photo actually depicts.

Yet millions of dummies beleieve that "the real murder weapon was found on the roof" horseshit.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 04, 2022 08:41 AM (HsAzN)

290 285 Marcel Marceau TRAPPED IN A BOX!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 04, 2022 08:39 AM (Zz0t1)

Good. He wouldn't be in my movie!
Posted by: Mel Funn at March 04, 2022 08:41 AM (PiwSw)

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You got Paul Newman. That guy can carry a movie even in a rocket-powered wheelchair.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 08:41 AM (LvTSG)

291 256 Don't forget that they cooked the books by taking out the component of "those who have stopped looking" from the underlying denominator.

Posted by: Toss another plate of caviar on the Left's Funeral Pyre at March 04, 2022 08:42 AM (8m/Xb)

292 287 One President was shot and survived - and he wasn't even President at the time...

Teddy Roosevelt
Posted by: Boswell at March 04, 2022 08:41 AM (5iUNf)

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Also Jackson.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 08:42 AM (LvTSG)

293 And Teddy finished his speech.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 04, 2022 08:42 AM (i0slg)

294 How many dead presidents remained in office?

Just one that I know of.

Posted by: klaftern@yahoo.com at March 04, 2022 08:42 AM (taPSh)

295 One President was shot and survived - and he wasn't even President at the time...

Teddy Roosevelt
Posted by: Boswell at March 04, 2022 08:41 AM (5iUNf)

See #248

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 04, 2022 08:42 AM (4I/2K)

296 Before there was Chuck Norris, there was Andrew Jackson!

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 04, 2022 08:43 AM (i0slg)

297 >>All I know is that the writers of Quantum Leap were so peeved by Oliver Stone's movie JFK that they wrote a two-parter to counter it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 08:38 AM (LvTSG)

Speaking of Oliver Stone and movies if you haven't seen his documentary Ukraine on Fire you should. He might be few bubbles off center but that documentary is very well done and does a pretty good job of explaining the build up to the Maidan coup.

It's free on youtube or at least was.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 04, 2022 08:43 AM (ZLI7S)

298 I have always been fascinated by this:
1860 Lincoln, assassinated
1880 Garfield, assassinated
1900 McKinley re-elected, assassinated
1920 Harding, died in office, somewhat mysteriously
1940 Roosevelt, died in office
1960 Kennedy, assassinated
1980 Reagan, attempted assassination
2000 Bush, targeted for assassination by aircraft
2020 ?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 04, 2022 08:33 AM (5kI0z)

now list the clinton trail

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 04, 2022 08:43 AM (8I+CL)

299 On jobs reporting, are temp jobs counted. Say a nationwide temp agency's local office gets a call for some muscle and sends two guys out for a day to move stuff, does that count as two jobs added?

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 04, 2022 08:43 AM (lz5hY)

300 294 How many dead presidents remained in office?

Just one that I know of.
Posted by: klaftern@yahoo.com at March 04, 2022 08:42 AM (taPSh)

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Yep - and unfortunately we've got another 3 years of him

Posted by: 496 at March 04, 2022 08:43 AM (VJsqe)

301 Everyone knows that the Smoking Man killed JFK from a storm drain and pinned it on the patsy Oswald.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 04, 2022 08:44 AM (DU+/6)

302 So how long before we cut off oil imports from Russia "for Ukrainian freedom"?

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 04, 2022 08:44 AM (H8QX8)

303 283 I can believe job numbers are good. They've been complete shit for two years, and now prices are going up and people can't live off of savings, grifting, hustling, or welfare anymore.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 04, 2022 08:41 AM (6FeV1)

Check how many jobs are "added" in each sector of the economy. Last month I believe a significant percentage of the "added" jobs were government jobs, local to Federal. Yay, more American productivity! NOT.

Posted by: Gref at March 04, 2022 08:44 AM (AMIL/)

304
-We're not going to let you utilize that fancy new pipeline until you go in and clean up your old-school, obsolete, cold-war infrastructure.

-Clean up? We're going to go in and bomb the fuck out of it and raze it to the ground. Hold my ~~beer~~ vodka.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 04, 2022 08:45 AM (PEbbU)

305 Looked up Chuck Norris. Wow, he's 81.

Posted by: kraken at March 04, 2022 08:45 AM (Vr12I)

306
Jesse Kelly Show @JesseKellyShow

Up yours.

https://tinyurl.com/7ysnx9m9

Take a listen to this little snippet if you haven't yet. Gives you a little boost for the day. Truth.

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 04, 2022 08:45 AM (8I+CL)

307 287 One President was shot and survived - and he wasn't even President at the time...

Teddy Roosevelt
Posted by: Boswell at March 04, 2022 08:41 AM (5iUNf)

Reagan was shot and survived.

Garfield also survived his shooting, his wound was minor. His incompetent white house doctor killed him.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 04, 2022 08:45 AM (evAgx)

308
now list the clinton trail
Posted by: artisanal ette at March 04, 2022 08:43 AM (8I+CL)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Body_Count

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 04, 2022 08:45 AM (Zz0t1)

309 Anybody seen Nick Searcy's doc "Capitol Punishment" about 1/6?

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 04, 2022 08:46 AM (H8QX8)

310 307 Garfield also survived his shooting, his wound was minor. His incompetent white house doctor killed him.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 04, 2022 08:45 AM (evAgx)

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Probably the same as William Henry Harrison. His doctor probably killed him on accident.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 08:46 AM (LvTSG)

311 Check how many jobs are "added" in each sector of the economy. Last month I believe a significant percentage of the "added" jobs were government jobs, local to Federal. Yay, more American productivity! NOT.
Posted by: Gref at March 04, 2022 08:44 AM (AMIL/)

Phantom gubmit new hires, just like Biden voters. Exist only on paper.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 04, 2022 08:46 AM (4I/2K)

312 Everyone has their trigger points.
First that noted 2nd-3rd rate mind Hannity proposes provoking all out war with Russia.
Now THE definition of all mouth and no back bone--Lindsay Fucking Graham , pushes the USA to commit an act to assure nuclear war with Russia.
Trump enabled these two. NOT blaming Trump but Trump is the one guy that can shut these two up--pronto.
And Trump should --privately or publicly.

Posted by: Voter theater. at March 04, 2022 08:46 AM (FCPbW)

313 @266 Sponge-I'm aware of what the type of corn and soy does to the soil but apparently they do not or don't give a shit. Also as I pointed out the used cooking oil from China. I know this shit sounds crazy, I agree it is, but this is the plan. Strange thing right now is here in the Bay Area at Marathon and Phillips 66 refineries there are process units that are supposed to be built for this cooking oil. Right now environmentalists are fighting the permitting process for them. This is their baby here in California and they oppose it(?)

Posted by: JROD at March 04, 2022 08:47 AM (0jZnq)

314 And Teddy finished his speech.
Posted by: Ignoramus at March 04, 2022 08:42 AM (i0slg)
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He was a tough dude. Afterwards, he took an Amazonian trip with his son down "The River Of Doubt" and the lovely Candice Millard wrote a wonderful book about it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 04, 2022 08:47 AM (G+CYN)

315 I shot Monica in the face.

Posted by: Bill Clinton at March 04, 2022 08:47 AM (KY22T)

316 Honestly, I can't take anymore of this Bukkake Theater. The Too Big To Fail failed 20 years ago. What we are watching is them blame us for their failures. Lamposts and rope are required to clean this up.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 04, 2022 08:47 AM (fWTJL)

317 314 He was a tough dude. Afterwards, he took an Amazonian trip with his son down "The River Of Doubt" and the lovely Candice Millard wrote a wonderful book about it.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 04, 2022 08:47 AM (G+CYN)

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Teddy wrote a book about the War of 1812. I included some of his drawings of the movement of battle in the Battle of Lake Erie in my book.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 08:48 AM (LvTSG)

318 "Have to have data that justifies the .25 rate increase the Fed has to do...really, it should be .50, but we've talked about why that will never happen...

Posted by: Nova local at March 04, 2022 08:38 AM (exHjb) "

They will definitely do 25 bps. They should do 50, but they won't now. It's a big political mistake with the type of inflation we are seeing. Plus they are very afraid of cooling off the consumer market too quickly. But that's already happening. We will probably see it steady through the summer. But by fall the cracks are going to appear.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 04, 2022 08:48 AM (VpIIl)

319 Trump enabled these two. NOT blaming Trump but Trump is the one guy that can shut these two up--pronto.
And Trump should --privately or publicly.
Posted by: Voter theater. at March 04, 2022 08:46 AM (FCPbW)

Good point.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 04, 2022 08:48 AM (H8QX8)

320 I shot Monica in the face.
Posted by: Bill Clinton at March 04, 2022 08:47 AM (KY22T)

Nice shootin', Tex!

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 04, 2022 08:48 AM (4I/2K)

321 ... Strange thing right now is here in the Bay Area at Marathon and Phillips 66 refineries there are process units that are supposed to be built for this cooking oil. Right now environmentalists are fighting the permitting process for them. This is their baby here in California and they oppose it(?)
Posted by: JROD at March 04, 2022 08:47 AM (0jZnq)
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They may love the idea, but they want the pollution and ugly buildings to be somewhere else. Build in Idaho and they will be all-in.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 04, 2022 08:48 AM (DU+/6)

322 re: Jeff Younger and the Tranny activists; that happened at UNT in Denton. It's been common knowledge for quite a while that Denton, in general, and the University of North Texas, in particular (in combination with TWU) is the Lesbian/Gay/Whatever capitol of Texas, even worse than Austin. They were in the belly of the beast.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 04, 2022 08:48 AM (evAgx)

323 Putin might be a monster but he is a serious person. Our leadership is a bunch of circus clowns. Unfunny ones.

Our "leadership" are monsters too. They are like Palestinians, there will be peace when they love themselves more than they hate We The People.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 04, 2022 08:49 AM (lD3vL)

324 rhomboid had some info on the nuclear plant in the ONT last night. Apparently it wasn't so much Russians were trying to blow up the plant and recreate Chernobyl as there was a fire at an administrative building reportedly outside the perimeter of the plant, and for all the hysterical Ukranian reporting on 'rising uranium levels', IAEA found no damage to the reactors at all.

zerohedge has the info, too.

Posted by: Methos at March 04, 2022 08:49 AM (kOpft)

325 We have two mentally-impaired men in charge of nuclear armories. That is probably not a good idea. Who's going to tell Joe whether to shoot? Jill?

