The Morning Report

The Morning Report - 4/12/22

Good morning, kids. Tuesday, and as the Ukraine situation settles into a kind of stasis, the human suffering of innocent civilians notwithstanding, there are some alarming reports coming out of China's largest, and arguably most important city, Shanghai. 24 million people have been completely locked down and there are reports of civil unrest due to lack of food, and dare I say it, freedom.

Desperate Shanghai residents who are under strict lockdown over a [Chinese] COVID-19 outbreak are protesting food shortages, chanting “we want supplies” from their apartments, video shows.
Footage posted to Twitter showed people in the locked-down city banging pots on their balconies to decry a lack of food and other items, France24 reported.
“We want supplies,” the quarantined residents reportedly chanted.
In another video posted to the Chinese social media platform Weibo, a drone appears to warn the residents to cease protesting.
“Please comply with [Chinese] COVID restrictions. Control your soul’s desire for freedom. Do not open the window or sing,” the message from the drone said.
Other footage in recent days has shown residents struggling with security personnel and hazmat-suited medical staff at some compounds, with occupants shouting that they needed food supplies. . .
. . . Nearly all of Shanghai’s 26 million residents have been confined at home since last week, as the city aims to test, trace and centrally quarantine all people who test positive for the virus amid the spread of the highly infectious Omicron variant.

Color me highly suspicious about this. We are in an endemic phase with the General Tso's Sickness and probably have been for about a year already. The most vulnerable to it and any respiratory infection are the elderly and those with comorbidities. Cheap, proven therapeutics if prescribed early on can knock this out quickly. Even in China, the place that spawned this nasty little Franken-virus with assistance from our own Anthony Fauci. So what's really going on there?

Despite the Chi-Com's absolute control of media and messaging, we do know that the Chinese economy is on a massive bubble that can burst at any time. It's one-child policy is leading to demographic disaster, and the prosperity and exposure to western culture that the seeds of a little bit of government-controlled capitalism planted over 30 years ago by Deng Xiao Ping have born fruit in Chinese youth. That is running contra to the totalitarian dreams of Xi Jinping. I don't think Xi is on the ropes but his desire for absolute power has put him at odds with others in the party, and the clock is ticking. Obviously, a move on Taiwan would be an ideal distraction, but what's happening in Ukraine might give him pause.

Meanwhile, over here in the nation formerly known as the United States, here comes a story that the media is sure to try and embargo as best it can.

Despite imposing some of the strictest [Chinese] COVID-19 policies, New York, New Jersey, and California had the worst outcomes, according to a new study.
The study, which was conducted by the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, charted disparities in health outcomes, economic performance, and education among U.S. states since the start of the pandemic. Researchers found states such as Utah, South Dakota, and Florida that "maximized the individual freedoms of business owners, consumers, workers and parents—and allowed their citizens to make their own risk assessments without government mandates—had the best performance." By contrast, lockdown states such as New York, New Jersey, California, as well as Washington, D.C., had higher rates of learning loss for children in school, unemployment, and death.

Funny, as in beyond the pale disgusting, how a mass-murderer like Angel of Death Cuomo and others ripped Ron DeSantis, while in reality Florida prospered as New York died - literally and figuratively. Lockdowns and masks do not work and have never worked. But still, they persist as we now see in the City of Brotherly Cream Cheese and Street Violence, but mostly street violence. Philadelphia is reimposing mask mandates. Wearing a mask to stop the transmission of Peking Pox is like erecting a chainlink fence to keep out fleas. But, you do you, Jim Kenney.

And that segues back to DeSantis. From this insanity to the battle for the minds, bodies and souls of our children, DeSantis has had both the right instincts and the balls to tell the Left to fuck itself in the heart with a steak knife.

As the old saying goes, it's better to be lucky than good, but DeSantis has been both. Practically since he took office, events have broken his way, starting with the unnecessary hysteria over Covid-19 that, in the final analysis, was the thing that destroyed the Trump administration. After briefly flirting with lockdowns, DeSantis reversed course, bit the bullet, ignored media flapdoodle over "cases," and made Florida the free-state alternative to such draconian fascist entities as New York and California. Florida boomed as its rivals faded, hemorrhaging population and losing economic and political clout while the Sunshine State and also Texas happily welcomed the refugees. . .
. . . DeSantis has been lucky in his enemies as well. Incredibly, the now-"woke" Walt Disney Company—the embodiment of family friendly entertainment since its founding in 1923 through its founder's death in 1966 and up until recently—has decided that the Florida Parental Rights in Education bill (which DeSantis enthusiastically signed) preventing state teachers from discussing human sexuality, sexual orientation and "gender identity" with children in kindergarten through third grade is the hill the company wants to die on. . .
. . . With enemies like the company that bought Harvey Weinstein and the mainstream media, DeSantis doesn't need friends. Meanwhile, the governor has the wind at his back: more than a dozen states are considering similar bills, putting the Florida governor in the de facto driver's seat on the issue. From Covid to the Chinese suborning of America's institutions to the sitting daffy duck called Disney, DeSantis has staked out positions in direct opposition to the Biden Democrats—exactly what you'd expect from a Shadow President who's looking forward, not backward.

That is from friend of the blog and friend Michael Walsh, who as you know, is endorsing DeSantis for '24. While the salient point about Trump, should he run and win would be 78, is not necessarily a disqualifier, what the heck is he thinking endorsing Mehmet Oz, an Oprah protegé who has had a checkered history on issues (he was at one point in favor of gun control). That said, others in Trump's coterie have endorsed Oz while a similar group have endorsed David McCormack. This is getting into the weeds. Look, if Trump does get the nod, I will eagerly crawl naked over broken glass to vote for him. Exposing the kabuki-bukkake theater of the two-party system and electoral politics, as well as the Deep State leviathan that lords over us is one of the greatest achievements of his and any presidency. But it came at a cost, of course; his presidency and the existential threats we now face. His Achilles heel in trusting the wrong people at the wrong time and not going with his gut when the chips were down - specifically the handling of the initial China virus outbreak - has pretty much sealed the deal for me as well.

In his way, though, Trump paved the way for DeSantis as well as many others running up and down the ballot. Most crucially, in the pits where it really counts at the school and community board level.

So, Putin is bogged down, Xi seems to be getting paranoid, France has a shot (long though it is) at waking the hell up, and the Hungarians have put their foot down, amongst other things. And back over here, people are absolutely sickened and alarmed as perverts seek to turn children into sex objects and then mind-numbed automatons for the all-powerful State.

"'Margaret Sanger believed in euthanasia and sterilization of 'unfortunate' and mentally challenged, and Blacks. She was the founder of Planned Parenthood, which, like all organizations expanded its brief, (originally one of control of sub-humans) in the control of all conception. Her insights were taken up in the 60s with 'hygiene classes,' which became 'sex education,' educators holding that because perhaps the children were not taught at home, the higher orders needed to take charge, and now we have kindergartens trained in a bizarre catechism of sexual identity politics. . .'"
. . . "You're putting these bizarre ideas in their head, and as the Jesuits taught us correctly, you give me a kid until he is seven, he is mine for life. . . "
. . . "... We've got to take back control, and the best way to do it is through school choice, and that's why the Democrats oppose it -- right?" said Mamet. "Because school choice means I get the right to raise my kids. And, as you say, the Marxists want the state to raise the kids, in fact, they insist upon it."

That was former leftist turned conservative and award-winning film and theater auteur David Mamet. It is amazing to me how right Rush Limbaugh and Andrew Breitbart were about the "culture war." Breitbart himself said "politics is downstream of culture." Even an execrable beast like Al Sharpton understands that these issues are political kryptonite.
It's gratifying that there is growing disaffection from historically rock solid Democrat voting blocs. It's disheartening that they - like we - will (in theory) hold their nose and vote Republican, but it's because they're voting against the Democrats.

And therein lies the opportunity. A change is in the wind. Can we survive long enough to see it happen?

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

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Julie Kelly: "What did top government officials know and when did they know it?"
Questions Loom After Verdicts in Whitmer "Kidnapping" Trial
Daniel Greenfield: "Leftists demand safe spaces for themselves, but take them away from children."
The Left’s War on Childhood

THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

"Where are you, Biden?"
Ukraine Updates: Boris Johnson’s Visit Puts Pressure on Biden to Visit Kyiv
"They are a commonly sickening feature of Russian wartime." (still, only an allegation - jjs)
The Allegations of Wartime Rapes Are Nothing New for the Russian Army
"The United States can’t force Germany et al to start exploiting their own energy resources (though European voters can, and should). But America can steal Russia’s export markets, if Washington is willing to stop suppressing US energy production and start supporting it."
Putin Shrugs Off Financial Sanctions as Ruble Rebounds
DEMOCRAT WAR ON OIL, THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"The [junta] has been pressed its latest rebranding, with multiple reporters pointing out the ever-changing reasons for high gas prices coming from the White House. The 'Putin’s price hike' narrative also coincides with a push from the [junta] to blame oil companies as well."
Peppermint Piss-Hockey Warns of "Extraordinarily Elevated" Inflation Data, Blames "Putin’s Price Hike"
"Voters know Biden is to blame for higher prices."
RNC Slams White House For Pinning Inflation on "Putin’s Price Hike"
"‘Moderate inflation results from short-term ‘stimulus;’ hyperinflation comes from regular money printing to pay the government’s bills.’"
The Government Could Stop Inflation Within a Year. Instead, Expect Things to Get Worse
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"Adbusters, an activist [terrorist] group that describes itself as a 'collective of artists, designers, writers, musicians, poets, punks, philosophers and wild hearts has been smashing ads, fighting corruption and speaking truth to power,' and has been tied to the Occupy Wall Street protests in 2011, called for activists to deflate SUV tires in a Twitter thread on Wednesday."
Left-Wing Activist Group Suggests Deflating SUV Tires to Fight Climate Change
"On the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970, the world was warned that billions would die soon because of a disastrous ice age."
Earth Day is Coming Up. It is a Good Time to Remind the Public What the Predictions Were 52 Years Ago
CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
If this isn't an act of political terrorism, I don't know what is.
U. of Buffalo Student "Hunted Down" by Woke Mob for Hosting Allen West Speech
"New Jersey saw a record high in hate crimes in 2021. 17% of the reported hate crimes were against Jews."
New Jersey: Man Allegedly Yelled Anti-Semitic Slurs as Police Arrested Him for Stabbing Three Jews
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"The Biden [junta] will soon remove the last serious speed bump to an open border, opening the floodgates to mass asylum fraud."
How the Biden Junta is Aiding and Abetting the Biggest Border Fraud in U.S. History
"Another Biden-made catastrophe in the offing."
Biden Junta Prepares to Lift Title 42 Restrictions
AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
"The new move came as the top U.S. immunologist, Dr. Anthony Fauci, expressed concern that a new mask mandate may soon be needed."
Philadelphia To Reimpose Indoor Mask Mandate
"Florida had best health outcomes and economic performance."
Lockdowns Didn’t Work: Blue States Rank Dead Last for Chinese COVID Response
"City at risk of mass civil unrest."
Creepy: Locked Down Chinese SCREAM From High Rise Windows
"A lockdown that doesn’t do anything to stop [Chinese] COVID is nevertheless a useful tool for the communist party in China."
Chairman Mao Would Approve of the Lockdown in Shanghai
Dr. David Gortler: "If the vaccines were innocuous and completely safe, that would be one thing, but there have been hundreds of thousands of reported adverse events in the USA alone, and there is a strong indication that that number only represents 1 to 13 percent of the actual number of safety events. If old monoclonal antibodies don’t work, neither will old vaccines/booster shots."
If Monoclonal Antibody EUAs Are Being Revoked, Shouldn't Chinese COVID Vaccine Approvals Be as Well?
It'd be better spent looking for Bigfoot guano.
NIH Shells Out $22 Million to Study "Long [Chinese] COVID"
"The first signatory on the Lancet letter from February 2020 was not convinced of the thins he demanded the public believed about [Chinese] COVID's origins.
Revealed: Lab Leak Denier Was Privately Telling Colleagues "It’s Possible"
“'This is not going to be eradicated, and it’s not going to be eliminated,' Fauci said on ABC’s This Week. 'And what’s going to happen is that we’re going to see that each individual is going to have to make their calculation of the amount of risk that they want to take.' Great! But what has changed? This is exactly the message Fauci needed to deliver to the people . . . approximately a year ago."
Endemic Stupidity: When Will Fauci and Liberal Leaders Apologize for the Millions of Lives Damaged With Pointless Chinese COVID Restrictions?
"[Chinese] COVID Pope Dr. Anthony Fauci and CDC Director Rochelle Walensky were also at the Dinner but have thus far tested negative. How very dull of them. The even higher profile White House Correspondents’ Dinner is scheduled to take place in a few weeks."
Schadenfreudelicious! Swanky Soirée Turns Swamp Superspreader
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"'Margaret Sanger believed in euthanasia and sterilization of 'unfortunate' and mentally challenged, and Blacks. She was the founder of Planned Parenthood, which, like all organizations expanded its brief, (originally one of control of sub-humans) in the control of all conception. Her insights were taken up in the 60s with 'hygiene classes,' which became 'sex education,' educators holding that because perhaps the children were not taught at home, the higher orders needed to take charge, and now we have kindergartens trained in a bizarre catechism of sexual identity politics.'"
Pulitzer Prize Winner David Mamet: Teachers "Are Abusing Kids Mentally and Using Sex To Do So"
Saying she has had “many conversations with many young children … about what being transgender is, and never once have I been met with any fear or confusion. I’ve even been the recipient of a group hug! Children just get it, it’s as simple as that.” (I'd like to have a "conversation" with this fiend - jjs)
Watch: Teacher Tells Kindergartners "When Babies Are Born," Doctors "Guess Whether the Baby Is a Boy or a Girl"
Under the Ohio proposal, no public school or STEM school would be allowed to, "with respect to a student in any of grades kindergarten through three, teach, use, or provide any curriculum or instructional materials on sexual orientation or gender identity."
Ohio GOP Introduces Bill to Ban "Gender Identity" Agenda in Elementary Schools K-3
Robert Spencer: "Welcome to 'modern-day public school education.'"
New Jersey to Force Second-Graders to Learn Explicit Details About "Gender Identity"
"In academia, the word du jour is 'equity-speak.' Why is it happening?"
Equity and "Equity-speak"
"Why do parents have so little control over where their children go to school?"
Prager U Video: Fund the Children Not the Schools
THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH
"Conservatives were immediately skeptical. Many have long distrusted Zuckerberg, believing he uses his social media platform to help Democrats. CTCL is a nonpartisan group respected by election administrators of both parties, but its founders have roots in liberal politics. And although the grants went to conservative and liberal areas, Democratic-leaning counties received a disproportionate share of the money in battleground states like Florida and Pennsylvania."
Zuckerberg Money Won't Be in Next Round of Aid for Elections
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
Margot Cleveland: "Michael Sussmann’s text message dispatches one of the strongest defenses pushed by his cohorts in the court of public opinion."
One Key Argument For Michael Sussmann’s Defense Has Already Crumbled
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"The deadly price of deception and misinformation."
Anti-Semitism Doesn’t Differentiate Between Good and Bad People
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
Lloyd Billingsley: "Will America’s woke, partisan intelligence community now turn on Joe Biden?"
Hunter Biden’s Laptop Leverage
"I predict that the stories and talking points are right now being written about how Joe Biden has been "the real victim" here, a tragic figure who of course knew nothing of Hunter's bad behavior."
Joe's Toast, But He'll Skate on the Hunter Scandal
OTHER DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"Hawaii representative Kai Kahele has voted in person just five times this year."
This Democrat Congressman Doesn’t Show Up to Work, and He Won’t Say Why
POLITICS
"Biden’s approval rating now sits at 42%, one point lower than the March CBS News/YouGov poll, which saw the [so-called quote-unquote "president"] with a 43% approval rating."
POLL: Biden’s Approval Rating Craters Again
“Most Hispanics are fleeing countries that have been economically and morally ruined by leftist policies.”
NBC Poll: 30-point Shift Toward GOP In Hispanic Congressional Preference
"Pollster John Della Volpe told Politico the state of the economy, which is currently experiencing record inflation, was just one reason the Democrat Party does not have the youth vote locked up for the upcoming midterms. He also cited the absence of former President Donald Trump to rally the group against."
Biden’s Hemorrhaging Support in Key Voting Bloc a Huge Threat to Dems
"2024 could be a bizarre replay of America’s most unique presidential election in modern history."
Hillary vs. Trump Redux?
Salena Zito: "The biggest problem is that both Washington Democrats and the press seem to have no idea who comprises the Democrats’ base anymore."
Pennsylvania’s Dramatic Shift Rightward Is a Warning Sign for Both Parties About Overreach
"The poll from the Remington Research Group found all three contenders, Lamon, Brnovich, and Masters, to be popular with Arizona Republicans."
Arizona’s Jim Lamon Claims "Frontrunner" Status in Crowded GOP Primary
"Finkenauer was considered a likely favorite to face Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, although most polls show the long-time incumbent with a comfortable advantage."
Democrat Senate Candidate Abby Finkenauer Kicked Off Ballot Over Signature Requirement
"The superficial appeal of a convention of states shouldn't blind us to the fact that our problem lies with the current character of our nation, not with our Constitution." (agreed, but the "we-must-do-this-and-that" at the end is dumb - jjs)
Against the Convention of States
SUPREME COURT VACANCY
"Every vote from the Supreme Court’s justices on hot-button issues needs to become a political issue for the senators who voted for those justices."
Make the Judiciary Great Again By Holding Senators Accountable
Terry Jeffrey: "Where does she stand on the foundational principal of the Declaration of Independence?"
Judge Ketanji Brown-25 Jackson and Alienable Rights
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
This worry "places the issue near the top of the list of 14 national concerns -- behind only inflation and the economy," said Gallup.
Gallup: Worry About Crime and Violence Highest Since 2016
Blue on blue: Pro-criminal leftists vs. government employee leftists. Pass the popcorn.
REPORT: Postal Service Suspended In Santa Monica Neighborhood After Attacks On Mail Carriers
"The Mail said Glazewski repeatedly yelled: ‘I did that. I did that. That’s what I did,’ as he points to several stickers of the finger-pointing Biden slapped on the gas pump.”
Man Arrested After Putting Biden "I Did That!" Stickers On Gas Pumps, Getting Belligerent: Report
"New York State lawmakers take an important, though incomplete, step toward restoring law and order."
Correcting Course
"Until now the crimes of a former defensive player in the program have gone almost entirely uncovered."
There Was a Serial Sexual Predator in the Penn State Football Program Other Than Jerry Sandusky
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"The former may well get us nuked but we can’t take the chance that the latter will defend free speech."
Biden Scares America, Media Sweats Elon Musk
“'You can run the best campaign, you can even become the nominee, and you can have the election stolen from you.' Clinton’s verboten statement is currently recirculating freely on Twitter."
Why Hasn't Hillary Clinton Been Banned From Twitter?
"Routinely in recent years, the press working in mainstream media outlets have become completely intolerant of conservatives, and work hard to get them removed if hired, or blacklisted prior to hiring. The result has been a worse than useless mainstream press, now utterly devoted to campaigning for Democrats and their pet projects. The public gets no reasonable analysis on any issue, because there is no one left in these newsrooms allowed to question anything the Democrats propose or say."
Today's Blacklisted American: News Staffers at CBS Demand Network Blacklist Mick Mulvaney
Deadbeats. Figures. If any Republican in Ohio had balls he/she/it would demand the Ohio AG order the college's assets frozen until the fine is paid.
Oberlin College Still Refusing to Pay $33 Million in Damages to Bakery it Slandered as Racist
ABORTION
"Maryland will pour $3.5 million each year into training people who aren’t medical doctors to perform abortions after lawmakers overturned Republican Gov. Larry Hogan’s Friday veto."
Maryland Lawmakers Override Governor’s Veto To Pour Millions Into Training New Abortionists
SECOND AMENDMENT
"Biden then suggested that people do not need what he claims are high-capacity magazines because deer do not wear 'Kevlar vests.'”
Biden Renews Push For Gun, Magazine Ban
"Don’t you love a . . . feel-good story about the Second Amendment?"
Reason # 1 to Own a Gun: Intruder Shot in Head While Breaking Into Child's Bedroom
"What is [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden, Sen. Chuck Schumer and the band of idiots in Albany’s answer to stop this blood bath amongst our children? Ghost guns. Blaming ghosts instead of criminals that knowingly and intentionally pull a trigger or thrust a knife into another person’s body will save everyone. Thank God we have such amazing leadership."
Chasing "Ghost Guns" Isn't Enough — Go After the Criminals Pulling the Triggers
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"Le Pen faces an uphill struggle."
French Political Class Closes Ranks to Protect Macron
"Valérie Pécresse had a disastrous run." (she's the French version of Pee-Air Defecto - jjs)
The French Election Shows the Decline of Its Center-Right Party
"Not a fan of democracy."
Antifa Riots in French Cities Because They Didn’t Like the Election Result
"Several analysts found the transfer of military supplies notable, some of whom worry it might lead to greater conflict in the region."
"Demonstration of Force": China Flies Military Supplies Into European Nation
"It is a component of its Belt and Road Initiative."
China Grows Its Influence in the Pacific
"Khan’s tenure as prime minister was largely defined by a push for global Islamic law, particularly the implementation of blasphemy laws so that any sentiment that offends Muslims could be prosecuted anywhere in the world."
China Says Ties with Pakistan Remain "Friendly" After PM Imran Khan Ousted
"The Pakistan Muslim League could emerge in control."
Could a New Pakistani Government Forge Greater Ties With the U.S.?
Robert Spencer: ". . . Even Democrats oppose it."
Biden’s Iran Nuke Deal is So Outrageously Bad
"White British people are already a minority in the capital city of London."
"British to Be Minority By 2066" Banner Flown Over Premier League Match\
Boris Johnson's Conservative Party continues to support its LGBT+ affiliate, despite convictions for child pornography distribution.
Britain’s First Gay Muslim Politician Found Guilty of Sexual Assault on Teen Boy
"Why won't Nelson Mandela’s grandson meet with former Miss Iraq?"
Snubbing Iraq's Beauty Queen
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Here's a thought, Achmed. Get the fuck out and go flourish in Sudan and Afghanistan.
Boston Imam: America Is a "Terrible Place," Unlike Sudan and Afghanistan
Raymond Ibrahim: "The Pope behaves shamefully at Malta, the scene of one of the worst Islamic invasions of history."
Pope "Fiction" Abandons Christ’s Cross to Appease Muslims
To ask is to answer.
A Seattle Man Says He Killed "In the Name of Allah." Why Won't the Media Report That?
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE, THE COURTS
"While not as far-reaching in its deregulatory scope as other bipartisan achievements such as airline deregulation, the JOBS Act has resulted in significant gains for startup entrepreneurs and middle-class investors, including women and minorities."
Celebrate the JOBS Act -- A Bipartisan Deregulatory Victory That Just Turned 10
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"Joe Biden’s willingness to expend billions of dollars on unilateral changes to Obamacare contrasts with his personal behavior regarding the law."
Joe Biden, Who Dodged Obamacare Taxes, Now Proposes Expanding Obamacare
"Twelve years after its passage, the landmark law has expanded health coverage only modestly—while raising costs, reducing choice, and doing little to improve outcomes."
Obamacare’s Hollow Celebration
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"Capitalism in space: Astroscale demo mission, ELSA-d, has been unable to complete a docking with its target vehicle as planned because four of the eight thrusters on the capture 'servicer' vehicle have failed."
Astroscale Demo to Test Space Junk Removal Struggles with Failed Thrusters
"Cool image time! The panorama above was created from four navigation camera images taken by the Mars rover Perseverance on April 10th. Because the lens on Perseverance’s navigation cameras produce slightly curved images which are taken in pairs, the panorama is made of two parts, each a pair perfectly matched images looking from a different angle."
Perseverance Arrives at Three Forks at the Base of Jezero Craters Delta; Possible Womp Rats Sighted (just kidding - jjs)
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
“This is going to be tremendous and such a good help to fathers in Florida,” Dungy said. “This bill is so important. I want to thank all of the men and women that have been behind this. It is going to allow groups like All Pro Dad and people like those here today to do great things for our fathers here in Florida.”
"That Fraud": Leftists Rage at Tony Dungy for Standing with Gov. Ron DeSantis on Fatherhood Bill
To the contrary; we're trying to avoid going back to Ba'al worship, heathenism and child sacrifice.
Abigail Disney: Laws Protecting Children from Grooming in Classrooms Are "An Attempt to Push History Backwards"
"The law also makes it illegal for teachers and other school employees to encourage children to withhold information about their gender confusion from their parents. It does makes exceptions for male circumcision and the treatment of medically verifiable sex disorders." (how many mohels are in Alabama anyway? - jjs)
Alabama Gov. Signs Law Banning Sex Change Treatments for Kids
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"Elliott previously described the movie as 'a piece of shit' and mocked the costuming, saying the cowboys depicted in the movie looked like Chippendale dancers."
Sam Elliott Caves to the Woke Mob, Apologizes for Bashing "Gay" Western
"The company's foray into woke sexual politics has damaged the company's pristine image with the public."
Trouble In Mouse-Land? ‘Woke’ Disney Takes Huge Hit In Trust: IBD/TIPP Poll
Christian Toto: "TikTok erases sketch show's channel without explanation (sound familiar?)."
Conservative That Show Tonight Latest Victim of Big Tech Censorship
"Spengler" Goldman: "What does it mean to be relevant? A woman once remarked to Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel that the prayer book didn’t seem relevant to her, to which Heschel responded that the point was to make herself relevant to the prayer book. Schiller was one of the universal geniuses who defined our era, and our job is to make ourselves relevant to him."
Canceling Beethoven: Who's Relevant to Whom?
HITHER & YON
"Science makes faith plausible, not impossible."
God’s Footprints
"How Watergate created junkie journalists addicted to scandal."
Hooked on Nixon

