The Morning Report - 4/15/22

Good morning, kids. Happy Passover and a blessed Good Friday and Easter to you all. It's bad enough that the so-called quote-unquote "president" gives a speech and appears to shake hands with thin air, while the senior Senator from Beijing is giving him a run for his Big Guy 10% in the Geriatric Brain Games 1-yard dash, they still sit on top of a massive, oppressive bureaucracy where the left hand wrings the neck of the golden goose while the far left hand shoves its fist in our faces, directly via the abuse of law enforcement to muzzle all voices of opposition and indirectly by allowing terrorists to Burn, Loot and Murder in the name of "social justice" and Islam.

Yeah, I'm nowhere near done with the FBI/DOJ. In my rant yesterday, juxtaposing their fanatical zeal in inventing threats from straw man "terrorists" while ignoring real threats from real political terrorists as amply demonstrated by the collapse of the Whitmer kidnapping plot and the unsurprising surprise attack in a Brooklyn subway station, I neglected to mention what was the lowest blow of all.

The Biden [junta's] radical civil rights division boss at the DOJ has “reached an agreement to settle claims in four civil cases arising from the June 1, 2020, law enforcement response to racial justice demonstrations in Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C.”

This was during the Black Lives Matter and Antifa Reign of Terror or, as then-Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan accidentally coined it, a “Summer of Love,” after the George Floyd riots began in Minneapolis and spread across the country.

Protesters and violent rioters set seized upon Lafayette Square, breaching a White House perimeter, and rioted, rallied, and set fires for days. An umbrella group called “Shut Down DC,” composed of far-left professional agitators, including Lisa Fithian, called helped orchestrate the attack to incapacitate the nation’s capitol.

Washington, D.C. not only indulged this “first amendment activity,” but Mayor Muriel Bowser also encouraged it by memorializing part of the city streets with a Black Lives Matter mural paid for by taxpayers.

And now the feds are basically apologizing and acknowledging that they weren’t nice enough when they cleared the rioters and arsonists in front of the White House — rioters who torched the so-called “President’s Church” and forced then President Donald Trump and his family into the bunker for their safety. . .

. . . What should remain evident is the double standard system of justice meted out against the leftists who have caused billions of dollars in damage, killed people, and injured cops in their hundreds of riots versus the right-leaning people at one riot at the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6, 2021.

Some of the people in jail for that Jan. 6 riot still await charges or are locked up for misdemeanors. They would like the Justice Department to remember that the U.S. Constitution applies to them too.

Will Vanita Gupta and Attorney General Merrick Garland apply the law equally to them? Ever?

The absolute gall of these bastards to apologize to real terrorists and treat them as Ghandi-like peaceful heroes, while the rest of us are blood-libeled and hounded to the point of suicide in at least one case. I'm sure that was a rhetorical question at the end of the pull quote. It had better be, because these fiends mean to shut us up and shut us down. Look what they're now doing to Elon Musk. Whatever one thinks about him personally, he has hit the nail on the head not only about Twitter but about more broadly the silencing of any and all voices that are not in absolute lockstep with the junta and those outside in the broader culture that disagree with the societal dissolution we are being rhetorically - and in the case of our children - literally spitroasted with.

As to the FBI and their parent the DOJ, their failure to do anything to prevent what happened in a Brooklyn subway station is a combination of things, and I think the least of it is incompetence. The decriminalization of crime, the concomitant drumbeat of racial grievance ramped up to maximum since January 20, 2009 and just the nature of bureaucracy in general which is not to solve problems but to perpetuate and grow itself, all played a part in what happened there, in Waukesha and scores of incidents going back to 9/11 and before.

Julie Kelly:

. . . the government not only attempted to manufacture “terrorists” in the Whitmer kidnapping hoax—the same FBI operation also tried to coax a man in Virginia to participate in the same sort of plot against Virginia Governor Ralph Northam. That scheme didn’t fully materialize, but the FBI’s attempt to pull off a similar stunt in Virginia reveals just how far agents were willing to go to bolster FBI Director Christopher Wray’s false warning that domestic extremists planned to “kill and assassinate” public officials.

In summer 2020, Dan Chappel, the main informant in the Whitmer fednapping who was compensated at least $60,000 by the FBI for his services, targeted a man named Frank Butler, a disabled veteran in his late 60s and an alleged militia member. Taking instructions from Jayson Chambers, one of his FBI handling agents, Chappel used the same playbook in Virginia. . .

. . . Northam, like Whitmer, made the most of the imaginary threat against him. Also like Whitmer, Northam repeatedly blamed Trump for the FBI-concocted plot, adding to nonstop news coverage as Americans were already voting for president. 

“Words matter,” Northam said during an October 14, 2020 interview on CNN, echoing the talking points being used by Joe Biden on the campaign stump at the time. “People take their marching orders from people like the president and it needs to stop.” Northam accused Trump of emboldening “white supremacists” and fueling “hatred and bigotry" . . .

. . . So, now that the kidnapping plots have been exposed as an elaborate case of FBI entrapment, the public deserves to know how the governors were “briefed” on the sting operation. In an earlier column, I named a few government officials who need to account for their knowledge and/or participation in the scheme.

Ralph Northam should be on that list.

Should be. But no doubt won't. Now, the estimable Lloyd Billingsley sets the WayBack Machine for a trip down memory lane. Or, in this case Memory Hole Lane thanks to the media.

“California Capitol shaken by FBI sting,” headlined a UPI story on September 4, 1988. “More than 30 federal agents carrying search warrants conducted an unprecedented raid on the Capitol offices of four leading lawmakers, seeking evidence of wrongdoing until the wee hours of the morning.” As it emerged in the report, the FBI had manufactured the evidence.

Gulf Shrimp Fisheries, which sought to build a food processing plant in West Sacramento to supply California restaurants, was actually a “dummy company set up by the FBI.” The FBI also established Peachstate Capital West Ltd., with an office one block from the California Capitol.

The FBI companies paid out nearly $60,000 in campaign contributions, including $11,500 to then-Assembly Speaker Willie Brown, $10,000 to Assembly Republican leader Pat Nolan, and $10,500 to Assemblywoman Gwen Moore, a Los Angeles Democrat. 

As the UPI report noted, Moore was the author of “two FBI-spawned bills” designed to benefit the FBI’s dummy companies. The bills “sailed smoothly through both houses with few dissenting votes,” but Republican Governor George Deukmejian vetoed the measures.  

On the night of the raid, the FBI searched the offices of Moore, California State Senator Joseph Montoya, Republican Assemblyman Frank Hill, and Nolan, who likely was the primary target. According to Capitol Weekly, the outcry from Assembly staffer Richard Steffen was, “The FBI’s here. They’re raiding Pat Nolan’s office.” 

Nolan had been critical of Brown, whose office, UPI clarified, was “not among those searched by the FBI.” The bureau did have one of its undercover agents shove $1,000 in cash under Brown’s office door, about as subtle as Max Bialystock’s bribe of the theater critic in “The Producers.” To the surprise of no one, a Brown aide returned the money. . .

. . . One month before the August 1988 raid, UPI recalled, Willie Brown “spurred the Democratic National Convention in July to choose Michael Dukakis by acclamation.” Dukakis lost to George H. W. Bush, as “Saturday Night Live” dramatized in “Dukakis After Dark,” still a hoot after all these years. Unlike Dukakis, Willie Brown wasn’t done. 

Willie had his eye on UC law grad Kamala Harris, 30 years his junior, and in a daring act of poontronage, Brown set up Harris in lucrative sinecures. Brown also backed Harris for district attorney of San Francisco and state attorney general. . .

. . . If the FBI’s 1988 “Shrimpscam” had taken down Willie Brown, it’s highly unlikely that Kamala Harris would now be vice president. But in the style of the KGB, Nolan was the man and the FBI created the crime. 

That Stalinist style was also evident in FBI operations Midyear Exam and Crossfire Hurricane. FBI boss James Comey signed off on those and incoming FBI Director Christopher Wray vehemently denied that any spying against Trump had taken place. It did, but Wray remains at the helm. . .

. . . As Julie Kelly notes, the FBI’s Whitmer operation was “flagrant election interference” on behalf of Biden and against Trump. Doubtless, more of that interference will continue as the midterms approach, perhaps featuring dummy companies, inside informers, and possibly even FBI-spawned legislation. By now, the lesson should be clear. 

“There’s no reforming this monster,” writes Adam Mill. The FBI “needs to be scrapped before it’s too late.”

Absolutely 100% friggin' A, bubba. The FBI and DOJ are no more than political hit squads. Forget about entrapment; as Lloyd Billingsley states they manufacture evidence out of thin air to nail a target. What we're seeing now with the J-6 prisoners of conscience is the political equivalent of Munchausen's by Proxy. Except the FBI, DOJ and the Junta that employs them isn't going to ride in to the rescue with a magic bullet to save them. Maybe some real bullets with a firing squad is the intention. And that goes for all of us if we dare say peep. Assuming Dao-Min Yen via the Phi-Beta Kappa variant of the General Tso's Sickness waiting in the on-deck circle to be unleashed on us, if the Democrats get crushed this November - hell, if the Democrats lose by a red nether hair - the calls of fraud will be heard all the way to the M-79 star system. You watch how fast the FBI and DOJ manufacture evidence. Worse, BLM/Antifa will unleash an army of subway shooters and Christmas parade rammers so deadly that they could've invaded Ukraine and taken Kiev in a day.

One way or another hell's coming.

Our greatest enemy resides both in the Capitol and in the hearts of perhaps as much as a third of the nation. That is going to have to be eradicated, politically if at all possible (and that is perhaps nearing impossibility) or otherwise.

A nation is its history, its culture and the willingness of its citizenry to support it, even with their lives if need be. In the years following the absolute victory of World War 2, the cancerous rot of atheism, and totalitarian Communism has eaten away at the vitals, as Lincoln would say. It is tragically ironic that the generation that gave itself willingly to save America and save the world was stabbed in the back by its progeny in the ensuing years.

If we are ever to restore or at least have a chance at restoring what has been effectively lost, we are going to be confronted with choices that will challenge our faith and our morality in ways that we never imagined in our worst nightmares.