Posted by: Caliban at March 04, 2022 08:49 AM (HgGBT)

326 I'm in Canada.
I did the math for the horde and gas was $6 US a gallon.

I'm moderately fine with that.

It's difficult to oppress people when you're worried about civil unrest. Huge country. Highly paid 'law enforcement' the governments can barely afford.

Team 'Let it Burn' is on the move...

Posted by: Stateless at March 04, 2022 08:49 AM (FsZ2q)

327 Jesse Kelly Show @JesseKellyShow

Up yours.

https://tinyurl.com/7ysnx9m9

Take a listen to this little snippet if you haven't yet. Gives you a little boost for the day. Truth.
Posted by: artisanal ette at March 04, 2022 08:45 AM (8I+CL)

My sentiments exactly.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 04, 2022 08:49 AM (Zz0t1)

328 Breaking911
@Breaking911
Jan. 6 Panel Subpoenas Kimberly Guilfoyle, Claims To Have Evidence She Played 'Key Role' In Orchestrating Riot

https://tinyurl.com/27r3jv79

Posted by: redridinghood at March 04, 2022 08:50 AM (NpAcC)

329 Robert Todd Lincoln, son of the President, was also at or near the Garfield and McKinley assassinations.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 04, 2022 08:50 AM (KY22T)

330 The odds that Arthur Lee Allen was the Zodiac Killer are extremely remote too. No DNA match. No writing sample match. Doesn't match the witness descriptions. Allen was a gay pedophole, The Zodiac was neither gay not a pedo, etc. etc. Another movie filled with lies, based on a book filed with lies.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 04, 2022 08:50 AM (HsAzN)

331 Yep - and unfortunately we've got another 3 years of him

*snort

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 04, 2022 08:51 AM (nxdel)

332 I'm in no position to verify or disprove the jobs report. My ground level experience, working in an industry that uses lots of assembly labor, is that we're still short of people. Wages and incentives are there.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at March 04, 2022 08:51 AM (ViKHK)

333 Presidenting while dead.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 04, 2022 08:52 AM (BFigT)

334 Teddy wrote a book about the War of 1812. I included some of his drawings of the movement of battle in the Battle of Lake Erie in my book.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 08:48 AM (LvTSG)
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and I'll read your book too if you a picture of Candice Millard on it!

Heh- just kidding. Will order!

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 04, 2022 08:52 AM (G+CYN)

335 332 I'm in no position to verify or disprove the jobs report. My ground level experience, working in an industry that uses lots of assembly labor, is that we're still short of people. Wages and incentives are there.
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Can they afford the gas prices to get to work?

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 04, 2022 08:53 AM (fWTJL)

336 Jan. 6 Panel Subpoenas Kimberly Guilfoyle, Claims To Have Evidence She Played 'Key Role' In Orchestrating Riot
**
They'll say anything, accuse anybody of anything. They can do this now with total media support and with no real consequence.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 04, 2022 08:53 AM (H8QX8)

337 ". . . maybe it's too early to start burning your masks -- if you're the kind of person who follows mask mandates."
Of Course: A New Chinese COVID Variant Has Arrived Just in Time

bs
they are trying to find a way to get EVERYONE in that database with a code
Please resist.

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 04, 2022 08:53 AM (8I+CL)

338 ought to rip Lindsay's arms out of their sockets

I seem to be the only regular who comments about this, but trust me, that's not all it's cracked up to be.

Posted by: Michele Fields at March 04, 2022 08:53 AM (a3Q+t)

339 Presidenting while dead.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 04, 2022 08:52 AM (BFigT)

Look, fat. You're a dogfaced pony soldier. I got hairy legs. Corn Pop was a bad dude. I love kids sitting on my lap.

- - President Braindead

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 04, 2022 08:54 AM (Zz0t1)

340 18 cents a gallon1!!1?

Posted by: runner at March 04, 2022 08:54 AM (rqQ57)

341 Anybody seen Nick Searcy's doc "Capitol Punishment" about 1/6?
Posted by: Ordinary American at March 04, 2022 08:46 AM (H8QX

Yeah, I bought it, mainly to support his work. It's ok, not great.

Posted by: lowandslow at March 04, 2022 08:54 AM (4thlk)

342 This whole January 6th thing is to construct the conspiracy and apply it against Trump. When they have ordinary people plead guilty to crimes, they are constructing the insurrection claim against Trump.

Under the Insurrection Act, a person convicted of insurrection is ineligible to run for public office for 10 years. That is their end goal. To disqualify Trump from running.

Now, only the President can declare an insurrection by law. Trump never declared an insurrection on January 6th, but you can be sure that when Congress is done, Biden will declare that an Insurrection took place and he will name Trump as a part of the insurrection.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 04, 2022 08:54 AM (KY22T)

343 West Papuan terrorists kill 8 techies at a remote telecom tower. [Anti-Indonesia.]

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 04, 2022 08:55 AM (UHVv4)

344 Now things haven't gone according to plan, and there doesn't appear to be a plan B because Putin never seriously considered the possibility of failure.

Some evidence of that might be nice, but it seems like wishcasting by folks who have a financial, or new strange emotional, investment in Ukraine, as I all I see from maps of the conflict are steady Russian gains.

Posted by: Methos at March 04, 2022 08:55 AM (kOpft)

345 The "nuclear plant" fire was at a training/administrative building. And there were no elevated radiation levels. Remember this is still the media we're dealing with, they do not do any work to check if something is true they just retweet.
Also, you have to wonder to what extent Ukraine is lying or embellishing in a propaganda effort as well

Posted by: Who is Brandon Galt? at March 04, 2022 08:55 AM (gNwqS)

346 Jan. 6 Panel Subpoenas Kimberly Guilfoyle, Claims To Have Evidence She Played 'Key Role' In Orchestrating Riot

They don't have shit and how long is this bullshit committee going to be allowed to keep investigating? How long has it been now? Every damn day they come up with some new "evidence." I'm sick and tired of seeing Liz Cheney's ugly mug on TV. Someone needs to drop kick that bitch out of a plane at 30,000 feet.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 04, 2022 08:55 AM (nxdel)

347 They will definitely do 25 bps. They should do 50, but they won't now. It's a big political mistake with the type of inflation we are seeing.

What makes you think that "they" care about inflation?

Is Blackrock done buying up all of the physical assets yet using near zero interest money?

I am convinced that the markets are so rigged and the Fed is so utterly corrupt that they might raise interest rates once the investment gains curves in buying up assets meets the cost of borrowed money.

Then it doesn't make much more sense to buy up assets and THEN the Feds will raise interest rates - in effect kicking the ladder out after the oligarchs reach the top and are safely in the tree house.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 04, 2022 08:55 AM (lD3vL)

348 334 and I'll read your book too if you a picture of Candice Millard on it!

Heh- just kidding. Will order!
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 04, 2022 08:52 AM (G+CYN)

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*finger guns*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 08:55 AM (LvTSG)

349 343 West Papuan terrorists kill 8 techies at a remote telecom tower. [Anti-Indonesia.]
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So a successful BBQ?

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 04, 2022 08:55 AM (fWTJL)

350 At least 45 killed in bombing of Shiite mosque in Pakistan.

Is it Ramadan again already??

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 04, 2022 08:56 AM (UHVv4)

351 340 I remember 28 cents and I'm only seve.. uh 29 years old.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 04, 2022 08:56 AM (lz5hY)

352 #350 BTW, it was in Peshawar.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 04, 2022 08:56 AM (UHVv4)

353 In 2020, roughly 50% of voters voted in globalists agenda driven by a Marxist cabal.

I do hope they are enjoying the assault on their FartClams.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 04, 2022 08:56 AM (LKTKP)

354
They don't have shit and how long is this bullshit committee going to be allowed to keep investigating? How long has it been now? Every damn day they come up with some new "evidence." I'm sick and tired of seeing Liz Cheney's ugly mug on TV. Someone needs to drop kick that bitch out of a plane at 30,000 feet.
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 04, 2022 08:55 AM (nxdel)

I like the cut of your jib. Might you have a newsletter one might subscribe to?

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 04, 2022 08:56 AM (Zz0t1)

355 Sony and Honda agree to joint venture for an electric car by 2025.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 04, 2022 08:57 AM (UHVv4)

356 ... What makes you think that "they" care about inflation? ... I am convinced that the markets are so rigged and the Fed is so utterly corrupt that they might raise interest rates once the investment gains curves in buying up assets meets the cost of borrowed money. ...
Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 04, 2022 08:55 AM (lD3vL)
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The Fed and the government are hopelessly corrupt, but they are not precisely the same master, nor do they have the same masters. The Fed will bow to politics by default, but not permanently. If they decide that bowing to politics will destroy the dollar, they will act.

I could, of course, be wrong on this but I think that when push comes to shove, the Fed will defend the dollar and politics be damned. Without the dollar, the Fed is in even worse shape than the government.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 04, 2022 08:58 AM (DU+/6)

357 25 or 50 bps is pissing in the wind at this point. Real inflation is likely around 15%, you have to top that if you want to bleed to bubble out.
Remember that at even 2% interest rates, the govt will spend more on interest than the military. Cause debt doesn't matter and stuff!
Also keep in mind that even if they go up a measly pathetic 25bps with the left hand, the right hand is still printing fake funny money to buy 100 billion dollars of mortgages from the banks. Every. Month.
One wonders at this point just what proportion of all American mortgages the fed owns by now. In guessing 25%-30%. Does that scare you?

Posted by: Who is Brandon Galt? at March 04, 2022 08:58 AM (gNwqS)

358 Has anyone on TV ever told Linda Graham to STFU ?

useless POS

Posted by: REDACTED at March 04, 2022 08:58 AM (us2H3)

359 355 Sony and Honda agree to joint venture for an electric car by 2025.
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Building golfcarts isn't that hard. Why the long lead time?

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 04, 2022 08:58 AM (fWTJL)

360 Some evidence of that might be nice, but it seems like wishcasting by folks who have a financial, or new strange emotional, investment in Ukraine, as I all I see from maps of the conflict are steady Russian gains.
Posted by: Methos at March 04, 2022 08:55 AM (kOpft)

On the battlefield, Russia has gains. At home, the Russian economy is in free fall; inflation is at 61%, and the Russian Stock Market has now been closed all week, with no idea of when or how it can reopen. Sadly, the Ukraine may not survive this war; but increasingly, it looks like Russia will not survive it either.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 04, 2022 08:58 AM (evAgx)

361 At least 45 killed in bombing of Shiite mosque in Pakistan.

Is it Ramadan again already??