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1 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at April 12, 2022 07:05 AM (0BGSa)

2 Corgis nooded.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at April 12, 2022 07:05 AM (0BGSa)

3 In the top 2,354!

Posted by: rickb223 at April 12, 2022 07:06 AM (Ek4HO)

4 Where's rhennigantx? Feels weird to get in at number 1.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at April 12, 2022 07:07 AM (0BGSa)

5 Never thought I'd ever say it, but Sam Elliott, you sir, are a pussy.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 12, 2022 07:08 AM (Ek4HO)

6 Yo

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at April 12, 2022 07:08 AM (eEQ2s)

7 ho leee chit
JJ

Dude, you are not burning daylight!!

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 12, 2022 07:09 AM (yrol0)

8
Tony Dungy >> Sam Elliot

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 12, 2022 07:09 AM (s2VJv)

9 I am designing 4 bathrooms for the new stately rhennigantx FAM house.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 12, 2022 07:10 AM (yrol0)

10 Good morning dear morons and thanks JJ

Its not COVID, its compliance. Its not a mask, its a muzzle.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 12, 2022 07:11 AM (EZebt)

11 Please comply with [Chinese] COVID restrictions. Control your souls desire for freedom. Do not open the window or sing, the message from the drone said.

Coming to a small North American city near you once the Biden Depression Era starts.

The was not 1 single fucking bag of oreida potatoes at the K roger yesterday and I had to kick a 30 something mothers of 2 ass to get the last bag of onion rings.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 12, 2022 07:13 AM (yrol0)

12 Its not COVID, its compliance. Its not a mask, its a muzzle.

And it's not shelter in place, it's house arrest. I've held that un popular view for 2 years. and counting...

Posted by: Rosasharn at April 12, 2022 07:13 AM (yEBFM)

13 JJ. What time did you get up?

Posted by: IanDeal at April 12, 2022 07:15 AM (MGjjz)

14 Hey! If you buy a couch and put it together, it's still a couch. No joke.

Posted by: fd at April 12, 2022 07:15 AM (vrz2I)

15 By contrast, lockdown states such as New York, New Jersey, California, as well as Washington, D.C., had higher rates of learning loss for children in school, unemployment, and death.

Very close to 2 families with 2 going on 3 YO. They are about a year behind their older sibling in speech dev.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 12, 2022 07:15 AM (yrol0)

16 Joe says anyone can build a gun kit in 30 minutes. I'd like to see him try.

Posted by: fd at April 12, 2022 07:16 AM (vrz2I)

17 Again, I'm not quite sure why "Sex Education" needed to ever be taught in elementary school or for that matter in any grade below 10th, and still even then it's suspect for strangers to be talking about sex with minors.

But the introduction of gender confusion propaganda is a million bridges too far.

The only way out of the hell we are in is to take back the schools from these maniacs.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 12, 2022 07:17 AM (iHqxB)

18 13 JJ. What time did you get up?
Posted by: IanDeal at April 12, 2022 07:15 AM (MGjjz)

I'm usually up around 4:30. I start to round up links the night before.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 12, 2022 07:18 AM (s2VJv)

19 China's situation reminds me of the old variety spinning-plate acts. (which were usually done by Chinese performers, ironically) Running China, feeding a billion + people per day, and keeping track of all of those interactions is like keeping a billion plates spinning in the air at the same time. Once the performer gets behind and some of the plates start to crash, they all crash in very quick order.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 12, 2022 07:18 AM (evAgx)

20 Once the performer gets behind and some of the plates start to crash, they all crash in very quick order.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 12, 2022 07:18 AM (evAgx)

Hayek covers this well in the Road to Serfdom.

PS Also works in shithole cities like LA, Shitcago, Minnenopolice, etc.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 12, 2022 07:21 AM (yrol0)

21 "They are a commonly sickening feature of Russian wartime." (still, only an allegation - jjs)
The Allegations of Wartime Rapes Are Nothing New for the Russian Army

I remember a few years back a commenter here arguing that our soldiers should be engaging in the practice.

Posted by: buzzion at April 12, 2022 07:22 AM (vMCab)

22 Build the dang fence!

Posted by: John McVain at April 12, 2022 07:22 AM (utMrO)

23 a note about Oberlin, as pointed out at Legal Insurrection: The school was forced to post bond equal to the judgment against it when it appealed. When all appeals are over, then that bond is automatically forfeited to the Gibson family. At this point, Oberlin is toying with the idea of appealing to the Ohio Supreme Court (the only possible appeal they have left) and most think the Ohio Supreme Court will refuse to take the case. The Appeals Court decision was quite definitive, and shot down every legal point Oberlin tried to raise quite effectively.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 12, 2022 07:23 AM (evAgx)

24 "Control your soul's desire for freedom."

Never. FU Commie. You'll kill me on my feet not on my knees.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 12, 2022 07:23 AM (HsAzN)

25 I'm usually up around 4:30. I start to round up links the night before.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 12, 2022 07:18 AM (s2VJv)
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Tell you what? Take tomorrow as a "mental health" day.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 12, 2022 07:23 AM (EZebt)

26 The Russkies are still at it? Good, that keeps the junta from finishing their Iran surrender.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 12, 2022 07:23 AM (utMrO)

27
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 12, 2022 07:23 AM (DUIap)

28 I look forward to the dipshit gnome DeWine to veto the Ohio bill.

Posted by: buzzion at April 12, 2022 07:24 AM (vMCab)

29 Practically since he took office, events have broken his way, starting with the unnecessary hysteria over Covid-19 that, in the final analysis, was the thing that destroyed the Trump administration.

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No, that would be the cheating on a biblical scale that took away the presidency he re-won.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 12, 2022 07:25 AM (sVtYq)

30 @19

>>China's situation reminds me of the old variety spinning-plate acts.

Right now the competing factions are keeping the plates spinning in one hand while riding unicycles and in the other hand pouring gasoline into the fires that they started.

This may be the most dangerous period in world history in over a hundred years.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 12, 2022 07:25 AM (iHqxB)

31 29 Practically since he took office, events have broken his way, starting with the unnecessary hysteria over Covid-19 that, in the final analysis, was the thing that destroyed the Trump administration.
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No, that would be the cheating on a biblical scale that took away the presidency he re-won.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 12, 2022 07:25 AM (sVtYq)

The cheating could not have happened had he not acquiesced on the "two week" lockdown. That is the salient point, my dear.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 12, 2022 07:27 AM (s2VJv)

32 Did Pelosi really test positive for Covid (asymptomatic) or was that a lie that they used to justify cancelling her trip to Taiwan because it pissed off her Chinese bosses?

Posted by: buzzion at April 12, 2022 07:28 AM (vMCab)

33 The ideas that Civilians and prisoners should be treated well in war is a good one, but also peculiar to late Western European civilization. No one else in the world has ever respected those rules, certainly not the slavs.

I see no reason to doubt that the Russians have been killing civilians as the Ukes have said - I see no reason to doubt that the Ukes have been executing wounded prisoners the way the Russians have said. This is a central asian blood feud, it's naive to expect any better behavior out of either side than one would have expected out of Ghengis Khan's mongols horde.

and this is not to excuse it, just to point out why it's foolish to say either side is morally "better" than the other side. They're both just two sides of the same coin.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 12, 2022 07:29 AM (evAgx)

34 Seriously JJ you have got to have some vicarious trauma from putting together those links for so many years

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 12, 2022 07:30 AM (EZebt)

35 33 Posted by: Tom Servo at April 12, 2022 07:29 AM (evAgx)

There was a good link yesterday on this about the rhetoric fueling the crimes. And it was about Zelensky doing the fueling.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 12, 2022 07:30 AM (s2VJv)

36 "China's situation reminds me of the old variety spinning-plate acts."

Tonight we have a really big shoe for you. The husband and wife team of Joe and Jill will stand on their heads while spinning plates and reciting the new Declaration of Dependence.

Posted by: zombie Ed Sullivan at April 12, 2022 07:31 AM (vrz2I)

37 The cheating could not have happened had he not acquiesced on the "two week" lockdown. That is the salient point, my dear.

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Well, I sure can't argue that. I still remember thinking in the very early spring of '20 when leftist governors like Whitmer were talking about mail-in ballots for Nov. and I was thinking it was insane, unthinkable because it was over 6 months out. Turns out, it wasn't.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 12, 2022 07:33 AM (sVtYq)

38 This is a central asian blood feud, it's naive to expect any better behavior out of either side than one would have expected out of Ghengis Khan's mongols horde. ...
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 12, 2022 07:29 AM (evAgx)
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But I was told this was a war on democracy in the very heart of our European homeland!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 12, 2022 07:34 AM (EZebt)

39 PLSD = Post-Link Stress Disorder

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 12, 2022 07:34 AM (HsAzN)

40 fuck em all

But all was not champagne and caviar as of this writing, 73 of the glitterati who attended the bash have tested positive for the dread disease, COVID-19.

hope they break out in assholes and shit themselves to death!!

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 12, 2022 07:34 AM (yrol0)

41 I'm so glad that China isn't Real Communism. It could have been so much worse.

And a good morning to you all.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 12, 2022 07:35 AM (4olE8)

42 Julie Kelly: "What did top government officials know and when did they know it?"

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It's funny that I've read variations of this kind of question a 100x in the last few years. Never do I recall ever getting answers or anyone being held to account, no matter the situation. At this point, if it involves Democrats, why bother asking? It certainly isn't going to seep into the head of the women in this country, degreed or non-degreed.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 12, 2022 07:38 AM (sVtYq)

43 PJMedia link: "Monoclonal antibodies work the same way as the vaccines, attacking the spike protein. None of them work to stop covid."

So much for current vaccines and monoclonals. May as well get on with life.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 12, 2022 07:39 AM (utMrO)

44 "On the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970, the world was warned that billions would die soon because of a disastrous ice age."

--

Ira Einhorn, Earth Day Founder. The father of the art of composting. His girlfriend.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 12, 2022 07:41 AM (sVtYq)

45 >>>It's funny that I've read variations of this kind of question a 100x in the last few years. Never do I recall ever getting answers or anyone being held to account, no matter the situation.
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Well said. This time, I bet Julie Kelly won't stop until she gets us answers and holds those scumbags to account. (Can you imagine the pressure they are putting on her to stop?)

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 12, 2022 07:41 AM (utMrO)

46 That scene described in Shanghai is straight out of some dystopian novel. A don't think it can't happen here. We're infested with the same type of codependent population.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 12, 2022 07:41 AM (+I4ai)

47 Earth Day is the left's way of surreptitiously creating public celebrations on Lenin's birthday.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 12, 2022 07:43 AM (EZebt)

48 Regarding the Adbusters article:

I went on Twitter and attempted to report the post. Apparently, there is no category for soliciting criminal activity. Were I Canadian, I'd probably be contacting Vancouver police.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 12, 2022 07:44 AM (4olE8)

49 47 Earth Day is the left's way of surreptitiously creating public celebrations on Lenin's birthday.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 12, 2022 07:43 AM (EZebt)

Picking Hitler's 2 days earlier would have been too obvious.

Posted by: buzzion at April 12, 2022 07:45 AM (vMCab)

50 ...While the salient point about Trump, should he run and win would be 78, is not necessarily a disqualifier, what the heck is he thinking endorsing Mehmet Oz, an Oprah protege who has had a checkered history on issues (he was at one point in favor of gun control).

I would like to point out that both Trump and Ronald Reagan once identified as as Democrats. David Horowitz once identified as a Communist.

People do change. And do not in any way consider this post as an endorsement of Oz. RR once imposed gun controls on CA; Trump was once a fan of abortion.

Cindy Hyde-Smith, current MS Senator (R), was once a Democrat. She's one of Trump's strongest supporters.

The proof is in the pudding. Morning, y'all and Thanks JJS.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 12, 2022 07:45 AM (F0YaR)

51 46 We're infested with the same type of codependent population.

It's worse than you think. When I see comments on Twitter and news sites about it, there are dreamy eyed leftists wondering why we can't crack down on people like China does.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 12, 2022 07:46 AM (4olE8)

52 Brie Larson has been added to the cast of Fast and Furious 10. She'll be playing a stunning and brave strong woman.

I mean, if they want to kill the franchise, they could have just hired Kathy Griffin.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 12, 2022 07:46 AM (OeBYn)

53 Morning peeps.

Shanghai isn't some sort of "free democratic zone" inside China IIRC, so what gives? I know it's the most densely populated city in China and home to their financial institutions. Maybe the ChiComs are planning on, or for a large scale monetary crisis? Keep the bankers at home while they do whatever it is they're doing....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 12, 2022 07:47 AM (BFigT)

54 Today seems to be "Inflation Day" in the markets, who have buckled up under Damocles rumors of an impending inflation number that will blow your socks off. Jen Psaki and her "Putin!" claims notwithstanding, the Democrats who are running the world into the ground can be expected to crank up the anti-Trump rhetoric to eleventy because that is all they've got left.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 12, 2022 07:47 AM (utMrO)

55 Saying she has had "many conversations with many young children...about what being transgender is, and never once have I been met with any fear or confusion...Children just get it, it's as simple as that."
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Young children also pick up a story book and think bears can really speak English, that Peter Pan is real, that Snoopy really flies his doghouse through the air. Admit it, you freak. That's why you're targeting these innocent little kids. They don't know real from fake because they are innocent and little! These people need to be beaten to a bloody pulp. Literally. I mean every word in the harshest sense. They are plotting to mentally destroy these children for life.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 12, 2022 07:48 AM (sVtYq)

56 https://www.worldometers.info

There have been a huge spike in cases and more deaths than usual the past few months in South Korea, Japan, and Australia suggesting it is highly transmissible.
Or it could be another bio weapon attack this time in Shanghai.