I blame and damn for all eternity the anti-American Democrat Left, their allies and supporters for whatever hell on earth is to come. It will be on their heads.

But, somehow, some way I am an optimist. And as this is Passover and Easter, as a person of faith I believe in salvation and redemption. So does a former leftist and now staunch freedom-loving American David Mamet:

Over the last two years in America, I’ve witnessed our own forces of evil with incredulity, despair, and rage. Corruption, blasphemy, and absurdity have been accepted by one-half of the electorate as the cost of doing business; as has the fear this acceptance generates. Does anyone actually believe that men change into women and women into men who can give birth, that the Earth is burning, the seas are rising, and we’ll all perish unless we cover our faces with strips of cotton?

No one does. These proclamations are an act of faith, in a new, as yet unnamed religion, and the vehemence with which one proclaims allegiance to these untruths is an exercise no different from any other ecstatic religious oath. They become the Apostles’ Creed of the left, their proclamation committing the adherent physically to their strictures, exactly as the oath taken on induction to the armed services. The inductee is told to “take one step forward,” and once they do he or she can no longer claim, “I misunderstood the instruction.”

Those currently in power insist on masking, but don’t wear masks. They claim the seas are rising and build mansions on the shore. They abhor the expenditure of fossil fuels and fly exclusively in private jets. And all the while half of the country will not name the disease. Why?

Because the cost of challenging this oppressive orthodoxy has, for them, become too high. Upon a possible awakening, they—or more likely their children—might say that the country was occupied. And they would be right. . .

. . . I’ve found great comfort in the Torah, counseling Moses again and again, when he was reluctant to fight the power of the Egyptians, and unsure he could do it alone, that he would not be alone, as God would be with him.

What we are seeing through these brave dissenters is the wisdom of the Rumpelstiltskin story. The young woman marries a king who locks her in a cell until she is able to spin flax into gold. She despairs at the impossible task, until an elf shows up and says he’ll show her how. He does so. She asks how she can thank him, and he says all he wants is her firstborn child. And she must give him her child until, or unless, she figures out his name. She is terrified and clueless, but she knows she must try. Eventually, after committing to the task, she guesses his name. What prompted her, frightened though she was, to break the sick cycle? She would not visit her plight upon her child.

Now, the disease having proclaimed itself and its dangers having become clear, it is time for us all to overcome the occupation by standing up to those tyrannies under which we are not prepared to live.

Now more than ever may the Angel of Death pass over us and conduct a no-knock 3:00AM visit on a whole lot of individuals too numerous to list here. And may America experience a spiritual and societal rebirth that see us ascendant once more.

Have a good weekend.

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

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Julie Kelly: "The same FBI operation that ginned up the phony kidnapping plot in Michigan also tried to coax a Virginia man to participate in a similar scheme against Governor Ralph Northam."
  The Other Fednapping Plot
  
• Lloyd Billingsley: "How the FBI deployed dummy companies, inside informers, and fake legislation to target California politicians."
  FBI Goes Back to the Future
  
• Bari Weiss via Substack: "A new California bill threatens to strip doctors of their medical licenses for saying things the state doesn’t like. We don't have to imagine what that would look like." (hat tip commenter MTF - jjs)
  A Warning From Shanghai
  
• David Mamet: "Brave dissenters willing to defy an oppressive orthodoxy are our country’s best hope."
  American Occupation

THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
• "Meanwhile, video appears to show Russian military equipment being moved to border with Finland."
  Russia Threatens Nuclear Deployment if Sweden and Finland Join NATO
  
• "'Abandon ship!' was the last order given aboard Russia’s guided-missile cruiser Moskva on Wednesday. . . Regardless of whether the Moskva is at the bottom of the Black Sea or the burned husk of what was once the pride of the Black Sea Fleet, the question remains: Did Ukraine do that?"
  MOSKVA DOWN: Did Ukraine Really Sink the Pride of Russia's Black Sea Fleet?
  
• "Our foreign policy is in shambles, but it remains in our national interest for Ukraine to prevail."
  Their Rubble, Their Problem
  
• "America and its allies had hoped that the shocking loss of access to reserves would be a quick jolt to force the Russians to call back their invasion of Ukraine. Instead, it is causing a crisis of confidence that, once broken, is hard to reestablish. American political leaders weaponized the dollar. Nothing like this has ever been done on such a scale. Dollar assets can now disappear at any time and for any reason. The other Western monies, while not reserve currencies, also face similar crises of confidence."
How the Weaponized Dollar Could Change Everything
  
• "The internet may soon have more borders."
  Russia’s Digital Iron Curtain
  
• "And along with the equipment comes training . . . (oh boy, Good Morning, Kiev-ietnam!!! - jjs)
  U.S. Howitzers, Humvees, Helicopters, Chemical/Nuclear Protective Gear Heading to Ukraine

  DEMOCRAT WAR ON OIL, THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• "A majority, 55%, also opposes sending U.S. troops to Ukraine, according to the poll."
  ABC News/Ipsos Poll: 69% Disapprove of Biden's Handling of Inflation
  
• "All of Biden’s policy choices have led to a cascade of unintended consequences. Clearly, this one is likely to be no different."
  Biden Suspends Summertime Ethanol-Fuel Ban in Desperate Bid to Ease #Bidenflation
  
• "Indeed, the last time the 30-year fixed rate mortgage hit 5 percent was in 2011." (but no more mean Tweets - jjs)
  Mortgage Rates Hit Decade-High
  
• "The Biden White House can keep trying to sell ‘Putin’s Price Hike,’ but Americans aren’t buying it. Heck, they can’t afford to."
  Americans Know Who’s Responsible for Their Astronomical Grocery Bills, and it Ain’t Putin
  
• "The [so-called quote-unquote "president"] shirks responsibility for an economic crisis of his own making."
  Bidenflation Bears Down on Americans

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM

• "California is also not the only state working toward the end of gas-powered vehicles. New York, Massachusetts, and Vermont are among at least 15 states pursuing similar goals based on California’s Low-Emission Vehicle criteria."
  California Proposes Ban on Sale of New Gas-Powered Vehicles By 2035
  
• "Rare-earth exports were down in March, but they slipped considerably less than most of China’s other profitable exports, dipping to 6.5 percent growth after two months of growing at nearly 11 percent."
  Rare-Earth Exports Show "Green" Economy May Be Communist China’s Saving Grace
  
• "It's not about 'climate,' it's about freedom."
  "Green Energy?" Let's Do the Math
  
• “'We are going to get rid of fossil fuels,' Biden said in February 2020 while campaigning in New Hampshire."
  Here Are the Times Democrats Pushed Policies That RAISE Energy Prices for Americans

  RACIST, LEFTIST-PERPETRATED NYC SUBWAY TERROR ATTACK

• Daniel Greenfield: "NYC Dems were too busy fighting white supremacy to stop a black supremacist terrorist."
  A Shooter Puts Critical Race Theory into Practice
  
• "The FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) have spent their efforts plotting an operation to kidnap a governor, busting out a team of 15 agents to investigate a rope in a NASCAR garage and investigating parents at school boards meetings as domestic terrorists, among other failed operations. The FBI has also denied knowing about the whereabouts of Hunter Biden’s laptop". . . 'I’m Frank, I’m the person you’re looking for. I’m surprised it took so long.'”
  Here’s How the DOJ and FBI Are Spending Their Time Instead of Rooting Out Actual Extremists Like the Alleged Subway Shooter
  
• "For at least a decade, opportunistic 'criminal justice reform' ideologues have been pushing ineffective policies that result in tragedies like the New York subway shooter."
  The Civilizational Suicide of "Criminal Justice Reform"
  
• "The Brooklyn subway attack raises an important question for Eric Adams."
  What’ll It Be, Mr. Mayor?
  
• "The subway attack conjures a dark past beyond the memory of many New Yorkers—and serves as a reminder that the city is on a dangerous course."
  Nightmares Return to Gotham

  CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

• "After defense attorneys 'combed through a mountain of discovery,' they added a footnote to their 41-page motion to dismiss charges related to Jan. 6." (if there were at least 20, there were probably 200; the planned and executed all the violence that day - jjs)
  Yet Another Conspiracy Theory Comes True: "At Least 20" Feds Embedded at Capitol on Jan. 6 (Kurt's Fartclam Hardest Hit)
  
• "Miller was a senior policy adviser during the Trump administration and a central figure in many policy decisions. . . He had previously resisted efforts by the Inquisition, filing a lawsuit last month seeking to dismiss a subpoena for his phone records."
  Trump Aide Stephen Miller to Appear Before House Jan. 6 Inquisition
  
• "Why didn’t the Department of Justice hold the 2016 Democratic congressional obstructionists to the same standard as those now being charged with obstructing an official proceeding on January 6?"
  Louie Gohmert Op-Ed: Justice Department Punishes J6 Defendants for Obstruction But Not Democrats
  
• " The billionaire financier has never been shy about his ambitions to reshape politics across the globe and especially in the West. (A review of The Man Behind the Curtain, by Matt Palumbo)"
  Is Soros’ "Open Society" Vision Leaving a Dark Permanent Legacy?
  