Religion of Peace.

Trump's fault.

Israel's fault.

Global warming's fault.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 04, 2022 08:59 AM (KY22T)

362 > This whole January 6th thing is to construct the conspiracy and apply it against Trump.
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I've been saying for months the committee's only purpose is to pin whatever they can on Trump to disqualify him from running again. It's now morphed into disqualifying anyone who was associated with and/or supported Trump.

There are between 60 and 80 Republicans at risk... as identified by the J6 committee.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 04, 2022 08:59 AM (BFigT)

363 343 West Papuan terrorists kill 8 techies at a remote telecom tower. [Anti-Indonesia.]
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 04, 2022 08:55 AM (UHVv4)

I prefer old gunnies to New Guinea . . . (dodges garlic-laced bullets)

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 04, 2022 08:59 AM (s2VJv)

364 Has anyone on TV ever told Linda Graham to STFU ?

Seriously, South Carolina. Fix your problem.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 04, 2022 09:00 AM (KY22T)

365 They don't have shit and how long is this bullshit committee going to be allowed to keep investigating?

They're going to hit it hard every day, right up until the new Congress is seated next year. It's all they've got.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 04, 2022 09:00 AM (evAgx)

366 Targeting and Destruction of the Holocaust memorial , and Nuke power plant news were all fake news. Killing if Russian general dies not seem to be. And that, on top of everything , might have consequences not just for Zelensky, but for US and UK "advisors" who are running this bukake show..

Posted by: runner at March 04, 2022 09:00 AM (rqQ57)

367 wonder if there's a vid of Hannity/Graham cock docking ?

I mean, ya know the do it, just wondering if they stupid enuff to memorialize it

Posted by: REDACTED at March 04, 2022 09:00 AM (us2H3)

368 329 Robert Todd Lincoln, son of the President, was also at or near the Garfield and McKinley assassinations.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 04, 2022 08:50 AM (KY22T)

Munchausen's by proxy or Sonny at the Toll Wilkes Booth?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 04, 2022 09:01 AM (s2VJv)

369 There is much that you can find to love or hate about Teddy from either side of today's political spectrum.

But there's a reason that they named a lovable cuddly bear after him. He was our most crazy charismatic President. You couldn't make a biopic about him because his life was so over-the-top unbelievable.

So we all lost something when the Left hauled down his statue from in front of the Museum. Generations od kids on school trips especially.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 04, 2022 09:01 AM (i0slg)

370 313 @266 Sponge-I'm aware of what the type of corn and soy does to the soil but apparently they do not or don't give a shit. Also as I pointed out the used cooking oil from China. I know this shit sounds crazy, I agree it is, but this is the plan. Strange thing right now is here in the Bay Area at Marathon and Phillips 66 refineries there are process units that are supposed to be built for this cooking oil. Right now environmentalists are fighting the permitting process for them. This is their baby here in California and they oppose it(?)

Posted by: JROD at March 04, 2022 08:47 AM (0jZnq)

Our Betters would allow some US oil to be pulled out of the ground, or imported, for plastics, and other uses that DO NOT BURN IT. The Elites will have to hatefully put-up for a time with burning jet fuel and diesel for emergency generators (White House, etc.). But they'll force US industry to do enough or more CO2 extraction from the air to offset burning jet fuel.

They have plan and will carry it out unless literally forced to stop.

Posted by: Gref at March 04, 2022 09:01 AM (AMIL/)

371 On the battlefield, Russia has gains. At home, the Russian economy is in free fall; inflation is at 61%, and the Russian Stock Market has now been closed all week, with no idea of when or how it can reopen. Sadly, the Ukraine may not survive this war; but increasingly, it looks like Russia will not survive it either.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 04, 2022 08:58 AM (evAgx)

Our far more severe sanctions on Iran failed to collapse them over a few years. This war and corresponding sanctions on Russia seem unlikely to last one.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 04, 2022 09:02 AM (z5Vrg)

372 It is interesting that France seems to be trying to take the role of mediator between Russia and Ukraine and we are "rushing to war".

File this under one of those things that if you told some leftist in 2004 they'd claim you were a liar - "war, what is it good for? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!" pretty much encapsulate their claimed perspective on foreign policy.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 04, 2022 09:02 AM (ESjRY)

373 Re Graham:

These stupid, corrupt fucks never consider they have left the border wide open for almost a year now. Wonder how many snipers and bombers have entered the country with a hard-on for them? Putin may not have calculated well but he certainly is no fool, and likely slid into this country through its stupidly open border people who can respond in kind.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 04, 2022 09:03 AM (nMx88)

374 >>Sadly, the Ukraine may not survive this war; but increasingly, it looks like Russia will not survive it either.

I'm beginning to wonder if we will.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 04, 2022 09:03 AM (ZLI7S)

375 Also keep in mind that even if they go up a measly pathetic 25bps with the left hand, the right hand is still printing fake funny money to buy 100 billion dollars of mortgages from the banks. Every. Month.
One wonders at this point just what proportion of all American mortgages the fed owns by now. In guessing 25%-30%. Does that scare you?
Posted by: Who is Brandon Galt? at March 04, 2022 08:58 AM (gNwqS)
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The Fed owns a tremendous amount of assets right now since they've been engaging in QE for more than a decade. This is something a lot of people forget. It may be possible that they're going to try to deal with inflation not by raising interest rates a lot, but by draining their balance sheet. This should have happened long ago, but it didn't. They might try to sell off their assets to drain money out of the system and try to do so without disclosing what they're selling or how much they have. The size of the balance sheet is known, but its specific composition is not.

I don't think this will work, but they might try it. Shrink the money supply while leaving interest rates more or less alone and hope the primary dealers don't drive up treasury rates. No good way out.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 04, 2022 09:03 AM (DU+/6)

376 374 >>Sadly, the Ukraine may not survive this war; but increasingly, it looks like Russia will not survive it either.
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Jack, Putin has already won. All that is required is for Biden and 'Our Democracy' to find is another Hate Target to hate on. Hate brings people together.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 04, 2022 09:04 AM (fWTJL)

377 PJW has rounded up most, but not all, of the stupidity from the last couple of weeks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dHBPBNGg5c

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at March 04, 2022 09:04 AM (OeBYn)

378 Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 04, 2022 08:55 AM
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Exactly! The Wyoming primary is in August.
Pray Liz Cheney gets ousted.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 04, 2022 09:04 AM (NpAcC)

379
The one thing the enviro Commies do not consider is that oil, coal and gas are used for more things than merely fuel.

A LOT.

Everything we eat, wear or otherwise consume or use is made in part or uses petrochemicals.

End fossil "fuels" and you end life as we know it. And life itself. Period.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 04, 2022 09:05 AM (s2VJv)

380 At home, the Russian economy is in free fall; inflation is at 61%, and the Russian Stock Market has now been closed all week, with no idea of when or how it can reopen.

Do we have reliable reporting from inside Russia on that? The closed stock market isn't great, but it does prevent anyone from selling low before the conflict is over and everything goes back to normal.

And how exactly are we calculating inflation in another country over the course of a week?

Posted by: Methos at March 04, 2022 09:05 AM (kOpft)

381 Katangi Brown Jackson has a impressive body of work, that's why I nominated her. It was her Running on Empty Album that motivated me to get both of my Phds in Music Theory. My word as a Biden. Not hyperbole.

Posted by: President Brandon at March 04, 2022 09:05 AM (kfcYC)

382 374 >>Sadly, the Ukraine may not survive this war; but increasingly, it looks like Russia will not survive it either.

I'm beginning to wonder if we will.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 04, 2022 09:03 AM (ZLI7S

There was some discussion yesterday about Sun Tzu's Golden Bridge for the enemy to retreat over.

I don't think Putin cares about that bridge. He's fully committed and will only cease when he's got his boy in power.

Which begs the question, what's next for the west? They've already torpedoed their economy. How does Putin react to that long term? He must know he's screwed for some time.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 04, 2022 09:06 AM (LKTKP)

383 380 At home, the Russian economy is in free fall; inflation is at 61%, and the Russian Stock Market has now been closed all week, with no idea of when or how it can reopen.

Do we have reliable reporting from inside Russia on that? The closed stock market isn't great, but it does prevent anyone from selling low before the conflict is over and everything goes back to normal.

And how exactly are we calculating inflation in another country over the course of a week?
Posted by: Methos at March 04, 2022 09:05 AM (kOpft)

Could it be possible that the news we consume is - made up?

Posted by: kraken at March 04, 2022 09:06 AM (Vr12I)

384 Not hyperbole.

Pretty fancy word for a dementia patient.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 04, 2022 09:07 AM (KY22T)

385 381 Katangi Brown Jackson has a impressive body of work, that's why I nominated her. It was her Running on Empty Album that motivated me to get both of my Phds in Music Theory. My word as a Biden. Not hyperbole.
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If she didn't play with Weather Report she's not qualified.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 04, 2022 09:07 AM (fWTJL)

386 One of the best books I've read is The Prize. It's a history of the oil industry but doubles as an insightful history of the 20th Century. Oil affects everything, especially war.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 04, 2022 09:07 AM (i0slg)

387 I've been saying for months the committee's only purpose is to pin whatever they can on Trump to disqualify him from running again. It's now morphed into disqualifying anyone who was associated with and/or supported Trump.

There are between 60 and 80 Republicans at risk... as identified by the J6 committee.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 04, 2022 08:59 AM (BFigT)

They are going to try the 14th run around.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 04, 2022 09:07 AM (yrol0)

388 There are a couple of things I like about Guilfoyle, but the people who have been there make me skeerd and afraid.
Rule 1 might apply.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at March 04, 2022 09:07 AM (ufFY8)

389 382
Which begs the question, what's next for the west? They've already torpedoed their economy. How does Putin react to that long term? He must know he's screwed for some time.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 04, 2022 09:06 AM (LKTKP)

That makes him desperate. And more dangerous. That said, if he "wins" it will be pyrrhic. So do the filthy Chi-Coms bail him out or let him twist? Remember, they are allies only of convenience.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 04, 2022 09:07 AM (s2VJv)

390 Could it be possible that the news we consume is - made up?

You mean some hot Ukrainian girl in a camo bikini didn't destroy 23 russian tanks and 12 planes?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 04, 2022 09:07 AM (ESjRY)

391 Building golfcarts isn't that hard. Why the long lead time?
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Arguing about whether Sony or Honda will get first billing.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 04, 2022 09:08 AM (UHVv4)

392 Admiral Painter has called me three times while I was driving, but I already know what he is going to say.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 04, 2022 09:08 AM (44ww/)

393 Sony and Honda agree to joint venture for an electric car by 2025.
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That makes no sense. Everyone wants one. Why isn't there one ready now?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at March 04, 2022 09:08 AM (Hnq2x)

394 Presuming Putin will win on the ground eventually, he needs to then get some sort of win diplomatically to get sanctions off him.