Posted by: The Next Strain at April 12, 2022 07:48 AM (wR9FD)

57 I mean, if they want to kill the franchise, they could have just hired Kathy Griffin.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 12, 2022 07:46 AM (OeBYn)
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As a speed bump? Seems like a real negative in a car chase movie.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 12, 2022 07:49 AM (utMrO)

58 At least monoclonal antibodies are just a form of medicine, not experimental gene therapy that damages your immune system forever.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 12, 2022 07:49 AM (NHc7G)

59 @56

>>Or it could be another bio weapon attack this time in Shanghai.

Seem to be incubating the mid-term variant.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 12, 2022 07:49 AM (iHqxB)

60 hiya

Posted by: JT at April 12, 2022 07:50 AM (arJlL)

61 52 Brie Larson has been added to the cast of Fast and Furious 10. She'll be playing a stunning and brave strong woman.

I mean, if they want to kill the franchise, they could have just hired Kathy Griffin.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 12, 2022 07:46 AM (OeBYn)

So I was listening/watching Chrissie Mayr's Simpcast and ThatStarWarsGirl put forward a great theory as to why she's been added. Larson is spokeswoman for the Nissan Sentra. So maybe Nissan went and said "Hey put Brie and some of our cars in the movie and we'll give you a nice boost to your budget along with supplying the cars."

Posted by: buzzion at April 12, 2022 07:50 AM (vMCab)

62 But still, they persist as we now see in the City of Brotherly Cream Cheese and Street Violence, but mostly street violence. Philadelphia is reimposing mask mandates. Wearing a mask to stop the transmission of Peking Pox is like erecting a chainlink fence to keep out fleas. But, you do you, Jim Kenney.

Okay; that's funny !

Posted by: JT at April 12, 2022 07:50 AM (arJlL)

63 New strain hits China now, makes it to US by fall. Oops, I guess we have to use the same rules for voting we did last time. Maybe even just cancel the election for safety.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 12, 2022 07:52 AM (9Bb+p)

64 While the salient point about Trump, should he run and win would be 78, is not necessarily a disqualifier, what the heck is he thinking endorsing Mehmet Oz, an Oprah protege who has had a checkered history on issues (he was at one point in favor of gun control).
=====

I want to remind the Horde that the Oz person was hauled before some congressional committee to 'answer' questions about his health recommendations. All I really remember was lectures to the guy from some truly nasty and stupid critters. Not quite sure who or what Oz is aside from a TV show personality, but that experience would sure change my perspectives on a lot of things.

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 12, 2022 07:53 AM (MIKMs)

65 Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 12, 2022 07:46 AM (OeBYn)

Glad to hear from VtK. Your absence was noted by yours truly.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 12, 2022 07:53 AM (F0YaR)

66 New strain hits China now, makes it to US by fall. Oops, I guess we have to use the same rules for voting we did last time. Maybe even just cancel the election for safety.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 12, 2022 07:52 AM (9Bb+p)

"... second time as farce", said some creepy old dead bastard once.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 12, 2022 07:54 AM (6FeV1)

67 Morning, Horde...How goes it?

"The Committee to Unleash Prosperity" sounds like something straight from the Communist Party in China. My guess it is designed to do the exact opposite of what it's title describes.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 12, 2022 07:54 AM (YIVH2)

68 No worse than "Club for Growth"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 12, 2022 07:55 AM (EZebt)

69 Michael Walsh is on fire over Disney and DeSantis. I love it.

No matter how agitated Disney's woke workforce is, this is a fight Disney can only lose and DeSantis can only win. Disney and other work corporations exist in a fantasy-fueled Twitterverse in which nothing is more important than extending the Left's fetish about sexual license unto the generations.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 12, 2022 07:55 AM (utMrO)

70 Curb Your Enthusiasm > Control Your Soul's Desire for Freedom

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 12, 2022 07:56 AM (EZebt)

71 The recent outbreaks I'm Korea, New Zealand, etc., are all happening in those places that had massive vlockdowns and extremely high vaccination rates. The lock downs helped stop anyone from developing natural immunity, the vaxx compromised everyone's immune system. It's not any new variant; it's just the long term cost of the insane policies that so many governments followed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 12, 2022 07:56 AM (NHc7G)

72 Hey put Brie and some of our cars in the movie and we'll give you a nice boost to your budget along with supplying the cars."
Posted by: buzzion at April 12, 2022 07:50 AM (vMCab)

You wanted a fleet of GT-R's.
You'd settle for a heavily modded Titan
You'll get a clapped out Leaf on one bar of charge.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 12, 2022 07:57 AM (6FeV1)

73 VAIDS

Posted by: Haywood at April 12, 2022 07:58 AM (o3oDL)

74 I'm thinking Abigail Disney is quite the wealthy little offspring of the offspring of the man who would be sickened to his core at what that company has become.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 12, 2022 07:58 AM (sVtYq)

75 61 Posted by: buzzion at April 12, 2022 07:50 AM (vMCab)
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So Brie Larson has been reduced from "actress" to "product placement"? Gotta be tough on the old ego.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 12, 2022 07:58 AM (utMrO)

76 https://nextstrain.org/ncov/gisaid/global

2 new Omicron variants are ripping through South Korea and Japan, both of which are close to Shanghai. I can't imagine the hospital overload there if it hits all at once like South Korea.
That's why Xi has them locked down, they will come for the bodies in a week or two.

Posted by: The Next Strain at April 12, 2022 07:59 AM (wR9FD)

77 "Unleash prosperity" is bad sloganeering... who "leashed" prosperity in the first place? Because there's only been one HMFIC over there since Hu Jin Tao, and that was a long while ago.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 12, 2022 07:59 AM (6FeV1)

78 I have never watched a single f&f movie, and never will.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 12, 2022 08:00 AM (NHc7G)

79 Posted by: The Next Strain at April 12, 2022 07:59 AM (wR9FD)

Do we have a new psycho "Covid will kill us all!" troll? I don't get to read the comments as much anymore. Has this loser been coming around pronouncing doom regularly?

Posted by: buzzion at April 12, 2022 08:01 AM (vMCab)

80 I suppose "The Quick and The Dead " would be a fitting name for a comedy about some doofus in an EV trying to compete in underground street racing.... too bad it's already been taken.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 12, 2022 08:01 AM (6FeV1)

81 76 Posted by: The Next Strain at April 12, 2022 07:59 AM (wR9FD)

It's flu. Get over it.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 12, 2022 08:02 AM (s2VJv)

82 2 new Omicron variants are ripping through South Korea and Japan, both of which are close to Shanghai. I can't imagine the hospital overload there if it hits all at once like South Korea.
That's why Xi has them locked down, they will come for the bodies in a week or two.

==

Omicrummy is a bad cold. It's easily treatable (being denied alternative treatments we're not allowed to speak of notwithstanding). The world cannot go on permanent, cyclical lockdown for the rest of our lives. We are supposed to be in the advanced stages of civilization and medical knowledge of what works and what doesn't. We'd better start acting like it.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 12, 2022 08:02 AM (sVtYq)

83 Has this loser been coming around pronouncing doom regularly?
Posted by: buzzion at April 12, 2022 08:01 AM (vMCab)

Laughed at: "2 new Omicron variants"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 12, 2022 08:02 AM (6FeV1)

84 I have never watched a single f&f movie, and never will.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 12, 2022 08:00 AM (NHc7G)

I haven't either.

More coffee.

Posted by: dantesed at April 12, 2022 08:02 AM (88xKn)

85 VAIDS
Posted by: Haywood

This. also VEI ( Vaccine Enhanced Infections) and VED ( Vaccine Enhanced Diseases).

Posted by: The Next Strain at April 12, 2022 08:02 AM (wR9FD)

86 If you want to blame the name for the Committee to Unleash Prosperity. Blame Laffer. It's his organization. Yes, that Laffer.

Posted by: buzzion at April 12, 2022 08:03 AM (vMCab)

87 News:

In order to not pump more oil b/c "environment", Biden will be signing an EO today to allow ethanol at 15% for the summer, thereby increasing likely summer smog and having ripple down effects in the agricultural industry - b/c that's so much better than pumping and using our own oil...should save 10 cents/gallon...maybe.

Posted by: Nova local at April 12, 2022 08:03 AM (exHjb)

88 "So Brie Larson has been reduced from "actress" to "product placement"? Gotta be tough on the old ego."

Did the jury ever make a ruling on if she could act?

Strikes me as more a flat ass, skin sack with an attitude, than an actress.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 12, 2022 08:03 AM (3D/fK)

89
Darth VAIDSer . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 12, 2022 08:03 AM (s2VJv)

90 It's not only the single child policy that's killing China's demagraphics: it's the selective abortion of females.
Which means 1) almost impossible to correct in the medium term and 2) maybe 100 million chinese youths involuntary single (social unrest, crime guaranteed, not to mention the need for a war to thin the male herd).

Posted by: Anacleto Mitraglia at April 12, 2022 08:03 AM (pqKQr)

91 Good morning, JJ.

Good morning, Horde.

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

92 Paul Joseph Watson reminds us of an excellent thing to remember in his video on the starvation and house arrest of the population of Shanghai: Both Obama and Justine Trudeau cite Chinese government as the technocratic ideal of government.

If the population of Shanghai were armed would the government even dream of pulling crap like this? Maybe instead of sending weapons to Ukraine, we should smuggle them into Shanghai.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 12, 2022 08:04 AM (utMrO)

93 Just heard on the radio that the suspected "chemical weapons" that Ukraine's president is accusing the Russians of using?

Riot control measures. Pepper spray, tear gas, that sort of thing.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at April 12, 2022 08:05 AM (zh4ST)

94 They should make a movie about disgruntled EV owners. "Flat and Furious"

Posted by: fd at April 12, 2022 08:05 AM (vrz2I)

95 A charging station! A charging station! My kingdom for a charging station!

Posted by: King Dick III at April 12, 2022 08:05 AM (L47aO)

96 Color me highly suspicious about this. We are in an endemic phase with the General Tso's Sickness and probably have been for about a year already. The most vulnerable to it and any respiratory infection are the elderly and those with comorbidities. Cheap, proven therapeutics if prescribed early on can knock this out quickly. Even in China, the place that spawned this nasty little Franken-virus with assistance from our own Anthony Fauci. So what's really going on there?
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Moreover, the most vulnerable are already dead. The horses have quite decidedly left the barn.

This is not about COVID. It could be economic, and Shanghai is a major financial and industrial center. But lockdowns and destruction are not good economics. I suspect it is military and political.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2022 08:06 AM (DU+/6)

97 The new Zealand data shows that the vaxxed are getting infected 3 to 4 times as much as the unvaxxed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 12, 2022 08:06 AM (NHc7G)

98 Riot control measures. Pepper spray, tear gas, that sort of thing.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at April 12, 2022 08:05 AM (zh4ST)

Gunpowder is a chemical. Somebody call Geneva.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 12, 2022 08:06 AM (6FeV1)

99 > So maybe Nissan went and said "Hey put Brie and some of our cars in the movie and we'll give you a nice boost to your budget along with supplying the cars."
___________

Arch rival Toyota announced the return (in limited numbers) of the "Celica GT" name a while ago. This on top of the Supra GT nameplate. They've also been pushing the Toyota GR86 pretty hard.

Other than the GT-R Nissan hasn't got much in the way of "sports cars." Probably do have a glut of Versa's tho'.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 12, 2022 08:06 AM (BFigT)

100 "Control your soul's desire for freedom."

Posted by: davidt at April 12, 2022 08:06 AM (EdQIG)

101 Moreover, the most vulnerable are already dead. The horses have quite decidedly left the barn.

And how many would be dead anyways but just from the flu? Hell how many are actually dead from the flu but the hospital lied and said covid to get a higher reimbursement?

Posted by: buzzion at April 12, 2022 08:07 AM (vMCab)

102 Is there some internal party squabble between Beijing and the provincial rulers in Shanghai?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 12, 2022 08:07 AM (6FeV1)

103 The proof is in the pudding. Morning, y'all and Thanks JJS.
Posted by: GnuBreed at April 12, 2022 07:45 AM (F0YaR)
~~~~~

*fist bump*

Posted by: IrishEi at April 12, 2022 08:08 AM (VhE0u)

104 The new Zealand data shows that the vaxxed are getting infected 3 to 4 times as much as the unvaxxed.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Are people still getting covid?

Posted by: rickb223 at April 12, 2022 08:08 AM (Ek4HO)

105 Omicrummy is a bad cold. It's easily treatable (being denied alternative treatments we're not allowed to speak of notwithstanding). The world cannot go on permanent, cyclical lockdown for the rest of our lives.
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Yet those cyclical lockdowns serve a serious electoral purpose, so the rest of our lives will be shadowed by lockdowns of one type or another.

Pfizer has its own patented 'treatment' now, so the shot push can ease a bit. Treatment, of course, can only be by 'approved' patents pending, so nothing really changes. If there is an area with an electoral outcome in doubt, time for some more lockdowns and mail-ins. /s

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 12, 2022 08:08 AM (MIKMs)

106 I wonder if the ChiComs are testing a new bioweapon in Shanghai

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 12, 2022 08:08 AM (kf6Ak)

107 VAIDS smAIDS ... I told my wife like I did in 2020, I am just gonna live my life. When I have to step over bodies in the street I may re-think it.... not until then.

Posted by: Haywood at April 12, 2022 08:08 AM (o3oDL)

108
With so much research showing the 80% or so of low Vit D people hospitalized with covid, you know what the very best way is to kill people?

Lock 'em up inside without sunshine or food.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 12, 2022 08:09 AM (dQvv7)

109 Arch rival Toyota announced the return (in limited numbers) of the "Celica GT" name a while ago. This on top of the Supra GT nameplate. They've also been pushing the Toyota GR86 pretty hard.

Other than the GT-R Nissan hasn't got much in the way of "sports cars." Probably do have a glut of Versa's tho'.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 12, 2022 08:06 AM (BFigT

They only need one for her to drive in. And then you stick a bunch of regular models in the background, with their logo definitely displayed, and other branded cars with the logo conspicuously absent.

Posted by: buzzion at April 12, 2022 08:11 AM (vMCab)

110 What's a little 8.5% inflation among friends?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 12, 2022 08:11 AM (5kI0z)

111 Kinda sad that Sam Elliott felt the need to prostrate himself before the gay gods for having the temerity to speak his mind. What he said wasn't offensive. Every tiny apology inches their power further and further ahead culturally. It's sickening. I wish people like him would just say they have a right to speak their opinion and let it go at that. Backing down in any form is disastrous in the long run, but we always seem to go down that road.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 12, 2022 08:12 AM (sVtYq)

112 I think the key to what's going down in Shanghai is the fact it's the ChiCom's central financial city. Xi is up to something and he doesn't want the banks to see it.

There's been a lot of speculation about a monetary collapse.

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

113 Is there some internal party squabble between Beijing and the provincial rulers in Shanghai?

Posted by: Warai-otoko

Yes

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

114 Good Tuesday morning!

Posted by: Jewells45 at April 12, 2022 08:13 AM (nxdel)

115 76 Posted by: The Next Strain at April 12, 2022 07:59 AM (wR9FD)

It's flu. Get over it.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

I have been since January 2020. Its not the flu. The flu is one secondary infections caused caused by Covid and made worse by the vaccines. Covid is a blood disease.
I was looking at the data from Next Strain and worldhealthmeters to explain why Shanghai has been boarded up. Probably because its 25 million population is right next to South Korea.

This isn't difficult to figure out what would happen to China and the world if Shanghai spiked.

Posted by: The Next Strain at April 12, 2022 08:13 AM (wR9FD)

116 Crunch time for Chi nee people.
Fight or starve
Prediction? Most will pick starvation, dooming the few who fight

Posted by: Dusky Pissflaps at April 12, 2022 08:13 AM (Rz7ER)

117 I wonder if the ChiComs are testing a new bioweapon in Shanghai
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 12, 2022 08:08 AM (kf6Ak)
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Or maybe someone out there is retaliating against the Chinese..."See, I can play your games, too!"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 12, 2022 08:13 AM (YIVH2)

118 And how many would be dead anyways but just from the flu? Hell how many are actually dead from the flu but the hospital lied and said covid to get a higher reimbursement?
Posted by: buzzion at April 12, 2022 08:07 AM (vMCab)
~~~~~

I recall seeing reports that COVID testing could not differentiate between the two. Wouldn't surprise me at all if that were true, in fact, it would definitely help explain the near total absence of seasonal flu and common colds for the past two years.

Posted by: IrishEi at April 12, 2022 08:13 AM (VhE0u)

119 A few years ago retro looking cars were a thing. I for one would like to see Nissan bring back a Datsun Fairlady roadster. Always liked those cars.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 12, 2022 08:14 AM (lz5hY)

120 This is the " which topic will prevail/ cage fight time" in the morning thread. Always fun!

Posted by: kraken at April 12, 2022 08:14 AM (aJbZb)

121 On the plus side, the baby bluebirds fledged yesterday morning.

Mom and dad are back at the nesting box, making preps for a second round of eggs already.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 12, 2022 08:14 AM (3D/fK)

122 Democrat leaders encourage violence. Now, we have JJS' linked article by a University of Buffalo student (is there a University of Buffalo?) saying she and her organization tried to host Allen West for a talk, and she and her fellow members were physically hunted at school the night of his talk. She hid, as did most of her friends, but one organization member was found and beaten by the crowd.

I blame Obama and Bob Creamer for organizing these stormtroopers, and Soros and those who fund these mobs.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 12, 2022 08:14 AM (utMrO)

123 I read an article at Vox explaining how much trouble Hunter Biden potentially is in. And, surprisingly, it was not rage stroke inducing. It was rage inducing, but did not rise to rage stroke, as Vox explainers normally do.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 12, 2022 08:14 AM (qnVBz)

124 The new Zealand data shows that the vaxxed are getting infected 3 to 4 times as much as the unvaxxed.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Are people still getting covid?

Posted by: rickb223 at April 12, 2022 08:08 AM (Ek4HO)

At one point not so long ago, Israel had the highest infection rate in the world. That's after lockdowns, double booster shots, etc.

It's a highly transmissible virus. There is no stopping it, only learning to live with it.

Welcome to the party NZ.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 12, 2022 08:14 AM (F0YaR)

125 87 News:

In order to not pump more oil b/c "environment", Biden will be signing an EO today to allow ethanol at 15% for the summer, thereby increasing likely summer smog and having ripple down effects in the agricultural industry - b/c that's so much better than pumping and using our own oil...should save 10 cents/gallon...maybe.
Posted by: Nova local at April 12, 2022 08:03 AM (exHjb)

Ram says specifically no 15% in the 5.7 Hemi. I know this is true for the 2010 thru about 2018 models. I live on the coast and will have to buy 100% offshore gas.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 12, 2022 08:15 AM (yrol0)

126 What's a little 8.5% inflation among friends?
=====

Relatively recently, food and fuel were removed from government inflation statistics (JrBush, Obama?).

If the 'volatile' costs are included, what is the inflation rate?

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 12, 2022 08:15 AM (MIKMs)

127 It's one-child policy is leading to demographic disaster...
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Led to. Past tense. The one-child policy was strictly enforced until the mid 90s, and it led to endemic sex-selective abortion. Despite being a bunch of communists, Red China's "safety nets" aren't very large and so if you can only have *one* child, you need that child to be able to take care of you when you're elderly, and that means you need a man, not a woman.

China backed off policy enforcement and started writing exceptions to it and rolling back other population-control measures. They actually did away with the policy in 2015, and got rid of most other population control rules by last year. But something interesting happened in the meantime: the policies stopped being effective. Every time they liberalized the policies, population growth did not come roaring back. Even today, the birthrate is low.