• "Is it too late to restore our civilizational nerve and morale?"
  Apocalypse is in the Air
  
• "Supporters and detractors of Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation. are starting to ask questions about the self-enrichment of the organization's top-tier executives."
  Black Lives Matter Claims "Racism" Over News of Spending Sprees
  
• "Texas Dem Greg Casar calls anti-police movement 'the biggest … probably in American history.'" (Nazism was the biggest in German history, so what's your fucking point, shit-stain? - jjs)
  The "Squad’s" Next Member Compares "Defund the Police" Activists to MLK

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• “The governor will protect the sovereignty of the state of Florida,” the statement continued, telling illegals that the Biden administration has done them a great disservice” by encouraging them to “make dangerous treks, oftentimes at great physical distress” to themselves and their family.
  Sunshine State Warns Illegal Immigrants: "Do Not Come to Florida. Life Will Not Be Easy for You"

  AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS

• “The fact that the data in the FDA’s possession has remained behind an FDA firewall for more than 18 months is appalling,” Rep. Bill Posey wrote to Commissioner Robert Califf, noting the agency unsuccessfully asked a court to trickle out Pfizer vaccine information over 55 to 75 years.
  Republican Lawmakers Demand FDA Publish Future Chinese COVID-19 Vaccine Safety, Efficacy Data
  
• Another incompetent quack bureaucrat heard from.
  W.H. Chinese COVID Response Coordinator on Title 42, Transit Mask Mandate: We Have "Different Standard" for Travel – Defends Kids Wearing Masks
  
• "Choosing less government during the pandemic assured better outcomes for red states."
  Despite What You’ve Heard, Red States Handled Chinese COVID Much, Much Better Than Blue States
  
• "Seems like a great idea"
  China Selects Wuhan Institute of Virology’s Lab Safety Training Course for All Labs

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• Rabbi Dov Fischer: ". . . In the modern classroom, with first- and second-graders."
  Hey Kids, Let’s Talk About Penises and Vaginas!
  
• "Yeah, some teachers might be talking with first graders about their privates, but this isn’t what it seems."
  Washington Post’s Aaron Blake Defends Groomers in Public Schools

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

• "Pro-Israel students say they were blindsided after they got bad info from student leader."
  Anti-Israel Referendum at Princeton Marred by Fraudulent Instruction From Top Voting Official

  OTHER DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• "Between 2017 and 2019, two black men, Gemmel Moore and Timothy Dean, mysteriously died in Ed Buck’s apartment. Later, it was revealed that the Democrat donor had a fetish for luring young black men, many of whom were experiencing homelessness, to his residence, where he would inject them with methamphetamine and drug them with sedatives, sometimes without their consent." (the silence from the usual suspects is absolutely deafening - jjs)
  Democrat Donor and Hillary Clinton's Close Personal Friend Ed Buck Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Deaths of Two Young Black Men
  
• "Insider published an article on the Democrat’s criticism of Koch Industries but failed to mention that both Schumer and [Ron] Wyden have taken donations as recently as this cycle from companies who have decided to remain in Russia."
  Cuck Schemer, Top Democrat Took Donations From Company Still Doing Business In Russia Despite Slamming Koch, Republicans
  
• "Dara Lindenbaum represented Democrat Catherine Pugh in Pugh's mayoral campaign in 2016. Lindenbaum handled compliance and recount issues for Pugh, according to news reports and campaign finance records. Pugh went on to win the election but resigned in May 2019, months before a federal grand jury indicted her on fraud, tax evasion, and conspiracy charges."
  Biden FEC Pick Repped Mayor Who Robbed Children’s Book Profits To Fund Campaign
  
• "Haaland’s New Mexico wedding became the target of controversy last summer when images surfaced from the celebration with prominent politicians such as Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren forgoing mask rules imposed by the state’s Democrat Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham."
  Complaint: Interior Department Won’t Release Documents on Potential Ethics Violations at Secretary Haaland’s Wedding

  POLITICS

• "Look, Thin . . . "
  Biden Shakes Hands With Thin Air After North Carolina Speech
  
• “Debates are an important part of the democratic process, and the RNC is committed to free and fair debates. The Commission on Presidential Debates is biased and has refused to enact simple and common sense reforms to help ensure fair debates including hosting debates before voting begins and selecting moderators who have never worked for candidates on the debate stage,” RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said in a statement.
  RNC Votes To Withdraw From ‘Biased’ Presidential Debates
  
• Elsewhere, Dr. Oz referred to Smollett as “a good friend,” adding, “Jussie, if you’re watching this, the entire audience, all of us, are saying we love you very much, we wish you the best.”
  Resurfaced Video Shows Dr. Oz Praising Jussie Smollett After Hoax Attack
  
• “They said it appears she can no longer fulfill her job duties without her staff doing much of the work required to represent the nearly 40 million people of California.”
  Some Democrats Reportedly Concerned Sen. Dianne Feinstein No Longer Mentally Fit to Serve
  
• ". . . a healthy 25% of black Americans are done with him."
  Oh, My … the Group That Hates Biden the Most Is … (not George Takei impersonators? - jjs)
  
• "It was embarrassing for the party of diversity to see too-white Iowa take the lead every four years in presenting a candidate to the American voters . . . And even though many of those white Iowans saw their skin turn browner from working in the sun all summer to grow food so the white radicals, black activists, and vegan feminists could all be fat and happy, it just wasn’t quite brown enough."
  National Democrats Strip Iowa of "First in the Nation" Election Contest
  
• "Despite Benjamin stepping down Tuesday, he is likely still going to be on the ballot on June 28 because he was nominated alongside Hochul at February’s New York Democratic Party convention, and election laws would only allow the 45-year-old Harlem resident to be kicked off the ballot by moving out of state, dying or running for another elected office."
  NY Dems "Scrambling" for Way to Lift Hochul and Boot Brian Benjamin From Ballot
  
• "Al Lawson has not cast an in-person vote in two years."
  Florida’s No-Show Congressman Could End Up a Redistricting Casualty
  
• "Is it really possible? Is the Democratic Party starting to lose its grip on the Empire State? I don’t want to count my chickens before they hosta, but [Rep Lee] Zeldin could be right. "
  Is New York Shifting Red?
  
• "Polls suggest the mayoral primary this June could be a referendum on the state of the city."
  Will Angelenos Vote for Change?
  
• "It's a movement in search of a party . . . and the oxygen is running low."
  The Slow, Agonizing Death of Neoconservatism

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• "In Los Angeles, the hoods rule the streets."
  LA Residents Got What They Wanted: Criminals Who Aren’t Afraid
  
• "It’s such an awful rule that it might function as a deterrent to those young women contemplating a life of crime." (bobbie grabs mish, sez "Oy, what's all this then?!" - jjs)
  Britain's New Rule for Strip-Searching Female Suspects

  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• Matt Walsh: “If Elon Musk buys Twitter, he will be the first African American to own a major social media platform. This is a great day for diversity. Another glass ceiling shattered!”
  Elon Musk Poised to Be First African American to Own a Major Social Media Company
  
• "Utter hysteria."
  Leftists MELTDOWN Over Elon Musk Offering to Buy Twitter
  
• "When asked what his backup plan is, Musk said he would discuss that at another time."
  Musk Reveals During TED Talk That "There is [a] Plan B" if Twitter Rejects His Offer to Buy the Company
  
• "Now that their grip over the channels of discourse is threatened, censorship advocates are suddenly worried about ‘private sector’ freedom."
  Elon Musk’s Twitter Bid Proves the "Private Business Can Do What It Wants" Censorship Defense Was Always Garbage
  
• I thought MBS purged Alwaleed bin Talal a couple of years ago. Recall he's the anti-American mutt who excused away 9/11, then tried to give Rudy Giuliani a check to the charity fund which was rejected. Fuck this guy in the heart with a steak knife.
  Saudi Prince’s Rejection of Musk Offer Highlights Twitter’s History of Housing Alleged Saudi Spies
  
• Douglas Murray: "I have one final suggestion, in case none of this works, and Twitter proves unreformable. Which is that Musk puts everything to do with Twitter into one of his rockets and blasts it as far as possible into outer space. The world would be an instantly saner, more serene place. At $43 billion it could prove the most generous investment ever made in the future of humanity."
  Dear Elon: Here’s Five Things You Can Do to Make Twitter Better
  
• Glenn Reynolds: "In George Orwell’s 1984, war is peace, freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength. To these Orwellian inversions, [Robert "Turd"] Reich would add another: Censorship is free speech. But it’s not, and claiming otherwise won’t make it so. . . If democracy dies in darkness, it won’t be an accident. It will be murder."
  "Censorship is Free Speech" is the Establishment's Orwellian Line on Elon Musk’s Twitter Crusade
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• ". . . a review of NewsGuard's employee roster shows a leftward tilt among staff members. The group's deputy general manager volunteered for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign and served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, according to the NewsGuard website. "
Democrats Dominate "Misinformation" Firm Working With Teachers’ Union
  
• "Despite the dirty financial politics of this potentially hostile takeover, the root of the battle is clearly Twitter’s policy of censoring conservatives or anyone who opposes the political agenda of the left, such as Libs of Tik Tok or many legitimate Republican politicians. Only Democrats and communists (like China) get a free ride."
  Today's Blacklisted American: Twitter Blocks Libs of Tik-Tok for the Crime of Reposting Actual Leftist Statements
  
• "He calls anything that impedes liberal propaganda 'disinformation.'"
  Obama Wants the "Contest of Ideas" Rigged

  ABORTION

• "The law is modeled after Mississippi’s law, which is currently before the Supreme Court and is the greatest challenge in decades to the Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision declaring abortion a protected right under the U.S. Constitution. The Kentucky House voted 76-21, and the Senate voted 31-6 to override Beshear’s veto, and the law will go into effect immediately."
  Kentucky Legislature Overrides Democrat Governor’s Veto, Passes 15-Week Abortion Ban
  
• At a signing ceremony, DeSantis said, "We are here today to protect life. We are here today to defend those who can't defend themselves."
  New Florida Law Bans Abortion After 15 Weeks of Pregnancy
  
• "It’s not enough for abortion to be legal in the first trimester any longer. Pro-abortion stances have gotten more and more extreme with each year."
  Pro-Choice Activists Know That Their Movement is Wrong

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• "The White House enacts a new rule to crack down on 'ghost guns.'”
  Drawing New Lines

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• "The Chinese Communist Party — and potentially even Xi Jinping himself — may suffer political blowback for their handling of the crisis in Shanghai, according to Gordon G. Chang, author of The Coming Collapse of China . . . Laszlo Montgomery, founder of Teacup Media and host of The China History Podcast, conversely [says] it is likely too soon to know how the ongoing lockdown in Shanghai might impact Xi Jinping’s political prospects."
  Cracks Forming in Xi’s Armor in the Wake of China’s Disastrous Lockdown Strategy
  