Amusingly we might be putting him in a situation where he is forced to dump every bad piece of intel he has on western/Ukrainian politicians.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 04, 2022 09:09 AM (ESjRY)

395 394 Presuming Putin will win on the ground eventually, he needs to then get some sort of win diplomatically to get sanctions off him.

Amusingly we might be putting him in a situation where he is forced to dump every bad piece of intel he has on western/Ukrainian politicians.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 04, 2022 09:09 AM (ESjRY)

You think the propaganda machine won't spin that as Trump-adjacent lies?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 04, 2022 09:09 AM (s2VJv)

396 Whether in Russian or Ukrainian, Kiev is disyllabic with the accent on the first syllable: KEE-yev. Rapid pronunciation may appear monosyllabic to the foreign ear.

The big dispute about city's name among the Western intelligentsia is orthographic only--the different spellings we are seeing being a result of the differences between the Ukrainian and Russian Cyrillic alphabets, and the choice of roman transliteration systems, of which there are several.

It's a storm in a samovar.

Notice all these people with nice sensibilities about the pronunciation of foreign toponyms always say Paris, not Paree, Rome, not Roma, Warsaw, not Varshava, and Moscow, not Moskva. A cultural bludgeon should be consistent to be effective.

Posted by: Brett at March 04, 2022 09:10 AM (sgJMJ)

397 >>Which begs the question, what's next for the west? They've already torpedoed their economy. How does Putin react to that long term? He must know he's screwed for some time.

Kind of appears he is setting up new sources of revenue. China, North Korea, India, Brazil, Iran and a few others are at least playing neutral and between India and China he's got about half the world population. And they don't appear excited to destroy their economy to appease Gaia.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 04, 2022 09:10 AM (ZLI7S)

398 393 Sony and Honda agree to joint venture for an electric car by 2025.
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with quadraponic stereo , right ?

and they will call it the Walkman

Posted by: REDACTED at March 04, 2022 09:10 AM (us2H3)

399 That makes him desperate. And more dangerous. That said, if he "wins" it will be pyrrhic. So do the filthy Chi-Coms bail him out or let him twist? Remember, they are allies only of convenience.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 04, 2022 09:07 AM (s2VJv

I considered that too. Big loans from the ChiComs puts him beholden to Xi for some time.

Also, I wonder if the Russian Oil spigot is the bridge too far. If our leaders are afraid completely shutting them off will cause Putin to lash out military. It's suicide, of course, but if your dead already, may as well pull the pin on that grenade and take your enemy with you.

That's the shit that scares me.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 04, 2022 09:10 AM (LKTKP)

400 >>>Under the Insurrection Act, a person convicted of insurrection is ineligible to run for public office for 10 years. That is their end goal. To disqualify Trump from running.

Now, only the President can declare an insurrection by law
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The Constitution gives requirements to be elected President and the Insurrection Act is of no matter.

The purpose of this is to prepare grounds for a third impeachment. They may not drop his election but, as we saw last time, they can sure as hell stop his presidency.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 04, 2022 09:10 AM (3ihDZ)

401 Our Betters would allow some US oil to be pulled out of the ground, or imported, for plastics, and other uses that DO NOT BURN IT. The Elites will have to hatefully put-up for a time with burning jet fuel and diesel for emergency generators (White House, etc.). But they'll force US industry to do enough or more CO2 extraction from the air to offset burning jet fuel.

They have plan and will carry it out unless literally forced to stop.
Posted by: Gref

Their plan requires a scalpel to finely cut that close. Unfortunately, the only tools they have are sledgehammers.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 04, 2022 09:10 AM (Hica+)

402 That makes no sense. Everyone wants one. Why isn't there one ready now?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at March 04, 2022 09:08 AM (Hnq2x)
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2025 essentially is "now." I suspect Honda already has the car but are having trouble with software and glitzy touches and are getting help from Sony on that. I suspect it will be doubling down on Nissan's "my car is an extension of my mobile phone" strategy, but flashier.

Wild ass guess.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 04, 2022 09:11 AM (DU+/6)

403 comment not found

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at March 04, 2022 09:11 AM (IJES/)

404 What's the point of kompromat if you never use it?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 09:11 AM (LvTSG)

405 The goal for the J6 Committee was to get the DOJ to somehow indict PDJT on insurrection, but they have 9 months to get that set up before the incoming Republicans disband the circus.

Look for them to hand off their 'evidence' to the corrupt DOJ in December and then the lame duck Dems declaring victory before leaving for their new phony baloney lobbying jobs on K Street. Garland will try and take it from there.

Posted by: Boswell at March 04, 2022 09:11 AM (5iUNf)

406
> < that close

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at March 04, 2022 09:11 AM (IJES/)

407 They are going to try the 14th run around.

Yeah I've been hearing that. Fucking insane.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 04, 2022 09:11 AM (nxdel)

408 403 comment not found
Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at March 04, 2022 09:11 AM (IJES/)

404 What's the point of kompromat if you never use it?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 09:11 AM (LvTSG)

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Now that's what you call ironic.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 09:11 AM (LvTSG)

409 You think the propaganda machine won't spin that as Trump-adjacent lies?

I'm sure it will. So if Vlad goes down this route he has to go big and very, very clear.

One of the Russian diplomats mentioned in passing the other day that Biden didn't win a free and fair election - perhaps a warning to Biden of what happens if the sanctions get too tight/run too long from Putin's perspective?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 04, 2022 09:12 AM (ESjRY)

410 19 kids and an employee hurt when an SUV smashed into a northern CA preschool.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 04, 2022 09:12 AM (UHVv4)

411 Boswell, you are spot on.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 04, 2022 09:12 AM (KY22T)

412 Notice all these people with nice sensibilities about the pronunciation of foreign toponyms always say Paris, not Paree, Rome, not Roma, Warsaw, not Varshava, and Moscow, not Moskva. A cultural bludgeon should be consistent to be effective.
Posted by: Brett at March 04, 2022 09:10 AM (sgJMJ)
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It is consistent. We do this only when there's a war on. Like "off-gon-ee-stan."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 04, 2022 09:12 AM (DU+/6)

413 He can get loans, but being cut off from the global economy will still decimate the Russian economy. Inflation will be Venezuela levels. Already damn near is.

Four million rubles for a loaf of rye

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 04, 2022 09:12 AM (LKTKP)

414 Sony and Honda agree to joint venture for an electric car by 2025.

In related news, Happy Gran Turismo 7 day, everyone. Fed Ex swears I'm getting my copy today.

Posted by: Methos at March 04, 2022 09:12 AM (kOpft)

415 Have you thought maybe Ms. Lindsey is just using his Jedi mind tricks, reverse physiology and 27th dimension chess on the Rooskies in order for them to send a team to take out Joey Poopie Pants? Huh? Did ya? Huh?

- Lindsey Staffer

Posted by: Archer at March 04, 2022 09:12 AM (gmo/4)

416 "it's highly plausible that Oswald did the shooting. It was not a hard shot for anyone trained in the Marines. "Other shooters" involved is much less plausible, and a distraction from Oswald doing it."

Maybe. Firing 4 consecutive successful shots from a bolt action, antique rifle, re-acquiring the target 4 times in the rifle site, all within 16 seconds is something even the sharp shooter couldn't pull off.

Joachim Joesten interviewed people within days of the assassination, including Oswald's mother and her son's puzzling letters about "stopping over in DC for reasons she couldn't possibly understand."

One cop he interviewed stated that the alarm came to the station before the first shots rang out. Too many witnesses dead, evidence disappearing,
yeah, most certainly Oswald acted alone. *Snort*

Posted by: Ju at March 04, 2022 09:12 AM (aTmM/)

417 So fucking eloquent:

So, Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So basically, thats wrong.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 04, 2022 09:13 AM (yrol0)

418 >>The purpose of this is to prepare grounds for a third impeachment. They may not drop his election but, as we saw last time, they can sure as hell stop his presidency.

They better get busy cause unless they plan to steal Congressional elections across the country they are going to lose the House and potentially the Senate in November.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 04, 2022 09:13 AM (ZLI7S)

419 For the same reason that we should forego fossil fuels in favour of wind and solar, we should shitcan airflights and busses for transporters like the ones developed in Star Trek. Also replicators are 99 % more energy efficient than ovens they go through a lot more dilithium. Star Trek is where cel phones came from you know.

Posted by: Wokey McDipshit (Xir/ Xem) at March 04, 2022 09:13 AM (kfcYC)

420 Russia game-planed this "incursion ", prepared for it over 8 years. I am sure severe economic sanctions were part if it. And before you go on and say "but not to this extent!" , I believe they probably planned for complete break with western economies. So what do we have? Brazil and Mexico, China, India, Iran , maybe Saudi and Israel. Perhaps Egypt. Some smaller economies. Between China and India, they can trade with half the globe.

Posted by: runner at March 04, 2022 09:13 AM (rqQ57)

421 Building golfcarts isn't that hard. Why the long lead time?
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Arguing about whether Sony or Honda will get first billing.
Posted by: andycanuck

Honda gets it. Should have named your company Aony or Bony or Cony instead of Sony.

Or partner with a company whose names starts with a T.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 04, 2022 09:14 AM (Hica+)

422 If everybody's economy, on a global scale, has been crippled indefinitely, it sounds suspiciously to me like humanity is terminally fucked up in the head.

Be sure to check out my Tik-Tok for more selfies of my genitalia!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 04, 2022 09:14 AM (PEbbU)

423 These stupid, corrupt fucks never consider they have left the border wide open for almost a year now. Wonder how many snipers and bombers have entered the country with a hard-on for them? Putin may not have calculated well but he certainly is no fool, and likely slid into this country through its stupidly open border people who can respond in kind.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 04, 2022 09:03 AM (nMx8

Russia still has close ties to Cuba and both Russia and Cuba have both excelled in espionage against the clowns in DC.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 04, 2022 09:14 AM (UuD2k)

424 419 For the same reason that we should forego fossil fuels in favour of wind and solar, we should shitcan airflights and busses for transporters like the ones developed in Star Trek. Also replicators are 99 % more energy efficient than ovens they go through a lot more dilithium. Star Trek is where cel phones came from you know.
Posted by: Wokey McDipshit (Xir/ Xem) at March 04, 2022 09:13 AM (kfcYC)

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I once had an argument with a leftist where his entire vision of the future was dependent on Star Trek levels of magical energy from somewhere that made scarcity a thing of the past.