Red China put in its oppressive population control measures at the worst possible moment in time. They front-ran the natural birthrate decline that comes with prosperity by around a generation. An entire generation lost and destroyed for no reason to solve a "problem" that would have solved itself.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2022 08:15 AM (DU+/6)

128 Just idle, back of the envelope thinking here, but.... has making vaccination so prevalent increase the current appearance of VAIDS? I mean, besides the trivial, is there a cooperative mechanism where lots of people having these shots together makes it even more likely to have a bad outcome than just isolated people? An amplification effect? Something like the opposite of herd immunity.... call it "herd vulnerability"?

Our have i basically just poorly described what ADE is?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 12, 2022 08:15 AM (6FeV1)

129 The new Zealand data shows that the vaxxed are getting infected 3 to 4 times as much as the unvaxxed.

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*feeds punch card data into American skulls*

Nope, not registering yet.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 12, 2022 08:15 AM (sVtYq)

130 120 This is the " which topic will prevail/ cage fight time" in the morning thread. Always fun!
Posted by: kraken at April 12, 2022 08:14 AM (aJbZb)

I'm a fan of multitasking.

Posted by: buzzion at April 12, 2022 08:16 AM (vMCab)

131 I recall seeing reports that COVID testing could not differentiate between the two. Wouldn't surprise me at all if that were true, in fact, it would definitely help explain the near total absence of seasonal flu and common colds for the past two years.
Posted by: IrishEi at April 12, 2022 08:13 AM (VhE0u)

Recall that the PCR test manufacturers did not have samples of the live virus but a RNA sequence. SO they took several viruses and create a sequence to match against. Most test were run through 40 cycles to get enough RNA to test against.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 12, 2022 08:17 AM (yrol0)

132 130 120 This is the " which topic will prevail/ cage fight time" in the morning thread. Always fun!
Posted by: kraken at April 12, 2022 08:14 AM (aJbZb)

I'm a fan of multitasking.
Posted by: buzzion at April 12, 2022 08:16 AM (vMCab)

If handicapping, the Rona is a real Heavyweight, and a perennial favorite.

Posted by: kraken at April 12, 2022 08:17 AM (aJbZb)

133 I don't know if the infection rates in new Zealand are correlated with high amounts of actual cases. Hard to separate the actual facts from the government propaganda

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 12, 2022 08:18 AM (NHc7G)

134 And how many would be dead anyways but just from the flu? Hell how many are actually dead from the flu but the hospital lied and said covid to get a higher reimbursement?
Posted by: buzzion at April 12, 2022 08:07 AM (vMCab)
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A fair few would be of the flu. And COVID manifests as a flu in most people. It's not the flu proper, but it is an "ILI" - an "Influenza-like illness."

But it's all secondary to the overall theme, which is that I am in the camp of not buying that the Shanghai crackdown is really motivated by COVID.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2022 08:18 AM (DU+/6)

135 Kinda sad that Sam Elliott felt the need to prostrate himself before the gay gods for having the temerity to speak his mind.

That was very disappointing. Being a huge fan of his it's a total letdown.

Posted by: Jewells45 at April 12, 2022 08:18 AM (nxdel)

136 Democrat leaders encourage violence. Now, we have JJS' linked article by a University of Buffalo student (is there a University of Buffalo?) saying she and her organization tried to host Allen West for a talk, and she and her fellow members were physically hunted at school the night of his talk. She hid, as did most of her friends, but one organization member was found and beaten by the crowd.

--

And the Univ of Buffalo is 100% to blame, imo. They could put a stop to this right now, make a formal announcement, find the perpetrators, and kick their keesters out of school while filing assault charges with the police.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 12, 2022 08:18 AM (sVtYq)

137 Guy in Lancaster PA is facing criminal charges for putting "I did that" stickers on gas pumps. Criminal charges.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 12, 2022 08:19 AM (qnVBz)

138 135 Kinda sad that Sam Elliott felt the need to prostrate himself before the gay gods for having the temerity to speak his mind.

That was very disappointing. Being a huge fan of his it's a total letdown.
Posted by: Jewells45 at April 12, 2022 08:18 AM (nxdel)

I suppose he still wants to work.

Posted by: kraken at April 12, 2022 08:19 AM (aJbZb)

139 I don't know if the infection rates in new Zealand are correlated with high amounts of actual cases. Hard to separate the actual facts from the government propaganda
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 12, 2022 08:18 AM (NHc7G)
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We're in a post-fact world. It's just a balance of propaganda now. The best sources for data (based only on completeness and consistency, if not methodology) were Israel and the UK. Both have reduced their publication and update rates, or just quit publishing entirely.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2022 08:19 AM (DU+/6)

140 Recall that the PCR test manufacturers did not have samples of the live virus but a RNA sequence. SO they took several viruses and create a sequence to match against. Most test were run through 40 cycles to get enough RNA to test against.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 12, 2022 08:17 AM (yrol0)

You're forgetting a key part of that. They were told to start running them at 40 cycles in May and then we miraculously had a major spike in positive cases to justify their continued lockdowns and forcing mask mandates.

Posted by: buzzion at April 12, 2022 08:19 AM (vMCab)

141 121 On the plus side, the baby bluebirds fledged yesterday morning.

Mom and dad are back at the nesting box, making preps for a second round of eggs already.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

We have another bout of snow coming across the northern tier of states.

Posted by: davidt at April 12, 2022 08:20 AM (EdQIG)

142 Three Republican senators joined their Democratic colleagues in voting to confirm Jackson
Alaskas Lisa Murkowski,
Maines Susan Collins, and
Utahs Mitt Romney.

Todays FOAD is short and sour!

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 12, 2022 08:20 AM (yrol0)

143 Can't New Zealand just do a big Haka dance and scare teh covid away?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 12, 2022 08:20 AM (9Bb+p)

144 135 Kinda sad that Sam Elliott felt the need to prostrate himself before the gay gods for having the temerity to speak his mind.

That was very disappointing. Being a huge fan of his it's a total letdown.
Posted by: Jewells45 at April 12, 2022 08:18 AM (nxdel)

And its not going to stop the cancel mob from going after him either.

Posted by: buzzion at April 12, 2022 08:21 AM (vMCab)

145 Guy in Lancaster PA is facing criminal charges for putting "I did that" stickers on gas pumps. Criminal charges.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 12, 2022 08:19 AM (qnVBz)

It is vandalism, after all. Doing the time is an integral part of Civil Disobedience. One thing that is disgusting about the so called "activist" left is that they're constantly trying to weasel out of any responsibility for their actions.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 12, 2022 08:21 AM (6FeV1)

146 Dc jury convicts Jan 6 trespasser on 6 counts of aggressive parading while angry and holding a stick.

You chose a jury trial in DC. You chose poorly.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 12, 2022 08:21 AM (qnVBz)

147 115 Posted by: The Next Strain at April 12, 2022 08:13 AM (wR9FD)

Maybe if China passed out Ivermectin and HCQ instead of sealing people off to die, they would not have this problem.

Nice try. Fail.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 12, 2022 08:22 AM (s2VJv)

148 Democrat leaders encourage violence. Now, we have JJS' linked article by a University of Buffalo student (is there a University of Buffalo?) saying she and her organization tried to host Allen West for a talk, and she and her fellow members were physically hunted at school the night of his talk. She hid, as did most of her friends, but one organization member was found and beaten by the crowd. ...
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 12, 2022 08:18 AM (sVtYq)
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1. Yes, there is, sort of. It's the "University at Buffalo" and it is a part of the great rebranding of SUNY schools that started about maybe 15 years ago. SUNY Buffalo became "University of Buffalo." SUNY Binghamton became "Binghamton University." SUNY Albany became "University at Albany." Etc.
2. The university - whatever its name - is firmly to blame here. The student perpetrators are to blame, too, but the university and it's captive police forces could respond to this. They don't want to. They've created and are maintaining an environment of consequence-free violence.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2022 08:23 AM (DU+/6)

149 You chose a jury trial in DC. You chose poorly.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 12, 2022 08:21 AM

I'm sure the phrase "time served" came up precisely zero times there....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 12, 2022 08:23 AM (6FeV1)

150 "Aggressive parading?" LOL What the hell is that, driving your float down the road over the speed limit?

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 12, 2022 08:23 AM (sVtYq)

151 147 115 Posted by: The Next Strain at April 12, 2022 08:13 AM (wR9FD)

Maybe if China passed out Ivermectin and HCQ instead of sealing people off to die, they would not have this problem.

Nice try. Fail.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 12, 2022 08:22 AM (s2VJv)

Seems pretty obvious the loser is attempting to promote his own site.

Posted by: buzzion at April 12, 2022 08:23 AM (vMCab)

152
Guy in Lancaster PA is facing criminal charges for putting "I did that" stickers on gas pumps. Criminal charges.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 12, 2022 08:19 AM

I watched some of the video someone posted on FB. He was a bit of a dick. The store clerk (whose job it probably was to peel the stickers off) asked him to stop. He didn't. Police were called. He ran over to pump, pointed at stickers, and said, "I did that." He then was taken down and arrested.

He could have stopped when asked, got in his car and drove away. Zero sympathy.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 12, 2022 08:23 AM (dQvv7)

153 Ontario pharmacies are now allowed to dispense antivirals such as Paxlovid.

Gee, it's a protease inhibitor just like Ivermectin. Isn't that odd. And I see it's made by Pfizer. Isn't that odd too.

https://www.drugs.com/paxlovid.html

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 12, 2022 08:23 AM (UHVv4)

154 Gangs spray tag everywhere.
cops: nuffin we can do!

Guy puts a sticker on a gas pump

Cops: Get on the ground motherfucker! Hands behind your head you piece of shit! *kick*.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 12, 2022 08:24 AM (qnVBz)

155 inflation numbers released in 5 minutes, any guesses?

I say 10% or more

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at April 12, 2022 08:24 AM (L9Ewk)

156 inflation numbers released in 5 minutes, any guesses?

I say 10% or more
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at April 12, 2022 08:24 AM (L9Ewk)
++++
8.25% plus or minus a quarter.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2022 08:25 AM (DU+/6)

157 Aggressive parading?" LOL What the hell is that, driving your float down the road over the speed limit?
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 12, 2022 08:23 AM (sVtYq

Ramming SPEEEEEEEED!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 12, 2022 08:25 AM (6FeV1)

158 Did someone say 'Aggressively Parading'?

Like this?

https://tinyurl.com/5n83tde6

(Note: No arrests were made)

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 12, 2022 08:25 AM (3D/fK)

159 BTW,
www.pfizersafetyreporting.com
fax: 1-866-635-8337
tel: 1-800-438-1985

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 12, 2022 08:25 AM (UHVv4)

160 The new Zealand data shows that the vaxxed are getting infected 3 to 4 times as much as the unvaxxed.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Yep. VEI and VED.
Also VAIDS.

Posted by: The Next Strain at April 12, 2022 08:25 AM (wR9FD)

161 I hear-tell of the new F&F that they're going to have to bring in a stunt double for the big scene where Brie Larson gets rear-ended.

Heeeyooo!!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 12, 2022 08:25 AM (906pl)

162 Trump 2024 because no one is perfect.

Posted by: Ziba at April 12, 2022 08:25 AM (S1hrL)

163 Great DRT story:
"Dont you love a feel-good story about the Second Amendment?"
Reason# 1 to Own a Gun: Intruder Shot in Head While Breaking Into Childs Bedroom

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 12, 2022 08:25 AM (yrol0)

164 inflation numbers released in 5 minutes, any guesses?

I say 10% or more
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at April 12, 2022 08:24 AM (L9Ewk)

I'd say whatever is officially released, the real number is higher.

Posted by: Mainah at April 12, 2022 08:26 AM (B+qrE)

165 146 Dc jury convicts Jan 6 trespasser on 6 counts of aggressive parading while angry and holding a stick.

You chose a jury trial in DC. You chose poorly.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 12, 2022 08:21 AM (qnVBz)

This should never be in your closing - both convictions so far told the jury to "convict on some, but not other charges" - it's a losing strategy.

Mark Rollins, Robertson's attorney, argued in his closing statement that the jury should convict his client on several of the misdemeanor charges, conceding that "there was no good argument to find his client not guilty."

Posted by: Nova local at April 12, 2022 08:26 AM (exHjb)

166 151
Seems pretty obvious the loser is attempting to promote his own site.
Posted by: buzzion at April 12, 2022 08:23 AM (vMCab)

I went over there. A big sponsors is -- the NIH.

QED.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 12, 2022 08:26 AM (s2VJv)

167 The "I did that" sticker guy appears to have been kinda nuts.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 12, 2022 08:26 AM (NHc7G)

168 Recall that the PCR test manufacturers did not have samples of the live virus but a RNA sequence. SO they took several viruses and create a sequence to match against. Most test were run through 40 cycles to get enough RNA to test against.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 12, 2022 08:17 AM (yrol0)
~~~~~

Yep. Many people suffered and many died needlessly. I firmly believe the whole thing was an op.

Posted by: IrishEi at April 12, 2022 08:26 AM (VhE0u)

169 The new Zealand data shows that the vaxxed are getting infected 3 to 4 times as much as the unvaxxed.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 12, 2022 08:06 AM (NHc7G)
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In numbers or rates? In numbers, I'd expect that because most people are vaccinated. In rates (infections per 100k population or whatever rate is used), it shouldn't be that big a spread. If it is that big in raw data, I'd be interested to see what happens when it's controlled for demographics (age, sex, wight, urban, etc.).

But these things aren't done anymore. Nobody wants the answers.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2022 08:27 AM (DU+/6)

170 A cop just happened to be at the pump when someone slapped a sticker down? Come on.

Posted by: Ziba at April 12, 2022 08:27 AM (S1hrL)

171 9.2%

Posted by: Squid at April 12, 2022 08:27 AM (6C+Gj)

172 If China Joe's approval rating is above 10% there's something wrong. Eggs are $3.00 a dozen! Bread nearly $4.00 a loaf. Putin my ass. Resign Mr President.

Posted by: Mean Tweets at April 12, 2022 08:27 AM (BOJAx)

173 Britains first homosexual, Muslim Member of Parliament has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy.

I dont think that means what you think it means!

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 12, 2022 08:28 AM (yrol0)

174 Biden has made the US a laughingstock across the world.
Daily Caller
@DailyCaller
WATCH: Saudi Arabia TV makes fun of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, and honestly it's funnier than SNL

https://tinyurl.com/yc4v83zx

Posted by: redridinghood at April 12, 2022 08:28 AM (NpAcC)

175 Trump 2024 because no one is perfect.

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If it's DeSantis, we could have fun with this:

Florida Man 2024

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 12, 2022 08:28 AM (sVtYq)

176 164 inflation numbers released in 5 minutes, any guesses?

I say 10% or more
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at April 12, 2022 08:24 AM (L9Ewk)

I'd say whatever is officially released, the real number is higher.
Posted by: Mainah at April 12, 2022 08:26 AM (B+qrE)

Bingo - it will be as low as they can fudge the numbers to get to...so double whatever is reported and consider that the "real" inflation rate.

Posted by: Nova local at April 12, 2022 08:28 AM (exHjb)

177 If China Joe's approval rating is above 10% there's something wrong. Eggs are $3.00 a dozen! Bread nearly $4.00 a loaf. Putin my ass. Resign Mr President.
Posted by: Mean Tweets at April 12, 2022 08:27 AM (BOJAx)
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I took a shower and left the TV on this morning and it flipped over to the national morning show. They had a story on the eggs. Egg prices are high because of grain market worries due to the war in Ukraine and the drought conditions in parts of the United States. Nothing any president could do to ameliorate any of that!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2022 08:29 AM (DU+/6)

178 9.2%

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WOW. That's the official number?

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 12, 2022 08:29 AM (sVtYq)

179 170 A cop just happened to be at the pump when someone slapped a sticker down? Come on.
Posted by: Ziba at April 12, 2022 08:27 AM (S1hrL)

As i understand it, the cops were called, and they guy hung around waiting for them to show up.

I do see cops hanging around convenience store/ gas station parking lots on a regular basis though, so not all that fanciful a notion.

The guy gets no pity from me, but he does get some applause, and the police get a bit of scorn.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 12, 2022 08:29 AM (6FeV1)

180 172 If China Joe's approval rating is above 10% there's something wrong. Eggs are $3.00 a dozen! Bread nearly $4.00 a loaf. Putin my ass. Resign Mr President.
Posted by: Mean Tweets at April 12, 2022 08:27 AM (BOJAx)\

My Safeway had no eggs on sale, and a dozen generic was $4 yesterday...needless to say, I didn't buy them and will be checking other stores later this week...

Posted by: Nova local at April 12, 2022 08:29 AM (exHjb)

181 Mornin'
(sips coffee)

That NYP article about Penn State; What happened there has happened at other large NCAA programs. Nothing new under the sun. I say ban the NCAA and remove scholarships. Today's modern universities are just Leftist indoctrination centers anyway. Scorched Earth, yo!

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 12, 2022 08:30 AM (sAmhv)

182 I say 10% or more
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at April 12, 2022 08:24 AM (L9Ewk)
~~~~~

I think they're predicting 8.5%. I'm gonna go with 9.4%.

Posted by: IrishEi at April 12, 2022 08:30 AM (VhE0u)

183 inflation numbers just released, 8.5%

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at April 12, 2022 08:30 AM (L9Ewk)

184 9.2? Well, looks like we're gonna have to start WW3 to correct this.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 12, 2022 08:30 AM (9Bb+p)

185 "Nothing any president could do to ameliorate any of that!"

Put an executive order in front of Biden authorizing a controlled release from the national egg reserve.

I'll bet you ten bucks that he signs it, no questions asked.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 12, 2022 08:30 AM (3D/fK)

186
From my experience with labels I can tell you that are a ton of different adhesive configurations. Some are considered 'permanent' and others 'removable'. If someone is sticking permanent adhesive labels on gas pumps and it was my job to remove them I'd be pissed off enough to ask the guy to stop and if he didn't call the cops.

He wanted to be a dick. No sympathy.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 12, 2022 08:31 AM (dQvv7)

187 8.5% it is. A 40 year high.

Posted by: IrishEi at April 12, 2022 08:31 AM (VhE0u)

188 @DailyCaller
WATCH: Saudi Arabia TV makes fun of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, and honestly it's funnier than SNL
https://tinyurl.com/yc4v83zx
Posted by: redridinghood at April 12, 2022 08:28 AM (NpAcC)
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I dunno. The person playing Kamala accidentally cracked an authentic smile. Not realistic.

Humiliating and funny, though.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2022 08:31 AM (DU+/6)

189 That was my guess - not official.

Posted by: Squid at April 12, 2022 08:31 AM (6C+Gj)

190 WATCH: Saudi Arabia TV makes fun of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, and honestly it's funnier than SNL

https://tinyurl.com/yc4v83zx

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Ha! That was funny. Hey, might as well laugh while the world is laughing at us.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 12, 2022 08:31 AM (sVtYq)

191 I've no opinion on Trump vs. DeSantis in 2024 (I'm of the opinion that neither will run), but what is more important than the Presidency is the personal.

That's the biggest sore spot with Trump-- he's horrible at picking people to get the job done.
Out of all his appointments he had what, 2 that did their job? Mulvaney and Grenell.
The rest did nothing, feathered their nest or activity worked against him.

Whoever the nominee, they need to pledge: No one appointed by either Bush is eligible.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 12, 2022 08:32 AM (xHed/)

192 Perseverance Arrives at Three Forks at the Base of Jezero Craters Delta; Possible Womp Rats Sighted (just kidding - jjs)

Womp Rats are a very sustainable source of bomber jacket lining and protein.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 12, 2022 08:32 AM (yrol0)

193 The Shanghai lock-downs make no sense. Are thy trying to start food riots/massive civil unrest? Dispersing a looting mob or people demanding freedom is a lot easier than desperate, starving hordes.

