The Morning Report

The Morning Report - 3/17/22

Good morning, kids. Thursday and so the turducken of Haile Selassie stuffed inside Mahatma Ghandi and wrapped with Winston Churchill - President Volodymyr Zelensky - made his pitch to Congress via Zoom/Skype. Invoking everything from Pearl Harbor to 9/11, he begged and pleaded for America to basically start World War 3 to preserve his precious Democracy.

Kind of ironic that Zelensky's description of Putin's invasion of Ukraine sounds exactly like the Democrats description of what happened in that very building on January 6th, 2021. But no matter. There are far too many people in that desecrated edifice - desecrated by the presence and criminality of 99% of the politicians, not by buffalo headdress guy and certainly not Ashli Babbit or Roseanne Boyland - itching to send American troops into the Ukraine for the purposes of liberating a threatened people yearning for Jeffersonian democracy and saving their asses from the American people this November for destroying their heir lives and livelihoods. But mostly to save their asses from the American people this November for destroying their lives and livelihoods.

I've made the case as best as I can that despite Putin having no excuse for waging a bloody war of aggression/conquest, the fact that the Davos Global Reset Mafia are all in against him means something really stinks, since they are soulless fiends perhaps worse than Putin. But, you see, if I even dare to make this point, I'm a Russian stooge spreading disinformation and on the side of an evil Russian madman. Joey Soft-Serve himself called Putin a "war criminal." That after flip-flopping on that term like a tuna on the deck of a pitching trawler.

Well then, if Putin's a "war criminal," and anyone who gives him aid and comfort is the same, then what about this?

"Russia's top state-controlled energy company is set to cash in on a $10 billion contract to build out one of Iran's most contested nuclear sites as part of concessions granted in the soon-to-be-announced nuclear agreement that will guarantee sanctions on both countries are lifted . . .
. . . "We, of course, would not sanction Russian participation in nuclear projects that are part of resuming full implementation of the JCPOA," State Department spokesman Ned [Ryerson] Price confirmed on Tuesday, referring to the original 2015 nuclear accord. Russia's foreign ministry made a similar statement on Tuesday, saying that "additions were made to the text of the future agreement on JCPOA restoration to ensure that all the JCPOA-related projects, [especially] with Russian participation, as well as Bushehr [nuclear power plant], are protected from negative impact of anti-Russian restrictions" by the United States and European Union.
The removal of these sanctions will provide Moscow's Rosatom company with a critical source of revenue as American and European sanctions crush Russia's economy in response to its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. The concessions to Moscow have generated frustration on Capitol Hill, with top Republican leaders accusing the Biden [junta] of weakening penalties on Russia to secure an agreement with Iran. . .
. . . The official further confirmed that the United States will "not sanction Russian participation in nuclear projects that are part of resuming full implementation of the JCPOA," such as work on Iran's civilian nuclear program. "The United States will take actions as necessary to ensure that U.S. sanctions do not apply to the implementation of JCPOA nuclear-related projects and activities by non-U.S. individuals and entities," the official said.

R-U-F-K-M?! Joe Biden, via Ron Klain controlling the geriatric spasticated lips, calls Vladimir Putin a war criminal, flaming assholes on both sides of that fetid aisle are calling for Putin's scalp delivered on an MX warhead as they cry a river of glycerine tears because of some spiel from a guy as well as the nation he leads that together ain't exactly squeaky clean kosher. But then Needlenose Ned Ryerson Price informs us that we're letting the Russians broker a deal for us that gives them billions of dollars AND paves the way for Iran to get the bomb as well as billions more to fund "tourism in all its forms" as Yasser "that's my baby" Arafat once accidentally on purpose malaproped.

If I were Biden and everyone who did the Pelosi Seth Brundle Hand Jive while listening to Zelensky, I would not be using the term "war criminal" so freely. While a mushroom cloud may not appear over Kyev, this insanity means that the prospect of one appearing over Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Dubai or Riyadh is that much more real. And if none of that grabs you, inflated food and gas prices will be the least of your worries considering they might not be available at all.

For two years and continuing until today, there have been interruptions in commodities for sale. A number of factors contribute to this stuttering availability of commercial goods. Labor shortages in picking, packing, processing, and transportation led to gaps on some grocery shelves. Delayed imports of raw materials for canning, bottling, and bagging due to shutdowns in countries of origin will likely continue, especially now that China is locking down whole cities again.
Because of recent crop failures and lackluster harvests, many regional grocery warehouses, which usually have about 18 months' worth of packaged and frozen food in stock, are practically empty according to a friend whose family owns a large chain of stores. Low stocks of livestock feed and hay due to drought are reducing meat, poultry, milk, and egg production in some areas.
Monica Showalter's excellent article the other day—Biden is about to get caught flat-footed on another crisis: Ukraine war–generated global food shortages— examines the impact that Russia's war on Ukraine is having and is expected to have on global grain and fertilizer availability, as well as food production.
Besides the drought hitting the mid-plains and potentially causing the abandonment of this year's winter wheat (that's for flour) crop, the La Niña system is expected to bring above-average rains to the eastern and southeastern parts of the US, potentially delaying planting and harvest. If California continues to value a practically nonexistent smelt over its people, there will be little water for the Sacramento-area rice farmers. They've already pulled down avocado and almond orchards due to restricted water allocations elsewhere in the state. . .
. . . Already we are hearing about food rationing in various places in Europe. We've seen some of that during the worst of the pandemic shortages, but it's been managed by local vendors. It's likely to get much worse before it gets better.
Let's Go Brandon's expertise lies in making the worst possible decision given any type of choice and regardless of the number of options available...that much is painfully obvious. We can rest assured that, when the government wakes up to this problem, it will be too late.
The demands of equity will ensure that those at the head of the food and farm assistance lines are the ones with the most victimhood points. Even if the food we are used to is available, the cost will be close to prohibitive for those on a budget. Also, it's very likely nothing will have been done in the meantime to secure our food stocks from the depredations of the export market. It will be another case of the political class waiting until the last minute and then going overboard trying to react.

The author goes on to urge Americans everywhere to not only stock up on long-lasting packaged staples, but to start growing food crops at home. If only there were a way to drill for your own oil and refine it in your basement. Of course, Merrick Garland in a face colander and dominatrix gear will come after you.

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

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"Over 100 countries, including the U.S., want to centralize banking and take control over your financial decisions."
The Coming Carbon Social Credit Currency
"Our time horizon must be about America and Western civilization, not about ourselves. The West has been increasing human liberty and accomplishment for thousands of years. Are we going to squander it all in just two?"
Canada Was Just the Beginning
Progressives like to assert that nationalism is toxic, poisonous, and dangerous."
The Irony of Progressive "Anti-Nationalism"

RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR

"Is this too much to ask? "A humanitarian no-fly zone?"
Zelensky Calls on U.S. Military to Engage Russia
"United States and NATO military leaders must be reminded to take every precaution to avoid escalations that will result in war with Russia and American soldiers being put in harm's way," Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) said in a statement. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) reminded that escalations could turn into "World War III," though "it's hard not to be moved his words," he said.
U.S. Lawmakers Warn Against Escalating Ukrainian War with "No-Fly Zone"
"As the war in Ukraine enters its third week, a campaign is underway in Washington that will eventually lead the U.S. and NATO to war."
Washington Is Ramping Up Its Campaign To Draw NATO Into War With Russia
I'm sure every last penny of this will be accounted for. . .
Biden Announces New $800 Million Security Assistance Package For Ukraine
"While combat rages in Ukraine, military exercises proceed up north."
NATO War Games in Norway
"The remarks from Putin come as there has reportedly been growing opposition to his war in Ukraine, which has resulted in severe sanctions being leveled against Russia."
Putin Appears to Issue Serious New Threat Against His Own Citizens
Biden's spox Jen Psaki worries: Buying cheap Russian oil could put India on the "wrong side of the history." (how I utterly loathe that vapid expression - jjs)
Russia Offers India 'Discounted' Oil In Bid To Shore Up Sanctions-Hit Economy
Lloyd Billingsley: "How Russia learned to stop worrying and love the bomb."
Nukestalgia
Victor Davis Hanson: "We should not rehash the past but learn from it—and thereby ensure Vladimir Putin is defeated now and deterred in the future."
10 Realities of Ukraine
"Putin's gnawing preoccupation of restoring the former Soviet empire has only closed it off to the world."
Russia's Self-Inflicted Wound
"It might be the only hope to keep Ukraine from being entirely overrun by Russia."
A NATO No-Combat Zone In Ukraine?

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"Amidst Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine, Vindman has consistently called for the U.S. to play a larger role in the conflict, despite polls revealing most Americans feel otherwise."
Alexander "Bearclaw" Vindman Served at Grad School Funded By Chinese Communist Group
"With the attention of the United States directed towards the European continent, China would assuredly utilize such a conflict to advance its geopolitical goals throughout the region. In addition to allowing for greater military pressure on Taiwan, U.S. preoccupation with a war in Europe could provide Beijing with the opportunity to further expand its growing political and economic authority throughout the Asia Pacific region."
If China's Pushing for U.S. Involvement In Ukraine, Chances Are It's a Bad Idea
"Redacted tweet may reveal contradicting sentiments within the Biden [junta]."
Harris Breaks From White House Messaging With Now-Deleted Tweet
"When Vladimir Putin speaks of de-Nazification, what he really means is to Russify — to return to the age of the Tsars circa the 1860s."
Why Is Putin Talking About 'De-Nazifying' Ukraine?
In short, whatever the horrors of Putin's war or the lack of Europe's military and economic preparedness for it, everyone—the E.U., NGOs, and even "bad boy" governments like Poland and Hungary—was doing the right thing by refugees.
Dealing with the Fallout from Putin's Folly
"Strictly declaring World War Three is off the table is a bad thing?"
Tony Blair: Promising Not to Have a Nuclear World War With Russia is a "Strange Tactic"
Robert Spencer: ". . . And why Biden has done more damage than "the 5 worst presidents in American history."
Trump Reveals What Kept Putin From Invading Ukraine During His Presidency
"They are afraid of being dropped off at school in the morning." (wait until Israel nukes Teheran, or Gaza - jjs)
Save the Children: Russian Kids Being Bullied and Abused Over Their Nationality
Heather Mac Donald: "The classical music establishment demands that Russian musicians condemn their nation's invasion of Ukraine in order to retain jobs and engagements in the West."
Denounce Putin, or Be Blacklisted
"Addressing five media myths spurring anger about a terrible war Americans can do nothing to solve while poverty and the destruction of liberty continue at home."
Break Glass in Case of Kremlin Disinformation
Miranda Devine: "Maybe if they hadn't used Russia as their personal bogeyman for six years, it wouldn't be so easy to dismiss their claims that everyone they dislike is a Kremlin asset."
"Putin" Us On: Why Dems' "Russian Disinformation" Claims Can't Be Taken Seriously
DEMOCRAT WAR ON OIL, THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Now this is a great idea! Enviro-commie heads would explode. How can they now tar Cramer as a Putin puppet when he's calling for investigations into Putin? A good example of smart, asymmetric political warfare. More of it, stat.
GOP Sen. Cramer: We Should Investigate Russian Ties to Green Groups, Would Be a "Fraction" of the Cost of Mueller Probe
"According to a report from Politico, this week House progressives will call on Joe Biden to use his executive power and declare climate change a national emergency, issue a ban on fossil fuel drilling on public lands, and end fossil fuel subsidies."
Democrats Urging Biden to Make Gas Even More Expensive
"I think we need to be moving away from an economy that's based on fossil fuels, that's the way of the past and we need to be moving toward the future," said Warnock. "The issue of taxes and how much, that's a conversation that I think I want to participate in, and I'll bring my values and commitment to getting there to the conversation."
Fraud Senator Warlock Warnock Calls for Ending Fossil Fuels in Unearthed Video
"Claims by officials that inflation is transitory or caused by Vladimir Putin are confirmation that it will continue."
The Ruling Class's Response To Inflation Tells You It's Only Going To Get Worse