He was trying to argue that once we got that, then communism will be achievable. I mean...there's forward thinking and then there's thinking that the fantasy of Star Trek is right around the corner.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 09:15 AM (LvTSG)

425 397 >>Which begs the question, what's next for the west? They've already torpedoed their economy. How does Putin react to that long term? He must know he's screwed for some time.

The west is putting at risk the dollar as the reserve currency

this was a done deal before the first tank rolled into Ukraine

Ukraine will be partitioned and everything will go back to normal, if we are lucky

Putin and Xi are not stupid

but unfortunately, Brandon is, along with being a weak ass loudmouth

Posted by: REDACTED at March 04, 2022 09:15 AM (us2H3)

426 What a shocker that Sean Hannity's fartclam is spouting the same shit as Sean Hannity. I'm absolutely blown away.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 04, 2022 09:17 AM (KbCG3)

427 I once had an argument with a leftist where his entire vision of the future was dependent on Star Trek levels of magical energy from somewhere that made scarcity a thing of the past.

Is your friend familiar with Ponn Far?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 04, 2022 09:17 AM (KY22T)

428 The problem with saying sanctions will crush Russia doesn't consider that in 1980 they were an isolated economy. In 2022 their supply of grain and silly stuff like fertilizer being removed from the market will be felt right here. Maybe that's a fair price, maybe not but the agin boomer and feisty millennial war crowd should level with people,about cost benefit.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 04, 2022 09:17 AM (oWBc3)

429 He was trying to argue that once we got that, then communism will be achievable. I mean...there's forward thinking and then there's thinking that the fantasy of Star Trek is right around the corner.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 09:15 AM (LvTSG)
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Even that is stupid. In the post-scarcity Star Trek universe, they pretend there's no money or economy because it isn't needed, but it's a lie because there is still scarcity: dilithim, their magic material that makes all that energy possible. In that world, the economy would very much exist and so would money, and it would all be dilithium-backed. It's always been a preposterous notion, even within the Star Trek universe.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 04, 2022 09:17 AM (DU+/6)

430 You can't get marble rye in Moscow at any amount of rubles!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 04, 2022 09:18 AM (UHVv4)

431 424

I once had an argument with a leftist where his entire vision of the future was dependent on Star Trek levels of magical energy from somewhere that made scarcity a thing of the past.

He was trying to argue that once we got that, then communism will be achievable. I mean...there's forward thinking and then there's thinking that the fantasy of Star Trek is right around the corner.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 09:15 AM (LvTSG)

" Magical Energy". Oh, well said. In fact, magical thinking aboutmeverything seems to drive most of the West now.

Posted by: kraken at March 04, 2022 09:19 AM (Vr12I)

432 429 try telling a Ferenghi there is no such thing as money

Posted by: Dogbert at March 04, 2022 09:19 AM (Z9HSN)

433 The "nuclear plant" fire was at a training/administrative building. And there were no elevated radiation levels. Remember this is still the media we're dealing with, they do not do any work to check if something is true they just retweet.
Also, you have to wonder to what extent Ukraine is lying or embellishing in a propaganda effort as well
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The thing that stuck out to me in all the reporting was it was from only Ukrainian sources.
Did you know, the Germans would give press conferences and take questions during WWII? Yet now all Russian news sources are banned in the west.
There's some shady shit going on and neither side deserves support.

Posted by: Well at March 04, 2022 09:19 AM (2Y9pR)

434 430 You can't get marble rye in Moscow at any amount of rubles!
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 04, 2022 09:18 AM (UHVv4)

What about pumpernickel?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 04, 2022 09:19 AM (LKTKP)

435 So, Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So basically, thats wrong.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 04, 2022 09:13 AM (yrol0)

It's almost as if she was reading her 'briefing' she got from The State Department without realizing that they had to dumb it down for her...

Posted by: Boswell at March 04, 2022 09:19 AM (5iUNf)

436 wonder is Soros is funding the protestors in Moscow ?

Posted by: REDACTED at March 04, 2022 09:19 AM (us2H3)

437 432 429 try telling a Ferenghi there is no such thing as money
Posted by: Dogbert at March 04, 2022 09:19 AM (Z9HSN)

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"Those are just dirty JOOOOOS!"
-Gene Roddenberry

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 09:19 AM (LvTSG)

438 430 You can't get marble rye in Moscow at any amount of rubles!
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I don't like marbled rye. Its all fucked up.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 04, 2022 09:20 AM (fWTJL)

439 it's highly plausible that Oswald did the shooting. It was not a hard shot for anyone trained in the Marines. "Other shooters" involved is much less plausible, and a distraction from Oswald doing it

*

Looking at the last 30 years of what has been done openly, especially in the last two?

Pull the other one.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at March 04, 2022 09:20 AM (Hnq2x)

440 "$7.00 a gallon"

Dear dog. And I screamed to the skies Wednesday filling up at $3.50.

G'morning, deplorables. Now back to the content.

Posted by: creeper at March 04, 2022 09:20 AM (cTCuP)

441 Do we have reliable reporting from inside Russia on that? The closed stock market isn't great, but it does prevent anyone from selling low before the conflict is over and everything goes back to normal."

watch this clip (twitter link) from Russian TV, one of their financial channels.

https://tinyurl.com/y5cea4t3

The host's face at the end says it all - "you know both of us are probably going to be disappeared since you just said that."

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 04, 2022 09:20 AM (evAgx)

442 He can get loans, but being cut off from the global economy will still decimate the Russian economy. Inflation will be Venezuela levels.

What is the theory that suggests integration in the global economy somehow protects against inflation?

Foreign imports obviously end (so prices on those things go parabolic), but Russia exports food and fuel (deals in the last few days with China and India suggest that), which means their prices ought to decrease significantly (to whatever extent India and China aren't picking up the slack).

Posted by: Methos at March 04, 2022 09:20 AM (kOpft)

443 401 Our Betters would allow some US oil to be pulled out of the ground, or imported, for plastics, and other uses that DO NOT BURN IT. The Elites will have to hatefully put-up for a time with burning jet fuel and diesel for emergency generators (White House, etc.). But they'll force US industry to do enough or more CO2 extraction from the air to offset burning jet fuel.

They have plan and will carry it out unless literally forced to stop.
Posted by: Gref

Their plan requires a scalpel to finely cut that close. Unfortunately, the only tools they have are sledgehammers.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 04, 2022 09:10 AM (Hica+)

True dat. Unfortunately. To get where the idiots want to go without crippling the US would require a carefully-designed 30-year plan (or more), slowly phasing non-hydrocarbon energy sources in. Such a plan would very likely not succeed in 30 years, due to some of its advanced technology and battery assumptions not coming in on schedule (if ever). The wreckers and breakers cannot wait, however. Due to delayed and lost Green money-making opportunities for the top several levels of scumbags. And to keep the Progressive idiots below then on-board

Posted by: Gref at March 04, 2022 09:21 AM (AMIL/)

444 403 comment not found
Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at March 04, 2022 09:11 AM (IJES/)

404 What's the point of kompromat if you never use it?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 09:11 AM (LvTSG)

And he STILL got the 404th comment yet chose to ignore it.

Like a BOSS.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 04, 2022 09:21 AM (Zz0t1)

445 Welp, I guess if Fake News says Putin is in a quagmire it must be true.

And if Fake News says the Russians tried to blow up a nuclear reactor it must be true. Certainly couldn't be an attempted false flag by Ukraine to draw in more combatants.

So weird seeing people who know better just blindly relying on whatever Fake News says.

Reminder: Putin may be a dictator but he's also a nationalist. The Democrats and Globalists are anti-nationalists. Removing Putin means removing one more leader who is against the Great Reset and the New World Order run by multinational corporations/WEF.

Posted by: Look! Squirrel! at March 04, 2022 09:21 AM (UzHWA)

446 What about pumpernickel?
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Only on the black market with dark net contacts!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 04, 2022 09:21 AM (UHVv4)

447 Filled up the car this morning. 30 cents per gallon than this past weekend. 3.80 in southwest Florida.

Posted by: Tofer732 at March 04, 2022 09:22 AM (GcxM3)

448 He was trying to argue that once we got that, then communism will be achievable.

*

People cleaned toilets cause they like to, man.

And Picards priceless treasures and vineyards? Shut up.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at March 04, 2022 09:22 AM (Hnq2x)

449 The reason Russian stocks are not trading is because the Manhattans aren't through with their shorts. As soon as that ends then the rally will take off. Oil is fungible. It has real value. Sanctions are like copyrights, they are only worth what you spend to enforce them. Hard power versus Soft power is a wanker game.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 04, 2022 09:22 AM (fWTJL)

450 447 Filled up the car this morning. 30 cents per gallon than this past weekend. 3.80 in southwest Florida.
Posted by: Tofer732 at March 04, 2022 09:22 AM (GcxM3)

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Dolley made the observation of the same thing happening in South Carolina this morning.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 09:22 AM (LvTSG)

451 448 People cleaned toilets cause they like to, man.

And Picards priceless treasures and vineyards? Shut up.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at March 04, 2022 09:22 AM (Hnq2x)

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"Don't worry. We'll fix this."
-Picard, Season 1, injecting white privilege into it

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 09:23 AM (LvTSG)

452 "it's highly plausible that Oswald did the shooting. It was not a hard shot for anyone trained in the Marines. "Other shooters" involved is much less plausible, and a distraction from Oswald doing it."

There were a bunch of documents released while Trump was President (and not playing ball with the Intelligence Community) that showed Kennedy was shot from in front and behind. Investigators though Ruby was the other shooter, but could never prove it.

Posted by: Methos at March 04, 2022 09:23 AM (kOpft)

453
In related news, Happy Gran Turismo 7 day, everyone. Fed Ex swears I'm getting my copy today.
Posted by: Methos at March 04, 2022 09:12 AM (kOpft)

I'm very happy they made it for both the PS4 and 5 as I'm not expecting myself to by a 5 for a while yet.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 04, 2022 09:23 AM (Zz0t1)

454 On the plus side, the 3% back on pay-at-the-pump that I get with my credit card gets more lucrative as gas prices spike.