Nobody in political power believes this covid insanity and its supposed danger, yet here we are and it would seem the Dems are going to try it again here.

Posted by: Ripley at April 12, 2022 08:32 AM (MxEKc)

194 Inflation is 8,5%

Posted by: redridinghood at April 12, 2022 08:33 AM (NpAcC)

195 Inflation at 8.5%

Biggest number in 41 years.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 12, 2022 08:33 AM (utMrO)

196 167 The "I did that" sticker guy appears to have been kinda nuts.
Posted by: Tom Servo

I noticed that. He was arrested more for being a looney than for putting a sticker on something.

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 12, 2022 08:33 AM (sAmhv)

197 inflation numbers just released, 8.5%
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at April 12, 2022 08:30 AM (L9Ewk)
++++
Who's figure? BEA or Fed?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2022 08:33 AM (DU+/6)

198 Highest inflation in 4 decades

Posted by: redridinghood at April 12, 2022 08:33 AM (NpAcC)

199 Sticker guy was also spraying clear acrylic over his stickers. Which really pissed the attendants off.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 12, 2022 08:33 AM (NHc7G)

200 They had to keep the official number under 10%.

Posted by: davidt at April 12, 2022 08:33 AM (EdQIG)

201 10% jump in food prices
32% jump in energy
Year over year increase for gas 48%
70-something % increase in fuel oil

Posted by: IrishEi at April 12, 2022 08:34 AM (VhE0u)

202 #173 Britain's first homosexual, Muslim Member of Parliament has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy.
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Gay ex-Justice Minister Crispin Blunt is slammed by all sides of Westminster after he defended suspended Conservative MP Imran Ahmad Khan and described his conviction for sexually assaulting a boy, 15, as an 'international scandal' and 'dreadful miscarriage of justice'. He said the sexual assault conviction would have 'dreadful wider implications for millions of LGBT+ Muslims around the world' and claimed the prosecution's argument relied on 'lazy tropes about LGBT+ people'. He also called for the convicted sex offender to be reinstated to public service.

Khan sought a media gag. He argued that as an Ahmadi Muslim, both the consumption of alcohol and homosexuality are strictly prohibited within his faith, and the reporting of those matters would expose him to 'a risk to his safety both here and abroad'.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 12, 2022 08:34 AM (UHVv4)

203 Gasoline up 11.5%, but Food only up 1%

Used cars up 35%, this year so far.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 12, 2022 08:35 AM (utMrO)

204 Don't forget DeSantis BARELY won election.
I approve of the guy but the fact that his opponent was a pervert and almost won Florida is scary as Hell.

Posted by: torabora at April 12, 2022 08:35 AM (rm16k)

205 8.5% lets them raise it a bit more later and still be under 10%.

Posted by: davidt at April 12, 2022 08:35 AM (EdQIG)

206 Used cars up 35%, this year so far.
=================

Oops sorry, this is a year over year number. CNBC misstated it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 12, 2022 08:35 AM (utMrO)

207 Peter Doocy: Does the President have any comment on the rate of inflation going up?

Pisssssski: No, the rate of inflation is not going up. How can the rate of inflation go up if we don't have inflation. If there were inflation, which, I repeat, there is not, it would be Putin's fault, not the President's fault. That was a stupid question and it was a waste of my time here answering it, Peter.
OK, who has a real question for me now?

Posted by: Ziba at April 12, 2022 08:36 AM (S1hrL)

208 n December 2017 before he had entered the race, Trump endorsed Ron DeSantis for governor of Florida. At the time Adam Putman had already entered the race for the Republican nomination and had a healthy war chest.

At the time DeSantis was a relatively unknown Rep for Florida and not Matt Walsh's obsession. Trump's endorsement catapulted him into the lead and probably was a big factor in helping him beat the gay crackhead communist.

You can't keep hacking on Trump's personnel choices without noting the great ones including the current flavor of the week.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 12, 2022 08:36 AM (ZLI7S)

209 200 They had to keep the official number under 10%.
Posted by: davidt at April 12, 2022 08:33 AM (EdQIG)

Is 8.5% the core or the headline inflation rate?

Posted by: Nova local at April 12, 2022 08:36 AM (exHjb)

210 Ripley, they really did wet their whistles in exercising unconstitutional powers over the people, didn't they? I don't think they can give it up now. Too many ways to control, too many avenues to continue vote fraud. It's the perfect setup for power mad leftists and it's going to have to be pried from their cold, dead hands. Apparently...

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 12, 2022 08:36 AM (sVtYq)

211 Gays should not be punished for child molestation or otherwise the public will believe that gays are child molesters.

Bold strategy, Cotton.

Posted by: blaster at April 12, 2022 08:37 AM (9otr5)

212 Egg prices are high because
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||Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada says the food industry is making adjustments to maintain supplies of poultry and eggs in the face of a large outbreak of avian flu in Canada and around the world.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says this has been an unprecedented year globally for avian flu, or bird flu as it's also known.||

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 12, 2022 08:37 AM (UHVv4)

213 #191
DeSantis runs and wins in 2024. Else he terms out in 2026.

Delicious part. Likely opponent is Harris.

Posted by: torabora at April 12, 2022 08:38 AM (rm16k)

214 Well, looks like we're gonna have to start WW3 to correct this.
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No war for poultry ova!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 12, 2022 08:38 AM (UHVv4)

215 "Inflation is 8.5%"

Putin AND Trumps fault. The regime had nothing to do with it, they are innocent bystanders.

Posted by: Ripley at April 12, 2022 08:38 AM (MxEKc)

216 Okay, found it - headline 8.5%, core 6.5%...

Posted by: Nova local at April 12, 2022 08:39 AM (exHjb)

217 Highest inflation in 4 decades
Posted by: redridinghood at April 12, 2022 08:33 AM (NpAcC)

I was in HS and Reagan in the White House. Biden was in the Senate.

Good god, things have changed for the worse haven't they?

Posted by: dantesed at April 12, 2022 08:39 AM (88xKn)

218 Covid 19 is cobra venom and is in your water supply.
Look it up.

Posted by: Idahonian at April 12, 2022 08:39 AM (n5bqB)

219 Gasoline up 11.5%, but Food only up 1%
Used cars up 35%, this year so far.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 12, 2022 08:35 AM (utMrO)
~~~~~

Food was 10%

Posted by: IrishEi at April 12, 2022 08:39 AM (VhE0u)

220 Ah, BLS. Official CPI. Looking inside for the unadjusted year-over-year (March to March);
- All Items: 8.5
- Food (all): 8.8; Food at home: 10.0
- Energy (all): 32; Energy services: 13.5; Natural gas: 21.6
- New cars: 12.5; used cars: 35.3 (#supplyChain)
- Shelter: 5.0
- All items less food and energy: 6.5

The shelter figure is a flat-out lie and always is. Food is likely lower than it actually is but even the printed figure is a disaster. Energy is a catastrophe.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2022 08:39 AM (DU+/6)

221 Brandon ain't going to Kiev. Not even for ice cream.

Posted by: torabora at April 12, 2022 08:39 AM (rm16k)

222 151 147 115 Posted by: The Next Strain at April 12, 2022 08:13 AM (wR9FD)
Maybe if China passed out Ivermectin and HCQ instead of sealing people off to die, they would not have this problem.
Nice try. Fail.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 12, 2022 08:22 AM (s2VJv)

Seems pretty obvious the loser is attempting to promote his own site.
Posted by: buzzion

Have either of you even looked at the data from both sites? (I wish I owned next strain because I'd be a billionaire many times over and a millionaire many times over with WorldHealfhMeters)

Its the infections caused by COVID along with the spike proteins shredding up organs and the blood vessels that kills and causes trips to the doctor and hospital. If you take either HCQ or Ivermictin too late iits not nearly as effective. Both don't cure infections set in after COVID nor repair the damage.

Posted by: The Next Strain at April 12, 2022 08:39 AM (wR9FD)

223 Don't forget DeSantis BARELY won election.
I approve of the guy but the fact that his opponent was a pervert and almost won Florida is scary as Hell.

Posted by: torabora

Don't forget the fraud. I heard Giuliani somewhere talking about the semi trailer full of fraudulent votes that was intercepted.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 12, 2022 08:40 AM (5kI0z)

224 Yay, the troll is here. Lying, of course. Always with the lies.

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 12, 2022 08:40 AM (sAmhv)

225 As Ace has pointed out, the country club, liberals in every way but the R after their name, need kicked out of the party.
They've been trying to kick cultural conservatives out for 40 years.

Announcing "No Bush hires need apply" is the best way to tell them to go.
Look at the polling in TX, 2/3 of the party refuses to vote for a Bush, even for a relatively minor position. The base knows the score, who's been stabbing them in the back all these years

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 12, 2022 08:41 AM (xHed/)

226 The American Left, self-proclaimed "liberals," are perfectly willing to overlook the imprisonment of 24 million other humans at the hands of a brutally oppressive government just so they can have the satisfaction of watching a 6'2" dick-bearing hulk outswim women. Just brilliant.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at April 12, 2022 08:41 AM (2Jd8G)

227 Gasoline up 11.5%, but Food only up 1%

Used cars up 35%, this year so far.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 12, 2022 08:35 AM

My 2016 Tacoma with 58,000 miles on it is worth more than I paid for it.

Something is seriously broken. I have a nagging feeling we are seeing the end stage effects of cash for clunkers playing out. The timing seems right because the average life cycle of cars in the US is ~15 years and we took a huge chunk of them out of used car stream prematurely in 2009.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at April 12, 2022 08:41 AM (bVYXr)

228 Don't forget the fraud. I heard Giuliani somewhere talking about the semi trailer full of fraudulent votes that was intercepted.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 12, 2022 08:40 AM (5kI0z)
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And DeSantis has taken some steps to fix elections in Florida. Not enough, since not a single elections official has been jailed or thrown out of a helicopter with promise of more to come if you decide to "shape" elections, but at least some. And where elections are honest, the Left doesn't win.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2022 08:42 AM (DU+/6)

229 I have been putting those "I did that" stickers on gas pumps around here for months. They always get removed. The thing is if they're put over the window with the price and gallons whoever has to remove it will end up marring the window.

So I always put mine over to one side where it wouldn't obscure the window, with *biden's finger pointing to it.

It's "polite vandalism."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 12, 2022 08:42 AM (BFigT)

230 208
You can't keep hacking on Trump's personnel choices without noting the great ones including the current flavor of the week.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 12, 2022 08:36 AM (ZLI7S)

It's not just that, Jack. It's his staffing decisions and a huge yet understandable blunder, in trusting Jared and Ivanka, who do not operate in our best interests.

And the two week shutdown killed him, IMHO. I love him and always will. Time to step away and lead a movement outside DC.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 12, 2022 08:42 AM (s2VJv)

231 Our troll is proud of his phony president's inflation. That's why he's talking about it with pride and fervor. Can you hear it? *cups hand to ear*

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 12, 2022 08:42 AM (sVtYq)

232 220 Ah, BLS. Official CPI. Looking inside for the unadjusted year-over-year (March to March);
- All Items: 8.5
- Food (all): 8.8; Food at home: 10.0
- Energy (all): 32; Energy services: 13.5; Natural gas: 21.6
- New cars: 12.5; used cars: 35.3 (#supplyChain)
- Shelter: 5.0
- All items less food and energy: 6.5

The shelter figure is a flat-out lie and always is. Food is likely lower than it actually is but even the printed figure is a disaster. Energy is a catastrophe.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2022 08:39 AM (DU+/6)

Yeah, shelter is a lie - just saw NOVA article released this morning that studio apt rent is up 20% YoY, 1-2 bedrooms are up 15% YoY, and 3 bedrooms are the steal at only up 10% YoY, unless you're in DC, and then just cry...

Posted by: Nova local at April 12, 2022 08:42 AM (exHjb)

233 In today's news of the bizarre...here is a video that purports to be a Ukrainian woman executing a Russian in a manner similiar to ISIS

https://tinyurl.com/jty7a49n (link goes to twitter)

There is blood in it as you might expect but I'm hoping its fake?!?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 12, 2022 08:42 AM (ESjRY)

234 208. Trumps cabinet nominations. Way more than two good ones. Google Trump cabinet and an official list will come up. I cannot link on a phone.

Posted by: Jen the original at April 12, 2022 08:43 AM (JjDMZ)

235 >>> Trumps last rally in NC attracted a total of between 1 and 2 thousand people
9 out of the 10 states with the highest per capita covid death rates are Red states.
~~~~~

Try 17,000.

Don't you have anything better to do with your time?

Posted by: IrishEi at April 12, 2022 08:43 AM (VhE0u)

236 227 . . . dick-bearing hulk outswim women. Just brilliant.
Posted by: Erik In Texas at April 12, 2022 08:41 AM (2Jd8G)

I saw Dick-Bearing Hulk open for Gentle Giant at the Village Gate in '77.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 12, 2022 08:43 AM (s2VJv)

237 I own a ten year old Lexus. It is a great vehicle because Lexus. They will have to get their act together before I buy another car.

Posted by: kraken at April 12, 2022 08:44 AM (aJbZb)

238 "The American Left, self-proclaimed "liberals," are perfectly willing to overlook the imprisonment of 24 million other humans at the hands of a brutally oppressive government just so they can have the satisfaction of watching a 6'2" dick-bearing hulk outswim women. Just brilliant.
Posted by: Erik In Texas"

Any atrocity and oppression is worth it if it saves one child, especially a tranny child.

Posted by: Ripley at April 12, 2022 08:44 AM (MxEKc)

239 Kurt is obviously tasked this morning with detonating a stupid statement to detract from Phony Joe's catastrophic economic news. He pulled out his ACME Trump Rally talking point bomb and rolled it in here. LOL Funny stuff!

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 12, 2022 08:45 AM (sVtYq)

240 As of Thanksgiving food in my area was up 17% (I compared year over year at the same grocery store).

Since then I've been less rigorous, but it looks like food prices have gone up another 30%.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 12, 2022 08:45 AM (ESjRY)

241 It's a stagmire.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 12, 2022 08:45 AM (vuisn)

242 Something is seriously broken. I have a nagging feeling we are seeing the end stage effects of cash for clunkers playing out. The timing seems right because the average life cycle of cars in the US is ~15 years and we took a huge chunk of them out of used car stream prematurely in 2009.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at April 12, 2022 08:41 AM (bVYXr)
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We're just now coming *out* of the "Cash For Clunkers" hangover. The problem now is new vehicle supply. The supply chain is wrecked and vital electronic components are harder to come by and taking longer to get delivered. Production is down. If you *need* a car right now, buying new is not a good bet. That leaves you with the used market, and demand is completely dislocated from supply. A lot of used cars being sold are being sold to buyers who would have bought new if they could have gotten delivery in a reasonable time.

This is actually a great time to buy a new car, if you can wait a long time. One local dealer is offering 5% off of sticker on any new car they order for you (and that's the opening offer, you can probably get it lower), but you'll have to wait - maybe even wait close to a year - for delivery.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2022 08:45 AM (DU+/6)

243 Trumps last rally in NC attracted a total of between 1 and 2 thousand people

How many at Biden's rally?

Posted by: grammie winger at April 12, 2022 08:45 AM (45fpk)

244 Here's the rent article...and I mistyped studio rents - up 23%, not 20%...

https://wtop.com/dc/2022 /04/rents-on-the- rise-across-dc-since-last-year/

Capitol Hill 3 bedroom rents up 108%. That's what I meant about crying.

Posted by: Nova local at April 12, 2022 08:45 AM (exHjb)

245 Guess we'll be seeing more of Fauxchi if Shanghai is any indicator. Or the midterms.

Posted by: Ziba at April 12, 2022 08:46 AM (S1hrL)