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"It's time to make Americans gardeners again."
Food Shortages Soon Come – What To Do?
"The people running this country aren't serious people." (oh they're serious as a nuclear war - jjs)
Malig-Nancy Pelosi and Mayor Peter Puffer Want to Solve Inflation With — You Guessed It — More Spending
"The Democrats caused today's historic inflation, but that doesn't exclude the central bank's failure to act."
The Fed Has One Job to Do, and Blew It
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"What concerns me most about World's article is the portrayal of a growing Christian movement that appears to see economic and environmental issues more through the lens of Keynes and Carson than one consistent with G-d's Word. Yet I am optimistic that this will be overcome through the work of the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation and other groups and individuals seeking to apply the whole counsel of God's Word to all aspects of life in G-d's creation."
Will Young Conservatives Embrace the Ideology of Climate Change?
"There are 2,499 cubic feet of the other gases for every cubic foot of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Could one cubic foot of carbon dioxide assume enough heat from sun light to heat 2,499 cubic feet of atmosphere even one degree?"
Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide: A Little Perspective, Please
"As long as the United States continues to outsource production and jobs to China, it will be hardworking Americans who suffer the economic consequences of our energy dependence."
Democrats Don't Want You To Know How Much Fossil Fuel It Takes To Power Electric Cars
"Nuclear energy is the safest, cleanest, and most reliable of all energy sources."
Carbon-Free Nuclear Power
AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
"Well, just remember this phrase Megyn: 'crate training'," he added. "You can not train a dog when it's middle aged. You got to get them when they're puppies. And get them trained up and into that crate. And that's what we're doing with kids. Because this will not be the last emergency. And it will not be the last time the government and the governor and the mayor need to exact their power."
Adam Carolla Says Reason Why Kids Have Been Forced To Mask In Schools Is Much Worse Than Chinese COVID
Dean also tweeted, "It's been almost two years. The media is finally catching on to @andrewcuomo's atrocities in nursing homes and the coverup. Grateful to @TomDiNapoli for being on the side of the angels and reporting the truth in his state audit. @GovKathyHochul you need to stop being complicit." (Hochul was Cuomo's lieutenant; as such she's as culpable insofar as not blowing the whistle on him and in fact acting as a co-conspirator - jjs)
NY Gov: I Want To Find Out 'What Was Done Wrong' During Pandemic. Janice Dean Fires: 'I Don't Believe Her'
"The results of this comparison are reportedly stark, with the number of children capable of a reading level rated from good to very good falling seven per cent since 2016."
Reading Ability of Children Far Lower than in Pre-Chinese COVID Times – Study
"I think if Republican voters in their home states learn of this vote to keep Anthony Fauci, these voters will be very unhappy."
'Not Surprised': Rand Paul Slams Republicans Who Voted To Keep Fauci But Impeach Trump
"Yet, with most public health authorities at the national, state and local levels moving away from forced masking, airline passengers are still required to wear them, and Biden apparently will not let Congress rid Americans of that burden. This is despite the fact that airplanes are one of the safest environments out there from a [Chinese] COVID-19 standpoint, compared to places masks are no longer required, like concert venues, residential buildings or bars and restaurants."
The Biden Junta Is Ignoring The Science On Airplane Masking
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"If you consult the mainstream media, you will not hear about the Aultmans or their gruesome fate. But you should."
An Injustice Worse than the Plight of George Floyd
"Barbara Maier Gustern was traveling to watch a student to perform at Joe's Pub when she was pushed from behind by a 30-ish red-haired woman in front of her building at West 28th Street and Eighth Avenue in Chelsea."
Vocal Teacher Who Taught Blondie's Debbie Harry Dies After Manhattan Attacker Shoves Her To Ground
"There are solutions, just none the radical Left want to enact."
On the Sidewalks of New York: Bullets Over SoHo
Smollett told police on January 29, 2019, that he was attacked by two men in Chicago at 2 a.m. who he claimed made racist and homophobic slurs, wrapped a rope around his neck, poured an "unknown substance" on him, and yelled that this is "MAGA country."
Jussie Smollett Ordered Released From Jail After Serving Less Than a Week of 5 Month Sentence Pending Appeal
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"The complaint alleges that 'the district's response was styled as a full grant' of records, though on Feb. 11, the district notified the mother that they would be withholding some documents. The district alleged that some of the relevant materials were protected by copyright."
Michigan Mom Sues School District For Allegedly Refusing To Disclose Full Curriculum Documents
"Nearly two-thirds of student body sign letter in support of rowdy protest."
Hundreds of Yale Law Students Disrupt Bipartisan Free Speech Event
"It was supposed to be a lesson on racism, but some parents are furious neither they, nor their kids, were told about it ahead of time."
Parents Outraged After Texas Elementary School Performs Racial Segregation Experiment
"A Kentucky summer camp teaches 'sex liberation,' 'BDSM,' and 'self-pleasure' to minors."
The War on Innocence
"Crybully victims can't take criticism but are perfectly willing to dish it out."
A Double Standard for Free Speech at Vanderbilt
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
Not opposed on principle, but what will it really accomplish, considering there are scores if not hundreds of Mayorkas clones waiting in the wings?
This Needs to Happen: Rep. Chip Roy Urges House Republicans to Impeach DHS Sec. Mayorkas
"While those who push for stimulus checks for illegal aliens claim to do so on humanitarian grounds, the end result is further erosion of the nation's resources and ability to serve legal residents."
Stimulus Checks: The Latest Immigration Scam
THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH
"It also creates a detailed chain of custody requirement for ballot handling, and would allow for paper ballot inspections following an election."
Georgia Republicans Pass Additional Measures to Protect Elections
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"The Sierra Club hastily made a decision, without consulting a robust set of stakeholders, to postpone two planned outings to Israel," executive director Dan Chu said in a statement. "We intend to update our schedule soon to offer new outings to Israel later this year."
Environmentalists Reverse Course on Israel Boycott
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
"Now we're 16 months away from the 2020 election, Joe Biden's safely in the White House, and The Times finally decides to report on the news rather than carry the Biden campaign's water. And they find that hey, Hunter Biden's business interests benefited from Joe Biden's political status to a suspicious degree. Perhaps this is a topic worthy of examination."
Now That Joe Biden's the So-Called Quote-Unquote "president," the NY Times Finally Admits Hunter Biden's Laptop is Real
OTHER DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"In the tradition of unionized labor, a half-assed effort was made."
Dues Well Spent: Union Cartel Botches 'Stand With Ukraine' Photo Op
During her first run for Congress, Luria called the $7.25 federal minimum wage "criminal" and said she thinks "that everyone deserves a living wage to raise their family in the community." At least two of her congressional staffers, however, earned less than the annual salary that marks a living wage in Virginia, payroll disclosures show.
Elaine Luria Wants a 'Living Wage' for All, Except Her Own Staff
POLITICS
"In the last year, more than two million migrants have been apprehended at the southern border. Fentanyl has become the greatest killer among 18 to 45 year olds. Inflation has soared to a 40-year high. Gas prices have increased to all-time record highs. Weekly wages have shrunk. Supply chain woes have persisted. And the deadly Afghan withdrawal deeply embarrassed the nation."
Poll: 69 Percent of Voters Say Nation on Wrong Track Under Joe Biden
"So we established . . . a new civil rights cause of action for those whose intimate images were shared on the public screen. How many times have you heard—I bet everybody knows somebody somewhere along the line, that in an intimate relationship, what happened was the guy takes a revealing picture of his naked friend, or whatever, in a compromising position and then literally, in a sense, blackmails or mortifies that person . . . sends it out, put it online."
Biden's Latest Pervy Comment May Be the Most Awkward Yet
"Sinema reportedly described herself as anti-tax and anti-government in her speech, leaving Biden's aides complaining she was acting more like Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney than a Democrat, reported Axios. The outlet previewed the book, This Will Not Pass, by New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns."
REPORT: Kyrsten Sinema Mocked Biden at Fundraiser, Praised Reps. McCarthy and Biggs
"Perhaps it is the difference between getting elected to be someone and running for office to do something. Or it could be that Americans are concerned about the future of their children than another tax cut. Add the Democrats altogether abandoning the middle- and working-class with policies that play in the well-heeled suburbs and elite college campuses, and political coalitions will shift. However, the shift in approval for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in Miami-Dade County is astonishing."
DeSantis Rising in Previously Deep Blue Miami-Dade County
"Fifty-two percent of those questioned in a Wall Street Journal survey released on Tuesday said they don't think the president will launch a re-election campaign"
Half of Americans Don't Believe Biden Will Seek a Second Term, Wall Street Journal Survey Finds
"The squid comparison is fitting, actually — neither has a backbone."
Biden: Our First Cephalopod So-Called Quote-Unquote "president"
"The country is in the very best of hands — Nancy Pelosi's trembling hands at the command of what appears to be a cocktail-impaired brain."
Has Nancy Pelosi Been Drinking on the Job Again? It Sure Looks That Way. . .
"Lots of blank stares on the campus of UCLA."
Ami Horowitz Video: Biden Fans Try to Name One Thing He Has Accomplished This Year
"Sometimes when a person gets booed it is hard to tell if it is boos or cheers or a mix of both," radio host Grace Curley tweeted. "This was not one of those times."
Crowd Boos Governor Cuomo-with-Tits Hochul at Madison Square Garden as She's Honored on "Women's Empowerment" Night
"How can anyone take Romney seriously? I mean, for crying out loud, this is the man who chose Pierre Delecto as his fake Twitter handle. That's not even a good porn name."
Let's Go, Romney
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"Since when did common sense morph into 'treason/'"
The 'T' Word
"Former CNN President Jeff Zucker fired Cuomo in December for misleading him and other top executives at the network about his contacts with aides to his brother and former New York governor Andrew Cuomo."
Chris Cuomo Files $125 Million Arbitration Claim Against CNN
SECOND AMENDMENT
"Constitutional carry means that the state's law does not prohibit citizens who can legally possess a firearm from carrying handguns, (openly and/or in a concealed manner) thus no state permit is required," explains the U.S. Concealed Carry Association (USCCA). "Sometimes, constitutional carry may be conditional such as in those states that have no laws prohibiting the open carry of a handgun but which require a permit to carry the handgun concealed."
We're Close to a Majority of States Passing Constitutional Carry Laws
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
7.4 magnitude, which is pretty damn big. Prayers for those affected.
Powerful Earthquake Off Japanese Coast Kills 4, Injures More Than 90
"Biden [junta] will waive sanctions so Russia can build contested nuclear plant."
New Iran Agreement Would Let Russia Cash In on $10 Billion Contract to Build Nuclear Sites
"1,000 marines have already arrived in the country"
WWIII: Biden Sending THOUSANDS of Marines to Australia in Anticipation of Conflict With China
Daniel Greenfield: "19 years later, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has yet to face justice."
Biden Tries to Cut a Deal to Spare 9/11 Mastermind the Death Penalty
"Are their situations similar?"
Palestinians and Ukrainians
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Raymond Ibrahim: "It is not a product of grievances, political factors, or even an 'extremist' interpretation of Islam. It's worse."
The Reason Islam's So Keen on Hating Us
BIDEN AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER
There is nothing as permanent as a temporary government anything.
Biden Gives "Temporary" Amnesty to 75,000 Afghans in U.S. Despite Vetting Failures
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
"Prosecutors accused Qiming Lin, a former officer in China's domestic spy bureau, of attempting to hire a private investigator to manufacture a sex scandal against an unnamed House candidate in New York. They also accused Shujun Wang, the head of a pro-democracy organization in Queens, of using the group to spy on activists and provide intelligence to the Chinese government. Three other operatives are accused of trying to bribe a federal official to obtain the tax returns of a pro-democracy dissident."
Feds Accuse Chinese Agents of Stalking House Candidate, Spying on Democracy Activists
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"Why does America spend so much on health care?"
Paying the Price
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"If this new engine is restartable, it means that China will be able to de-orbit it in a controlled manner, over the ocean. If so, hallelujah! It means China will finally be honoring its obligations under the Outer Space Treaty."
China Tests Rocket Engine for the Next Long March 5b Launches
"This ambitious plan exists because both the helicopter and its engineering team have far exceeded expectations. At the moment, there is no obvious reason why Ingenuity cannot continue to operate for years, an expectation that no one predicted."
NASA Extends Ingenuity's Mission Through September 22nd
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"Rather than strengthening their dream coalition, gender-bending mythology has unraveled it."
Gay and Trans Ed for Kids: A Rainbow Bridge Too Far
"The idea that women are purposely underpaid by a sexist society is rooted in the feminist's belief in sameness, rather than equality, between the sexes."
Feminists Continue to Peddle a Lie on Equal Pay
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"These folks likely will never recant their view that Trump is horrid. Fine. But will they now admit that Biden is horrid as well?"
Liberals Like Bill Maher, Bari Weiss, and Andrew Sullivan Should Apologize for Whitewashing Joe Biden's Corruption and Incompetence
"The group criticized Disney for not vigorously opposing Florida's education bill at the outset. In its letter, the group blasted Disney chief Bob Chapek over the way the company reacted to the bill."
LGBTQIA+ Disney Employees Plan Walkout over Company's Response to Florida's Don't-Groom-Kids Bill
"Next time the Editor of the Hollywood Reporter sends someone to review a Comedy Festival he would do well to send a reporter with a sense of humour," the 82-year-old legendary British actor/comedian tweeted to his millions of followers. "Otherwise it's like sending someone deaf to review a concert."
John Cleese Defends Slavery Jokes After Getting Mic Taken Away at Film Festival
"Fucking crazy."
Joe Rogan Slams Big Tech Censorship and Its "Woke" Ideology
Christian Toto: "No press, no problem: These stars shun woke bylaws to rise above their peers."
Rebel Artists Tom MacDonald, Chrissie Mayr Top Industry Charts
"Erotic desensitization is nearly complete."
Post-Porn

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Posted by: J.J. Sefton at 07:06 AM

Comments

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1 If the maniacs that run the world want WWIII, WWIII, we will get.

Im just trying to decide if being at ground zero of a nuclear strike might be the optimal choice.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 17, 2022 07:10 AM (vasL8)

2 first

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 17, 2022 07:10 AM (BFigT)

3 damn it

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 17, 2022 07:11 AM (BFigT)

4 Top 5!

Posted by: NR Pax at March 17, 2022 07:13 AM (4olE8)

5 Happy birthday JJ!

I am going to the office today for the first time in I don't know how long.

Posted by: blaster at March 17, 2022 07:13 AM (9otr5)

6 But it's not anything near permanent.

Posted by: blaster at March 17, 2022 07:13 AM (9otr5)

7 Most people have no idea how hard you would have had to work to drive Russia and Iran together. There's an ill spirit behind d these works.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindicatorem at March 17, 2022 07:13 AM (oWBc3)

8 "Lindsey Graham 'called the White House on January 6 and said he would use the 25th Amendment to remove Trump and says Biden was the right person to win the election"

I don't want to hear anyone praise or defend that fuckwit ever again. To do so will incur my wrath, ridicule, and scorn.

Posted by: fd at March 17, 2022 07:14 AM (vrz2I)

9 Early early morning! JJ must have a date later.

Thanks JJ, for all you do!

Posted by: Rosasharn at March 17, 2022 07:14 AM (yEBFM)

10 John Cleese sounds like he might be getting red pulled at age 82. Something like that can get the ball rolling.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 17, 2022 07:14 AM (vrYal)

11 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at March 17, 2022 07:15 AM (U7wke)

12 "Well then, if Putin's a "war criminal," and anyone who gives him aid and comfort is the same, then what about this?

"Russia's top state-controlled energy company is set to cash in on a $10 billion contract to build out one of Iran's most contested nuclear sites as part of concessions granted in the soon-to-be-announced nuclear agreement that will guarantee sanctions on both countries are lifted . . ."

there was a time when the West could pit itself against Russia, China and India and walk away smelling like a rose, we could just crush them and profit from doing that.

that time is over, we still can be the strongest country in the world but not under the current management.

Posted by: Shoey77 at March 17, 2022 07:18 AM (fcWVN)

13 red pulled ?

Posted by: JT at March 17, 2022 07:18 AM (arJlL)

14 Hiya JJ !

Posted by: JT at March 17, 2022 07:18 AM (arJlL)

15 Cleese doesn't like being suppressed? Welcome to the club you twit. Just going to that "Festival" indicates a lack of perception.

Posted by: fd at March 17, 2022 07:19 AM (vrz2I)

16 Good morning dear morons and thanks JJ

Happy St Patrick's Day and Chag Sameach Purim

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 17, 2022 07:19 AM (EZebt)

17 I hope Ace is feeling better today.

Posted by: JT at March 17, 2022 07:19 AM (arJlL)

18 Thank you, J.J.!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 17, 2022 07:19 AM (3D/fK)

19 Putin is indeed a war criminal

Biden is indeed a demented pervert

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 17, 2022 07:20 AM (EZebt)

20 Disney can go all gay all the time and these people will not be satisfied.

Posted by: fd at March 17, 2022 07:20 AM (vrz2I)

21

Ace got a shout out from Victor Davis Hanson. Evidently he reads the MR.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 17, 2022 07:20 AM (s2VJv)

22 Did you guys talk about VDH talking about his news sources?

Hi VDH!!!

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at March 17, 2022 07:21 AM (ySQBZ)

23 @8

>>I don't want to hear anyone praise or defend that fuckwit ever again. To do so will incur my wrath, ridicule, and scorn.

Remember, that duplicitous, lying gay snake was standing shoulder to shoulder with John McCain, when McCain "delivered" the Steele Dossier to the FBI, he was also with McCain in Ukraine in 2016 exhorting them to fight the Ruskies because, "their" fight was "our" fight.

Of the terrible GOPe assholes that seem to exist to make our lives hell while lining their own pockets, Graham might be the worst.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 17, 2022 07:21 AM (ZuC0a)

24 morning horde.

coffee is ready. off to the content

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at March 17, 2022 07:23 AM (8D42x)

25 Yeah, JJ!

He said Ace was mean too, as a compliment kinda. I was stunned that his regimen was same as mine to the letter. Except I don't bother with "lunatic" sites.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at March 17, 2022 07:23 AM (ySQBZ)

26 Uhh-Red Pilled, JT. No doubt my typos can be funny, but if you're going to ask questions about everyone I make they'll be not much time for any other frivolity and high jinx here.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 17, 2022 07:23 AM (vrYal)

27 Morning again, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 17, 2022 07:23 AM (ju2Fy)

28 yo wut sup

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 17, 2022 07:23 AM (yrol0)

29 I am not on board with this business that if you start a war you are a war criminal. And that doesn't make me Putins boyfriend.

And it's not moral equivalence to point out that the US violates sovereign nations pretty regularly. Since we do we need to be especially careful of this way of thinking. Other countries can and do consider our leaders war criminals and we get mad about it. Want some Freedom Fries anyone?

Posted by: blaster at March 17, 2022 07:25 AM (9otr5)

30 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at 08:06 AM
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What kind of sorcery is this?

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 17, 2022 07:26 AM (ju2Fy)

31 Ace got a shout out from Victor Davis Hanson. Evidently he reads the MR.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 17, 2022 07:20 AM (s2VJv)

VDH appreciates all the hard work ace does early in the morning?

Posted by: blaster at March 17, 2022 07:26 AM (9otr5)

32 The link on the degradation of sexuality and the desensitization it causes is similar to our cavalier use and surrender of the language. Putin be a war criminal, but casually throwing that around here or in the White House sets up some dangerous situations for this country and our leaders past and present. Just think about it is all I'm saying.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindicatorem at March 17, 2022 07:27 AM (oWBc3)

33 Rootin For Putin!

Free Buffalo Guy!

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 17, 2022 07:27 AM (Sdlpf)

34 29 Posted by: blaster at March 17, 2022 07:25 AM (9otr5)

One of the links echoes your sentiments exactly. I forget which.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 17, 2022 07:27 AM (s2VJv)

35 Ace got a shout out from Victor Davis Hanson. Evidently he reads the MR.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 17, 2022 07:20 AM (s2VJv)

Whereabouts?

Posted by: Deep State 910 at March 17, 2022 07:28 AM (aX0CW)

36
g'mornin' again, rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 17, 2022 07:28 AM (DUIap)

37 What kind of sorcery is this?
Posted by: olddog in mo at March 17, 2022 07:26 AM (ju2Fy)

Graduated on up from the weather.

Posted by: Deep State 910 at March 17, 2022 07:29 AM (aX0CW)

38 VDH is up early if he reads MR

Especially this morning

Your Ukraine essay was good this morning, succinct. Up next, Taiwan?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 17, 2022 07:29 AM (EZebt)

39 VDH appreciates all the hard work ace does early in the morning?

Lol. He went on to say he reads from 430-630 CA time and checks back web stuff during the day. I guess he starts seeing ace around noon pacific?

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at March 17, 2022 07:29 AM (ySQBZ)

40 Foggy, but warming.

Posted by: IanDeal at March 17, 2022 07:30 AM (MGjjz)

41 It was in an interview of vdh linked at powerline.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at March 17, 2022 07:31 AM (ySQBZ)

42 @29

>>And it's not moral equivalence to point out that the US violates sovereign nations pretty regularly.

But we're the "Good Guys," and they're the "Bad Guys."

Sure the greatest dangers we face comes from within and the depredations of our own government but we can console ourselves with that fact that we are on the side of the angels when we bomb the hell out of a country and invade countries on false pretexts.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 17, 2022 07:31 AM (ZuC0a)

43 Lots of politicos stand to make lots of money as long as Russia and Ukraine are at each other's throats. They also stand to make even more money if the US gets involved, directly or indirectly.

It also redirects the public's attention away from all the horrible domestic shit the junta and the GOP are pulling.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 17, 2022 07:33 AM (BFigT)

44
VDH link. Ace mentioned at 1:03

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 17, 2022 07:33 AM (s2VJv)

45 If Trump were by some miracle were to win in 2024, Lindsey, Mitt, McConnell, and the rest would start with the 25th amendment stuff on day one. That tells you all you need to know about the GOP and how they support the people's choice.

Posted by: fd at March 17, 2022 07:33 AM (vrz2I)

46 Conducting the nations monetary policy by influencing money and credit conditions in the economy in pursuit of full employment and stable prices.

The same fucking idiots that closed the Fed Window for 7 working days killing about 30% of the banks. The money supply dropped by around 35% within 2 years.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 17, 2022 07:33 AM (yrol0)

47 I never thought I would be this guy, the one questioning US foreign policy. The war "dove".

And here I am. And it's not because the other side is in the White House. I wanted Obama to drone strike terrorists wherever they were. And now here we are.

Posted by: blaster at March 17, 2022 07:35 AM (9otr5)

48 I am not on board with this business that if you start a war you are a war criminal. And that doesn't make me Putins boyfriend.
...
Posted by: blaster at March 17, 2022 07:25 AM (9otr5)
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He is not a war criminal because he started a war, although technically a war of aggression is in fact a war crime.

I term him a war criminal because his war aims could have been without intentional attacks on unarmed civilians, also a war crime. The random targeting of civilian occupied areas, also a war crime.

This is state terror on a mass scale. That doesn't make me a partisan in any way for the Ukes either.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 17, 2022 07:36 AM (EZebt)

49 And so, lets get the kids into the crate, Carolla continued. Lets get them coached up. And then theyll be ours. We can do whatever we want with them after that, theyll listen to anything.

Theyll be good subjects.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 17, 2022 07:38 AM (yrol0)

50 An interesting suggestion from DB on the Tech thread about my complaining to HR about my boss's implying that I'm a draft horse or at the least not very bright. The other posters who warned that it wouldn't go well if the complainant is white: I am. So I guess the game is rigged.

If I were under threat of being fired it would be fun to stir up the murder hornets, but I guess I'll just keep my head down, munch on my oats, and flick my tail to keep the flies away!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 17, 2022 07:38 AM (txdEq)

51 The University of Florida has removed Communist Manifesto author Karl Marx ,who the university called a "philosopher, radical economist, and revolutionary critic", from the name of a library study room. The school claims the decision is based on Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Man are these people confused.

Posted by: fd at March 17, 2022 07:38 AM (vrz2I)

52 The worlds first nuclear bomb was let off here in New Mexico, so I think we should be exempt from WW3. I would not be saddened if the first nukes of this war exploded over LA, NYC or DC. It would make the country better in my opinion.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 17, 2022 07:40 AM (z2xUm)

53 VDH lost me years ago when he could just not get over "mean tweets" and "gauche". kind of a pity, really; smart guy, good writer.

never read another word that pisher writes, other people will do just as good a job and make the same points without pissing on the only patriotic president in decades.

*spits*

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (c1v4f) at March 17, 2022 07:40 AM (c1v4f)

54 Russian forces have bombed 57 baby milk factories and 23 orphanages in the past week. The orphanages have been at over capacity because thousands of parents have been killed in ruthless Russian bombing.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 17, 2022 07:40 AM (qnVBz)

55 Today is hamentashen and corned beef. A double mitzvah day!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 17, 2022 07:41 AM (EZebt)

56 Don't poke the bear.

We poked the bear by expanding NATO after the Soviet Union collapsed (adding the Baltic states, Bulgaria and Romania) and were trying to add Ukraine, while NATO itself became militarily weak. We didn't have a compelling reason to do so, other than to enable graft for the likes of Hunter Biden.

The folks who brought you the Covid lockdown, who stole the 2020 election, provoked this.