• "The legal threat is a sign of mounting opposition to a new nuclear accord and presents a new avenue to force the Biden [junta] into bringing the deal to Capitol Hill for a vote. With a new accord seemingly imminent, Republican lawmakers and some Democrats are concerned the [junta] will violate the law to push the deal to the finish line."
  This Lawsuit Against Biden Junta Could Stop a New Iran Nuclear Deal
  
• Hamas: “We are declaring a general mobilization in all places where our people are located.”
  Israel Bolsters Security Barrier as Hamas Calls for More Violence Ahead of Passover
  
• "Turning a visit into a reason to riot."
  Israel: Foreign Minister Lapid Walks Near Damascus Gate, "Provokes" the "Palestinians"
  
• While investigating the suspicious mugs, Shin Bet advised security guards at all relevant Israeli government ministries to “remain vigilant regarding gifts from embassies or foreign governments,” the newspaper revealed.
  China Denies Reports Passover Coffee Mug Gift to Israel Government Contained Spyware

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• Raymond Ibrahim: "Repeatedly stabbed in the neck during a youth group church outing."
  Egypt: Christian Priest Slaughtered in Broad Daylight

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE, THE COURTS

• "California officials keep dreaming up new ideas and responsibilities for the state government, even as it fails to fulfill its most basic tasks."
  Delusions of Grandeur

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• Rabbi Chananya Weissman: "The Torah and the question of 'saving lives.'"
  "Medical Ethics" and Casting Doubt on God's Basic Truth

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• "Faced with regulatory delays caused by the Biden administration that are preventing further Starship launches from Boca Chica, SpaceX has accelerated construction of a new Starship launchpad at its facility in Florida."
  SpaceX Goes Full Speed Ahead on Construction of Starship Launchpad in Florida
  
• "To put it mildly, the conclusion here is uncertain. The difference between 140 and 200 millimeters is less than two and a half inches. A hundred millimeters is less than four inches. Such small differences over millions of years could simple be caused by random fluctuations over time. Furthermore, the scientists did not actually detect the spreading rates from millions of years ago. They instead inferred it based on the data we do have of the changes in the Earth’s magnetic field over time."
  The Spread of the Oceans' Seafloor Appears to Be Slowing

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

• "The ostensibly all-female Edna Mahan Correctional Facility in Clinton, N.J., began housing biologically male transgender prisoners following a settlement last year in a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey."
  The ACLU Forced an All-Female Prison To Take Transgender Inmates. Now 2 Prisoners Are Pregnant.
  
• "Gov. Kay Ivey (R.) signed a bill into law last week that makes Alabama the third state to ban children from receiving hormone therapy and puberty blockers. The legislation, however, is already in jeopardy. The Biden Justice Department in March warned state attorneys general against enforcing hormone-treatment bans for minors, saying they run afoul of federal anti-discrimination laws."
  Biden Junta and ACLU Gear Up To Defend Trans Hormone Treatment for Children

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• "The Florida bill forbids the education of sexual orientation and gender identity in school-aged children from kindergarten to grade three, according to The Florida Senate. Critics have argued it will marginalize the LGBTQ community, according to the CBC."
  Crowd Of Protesters Chant "Grooming is Wrong" Outside Disneyland
  
• Yeah, I know, it's Shapiro, but still, he slices this mind-numbed dolt like a f'n hammer.
  Ben Shapiro Steals College Student's Lunch Money in Clash Over Gender and the Kid Still Doesn't Know What Hit Him
  
• Christian Toto: "Industry silence over Dumbledore gay censorship part of bigger problem."
  Why Hollywood Hypocrisy Rages On
  
• "Regional racism is deeply embedded in American culture, and the Obama and Biden years have seen an uptick."
  Regional Racism: What It Is, and Why It's Getting Worse
  
• "Without the resurrection, we’re simply fighting to rule a fallen kingdom. Because of the resurrection, we’re fighting for souls to be able to hear God’s word."
  It’s Because of the Resurrection That the Culture War Matters

  HITHER & YON

• "Gotta be da butt, Bob. Gotta be da butt . . . "
  Scarlett Johansson Slams "Nasty," "Outrageous" Rumor About Where She’s Reportedly Had Sex
  
• "The media marginalizes flyover country."
  Flyover State of Mind: A Requiem for America’s Heartland
  
• "Richard Weikart's new book cuts through political manipulation of history." (some parts I agree with, and some parts I do not - jjs)
  Darwinian Racism: How Darwinism Influenced Hitler, Nazism and White Nationalism

  FINALLY . . .

• Anita Dunn and The Gorn hardest hit!
  Indian Police Arrest 4 Men Accused of "Gang Raping" Bengal Monitor Lizard

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1 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at April 15, 2022 07:41 AM (nPCRC)

2 Happy Friday, everyone!

Posted by: NR Pax at April 15, 2022 07:41 AM (4olE8)

3 The place of crucifixion was near a garden, where there was a new tomb, never used before. And so, because it was the day of preparation for the Jewish Passover and since the tomb was close at hand, [Joseph and Nicodemus] laid Jesus there.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 15, 2022 07:41 AM (yrol0)

4 OMG. Finally. Thanks Jj

Posted by: Scottst at April 15, 2022 07:43 AM (ulNfH)

5 I like to think that Joe was just reaching out to shake Buzzion's hand.

Posted by: fd at April 15, 2022 07:43 AM (vrz2I)

6 Mornin' Horde!

Posted by: Hawkpilot at April 15, 2022 07:44 AM (ryztA)

7 Had new thread open and was preoccupied
Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2022 07:44 AM (2JoB8)

8 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE FENELOPE KILLED BUZZION.

Posted by: fd at April 15, 2022 07:45 AM (vrz2I)

9 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all that openeth the matrix, being males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 15, 2022 07:45 AM (yrol0)

10 FENELON. I mean.

Posted by: fd at April 15, 2022 07:45 AM (vrz2I)

11 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at April 15, 2022 07:46 AM (nR2nR)

12 With the resources and motivation of the FBI can they not just kidnap Governors without stooge help?

Posted by: Bang-a-gong at April 15, 2022 07:46 AM (Qc+Wp)

13 the same FBI operation also tried to coax a man in Virginia to participate in the same sort of plot against Virginia Governor Ralph Northam.

AoSHQ Style guide:
Governor Ralph Coonman Northam

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 15, 2022 07:47 AM (yrol0)

14

"Let my penis go!"

- - Lia "John" Thomas to Pharaoh

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 15, 2022 07:47 AM (s2VJv)

15 Criminals have been the Brown Shirt army of Communists since their early days, who better to stoke fear and unrest onto a population?

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2022 07:48 AM (2JoB8)

16 You go girl, errr, Lia's penis.

Posted by: Marooned at April 15, 2022 07:48 AM (w6hJ9)

17 It must be sexism that Dementia DiFi must go but Dementia Joe can stay. /s

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 15, 2022 07:48 AM (kf6Ak)

18 It was April of 64 that my father of blessed memory went off to "train" people in a little place called Vietnam. Here we go again.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 15, 2022 07:48 AM (oWBc3)

19
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 15, 2022 07:48 AM (DUIap)

20 May you all be cheerful as you write that IRS check on Monday, secure in the knowledge you are keeping non-taxpayers in the clover. Somebody has to pay for all thae nice things, may's well be us.

Posted by: Eromero at April 15, 2022 07:48 AM (gktX6)

21 Jó reggelt, Sefton Ur

Elolvasom majd később.

Posted by: Miklos, noting that Hungarian language is a pain on this keyboard at April 15, 2022 07:48 AM (QzkSJ)

22 "With the resources and motivation of the FBI can they not just kidnap Governors without stooge help?
Posted by: Bang-a-gong "

Really they can just say someone did something and make up the evidence and no one, especially THE MEDIA, will question it.

Posted by: fd at April 15, 2022 07:49 AM (vrz2I)

23 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes.

Just de-lurking to wish a blessed Passover and glorious Easter to all the Horde.

And, to those neither Christian or Jewish, I wish you peace and happiness.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 15, 2022 07:49 AM (2JVJo)

24 Good Friday, Horde! How goes it?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 15, 2022 07:49 AM (YIVH2)

25 They are rubbing our noses in it.

Of course they are rewarding the BLM/Antifa rioters.

Posted by: blaster at April 15, 2022 07:49 AM (9otr5)

26 Abolish the FBI and their pensions in it's entirety, and put the cabal in jail.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 15, 2022 07:49 AM (+I4ai)

27 from your mouth to His ears, JJ !

prayers for a blessed holiday for all of The Horde !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez -gaslighted?, more like napalmed at April 15, 2022 07:50 AM (987Sx)

28 There can't be any doubt left the agitators of Jan6 ( Ray Epps et al, are FBI paid operatives.

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2022 07:50 AM (2JoB8)

29 ChiFi Di lost TWO husbands to cancer? I think she might be a carrier. Losing one seems tragic, but losing two just seems careless.

I'll show myself out.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at April 15, 2022 07:50 AM (FBf3u)

30 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE FENELOPE KILLED BUZZION.
Posted by: fd

HE GOT BETTER

Posted by: Miklos, no longer a newt neither at April 15, 2022 07:50 AM (QzkSJ)

31 Exposure of the phony masks worn by just about the entirety of those who control the top of our society didn't end with Trump, it's accelerated.

It's not exposing merely misguided fools, it's showing they're deeply rotted through. No morals or ethics but consumed with hatred of all things good and right; especially America.

Musk has struck at one of their biggest tools of control. And good lord has he ever kicked a nest of posion-spitting cockroaches

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 15, 2022 07:50 AM (cHmNG)

32 I got an extension. Don't really need one but turnabout is fair play.

Posted by: fd at April 15, 2022 07:50 AM (vrz2I)

33 Willowed: My guess was Playboy was about 200 pages in total, with maybe 20 devoted to photographs. That's 180 pages per month of serious writing, humor, relationship advice, dining tips, wine pairings, and news. But the feminists hated men who purchased the magazine because they could not get past the fact that their are good looking women in the world and Playboy showcased their beauty with some of the best photographers in the world.