246 Time to step away and lead a movement outside DC.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 12, 2022 08:42 AM (s2VJv)
~~~~~

I don't understand this logic. Trump was and is the movement outside DC.

Posted by: IrishEi at April 12, 2022 08:46 AM (VhE0u)

247 All trolls are average joe.

More coffee.

Posted by: dantesed at April 12, 2022 08:46 AM (88xKn)

248 187 8.5% it is. A 40 year high.

Posted by: IrishEi at April 12, 2022 08:31 AM (VhE0u)

I expect something like this from the Junta today:

Inflation is GOOD! It causes people to take lots of money out of savings, money that has been sitting there for maybe 40 years, and SPEND it! This will get more money in circulation, expanding our economy for the benefit of the suffering middle class! Inflation is GOOD because it increases GDP! Our economy WINS!

Posted by: Gref at April 12, 2022 08:46 AM (AMIL/)

249
Part of the price/supply problem with vehicles is because Japan has had some huge problems with both covid and a recent earthquake. I was at Toyota dealer recently and they had zero new cars either in the showroom or on a lot that could easily hold nearly a thousand cars.

The salesman is taking orders for months in advance on a 'take it or leave it basis' at MSRP.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 12, 2022 08:46 AM (dQvv7)

250 I just got news that a friend of 32 years passed away after having a heart attack. 48 years young. Just 3 weeks ago an acquaintance of 33 years passed away at 51. Died of a heart attack. I am certain one had "the shot" and unsure about the other.
The really weird thing is the person that let me know says "Well, we are at that age where we see our friends dying." I replied "WTF is wrong with you? We are fucking 50 years old. None of this is normal."

Posted by: Fool Otto at April 12, 2022 08:46 AM (DB16e)

251 Trial on whether Walgreens bears responsibility for opioid crisis starts in Florida.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 12, 2022 08:46 AM (UHVv4)

252 The American Left, self-proclaimed "liberals," are perfectly willing to overlook the imprisonment of 24 million other humans

Or, another way to look at it, there is some liberal, right now, posting on twitter about how the legacy of slavery has damned the United States on an iPhone made partially by slave labor in China.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 12, 2022 08:47 AM (ESjRY)

253 223 Posted by: The Next Strain at April 12, 2022 08:39 AM (wR9FD)

FACT:

The known IFR rate for the original, and most lethal, form of Fauci-concocted Chinese Lung AIDS is 0.05%.
That is marginally more than seasonal flu.

Your contributors are globalists and hacks. That you are sponsored by the NIH is a dead giveaway, as well as the chick who worked on AIDS for Bill and Melinda Gates - presumably to find ways to spread it in order to depopulate the globe.

Your site is worthless as is its information. Spurious, specious and irrelevant is no way to go through life, son.

What China is doing is a smokescreen to quell internal political unrest.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 12, 2022 08:47 AM (s2VJv)

254 Yeah, shelter is a lie - just saw NOVA article released this morning that studio apt rent is up 20% YoY, 1-2 bedrooms are up 15% YoY, and 3 bedrooms are the steal at only up 10% YoY, unless you're in DC, and then just cry...
Posted by: Nova local at April 12, 2022 08:42 AM (exHjb)
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It's the OER dodge. OER - "Owner Equivalent Rent" - is a giant patch on shelter inflation to keep the rates down. It converts everything to rent and tries to figure out how much your house would cost you if you rented it. It isn't house price, it's imputed rental rates for houses. It eliminates bubbly housing prices from the CPI.

But actual rent is harder to mask and I am astonished that they're claiming shelter inflation was only 5%. I'd love to see the regional figures when they come out, because rents are way up in tons of places.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2022 08:47 AM (DU+/6)

255 Used cars up 35%, this year so far.

Posted by: Huck Follywood

New cars are getting very hard to find. I pass a dealership at least once per week, and the lot is becoming more bare every week. People who need a car are buying whatever they can find.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 12, 2022 08:47 AM (5kI0z)

256 Inflation numbers have been revised down from 15% to 10%.

Inflation has been reduced by 5%!

Posted by: MiniTrue at April 12, 2022 08:49 AM (EdQIG)

257 >>It's not just that, Jack. It's his staffing decisions and a huge yet understandable blunder, in trusting Jared and Ivanka, who do not operate in our best interests.

There is no debate that Jared was instrumental in the Abraham Accords that were the most significant peace deals in the Middle East in decades. I bet you approve.

A little perspective. One of Trump's biggest draws in 2016 was that he was an outsider running to shake up and clean up the swamp. He hated them and they hated him to the extent they ran the Russia collusion hoax at him. The truth is very few wanted to work for him and some that did go the Micheal Flynn treatment.

Yea, he had some bad picks no doubt. All presidents do. But he also had some good ones like Wilbur Ross and Mnuchin. I don't know about you but I kind of liked unprecedented peace and prosperity, cheap gas and mean tweets.

I would definitely expect him to have a better staff next time around as he has far more eager to work for him. But in all this talk of DeSantis vs Trump all that people focus on with Trump is his staff picks and not his incredible list of accomplishments.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 12, 2022 08:49 AM (ZLI7S)

258 "I have been putting those "I did that" stickers on gas pumps around here for months."

I might start doing that the dairy coolers. We talk about gas but milk is up 60-70% in the past year.

Posted by: Ripley at April 12, 2022 08:49 AM (MxEKc)

259 256 Used cars up 35%, this year so far.

Posted by: Huck Follywood

New cars are getting very hard to find. I pass a dealership at least once per week, and the lot is becoming more bare every week. People who need a car are buying whatever they can find.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 12, 2022 08:47 AM (5kI0z)

My brother wants to give me his '96 Camry but it needs a very expensive cam seal replacement. Even if I do it, I fear something else will break down shortly after. And so on and so on.

Yet I am tempted given the current crap.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 12, 2022 08:49 AM (s2VJv)

260 We are in an abusive relationship with the Uniparty.

Trump, like John the baptist, had his purpose. He is past his expiration date.

DeSantis is not lucky. He sets himself up for success.

Observing Trump taught him what to do and what not to do. We are fortunate to have him.

Posted by: Valiant at April 12, 2022 08:49 AM (3/NRI)

261 260
My brother wants to give me his '96 Camry but it needs a very expensive cam seal replacement. Even if I do it, I fear something else will break down shortly after. And so on and so on.

Yet I am tempted given the current crap.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 12, 2022 08:49 AM (s2VJv)

My advice - grab it.

Posted by: kraken at April 12, 2022 08:50 AM (aJbZb)

262 Ah, at the bottom of the CPI release:
The Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) increased 9.4 percent over the last 12 months ...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2022 08:50 AM (DU+/6)

263 New cars are getting very hard to find. I pass a dealership at least once per week, and the lot is becoming more bare every week. People who need a car are buying whatever they can find.

--

They're bare here in upstate SC too. There used to be a publication in the Cincy area when I was a young person called The Wheeler Dealer. It was just classified ads of individuals selling their cars, no dealerships involved. Wonder if it's still around. You could probably do pretty well selling your used car these days.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 12, 2022 08:50 AM (sVtYq)

264 254 "What China is doing is a smokescreen to quell internal political unrest."

At home and abroad.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at April 12, 2022 08:51 AM (2Jd8G)

265 It's the OER dodge. OER - "Owner Equivalent Rent" - is a giant patch on shelter inflation to keep the rates down. It converts everything to rent and tries to figure out how much your house would cost you if you rented it. It isn't house price, it's imputed rental rates for houses. It eliminates bubbly housing prices from the CPI.

But actual rent is harder to mask and I am astonished that they're claiming shelter inflation was only 5%. I'd love to see the regional figures when they come out, because rents are way up in tons of places.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2022 08:47 AM (DU+/6)

As I said, real headline inflation is probably double what they put out...so, they had to find somewhere to put a low number that could be impossible to prove is too low - that was rent...

Posted by: Nova local at April 12, 2022 08:51 AM (exHjb)

266 Posted by: JackStraw at April 12, 2022 08:49 AM (ZLI7S)

Dude. Mnuchin and Ross were horrendous. You should relisten to our podcast and read Peter Navarro's book. He was actually there.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 12, 2022 08:51 AM (s2VJv)

267 From Tucker Carlson's show last night-
"Has there ever been a clearer picture of what hell is like?"
Pets are taken from people and beaten to death. Cats were rounded up, put in bags and left to die in the streets.
It was horrifying.

Rumble- https://tinyurl.com/2jwujuhw

Posted by: redridinghood at April 12, 2022 08:52 AM (NpAcC)

268 There are supposedly 28 Republican governors right now.

I consistently hear DeSantis wading into the biggest political fights we have...and he, single handledly, likely stopped a national wide vax port by refusing to work with Biden and even threatening to call out the national guard if Biden then tried to seal the border with FL.

Occasionally Abbott's name pops up along the lines of "after weeks of voters demanding he do something conservative he did the minimum think he could do"

And the others? Are we sure we didn't lose some states at some point?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 12, 2022 08:52 AM (ESjRY)

269 I haven't been to a nice restaurant in a month or two. If retail prices for groceries have spiked so much, I shudder to think what restaurant prices are like these days.

Posted by: BPT at April 12, 2022 08:52 AM (wmsgb)

270 If not for my policies, inflation would be 16%.

Posted by: Joe Biden and the MSM at April 12, 2022 08:52 AM (8k7U7)

271 >>Dude. Mnuchin and Ross were horrendous. You should relisten to our podcast and read Peter Navarro's book. He was actually there.

Oh you mean the Peter Navarro who Trump also picked?

Yea, he hates everyone.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 12, 2022 08:52 AM (ZLI7S)

272 My brother wants to give me his '96 Camry but it needs a very expensive cam seal replacement. Even if I do it, I fear something else will break down shortly after. And so on and so on.

Yet I am tempted given the current crap.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 12, 2022 08:49 AM (s2VJv)
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I'd snatch it up. A bird in the hand.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2022 08:53 AM (DU+/6)

273 Your site is worthless as is its information. Spurious, specious and irrelevant is no way to go through life, son.
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That's totally inappropriate. It's lewd, lascivious, salacious, outrageous. It's preposterous, egregious, outrageous!

Posted by: zombie jackie chiles at April 12, 2022 08:53 AM (UHVv4)

274 New cars are getting very hard to find. I pass a dealership at least once per week, and the lot is becoming more bare every week. People who need a car are buying whatever they can find.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 12, 2022 08:47 AM

We bought the wife a new Honda CR-V right at the beginning of the covid plandemic. It's obscene what that car is worth now. We can sell it for $4,000 more than we paid for it two years ago. But as you pointed out, there is almost nothing on the lot to replace it with.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at April 12, 2022 08:53 AM (bVYXr)

275 Like the Fauci beagle torture stories, I simply can't look at or read about the dogs and cats in Shanghai. I'll lose sleep over it. It bothers me deeply.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 12, 2022 08:53 AM (sVtYq)

276 Posted by: JackStraw at April 12, 2022 08:52 AM (ZLI7S)

Now I kind of understand why a lot of commenters are, shall we say, "down" on you.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 12, 2022 08:53 AM (s2VJv)

277 Re: 8.5% "official " inflation rate.. and yet no one is talking about deficits or monetary creation.
No point, really. This ship of state has already hit its iceberg. And we're all just arguing about what tunes the deck band should play while the ship sinks.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 12, 2022 08:54 AM (NHc7G)

278 And...the funny part of all this is that if you take Econ 101 one of the first things they'll tell you is inflation is caused by the government injecting more cash into the economy without an equivalent increase in productivity by the private sector.

And Biden has been running the presses since he walked into the white house.

And...its a surprise we have runaway inflation?!?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 12, 2022 08:54 AM (ESjRY)

279 Pompeo is writing a book about his PDT years.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 12, 2022 08:55 AM (UHVv4)

280
I have been putting those "I did that" stickers on gas pumps around here for months.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 12, 2022 08:42 AM

Have you tried removing one yourself? Like I mentioned, the two different adhesive types, from my recollection the 'removable' (which meant it peeled off very easily) was much more expensive.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 12, 2022 08:55 AM (dQvv7)

281 My brother wants to give me his '96 Camry but it needs a very expensive cam seal replacement. Even if I do it, I fear something else will break down shortly after. And so on and so on.
Yet I am tempted given the current crap.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 12, 2022 08:49 AM (s2VJv)
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Do it! My son keeps getting postcards from the Subaru dealership begging him to trade in his 1998 wagon that was on its last leg when he bought it (first car) and he hasn't owned in 10+ years.

Posted by: IrishEi at April 12, 2022 08:55 AM (VhE0u)

282 We bought the wife a new Honda CR-V right at the beginning of the covid plandemic. It's obscene what that car is worth now. We can sell it for $4,000 more than we paid for it two years ago. But as you pointed out, there is almost nothing on the lot to replace it with.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at April 12, 2022 08:53 AM (bVYXr)
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I bought a new car - my first new car, and likely the only one I will ever have - in 2017. It was the tail end of the model year and I got a screaming deal on it. It is now five years old and has about 45k miles on it. I am fanatical about maintenance and it is in like-new condition other than a small scrape on the front bumper that was some parking lot rando's gift to me.

If I sold it right now, I'd get about what I paid for it. It's unreal.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2022 08:56 AM (DU+/6)

283 267 I watched Tucker last night, and was moved by the video of bags of dying cats bundles up like garbage on the sidewalk. But I have to wonder why that, more than the knowledge of damage and death being wrought on the residents of Shanghai, is more provocative?

Posted by: Erik In Texas at April 12, 2022 08:56 AM (2Jd8G)

284 I replied "WTF is wrong with you? We are fucking 50 years old. None of this is normal."

No, it's not. Maybe at my age but certainly not at 50.

Posted by: Jewells45 at April 12, 2022 08:56 AM (nxdel)

285 My biggest concern with Trump in '24? His age.

Posted by: kraken at April 12, 2022 08:56 AM (aJbZb)

286 Would you like some malaise with your sammich?

Posted by: Haywood at April 12, 2022 08:56 AM (o3oDL)

287 JJ - the lots are pretty bare out here. Might want to go with that car at least in the short term.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 12, 2022 08:56 AM (45fpk)

288 Yay Florida....

Not a native but I've lived here most of my life. Fled the Rust Belt in the 70's like many others.

Florida is damn near full. My landlord increased the rent on my place to where I am forced to move but there no other places available. The refugees are willing to pay huge rents. Places on Craigslist last less than a week.

Posted by: pawn at April 12, 2022 08:57 AM (Cfk8j)

289 One reason Trump picked bad people is that there isn't much of a conservative NGO system to pull them from.

If you are a lefty President there are a world of people working for lefty NGOs that you can pull into your org knowing full well what they will do.

As a Republican you have controlled opposition orgs like NR, enemy orgs like the CoC, and then "cranks".

That doesn't mean the cranks aren't good effective people but...the org structure they come from doesn't give you much validation of how they will actually work out once given power.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 12, 2022 08:57 AM (ESjRY)

290 Do they still sell used Japanese engines really cheap?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 12, 2022 08:58 AM (9Bb+p)

291 Somebody put a "I did that" sticker next to the egg case at the grocery store. I laughed.

Posted by: dantesed at April 12, 2022 08:58 AM (88xKn)

292 Philadelphia reinstating indoor mask mandate due to the "surge" because it's worked so well earlier and elsewhere.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 12, 2022 08:58 AM (UHVv4)

293 Todays work list includes transmission fluid change, and subframe bushing inserts on the '06 Volvo V70 wagon.

Just replaced a torque rod and engine mount over the weekend.
203,000 miles on it now.

I'll drive that thing till I dropped, if I have my way.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 12, 2022 08:59 AM (3D/fK)

294 But I have to wonder why that, more than the knowledge of damage and death being wrought on the residents of Shanghai, is more provocative?

Because people generally suck? Animals are just easier to love.

Posted by: Jewells45 at April 12, 2022 08:59 AM (nxdel)

295 ... And Biden has been running the presses since he walked into the white house.
And...its a surprise we have runaway inflation?!?
Posted by: 18-1 at April 12, 2022 08:54 AM (ESjRY)
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No surprise at all. And Trump has some blame in this - he fired up the printing presses as a part of the COVID response, and it takes a year for the consequences to start filtering through the economy in earnest.

But what this administration has done is unconscionable. Not only have they done nothing to try to help, everything they have done makes it worse. Massive spending bills, more free money helicopter drops, massive regulatory interference and crippling production (especially energy), etc. The right time to start tackling the inflation problem was around a year ago. Instead, they spent the past year doubling down in every dimension.

Without Biden, we'd have inflation right now. But it wouldn't be as bad, and it would probably be starting to turn.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2022 08:59 AM (DU+/6)

296 I saw an " I did that" sticker in a urinal yesterday at a gas station. It was fun.

Posted by: kraken at April 12, 2022 08:59 AM (aJbZb)

297 Everyone talks inflation but but one understands M1.

Everyone talks unemployment no one talks labor participation rate.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 12, 2022 08:59 AM (EZebt)

298 China is still trying to cut rates. I think their house of cards is about to tumble.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 12, 2022 08:59 AM (5kI0z)

299 @ 267

Yes, that video of the animals in bags was horrific.
I don't think it could happen here, but we might see a return of the lockdowns effort.

Never thought I would see any of these outrages in my lifetime. Very depressing.

Posted by: Ziba at April 12, 2022 09:00 AM (S1hrL)

300 Without Biden, we'd have inflation right now. But it wouldn't be as bad, and it would probably be starting to turn.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2022 08:59 AM (DU+/6)

I agree - the Biden admin's energy policies have been a 2x - 3x multiplier on all other inflationary sources.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 12, 2022 09:00 AM (evAgx)

301 Whataburger sausage biskits went to $4.50. Whartaburger.

Posted by: Eromero at April 12, 2022 09:01 AM (qF7JJ)

302 Yea, he had some bad picks no doubt. All presidents do. But he also had some good ones like Wilbur Ross and Mnuchin. I don't know about you but I kind of liked unprecedented peace and prosperity, cheap gas and mean tweets.
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My own opinion is that Pompeo was a very good pick.

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 12, 2022 09:01 AM (MIKMs)

303 Hey! Some asshole left snow all over the place! That's not funny!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I am not a biologist at April 12, 2022 09:01 AM (FVME7)

304 288 Yay Florida....

Not a native but I've lived here most of my life. Fled the Rust Belt in the 70's like many others.

Florida is damn near full. My landlord increased the rent on my place to where I am forced to move but there no other places available. The refugees are willing to pay huge rents. Places on Craigslist last less than a week.
Posted by: pawn at April 12, 2022 08:57 AM (Cfk8j

My wife just listed a house on Friday. Had an open house on Saturday and had 8 offers all over asking price by Sunday morning. Ended up 5 percent over asking price, cash. The sellers bought the house in July 2021 for 31 percent less than they sold it for. They put some work into it, but not that much. This is in southwest Florida, but imagine the rest of the state is similar.

Posted by: Tofer732 at April 12, 2022 09:02 AM (GcxM3)

305 I agree - the Biden admin's energy policies have been a 2x - 3x multiplier on all other inflationary sources.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 12, 2022 09:00 AM (evAgx)
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Energy alone is a major factor. But the past year of fiscal policy (and the Fed's monetary policy to accommodate it) has been ruinous. The Trump Bucks were a bad idea, but the Biden Bucks were stuck on stupid. Pulling that stunt *twice* was utterly insane. The "Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill" was a stupid and bad idea. The Fed refusing to move on interest rates or its balance sheet is a stupid and bad idea.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2022 09:02 AM (DU+/6)

306 Let's go Brandon.

Posted by: Marooned at April 12, 2022 09:02 AM (w6hJ9)

307 289 One reason Trump picked bad people is that there isn't much of a conservative NGO system to pull them from.

If you are a lefty President there are a world of people working for lefty NGOs that you can pull into your org knowing full well what they will do."

Which is why for Republicans the safest bet is a sitting State Governor, who already has a large administration of his own to work with and recruit from.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 12, 2022 09:03 AM (evAgx)

308 >>My own opinion is that Pompeo was a very good pick.

Mine too.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 12, 2022 09:03 AM (ZLI7S)

309 My wife just listed a house on Friday. Had an open house on Saturday and had 8 offers all over asking price by Sunday morning. Ended up 5 percent over asking price, cash. The sellers bought the house in July 2021 for 31 percent less than they sold it for. They put some work into it, but not that much. This is in southwest Florida, but imagine the rest of the state is similar.
Posted by: Tofer732 at April 12, 2022 09:02 AM (GcxM3)
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Smells very, very familiar...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2022 09:03 AM (DU+/6)

310 On a post yesterday about Trump endorsing Dr. Oz, the poster (Ace?) wrote "For example: Bitch McConnell just donated to fellow neocon Acela Corridor Liberal and corporate stooge Liz Cheney.".

Funnily enough, I saw this headlines yesterday about Cheney having record fundraising numbers. I wonder how many corporations, GOPe leaders, and Dems are donating to her.

"Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney, of Wyoming, raised nearly $3 million in the first three months of the year for her most contentious reelection race yet.

The sum, $2.94 million, is the most Cheney has raised in a quarter. She enters the penultimate quarter before her primary with $6.8 million cash on hand."

Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 12, 2022 09:04 AM (JCZqz)

311 My own opinion is that Pompeo was a very good pick.
Posted by: mustbequantum at April 12, 2022 09:01 AM (MIKMs)
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Me, too. Pompeo's predecessor, though, not so much. Tillerson was *not* a good pick.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2022 09:04 AM (DU+/6)

312 "But it came at a cost, of course; his presidency and the existential threats we now face."

Granted, but benefits/costs don't happen in a vacuum.

The question is not, "Did we like his presidency and the mistakes he made?"

The question is, "Were his presidency and the mistakes he made worth avoiding the other likely alternatives?"

Posted by: JeremiadBullfrog at April 12, 2022 09:04 AM (8MqI1)

313 Sean Davis
@seanmdav
11m
Sky-rocketing inflation is just the appetizer for the major recession that's coming. To reduce the money supply, the Fed will have to jack up interest rates, which will strangle an economy that is already on life support and cause asset prices to crash. Congrats, Lockdowners.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 12, 2022 09:04 AM (NpAcC)

314 Back in the 80's I knew an entrepreneur who made a fortune importing used Japanese car engines and selling them out the door. He made over a million in his first year.

Posted by: Ziba at April 12, 2022 09:05 AM (S1hrL)

315 283 267 I watched Tucker last night, and was moved by the video of bags of dying cats bundles up like garbage on the sidewalk. But I have to wonder why that, more than the knowledge of damage and death being wrought on the residents of Shanghai, is more provocative?
Posted by: Erik In Texas at April 12, 2022 08:56 AM (2Jd8G)

It's the mindless cruelty to the innocent. Plus, people who will kill animals like that have no problem killing people the same way.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 12, 2022 09:05 AM (evAgx)

316 Here is Biden's new plan to lower gas prices (this is why he's going to Iowa today, to announce it):

In an attempt to lower high gas prices, the Biden administration wants to turn to a fuel that's potentially even dirtier than regular gasoline, the White House announced today. The Environmental Protection Agency plans to issue an emergency waiver that will allow the year-round sale of a fuel called E15, which is banned in most of the US during summer months when smog is a bigger risk.

E15 is a gasoline blend with up to 15 percent ethanol - a fuel made with plant material. The move is supposed to save Americans money while reducing dependence on foreign oil supplies because ethanol can be made with domestically-grown corn.

Posted by: Gref at April 12, 2022 09:06 AM (AMIL/)

317 My wife and I want to buy a place at the beach. Florida panhandle specifically. We probably should have back when the COVID scare was in full bloom. Prices were stagnant then. I have a feeling the bottom's going to fall out and real-estate prices are going to crater.

Then we'll look again.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 12, 2022 09:06 AM (BFigT)

318 @seanmdav
Sky-rocketing inflation is just the appetizer for the major recession that's coming. To reduce the money supply, the Fed will have to jack up interest rates, which will strangle an economy that is already on life support and cause asset prices to crash. Congrats, Lockdowners.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 12, 2022 09:04 AM (NpAcC)
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Interest rates are on of two major policy options for the Fed, and the Fed will absolutely try to thread the needle to avoid a major, painful recession. I don't think they'll succeed, but I think they'll try.

And I need to give some credit to Davis in this tweet. He put the blame more or less where it belongs: on the COVID crew and their lockdowns and policies downstream.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2022 09:06 AM (DU+/6)

319 My wife just listed a house on Friday. Had an open house on Saturday and had 8 offers all over asking price by Sunday morning. Ended up 5 percent over asking price, cash. The sellers bought the house in July 2021 for 31 percent less than they sold it for. They put some work into it, but not that much. This is in southwest Florida, but imagine the rest of the state is similar.
Posted by: Tofer732

Sherman, Texas: Stepson & D-i-L listed their house on Saturday. 12 offers and bidding war as of last night.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 12, 2022 09:06 AM (Ek4HO)

320 The sum, $2.94 million, is the most Cheney has raised in a quarter. She enters the penultimate quarter before her primary with $6.8 million cash on hand."
Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 12, 2022 09:04 AM (JCZqz)

She's going to be the latest in a long run of contenders to prove that Money doesn't mean a damned thing when all of your constituents hate you.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 12, 2022 09:07 AM (evAgx)

321 Prov. 12:10
A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