Fight me.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 17, 2022 07:41 AM (i0slg)

57 Ya gotta wonder about 2 things: (1) just what pictures and/or evidence does Putin have on Sundowner Joey Bidet and some other Congressional corporatists (via evidence found in all of the Ukrainian sources), and (2) just what pics and/or evidence does the DNC have on Mitt Shit Rumney and his family that the Michigander carpetbagger would be so brazen to appease his Barack Insane Odildo operatives?

Posted by: H8 Marxist Rat Bastards & Jussies with Don Lemon dick breath at March 17, 2022 07:41 AM (8m/Xb)

58 Will Joey go to Delaware for the weekend? He needs his rest.

Posted by: Teddy at March 17, 2022 07:41 AM (NM+EZ)

59 47 I never thought I would be this guy, the one questioning US foreign policy. The war "dove".

And here I am. And it's not because the other side is in the White House. I wanted Obama to drone strike terrorists wherever they were. And now here we are.
Posted by: blaster at March 17, 2022 07:35 AM (9otr5)

when we are defending ourselves I say "kill them all and let God sort it out" but we aren't defending ourselves in the Ukraine, our government is trying to defend the interests of their cronies but those interests are not the interests of the American people.

the Ukrainian people are the losers no matter who wins

Posted by: Shoey77 at March 17, 2022 07:43 AM (fcWVN)

60 Russian forces have bombed 57 baby milk factories and 23 orphanages in the past week. The orphanages have been at over capacity because thousands of parents have been killed in ruthless Russian bombing.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 17, 2022 07:40 AM (qnVBz)
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Thus is disinformation. Everyone knows Ukrainian orphans drink beer.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 17, 2022 07:43 AM (EZebt)

61 One of the things that annoys me about this whole debacle:

The administration is willing to spend money on reinforcing another nation's borders but can't be bothered to do that for our borders first.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 17, 2022 07:44 AM (4olE8)

62 60Thus is disinformation. Everyone knows Ukrainian orphans drink beer.

"Baby milk" is a brand of Ukrainian vodka. And now you know.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 17, 2022 07:45 AM (4olE8)

63 Nobody would have thought it possible.

Even on a bet, could one stolen election result in so much incredible damage?

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 17, 2022 07:46 AM (BJnaE)

64 First

Posted by: Ironwood at March 17, 2022 07:47 AM (6YMId)

65 12 Yeah, well, I'd hate to be a Russian contractor pounding nails at one of those sites when I hear the oncoming getting-louder roar of Israeli jets.

Posted by: H8 Marxist Rat Bastards & Jussies with Don Lemon dick breath at March 17, 2022 07:48 AM (8m/Xb)

66 Posted by: sock_rat_eez (c1v4f) at March 17, 2022 07:40 AM (c1v4f)
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Then you've missed a lot of great stuff

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 17, 2022 07:48 AM (BJnaE)

67 Seeing video of yesterday's quake in Japan. It lasted a looong time. Too long.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 17, 2022 07:49 AM (EZebt)

68 We're back to the 70s, without the good music and movies.

The Stagflation of the 70s didn't fit well with accepted macroeconomic models of the time. In retrospect it was simple: oil prices.

When they go up significantly and quickly, they simultaneously increase the prices for everything else, while depressing economic activity. Supply chain problems are an added bonus.

In the 70s it was caused by the Arab embargoes. Today, it's a Biden Junta own goal.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 17, 2022 07:51 AM (i0slg)

69 I wanted Obama to drone strike terrorists wherever they were. And now here we are.
Posted by: blaster

He did; he dropped money, 'stead of bombs.

Posted by: JT at March 17, 2022 07:52 AM (arJlL)

70
~sob-sob~

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at March 17, 2022 07:52 AM (SWi3y)

71 This willy nilly tossing about the term "war criminal" is counter productive and pointless.

Bad things happen during war, and the term should be reserved for acts that are truly heinous and despicable.

The Junta took out a guy in Afghanistan that was delivering water, was that a "war crime."

And we've been periodically dropping bombs and droning people for the last twenty years all throughout the middle east.

But these are all "bad guys" and none of our bombs have ever killed civilians, every person we've killed was a straight-up terrorist.

If it wasn't so sad, it would be very comical.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 17, 2022 07:52 AM (ZuC0a)

72 This is state terror on a mass scale.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 17, 2022 07:36 AM (EZebt)
============
Exactly.

And since the Ukes are pretty ugly themselves, so maybe this is the way these folks operate in that part of the world.

But it still is state terror. Putin could have written a personal check to a bunch of Uke politicos and accomplished his goals more efficiently, but he went in to kill innocents instead.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 17, 2022 07:52 AM (BJnaE)

73 Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Posted by: IrishEi at March 17, 2022 07:53 AM (VhE0u)

74 From an video linked yesterday of John Cleese being interviewed by someone at the BBC., Cleese has been reading a lot recently about Cancel Culture.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 17, 2022 07:53 AM (cY2qy)

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

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 17, 2022 07:54 AM (kg+cP)

76 Good morning, JJ.

Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 17, 2022 07:54 AM (7U3R4)

77 "additions were made to the text of the future agreement on JCPOA restoration to ensure that all the JCPOA-related projects, [especially] with Russian participation, as well as Bushehr [nuclear power plant], are protected from negative impact of anti-Russian restrictions"
++++
They really want a nuclear Iran. Top-line goal.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 17, 2022 07:55 AM (7U3R4)

78 Food shortages will be another excuse for Washington federal authorities to start using police powers. Police powers it doesn't legally have, so every exercise is by definition another degradation of the Constitution.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 17, 2022 07:56 AM (BJnaE)

79 "Lindsey Graham 'called the White House on January 6 and said he would use the 25th Amendment to remove Trump and says Biden was the right person to win the election"

I don't want to hear anyone praise or defend that fuckwit ever again. To do so will incur my wrath, ridicule, and scorn.

--

Lindsay Graham is very secure in the believe that he is untouchable insofar as being voted out by the people of SC. It doesn't matter how angry he makes us, how utterly devoid of conservative principles he really has, how he lies, how his record and words show what he's really about. He knows his war chest at reelection time is massive. He knows, just like always, if he even gets challenges during a primary, it's usually a 10 person pile-on that dilutes their individual strength, wherein a run-off and his $war chest would ultimately finish them off, and even at that, our open primaries would allow D's to cross over and vote for this pig. He's arrogant. He believes he can crap on the voters of SC by any means and he's assured reelection regardless.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 17, 2022 07:56 AM (sVtYq)

80 "Russian forces have bombed 57 baby milk factories and 23 orphanages in the past week. The orphanages have been at over capacity because thousands of parents have been killed in ruthless Russian bombing.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy "

You forgot to mention about the 11 children cancer hospitals that were razed. Barbaric.

Posted by: Ripley at March 17, 2022 07:57 AM (MxEKc)

81 What did the snakes ever do to St Patrick? #IStandWithSnakes

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 17, 2022 07:57 AM (MeMA3)

82 Because of recent crop failures and lackluster harvests, many regional grocery warehouses, which usually have about 18 months' worth of packaged and frozen food in stock, are practically empty according to a friend whose family owns a large chain of stores.
++++
Oddly, the liberals will likely get one of their objectives as a result of this: pay a bit more to shop from local suppliers and producers. If the big integrated outfits can't get supply from normal sources, they - and everyone else - will have to go elsewhere.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 17, 2022 07:58 AM (7U3R4)

83 Good Morning!

Let's smile and be happy & strike fear into the heart of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 17, 2022 07:59 AM (aKFI3)

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

--

The first part is pretty much happening on its own.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 17, 2022 07:59 AM (sVtYq)

85 Let's Go Brandon's expertise lies in making the worst possible decision given any type of choice and regardless of the number of options available...that much is painfully obvious. We can rest assured that, when the government wakes up to this problem, it will be too late.
++++
But that won't stop them from attempting to "fix" the problem, which will at best be pointless but will more likely make everything worse. Kinda like the Depression-era stuff.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 17, 2022 07:59 AM (7U3R4)

86 This willy nilly tossing about the term "war criminal" is counter productive and pointless.

Bad things happen during war, and the term should be reserved for acts that are truly heinous and despicable.

The Junta took out a guy in Afghanistan that was delivering water, was that a "war crime."
...
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 17, 2022 07:52 AM (ZuC0a)

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Who is willy nilly? I'm no expert but there is an established body of law on these matters.

You must see the difference in method and intent, between collateral and intentional. I'm no special pleader here but I think it is an error to erase the difference between moral and immoral methods of war.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 17, 2022 07:59 AM (EZebt)

87 "Russian forces have bombed 57 baby milk factories and 23 orphanages in the past week. The orphanages have been at over capacity because thousands of parents have been killed in ruthless Russian bombing.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy "

You forgot to mention about the 11 children cancer hospitals that were razed. Barbaric.

Or the 1217 and counting puppy and kitten shelters.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 17, 2022 08:00 AM (lD3vL)

88 He's arrogant. He believes he can crap on the voters of SC by any means and he's assured reelection regardless.
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 17, 2022 07:56 AM (sVtYq)
++++
So far, he's right.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 17, 2022 08:00 AM (7U3R4)

89 Jake Sullivan
Ron Klain
Antony Blinken
Lloyd Austen
Mark Milley
Jen Psaki

These are the people who will run World War 3 and oversee the slaughter of a billion people or so. Incredible.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 17, 2022 08:01 AM (BJnaE)

90 Hiya JT

How iis Mr. Smooth this morning?

Posted by: NaCly Dog (aKFI3) at March 17, 2022 08:01 AM (aKFI3)

91 ItishEi- Happy St Patrick's Day!I linked a site with some quotes by St. Patrick in the tech thread. And here's another one I like: "I was like a stone lying in the deep mire, and He that is mighty came, and in His mercy lifted me up, and verily raised me aloft and placed me at the top of the wall."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 17, 2022 08:01 AM (oUNeL)

92 Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Posted by: IrishEi

Thank you !

The same to you !

Posted by: JT at March 17, 2022 08:01 AM (arJlL)

93 So far, he's right.

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Very true. Very, very true.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 17, 2022 08:02 AM (sVtYq)

94 Hiya JT

How iis Mr. Smooth this morning?
Posted by: NaCly Dog

HONGRY !

Posted by: JT at March 17, 2022 08:02 AM (arJlL)

95 the turducken of Haile Selassie stuffed inside Mahatma Ghandi and wrapped with Winston Churchill

***

*golf clap*

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 17, 2022 08:02 AM (lCui1)

96 It's my sister's birthday. We're not at all Irish. But today, she is.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 17, 2022 08:03 AM (6FeV1)

97 This willy nilly tossing about the term "war criminal" is counter productive and pointless.

Bad things happen during war, and the term should be reserved for acts that are truly heinous and despicable.

I would usually reserve that word for those who attempt to engineer global genocide with bio-lab created chimeras, and then conspire with enterprise to create toxins that are mandated to be continuously injected until the subject dies.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 17, 2022 08:03 AM (lD3vL)

98 Not that anyone who needs to read this will, but here goes anyway:

To Whom It May Concern,

The loose money policies of the last 20 years are so are coming home to roost. Prices are going up, which means people have less. Interest rates are also going up, which means it is more expensive to borrow money - something people need to do more often due to prices going up.

It would be morally just for those who made and enacted said loose money policies to pay those costs. Alas, they are secure in their ivory towers - insulated from the results of their greed and shortsightedness. Instead, it is every day Americans who now all too often have to choose between food on the table or gasoline to go to work. It is the poorest among us who are worst affected, but those most likely to help them (the productive Upper-Middle Class for the most part) have less ability to do so because we are *also* feeling these negative effects.

While there is no single magic bullet, let me suggest that making the supply of energy more abundant (for example, by increasing domestic oil production), and reducing the tax burden on that productive class would be two major steps forward to help.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 17, 2022 08:03 AM (kg+cP)

99 And just wait until the libs/LIV's hear about the abortion, er, women's heath clinics Putin is bombing. They will be demanding we invade Russia and arrest Putin in the Kremlin

Posted by: Ripley at March 17, 2022 08:03 AM (MxEKc)

100 >>Happy St. Patrick's Day!

What did you get me?

Posted by: JackStraw at March 17, 2022 08:03 AM (ZLI7S)

101 Happy Birthday Warai Sis !

Posted by: JT at March 17, 2022 08:04 AM (arJlL)

102 Because of recent crop failures and lackluster harvests, many regional grocery warehouses, which usually have about 18 months' worth of packaged and frozen food in stock, are practically empty according to a friend whose family owns a large chain of stores.

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I saw in passing yesterday that a Walmart distribution center burned down

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 17, 2022 08:04 AM (lCui1)

103 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, g'ovner.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (aKFI3) at March 17, 2022 08:04 AM (aKFI3)

104 the turducken of Haile Selassie stuffed inside Mahatma Ghandi and wrapped with Winston Churchill

inside an enema.

Posted by: JT at March 17, 2022 08:05 AM (arJlL)

105 I would usually reserve that word for those who attempt to engineer global genocide with bio-lab created chimeras, and then conspire with enterprise to create toxins that are mandated to be continuously injected until the subject dies.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 17, 2022 08:03 AM (lD3vL)

To quibble, that wouldn't be a War Crime, that would be a Crime Against Humanity.

Did i say"would"? Ooops.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 17, 2022 08:05 AM (6FeV1)

106 The first part is pretty much happening on its own.

True.

And it's going to suck for a long time.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 17, 2022 08:05 AM (kg+cP)

107 One of the things that annoys me about this whole debacle:

The administration is willing to spend money on reinforcing another nation's borders but can't be bothered to do that for our borders first.

What part of "They hate you and glory in your misery and ultimate destruction" do you not understand?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 17, 2022 08:06 AM (lD3vL)

108 The markets yesterday heard rumors all afternoon that the Ukrainians and Russians were close to a deal that would end the war. Never happened. Now we are going to ship a whole new weapons cache to the Ukrainians today.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 17, 2022 08:06 AM (cHc7A)

109 Not opposed on principle, but what will it really accomplish, considering there are scores if not hundreds of Mayorkas clones waiting in the wings?

This Needs to Happen: Rep. Chip Roy Urges House Republicans to Impeach DHS Sec. Mayorkas

***

It hopefully would serve as a warning to the replacement

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 17, 2022 08:07 AM (lCui1)

110 Because of recent crop failures and lackluster harvests, many regional grocery warehouses, which usually have about 18 months' worth of packaged and frozen food in stock, are practically empty according to a friend whose family owns a large chain of stores.

Yes. It's the crop failures and lackluster harvests. It's totally not the supply chain disruptions and price of fuel.

While the result is the same, the world didn't have some sudden mass-famine in the last 18 months. What it did (and still does) have is a fundamentally unserious set of "leaders" who are more concerned about their own power and privilege than with making sure cargo and get unloaded and transported across vast distances.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 17, 2022 08:08 AM (kg+cP)

111 I would usually reserve that word for those who attempt to engineer global genocide with bio-lab created chimeras, and then conspire with enterprise to create toxins that are mandated to be continuously injected until the subject dies.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 17, 2022 08:03 AM (lD3vL)
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*Look nervously for the exits and slinks quietly away*

Posted by: Tony Mengele-Fauci at March 17, 2022 08:08 AM (cHc7A)

112 I'm not Irish, so i'm not sure if i'm supposed to get drunk and fight someone today or not.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 17, 2022 08:08 AM (z2xUm)

113 98 "While there is no single magic bullet,"

*****
Oh, but there is. . . . . .and plenty more which should be used.

Posted by: H8 Marxist Rat Bastards & Jussies with Don Lemon dick breath at March 17, 2022 08:08 AM (8m/Xb)

114 Four dead and 90+ injured in Japan after 7.3 magnitude offshore quake; I read 2-million without power in Tokyo but that was yesterday shortly after it hit.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 17, 2022 08:09 AM (UHVv4)

115 I'm not Irish, so i'm not sure if i'm supposed to get drunk and fight someone today or not.

But you are a Moron, so it's always on the table.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 17, 2022 08:09 AM (kg+cP)

116 . Now we are going to ship a whole new weapons cache to the Ukrainians today.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 17, 2022 08:06 AM (cHc7A)

Wouldn't that be a kick in the nuts? Ukraine blows off negotiation because they think they're getting a goody bag from the US. Feckless monsters in the US fink out and said goody bag never arrives. Ukraine continues to get plastered and eventually has to negotiate for less.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 17, 2022 08:09 AM (6FeV1)

117 Nine killed in a head-on collision in TX, including 6 students and a coach from a NM university golf teams. Not that it makes it worse but two of the players were Canadians kids.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 17, 2022 08:09 AM (UHVv4)

118 Luckily no one injured in Walmart warehouse fire but I'd imagine supply problems in the region will take a hit. Here's a 10-second video from yesterday when the news broke of it.

https://nitter.net/Breaking911/status/
1504156632565092356

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 17, 2022 08:10 AM (UHVv4)

119 96 It's my sister's birthday. We're not at all Irish. But today, she is.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Happy birthday to your sister!
Wishing her a day would full of lumpia and pancit

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 17, 2022 08:10 AM (lCui1)

120 @108
>>Now we are going to ship a whole new weapons cache to the Ukrainians today.

Because there is no profit if the product ain't moving.

There is no incentive for them to end the war.

When they were watching Putin build up his army along the Ukraine border for an entire year, the Junta feted Putin with a summit, gave him his pipeline, etc. they knew what was going to happen.

And at no point did they ever intervene of head off what was coming.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 17, 2022 08:10 AM (ZuC0a)

121 In other news, with the threats of a siege on rare-earth-metals by China against the West, Australia is resuscitating its near dead REM mining and refinery industry.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 17, 2022 08:10 AM (lD3vL)

122 It's my sister's birthday. We're not at all Irish. But today, she is.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 17, 2022 08:03 AM (6FeV1)
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And a happy birthday to her! As well as plenty of good whiskey!

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 17, 2022 08:10 AM (cHc7A)

123 And now I've got more contractors here -- 30 minutes early! See you later.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 17, 2022 08:10 AM (UHVv4)

124 That Daytona Beach couple article is very sad and deeply disturbing. It angers me intensely what is happening to this country. I hate the media with the heat of a 1000 suns. I hate what the politicians (Big Education, Big Entertainment, etc.) have done to completely rip our country apart by fomenting mindless racial hatred. Unless this killer who slaughtered this couple was on bath salts, you won't convince me they weren't targeted because they were white. The media is fully culpable. The politicians and others who foment this black rage are fully culpable. The court systems who look the other way at the monsters they're creating and setting free are fully culpable. But since we're apparently living through a time when nobody can say a word about it without fearing for their lives, I guess it will never change. Long live St. George Floyd......