Politically, I suspect the magazine back in the 80's was to the left. Funny that.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 15, 2022

***
All sorts of writers contributed: Larry Niven once had a short story in PB; the original novelette "The Fly" (basis for the 2 movies) appeared there; Michael Crichton's The Terminal Man was serialized there; etc. And yes, it was very anti-Republican, anti-conservative in bent. Everybody seemed to expect that Focus on the Family and the Moral Majority were going to take over the government. Didn't happen.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 15, 2022 07:51 AM (c6xtn)

34 MP4 thanks and Happy Easter to you

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 15, 2022 07:51 AM (kf6Ak)

35 Abolish the FBI and their pensions in it's entirety, and put the cabal in jail.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

The People have spoken.

Posted by: King Miklos the Just at April 15, 2022 07:52 AM (QzkSJ)

36 Good morning, JJ.

Good morning, Horde.

Good Pesach and good Good Friday to you all as applicable.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2022 07:53 AM (DU+/6)

37 *smears blood around front door

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at April 15, 2022 07:53 AM (WFMLs)

38 ChiFi Di lost TWO husbands to cancer? I think she might be a carrier. Losing one seems tragic, but losing two just seems careless.

I'll show myself out.
Posted by: Blutarski,

It would require a heart of stone not to laugh

Posted by: The Importance of being Miklos at April 15, 2022 07:54 AM (QzkSJ)

39 Vindman: Trump Has Spiraled Down Mentally He Is Not Viable Contender for 2024

This fat body traitor has the balls to say that and not mention biden?

Fuck that asshole

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 15, 2022 07:54 AM (d0Qel)

40 FBI/DOJ....mob for non-Sicilians.

Posted by: BignJames at April 15, 2022 07:54 AM (AwYPR)

41 So the new system upgrade to iphones allows the facial unlock while wearing a mask. Recognition software improving. Hmmmm.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 15, 2022 07:55 AM (oWBc3)

42 No wonder the Gorn hated that handsy mammal Kirk!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 15, 2022 07:55 AM (Dc2NZ)

43 There can't be any doubt left the agitators of Jan6 ( Ray Epps et al, are FBI paid operatives.

*

Yeah, there are videos and images of "Trump supporters" with bullhorns calmly crossing clearly marked do not enter zones to walk out to officers in the field in order to discuss matters for a bit.

And the man with the bullhorn on the scaffolding whose only purpose was to drive the crowd into the buildings, and refused to let anyone else speak from the scaffolding for any other purpose.

Stay off the grass, citizens. We'll tell you what grass we're talking about after you walk on it.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at April 15, 2022 07:55 AM (ssUW2)

44 If only we had a press that did it's job.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 15, 2022 07:55 AM (HY3gN)

45 *smears blood around front door
Posted by: stu-mick-o-su

Darleen usually does that

My blood too

Posted by: Miklos, noting the limited kosher menu items at the Waffle Hut at April 15, 2022 07:56 AM (QzkSJ)

46 That scheme didn't fully materialize, but the FBI's attempt to pull off a similar stunt in Virginia reveals just how far agents were willing to go to bolster FBI Director Christopher Wray's false warning that domestic extremists planned to "kill and assassinate" public officials.
++++
The narrative was set and it had to be brought to fruition. The other aspect of this that is quite awful is that the FBI and DoJ and whatnot know - and don't care - that their schemes can (and often do) get people killed. They're in a no-lose scenario because they get to frame the narrative.

If their plans work, they can take credit for effective counterterrorism. If their plans fail and people die, their role in it will be suppressed and they can spin up the narrative and policy machinery to argue that the failure is because of an inadequate commitment to counterterrorism and because their powers are too narrow.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2022 07:56 AM (DU+/6)

47 Morning Horde. My respect for Musk, Rand Paul and Manchin has increased greatly over the last few months. Still don't trust Manchin but for a lefty he's tolerable. Anyone have any insight on the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation? Paul is fund raising for them and I'm not sure if it's a worthy cause to support.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at April 15, 2022 07:57 AM (2NHgQ)

48 I don't understand these Chinese lockdowns. If it's Omicron, yes it's virulent but weak as a kitten and it leaves natural immunity in its wake. What justifies the ferocity of this lockdown? What am I missing?

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at April 15, 2022 07:57 AM (FBf3u)

49 The California Air Resources Board has called for 35% of new car sales in the state to be battery or hydrogen-powered by 2026 as the state seeks to achieve Democratic Governor Gavin Newsoms goal of eliminating the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035.

Not going to happen!!

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 15, 2022 07:57 AM (yrol0)

50 Good morning dear morons and thanks JJ

Pesach sameach to the MOT morons and a solemn Good Friday to the Christian hordians.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 15, 2022 07:57 AM (EZebt)

51 Canceling or suspending the summer "rule" against
E15 is not going to help. E15 is maybe a nickel cheaper than E10, but it will give you worse gas mileage than E10 does. So people will have to buy more fuel anyway.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 15, 2022 07:58 AM (c6xtn)

52 But Trump's hand shook a little when he took a drink of water!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 15, 2022 07:58 AM (HY3gN)

53 Everybody seemed to expect that Focus on the Family and the Moral Majority were going to take over the government. Didn't happen.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 15, 2022 07:51 AM (c6xtn)

Playboy also serialized the James Bond novels as Fleming was writing them.

I have a few Playboys because they contain silent movie-related material, and the quality of the writing and humor is top-notch. I'll argue that Playboy, had Hefner launched it as a current-issues / literary magazine, would now be lionized as one of the preeminent 'freedom' publications of the 1960s.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 15, 2022 07:58 AM (2JVJo)

54 29 ChiFi Di lost TWO husbands to cancer? I think she might be a carrier. Losing one seems tragic, but losing two just seems careless.

I'll show myself out.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at April 15, 2022 07:50 AM (FBf3u)

She seems to do well with Chinese spies!

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 15, 2022 07:59 AM (yrol0)

55 The California Air Resources Board has called for 35% of new car sales in the state to be battery or hydrogen-powered by 2026 as the state seeks to achieve Democratic Governor Gavin Newsoms goal of eliminating the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035.

Not going to happen!!
Posted by: rhennigantx

*makes list of things to "call for"*

Posted by: Miklos has a lot of problems with you people at April 15, 2022 07:59 AM (QzkSJ)

56 It must really stick in the left's craw that the reason Musk has the money to buy Twatter is because of his work in electric vehicles.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 15, 2022 08:00 AM (HY3gN)

57 When you are advocating "censorship is free speech," and you believe it, you have really gone around the bend. There is no clearer indication you have lost your freaking mind.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 15, 2022 08:00 AM (sVtYq)

58 Mrs F. always said it would be sex that would bring down Willie Brown. I always thought it would be money.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 15, 2022 08:00 AM (EZebt)

59 Usually the EPA or some Fed department will come out with an exact number of people killed by a thing, like "41,967 people will die from smog this year". I'm curious as to how much that number will go up with the addition of 15% alcohol to the fuel mix.

Posted by: fd at April 15, 2022 08:00 AM (vrz2I)

60 51 Canceling or suspending the summer "rule" against
E15 is not going to help. E15 is maybe a nickel cheaper than E10, but it will give you worse gas mileage than E10 does. So people will have to buy more fuel anyway.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 15, 2022 07:58 AM (c6xtn)

But they notice the price per gallon, not how many gallons they are buying...

See grocery shrinkflation...same idea - most don't notice it if it's not egregious all at one time...

Posted by: Nova local at April 15, 2022 08:01 AM (exHjb)

61 Read the article of the protesters outside of Disney. As I've read elsewhere, the single adults are the biggest consumers of their product and nuclear families just are not a concern. So the behavior is going to continue until a purge of the company on a level never seen before happens.

Hm. I wonder if Elon would be interested in purchasing them?

Posted by: NR Pax at April 15, 2022 08:01 AM (4olE8)

62 She seems to do well with Chinese spies!
Posted by: rhennigantx

San Fran Charlie Chan

No, he was detective

Might have figured this out years ago

Posted by: Inscrutable Miklos at April 15, 2022 08:01 AM (QzkSJ)

63 48 I don't understand these Chinese lockdowns. If it's Omicron, yes it's virulent but weak as a kitten and it leaves natural immunity in its wake. What justifies the ferocity of this lockdown? What am I missing?
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at April 15, 2022 07:57 AM (FBf3u)
---

Because shutting down the busiest port in the world fucks up our supply chain even more?

I honestly don't know why they are doing this. If it is theater, as some suggest, it seems like a big gamble.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 15, 2022 08:02 AM (Dc2NZ)

64 " ... Everybody seemed to expect that Focus on the Family and the Moral Majority were going to take over the government. Didn't happen.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 15, 2022 07:51 AM (c6xtn) "

Far, far from it ! More like the exact opposite.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez -gaslighted?, more like napalmed at April 15, 2022 08:02 AM (987Sx)

65 48 I don't understand these Chinese lockdowns. If it's Omicron, yes it's virulent but weak as a kitten and it leaves natural immunity in its wake. What justifies the ferocity of this lockdown? What am I missing?
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at April 15, 2022 07:57 AM (FBf3u)


Internal power struggle between Xi and opponents in the Politburo. Also unseen but growing dissatisfaction and anger at the regime from the people.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 15, 2022 08:02 AM (s2VJv)

66 48>> Someone posited a while back that this Is Pooh Bear's not so subtle way of showing the population in general and Hong Kong in particular who runs Barter Town before the next election.

Shanghai is home to China's wealthiest people and industries.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 15, 2022 08:02 AM (+I4ai)

67 "There's no reforming this monster," writes Adam Mill. The FBI "needs to be scrapped before it's too late."
++++
That doesn't go anything like too far enough. At least half of the federal agencies need to be dismantled and left dismantled with no replacement. Every single federal LE and intelligence needs to be dismantled and that entire system needs to be simplified and replaced, with damn few insiders and lots of strict requirements around outside recruitment.