Posted by: Fool Otto at April 12, 2022 09:07 AM (DB16e)

322 That NYP article about Penn State; What happened there has happened at other large NCAA programs. Nothing new under the sun. I say ban the NCAA and remove scholarships. Today's modern universities are just Leftist indoctrination centers anyway. Scorched Earth, yo!
Posted by: Puddleglum at April 12, 2022 08:30 AM (sAmhv)

ESPN is up to their pencil necks in covering up all of Saint JoePa's shit and blaming it all on Sandusky. Without Sandusky there's no Linebacker U, idiots.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at April 12, 2022 09:08 AM (y7DUB)

323 Massive, unprosecuted vote fraud and 100% of our elected officials, Republican and Democrat, won their elections.

So, yeah, we'll get right on that!

Posted by: Your Betters at April 12, 2022 09:08 AM (jacU8)

324 Let's see if Congress strikes down Biden's unconstitutional Second Amendment attack by using the CRA. We only need 30 senators to submit a petition and force the senate to vote on striking this down.

You got that, McConnell?

Everybody should be writing or calling their senators and asking them where they stand on this issue.

202 224-3121
202 224-2541 (McConnell)

Posted by: Marcus T at April 12, 2022 09:08 AM (VpIIl)

325 I can afford the best electoral fraud money can buy.

Posted by: Liz Cheney at April 12, 2022 09:09 AM (EdQIG)

326 317 My wife and I want to buy a place at the beach. Florida panhandle specifically. We probably should have back when the COVID scare was in full bloom. Prices were stagnant then. I have a feeling the bottom's going to fall out and real-estate prices are going to crater.

Then we'll look again.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 12, 2022 09:06 AM (BFigT)

Ordinarily I would think that; but I fear the bottom is going to fall out of the Dollar market before it falls out of the Real Estate market.

For real estate to go down, the relative value of the Dollar would have to go up, and I just don't see that happening.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 12, 2022 09:09 AM (evAgx)

327 Doesn't E-15 ruin older engines? And why do they need lower gas prices, everybody is going electric right?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 12, 2022 09:10 AM (9Bb+p)

328 For real estate to go down, the relative value of the Dollar would have to go up, and I just don't see that happening.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 12, 2022 09:09 AM (evAgx)
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Real estate is extremely high and inflation has been bonkers since about 2012 or 2014. Even with as inflated as the dollar is, real estate may well be worse.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2022 09:10 AM (DU+/6)

329 We bought the wife a new Honda CR-V right at the beginning of the covid plandemic. It's obscene what that car is worth now. We can sell it for $4,000 more than we paid for it two years ago. But as you pointed out, there is almost nothing on the lot to replace it with.
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Exactly the same with housing.

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 12, 2022 09:10 AM (MIKMs)

330 "Doesn't E-15 ruin older engines?"

I'm a dumb drywaller but I think E-15 ruins anything rubber

Posted by: Fool Otto at April 12, 2022 09:11 AM (DB16e)

331 It's one thing to eliminate the old useless eaters by exploiting a plandemic. But why keep an iron grip on your country's financial, logistic, and cultural hub? This will just anger a younger, educated urban elite.

I wonder if this is about showing Shanghai who's boss. There has always been a power struggle between Beijing and Shanghai.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 12, 2022 09:11 AM (Dc2NZ)

332 You know, Biden could fix everything by just printing moar money.

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 12, 2022 09:11 AM (fWTJL)

333 These zero-context videos are bullshit, always and every time.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 12, 2022 09:12 AM (44ww/)

334
Neither my car, tractor, chainsaw, or walk behind lawnmower can run on E-15.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 12, 2022 09:12 AM (dQvv7)

335 "Doesn't E-15 ruin older engines?"

I'm a dumb drywaller but I think E-15 ruins anything rubber
Posted by: Fool Otto

Or plastic. Fuel lines, carbs, etc.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 12, 2022 09:12 AM (Ek4HO)

336 E15 is a gasoline blend with up to 15 percent ethanol - a fuel made with plant material. The move is supposed to save Americans money while reducing dependence on foreign oil supplies because ethanol can be made with domestically-grown corn.
Posted by: Gref at April 12, 2022 09:06 AM (AMIL/)

The maddeningly funny part about this is that it won't help prices one bit; and also, it drives all the True Believer enviros away because even they know this is stupid, dirty air policy. The Biden admin is just doing this so they can say they are doing something; but it doesn't win them any additional support anywhere.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 12, 2022 09:12 AM (evAgx)

337 >>I wonder if this is about showing Shanghai who's boss. There has always been a power struggle between Beijing and Shanghai.

Xi does have his unprecedented 3rd term election coming up this fall. Not that I expect him to lose but he doesn't seem to like dissent very much.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 12, 2022 09:13 AM (ZLI7S)

338 I wonder if this is about showing Shanghai who's boss. There has always been a power struggle between Beijing and Shanghai.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 12, 2022 09:11 AM (Dc2NZ)
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Could be. I suspect it is more of a military play than a population play, but it could be either or both or neither. It ain't COVID, though. That makes absolutely no sense, though it does make a decent cover story.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2022 09:13 AM (DU+/6)

339 Keep De Santis in FL for four more years and he'll be ripe for picking. He's the only governor getting the message out now and that's worth it.

Posted by: Ziba at April 12, 2022 09:13 AM (S1hrL)

340 I watched Tucker last night, and was moved by the video of bags of dying cats bundles up like garbage on the sidewalk. But I have to wonder why that, more than the knowledge of damage and death being wrought on the residents of Shanghai, is more provocative?

Posted by: Erik In Texas at April 12, 2022 08:56 AM (2Jd8G)
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There is no mercy in the Chinese system. There never has been. It has its origin in public scapegoating through public beatings as a part of "conflict sessions" where the participants were commanded to confess all their sins against "The People" (Socialism).

And people with power in a merciless system love to flex it when they can. That's my theory, anyway.

Posted by: Axeman at April 12, 2022 09:13 AM (krQz2)

341 331 It's one thing to eliminate the old useless eaters by exploiting a plandemic. But why keep an iron grip on your country's financial, logistic, and cultural hub? This will just anger a younger, educated urban elite.
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Because those 26M are viewed as a threat to Xi. Thus Xi is launching a Cultural Revolution to punish the Running Dog Capitalists on behalf of the 1.3B real Chinese.

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 12, 2022 09:13 AM (fWTJL)

342 Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 12, 2022 09:06 AM (BFigT)

We just bought in the panhandle. We too wanted beach, but the supply is tight and the prices are crazy. Since we are now in the area, we figure it will be easier to jump on what we want instead of losing out because we live a thousand miles away and cannot get there fast enough to see and bid. We also now know where we do not want to buy in the area.

Good luck to you.

Posted by: Ann at April 12, 2022 09:13 AM (NDO5Q)

343 Doesn't E-15 ruin older engines? And why do they need lower gas prices, everybody is going electric right?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby

Well, once the E15 ruins your engine, you will have to buy a new vehicle, and all you will find is electric, so yes. At least they don't come only in black.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 12, 2022 09:13 AM (5kI0z)

344 Early 21st C time traveler: You put lead in your gas? Are you insane?

Late 21st C time travler: You put corn in your gas? Are you insane?

Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 12, 2022 09:13 AM (44ww/)

345 group that describes itself as a 'collective of artists, designers, writers, musicians, poets, punks, philosophers and wild hearts

******

Sort of puts a new slant on "Workers of the world, unite!", eh?

Posted by: Muldoon at April 12, 2022 09:13 AM (m45I2)

346 Xi does have his unprecedented 3rd term election coming up this fall. Not that I expect him to lose but he doesn't seem to like dissent very much.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 12, 2022 09:13 AM (ZLI7S)
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And he has that one military district that is strategically vital and who's commander is not Xi's puppet. He has the rest of the districts, but not the all-important eastern district.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2022 09:14 AM (DU+/6)

347 8.5% inflation is a BS number. If you want a better forecast on what really inflation is running at; Congress recently voted themselves a 21% pay raise.

Posted by: Archer at April 12, 2022 09:14 AM (gmo/4)

348 Posted by: Marcus T at April 12, 2022 09:08 AM (VpIIl)
*******
Will do.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 12, 2022 09:15 AM (NpAcC)

349 I wonder if this is about showing Shanghai who's boss. There has always been a power struggle between Beijing and Shanghai.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 12, 2022 09:11 AM (Dc2NZ)
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I'm sure that they are relieved that they are at least with ethnic Chinese.

I wondered the same thing as well. Who do these people think they are screaming from their apartment windows after the State in its good judgment locks them in?

Posted by: Axeman at April 12, 2022 09:15 AM (krQz2)

350 Neither my car, tractor, chainsaw, or walk behind lawnmower can run on E-15.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

Ethanol free is running $4.25/gal in town where regular unleaded is $3.59.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 12, 2022 09:15 AM (Ek4HO)

351 Real estate is extremely high and inflation has been bonkers since about 2012 or 2014. Even with as inflated as the dollar is, real estate may well be worse.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2022 09:10 AM (DU+/6)

and there are a lot of regional influences. Generally, prices across the middle of the country, from Texas on up, would have to go up by another 100% (ie, double) before they get equivalent to average prices on either coast. As they say, location location location.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 12, 2022 09:15 AM (evAgx)

352 Some of the real estate demand is expected to decrease as rates rise and some buyers are knocked out of the market. But that's going to depend on the price of homes, with demand for higher end homes expected to be impact the least. That is until a lot of the resettling settles down. States like NY are still losing their millionaire population, who are buying the higher end homes. But the overall expectation is that a recession which most agree is coming, will slow the overall real estate market and probably impact prices for a certain tranche of homes. By the way, there are a lot of distortions in the market with big corporations buying a lot of inventory and holding it for renters.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 12, 2022 09:16 AM (VpIIl)

353 Well, once the E15 ruins your engine, you will have to buy a new vehicle, and all you will find is electric, so yes. At least they don't come only in black.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

I can't afford $4.00/gallon gas, but I'll get right on that $60,000 EV!

Posted by: rickb223 at April 12, 2022 09:16 AM (Ek4HO)

354 347 8.5% inflation is a BS number. If you want a better forecast on what really inflation is running at; Congress recently voted themselves a 21% pay raise.
Posted by: Archer at April 12, 2022 09:14 AM (gmo/4)

since we were just talking real estate, Texas R.E. prices are currently increasing at about 20% - 30% per year.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 12, 2022 09:17 AM (evAgx)

355 "Doesn't E-15 ruin older engines?"

I'm a dumb drywaller but I think E-15 ruins anything rubber
Posted by: Fool Otto

Or plastic. Fuel lines, carbs, etc.

I've gone through FOUR fuel pumps since the introduction of E10 into our motor fuels.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 12, 2022 09:17 AM (AHeqJ)

356
BREAKING:

UNCONFIRMED REPORTS OF EXPLOSION AT BROOKLYN SUBWAY STATION.

36th Street on the N/R lines.

Yikes.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 12, 2022 09:17 AM (s2VJv)

357 You know what would be nice? If the enviros were to attack salting roads and mandate sand. This would actually be a positive environmental change but too many regional players own salt mines so it will never happen. It would also extend the service life of cars and trucks, too.

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 12, 2022 09:17 AM (fWTJL)

358 261 260
My brother wants to give me his '96 Camry but it needs a very expensive cam seal replacement. Even if I do it, I fear something else will break down shortly after. And so on and so on.

Yet I am tempted given the current crap.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 12, 2022 08:49 AM (s2VJv)

My advice - grab it.
Posted by: kraken at April 12, 2022 08:50 AM (aJbZb)

you can buy a low miles engine off ebay for less than $1k. My guess is another $1k to install.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 12, 2022 09:17 AM (yrol0)

359 Paging Eric Adams.

Posted by: Ziba at April 12, 2022 09:18 AM (S1hrL)

360 330 "Doesn't E-15 ruin older engines?"
I'm a dumb drywaller but I think E-15 ruins anything rubber
Posted by: Fool Otto at April 12, 2022 09:11 AM (DB16e)

Supposedly engines 2001 and newer are designed to handle it. FlexFuel engines can handle gas with up to 85 percent ethanol. Here's a factoid from Motor Trend, September 2021:

"Where Is E15 Sold?

Interestingly, in August 2012, there was only one gas station (out of 150,000) in the U.S. that sold E15 for regular vehicles. Today, almost a decade later? In addition to the QuikTrip outlet in Dallas, Texas, where we found E15 at the pump, there are still fewer than 2,000 retail distributors across 31 states."

I'll bet the big users or E15 and above are government auto fleets having a lot of FlexFuel vehicles, because you-know-why.

Posted by: Gref at April 12, 2022 09:18 AM (AMIL/)

361 since we were just talking real estate, Texas R.E. prices are currently increasing at about 20% - 30% per year.

In my little slice of heaven (ETX) I'm praying that RE prices flatten. Talking to the UHaul rep since I had to do a number of one-ways from CTX and the consensus is that there is more outbound trucks/trailers from ETX to mainly west Texas.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 12, 2022 09:18 AM (AHeqJ)

362 Hey! Some asshole left snow all over the place! That's not funny!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,

You too?

Posted by: Infidel at April 12, 2022 09:18 AM (AhBAQ)

363 358
you can buy a low miles engine off ebay for less than $1k. My guess is another $1k to install.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 12, 2022 09:17 AM (yrol0)

The story about the axe you have for 30 years? Replaced head 10 times and handle 20. . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 12, 2022 09:19 AM (s2VJv)

364 358 261 260
My brother wants to give me his '96 Camry but it needs a very expensive cam seal replacement. Even if I do it, I fear something else will break down shortly after. And so on and so on.

Yet I am tempted given the current crap.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 12, 2022 08:49 AM (s2VJv)
------------------
The smart move is buying 1988 Troopers and swapping the aluminum head with a Spanish iron head. Those things never die and they don't report on you to the state.

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 12, 2022 09:19 AM (fWTJL)

365 Ordinarily I would think that; but I fear the bottom is going to fall out of the Dollar market before it falls out of the Real Estate market.

For real estate to go down, the relative value of the Dollar would have to go up, and I just don't see that happening.

I agree, at least here in Florida. A good deal of the sales are to out of state buyers, who are relocating. There are multiple offers on most houses, so the demand is there. I would expect prices will continue up into the summer, as this is peak buying season for families. Prices may level off, but I do not expect a crash here, as builders cannot keep up with demand, and land is finite.

Posted by: Tofer732 at April 12, 2022 09:19 AM (GcxM3)

366 The smart little lady in SC (Tara at 106.3) connected the dots again.

The food shortages are on purpose to correspond with Biden ending Title 42. It allows more illegals in, and it allows them in under "asylum" purposes because they're fleeing food shortages.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The diary is real, too at April 12, 2022 09:19 AM (pKfnJ)

367 I'll bet the big users or E15 and above are government auto fleets having a lot of FlexFuel vehicles, because you-know-why.
Posted by: Gref at April 12, 2022 09:18 AM (AMIL/)

Ram 5.7 hemis do not like this fuel.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 12, 2022 09:20 AM (yrol0)

368 since we were just talking real estate, Texas R.E. prices are currently increasing at about 20% - 30% per year.

And in the key markets, there is no inventory. Its bloody war obtaining anything.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 12, 2022 09:20 AM (AHeqJ)

369 Hey! Some asshole left snow all over the place! That's not funny!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,

You too?

Posted by: Infidel at April 12, 2022 09:18 AM (AhBAQ)

Snow in our forecast today too.

Posted by: Archer at April 12, 2022 09:21 AM (gmo/4)

370 Oddly enough, the Bank of Canada [sorta our Fed] expected to announce a rate hike this week.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 12, 2022 09:21 AM (UHVv4)

371 I've gone through FOUR fuel pumps since the introduction of E10 into our motor fuels.
Posted by: Reuben Hick

I've went thru a carburetor on a Honda Rancher ATV because of that shit. And that should never happen.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 12, 2022 09:21 AM (Ek4HO)

372 The food shortages are on purpose to correspond with Biden ending Title 42. It allows more illegals in, and it allows them in under "asylum" purposes because they're fleeing food shortages.

What makes it so magical that food is plentiful and free north of the Rio Grande?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 12, 2022 09:21 AM (AHeqJ)

373
I have to treat the hell out of my E-10 gasoline every winter (tractor for snowplowing, chainsaw for tree work) because of water absorption. I can't imagine what fresh hell 50% more ethanol would cause.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 12, 2022 09:22 AM (dQvv7)

374 the consensus is that there is more outbound trucks/trailers from ETX to mainly west Texas.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 12, 2022 09:18 AM (AHeqJ)

WTX is a good place for retirees; the problem there for everyone else is Jobs (and the lack of them), especially when the Oil business is depressed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 12, 2022 09:22 AM (evAgx)

375 Real estate is a relatively safe and good investment in inflationary times.

We are also importing a significant portion of Latin America's population and they have to live somewhere.

We've terrorized the LIVs into thinking they will get COVID and die if they are near a stranger.

And we've turned our cities into cesspools where anyone that can wants out.

It is no wonder that the price of housing outside of the big blue shitholes is spiking.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 12, 2022 09:22 AM (ESjRY)

376 I've went thru a carburetor on a Honda Rancher ATV because of that shit. And that should never happen.

I keep a container of ethanol free for all of my legacy lawn and gasoline powered equipment. No problems since finding a retailer (other than the airport)

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 12, 2022 09:22 AM (AHeqJ)

377 By the way, there are a lot of distortions in the market with big corporations buying a lot of inventory and holding it for renters.
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The Pullman model.

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 12, 2022 09:23 AM (MIKMs)

378 Every small engine I own, 4-cycle and a 2-cycle chainsaw have had to have carb work/replacement due to E-10/15. I just replaced the entire carb and fuel lines on my Generac portable generator because the damn thing wouldn't start. The carb can be salvaged.... the fuel lines not so much.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 12, 2022 09:23 AM (BFigT)

379 I'm going to flat out say it: "Trump cultists" have to learn moderation with the man. If they really fear how much "damage" Trump has done to himself or the Republican party or conservative cause with his endorsement of Oz, then

* Don't vote for Oz.
* Encourage the idea that Trump on balance is a plus, but his endorsement of Oz is something that we'll pass on.

It's that easy. Trump is still an effective leader.

But you have to remember, when he first came on to the scene, he was "open" to the suggestion that somebody like Oprah would be a good running mate. Trump learned a lot from his constituency and at least is/was open to learning how to serve them.

Posted by: Axeman at April 12, 2022 09:23 AM (krQz2)

380 There is a lot of garbage in the real estate market, especially Florida. You can tell some people are just going YOLO and setting the price at a ridiculous level. However, I have seen some nice properties where people put some money into updating it sell 50%+ of where the last selling price was within ~10 years.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 12, 2022 09:23 AM (VpIIl)

381 E-15 absolutely kills outboard engines.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 12, 2022 09:24 AM (ZLI7S)

382 Hey! Some asshole left snow all over the place! That's not funny!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,

You too?
Posted by: Infidel

Snow in our forecast today too.
Posted by: Archer

83 & storms. Won't see a chance for snow for another six months.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 12, 2022 09:24 AM (Ek4HO)

383 320
She's (Liz Cheney) going to be the latest in a long run of contenders to prove that Money doesn't mean a damned thing when all of your constituents hate you.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 12, 2022 09:07 AM

Maybe. But conservative voters aren't who she considers constituents. She views them as captive rubes who will bitch, but ultimately pull the lever for whoever has an "R" next to their name. The primary's her biggest concern, I'd imagine...would a Dem beat her in a general?

Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 12, 2022 09:25 AM (JCZqz)

384 BREAKING:

UNCONFIRMED REPORTS OF EXPLOSION AT BROOKLYN SUBWAY STATION.

36th Street on the N/R lines.

Yikes.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 12, 2022 09:1
******
Multiple people have been shot. Several undetonated devices found at the scene

Posted by: redridinghood at April 12, 2022 09:25 AM (NpAcC)

385 Thanks Joe Mannix.

Posted by: Marooned at April 12, 2022 09:26 AM (w6hJ9)

386 Wasn't there an explosion in NYC...yesterday? That was then supposedly a manhole flying off and...not terrorism?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 12, 2022 09:26 AM (ESjRY)

387 Is ace OK?

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 12, 2022 09:26 AM (u82oZ)

388 "More respected in the world" update: Saudi TV aired a hilarious SNL-style skit with a bumbling senile Biden being told what to do by Cackles.

https://tinyurl.com/ydjk5fzk

Posted by: Ian S. at April 12, 2022 09:26 AM (ZGrMX)

389 redridinghood

An armed society is a polite society. R.A. Heinlein

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 12, 2022 09:27 AM (u82oZ)

390 I've went thru a carburetor on a Honda Rancher ATV because of that shit. And that should never happen.

I keep a container of ethanol free for all of my legacy lawn and gasoline powered equipment. No problems since finding a retailer (other than the airport)
Posted by: Reuben Hick

Same here. I have a 5 gallon can dedicated to ethanol free gas for the small engines. There's a station in town that is selling ethanol free for $4.25/gal now.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 12, 2022 09:27 AM (Ek4HO)

391 WTX is a good place for retirees; the problem there for everyone else is Jobs (and the lack of them), especially when the Oil business is depressed.

I dunno about WTX, but I can see one and hear two pump jacks working, and last night a tanker stopped by to empty a storage tank.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 12, 2022 09:27 AM (AHeqJ)

392 366 The smart little lady in SC (Tara at 106.3) connected the dots again.

The food shortages are on purpose to correspond with Biden ending Title 42. It allows more illegals in, and it allows them in under "asylum" purposes because they're fleeing food shortages.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The diary is real, too at April 12, 2022 09:19 AM (pKfnJ)

The more people that come here from Sh!tola-mala, the harder those remaining will get pounded-on by the government and MS-13 in order to keep the same revenues. Forcing more people to flee to the US. Biden may well be installing a positive feedback system for illegals to come to the US. And if revenues at home decrease, MS-13 will migrate to where the money is: The USA. This mess is going to get worse before it gets better - like all of the messes Biden has caused.

Posted by: Gref at April 12, 2022 09:27 AM (AMIL/)

393 Do any Ohioans consider Josh Mandel anything other than a carpetbagging pile of shit directly responsible for Sherrod Brown's current term? Have any other candidates called him out on this?

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at April 12, 2022 09:27 AM (y7DUB)

394 The Tower of Babelarticle I the Atlantic (I know) describes the fractures within and without, the sides. On display here often.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 12, 2022 09:28 AM (oWBc3)

395 I've started to buy the expensive, pre-mixed ethanol free 2-cycle fuel for the chainsaw. It has helped considerably with that engine. There are a couple of ethanol treatments out there that I'm considering. Need to look into those and see if they do any damage to the carb, fuel delivery/lines or internal engine components. Supposedly you can add these to gas like the Sta-Bil products.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 12, 2022 09:28 AM (BFigT)

396 Ian S

To be really funny, should have pbho telling Cackles what to say. And then Soros telling pbho what to say.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 12, 2022 09:28 AM (u82oZ)

397 Maybe. But conservative voters aren't who she considers constituents. She views them as captive rubes who will bitch, but ultimately pull the lever for whoever has an "R" next to their name. The primary's her biggest concern, I'd imagine...would a Dem beat her in a general?
Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 12, 2022 09:25 AM (JCZqz)

Wyoming runs about 75% republican, 25% Democrat. Cheney has to split the state GOP *and* get every Democrat just to have a chance. (I don't think she can do either)

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 12, 2022 09:28 AM (evAgx)

398 Has anyone mentioned that you only travel 80-85% as far on a tank of E85 as you do a tank of normal gas?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The diary is real, too at April 12, 2022 09:28 AM (pKfnJ)

399
I had to install a new carb on my lawn tractor last year. While I was at it I installed a shut off valve and before turning off engine I now run the carb dry. Ethanol suks.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 12, 2022 09:28 AM (dQvv7)

400 CNN+ Is Dead on Arrival

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Whoa! I guess the economy must be worse than I thought.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I am not a biologist at April 12, 2022 09:28 AM (FVME7)

401 West Texas sucks - by a native

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 12, 2022 09:29 AM (oWBc3)

402 223 Posted by: The Next Strain at April 12, 2022 08:39 AM (wR9FD)

FACT:
The known IFR rate for the original, and most lethal, form of Fauci-concocted Chinese Lung AIDS is 0.05%.
That is marginally more than seasonal flu.
Your contributors are globalists and hacks. That you are sponsored by the NIH is a dead giveaway, as well as the chick who worked on AIDS for Bill and Melinda Gates - presumably to find ways to spread it in order to depopulate the globe.
Your site is worthless as is its information. Spurious, specious and irrelevant is no way to go through life, son.
What China is doing is a smokescreen to quell internal political unrest.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Let me guess, Bannon and the DIA faction are putting out the internal politics narrative.
All Cons like the Left know what to do when presented with info is to insult, mock, dismiss, and use personal attacks because of hubris, which is why our side consistently loses because they are cowards who only punch Right because White People are evil plus nazis.

Posted by: The Next Strain at April 12, 2022 09:29 AM (wR9FD)

403 Now I kind of understand why a lot of commenters are, shall we say, "down" on you.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 12, 2022 08:53 AM (s2VJv)
~~~~~