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 17, 2022 08:11 AM (sVtYq)

125
Ever get the feeling we are being played? Like a fiddle? I am trying to place the tune, know I have heard it before.

Posted by: kraken at March 17, 2022 08:11 AM (Vr12I)

126 "Because of recent crop failures and lackluster harvests, many regional grocery warehouses, which usually have about 18 months' worth of packaged and frozen food in stock, are practically empty"

One thing that article didn't mention was Ukraine and fuel prices. I was reading yesterday how much Ukraine contributes to the grain market, a lot, and if they don't produce much this year how it will affect everything. And to that the price of fuel and fertilizer and we're basically fucked. And we're planting corn for fuel.

Posted by: lowandslow at March 17, 2022 08:11 AM (qH6FZ)

127 Oh, but there is. . . . . .and plenty more which should be used.

Which makes it PLURAL magic bullets. A plethora of them, if you will.

But, more seriously, I really wish I saw a way out of this without the burning, scattering, and salting.

I just don't. People are too comfortable and too scared and the only way through is to let it all come tumbling down.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 17, 2022 08:12 AM (kg+cP)

128 I'll give the DeSantis camp a better hearing if they are able to say that the 2020 election "might have been" stolen.

And as I keep saying, a stolen election is a bad omen, but if Joe was elected fairly then the nation is fucking doomed. I am less apocalyptical than these graveyard whistlers.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 17, 2022 08:12 AM (ybIRR)

129 G'morning, Salty!

Half an inch of rain in about ten minutes last night.

Now we have heavy fog, and Lindsey Graham in office.

Not a good start to the day.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 17, 2022 08:12 AM (3D/fK)

130 Honestly the longer Zelensky refuses to negotiate, the lower my opinion of him.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 17, 2022 08:12 AM (lCui1)

131 My newsreel this am included the bombshell that a Trump WH aide wrote the memo that Dominion is crap voting software.

Yes, can you believe an employee researched a topic at the request of his boss? Outrageous!

They're criminalizing any criticism of any election a Democrat wins. Because that's what democracies with free, fair and transparent elections do--make it a crime to question the results.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 17, 2022 08:13 AM (B0CII)

132 The administration is willing to spend money on reinforcing another nation's borders but can't be bothered to do that for our borders first.
Posted by: NR Pax at March 17, 2022 07:44 AM (4olE

Concur. We need to send Polish MiGs to Mexico to help stem the invasion.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 17, 2022 08:14 AM (Sdlpf)

133 When they were watching Putin build up his army along the Ukraine border for an entire year, the Junta feted Putin with a summit, gave him his pipeline, etc. they knew what was going to happen.

I think you forgot the backstory. NATO was piling up troops nearby and running threatening exercises near the border while at the same time State/CIA were running a whisper campaign that Ukraine was going to join NATO.

It is pretty common for a tit for tat mirroring of military exercises as a form of publicity campaign. We fly spy and military jets, they fly spy and military jets. Everyone does it.

They did everything in their power to convince Putin that the West was going to cross the red line.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 17, 2022 08:14 AM (lD3vL)

134 Perhaps a Jewish poster can help me out here since I am having a "senior moment". What is the name of the Jewish worship. Study and fellowship group that I think is Orthodox and they often have storefront outreach-particularly with young people and lapsed Jews to help them rediscover and reclaim their Jewish heritage.? I think there is an L in the name?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 17, 2022 08:14 AM (jfjoa)

135 People are too comfortable and too scared and the only way through is to let it all come tumbling down.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit

Sad but true

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 17, 2022 08:15 AM (lCui1)

136 I think there is an L in the name?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Lollapalooza ?

Posted by: JT at March 17, 2022 08:15 AM (arJlL)

137 Interest rates are also going up, which means it is more expensive to borrow money

--

Guess it's a good thing corporations like Blackrock are buying up 10s of 1000s of homes across the nation, since home ownership will be out of reach for much of the middle class, most especially first time home buyers. Long live the renters!

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 17, 2022 08:15 AM (sVtYq)

138 Honestly the longer Zelensky refuses to negotiate, the lower my opinion of him.

From his standpoint, why should he negotiate? The entire "free world" is on his side and has lots of internal agitators looking to get involved in this war. His best bet is to hold out and keep playing the "Putin is evil!" card until the US and England come to bail him out.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 17, 2022 08:15 AM (kg+cP)

139 Good morning horde. When hubby told me last night that Smollet had been released I nearly exploded with rage. I was taking a break from the news so I hadn't heard. Our justice system is permanently broken.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 17, 2022 08:16 AM (nxdel)

140 No( That's a singing group or band, JT.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 17, 2022 08:16 AM (jfjoa)

141 Lollapalooza ?
Posted by: JT at March 17, 2022 08:15 AM (arJlL)

I'd buy the shit out of Lollapajooza tickets.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 17, 2022 08:16 AM (6FeV1)

142 The talk about food shortages.... IMO another op. A lot of people stand to get rich on the presumption there will be food shortages. This type of thing doesn't happen overnight. Even during the plandemic you could find most anything, perhaps not at a particular time. Crops today are engineered to withstand pests, drought, poor soil and a host of other conditions. The only reason they would fail is due to some sort of intervention. Likewise the only reason a farmer would not plant a particular crop would be because he was paid not to.

Natural shortages due to climate or solar... no.

Man-made shortages due to arrogance... probably.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 17, 2022 08:17 AM (BFigT)

143 Fen...

Lubavitch?

https://www.lubavitch.com/

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 17, 2022 08:17 AM (3D/fK)

144 Thank you, Fen, I'll go check them out!

Posted by: IrishEi at March 17, 2022 08:17 AM (VhE0u)

145 His best bet is to hold out and keep playing the "Putin is evil!" card until the US and England come to bail him out.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit

If he thinks that will be an improvement for his country and people, he's stupid.
But if all he cares about it keeping hold of power, then I guess he'll never surrender

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 17, 2022 08:17 AM (lCui1)

146 His best bet is to hold out and keep playing the "Putin is evil!" card until the US and England come to bail him out.

Then the joke's on him, because our regime wants this Ukraine thing to drag out as long as possible - to give cover for fvckery like that EO on digital currency.

Posted by: Color Me Skeptical at March 17, 2022 08:18 AM (MzqOL)

147 Jewells, remember that Juicy has friends in high places. I seem to recall his photo op and friendship with Mooch and the Jug-Eared Marxist. Not to mention his close ties with our fake imposter of a VP. I wouldn't be surprised at all to learn there were some convenient phone calls made to some convenient higher-ups that got him released.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 17, 2022 08:18 AM (sVtYq)

148 Our justice system is permanently broken.

The Elites are sowing the wind because they think the whirlwind won't be able to touch them.

Ladies and gentlemen: to some extent all successful societies are (and must be) based on shared values and TRUST. The fact that the Ruling Party is so hell-bent on shattering both of those things should make everyone very, very nervous.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 17, 2022 08:18 AM (kg+cP)

149 Victor Davis Hanson: "We should not rehash the past but learn from it and thereby ensure Vladimir Putin is defeated now and deterred in the future."

Most of that was a mostly vapid article. He just assumes Putin/Russia decided it was time to invade Ukraine. VDH needs to go away and retire. He's locked in his thinking.

Posted by: WiNO - Member NBC, DoFF, KFI, HRSNN, CD2D, FHAR at March 17, 2022 08:19 AM (EpDzw)

150 @133
>>They did everything in their power to convince Putin that the West was going to cross the red line.

The West/NATO lost the,"F**k around and find out," phase of their dick measuring Chinese fire drill.

They keep fucking around and they take what was a unipolor financial system and end up creating a bipolor financial system, the biggest loser of that outcome is the US.

This may ultimately be what the masterminds want but I don't think so.

I believe the jerkwads that are running things have been sniffing their own product for so long they think they are untouchable.

We're about to find out.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 17, 2022 08:19 AM (ZuC0a)

151 And as I keep saying, a stolen election is a bad omen, but if Joe was elected fairly then the nation is fucking doomed. I am less apocalyptical than these graveyard whistlers.

The whole reason why no GOP Congresscritter has breathed a public word about a stolen election, and why they are terrified to even mention the J6 political hostages is under the Established Narrative™ that any despite all of 2016's challenges to Trump's win; that questioning the election will cause people to doubt Our Government™ and allegedly bad things would then happen.

Ironically, it appears that instead of telling the world that the former United States is full of communists, activists, grifters and garden variety fuck-ups, its now advantageous to say - "yeah the election was stolen, we really aren't these people."

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 17, 2022 08:19 AM (lD3vL)

152 What did you get me?
Posted by: JackStraw at March 17, 2022 08:03 AM (ZLI7S)
~~~~~

See that rainbow over there?

Posted by: IrishEi at March 17, 2022 08:19 AM (VhE0u)

153 But if all he cares about it keeping hold of power, then I guess he'll never surrender

Well, he's a politician, so...

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 17, 2022 08:19 AM (kg+cP)

154 I just thought of it. There is no L- sorry! It's "Chabad". Anyway, to celebrate Purim some local Chabad groups are encouraging people to dress up as cowboys . How wonderfully politically incorrect of them!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 17, 2022 08:19 AM (jfjoa)

155 He's arrogant. He believes he can crap on the voters of SC by any means and he's assured reelection regardless.
Posted by: Lady in Black

If the good people of SC keep voting him in, they deserve to be crapped on.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 17, 2022 08:20 AM (6XqdK)

156 No( That's a singing group or band, JT.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

(shrugs) I took a shot.

Posted by: JT at March 17, 2022 08:20 AM (arJlL)

157 138 Honestly the longer Zelensky refuses to negotiate, the lower my opinion of him.

From his standpoint, why should he negotiate? The entire "free world" is on his side and has lots of internal agitators looking to get involved in this war. His best bet is to hold out and keep playing the "Putin is evil!" card until the US and England come to bail him out.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 17, 2022 08:15 AM (kg+cP)

He is getting all the attention and adulation he could get. This serves multiple purposes for the guy. An international celebrity. I keep thinking about his background, and then think about Borat, for some reason.

Posted by: kraken at March 17, 2022 08:20 AM (Vr12I)

158 I know. I was thinking of Chabad Lubavitch. That's where the "L" came in.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 17, 2022 08:21 AM (jfjoa)

159 "But, you see, if I even dare to make this point, I'm a Russian stooge spreading disinformation and on the side of an evil Russian madman."

Hey, you're the one who said you're "Rootin for Putin", not us.

Posted by: borderline at March 17, 2022 08:21 AM (Uzh5E)

160 A Russian stooge ?

Shempski ?

Posted by: JT at March 17, 2022 08:22 AM (arJlL)

161 Of the terrible GOPe assholes that seem to exist to make our lives hell while lining their own pockets, Graham might be the worst.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 17, 2022 07:21 AM (ZuC0a)

Maybe the people of South Carolina should look in the mirror at the reason that prissy piece of shit, and that other fat retard, Tim Scott, have their own agendas.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at March 17, 2022 08:23 AM (y7DUB)

162 I wouldn't be surprised at all to learn there were some convenient phone calls made to some convenient higher-ups that got him released.

I wouldn't be surprised either. In fact I'd bet on it.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 17, 2022 08:23 AM (nxdel)

163 I wonder of Putin has realized that his refusal to address transphobia, and gender issues within the Russian army has doomed them to failure?

/S

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 17, 2022 08:23 AM (3D/fK)

164 162 I wouldn't be surprised at all to learn there were some convenient phone calls made to some convenient higher-ups that got him released.

I wouldn't be surprised either. In fact I'd bet on it.
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 17, 2022 08:23 AM (nxdel)

Well, Chicago. In Illinois.

Posted by: kraken at March 17, 2022 08:24 AM (Vr12I)

165 "I think we need to be moving away from an economy that's based on fossil fuels, that's the way of the past and we need to be moving toward the future," said Warnock.

These fucking utopians.

They're trying to starve out those few who survive the cold winters. The future, under Democrats, sounds much like caveman days.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 17, 2022 08:24 AM (2kLY8)

166 >>See that rainbow over there?

A pot of gold? You shouldn't have.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 17, 2022 08:25 AM (ZLI7S)

167 They keep fucking around and they take what was a unipolor financial system and end up creating a bipolor financial system, the biggest loser of that outcome is the US.

This may ultimately be what the masterminds want but I don't think so.

That was the subject of my morning walk and muse. In view of the massive amounts of money that is being thrown at these Global Efforts, whether is is trillions to be pissed away on anything CoViD related or ginning up a fake war in order to pipe tens of billions into the Food For Oil program grift that ended when the Party Military epically botched all things Afghanistan.

There is a growing cabal of globalists millionaires and billionaires who require a constant flow of Food For Oil programs. During Trump's four years, they went through a form of famine, now they are perceive themselves in a time of plenty and are doing all they can to redeem the lost grift.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 17, 2022 08:25 AM (lD3vL)

168 @161

>>Maybe the people of South Carolina should look in the mirror at the reason that prissy piece of shit, and that other fat retard, Tim Scott, have their own agendas.

As I've noted before, regardless of the locale and the controlling parties, elections, are largely rigged affairs.

As long as the controlling authorities in SC want Graham in office, he will be in office.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 17, 2022 08:25 AM (ZuC0a)

169 that questioning the election will cause people to doubt Our Government and allegedly bad things would then happen.

I mean, they're not entirely wrong. If the majority of Americans really believed that their votes didn't count and we were living under a uniparty dictatorship... well, when a country can't even agree on how it decides who is in charge, that's when you get civil wars.

Besides the cost in human lives, the politicians don't want that because they're pretty sure they'll be on the losing side - and they know there are still plenty of people who know what "Sic Semper Tyranis" means.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 17, 2022 08:25 AM (kg+cP)

170 To re-phrase Clausewitz, The failure condition of politics is warfare.

After ten thousand years of primates braining each other for every reason under the sun, you would think this would be a universally known thing.

Another practically trivial axiom about war: If you wait until the middle of an open conflict to begin worrying about what you should do, you have already lost.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 17, 2022 08:25 AM (6FeV1)

171 I've made the case as best as I can that despite Putin having no excuse for waging a bloody war of aggression/conquest, the fact that the Davos Global Reset Mafia are all in against him means something really stinks, since they are soulless fiends perhaps worse than Putin.

-----

* Cue Morpheus Meme*

What If I Told You ...
That It's All Scripted And Putin Is In On, Playing, and Profiting From His Black-Hat Part?

Posted by: ShainS -- Immanentizing the Eschaton is not just a river in Egypt at March 17, 2022 08:26 AM (c3Qm1)

172 Just for fun, I applied to a job on Indeed which asked my ethnicity, and I chose "American Indian." It'll be interesting to see if I get any nibbles. If so, I'll "explain" that my my mother's mother was Assiniboine Indian, a tribe which ranged over North Dakota and southern Saskatchewan. Since she was born in 1916, it might be hard for them to check on that, and in any case I'll bet they won't want to admit they have never heard of the Assiniboine tribe.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 17, 2022 08:26 AM (txdEq)

173 "The talk about food shortages.... IMO another op."

My comment about Ukraine and their effect on the grain market was more about the upcoming price of food. The price of fuel, fertilizer and the fact Ukraine won't be much of a producer this year and we're looking at huge price increases. There probably won't be shortages here but what about the rest of the world?
Maybe celebrities can relive the days of "Feed the World" concerts.

Posted by: lowandslow at March 17, 2022 08:26 AM (qH6FZ)

174 Lets not forget Biden explicitly told Putin it was OK to have an "incursion" into Ukraine.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 17, 2022 08:27 AM (2kLY8)

175 Its traditional for children to dress in costumes of the characters in the Purim play, Esther, Mordecai, Haman and company. The Chabad have huge numbers of kids.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 17, 2022 08:27 AM (EZebt)

176 Honestly the longer Zelensky refuses to negotiate, the lower my opinion of him.
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Their chance to avoid being a vassel state ended when they crawled into bed with the Democrats.
And, being mere whores, they settled for money. Billions of our tax dollars laundered and they all were getting their cut.
Instead of sucking off John McCain, they should have been building their military.
They got the inevitable betrayal by the scorpions and now they're running around the world begging someone to suck out the poison.
Sorry. Russia is a nasty, evil asshole. And your neighbors. Not ours.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 17, 2022 08:27 AM (B0CII)

177 VDH starts his day with JJ. He probably doesn't read the comments from us hoi poloi, so he doesn't understand things like:

-First! and Nood
-Ben Roethlisburger and Mary Cloggenstein
-The Barrel
-An enstompening
-carrots in chili
-JJ's birthday

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 17, 2022 08:27 AM (TJjL2)

178 Wolfus, if Elizabeth Warren gets to be American Indian, so do you! That's the charade we're now allowed to play. Works well in other areas too. Just call yourself "trans-?" and magically, that's what you get to be!

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 17, 2022 08:27 AM (sVtYq)

179 It's reasonable to assume Putin has dirt on the *biden crime family, members of congress and other elites. I think it's only a matter of time before Putin tires of this bullshit and drops that info on the floor for all to see.

The back peddling will be amusing.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 17, 2022 08:28 AM (BFigT)

180 What's that?

Ukraine will not be producing as much food this year?
And Russia has stopped exporting fertilizer?

Hmmmmmm.....

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 17, 2022 08:28 AM (3D/fK)

181 Its also traditional to get drunk. They do that too.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 17, 2022 08:28 AM (EZebt)

182 And this is a lovely reflection by a Jewish woman on Purim-which started yesterday-and what the dressing up in costumes means when she thinks of her children. A great day, too, even if you're not Jewish but are a person of faith to re-read the Boom of Esther.

https://tinyurl.com/mpzrdza6

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 17, 2022 08:29 AM (jfjoa)

183 He is getting all the attention and adulation he could get. This serves multiple purposes for the guy. An international celebrity. I keep thinking about his background, and then think about Borat, for some reason.
Posted by: kraken

Crap. The Democrats are going to run Zelensky in 2024. It won't be the first time they used an illegal alien, unknown post turtle as their POTUS.

Barry had a couple years in the Senate to finally make his Speech that was characterized as the Greatest Since Cicero. I see the same pattern emerging.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 17, 2022 08:29 AM (lD3vL)

184 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 17, 2022 08:26 AM (txdEq)

Heh.
Is she really? Go for it either way.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 17, 2022 08:29 AM (lCui1)

185 >>My comment about Ukraine and their effect on the grain market was more about the upcoming price of food. The price of fuel, fertilizer and the fact Ukraine won't be much of a producer this year and we're looking at huge price increases. There probably won't be shortages here but what about the rest of the world?

Russia exports a significant amount of the world's crop fertilizer and they've already announced that in retaliation to boycotts on Russian oil and other sanctions they will not be exporting fertilizer. That is significant.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 17, 2022 08:29 AM (ZLI7S)

186 Disney employees in favor of grooming little kids for sex are about to identify themselves with a job walkout, which is very good of them.

Gives the authorities a starting point for investigation.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 17, 2022 08:29 AM (2kLY8)

187 HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY, Horde!

Posted by: redridinghood at March 17, 2022 08:30 AM (NpAcC)

188 Wolfus, if Elizabeth Warren gets to be American Indian, so do you! That's the charade we're now allowed to play. Works well in other areas too. Just call yourself "trans-?" and magically, that's what you get to be!
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 17, 2022

***
Exactamundo. I'm hewing pretty close to the truth -- Mom was indeed from Saskatchewan. So why not.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 17, 2022 08:30 AM (txdEq)

189 Ok JT I had another typo on the stupid I-phone. Book-not Boom of Esther.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 17, 2022 08:30 AM (jfjoa)

190 the Boom of Esther.

Isn't that what Ahasuerus did?

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 17, 2022 08:30 AM (kg+cP)

191 Didn't "they" question the 2000 election and the 2016 election?

But don't question the one where basement dementia boy got more votes that jug-earred jesus?

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at March 17, 2022 08:30 AM (ySQBZ)

192 I've heard nothing lately about the trucker movement to DC.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 17, 2022 08:30 AM (H8QX8)

193 Gives the authorities a starting point for investigation.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 17, 2022 08:29 AM (2kLY

You misspelled "networking".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 17, 2022 08:30 AM (6FeV1)

194 As long as the controlling authorities in SC want Graham in office, he will be in office.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 17, 2022 08:25 AM (ZuC0a)

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"This guy gets it." -- Zombie Juan McCain (CCP - AZ), approaching Funeral Service Day 1300 and orbit around Pluto

Posted by: ShainS -- Immanentizing the Eschaton is not just a river in Egypt at March 17, 2022 08:31 AM (c3Qm1)

195 >>>It's reasonable to assume Putin has dirt on the *biden crime family, members of congress and other elites. I think it's only a matter of time before Putin tires of this bullshit and drops that info on the floor for all to see.
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Why Putin is releasing some of that stuff already I can't imagine.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 17, 2022 08:31 AM (2kLY8)

196 >>> A pot of gold? You shouldn't have.
~~~~~

Only the best for the Sage of the Spades!