Ain't much of a silver lining.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 04, 2022 09:23 AM (DU+/6)

455 *buy

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 04, 2022 09:23 AM (Zz0t1)

456 Posted by: JackStraw at March 04, 2022 09:13 AM (ZLI7S)
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I believe the GOP can figure a way to lose control of both houses by 2024 of they really set their minds to it. Big ask? Yes. Can they pull it off? Yes, they can.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 04, 2022 09:23 AM (h00VL)

457 Those fucking NYC/DC TV peeps don't give a fuck about the price of gas

now, double the price of pate and arugala

then you will have a crisis

Posted by: REDACTED at March 04, 2022 09:24 AM (us2H3)

458 >>The thing that stuck out to me in all the reporting was it was from only Ukrainian sources.
Did you know, the Germans would give press conferences and take questions during WWII? Yet now all Russian news sources are banned in the west.
There's some shady shit going on and neither side deserves support.

They hyperbolic reporting about the nuke plant being attacked and on fire last night came entirely from Ukrainian sources including Zelensky. There has been a ton of fake news coming out of Ukraine since the start of this war not the least of which that Putin was crazy and losing the war.

Zelensky is begging for a no-fly zone. He wants NATO to get involved. I trust nothing I hear coming out of that place and haven't since the 2016 election.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 04, 2022 09:24 AM (ZLI7S)

459 453 I'm very happy they made it for both the PS4 and 5 as I'm not expecting myself to by a 5 for a while yet.
Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 04, 2022 09:23 AM (Zz0t1)

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Because of cost or availability?

If it's availability, it's really not THAT hard to find a PS5.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 09:24 AM (LvTSG)

460 What is the theory that suggests integration in the global economy somehow protects against inflation?

Foreign imports obviously end (so prices on those things go parabolic), but Russia exports food and fuel (deals in the last few days with China and India suggest that), which means their prices ought to decrease significantly (to whatever extent India and China aren't picking up the slack).
Posted by: Methos at March 04, 2022 09:20 AM (kOpft)

Taking massive loans to offset losses of foreign investment, sales of exports to the rest of the west, and the inability to import goods from many western countries. Couple that with restricted travel, a ban on foreigners getting their money back since he shut off selling Russian assets, and a ridiculous exchange rate...

I don't think selling stuff to Iran and China will cover those losses.

No foreigner will want to invest there again if their assets are seized.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 04, 2022 09:24 AM (LKTKP)

461 Why doesn't FL invade Venezuela and call itself a Sanctuary State? All the oil they can pump. There is no real sense in staying the US is there? What does that buy you?

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 04, 2022 09:24 AM (fWTJL)

462 He was trying to argue that once we got that, then communism will be achievable. I mean...there's forward thinking and then there's thinking that the fantasy of Star Trek is right around the corner.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 09:15 AM (LvTSG)

IF you had unlimited energy like that (In Stargate, they called the Maguffin a Zero Point Module) then he would be correct; there'd be no reason to ever work for anything. But I believe the society that resulted would look more like Aldous Huxley's Brave New World than anything else.

The idea of Something for Nothing has been an ageless fantasy of men. It's more of a testament to our power of self-delusion than anything else.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 04, 2022 09:24 AM (evAgx)

463 It will be ten years before the war affects the price of gas in the market. Or something.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at March 04, 2022 09:24 AM (Hnq2x)

464
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Dolley made the observation of the same thing happening in South Carolina this morning.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 09:22 AM (LvTSG)

Vote Democrat. They have your best interests at heart.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 04, 2022 09:24 AM (Zz0t1)

465 The host's face at the end says it all - "you know both of us are probably going to be disappeared since you just said that."
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Like the U.S. news-desk guy and gal reporting on the child-molester when Biden's photo was on-screen??

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 04, 2022 09:24 AM (UHVv4)

466 Filled up the car this morning. 30 cents per gallon than this past weekend. 3.80 in southwest Florida.
Posted by: Tofer732 at March 04, 2022 09:22 AM (GcxM3)
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Not quite as bad here, but in the range. Gas is up to $3.70 right now in my town. Was $3.45 last weekend when I filled both cars.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 04, 2022 09:24 AM (DU+/6)

467 306
Jesse Kelly Show @JesseKellyShow

Up yours.

https://tinyurl.com/7ysnx9m9

Take a listen to this little snippet if you haven't yet. Gives you a little boost for the day. Truth.
Posted by: artisanal ette at March 04, 2022 08:45 AM (8I+CL)

Can we get this perma-linked to the sidebar? This rant by Jesse Kelly is 100% spot on.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 04, 2022 09:24 AM (ZzcdE)

468 I believe the GOP can figure a way to lose control of both houses by 2024 of they really set their minds to it. Big ask? Yes. Can they pull it off? Yes, they can.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 04, 2022 09:23 AM (h00VL)

can they fuck it up ?

oh fuck yes

100%

Posted by: REDACTED at March 04, 2022 09:25 AM (us2H3)

469 I can't name the source, but I thought I saw estimates of Putin's 'wealth' at $200 Billion.

It makes sense. He gets all the bribes.

What infuriated me was how cheaply everyone in any position of power in the West was bought and paid for selling out their fellow man. A few hundred thousand, a title and a cushy job. A few million for the big ones in power.

Assholes...

Posted by: Stateless at March 04, 2022 09:25 AM (FsZ2q)

470
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Because of cost or availability?

If it's availability, it's really not THAT hard to find a PS5.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 09:24 AM (LvTSG)

Strictly cost. Most of my money is going into auto repair and ammo at the moment and has been for some time.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 04, 2022 09:25 AM (Zz0t1)

471 So Trump was impeached for not listening to the idiots that just got Ukraine invaded?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 04, 2022 09:25 AM (Y5qcH)

472 462 IF you had unlimited energy like that (In Stargate, they called the Maguffin a Zero Point Module) then he would be correct; there'd be no reason to ever work for anything. But I believe the society that resulted would look more like Aldous Huxley's Brave New World than anything else.

The idea of Something for Nothing has been an ageless fantasy of men. It's more of a testament to our power of self-delusion than anything else.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 04, 2022 09:24 AM (evAgx)

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All of the experiments with the UBI have proven that people become great artists when they're just given money to survive!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 09:25 AM (LvTSG)

473 On the plus side, the 3% back on pay-at-the-pump that I get with my credit card gets more lucrative as gas prices spike.

That 3% is priced-into everything you buy.

Posted by: Gref at March 04, 2022 09:26 AM (AMIL/)

474 I don't think selling stuff to Iran and China will cover those losses.

No foreigner will want to invest there again if their assets are seized.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 04, 2022 09:24 AM (LKTKP)
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It's been less than 30 years since Russia went bankrupt and kicked off the largest sovereign debt default in recent memory. People have very short memories.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 04, 2022 09:26 AM (DU+/6)

475 470 Strictly cost. Most of my money is going into auto repair and ammo at the moment and has been for some time.
Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 04, 2022 09:25 AM (Zz0t1)

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Yeah...it ain't cheap. It became my one Christmas present last year.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 09:26 AM (LvTSG)

476 461 Why doesn't FL invade Venezuela and call itself a Sanctuary State? All the oil they can pump. There is no real sense in staying the US is there? What does that buy you?
Posted by: Puddinhead at March 04, 2022 09:24 AM (fWTJL)

Well Florida is waiting for it's military ally, the Greater Republic of Texas, to get itself organized, so they can do a joint strike operation. And obviously Cuba has to come first, because that's gotta be the staging area.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 04, 2022 09:26 AM (evAgx)

477 468 I believe the GOP can figure a way to lose control of both houses by 2024 of they really set their minds to it. Big ask? Yes. Can they pull it off? Yes, they can.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 04, 2022 09:23 AM (h00VL)

can they fuck it up ?

oh fuck yes

100%
Posted by: REDACTED at March 04, 2022 09:25 AM (us2H3)

So many "R"s are pumped up at the prospect of taking back the House, controlling the Senate. I remember what they did during Trump's first 2 years. They will definitely find a way to screw us.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 04, 2022 09:26 AM (ZzcdE)

478

That 3% is priced-into everything you buy.
Posted by: Gref at March 04, 2022 09:26 AM (AMIL/)

Getting 3% back on a card with 14.99% interest seems, well, not awesome.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 04, 2022 09:26 AM (Zz0t1)

479 There were a bunch of documents released while Trump was President (and not playing ball with the Intelligence Community) that showed Kennedy was shot from in front and behind

*

Did anyone ever bother to ask how John Sullivan and Ray Epps ended up hanging out at the rallies and January 6th get together?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at March 04, 2022 09:26 AM (Hnq2x)

480 This rant by Jesse Kelly is 100% spot on.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 04, 2022 09:24 AM (ZzcdE)
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It was.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 04, 2022 09:26 AM (DU+/6)

481 Does Biden survive the rest of 2022?

Posted by: dantesed at March 04, 2022 09:26 AM (88xKn)

482 478 Getting 3% back on a card with 14.99% interest seems, well, not awesome.
Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 04, 2022 09:26 AM (Zz0t1)

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Only if you let the interest accrue.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 09:27 AM (LvTSG)

483 IF you had unlimited energy like that (In Stargate, they called the Maguffin a Zero Point Module) then he would be correct; there'd be no reason to ever work for anything. But I believe the society that resulted would look more like Aldous Huxley's Brave New World than anything else.

The idea of Something for Nothing has been an ageless fantasy of men. It's more of a testament to our power of self-delusion than anything else.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 04, 2022 09:24 AM (evAgx)
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Read up on the "Mousetopia" experiments.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 04, 2022 09:27 AM (DU+/6)

484 I once had an argument with a leftist where his entire vision of the future was dependent on Star Trek levels of magical energy from somewhere that made scarcity a thing of the past.
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That's the fundamental flaw of Marxists theory: You can never eliminate scarcity.
Humans are greedy. Once you eliminate on one scarcity, we fight over what is scarce.
Think of the man 1000 years ago seeing our kitchen stuffed to the roof with food. He would be baffled we wanted anything more.
Or as Insty often relates, the most vicious fights he's seen are in the faculty lounge over nothing (they have everything they could need but not everyone can be department chair).

Posted by: Well at March 04, 2022 09:27 AM (2Y9pR)

485 As a South Carolina native I have to believe Strom Thurmond 'haunts' Lindsey Graham every night.

Posted by: Eromero at March 04, 2022 09:27 AM (e1ulR)

486 The reports about Putin are unreliable.

The reports about Russian military operations are unreliable.