Seriously? Way to treat one of the best "commenters" on the site.

Posted by: IrishEi at April 12, 2022 09:29 AM (VhE0u)

404 UNCONFIRMED REPORTS OF EXPLOSION AT BROOKLYN SUBWAY STATION.
=====

Very sad and frightening.

However, should this be considered opening of riot season? /s

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 12, 2022 09:29 AM (MIKMs)

405 UNCONFIRMED REPORTS OF EXPLOSION AT BROOKLYN SUBWAY STATION.

36th Street on the N/R lines.

Yikes.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 12, 2022 09:1
******
Multiple people have been shot. Several undetonated devices found at the scene

But no mean Tweets !

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 12, 2022 09:29 AM (AHeqJ)

406 UNCONFIRMED REPORTS OF EXPLOSION AT BROOKLYN SUBWAY STATION

*

Has anyone confirmed the location of the FBI?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The diary is real, too at April 12, 2022 09:30 AM (XQSne)

407 404 UNCONFIRMED REPORTS OF EXPLOSION AT BROOKLYN SUBWAY STATION.
=====

Very sad and frightening.

However, should this be considered opening of riot season? /s

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 12, 2022 09:29 AM (MIKMs)

What are the names of the white guys who were instantly blamed?

Posted by: Gref at April 12, 2022 09:30 AM (AMIL/)

408 "Adbusters, an activist [terrorist] group that describes itself as a 'collective of artists, designers, writers, musicians, poets, punks, philosophers and wild hearts"

Sounds like a description those roaming gangs of homeless youths I saw wandering all over Portland n when visited a few years ago.

Posted by: Ripley at April 12, 2022 09:30 AM (MxEKc)

409 However much I want Trump back in office, seeing people adjusting to the idea that Trump is a human being, as flawed as he ever was is a net gain in my book.

And I think the leftist-like imagination that maybe some untried guy (who I *like*) would be instantly better because he hasn't had the opportunity to make mistakes and be hamstrung by the Washington swamp is just going to use up the bench faster than we might need. Theoretically, Trump has given the conservative side a bigger bump in minority votes than all the shushers who hate him have done with all their talk doing it.

While we have some returns to vote on, we should vote on that. Not theory until we have to theorize who would be a good successor.

Posted by: Axeman at April 12, 2022 09:30 AM (krQz2)

410 Worthwhile piece on BrownstoneInstitute site on lockdown in Shanghai. "Zero covid" : read absolute and total control. It could happen here with the ratcheting up of general insanity on all issues.

Posted by: Ziba at April 12, 2022 09:31 AM (S1hrL)

411 I dunno about WTX, but I can see one and hear two pump jacks working, and last night a tanker stopped by to empty a storage tank.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 12, 2022 09:27 AM (AHeqJ)

Some wells drilled 50 years ago are still pumping. But having worked in that industry for a few years, I can tell you that 90% of the potential jobs are in new drilling, not in existing production. When new drilling shuts down, the job market in places like Odessa and Midland shuts down with it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 12, 2022 09:31 AM (evAgx)

412 Has anyone mentioned that you only travel 80-85% as far on a tank of E85 as you do a tank of normal gas?

Ethanol replaces methanol (MTBE) so that fuel can have an acceptable octane rating.

Do we want to go back to MTBE?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 12, 2022 09:31 AM (AHeqJ)

413 Has anyone mentioned that you only travel 80-85% as far on a tank of E85 as you do a tank of normal gas?

Ethanol replaces methanol (MTBE) so that fuel can have an acceptable octane rating.

Do we want to go back to MTBE?
Posted by: Reuben Hick

How about we go back to leaded gasoline?

Posted by: rickb223 at April 12, 2022 09:32 AM (Ek4HO)

414 I visited an interest in ETX, Jasper County. Great part of the country and some of the nicest people I ever met.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 12, 2022 09:32 AM (VpIIl)

415 Wyoming runs about 75% republican, 25% Democrat. Cheney has to split the state GOP *and* get every Democrat just to have a chance. (I don't think she can do either)
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 12, 2022 09:28 AM (evAgx)

Ossified turds like McConnell are begging the base to reject their RINO bullshit.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at April 12, 2022 09:32 AM (y7DUB)

416 Disney Heiress & High School Teacher Comes Out as Trans; Trashes Florida's Anti-Grooming Law

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And that's why we need sexually explicit movies!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I am not a biologist at April 12, 2022 09:32 AM (FVME7)

417 398 Has anyone mentioned that you only travel 80-85% as far on a tank of E85 as you do a tank of normal gas?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The diary is real, too at April 12, 2022 09:28 AM (pKfnJ)

I know there is no math here on the AoS, but there are smart minds out there who should be able to do the math to see how much more gasoline has been used because of the added ethanol vs. running straight gasoline.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 12, 2022 09:32 AM (N39Ws)

418 Ain't nobody dope as CBD
he's just so nood and clean

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 12, 2022 09:33 AM (6FeV1)

419 How about we go back to leaded gasoline?

*

There we are.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The diary is real, too at April 12, 2022 09:33 AM (XQSne)

420 I know there is no math here on the AoS, but there are smart minds out there who should be able to do the math to see how much more gasoline has been used because of the added ethanol vs. running straight gasoline.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

*

Yep.

It's a staggering amount. It's almost like there are strict physical laws governing the function of the universe, and everything equals out in the end.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The diary is real, too at April 12, 2022 09:34 AM (2TQlC)

421 @409

De Santis will be "hamstrung" harder by the swamp.
It's a no brainer. Let Trump do it for four more. He's got the experience now.

Posted by: Ziba at April 12, 2022 09:35 AM (S1hrL)

422 UNCONFIRMED REPORTS OF EXPLOSION AT BROOKLYN SUBWAY STATION
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White supremacy, no doubt.

Posted by: Axeman at April 12, 2022 09:35 AM (krQz2)

423 I'm old enough to remember the smell of leaded gasoline going into our car's tank as the attendant pumped it, checked our oil and washed the windows. That smell. That gasoline smell.

It smelled like....victory.

Posted by: Archer at April 12, 2022 09:36 AM (gmo/4)

424 President Retard's helicopter and new V-22 just flew over the house.

Posted by: Weasel at April 12, 2022 09:36 AM (0IeYL)

425 405 UNCONFIRMED REPORTS OF EXPLOSION AT BROOKLYN SUBWAY STATION.

36th Street on the N/R lines.

Yikes.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 12, 2022 09:1
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Multiple people have been shot. Several undetonated devices found at the scene

But no mean Tweets !
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Posted by: Puddinhead at April 12, 2022 09:37 AM (fWTJL)

426 This is just anecdotal but in MD my daughter bought a new car (a hybrid) with less then a month wait. (She was told it might be 2 months). She considered getting a used car but with used car prices it didn't make sense.

I have to say it makes me want to trade in my car new if I can do it with minimal cost...

Posted by: Iris at April 12, 2022 09:37 AM (DibdT)

427 423 I'm old enough to remember the smell of leaded gasoline going into our car's tank as the attendant pumped it, checked our oil and washed the windows. That smell. That gasoline smell.

It smelled like....victory.
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Posted by: Puddinhead at April 12, 2022 09:37 AM (fWTJL)

428 BLM Milwaukee Leader Convicted of First Degree Robbery

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Will this vicious stereotyping never end?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I am not a biologist at April 12, 2022 09:37 AM (FVME7)

429 Wyoming runs about 75% republican, 25% Democrat. Cheney has to split the state GOP *and* get every Democrat just to have a chance. (I don't think she can do either)
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Captive State to Fed Government. Feds own most of the land and whatever citizens occupy that land are dependent on whatever Fed largesse is bestowed.

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 12, 2022 09:38 AM (MIKMs)

430 2 new Omicron variants are ripping through South Korea and Japan, both of which are close to Shanghai..

Lol

Posted by: Rand McNally at April 12, 2022 09:38 AM (h5TKJ)

431 How about we go back to leaded gasoline?

There's fairly solid evidence that leaded gas fumes made people dumber. There's too much of that already.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 12, 2022 09:40 AM (ZGrMX)

432 I sincerely hope no one ever flattens my tires. With my luck I'd find out who did it.

Too old to spend time in jail.

Posted by: irongrampa at April 12, 2022 09:41 AM (KATBx)

433 Buy Dash Cams. Then deliver frontier justice.

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 12, 2022 09:42 AM (fWTJL)

434 I've got $100 gas fumes are safer than our government and educational system actively working to make people dumber.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The diary is real, too at April 12, 2022 09:43 AM (2TQlC)

435 The reason that Trump was always my 3rd choice (even when he was saying "ridiculous stuff" like Education was a primary role of the federal government), was that I thought that I had closely followed Walker's battles in Wisconsin and I thought I had a good idea of his mettle.

But he melted in the national spotlight. And it was *years* before 2015 that Scott Walker was on my "wish list" of POTUS candidates. Of course, I wasn't going to vote for Trump, if Walker was still in the running.

Dealing with the fact that Wisconsin Dems practically made it sedition to financially support Walker, and made that a subject of phone taps and no-knock morning raids, it's hard to see how Walker just melted like that.

Posted by: Axeman at April 12, 2022 09:43 AM (krQz2)

436 Multiple people have been shot. Several undetonated devices found at the scene
Posted by: redridinghood at April 12, 2022 09:25 AM (NpAcC)

https://tinyurl.com/y9phd2p3

Posted by: thatcrazyerseyguy at April 12, 2022 09:44 AM (Zvtjl)

437 Me thinks Com-Chi needs to stop effing around in the laboratories. I smell revolution in the soul of Shanghai.

Posted by: sideny at April 12, 2022 10:01 AM (Uy/WF)

438 I bought a condo in Colorado in 2013 for 160K. Sold this month for 660K.

Posted by: AnnaS at April 12, 2022 10:07 AM (l4l/z)

439 Lots of comments in this short time. There are women and children being starved and murdered in many parts of Europe. The Chinese are asking for sympathy and help, hanging from their apartment windows in Shanghai. Maybe, if our Chinese friends had guns, their "government" might help or feed them. The US saved these pukes once without any thanks. How many times do we have to save them?

Maybe we should cut some of Kalifornica loose and ban them? I dunno, ask Jimmy Doolittle or the AVG! I am of the opinion, help them once, shame on them. Twice, shame on us. In fact, let's haf a referendumb among the states. Anybody who votes to become a commie or queer gets semt to Kclifornica,forever.

Posted by: 'Ol Country Boy at April 12, 2022 10:56 AM (Zd+Sa)

440 It couldn't hardly not strike a more deserving government.
So, tell me, how many other big cities have had the violent crime of forced abduction named after their burg? HUH?

Posted by: Ray at April 12, 2022 11:01 AM (sw3xv)

441 The USS Constitution leans sharply to the left as the bow descends.

According to unimpeachable sources at the Babylon Bee it is at exactly the same spot in the Atlantic where the Titanic went down. Experts predict it will crash into the submerged Titanic on November 7 2022.

Posted by: Ray at April 12, 2022 11:06 AM (sw3xv)

442 "...seek to turn children into sex objects and then mind-numbed automatons for the all-powerful State."

I call them gender-bots.

Posted by: Cluebat at April 12, 2022 11:20 AM (cgBkB)

443 hope they break out in assholes and shit themselves to death!!
Posted by: rhennigantx

Roger Corman should make a movie out of this.

Posted by: Gooshy at April 12, 2022 11:37 AM (Sol8M)

444 23 a note about Oberlin, as pointed out at Legal Insurrection: The school was forced to post bond equal to the judgment against it when it appealed. When all appeals are over, then that bond is automatically forfeited to the Gibson family. At this point, Oberlin is toying with the idea of appealing to the Ohio Supreme Court (the only possible appeal they have left) and most think the Ohio Supreme Court will refuse to take the case. The Appeals Court decision was quite definitive, and shot down every legal point Oberlin tried to raise quite effectively.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 12, 2022 07:23 AM (evAgx)

If that doesn't work, put a lien on the college and sell off the land if they don't pay up. I'm sure the real estate is worth enough to pay the $33M...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 12, 2022 11:55 AM (ynpvh)

445 Regarding Shanghai, given the issues the Russians have been having, a lockdown like this is a great excuse to test the ability of the military to coordinate and support the occupation of a city. One like Taipei.

Regarding France, if you look closer at what Marine Le Pen stands for. She supports expanding the welfare state and government interfering in the job market, and she is far from an American ally. Taking her over Macron is just as much settling as taking Oz over whatever Democrat.

Posted by: Sam at April 12, 2022 03:01 PM (ohyxL)

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