Posted by: IrishEi at March 17, 2022 08:31 AM (VhE0u)

197 The "best and brightest" (what a pathetic joke) at Yale Law, the U.S.' top-ranked law school, scream and rant and threaten violence because a speaker, at a Free Speech event no less, had the audacity to express an opinion that the woke law students didn't agree with. HOW DARE SHE???!!!

There should be only one POV expressed in universities! Everyone else must remain silent, under penalty of complete destruction of their lives and careers! No one may challenge the woke orthodoxy! What do you people think a university is for -- the free exchange of ideas or something? Such blasphemy! Independent thought will not be tolerated on any university campus! Conform to the wokeness, or die!!!

Posted by: Gibson (Bakery) Family at March 17, 2022 08:32 AM (k4dH2)

198 Posted by: dagny, first of her name at March 17, 2022 08:30 AM (ySQBZ)

I see you understand.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 17, 2022 08:32 AM (kg+cP)

199 >>Didn't "they" question the 2000 election and the 2016 election?

I seem to remember some talk about Trump working with Putin to rig the 2016 election.

I'll see if I can find a link.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 17, 2022 08:32 AM (ZLI7S)

200 Alright, y'all. Time for work.

Catch you later.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 17, 2022 08:33 AM (kg+cP)

201 Any dirt Putin releases will be labeled disinformation. Treasonous to repeat. Etc.
Remember we are the new Soviets.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 17, 2022 08:33 AM (lCui1)

202 "I've heard nothing lately about the trucker movement to DC."

https://tinyurl.com/49tebndj

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 17, 2022 08:33 AM (3D/fK)

203 "Ukraine will not be producing as much food this year?
And Russia has stopped exporting fertilizer?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice"

Not a problem. Biden blathering at the podium talking up hard working Americans and their ingenuity and resolve (when they're not being racist and lynching minorities) will keep things going and people motivated.

Posted by: Ripley at March 17, 2022 08:33 AM (MxEKc)

204 As I've noted before, regardless of the locale and the controlling parties, elections, are largely rigged affairs.

As long as the controlling authorities in SC want Graham in office, he will be in office.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 17, 2022 08:25 AM (ZuC0a)

As much as I rail about the GOPe everywhere, Ohio's is more responsive to the grass roots. We still elect RINOs like Rob Portman but they have the good sense to GTFO when the tide runs against them. Not perfect at all but it beats having Goober Graham as a permanent fixture.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at March 17, 2022 08:34 AM (y7DUB)

205 I saw Boom of Esther open for The Bangles at The Echo in L.A. back in '88.

Posted by: ShainS -- Immanentizing the Eschaton is not just a river in Egypt at March 17, 2022 08:34 AM (c3Qm1)

206 I think it's only a matter of time before Putin tires of this bullshit and drops that info on the floor for all to see.
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Would it matter? It would just be labeled Russian disinformation and embargoed by media.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 17, 2022 08:34 AM (H8QX8)

207 "Why Does America Spend So Much On Healthcare"

Because the majority of revenue in the system is federal government money. Next question.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 17, 2022 08:34 AM (2kLY8)

208 190- I think it was God working through Esther and Mordecai who lowed the boom on Haman and his plans.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 17, 2022 08:35 AM (jfjoa)

209 If voting changed anything, they'd outlaw it.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 17, 2022 08:35 AM (6XqdK)

210 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 17, 2022 08:26 AM (txdEq)

Heh.
Is she really? Go for it either way.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 17, 2022

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No, Mom was part Swedish and part Ruthenian -- which is now part of Ukraine, I guess? So as long as this craziness lasts, I have a second "sympathy" route. Heh, heh, heh. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 17, 2022 08:35 AM (txdEq)

211 Completely OT. Q for Christian Horde. I have never read the Bible cover to cover. If I were to do that, what/translation version should I get?

Is there one with notes on the translation?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 17, 2022 08:35 AM (lCui1)

212 Why Putin is releasing some of that stuff already I can't imagine.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 17, 2022 08:31 AM (2kLY

The US is effectively crippled. The junta doesn't have a hope in hell of countering or even impeding Putin without full scale military intervention, which the gutless junta would never do on purpose. So why would Putin want Biden gone? Dropping whatever dirt he has would serve no purpose other than to galvanize sane Americans into taking their country back, recreating the American Hegemon that had sat astride the world making it say Uncle for half a century. No way Russia wants that.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 17, 2022 08:35 AM (6FeV1)

213 I mean, they're not entirely wrong. If the majority of Americans really believed that their votes didn't count and we were living under a uniparty dictatorship... well, when a country can't even agree on how it decides who is in charge, that's when you get civil wars.

Some people might call that condition the precursor to a "Great Divorce". (it sounds less messy than a full throated Civil War).

Since we all know the election was stolen, and that The Party is working to make sure that all future elections are solidly rigged, they know it, we know it, they know that we know it, and we know that they know that we know it.

So lets light this candle, or just accept that we will all live a short life of misery and penury.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 17, 2022 08:36 AM (lD3vL)

214 201 Any dirt Putin releases will be labeled disinformation. Treasonous to repeat. Etc.
Remember we are the new Soviets.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 17, 2022 08:33 AM (lCui1)

Remember the setup by the Powers That Be concerning mis-dis- and mal information, purveyors of which, by their standards, are basically treasonous criminals.

Posted by: kraken at March 17, 2022 08:36 AM (Vr12I)

215 Kurt's an idiot. A parrot and an idiot.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 17, 2022 08:36 AM (sVtYq)

216 202 "I've heard nothing lately about the trucker movement to DC."

https://tinyurl.com/49tebndj

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 17, 2022 08:33 AM (3D/fK)

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Local New Story Only, Nothing To See Here!

/Thanks for that link, VIA

Posted by: ShainS -- Immanentizing the Eschaton is not just a river in Egypt at March 17, 2022 08:36 AM (c3Qm1)

217 "Democrats Don't Want You To Know How Much Fossil Fuel It Takes To Power Electric Cars"

"New Iran Agreement Would Let Russia Cash in on $10 Billion Contract To Build Nuclear Sites

Biden admin will waive sanctions so Russia can build contested nuclear plant"

For those that use social media-
These are 2 important links to post on social media sites including all the MSM sites as they refuse to report any of this.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 17, 2022 08:36 AM (NpAcC)

218 https://tinyurl.com/49tebndj

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 17, 2022 08:33 AM (3D/fK)

Thanks.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 17, 2022 08:38 AM (H8QX8)

219 Is there one with notes on the translation?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 17, 2022 08:35 AM (lCui1)

I like NKJV for general reading, but really i'd recommend getting all of the major non-asinine translations, including a Greek interlinear version for the NT.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 17, 2022 08:38 AM (6FeV1)

220 Completely OT. Q for Christian Horde. I have never read the Bible cover to cover. If I were to do that, what/translation version should I get?

Is there one with notes on the translation?

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This is a great question. I've always been, yes I'll admit it, a bit intimidated by reading the Bible. Especially reading it cover to cover. It's overwhelming and at least for me, hard to understand.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 17, 2022 08:39 AM (sVtYq)

221 Have a great day, everyone.

This is the most revelatory time I have seen in History. Let's take the lessons forward.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (aKFI3) at March 17, 2022 08:39 AM (aKFI3)

222 Re: Chris Cuomo versus CNNN lawsuit. I hope for a long bloody case where no one gets away uninjured.

But, of course, the new owners will write him a check instead, on the theory he will continue pumping media reports dragging the network through the mud. Pure extortion, but it will be successful.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 17, 2022 08:40 AM (CT/nv)

223 I had a very bad vodka-soaked purim celebration with the Chabad when I was in college. All the circle-dancing didn't help.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 17, 2022 08:40 AM (EZebt)

224 The Reason Islam's So Keen on Hating Us
______________

Yep, "Religion of Peace" my ass.

Islam is about conquest and hatred. What kind of idiots (cough, George Bush, cough) think that conquest and hatred are about "peace"?

The only time muzzies are going to be peaceful is when they've established their worldwide caliphate and forced the rest of us to submit to their insane religion or die. Actually, they likely won't even be peaceful then, since the different branches of islam (sunni and shi'a) will continue to fight amongst themselves for dominance.

But let's keep lying about what islam really is, because that's been working out great for us so far, right? And let's keep importing more muzzies into western lands, because that's got to end peacefully, right?

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at March 17, 2022 08:40 AM (k4dH2)

225 Be safe, Salty!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 17, 2022 08:41 AM (3D/fK)

226 211 Completely OT. Q for Christian Horde. I have never read the Bible cover to cover. If I were to do that, what/translation version should I get?

Is there one with notes on the translation?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 17, 2022 08:35 AM (lCui1)

I use the Reformation Study Bible, English Standard Versiion (ESV) translation. I like the clarity of the wording, and the numerous additions of clarifying insets about the topics covered.

Posted by: kraken at March 17, 2022 08:42 AM (Vr12I)

227 So why would Putin want Biden gone?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 17, 2022 08:35 AM (6FeV1)
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Good point.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 17, 2022 08:42 AM (CT/nv)

228 Newsmax
@newsmax

Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney could be facing a primary challenge in 2024 from Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes, a Trump ally who served as the Beehive State's co-chair for the former president's reelection campaign.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 17, 2022 08:42 AM (NpAcC)

229 223 I had a very bad vodka-soaked purim celebration with the Chabad when I was in college. All the circle-dancing didn't help.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 17, 2022 08:40 AM (EZebt)

vodka-soaked purim does a great cover of Whiskey for my Men, Beer for my Horses.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 17, 2022 08:43 AM (yrol0)

230 I wonder why one of the kings of the Russia collusion hoax Ken Vogel of the NYT is now reporting on Hunter Biden's massive tax issues and the grand jury that has been investigating him for over a year for his corrupt overseas business activities many of which lead right to Ukraine?

Seems like damage control to me.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 17, 2022 08:44 AM (ZLI7S)

231 Completely OT. Q for Christian Horde. I have never read the Bible cover to cover. If I were to do that, what/translation version should I get?

Is there one with notes on the translation?

I'd recommend an NIV translation study Bible. It will give you notes, commentary and maps. They are readily available.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 17, 2022 08:45 AM (45fpk)

232 If Putin were to drop the dirt on *biden it does not necessarily galvanize Americans to rally 'round the flag. It does cripple the US government even further, sows doubt among the rank and file and potentially creates a leadership vacuum to exploit.

All that might exist to one degree or another now. However the damage done do the 'tard and his administration would be unsurmountable and likely result in widespread resignations. During a "time of war."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 17, 2022 08:46 AM (BFigT)

233 I use the Reformation Study Bible, English Standard Versiion (ESV) translation. I like the clarity of the wording, and the numerous additions of clarifying insets about the topics covered.

Posted by: kraken at March 17, 2022 08:42 AM (Vr12I)

Agree

Posted by: grammie winger at March 17, 2022 08:46 AM (45fpk)

234 "vodka-soaked purim does a great cover of Whiskey for my Men, Beer for my Horses."

Speaking of covers, I really enjoyed that cover of Vehicle, by Leonid and Friends the other day.

That you, to whoever linked it.

And it turns out that Leonid and Friends will be performing in Charleston in May.
Lots of good U-Toob videos of them out there. And the female singer is very accomplished in her own right.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 17, 2022 08:46 AM (3D/fK)

235 "Dropping whatever dirt he has would serve no purpose other than to galvanize sane Americans into taking their country back, "

For Putin it's better as an implied threat not used. Same as turning off the gas to make the Germans freeze in the dark.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 17, 2022 08:47 AM (i0slg)

236 I'd recommend an NIV translation study Bible. It will give you notes, commentary and maps. They are readily available.
Posted by: grammie winger at March 17, 2022 08:45 AM (45fpk)

Thanks grammie!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 17, 2022 08:47 AM (lCui1)

237 Vmom-There are various translations that people read, for various reasons. The most important thing is having a Bible that you will read because it's comprehensible I like the New Revised Standard Version. It might also depend on what your church background is. Roman Catholics, for instance , consider some books as part of the canon that Protestants don't. It's good to have good introductions and notes so Bibles for RCs would have notes related to that faith tradition. Please consider getting a plan in reading through the Bible. They are available on the net. I think it's wonderful that you want to read through the Bible!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 17, 2022 08:47 AM (I5Xzi)

238 It's Kyivanbul, not Kievtantinople.

Posted by: Could this be dog? at March 17, 2022 08:47 AM (W/jUp)

239 Lady and Vmom, I'm listening to The Bible in a Year podcast and using The Great Adventure Bible. It's very good, with maps, charts, and explanatory introductions. Also, I have Walking with God, a Journey through the Bible, which I use as a supplement.

Posted by: MoKim at March 17, 2022 08:49 AM (Wfghn)

240 I use the Reformation Study Bible, English Standard Versiion (ESV) translation. I like the clarity of the wording, and the numerous additions of clarifying insets about the topics covered.
Posted by: kraken

Thanks Kraken!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 17, 2022 08:49 AM (lCui1)

241 "However the damage done do the 'tard and his administration would be unsurmountable and likely result in widespread resignations."

That is not who we are.

Posted by: The Imperial Federal Government at March 17, 2022 08:49 AM (vrz2I)

242 Have to get back to Dennis Prager's Rational Bible, leaned a lot from them but only first few books of Bible are done

Posted by: Skip's Phone at March 17, 2022 08:49 AM (3/h8e)

243 Boom is the noise that Esther makes as she sits on the Thunderjug.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at March 17, 2022 08:49 AM (flINI)

244 Hope your morning is better than mine is going

Posted by: Skip's Phone at March 17, 2022 08:50 AM (3/h8e)

245 Which version is Gideon's Bible?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 17, 2022 08:50 AM (z2xUm)

246 India is getting discounted oil from Russia? Good deal for them. Biden's only concern would be he gets a cut.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 17, 2022 08:50 AM (pWyh/)

247 vmom, a study Bible will provide valuable information that cannot be had in a text only Bible. I would suggest looking around at various translations and finding one that you are very comfortable with. Your topic is VAST, with a huge number of Bibles out there. BTW, what versin does your church primarily use? Going with that one can be very helpful.

Posted by: kraken at March 17, 2022 08:50 AM (Vr12I)

248 I like the Life Application Bible which also hads notes, introduction, maps, etc and Dr David Jeremiah has a New King James Version-he is a pastor and scholar- with good supporting material.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 17, 2022 08:50 AM (I5Xzi)

249 +1 for the NIV

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 17, 2022 08:51 AM (6FeV1)

250 Which version is Gideon's Bible?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 17, 2022 08:50 AM (z2xUm)

I believe they distribute King James or New King James versions. Don't quote me.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 17, 2022 08:51 AM (45fpk)

251 Also, it's very likely nothing will have been done in the meantime to secure our food stocks from the depredations of the export market. It will be another case of the political class waiting until the last minute and then going overboard trying to react.

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Planned Mass Starvation ... It's What's For Dinner.

Posted by: ShainS -- Immanentizing the Eschaton is not just a river in Egypt at March 17, 2022 08:52 AM (c3Qm1)

252 My preacher uses ESV. I agree with Kracken.

Also preacher recommenced reading from several to get the full picture. I think I have the list.

The idea is to go from closest to exact translation which a bit coarse/colder to the lyrical which is KJV.
Preacher thinks ESV splits the difference best.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 17, 2022 08:52 AM (XbH2s)

253 244-What's going on, Skip?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 17, 2022 08:52 AM (I5Xzi)

254 I like the Life Application Bible which also hads notes, introduction, maps, etc and Dr David Jeremiah has a New King James Version-he is a pastor and scholar- with good supporting material.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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I have that Bible.
It is a good study one.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 17, 2022 08:52 AM (DW5Ib)

255 This is the most revelatory time I have seen in History. Let's take the lessons forward.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (aKFI3) at March 17, 2022 08:39 AM (aKFI3)

Great point.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 17, 2022 08:53 AM (H8QX8)

256 Food shortages will be another excuse for Washington federal authorities to start using police powers.�
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No government survives once food riots start; the current cabal will go full North Korea to hold power.
Recall several years ago when the Xerox EBT processing went down? And Walmart, seeing the riot forming said, just let them take it?
You'll never convince me that wasn't a test run.

To start a food riot to provide cover to crack down on your political opponents? You were born yesterday if you don't think that's exactly what they have planned.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 17, 2022 08:54 AM (7s/Jc)

257 Reading the comments at PowerLine and someone asked about AoS. The response was you can be kicked off of PLB for cussing and kicked off AoS for NOT cussing!