But it will never happen. The agencies, the corruption, the malice, the horror show that is this government will survive exactly as long as the society that it rules over. When it finally does go down, we will all go down together. Who will rise out of the ashes is in my mind the only real open question.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2022 08:02 AM (DU+/6)

68 Maybe Trump can start a kids entertainment company.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 15, 2022 08:02 AM (HY3gN)

69 Hm. I wonder if Elon would be interested in purchasing them?
Posted by: NR Pax

Ok

Tree-fiddy

Posted by: Elon at April 15, 2022 08:03 AM (QzkSJ)

70 Joe has proclaimed that aviation will be carbon free by 2050. Of course he will be long gone by then so will never see the folly. That's what really pisses me off, that none of these people will suffer any consequences for the destruction of everything.

Posted by: fd at April 15, 2022 08:03 AM (vrz2I)

71 Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 15, 2022 07:51 AM (kf6Ak)

Before I return to lurking: vmom, I saw that after I left last Sunday's book thread, you'd asked where I got the cover image for my new book.

Years ago, there was a website called 'Clarouscureaux,' whose owner specialized in colorizing old movie star photos and posted anecdotes about stars and movies (the sort of blog I would write, if I had one). I paid him to colorize a few pics for me and used one of them (from the Theda Bara movie A Fool There Was as the cover to my first book. The current book's cover is his colored version of a still from Cleopatra.

He also colorized this photo, which I planned to use as the cover for my third full-length novel, but I seem to have lost it:

https://tinyurl.com/259c2578

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 15, 2022 08:03 AM (2JVJo)

72 Deathsantis signed a 15 week abortion ban! Reeee! Killing women!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 15, 2022 08:03 AM (HY3gN)

73 Maybe Trump can start a kids entertainment company.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

FUN FACT

Unlike the Disney heirs, Trump has children

Posted by: Miklos, out-pointing at April 15, 2022 08:04 AM (QzkSJ)

74 I lean toward a political showdown between Beijing and Shanghai.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 15, 2022 08:04 AM (Dc2NZ)

75 Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2022 08:04 AM (H4qIP)

76 Shanghai is home to China's wealthiest people and industries.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

So they say

Posted by: Vancouver at April 15, 2022 08:05 AM (QzkSJ)

77 Hunan hootenanny.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 15, 2022 08:05 AM (HY3gN)

78 MOSKVA DOWN: Did Ukraine Really Sink the Pride of Russia's Black Sea Fleet?
_________

Some sources say she was the largest warship sunk since WWII. I'm not clear; it's a very near thing between her and Belgrano. The displacements are really too close to call.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 15, 2022 08:06 AM (R0Tis)

79 But muh FBI crime lab!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 15, 2022 08:06 AM (HY3gN)

80 The California Air Resources Board has called for 35% of new car sales in the state to be battery or hydrogen-powered by 2026 as the state seeks to achieve Democratic Governor Gavin Newsoms goal of eliminating the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035.

*

Keep in mind that they can't break 4% (four percent) of annual sales currently, in ideal environmental and political conditions. I'm assuming that includes state and local governments and corporate purchases, too.

Less than 4%. Same as with everything, the Smart People think it's just a matter of saying "Okay, this is what we're going to do now" to make up the difference.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The Black family survived slavery but not welfare at April 15, 2022 08:06 AM (ia0+L)

81 "Britain's new rule for strip-searching female suspects beggars belief"

What if in the process of strip searching the monster pops out?

Posted by: fd at April 15, 2022 08:07 AM (vrz2I)

82 The Russian Navy is just fine, thank you

Posted by: The Current Thing at April 15, 2022 08:07 AM (QzkSJ)

83 President Brandon read from his teleprompter that he wants to build 500,000 EV charging stations. By comparison, our 279 million GVs require only 115,000 charging (gas) stations. Charging a GV for the next 400 miles takes about 10 minutes. Absent fast chargers, charging an EV for the next 400 miles can take up to eight hours.

Nasty little secret: Fast Charger need about 250 kv service versus 25 to 35 kv for a gas station 7-11 type store.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 15, 2022 08:07 AM (yrol0)

84 Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 15, 2022 08:07 AM (0Ao06)

85 You know, Twitter can't claim Musk purchasing the company would be harmful after offering him a seat on the board.

Is it any wonder they ran to their friends in DC to bail them out?

Of course, there's no way Musk didn't anticipate that. So the next move is going to be interesting ...

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 15, 2022 08:07 AM (yr66z)

86 Either Uke sunk a Russkie ship, or the Russkies have shitty ships. Either or, macht nichts.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 15, 2022 08:07 AM (HY3gN)

87 The Chinese who killed hundreds of millions of their own countrymen should care a hoot about locking up citizens until they died of starvation exactly why?

Posted by: Skip's new phone at April 15, 2022 08:07 AM (BmXZ9)

88 78 MOSKVA DOWN: Did Ukraine Really Sink the Pride of Russia's Black Sea Fleet?
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Some sources say she was the largest warship sunk since WWII. I'm not clear; it's a very near thing between her and Belgrano. The displacements are really too close to call.
Posted by: Eeyore at April 15, 2022 08:06 AM (R0Tis)

The Belgrano was a cruiser, IIRC. It was a big ship. Also the HMS Sheffield was on the large side.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 15, 2022 08:08 AM (s2VJv)

89 Thanks MP4!
He does lovely work, and Theda is a beautiful subject.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 15, 2022 08:08 AM (kf6Ak)

90 We need to adopt "Biden" as the unit of incompetence, as the "Kohn" is of stupidity. Simply spilling your coffee is just a millibiden. It then grows from there.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 15, 2022 08:08 AM (R0Tis)

91 Good Morning I guess. I am pissed off and ready to rip some people a new one
Posted by: Nevergiveup


"THIS IS THE CAPTAIN SPEAKING ....."

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

92 hiya

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

93 86 Either Uke sunk a Russkie ship, or the Russkies have shitty ships. Either or, macht nichts.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 15, 2022 08:07 AM (HY3gN)


Not a good look either way for the Russkies.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 15, 2022 08:08 AM (s2VJv)

94 Good Morning I guess. I am pissed off and ready to rip some people a new one
Posted by: Nevergiveup


I pity your next patient!

Ziessen Pesach my friend.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 15, 2022 08:09 AM (s2VJv)

95 Everybody seemed to expect that Focus on the Family and the Moral Majority were going to take over the government. Didn't happen.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 15, 2022 07:51 AM (c6xtn)

I remember when PMRC shut down rock n roll.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 15, 2022 08:09 AM (yrol0)

96 What if in the process of strip searching the monster pops out?
Posted by: fd


https://tinyurl.com/wesrtxcm

Posted by: Miklos-Fred Schneider at April 15, 2022 08:09 AM (QzkSJ)

97 I don't understand these Chinese lockdowns. If it's Omicron, yes it's virulent but weak as a kitten and it leaves natural immunity in its wake. What justifies the ferocity of this lockdown? What am I missing?
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at April 15, 2022 07:57 AM (FBf3u)
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Unless it has nothing to do with COVID. Shanghai is probably China's most important city. It has gigantic port facilities, it is a premier industrial center, the main financial center on the mainland, the population is enormous, it is the primary interface between China and Taiwan, Korea and Japan. Shanghai is absolutely vital. So why?

:: tin foil hat on ::
I think it is internal strife and politics. China's military is interesting in that it is divided into regional commands, those commands are largely independent and the military also has a significant degree of self-financing. The regional commanding generals are all loyal to Xi, except the Eastern command. It is also the most strategically important because of its economic base and proximity to Taiwan. That command is the only one who's general is not Xi's puppet - but the civilian agencies are Xi's and he's making a power play.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2022 08:09 AM (DU+/6)

98 Seems to me that if you find a sausage under the dress it would call for an immediate change of protocol.

Posted by: fd at April 15, 2022 08:10 AM (vrz2I)

99 Test

Posted by: Skip's new phone at April 15, 2022 08:10 AM (2JoB8)

100 You can increase the percent of EV sold vs gas by either increasing the numerator, or decreasing the denominator.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 15, 2022 08:10 AM (HY3gN)

101 spot-on, Skip !

just a statistical rounding error, hardly worth mentioning ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez -gaslighted?, more like napalmed at April 15, 2022 08:10 AM (987Sx)

102 Usually the EPA or some Fed department will come out with an exact number of people killed by a thing, like "41,967 people will die from smog this year". I'm curious as to how much that number will go up with the addition of 15% alcohol to the fuel mix.

I'm curious, has any death certificate ever had on it as the primary cause, or for that matter any level of contribution "smog"?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 15, 2022 08:11 AM (AHeqJ)

103 33. As was mentioned in the previous thread A&E just ran a ten part documentary on Playboy in which almost 100% consists of interviews with Hefners former girlfriends playmates administrative execs at Playboy enterprises and Hefners security and butler staff at the mansion. It takes ten hours to describe the rape sodomy drug use trafficking sexual physical and mental abuse used by Hefner personally and by his celebrity friends to build Playboy enterprises into a major business. Very well done ie the women involved are allowed to talk and their stories are backed up with photos and testimony from others.

Posted by: Jen the original at April 15, 2022 08:11 AM (Snu9m)

104 "Without the resurrection, we're simply fighting to rule a fallen kingdom. Because of the resurrection, we're fighting for souls to be able to hear God's word."


Amen.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 15, 2022 08:12 AM (45fpk)

105 Either Uke sunk a Russkie ship, or the Russkies have shitty ships. Either or, macht nichts.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 15, 2022 08:07 AM (HY3gN)


Not a good look either way for the Russkies.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Russian ship sunk by Russians or Ukrainians.

SMR not looking too good here.

Posted by: Miklos, thinking Uncle Palp is displeased at April 15, 2022 08:12 AM (QzkSJ)

106 Nasty little secret: Fast Charger need about 250 kv service versus 25 to 35 kv for a gas station 7-11 type store.
Posted by: rhennigantx


Who in DC has interest in copper mines/futures?

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2022 08:12 AM (H4qIP)

107 Rising interest rates, where even minor rate increases have enormous impact on one's ability to pay their monthly mortgage amounts, coupled with insane housing prices now will put a lot of would-be homeowners in a bad, bad place. Especially first time buyers.