This is because the same media that reported Russian collusion, Trump impeachment, Covid 19 natural source, mask effectiveness, vaccine efficacy, Biden's 81 million votes, the Jan 6 false flag, ivermectin is poison, and hides news of voting irregularities, Hunter Biden's laptop, Joe Biden's sexual assault, Joe Biden's dementia, retirement home murders, and suppression of the identities of Epstein clients

ARE UNRELIABLE.

The likelihood of the contrary is more probable.

Posted by: Minuteman at March 04, 2022 09:27 AM (LaNzR)

487 It's been less than 30 years since Russia went bankrupt and kicked off the largest sovereign debt default in recent memory. People have very short memories.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 04, 2022 09:26 AM (DU+/6)

True, but I see that as a burgeoning market drawing in investors. What was a closed off communist country was now embracing degrees of capitalism. Corporations were beside themselves at getting access to all those hungry Russians.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 04, 2022 09:27 AM (LKTKP)

488 Mother, your penis is tickling my uvula. From my sigmoid!

Posted by: Kurt at March 04, 2022 09:28 AM (ZSJ2o)

489
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Only if you let the interest accrue.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 09:27 AM (LvTSG)

If that's the case, why would I have a middleman for my cash? I'm guessing, unless it's one of those "cash back on everything" cards, it's a waste of time.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 04, 2022 09:28 AM (Zz0t1)

490 478

That 3% is priced-into everything you buy.
Posted by: Gref at March 04, 2022 09:26 AM (AMIL/)

Getting 3% back on a card with 14.99% interest seems, well, not awesome.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 04, 2022 09:26 AM (Zz0t1)

Even if you pay the card off every month and incur no interest charge, you are paying for that 3% somehow. There's a saying about No Free Lunch...

Posted by: Gref at March 04, 2022 09:28 AM (AMIL/)

491 I would rather have a Ferengi in the White House. They're upfront about their motives.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 04, 2022 09:28 AM (44ww/)

492 469 I can't name the source, but I thought I saw estimates of Putin's 'wealth' at $200 Billion.

It makes sense. He gets all the bribes.

What infuriated me was how cheaply everyone in any position of power in the West was bought and paid for selling out their fellow man. A few hundred thousand, a title and a cushy job. A few million for the big ones in power.

Assholes...
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You, sir, will never receive a $35M advance to write a book no one will ever read. You are deplorable.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 04, 2022 09:28 AM (fWTJL)

493 489 If that's the case, why would I have a middleman for my cash? I'm guessing, unless it's one of those "cash back on everything" cards, it's a waste of time.
Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 04, 2022 09:28 AM (Zz0t1)

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There is value in have a great credit score.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 09:28 AM (LvTSG)

494 Thought I smelled something.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 04, 2022 09:29 AM (LKTKP)

495 Or as Insty often relates, the most vicious fights he's seen are in the faculty lounge over nothing (they have everything they could need but not everyone can be department chair).
Posted by: Well at March 04, 2022

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"The infighting in academia is so vicious precisely because the stakes are so low."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 04, 2022 09:29 AM (txdEq)

496 Getting 3% back on a card with 14.99% interest seems, well, not awesome.
Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 04, 2022 09:26 AM (Zz0t1)
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No, it isn't. I am what the credit card companies call a "deadbeat." I pay my balance in full every time. I don't pay credit card interest. I use cards for certain things only (gas, online shopping) and otherwise pay cash.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 04, 2022 09:29 AM (DU+/6)

497 So many "R"s are pumped up at the prospect of taking back the House, controlling the Senate. I remember what they did during Trump's first 2 years. They will definitely find a way to screw us.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 04, 2022 09:26 AM (ZzcdE)

and they will scream "Tax cuts and cut regulations"

the left always depends on the kindness of idiots

Posted by: REDACTED at March 04, 2022 09:29 AM (us2H3)

498 Oh no, not the Ukrainian joos!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at March 04, 2022 09:29 AM (Hnq2x)

499 Also about replicator technology, even if they do reorganize the molecules, do you really want to eat shit?? [Outside of voting for RINOs and reading 'conservative' media, of course.]

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 04, 2022 09:29 AM (UHVv4)

500 Posted by: Look! Squirrel! at March 04, 2022 09:21 AM (UzHWA)
*******
Putin called the Ukrainian government neo-Nazis and wants the deNazification of Ukraine.
He is a dictator and is more like the Left than the Right.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 04, 2022 09:29 AM (NpAcC)

501 >>> "Unless you want to live in darkness for the rest of your life, be isolated from the rest of the world in abject poverty, and live in darkness you need to step up to the plate."

so that's Double Live In Darkness

this Graham is an ass
why, South Carolina? Why do you insist on inflicting this powdered popinjay on the rest of us?

Posted by: DB at March 04, 2022 09:29 AM (geLO8)

502 So Putin went all Ivan Drago in a call with Macron, saying his objectives would be achieved in any circumstance. Buckle up.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 04, 2022 09:30 AM (oWBc3)

503
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There is value in have a great credit score.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 09:28 AM (LvTSG)

If you use a card and pay it off every month, they don't have anything to report. You have to float a balance and make payments for anything to get reported.

Or have I been mislead?

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 04, 2022 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

504 That 3% is priced-into everything you buy.
Posted by: Gref at March 04, 2022 09:26 AM (AMIL/)

I knew my wife was holding out on me

Posted by: REDACTED at March 04, 2022 09:30 AM (us2H3)

505 Getting 3% back on a card with 14.99% interest seems, well, not awesome.
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Make one mistake and your interest rate zooms to 21.5% immediately. The Loan Shark State doesn't fool around. They have to keep the Bidens in High Cotton. Its expensive.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 04, 2022 09:30 AM (fWTJL)

506 We should have a nuclear war because three thousand Ukrainian Jews are having to live in Poland right now.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at March 04, 2022 09:30 AM (Hnq2x)

507 NOOD Monkey art

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 04, 2022 09:31 AM (nRMeC)

508 Newd monkeys

Posted by: Linn Ridge at March 04, 2022 09:31 AM (jMckO)

509 No, it isn't. I am what the credit card companies call a "deadbeat." I pay my balance in full every time. I don't pay credit card interest. I use cards for certain things only (gas, online shopping) and otherwise pay cash.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 04, 2022

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That's what I do too. How in God's name did "being a responsible adult consumer" morph into "being a deadbeat"?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 04, 2022 09:31 AM (txdEq)

510 >>and they will scream "Tax cuts and cut regulations"

and they'll shrink the size of government
totally
like, for real this time
stop laughing!

Posted by: DB at March 04, 2022 09:31 AM (geLO8)

511 Ars gratia artis

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 04, 2022 09:31 AM (txdEq)

512 463 It will be ten years before the war affects the price of gas in the market. Or something.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at March 04, 2022 09:24 AM (Hnq2x)

go look at your nearest pump. More like 10 minutes.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 04, 2022 09:31 AM (evAgx)

513 Because today's Russians just lurve them some Joooos -- especially foreign ones!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 04, 2022 09:31 AM (UHVv4)

514 Heh, it seems the DOW is in for plucking today.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 04, 2022 09:31 AM (fWTJL)

515 look at your nearest pump. More like 10 minutes.
Posted by: Tom Servo
*

Why do you hate science?!!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at March 04, 2022 09:32 AM (Hnq2x)

516 The idea of Something for Nothing has been an ageless fantasy of men. It's more of a testament to our power of self-delusion than anything else.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 04, 2022 09:24 AM (evAgx)

That sums up Western porn.

These two moderately attractive women need to have sex with anyone, anywhere right now... AND I'm right here....

or I ordered a pizza....

Posted by: Stateless at March 04, 2022 09:32 AM (FsZ2q)

517 Even if you pay the card off every month and incur no interest charge, you are paying for that 3% somehow. There's a saying about No Free Lunch...
Posted by: Gref at March 04, 2022 09:28 AM (AMIL/)
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Sure. CC transaction costs have to be paid for somewhere and it is in the form of the transaction fee and interest to the bank. Since the credit card merchant agreements forbid charging more for credit card transactions (or discounting cash transactions), those prices are paid by everyone regardless. If I could get a cash discount that exceeded by credit card rebate, I'd be paying cash for gasoline. I can't. Even at stations where there is a cash price vs. credit card price, the spread is usually smaller than the 3% I get on that card. That card has the rebate *only* for gas paid at the pump, so that's all I use it for.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 04, 2022 09:32 AM (DU+/6)

518 I'm very happy they made it for both the PS4 and 5 as I'm not expecting myself to by a 5 for a while yet.

Yeah, me neither. I get that I'll be missing a bit on controller vibrations and load times, but as far as graphics go, I don't see well enough to care that my car is reflected in the one next to me (or whatever ray tracing does). I'm just glad to have a proper campaign mode.

Posted by: Methos at March 04, 2022 09:33 AM (kOpft)

519 The political side that has always supported Jews hates Jews

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at March 04, 2022 09:33 AM (Hnq2x)

520 Heh, it seems the DOW is in for plucking today.
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Mother-cluckin' chickens on the mother-cluckin' plane!!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 04, 2022 09:34 AM (UHVv4)

521 watch this clip (twitter link) from Russian TV, one of their financial channels.

https://tinyurl.com/y5cea4t3

The host's face at the end says it all - "you know both of us are probably going to be disappeared since you just said that."
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 04, 2022 09:20 AM (evAgx)
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fantastic link. thanks for posting.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 04, 2022 09:34 AM (uCRv7)

522 If you use a card and pay it off every month, they don't have anything to report. You have to float a balance and make payments for anything to get reported.

Or have I been mislead?
Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 04, 2022 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)
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You've been misled. When you have a credit card, your behavior is reflected in the credit report, in two ways:
1. Payment history (do you pay on time?)
2. Credit usage (do you have large balances?)

If you don't use the card at all, it might not report (though it will factor into utilization overall) but if you use it and pay it off, your payment behavior will be reflected.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 04, 2022 09:34 AM (DU+/6)

523 I can't name the source, but I thought I saw estimates of Putin's 'wealth' at $200 Billion.

With that money, he is able to fund Yevgeny Prigozhin and the Wagner Group, Putin's personal mercenary army.

Yesterday, the US finally got around to freezing Prigozhin's US assets.

In the Basttle of Kasham in Syria in 2018, U.S. forces killed between 200 and 300 of Putin's mercenaries. Putin government was forced to remain silent about it.