Posted by: Squid at March 17, 2022 08:54 AM (/laOj)

258 Ryrie, New American Standard. NASV is the closest word and thought for thought translation and the Ryrie footnotes are priceless as commmetary.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindicatorem at March 17, 2022 08:54 AM (oWBc3)

259 246 India is getting discounted oil from Russia? Good deal for them. Biden's only concern would be he gets a cut.
Posted by: Huck Follywood,
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Is it a done deal?
A ruble is not worth much more than a plug nickle.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 17, 2022 08:54 AM (XbH2s)

260 ... I think you forgot the backstory. NATO was piling up troops nearby and running threatening exercises near the border while at the same time State/CIA were running a whisper campaign that Ukraine was going to join NATO. ...
Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 17, 2022 08:14 AM (lD3vL)
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I think this is one of two factors. It wasn't just a whisper campaign, Lloyd Austin publicly announced that NATO had that "open-door policy" with regard to Ukraine. That was one big element.

The other, I suspect, was Kazakhstan. After the second Ukrainian color revolution in 2014, Putin said very clearly and very firmly that he would not permit any more color revolutions in what he views as his sphere of influence. This is why Russian invaded Kazakhstan last year and put it down. Color revolutions are the Western IC playbook.

I strongly suspect that this is really about two things, not one. Ukrainian ambitions to join NATO (and NATO's desire to have them join) are one, and the attempted Kazakh revolution is the other.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 17, 2022 08:55 AM (DU+/6)

261 He probably doesn't read the comments from us hoi poloi, so he doesn't understand things like:

-First! and Nood
-Ben Roethlisburger and Mary Cloggenstein
-The Barrel
-An enstompening
-carrots in chili
-JJ's birthday
Posted by: Blutarski

-garrett's crocks

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (k1UTF) - at March 17, 2022 08:55 AM (k1UTF)

262 SMH- Good morning. You have the Jeremiah study Bible or the sLife Application one?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 17, 2022 08:55 AM (I5Xzi)

263 Food riots? Soylent Green was set in 2022. Coincidence?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 17, 2022 08:55 AM (z2xUm)

264 Completely OT. Q for Christian Horde. I have never read the Bible cover to cover. If I were to do that, what/translation version should I get?
Is there one with notes on the translation?

That is similar to asking "What gun should I buy".

But you did qualify the statement with "cover to cover" which is much different use case than "studying". For studying, I recommend the Amplified Bible because Hebrew/Greek doesn't translate well to English, but Amplified is horrible for daily reading.

Your denomination also effects the commentary Bibles. If you are a Reformed Dispensationalist (rejects Covenants), then Mac Arthur's Study Bible in either ESV or NKJV is good. If you want more of a Covenantal background, then clearly the Geneva Study Bible is the Go-To (ESV).

NAS and ISV are dated and composed by committees that included heretics. KJV is a memorization classic. If you want the royalty and majesty, then KJV.

KJV doesn't attempt to censure God. 1 Samuel 25:22 where the KJV keeps the "pisseth against the wall" phrase intact (Hebrew = "make water against the wall") everyone else makes it family friendly

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 17, 2022 08:56 AM (lD3vL)

265 Food riots? Soylent Green was set in 2022. Coincidence?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 17, 2022 08:55 AM (z2xUm)

I would like to be a Scoop Driver.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 17, 2022 08:57 AM (Sdlpf)

266 NAS is not heretical. Give me a fucking break.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindicatorem at March 17, 2022 08:57 AM (oWBc3)

267 HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY, Horde!
Posted by: redridinghood

Thank You !

Backatcha !

Posted by: JT at March 17, 2022 08:57 AM (arJlL)

268 For decades there had been "an agreement" between Russia and NATO; the countries bordering Russia proper would never join NATO. In return Russia would cool it's expansionist heels.

Guess what happened next?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 17, 2022 08:58 AM (BFigT)

269 242 Have to get back to Dennis Prager's Rational Bible, leaned a lot from them but only first few books of Bible are done

Posted by: Skip's Phone at March 17, 2022 08:49 AM (3/h8e)

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+1 So much Wisdom ... what the world now lacks.

BTW, he finished writing the third volume, on Leviticus, some months ago -- but the supply chain shortages prevented the publisher from acquiring the very high-quality paper they've insisted on.

However, in the meantime, he took the opportunity to write a smaller -- but complementary part of the set -- with presumably the high-quality paper able to be procured: "The Rational Passover Haggadah."

Sounds fascinating (had pre-ordered copies for myself and some friends): it started shipping and arrived in early March -- very cool, you read it right to left (the cover/pages, not the actual text).

Posted by: ShainS -- Immanentizing the Eschaton is not just a river in Egypt at March 17, 2022 08:59 AM (c3Qm1)

270 He probably doesn't read the comments from us hoi poloi, so he doesn't understand things like:
-First! and Nood
-Ben Roethlisburger and Mary Cloggenstein
-The Barrel
-An enstompening
-carrots in chili
-JJ's birthday
Posted by: Blutarski
-garrett's crocks
Posted by: BifBewalski

J Crew messenger bag with matching butt plug.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 17, 2022 08:59 AM (6XqdK)

271 Bear in mind, when reading a new testament, it should sound a little "weird", because the events they're chronicling are, let's face it, weird, and they are written by people from two thousand years ago from a completely different world and culture. Some translations try to sanitize the language and remove every vestige of the evangelists' cultural assumptions and their own personal amazement.

Savior cults and personal messiahs were a dime a dozen at that time. Part of what i love about the evangelists is that they make a real effort not to sound like they're hyping up some magic charlatan, but rigorously describing a series of events that actually happened.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 17, 2022 08:59 AM (6FeV1)

272 I'd recommend an NIV translation study Bible. It will give you notes, commentary and maps. They are readily available.
Posted by: grammie winger

*

I'm probably going to side with grammie on this one just on read-through. I recently bought a Christian Standard Bible ("He Reads Truth") at an and don't care for it much at all. I've come to the conclusion that I'm very much a traditionalist, though, and discovered that I kind of enjoy the KJV language.

Another that I like a lot is the New Oxford Annotated Bible, but I get the feeling it's not a Bible for Christians looking to get closer to God. I like it, but it feels very academic.

Go to a bookstore and open up your favorites (or the Psalms) and read some. Also notice if the pages are thin, or if there's bleed-through, etc. That CSB one I bought has really thin pages that I think hurt the readability.

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 17, 2022 09:00 AM (vwLCV)

273

New American Standard is very close to the original Greek and Hebrew, so much so that it can seem to have an awkward flow, but I go to it often. My main choice is NIV because that's what I have most memorized. If I want Shakespeare, I read the King James. If I want to understand it, I choose something else.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 17, 2022 09:00 AM (45fpk)

274 I strongly suspect that this is really about two things, not one. Ukrainian ambitions to join NATO (and NATO's desire to have them join) are one, and the attempted Kazakh revolution is the other.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 17, 2022 08:55 AM (DU+/6)
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A good excuse to begin consuming free states.
He could have called conference and brought them to the negotiating table but he chose to invade a sovereign nation instead.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 17, 2022 09:01 AM (XbH2s)

275 The idea is to go from closest to exact translation which a bit coarse/colder to the lyrical which is KJV.
Preacher thinks ESV splits the difference best.
Posted by: Braenyard

That is fair. I use the KJV to quickly locate stuff because the tools are much better and I've been taught KJV. ESV has replaced the otherwise good NKJV for some reason.

But I learned/learning the original languages (still working on Hebrew) because so much is lost in translation.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 17, 2022 09:01 AM (lD3vL)

276 >>I strongly suspect that this is really about two things, not one. Ukrainian ambitions to join NATO (and NATO's desire to have them join) are one, and the attempted Kazakh revolution is the other.

Seeing as how I've been saying that for some time I would agree.

However, I wouldn't discount a little payback from Putin as part of the equation. One of the primary sources for the Russia collusion hoax which did a lot of damage to Russia and to Putin and his pals personally was Ukraine. That is where much of the original dirt was gathered to frame Manafort and by extension Trump for working with Russia and to start the public whisper campaign.

Putin is a former KGB officer and knows this and knows how to use blackmail information to exact retribution. Ukraine has been used by both the west and Russia as a proxy to settle scores. Long before the color revolutions in Kazakhstan or here for that matter there was one we ran in Ukraine to take out Putin's pal.

Now Vlad holds the upper hand.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 17, 2022 09:02 AM (ZLI7S)

277 I've heard nothing lately about the trucker movement to DC.Jesus?

Theyre here but DC has closed all the roads so the trucks can't get into DC. Playing havoc with traffic during afternoon rush.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at March 17, 2022 09:02 AM (ySQBZ)

278 New American Standard is very close to the original Greek and Hebrew, so much so that it can seem to have an awkward flow, but I go to it often.

Then go with Young's Literal Translation. It is better than NAS if that is what you are going for.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 17, 2022 09:03 AM (lD3vL)

279 The state of the Ukraine war is...odd.

It appears that the Uke army is beaten. But the Russians don't want to go into the cities because it will increase their causalities and dramatically increase civilian causalities.

The Russian army controls the disputed territories, but absent a peace treaty they can't just call it a day and go home.

So it looks like Zelensky's strategy is to use the Uke civilian population/cities as bait to force Putin to get a lot of people killed, at least an order of magnitude more then to this point, to help the FNM get the West to intervene.

And I assume that the Russian strategy will be to then just destroy the cities with artillery - sending your own troops into them is folly (see Iraq).

It is...diabolical.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 17, 2022 09:03 AM (ESjRY)

280 I think this is one of two factors. It wasn't just a whisper campaign, Lloyd Austin publicly announced that NATO had that "open-door policy" with regard to Ukraine. That was one big element.

The other, I suspect, was Kazakhstan. After the second Ukrainian color revolution in 2014, Putin said very clearly and very firmly that he would not permit any more color revolutions in what he views as his sphere of influence. This is why Russian invaded Kazakhstan last year and put it down. Color revolutions are the Western IC playbook.

I strongly suspect that this is really about two things, not one. Ukrainian ambitions to join NATO (and NATO's desire to have them join) are one, and the attempted Kazakh revolution is the other.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 17, 2022 08:55 AM (DU+/6)

-----

The primary reason Putin decided to invade Ukraine was Biden's surrender and retreat from Afghanistan. Period.

Biden Fled, Americans Are Dead. And Afghanistan has been memory-holed ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Immanentizing the Eschaton is not just a river in Egypt at March 17, 2022 09:03 AM (c3Qm1)

281 The Jeremiah study Bible, Fen.

And good morning to you too.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 17, 2022 09:04 AM (DW5Ib)

282 I barely know what's happening in Ukraine because it doesn't matter very much.

We have no strategic interest there. None. And even if we did, what are we to do? Go to war? Don't be silly.

Should we send money and arms and medicine? It will only fall into the hands of the corrupt and create more suffering.

The scariest thing in the world is when the corrupt let and right unite on an issue.

Posted by: MJ at March 17, 2022 09:04 AM (zwDuR)

283 Hiya dags !

Posted by: JT at March 17, 2022 09:04 AM (arJlL)

284 277 I've heard nothing lately about the trucker movement to DC.Jesus?

Theyre here but DC has closed all the roads so the trucks can't get into DC. Playing havoc with traffic during afternoon rush.
Posted by: dagny, first of her name at March 17, 2022 09:02 AM (ySQBZ)

I've been posting every afternoon this week and last

. Truckers had a post last Monday, then the Ted Cruz drive around (where he probably gave them tips to get press) last week, and then the Mon/Tues/Wed traffic issues they've caused this week. All news has been local, so that's why all you've got is me!

Posted by: Nova local at March 17, 2022 09:04 AM (exHjb)

285 The scariest thing in the world is when the corrupt let and right unite on an issue.
Posted by: MJ at March 17, 2022 09:04 AM (zwDuR)

Apartisanship.

They join together. We get taken apart.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 17, 2022 09:05 AM (6FeV1)

286 274
A good excuse to begin consuming free states.
He could have called conference and brought them to the negotiating table but he chose to invade a sovereign nation instead.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 17, 2022 09:01 AM (XbH2s)

And all of this, IMO, was brought about by us having a weak, senile corupt President with similar politicians surrounding him. I believe the conflict would never have occured with Trump in office.

Posted by: kraken at March 17, 2022 09:05 AM (Vr12I)

287 > Theyre here but DC has closed all the roads so the trucks can't get into DC. Playing havoc with traffic during afternoon rush.

That is some grade A stupidity. Too bad food is still being delivered.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 17, 2022 09:05 AM (BFigT)

288 You should read the version that has all the books vs the version where the protestants took out the stuff that didn't agree with them. Early cancel culture.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at March 17, 2022 09:05 AM (ySQBZ)

289 Then go with Young's Literal Translation. It is better than NAS if that is what you are going for.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 17, 2022 09:03 AM (lD3vL)

I sometimes use the Holman Study Bible (NKJ) which no one has ever heard of, simply because I know one of the scholars that translated/commented on several of the OT books. I like it a lot too.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 17, 2022 09:06 AM (45fpk)

290 Thinking to the future, if we get a free and fair election in 2024 do you think the press will handle it differently when a Dem mob attacks DC and President DeSantis has the mob members arrested?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 17, 2022 09:06 AM (ESjRY)

291 And I assume that the Russian strategy will be to then just destroy the cities with artillery - sending your own troops into them is folly (see Iraq).

It is...diabolical.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 17, 2022 09:03 AM (ESjRY)

The Russians can get by with simply besieging the cities. Without NATO intervention Ukraine cannot resupply, much less push Russia out. Bravery and stealth are useful for commando ops, but can only carry you so far.

Posted by: trev006 at March 17, 2022 09:06 AM (Cm73m)

292 Good sense, honesty & bravery are rare. Thank you for caring & sharing, J.J.

Posted by: Lola at March 17, 2022 09:07 AM (NIYa7)

293 The scariest thing in the world is when the corrupt let and right unite on an issue.

Remember every time Mittens talks about sacred duty or mean tweets that his son is in business with Hunter Biden and one of Whitey Bulger's relatives in Ukraine...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 17, 2022 09:07 AM (ESjRY)

294 257 Reading the comments at PowerLine and someone asked about AoS. The response was you can be kicked off of PLB for cussing and kicked off AoS for NOT cussing!
Posted by: Squid at March 17, 2022 08:54 AM (/laOj)

why the fuck would anyone get that idea?

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 17, 2022 09:07 AM (evAgx)

295 To start a food riot to provide cover to crack down on your political opponents? You were born yesterday if you don't think that's exactly what they have planned.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 17, 2022 08:54 AM (7s/Jc)

That's it exactly. It's an ever-expanding and self-fulfilling Kafka trap -- or the physics of totalitarianism only possible in a decadently affluent and morally attenuated citizenry. That is, the food and gas shortages will produce more compliance than revolt, and the revolt will be treated as domestic terrorism and bring down on the heads of dissidents the most awesome machinery of intimidation in modern history. The US government and media and Big Tech -- soon entirely merged -- will represent a controlling power unlike any other. All those "armed citizens" will mean nothing next to its digital financial dominion. Look what they've done to a bunch of bystanders on January 6th -- right under the noses of Trump. Imagine what they can and will do if truly unleashed.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 17, 2022 09:08 AM (H8QX8)

296 Gosh, that is so annoying when the paper in Bible is thin. I have one Bible that I've had about 25 years old .The binding is messed and the pages are so thin that it's hard to separate them sometimes. I should have been more aware that might happen at the time I got it,.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 17, 2022 09:08 AM (MrPAc)

297 Reading the comments at PowerLine and someone asked about AoS. The response was you can be kicked off of PLB for cussing and kicked off AoS for NOT cussing!

I've never got a hot sale offer on Lace Wigs at powerline.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 17, 2022 09:08 AM (ESjRY)

298 Theyre here but DC has closed all the roads so the trucks can't get into DC. Playing havoc with traffic during afternoon rush.

*

That'll show those truckers that they can't shut down the roads!

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 17, 2022 09:08 AM (vwLCV)

299 Now Vlad holds the upper hand.
Posted by: JackStraw

Considering the retards that run things in the West...

Putin does seem to have an advantage over his Western counterparts. One, Putin himself is probably one of the most wealthy men on the planet so he has FU money. Next, is that as an accomplished sociopath crime boss, people fear him like people under Xi fear Xi.

Putin can listen to advisors and also tell advisors to pound sand. Kalorama/Brussels is so conflicted with so many oligarch demands and so many opinions on how to destroy the economy and depopulate the earth that they can't manage a coherent strategy other than the Infant with a Firearm model.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 17, 2022 09:08 AM (lD3vL)

300 Thinking to the future, if we get a free and fair election in 2024 do you think the press will handle it differently when a Dem mob attacks DC and President DeSantis has the mob members ~~arrested~~ shot?
Posted by: 18-1

Headlines we'd like to see.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 17, 2022 09:09 AM (6XqdK)

301 Happy St Patricks Day!

May the road rise up to kiss your face.

Posted by: gp Sets In Motion Various Apparatuses at March 17, 2022 09:09 AM (qpX6U)

302 The junta is busy coming up with a marketable translation for "kolkhoz"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 17, 2022 09:12 AM (6FeV1)

303 Thinking to the future, if we get a free and fair election in 2024 do you think the press will handle it differently when a Dem mob attacks DC and President DeSantis has the mob members arrested shot?
Posted by: 18-1

Headlines we'd like to see.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 17, 2022 09:09 AM (6XqdK)

The military will rush in to arrest Desantis, and then they'll let antifa storm the WH and kill his advisors. We never got arrests and convictions when antifa attacked the WH to burn it down and lynch Trump, over Floyd ( and he had nothing to do with Floyd)

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 17, 2022 09:13 AM (ONvIw)

304 I have heard of the Holman study Bible, Grammie.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 17, 2022 09:13 AM (MrPAc)

305 Happy St Patricks Day!

May the road rise up to kiss your face.
Posted by: gp Sets In Motion Various Apparatuses

Much better than:

Happy St Patricks Day!
May your drunk mick ass stumble and face plant!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 17, 2022 09:13 AM (6XqdK)

306 290 Thinking to the future, if we get a free and fair election in 2024 do you think the press will handle it differently when a Dem mob attacks DC and President DeSantis has the mob members arrested?
Posted by: 18-1 at March 17, 2022 09:06 AM (ESjRY)

Let DC burn, move the capital to Tallahassee.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 17, 2022 09:13 AM (evAgx)

307 Someone here mentioned the Bible in a Year podcast, and I'm really enjoying it. I've never read the Bible, despite 12 years of Catholic schooling.

Posted by: Toni at March 17, 2022 09:14 AM (iZ7Xk)

308 Speaking of the many things that would need to be done by the next president to fix the country - fire every general and many...most?...colonels.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 17, 2022 09:14 AM (ESjRY)

309 There are moments when it feels like this rush to nuclear war is a runaway train with the engineer passed out in the cab and we are all just passengers.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 17, 2022 09:14 AM (yQpMk)

310 Gosh, that is so annoying when the paper in Bible is thin. I have one Bible that I've had about 25 years old .The binding is messed and the pages are so thin that it's hard to separate them sometimes. I should have been more aware that might happen at the time I got it,.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

No kidding. I think my cheapie Interlinear Bible is the only one that uses real paper as opposed to that sheer paper.