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

108 You mean the den of hedonism wasn't on the up and up?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 15, 2022 08:13 AM (HY3gN)

109 Saint of the Day
St. Hunna (d. 679 A.D.) was born in Alsace, France. She was the virtuous daughter of a duke, and she married a similarly virtuous nobleman. Hunna and her husband did not indulge in unnecessary luxuries according to their high state in life, and instead detached themselves from their riches by opening their home to the poor and assisting them in their need. St. Deodatus, a bishop who resigned from his See, came to live with the holy couple for a time. St. Hunna and her husband greatly profited from his religious instruction and grew in sanctity as a result. When Hunna bore a son, she named him after St. Deodatus. This child, raised by such holy parents, later joined a monastery and also became a saint. After her husband's death Hunna spent her life serving the poor, especially women. No task was too menial for her. She tended to the poor and the sick and regularly, including their laundry and mending. For this she was nicknamed the "Holy Washerwoman." She also gave away her wealth and property to build churches and monasteries. So many miracles were attributed to her that Pope Leo X canonized her in 1520. St. Hunna is the patron saint of laundresses.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 15, 2022 08:13 AM (0Ao06)

110 Rioting around the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem sees 152 injured.

And I guess terrorists in Syria were shooting missiles or the like into Israel as "Syria says" the Israelis have caused major damage firing "several" missiles "toward" military positions near Damascus.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 15, 2022 08:13 AM (UHVv4)

111 33 And yes, it was very anti-Republican, anti-conservative in bent. Everybody seemed to expect that Focus on the Family and the Moral Majority were going to take over the government. Didn't happen.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 15, 2022 07:51 AM (c6xtn)

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Like John Carpenter convinced that Jerry Falwell was going to end up president for life in Escape from LA (America's greatest cinematic accomplishment).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 15, 2022 08:13 AM (LvTSG)

112 Test take 2

Posted by: Skip's new phone at April 15, 2022 08:14 AM (2JoB8)

113 Nasty little secret: Fast Charger need about 250 kv service versus 25 to 35 kv for a gas station 7-11 type store.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 15, 2022 08:07 AM (yrol0)
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Other nasty little secret: fast charging is *much* harder on the battery chemistry and wears them out a lot faster. If you always slow-charge your EV, the battery is going to last a very long time and might - maybe, depending on use profile - last as long as the service life of the vehicle as a whole.

If you "supercharge," that will *not* be the case. You will be looking at a new battery pack in about decade's time, and severely reduced resale value. I strongly suspect that we will also see the EV version of odometer fraud: spoofing the number of discharge/recharge cycles and supercharger history to make the battery pack appear to be healthier than it is.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2022 08:14 AM (DU+/6)

114 Happy Good Friday all!

Posted by: Jewells45 at April 15, 2022 08:14 AM (nxdel)

115 Somehow phone got off wifi, not sure when

Posted by: Skip's new phone at April 15, 2022 08:14 AM (2JoB8)

116 Reading the Mamet piece JJ posted--'American Occupation ' makes you know there IS hope.....in our backbones.
Stand up!

Posted by: Voter theater. at April 15, 2022 08:15 AM (FCPbW)

117 78 MOSKVA DOWN: Did Ukraine Really Sink the Pride of Russia's Black Sea Fleet?
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Some sources say she was the largest warship sunk since WWII. I'm not clear; it's a very near thing between her and Belgrano. The displacements are really too close to call.
Posted by: Eeyore at April 15, 2022 08:06 AM (R0Tis)

What is clear is that the Moskva was the 3rd largest ship in the Russian Navy, and the most powerful ship any Navy had in the Black Sea currently. It performed the same function for the Black Sea Fleet as a US Ticonderoga Class Cruiser, and is irreplaceable. If as Putin says, it was "just a fire", why has the US Defense Dep't today noted that the rest of the Russian fleet has now moved significantly away from the Ukrainian coast?

The Russian Black Sea Fleet has now been critically crippled, with no way to recover their effectiveness.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 15, 2022 08:15 AM (r46W7)

118 Seems to me that if you find a sausage under the dress it would call for an immediate change of protocol.
Posted by: fd at April 15, 2022 08:10 AM (vrz2I)
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No way. That's just a ladypenis. What are you, some kind of Russian agent spreading dangerous and subversive transphobic disinformation?

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

119 If Ukraine sank the Moskva, then the U.S. sank the Moskva by proxy -- because it was the U.S. tracking all the ships with our satellites, and sharing that info. Oh, and running the show on the ground in Ukraine. Causus belli, thanks Never Trumpers.

Thanks, J.J., again, for your hard work and razor sharp commentary. I don't know how you do it.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at April 15, 2022 08:15 AM (OssQ4)

120 RNC Votes To Withdraw From 'Biased' Presidential Debates
_________

How prompt and timely. Next up: reconsidering crossbows.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 15, 2022 08:16 AM (R0Tis)

121 120 RNC Votes To Withdraw From 'Biased' Presidential Debates
_________

How prompt and timely. Next up: reconsidering crossbows.
Posted by: Eeyore at April 15, 2022 08:16 AM (R0Tis)

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They're looking for another organization with less bias to help with the next debates. Instead of, you know, just negotiating directly with the DNC.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 15, 2022 08:17 AM (LvTSG)

122 It takes ten hours to describe the rape sodomy drug use trafficking sexual physical and mental abuse used by Hefner personally and by his celebrity friends to build Playboy enterprises into a major business.
Posted by: Jen the original

My surprise meter is unaffected.

Celebrated hedonism turns out to be so hedonistic.

Sadly, it's the same old story: Folks that will do anything for fame, $$ and/or sex will do anything.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 15, 2022 08:17 AM (0Ao06)

123 The FBI has always been the armed wing of the democrat party.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 15, 2022 08:18 AM (5kI0z)

124 "Debates are an important part of the democratic process, and the RNC is committed to free and fair debates. The Commission on Presidential Debates is biased and has refused to enact simple and common sense reforms to help ensure fair debates including hosting debates before voting begins and selecting moderators who have never worked for candidates on the debate stage," RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said in a statement.
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In other news, water is wet. Why now, Ronna? Why not, I dunno, since 2008 when it became clear to everyone and obvious to all that the hack "moderators" were on one side and the demonstrated corruption of giving questions in advance to preferred candidates?

Why wait 14 *years* to reach this obvious conclusion?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2022 08:18 AM (DU+/6)

125 Posted by: Jen the original at April 15, 2022 08:11 AM (Snu9m)

==

Hefner had a lot to atone for when he crossed over into the next world. By all accounts, he was quite a sleezeball and left a wake of broken women in his path. Granted, they signed up for it or they wouldn't have been there, but behind the scenes, he really was a lot more debauched than that gentlemanly smoking jacket and smile would've had you superficially believing.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 15, 2022 08:18 AM (sVtYq)

126 Rising interest rates, where even minor rate increases have enormous impact on one's ability to pay their monthly mortgage amounts, coupled with insane housing prices now will put a lot of would-be homeowners in a bad, bad place. Especially first time buyers.
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Bloomberg News here showed that the Bank of Canada hike of 0.5% would add $255/month to an $800K 25-year mortgage that had had 10% down paid; I think IIRC $430 more with the next hike expected in June. [Hoser buck -20% to equal the greenback.]

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 15, 2022 08:18 AM (UHVv4)

127 Excellent rant JJ, as usual.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 15, 2022 08:18 AM (eJn7u)

128 How much would it cost to charge up the EV at the charging station? Is it by the minute or hour?

More coffee.

Posted by: dantesed at April 15, 2022 08:19 AM (88xKn)

129 The California Air Resources Board has called for 35% of new car sales in the state to be battery or hydrogen-powered by 2026 as the state seeks to achieve Democratic Governor Gavin Newsoms goal of eliminating the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035.

How does that work? Newsom isn't supposed to be governor all the way to that arbitrary due date, and future governors aren't required to doggedly adhere to Newsom's vanity dictates.

Furthermore, unless the main purchaser of new automobiles is under the direct authority of Newsom, how does is this enforced? Who decides who is forced to only by electric while the remaining 65% are free to purchase ICE?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 15, 2022 08:19 AM (AHeqJ)

130 Sadly, it's the same old story: Folks that will do anything for fame, $$ and/or sex will do anything.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 15, 2022 08:17 AM (0Ao06)


Never be surprised when sinners sin.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 15, 2022 08:19 AM (45fpk)

131 96 What if in the process of strip searching the monster pops out?
Posted by: fd
https://tinyurl.com/wesrtxcm
Posted by: Miklos-Fred Schneider at April 15, 2022 08:09 AM (QzkSJ)

ROFL! I haven't seen that video in 40 years, makes me feel old. We all were so much more fun and funny in the 80's than now. (excepting present company, of course, we're still funny)

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 15, 2022 08:19 AM (r46W7)

132 FBI, ATF, DoD, BLM, AntiFa. The donks have several divisions. And a pretty good legal team with the ATF.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 15, 2022 08:19 AM (HY3gN)

133 Happy Good Friday all!
Posted by: Jewells45

Backatcha Jewells !

Posted by: JT at April 15, 2022 08:20 AM (arJlL)

134 MOSKVA DOWN: Did Ukraine Really Sink the Pride of Russia's Black Sea Fleet?

The Ukraine will have had nothing to do with it. It will be those who need WWIII.

Posted by: t-bird at April 15, 2022 08:20 AM (8DRUP)

135 123 The FBI has always been the armed wing of the democrat party.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 15, 2022 08:18 AM (5kI0z)
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No love for the Free Sh*t Army?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 15, 2022 08:20 AM (EZebt)

136 Vindman: Trump Has Spiraled Down Mentally He Is Not Viable Contender for 2024
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 15, 2022 07:54 AM (d0Qel)

Comments like this make me really rethink all the weight I placed on his opinions where voting is concerned.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at April 15, 2022 08:20 AM (nR2nR)

137 Thanks TonyPete !

Happy Good Friday !