Putin's prior personal army? The Slavonic Corps, which was based in. . . not Russia or Europe. . . but Hong Kong!

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 04, 2022 09:34 AM (KY22T)

524 >>> 501 >>> "Unless you want to live in darkness for the rest of your life, be isolated from the rest of the world in abject poverty, and live in darkness you need to step up to the plate."

so that's Double Live In Darkness

this Graham is an ass
why, South Carolina? Why do you insist on inflicting this powdered popinjay on the rest of us?
Posted by: DB at March 04, 2022 09:29 AM (geLO

Miss Lindsey doesn't sound like a WEF stooge at all in that quote, does he?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 04, 2022 09:35 AM (llON8)

525 404 What's the point of kompromat if you never use it?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 09:11 AM (LvTSG)

===
And he STILL got the 404th comment yet chose to ignore it.

Like a BOSS.
Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 04, 2022 09:21 AM

Let's not forget to observe no mention of Prometheus, either.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 04, 2022 09:35 AM (a3Q+t)

526 > Or have I been mislead?
__________
You have been mislead.

If you have a mortgage and/or car payments and do not miss any of the payments those loans (credit) go towards your score. Revolving credit, credit cards mostly, also goes towards your score.

I have two mortgages and no car payments. I have (with my wife) 3 credit cards that are almost always paid off on time.

My current credit score is north of 800.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 04, 2022 09:35 AM (BFigT)

527 The U.S. borders are secure?

No?

Then why are we concerned about the Ukrainian border?

Are we paying for Russian oil that funds the invasion instead of using our own oil?

Then apparently the U.S. is on Putin's side. GO VLAD!!

Posted by: Minuteman at March 04, 2022 09:35 AM (LaNzR)

528 Even for Kurt, that was remarkably incomprehensible and offensive. Now JJ is a self-hating Jew? Or just a Uke-Jew-hating-Jew? Or whatever?

Posted by: Sharkman at March 04, 2022 09:36 AM (8gxrg)

529 I don't think selling stuff to Iran and China will cover those losses.

No foreigner will want to invest there again if their assets are seized.

My point was that Russia has surplus food and fuel, so the two most important things to the average consumer should get cheaper because of the sanctions. Also, Russia isn't the country that's seizing assets right now.

Posted by: Methos at March 04, 2022 09:36 AM (kOpft)

530 526 My current credit score is north of 800.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 04, 2022 09:35 AM (BFigT)

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Dolley's is 849. Mine is probably about 830.

Our last mortgage process, the bank said we could get more than double what we were looking for. We didn't take it, but it was a nice feeling.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 04, 2022 09:36 AM (LvTSG)

531 527 The U.S. borders are secure?

No?

Then why are we concerned about the Ukrainian border?

-

Same reason the people who won't stand for our national anthem insist you wear a Ukraine flag.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at March 04, 2022 09:37 AM (Hnq2x)

532 In the Basttle of Kasham in Syria in 2018, U.S. forces killed between 200 and 300 of Putin's mercenaries. Putin government was forced to remain silent about it.
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Every single one in the 600-man battalion was either killed or wounded. I don't know if true, but I heard at the time it described as the most-successful air-strike on a unit that size ever.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 04, 2022 09:38 AM (UHVv4)

533 My current credit score is north of 800.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 04, 2022 09:35 AM (BFigT)
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Something that makes it *really* hard to get a score north of 800 is not having a mortgage or a car loan. My credit was like 740 or something like that when I bought a car. It ended up being cheaper to finance it (the finance arm of the manufacturer had a kickback) and pay it off after three months. I did that. I paid something like 85% of the balance on the first day I could to minimize interest costs and then let it roll off and end after three months. I ended up paying 70 bucks in interest to get a $500 kickback - easy money.

But because I then had a "real loan" instead of a credit card, my credit score went up over 800 over the next year.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 04, 2022 09:38 AM (DU+/6)

534 nood

Art Thread...no masturbation today

Posted by: Stateless at March 04, 2022 09:39 AM (FsZ2q)

535 A Juke??

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 04, 2022 09:39 AM (UHVv4)

536 528 Even for Kurt, that was remarkably incomprehensible and offensive. Now JJ is a self-hating Jew? Or just a Uke-Jew-hating-Jew? Or whatever?

Posted by: Sharkman at March 04, 2022 09:36 AM (8gxrg)

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Allow me to translate: "JJ's a uke-hating ukulele."

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at March 04, 2022 09:39 AM (qVRSW)

537 Allow me to translate: "JJ's a uke-hating ukulele."

Posted by: ShainS

I keep telling Kurt to stop trying to recycle his heroin by drinking his own piss, but the boy won't listen!!

Sad.

Posted by: Sharkman at March 04, 2022 09:41 AM (8gxrg)

538 Today's Blacklisted Americans: Hundreds of Nurses Fired or Quit Over Hospitals' Chinese COVID Shot Mandate

I will never forgive them for forcing the nurse to get jabbed. It's bad enough what they're doing to her home town.

Posted by: creeper at March 04, 2022 09:43 AM (cTCuP)

539 Why are we pretending that Putin thought this would not go his way? Biden announced the invasion, tried to assist Zelenskyy out the door, was going to leave the equipment on the ground, and documents were being burned. It was to go off just like Afghanistan. Then the donks could say, well, the leaders left, the people don't want to fight for their freedoms, whatever those are these days. "Ukes" stalled for time (Biden looked pretty silly saying an invasion was going to happen and it was postponed).

If we weren't in on the op, why are we still using Russia to negotiate, buying oil? Why did our CIA start a neo-nazi group in Ukraine? To did the "real" ones out of hiding, or to give Putin some cover? Probably had US and Russian glowies inside that org, leading it.

Posted by: CN The First at March 04, 2022 09:48 AM (ONvIw)

540 Little Miss is a bloodthirsty little fag

Posted by: steevy at March 04, 2022 09:52 AM (CYnTg)

541 492 I already know they're assholes. The only new thing I want to know is when/if they are DEAD assholes.

Posted by: Toss another plate of caviar on the Left's Funeral Pyre at March 04, 2022 09:59 AM (8m/Xb)

542 WOW. AllenG back to salt the earth! My day is complete!

Haven't commented here since JJ , CBD, and MisHum were civilians (i.e., commenters), and then only very infrequently.

Grateful for this site.

Will resume lurking in 3, 2, 1....

Posted by: Cursed With a Logical Mind at March 04, 2022 10:14 AM (WnAnp)

543 15 Everything is an Op, You are being lied to and they want you to die.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 04, 2022 07:46 AM (1gtSk)

^THIS^

Posted by: Bonnie Blue - no longer playing the game at March 04, 2022 10:30 AM (hlxe7)

544 Was referring to someone saying the "quiet part loud" a thing before Krusty the Klown did it? I'm pushing 50 and had never heard that expression until that episode of The Simpsons, like 25+ years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMHt481HsFU

Posted by: The Mantastic Tor at March 04, 2022 10:31 AM (dwzrA)

545 20 I'm pro Russia now. Have to be. Soros is against it.
Posted by: Seems Legit at March 04, 2022 07:47 AM (DcKNO)

I'm neither -- I'm pro ME.

Posted by: Bonnie Blue - no longer playing the game at March 04, 2022 10:32 AM (hlxe7)

546 They need to stop with the idiocy. Nothing is going to happen at the nuke plant. If there is an ACTUAL concern, then you shut down the plant and the concern is abated completely.

These are conventional, modern plants. They have at least one in Finland. This is not some soviet relic like Chernobyl that STILL required massive fuck ups leading up to the accident.

Posted by: deadrody at March 04, 2022 10:44 AM (SnywI)

547 A quagmire after a few days? And here I was thinking you were smart.

Posted by: J2Spank at March 04, 2022 10:56 AM (KB6If)

548 "faygele" hahaaaaa.

Posted by: JewishOdysseus at March 04, 2022 11:05 AM (bvp+i)

549 Never mention Lindsay and pickle in the same paragraph.

Posted by: JewishOdysseus at March 04, 2022 11:07 AM (bvp+i)

550 547 A quagmire after a few days? And here I was thinking you were smart.
Posted by: J2Spank at March 04, 2022 10:56 AM (KB6If)

In this context it most certainly is, my friend.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 04, 2022 11:07 AM (s2VJv)

551 MNN Braking News...

(Beijing, D.C.) The Co-Presidents of Chinamerica Joe Biden and Xi Jinping released a surprising statement today, rejecting the label ' war criminal' for Vladimir Putin.

"We do not wish to call Putin a 'war criminal' because, frankly, he's an amateur. We just killed some 50 million people around the world with our Virus/Vaccine/Malpractice Trifecta and honesty compels us to admit Putin's not even in the same league. And we certainly don't want to be hypocritical about it."

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at March 04, 2022 11:12 AM (Ndje9)

552 Kaine said he still "feels like all my nerves have had, like, five cups of coffee." (second hand smoke from Antifa sonny boy's crack pipe - jjs)

anal insuflation will do that to you, Timmy.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 04, 2022 11:45 AM (ynpvh)

553 That floor may be feeling better, but all the ugly won't wash off easily.

Posted by: West at March 04, 2022 01:12 PM (QY+6a)

554 You know Russia has advanced missiles, right? And they control the skies over Ukraine, right? So if they wanted to blow up the Zaporizhzhia nuclear reactor they could have easily done it already. Thus, it makes far more sense that Russian forces are trying to take control of the facility as a preventive measure. Now call me a Russia bot.

Posted by: Kimo Loka at March 04, 2022 01:23 PM (ZO1EW)

555 554 Posted by: Kimo Loka at March 04, 2022 01:23 PM (ZO1EW)

In any combat, the plan goes right out the window as soon as the bullets start flying. What they want to do and what winds up actually happening many times are two very different things.

And that should scare the shit out of you. It does me.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 04, 2022 03:29 PM (s2VJv)

556 "In other news. It's 9 degrees right now, tomorrow it's supposed to be 50 with thunderstorms.
March; in Wisconsin."

Hmmm...interesting. There were planes cris-crossing vapor trails all day yesterday over my city, and today complete cloud cover.

When I watch the trails being laid down, wearing my chic tin-foil hat, I expect an unusual weather event to occur somewhere (I know there's a jet stream) and so far, sometimes a few days out, it happens.

So...mess around with elections and gain-of-function diseases, digital ID metrics and jab mandates, why not spray stuff in the sky?

Posted by: Ju at March 04, 2022 06:10 PM (aTmM/)

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