I love going to one hardbound Bible because I know where everything is. To the point where the book falls open to within a few pages of what I am looking for.

That said, I spend FAR more time using digital because of the immediate access to commentaries and dictionaries.
I have this cool free app on the mobile device that is a complete interlinear for both testaments. (though each verse requires its own page)

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 17, 2022 09:14 AM (lD3vL)

311 297 Reading the comments at PowerLine and someone asked about AoS. The response was you can be kicked off of PLB for cussing and kicked off AoS for NOT cussing!

I've never got a hot sale offer on Lace Wigs at powerline.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 17, 2022 09:08 AM (ESjRY)

Powerline was a 70s Sunday Morning radio show with mellow rock and a little ministry from a DJ called Bro John Rivers. I assume syndicated or maybe it was just local to DFW.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 17, 2022 09:15 AM (yrol0)

312 Happy St Patricks Day!
May your drunk mick ass stumble and face plant!
Posted by: rickb223 at March 17, 2022

***
"Today we celebrate St. Patrick, who drove all the progressives out of Ireland."

"Snakes, you mean."

"To-may-to, to-mah-to --"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 17, 2022 09:15 AM (txdEq)

313 Will Ricciardella
@WillRicci
1h
Zelenskyy got a standing ovation in Congress yesterday but just a couple years ago when he told them there was no quid pro quo on call with Trump they didn't believe him so they impeached.

Amazing how things turnaround, huh?

Posted by: redridinghood at March 17, 2022 09:15 AM (NpAcC)

314 A good excuse to begin consuming free states.
He could have called conference and brought them to the negotiating table but he chose to invade a sovereign nation instead.
Posted by: Braenyard at March 17, 2022 09:01 AM (XbH2s)
++++
I am not sure I agree with this assessment. Ukraine isn't a free state, but that's beside the point because it is sovereign. Putin may well have thought - and still thinks - that negotiation is pointless. I can see why he might think that. Since the fall of the USSR, NATO agreed not expand eastward and then has spent a couple of decades doing so. The western IC engineers revolutions and overthrows like they did in Ukraine and attempted in Kazakhstan. Russia has been made the enemy by five solid years of anti-Trump restructuring. What indication is there that negotiation would be successful this time?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 17, 2022 09:15 AM (DU+/6)

315 Drivin' that train, high on cocaine

Posted by: kraken at March 17, 2022 09:15 AM (Vr12I)

316 Let DC burn, move the capital to Tallahassee.

The geographic center of the 48 contiguous United States is Kansas. We should move the capital there.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 17, 2022 09:15 AM (ESjRY)

317 Within the past month the road-or parking lot -rose up to meet my face and I still have a scar. I don't care to repeat the experience.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 17, 2022 09:15 AM (MrPAc)

318 Re: Bible: For background reading I recommend God's Secretaries, a book on the background of the men who worked together on the King James translation. They were a collection of the most learned men in England at the time--not always admirable men, but learned, so there was a lot of debate all along the way. Fascinating.

Posted by: Wenda at March 17, 2022 09:16 AM (72bpD)

319 Thinking to the future, if we get a free and fair election in 2024 do you think the press will handle it differently when a Dem mob attacks DC and President DeSantis has the mob members arrested shot?
Posted by: 18-1

desantis is going to have strategic weapns by then

Posted by: confederatefifth at March 17, 2022 09:16 AM (N8ieT)

320 Someone here mentioned the Bible in a Year podcast, and I'm really enjoying it. I've never read the Bible, despite 12 years of Catholic schooling.

I think once one leaves Genesis and Exodus and gets into the middle of the Pentateuch, the reading habit ends up like a New Year's Resolution.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 17, 2022 09:16 AM (lD3vL)

321 >>Putin can listen to advisors and also tell advisors to pound sand. Kalorama/Brussels is so conflicted with so many oligarch demands and so many opinions on how to destroy the economy and depopulate the earth that they can't manage a coherent strategy other than the Infant with a Firearm model.

The curious thing to me is why Biden provoked this war. Putin has been very clear about what would be a trigger for him for a long time and yet Biden did it anyway.

Of course he's an incompetent moron but even he and his team of idiots had to know his constant teasing about allowing Ukraine into NATO was just waving a red flag under Putin's nose and yet he kept doing it.

I suspect there is a lot more going on here than meets the eye and I'm not ruling out some "advice" he may have received from Davos.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 17, 2022 09:16 AM (ZLI7S)

322 There are moments when it feels like this rush to nuclear war is a runaway train with the engineer passed out in the cab and we are all just passengers.

I LIKE TRAINS!

Posted by: Joey Choo Choo sniffing a toddler instead of looking down the tracks at March 17, 2022 09:17 AM (ESjRY)

323 It's safe to say that the events as presented by the great and powerful Z sound like J6 because they are meant to..in order to generate hatred for J6 and tar Trump supporters as nazis, and because the IC uses the same basic script every time. They don't do it because they're lazy, but to establish a false pattern, one that the public is "comfortable" with and will recognize as bad.

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 17, 2022 09:17 AM (ONvIw)

324 Well, this seems ominous.

https://is.gd/oQLKSx

United States will deploy Thousands of troops in the Northern Territory after Australia admitted war with China IS possible

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at March 17, 2022 09:17 AM (OeBYn)

325 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 17, 2022 09:18 AM (Zz0t1)

326 I am not sure I agree with this assessment. Ukraine isn't a free state, but that's beside the point because it is sovereign. Putin may well have thought - and still thinks - that negotiation is pointless. I can see why he might think that. Since the fall of the USSR, NATO agreed not expand eastward and then has spent a couple of decades doing so. The western IC engineers revolutions and overthrows like they did in Ukraine and attempted in Kazakhstan. Russia has been made the enemy by five solid years of anti-Trump restructuring. What indication is there that negotiation would be successful this time?

Posted by: J

yeah there is a big diff between nato going to smallish former warsaw pact countries and the kraine

Posted by: confederatefifth at March 17, 2022 09:18 AM (N8ieT)

327 Sponge!!!

Posted by: kraken at March 17, 2022 09:18 AM (Vr12I)

328 Good morning, Horde. Thanks, J.J., for covering it all.

They've already pulled down avocado and almond orchards due to restricted water allocations elsewhere in the state. . .

Tom Selleck owns one of those avocado ranches that was devastated.

Posted by: creeper at March 17, 2022 09:18 AM (cTCuP)

329 Allergies are still kicking my head around like it's the opening round of the World Cup and and it's the only ball on earth.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 17, 2022 09:18 AM (Zz0t1)

330 The geographic center of the 48 contiguous United States is Kansas. We should move the capital there.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 17, 2022 09:15 AM (ESjRY)

Dont move the Capital. Move the agencies.

ICE to Laredo.
BLM to Montana.
Pentagon needs to be divided up. AF to Las Vegas. Navy to Norfolk. Army to..
etc

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 17, 2022 09:18 AM (yrol0)

331 Reuben- That sounds like a good ap. I don't have any aps-that I put there-on my phone.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 17, 2022 09:19 AM (r14wZ)

332 Let DC burn, move the capital to Tallahassee.

The geographic center of the 48 contiguous United States is Kansas. We should move the capital there.
Posted by: 18-1

Aleutian Islands. Let everyone Teams meetings.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 17, 2022 09:19 AM (6XqdK)

333 I suspect there is a lot more going on here than meets the eye and I'm not ruling out some "advice" he may have received from Davos.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 17, 2022 09:16 AM (ZLI7S)

Of course, if Putin was evil, his people would not have been invited to the nuclear Iran party.

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 17, 2022 09:19 AM (ONvIw)

334 United States will deploy Thousands of troops in the Northern Territory after Australia admitted war with China IS possible
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at March 17, 2022 09:17 AM (OeBYn)"

well on the bright side, that might just be a cover story, and the real reason they're there is to help provide manpower to run the concentration camps for the unvaxxed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 17, 2022 09:19 AM (evAgx)

335 fwiw, they, avocados, are a scam with great markting

Posted by: confederatefifth at March 17, 2022 09:19 AM (N8ieT)

336 Poland or Romania weren't core parts of Russia like Ukraine.

As a way to consider it, pulling Poland into NATO would be like Columbia joining the Warsaw Pact...but Ukraine? That would be like Texas joining it.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 17, 2022 09:19 AM (ESjRY)

337 Tom Selleck owns one of those avocado ranches that was devastated.
Posted by: creeper at March 17, 2022 09:18 AM (cTCuP)

Losses on farming are big in the Movie and Rock star would.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 17, 2022 09:19 AM (yrol0)

338 [shamrock emoji]

Erin go Brah!

Posted by: runner at March 17, 2022 09:19 AM (zzF4A)

339 Alternate Headline: The Conservative Case for Granting Nukes to Iran While Guaranteeing Billions to Russia in Response to Their War Crimes Against Ukraine.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 17, 2022 09:20 AM (Zz0t1)

340 Someone here mentioned the Bible in a Year podcast, and I'm really enjoying it. I've never read the Bible, despite 12 years of Catholic schooling.
Posted by: Toni

Nice !

Posted by: JT at March 17, 2022 09:20 AM (arJlL)

341 "Thousands of American soldiers trained to use surface-to-air missile systems, High Mobility Artillery Rockets and unmanned aircraft are bound for Australia as tensions grow with China."

Not ominous at all, Victor Tango Kilo. /

Posted by: grammie winger at March 17, 2022 09:20 AM (45fpk)

342 given their behavior hard to say if australia or china is the more totalitarian state

Posted by: confederatefifth at March 17, 2022 09:20 AM (N8ieT)

343 330. I guess BLM is an agency/

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 17, 2022 09:20 AM (ONvIw)

344 335 fwiw, they, avocados, are a scam with great markting
Posted by: confederatefifth at March 17, 2022 09:19 AM (N8ieT)

I give you - Avacado Toast.

Posted by: kraken at March 17, 2022 09:20 AM (Vr12I)

345 Sponge!!!
Posted by: kraken at March 17, 2022 09:18 AM (Vr12I)

'sup.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 17, 2022 09:21 AM (Zz0t1)

346 Presumably Xi is waiting to see if the US blunders into war with Russia.

If we do, he will literally never have a better opportunity to take Taiwan.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 17, 2022 09:21 AM (ESjRY)

347 Re: Bible: For background reading I recommend God's Secretaries, a book on the background of the men who worked together on the King James translation. They were a collection of the most learned men in England at the time--not always admirable men, but learned, so there was a lot of debate all along the way. Fascinating.

If we are talking about background reading. For those new to the faith STAY AWAY FROM FF Bruce's telling of the origins of the Bible or for that matter Carson and Moo's New Testament and "An Introduction to the New Testament."

The making of the canon of Scripture, like sausage and politics is not something a person with a weak stomach would care to watch.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 17, 2022 09:21 AM (lD3vL)

348 296 Gosh, that is so annoying when the paper in Bible is thin.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 17, 2022 09:08 AM (MrPAc)
----------------

Church [not mine] was giving away, for donation, a chronological bible. I donated a fair sum.

The pages couldn't have been thinner and poor quality, the print so small it was unreadable.
AND it was not in chronological order but had short annotations.
Call me more than disappointed.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 17, 2022 09:21 AM (XbH2s)

349 Liberals Like Bill Maher, Bari Weiss, and Andrew Sullivan Should Apologize for Whitewashing Joe Biden's Corruption and Incompetence
_________

Absolutely. They are scum, and I'm not getting on board that bandwagon. Maybe Weiss can plead youthful ignorance (doubt it.) The other 2 are certainly shit to the hairline.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 17, 2022 09:21 AM (R0Tis)

350 Ukraine was becoming a de facto NATO state. Plus that whole unpleasantness with 60 Ukie troops ready to pounce on Donetsk & Donbass.

Posted by: runner at March 17, 2022 09:21 AM (GVZIJ)

351 [shamrock emoji]

Erin go Brah!
Posted by: runner

Erin go braless!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 17, 2022 09:22 AM (6XqdK)

352 wiw, they, avocados, are a scam with great markting
Posted by: confederatefifth at March 17, 2022 09:19 AM (N8ieT)

I give you - Avacado Toast.

were it not for guac, disco, swingers nobody would eat those greasy green things

Posted by: confederatefifth at March 17, 2022 09:22 AM (N8ieT)

353 Today is my 18th Wedding Anniversary to my beautiful wife, sucker that she is.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 17, 2022 09:22 AM (Zz0t1)

354 Not ominous at all, Victor Tango Kilo. /
Posted by: grammie winger at March 17, 2022 09:20 AM (45fpk)

Almost like the destruction of the US military is a key goal. It's certainly not the destruction of China they're after.

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 17, 2022 09:22 AM (ONvIw)

355 But let's ignore all that and talk about unprovoked attack.

Posted by: runner at March 17, 2022 09:22 AM (GVZIJ)

356 [shamrock emoji]

Erin go Brah!
Posted by: runner

Have a liberated St. Patrick's Day !

Erin go Brahless !

Posted by: JT at March 17, 2022 09:22 AM (arJlL)

357 Congrats to the Sponges!

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 17, 2022 09:22 AM (ONvIw)

358 Erin go Brah!
Posted by: runner

Erin go braless!
Posted by: rickb223 at March 17, 2022 09:22 AM (6XqdK)

I stand behind this upgrade in phrasing.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 17, 2022 09:22 AM (Zz0t1)

359 Are the cocksuckers in congress still worshipping Zelenski today?

Posted by: Capital Eff at March 17, 2022 09:22 AM (GYllL)

360 The BLM was established in 1946, but its roots go back to the years after Americas independence, when the young nation began acquiring additional lands. At first, these lands were used to encourage homesteading and westward migration. The General Land Office was created in 1812 to support this national goal.

Over time, values and attitudes regarding public lands shifted, and Congress merged the GLO and another agency, the U.S. Grazing Service, creating the BLM.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 17, 2022 09:22 AM (yrol0)

361 United States will deploy Thousands of troops in the Northern Territory after Australia admitted war with China IS possible
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at March 17, 2022 09:17 AM (OeBYn)
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Oh, BS. War with China is always "possible." There is a world of difference between "possible" and "imminent" and if it's the latter, then a couple thousand soldiers will not make a meaningful difference. Nothing about that makes sense unless we're going for "this is a down payment against you Reds if you so much as blink," which I doubt given that the CCP owns most of our government.

I smell a cover story. They're there for another reason - migrants for the Pacific islands, help designing or expanding their concentration camps, augmenting lost manpower because of the vax, etc.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 17, 2022 09:22 AM (DU+/6)

362 Comparing how National Review covered Biden's first presidential run with how the NTers at National Review handled the 2020 run is instructive.

Back then they called Biden a clown and laughed at him.

In 2020 they pushed for him to be president.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 17, 2022 09:23 AM (ESjRY)

363 I seem to remember some talk about Trump working with Putin to rig the 2016 election.

I'll see if I can find a link.
Posted by: JackStraw

*

Psaki stated it as fact about five days ago.

https://tinyurl.com/y7vml5vp

But the 2020 election - when 75% of votes were not cast in person but instead mailed in or dropped in boxes in front of someone's office - was the most secure in history.

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 17, 2022 09:23 AM (vwLCV)

364 Happy Anniversary Mr. & Mrs. Sponge !

Posted by: JT at March 17, 2022 09:23 AM (arJlL)

365 Who are Carson and Moo? Sounds like an ice cream company.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 17, 2022 09:23 AM (r14wZ)

366 Of course, "this is our WWII" is being bandied about. No good could have possibly come from constant focus on WWII and the nazification of every opponent. Go figure.

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 17, 2022 09:23 AM (ONvIw)

367 >>>australia or china is the more totalitarian state

Australia has become one of China's satellites.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 17, 2022 09:24 AM (XbH2s)

368 Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 17, 2022 09:22 AM (Zz0t1)

congrats

Did you have green beer and corned beef at the reception?

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 17, 2022 09:24 AM (yrol0)

369 🍀

Erin go Brah!
Posted by: runner

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 17, 2022 09:24 AM (lD3vL)

370 Anyone notice that, despite the sanctions, the seizures of property and even planted false stories of dissent-- not one Russian oligarch has publicly denounced Putin?

If he was failing, inevitably going to fail, how is it that not one of these greedy pigs are seeking to secure their spot at the new trough?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 17, 2022 09:24 AM (7s/Jc)

371 Today is my 18th Wedding Anniversary to my beautiful wife, sucker that she is.

Posted by: Sponge

Congratulations!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 17, 2022 09:24 AM (6XqdK)

372
But the 2020 election - when 75% of votes were not cast in person but instead mailed in or dropped in boxes in front of someone's office - was the most secure in history.

Anyone that claims there was any fraud in a US presidential election is a NAZI White Supremacist that should be imprisoned.

Also, the elections of 2016, 2004, 2000, and 1980 were all stolen.

Posted by: The Left at March 17, 2022 09:24 AM (ESjRY)

373 It's safe to say that the events as presented by the great and powerful Z sound like J6 because they are meant to..in order to generate hatred for J6 and tar Trump supporters as nazis, and because the IC uses the same basic script every time. They don't do it because they're lazy, but to establish a false pattern, one that the public is "comfortable" with and will recognize as bad.

Posted by: CN"

Exactly. I think he even slipped something in there about "saving our democracy" It's as if the speech was written at DNC public relations/strategy session.

Posted by: Ripley at March 17, 2022 09:24 AM (MxEKc)

374 Of course he's an incompetent moron but even he and his team of idiots had to know his constant teasing about allowing Ukraine into NATO was just waving a red flag under Putin's nose and yet he kept doing it.

I suspect there is a lot more going on here than meets the eye and I'm not ruling out some "advice" he may have received from Davos.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 17, 2022 09:16 AM (ZLI7S)

we discussed this slightly in last night's ONT, with some input from a Russian source as to how Putin believes he can make the western powers back down. Intelligent men would see the danger and back down; but intensely stupid men blunder into wars because they can't imagine that their stupid plans won't work.

in August 1914, every Great Power was absolutely convinced that their opponents would back down, once they saw how seriously they were making a commitment to all-out war.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 17, 2022 09:24 AM (evAgx)

375 Oh, BS. War with China is always "possible." There is a world of difference between "possible" and "imminent" and if it's the latter, then a couple thousand soldiers will not make a meaningful difference. Nothing about that makes sense unless we're going for "this is a down payment against you Reds if you so much as blink," which I doubt given that the CCP owns most of our government.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 17, 2022 09:22 AM (DU+/6)

A few thousand troops could be a tripwire. Pentagon likes setting those up you might've noticed.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 17, 2022 09:25 AM (z5Vrg)

376 Who are Carson and Moo? Sounds like an ice cream company.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Johnny Carson and Ed Moomahon.

Posted by: JT at March 17, 2022 09:25 AM (arJlL)

377 congrats

Did you have green beer and corned beef at the reception?
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 17, 2022 09:24 AM (yrol0)

We actually kind of eloped, but I did have some green beer after the ceremony. The reception was a couple months later after the need for green was past.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 17, 2022 09:25 AM (Zz0t1)

378 >>But the 2020 election - when 75% of votes were not cast in person but instead mailed in or dropped in boxes in front of someone's office - was the most secure in history.

It's odd that Putin was able to rig the 2016 election to defeat the inevitable Hillary but he was powerless to stop the awesome popularity of a drooling idiot who barely left his basement during the entire election.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 17, 2022 09:25 AM (ZLI7S)

379 this is the way things go when you have a bunch of 40 something women's studies majors running things

Posted by: confederatefifth at March 17, 2022 09:25 AM (N8ieT)

380 Who are Carson and Moo? Sounds like an ice cream company.

A couple guys who wrote "An Introduction to the New Testament" - interesting book, they managed to dodge quite a number of intramural food fights, yet manage to provide a good read summarizing each NT book, its authorship, provenance and history.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 17, 2022 09:26 AM (lD3vL)

381 A few thousand troops could be a tripwire. Pentagon likes setting those up you might've noticed.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 17, 2022 09:25 AM (z5Vrg)
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True enough.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 17, 2022 09:27 AM (DU+/6)

382 I smell a cover story. They're there for another reason - migrants for the Pacific islands, help designing or expanding their concentration camps, augmenting lost manpower because of the vax, etc.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 17, 2022 09:22 AM (DU+/6)

lol, you and I had the same "first thoughts".

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 17, 2022 09:27 AM (evAgx)

383 Sponge, what did you get your long suffering wife?

Posted by: runner at March 17, 2022 09:27 AM (GVZIJ)

384 Bureau of Land Management =/= Black Lives Matter

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 17, 2022 09:27 AM (6FeV1)

385
Exactly. I think he even slipped something in there about "saving our democracy" It's as if the speech was written at DNC public relations/strategy session.
Posted by: Ripley at March 17, 2022 09:24 AM (MxEKc)

This is why authors and screen writers use variations of the same plot. They have to give the people something they're comfortable with, bad guys that they can hate, and heroes they can comfortably love and cheer for.

MArk Bray also gave away the game a bit in the Antifa handbook, "nazi" and "fascist" were chosen as no one is sympathetic and no one cares how they are destroyed as long as they're destroyed.

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 17, 2022 09:27 AM (ONvIw)

386 Congratulations, Sponge.
Nice that your anniversary is on St. Patrick's Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 17, 2022 09:27 AM (NpAcC)

387
It's odd that Putin was able to rig the 2016 election to defeat the inevitable Hillary but he was powerless to stop the awesome popularity of a drooling idiot who barely left his basement during the entire election.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 17, 2022 09:25 AM (ZLI7S)

His powers were no match for the ACTUAL election corruption designed and implemented by the left. For the country. Freedom, baby. Can you feel it?

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 17, 2022 09:28 AM (Zz0t1)

388 just sit back and enjoy the show, vlad is going to be funning the kraine in a month or so

Posted by: confederatefifth at March 17, 2022 09:28 AM (N8ieT)

389 Who are Carson & Moo? They used to open for Seals & Croft a lot.

Posted by: kraken at March 17, 2022 09:28 AM (Vr12I)

390 Almost like the destruction of the US military is a key goal. It's certainly not the destruction of China they're after.
Posted by: CN...FJB at March 17, 2022 09:22 AM (ONvIw)
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They did this after WWI and WWII, liberals haven't changed much. It's always wishes disassociated from reality.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 17, 2022 09:28 AM (XbH2s)

391 Anyone notice that, despite the sanctions, the seizures of property and even planted false stories of dissent-- not one Russian oligarch has publicly denounced Putin?

If he was failing, inevitably going to fail, how is it that not one of these greedy pigs are seeking to secure their spot at the new trough?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

Probably, until he was disposed, he'd serve polonium tea and crumpets.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 17, 2022 09:28 AM (6XqdK)

392 Sponge, what did you get your long suffering wife?
Posted by: runner at March 17, 2022 09:27 AM (GVZIJ)

Nothing, yet. I'm a terrible husband.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 17, 2022 09:28 AM (Zz0t1)

393
It's odd that Putin was able to rig the 2016 election to defeat the inevitable Hillary but he was powerless to stop the awesome popularity of a drooling idiot who barely left his basement during the entire election.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 17, 2022 09:25 AM (ZLI7S)

Zuckerberg saved the country, by fortifying the election!!!!/

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 17, 2022 09:28 AM (ONvIw)

394 Nice that your anniversary is on St. Patrick's Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at March 17, 2022 09:27 AM (NpAcC)

She actually planned it not realizing it was St. Patty's day. I've been thanking her for that oversight ever since. I'll never forget the day.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 17, 2022 09:29 AM (Zz0t1)

395 the thing that is most aggravating about this is having to listen to guys bitch about the price of steel cased 7.62 x 39.

Posted by: confederatefifth at March 17, 2022 09:29 AM (N8ieT)

396 in August 1914, every Great Power was absolutely convinced that their opponents would back down, once they saw how seriously they were making a commitment to all-out war.

In fairness the last major European wars - Prussia vs Austria and later France, and Italy vs Austria were much more limited then WWI. They largely ignored the lessons of the US Civil War.

We know, now, what a major war would look like and should not be risking it over independence for Russian enclaves in Ukraine.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 17, 2022 09:29 AM (ESjRY)

397 I'll never forget the day.
Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 17, 2022 09:29 AM (Zz0t1)

And yet it is the perfect excuse NOT to remember!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 17, 2022 09:30 AM (6FeV1)

398 Congratulations to you, Sponge and Mrs Sponge. I'm not sure what sponges eat for a celebratory meal?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 17, 2022 09:30 AM (ksz6M)

399 It's odd that Putin was able to rig the 2016 election to defeat the inevitable Hillary but he was powerless to stop the awesome popularity of a drooling idiot who barely left his basement during the entire election.

Especially when Hillary gave him a sweet deal on Uranium One.

Putin is so dangerous and evil that the regime that had Biden as second in command sold out US interests in weapons grade uranium.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 17, 2022 09:30 AM (lD3vL)

400 Sponge, what did you get your long suffering wife?
Posted by: runner at March 17, 2022 09:27 AM (GVZIJ)

Nothing, yet. I'm a terrible husband.
Posted by: Sponge

Don't be so modest. You got her you!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 17, 2022 09:30 AM (6XqdK)

401 395 the thing that is most aggravating about this is having to listen to guys bitch about the price of steel cased 7.62 x 39.
Posted by: confederatefifth at March 17, 2022 09:29 AM (N8ieT)

Heh. SKS gotta eat.

Posted by: kraken at March 17, 2022 09:30 AM (Vr12I)

402 Shamrocks have only three leaves. St. Patrick used the shamrock to help explain the three persons in one God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Too many four leaf clovers floating around! Who is that other false god I wonder.

Posted by: IrishEi at March 17, 2022 09:31 AM (VhE0u)

403 379 this is the way things go when you have a bunch of 40 something women's studies majors running things

Posted by: confederatefifth at March 17, 2022 09:25 AM (N8ieT)

Any minority studies major or French Literature major can begin a career in the State Department and help destroy the US, by passing the Foreign Service Officer Test. Common Sense and Patriotism not required!

Posted by: Gref at March 17, 2022 09:31 AM (AMIL/)

404 I lived in SC for most of my life. And I never talked to anyone who had a good opinion about Lindsey Graham. But somehow he just kept on getting reelected again and again. He is a less than useless disgusting POS.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at March 17, 2022 09:31 AM (dr4Q1)

405 Congratulations to you, Sponge and Mrs Sponge. I'm not sure what sponges eat for a celebratory meal?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 17, 2022 09:30 AM (ksz6M)

I'll find out when she tells me where she wants to go tonight.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 17, 2022 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

406 It's well known the food supplies would be affected by natural gas prices and availability. Britain was reporting problems last fall with the shutdown of fertilizer plants there and other sites in Europe. (Natural gas is apparently utilized to create carbon dioxide which is widely used in food industries.) Prices of electricity in Spain and other countries have also soared.

Blame was placed on lack of truck drivers, the demand for gas from China, low product storage/warehousing levels, a major fire. Why does this seem so familiar & why isn't the U.S. better prepared?

Posted by: Lola at March 17, 2022 09:31 AM (NIYa7)

407 Heh. SKS gotta eat.
Posted by: kraken at March 17, 2022 09

Posted by: confederatefifth at March 17, 2022 09:31 AM (N8ieT)

408 So today we get drunk and molest gingers, right?

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 17, 2022 09:31 AM (GKqIR)

409
Don't be so modest. You got her you!
Posted by: rickb223 at March 17, 2022 09:30 AM (6XqdK)

I will use this.

However, I'm not expecting overwhelming results.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 17, 2022 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

410
I'll find out when she tells me where she wants to go tonight.
Posted by: Sponge

the interesting bit is if she wants you to go with her.

Posted by: confederatefifth at March 17, 2022 09:32 AM (N8ieT)

411 404 I lived in SC for most of my life. And I never talked to anyone who had a good opinion about Lindsey Graham. But somehow he just kept on getting reelected again and again. He is a less than useless disgusting POS.
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Which is worse: Graham or Clyburn?

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 17, 2022 09:33 AM (GKqIR)

412 I've made the case as best as I can that despite Putin having no excuse for waging a bloody war of aggression/conquest, the fact that the Davos Global Reset Mafia are all in against him means something really stinks, since they are soulless fiends perhaps worse than Putin.

I still don't think this is any worse than what we did in Iraq - maybe folks are ruffled by the Russian's perhaps greater tolerance for casualties and collateral damage. But in any case, Putin has less blood on his hands than Fauci and his WEF buddies, and certainly aspires to far less.

Posted by: Methos at March 17, 2022 09:33 AM (kOpft)

413 So today we get drunk and molest gingers, right?

I thought this was the day they did not do that

Posted by: confederatefifth at March 17, 2022 09:33 AM (N8ieT)

414 335 fwiw, they, avocados, are a scam with great markting
Posted by: confederatefifth at March 17, 2022 09:19 AM (N8ieT)

What the...?

Fie on you, sir! I say fie!

When I was but a wee tad in Texas, and the avocado was all but unknown in most of the US of A. We waited with anticipation for avocado season.

Guacamole, avocado salads, hell, just plain old avocado with a sprinkle of salt or garlic salt. Few things in this world go better with grilled meats than the humble avocado.

Your taste buds hereby earn a rating of Condemned by the naturalfake Board of Opinionating About Well, Just About Anything and Everything and should be totally ignored in the matter of Avocados.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 17, 2022 09:33 AM (5NkmN)

415 NOOD.

Art. Flea bitten art.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 17, 2022 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)

416 I think it would have been nice if the Daily Caller had bothered to report the actual vote totals on Rand Paul's bill to fire Fauci. You know...real numbers.

No one in our society is serious any more.

Posted by: creeper at March 17, 2022 09:34 AM (cTCuP)

417 What the...?

Fie on you, sir! I say fie!

When I was but a wee tad in Texas, and the avocado was all but unknown in most of the US of A. We waited with anticipation for avocado season.

Guacamole, avocado salads, hell, just plain old avocado with a sprinkle of salt or garlic salt. Few things in this world go better with grilled meats than the humble avocado.

Your taste buds hereby earn a rating of Condemned by the naturalfake Board of Opinionating About Well, Just About Anything and Everything and should be totally ignored in the matter of Avocados.
Posted by: n

they have the appearance of a greasy godzilla zit

Posted by: confederatefifth at March 17, 2022 09:35 AM (N8ieT)

418 I see that Moderna's CEO Stephane Bancel has sold almost half a billion dollars' worth of his Moderna stock recently. Moderna is a 12-year old company which made a profit for the first time last year, thanks to the federal government buying up billions of dollars' worth of Moderna's DNA-altering clot shots and forcing them on the public under the guise of "vaccines."

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at March 17, 2022 09:36 AM (k4dH2)

419 I miss being able to eat corned beef and cabbage on St.
Patrick's Day like I could in any restaurant when I lived in NY. I can't make it at home because the wife hates the smell of cabbage and none of the restaurants around here serve it. I guess no Irish ever made it to this part of the great plains in any numbers back in the day.

Posted by: Archer at March 17, 2022 09:38 AM (gmo/4)

420 I still don't think this is any worse than what we did in Iraq - maybe folks are ruffled by the Russian's perhaps greater tolerance for casualties and collateral damage. But in any case, Putin has less blood on his hands than Fauci and his WEF buddies, and certainly aspires to far less.
Posted by: Methos at March 17, 2022 09:33 AM (kOpft)

Let alone Libya, a NATO action.
And if you didn't want your troops bombed, wouldn't hiding them in a concert hall marked "children" seem logical? There are no saints in this war, not President Stiletto Zman either.

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 17, 2022 09:38 AM (ONvIw)

421 So today we get drunk and molest gingers, right?

I thought this was the day they did not do that

*

It's either one or the other.

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 17, 2022 09:38 AM (vwLCV)

422
He is not a war criminal because he started a war, although technically a war of aggression is in fact a war crime.

I term him a war criminal because his war aims could have been without intentional attacks on unarmed civilians, also a war crime. The random targeting of civilian occupied areas, also a war crime.

This is state terror on a mass scale. That doesn't make me a partisan in any way for the Ukes either.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 17, 2022 07:36 AM (EZebt)

I can tell you've been educated in the public school system. You have no knowledge of the history of war.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at March 17, 2022 09:39 AM (Fs5vw)

423 I still don't think this is any worse than what we did in Iraq

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And Putin didn't have to cross an ocean.

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 17, 2022 09:40 AM (vwLCV)

424 423. So we attribute no credibility to his concerns about bioweapons, or the idea that Azov was planning a large attack on ethnic Russian areas?

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 17, 2022 09:42 AM (ONvIw)

425 Why does this seem so familiar & why isn't the U.S. better prepared?

Posted by: Lola
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Because that would mess up the plan, and the plan involves a whole lot of people dying.

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 17, 2022 09:43 AM (vwLCV)

426 For anyone who missed Lara Logan's interview, here it is, she's not so willing to accept the scenario being fed to the public: https://tinyurl.com/534xe3mc

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 17, 2022 09:43 AM (ONvIw)

427 So as mercenaries stream into Ukraine where weapons and food are available, its reported some Chechens are now onboard to fight for Ukraine, or for Russia, or against each other.

Not saying it would or could possibly happen again but there was that Moscow theater hostage crisis 20 years ago.

I may be crazy but I hope there's not some grand plan of unification for all of Europe in play.

Posted by: Lola at March 17, 2022 09:46 AM (NIYa7)

428 371 Today is my 18th Wedding Anniversary to my beautiful wife, sucker that she is.

Posted by: Sponge
--

Best wishes for all the years to come.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 17, 2022 09:46 AM (XbH2s)

429 Because that would mess up the plan, and the plan involves a whole lot of people dying.

*

Addendum: If we'd maintained fertilizer and manufacturing here, if we'd approached COVID with the scientific understanding we'd developed over the last 100 years, if we'd...

But the plan requires destruction.

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 17, 2022 09:47 AM (vwLCV)

430 426 For anyone who missed Lara Logan's interview, here it is, she's not so willing to accept the scenario being fed to the public: https://tinyurl.com/534xe3mc
Posted by: CN...FJB at March 17, 2022 09:43 AM (ONvIw)

Thanks. She's right on.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 17, 2022 09:51 AM (H8QX8)

431 So as mercenaries stream into Ukraine where weapons and food are available...

**

Someone posted a link yesterday of a US "mercenary" who was warning all the other LARPers away because it's a trap. They're giving them 10 rounds and saying "good luck", and the Ukrainians are destroying passports so you can't leave. Want to leave? Guess which checkpoints you've got to go through? And guess who isn't allowing able-bodied men to leave?

They want American deaths because that will bring America into the fight.

It's a trap.

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 17, 2022 09:53 AM (vwLCV)

432 Is nuclear war green? We'll be driving less, after all.

Posted by: leber at March 17, 2022 09:55 AM (yn3s3)

433 Congrats, Sponge. : )

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 17, 2022 09:58 AM (DW5Ib)

434 430 426 For anyone who missed Lara Logan's interview, here it is, she's not so willing to accept the scenario being fed to the public: https://tinyurl.com/534xe3mc
Posted by: CN...FJB at March 17, 2022 09:43 AM (ONvIw)

Thanks. She's right on.
Posted by: Ordinary American at March 17, 2022 09:51 AM (H8QX

I saw this at Weasel Zippers and they called her unhinged and crazy.

Is WZ turning Drudge on us maybe?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 17, 2022 09:58 AM (s2VJv)

435 You want to know what a "no-fly" zone looks like? I'll tell you. No-fly zones require AIR SUPREMACY, not just air superiority. Air superiority would be obtained the second we got involved, but SUPREMACY requires essentially unfettered access to the air over Ukraine, which means that we would need to employ SEAD and DEAD tactics to destroy all AA and SAM sites employed by Russia, which are all largely on the Russian and Belarussian sides of the border. SEAD and DEAD are more colloquially known as "wild weasel" tactics (see next)

Posted by: Goober at March 17, 2022 11:00 AM (Hgvgt)

436 You are all mostly familiar with that, right? It's where a tactical strike group consisting of a "bait" plane who's job is to purposely get shot at, and then two or more "kill" planes to take out the SAM site once it fires up it's radar with HARM munitions that hone in on the radar signal. What this means is that we would need to kill Russian military assets inside of Russian owned territory. This is absolutely REQUIRED in order to satisfy US and NATO doctrine for no-fly. You'd also be shooting down any Russian air assets sent in to defend the SAM sites. TL;DR, there is no way to enact a no-fly zone without committing acts of war against Russia and starting WWIII. I'll say it again, a no-fly zone means WWIII. Not "might" mean. WILL MEAN WWIII. You want nukes over Seattle? Because that's how you get nukes over Seattle.

Posted by: Goober at March 17, 2022 11:07 AM (Hgvgt)

437 "Show me you No Fly Zone boner, boy!"

Posted by: Dr. Mongo at March 17, 2022 01:03 PM (OTgeX)

438 Grow your own food at home!
OK, so there is no food, does that mean there will still be jobs?
Because without a Job you can't pay the taxes on your land the one you are growing food on and the Government will walk in and take your Garden/Farm right away from you.

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