Posted by: JT at April 15, 2022 08:21 AM (arJlL)

138 Blessed Passover to the Saturday people. Blessed Good Friday to the Sunday people.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 15, 2022 08:21 AM (45fpk)

139 I meant DOJ not ATF.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 15, 2022 08:21 AM (HY3gN)

140 "No love for the Free Sh*t Army?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 15, 2022 08:20 AM (EZebt)"

holding the gun sideways limits their effectiveness

Posted by: sock_rat_eez -gaslighted?, more like napalmed at April 15, 2022 08:22 AM (987Sx)

141 Other nasty little secret: fast charging is *much* harder on the battery chemistry and wears them out a lot faster.

*

Shut up racist.

This is why it's important that people don't have the ability to think, process, and understand science and are only allowed to listen to Sciencx, btw.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The diary is real, too at April 15, 2022 08:22 AM (Uq2G4)

142 As was mentioned in the previous thread A&E just ran a ten part documentary on Playboy in which almost 100% consists of interviews with Hefners former girlfriends playmates administrative execs at Playboy enterprises and Hefners security and butler staff at the mansion. It takes ten hours to describe the rape sodomy drug use trafficking sexual physical and mental abuse used by Hefner personally and by his celebrity friends to build Playboy enterprises into a major business. Very well done ie the women involved are allowed to talk and their stories are backed up with photos and testimony from others.
Posted by: Jen the original at April 15, 2022 08:11 AM (Snu9m)

Decadence and perversion are healthy ways to live. /s

Posted by: WiNO at April 15, 2022 08:22 AM (EpDzw)

143
Why wait 14 *years* to reach this obvious conclusion?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2022 08:18 AM (DU+/6)

Well in 2012 Romney was in charge, and he *wanted* it that way. In 2016, the GOP-e got everything set up for Jeb, but Trump crashed their party. In 2020 - well, that was just Trump believing he could always win no matter how stacked the deck was. I think he'd do it again if he could - DeSantis is the first politician on our side who I see refusing to play against a stacked deck, and calling them out for it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 15, 2022 08:23 AM (r46W7)

144 Rising interest rates, where even minor rate increases have enormous impact on one's ability to pay their monthly mortgage amounts, coupled with insane housing prices now will put a lot of would-be homeowners in a bad, bad place. Especially first time buyers.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 15, 2022 08:12 AM (sVtYq)
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But price isn't fixed. Housing prices are set by two things: prevailing wages and interest rates. Most people don't buy houses, they buy payments. At low interest, that payment can buy a lot of money. At high interest, the payment can buy less.

As rates increase, housing prices will fall. Like last time, those who bought at or near the top (people like me, in all probability) will end up with a value decline. For many of them, that value decline might put them underwater and stress the market further if they need to get out from under it.

It would not surprise me in the slightest if housing prices drop dramatically, especially in bubblier areas. It won't be universal, but it seems likely. Unless this inflation is pushed out into wages in a meaningful way, the only way to balance the equation is for house prices to fall.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2022 08:23 AM (DU+/6)

145 I have a few Playboys because they contain silent movie-related material, and the quality of the writing and humor is top-notch. I'll argue that Playboy, had Hefner launched it as a current-issues / literary magazine, would now be lionized as one of the preeminent 'freedom' publications of the 1960s.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 15, 2022 07:58 AM (2JVJo)

You're probably right as long as Hef would have let his Playboy Philosophy be edited into oblivion.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at April 15, 2022 08:23 AM (y7DUB)

146 When you are advocating "censorship is free speech," and you believe it, you have really gone around the bend. There is no clearer indication you have lost your freaking mind.

Posted by: Lady in Black
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It's breathtaking how fast the NPC update went from "Twitter only bans racists" to "Twitter has to ban any who threatens our democracy!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 15, 2022 08:23 AM (yr66z)

147 142 Decadence and perversion are healthy ways to live. /s
Posted by: WiNO at April 15, 2022 08:22 AM (EpDzw)

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"Surgery in an opera? How wonderfully decadent! And just when I was beginning to lose interest... Djambi, the chocolate icing!"
-Hedonismbot

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 15, 2022 08:24 AM (LvTSG)

148 Gavin Newsom has done more damage to this country than most realize. Haven't you heard He ended homelessness too!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 15, 2022 08:24 AM (EZebt)

149 Okay, I'm confused.

The kids are off school today locally. But decidedly not for 'Good Friday'. Nope. Nor 'Spring Break', nor any other special day.

Apparently there is some type of double secret probation day or something today.

'Tis a mystery.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 15, 2022 08:24 AM (0Ao06)

150 Rising interest rates, where even minor rate increases have enormous impact on one's ability to pay their monthly mortgage amounts, coupled with insane housing prices now will put a lot of would-be homeowners in a bad, bad place. Especially first time buyers.

The real estate cartels will have their lobbyists fix this right up.

You can't just dump millions upon millions of people into this country, with absolutely no legal ability to pay for food, energy and housing, and not expect the prices of those things to go up as "government" swoops in to make things equitable for the new arrivals.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 15, 2022 08:24 AM (AHeqJ)

151 The Russians are quite capable of sinking their own vessels

Posted by: Skip's new phone at April 15, 2022 08:24 AM (2JoB8)

152 The California Air Resources Board has called for 35% of new car sales in the state to be battery or hydrogen-powered by 2026 as the state seeks to achieve Democratic Governor Gavin Newsoms goal of eliminating the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035.

Not going to happen!!
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 15, 2022 07:57 AM (yrol0)

They don't have the power grid to charge the EVs they have now. AFAIK, they aren't expanding the grid. I wonder if anyone has pointed out the issues with this to these monkeys.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at April 15, 2022 08:24 AM (nR2nR)

153 The FBI has always been the armed wing of the democrat party.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 15, 2022 08:18 AM (5kI0z)
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But only one of many. They have others. The KKK is the biggest example - the Democrat Party's SA. They have been replaced with Antifa. Different costumes and different ideology, but they're the same in practical terms.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2022 08:25 AM (DU+/6)

154 Blessed Passover to the Saturday people. Blessed Good Friday to the Sunday people.
Posted by: grammie winger

Yes, seconded!

I like how you put this grammie.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 15, 2022 08:25 AM (0Ao06)

155 Apparently there is some type of double secret probation day or something today.

'Tis a mystery.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 15, 2022 08:24 AM (0Ao06)
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Teacher workshop? As I recall, they sometimes have those. Maybe this one "just happens" to coincide with Good Friday.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 15, 2022 08:25 AM (YIVH2)

156 Apparently there is some type of double secret probation day or something today.

'Tis a mystery.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 15, 2022 08:24 AM (0Ao06)


It's some obscure emancipation day or something. It's the reason taxes aren't due till April 18.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 15, 2022 08:25 AM (45fpk)

157 Its kind of interesting that Elon Musk has timed his takeover of Twitter around Easter. There may be a message within a message in that effort.

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 15, 2022 08:25 AM (tiR3O)

158 Okay, I'm confused.

The kids are off school today locally. But decidedly not for 'Good Friday'. Nope. Nor 'Spring Break', nor any other special day.

Apparently there is some type of double secret probation day or something today.

'Tis a mystery.
Posted by: Tonypete

*

Look up why Tax Day is the 18th instead of the 15th. Spoilers: It's not because of Easter or Good Friday.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The diary is real, too at April 15, 2022 08:26 AM (Uq2G4)

159 "Surgery in an opera? How wonderfully decadent! And just when I was beginning to lose interest... Djambi, the chocolate icing!"
-Hedonismbot
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 15, 2022 08:24 AM (LvTSG)
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That is probably my favorite fringe character. The idea of somebody building a robot that does nothing but engage in hedonistic consumption is so absurd that it makes me laugh every time.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2022 08:26 AM (DU+/6)

160 It's breathtaking how fast the NPC update went from "Twitter only bans racists" to "Twitter has to ban any who threatens our democracy!"

I would love to hear their personal definition of "democracy" and then ask the required follow up question as to at what time did the former United States give up on its form of government as Constitutional Republic and mandate this perverted form of "democracy".

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 15, 2022 08:26 AM (AHeqJ)

161 Jeez, Geraldo and Mayor Adams are shocked, shocked at the hypocrisy of BLM. So precious.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 15, 2022 08:26 AM (EZebt)

162 So Ed Buck finally goes down - most have forgotten how he got his start. He became the Darling of west coast Democrats when he created and led the movement that brought about the impeachment of Evan Meacham, a conservative Arizona governor, in 1988. It was a raw deal, a political impeachment over nothing, and the real story was that (just like happened with Trump later) the Arizona GOP hated Meacham just as much as the Dems did, and they were glad to help take him out.

Once Ed Buck took that scalp, he hooked up with some Big California donors who wanted someone willing to do political dirty work, and that's been the story of his career.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 15, 2022 08:26 AM (r46W7)

163 JJ, the David Mamet article is very good. It gives me a bit of hope in that if he can see the light, perhaps others can also.

Posted by: kraken at April 15, 2022 08:27 AM (Vr12I)

164 F.I.B. accuses Nork hackers of stealing $622-million in cryptocurrency.

So the Norks are reduced to eating doges, I guess.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 15, 2022 08:27 AM (UHVv4)

165 159 That is probably my favorite fringe character. The idea of somebody building a robot that does nothing but engage in hedonistic consumption is so absurd that it makes me laugh every time.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2022 08:26 AM (DU+/6)

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Futurama >>>>> The Simpsons

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 15, 2022 08:27 AM (LvTSG)

166 Look up why Tax Day is the 18th instead of the 15th. Spoilers: It's not because of Easter or Good Friday.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The diary is real, too at April 15, 2022 08:26 AM (Uq2G4)

My taxes went in yesterday and the fucvkin Feds already took the money out of my account. The State of NJ will probably take a week LOL

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 15, 2022 08:27 AM (d0Qel)

167 163 JJ, the David Mamet article is very good. It gives me a bit of hope in that if he can see the light, perhaps others can also.
Posted by: kraken at April 15, 2022 08:27 AM (Vr12I)

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I've seen one lefty call him a self-hating Jew because of it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 15, 2022 08:28 AM (LvTSG)

168 Rising interest rates, where even minor rate increases have enormous impact on one's ability to pay their monthly mortgage amounts, coupled with insane housing prices now will put a lot of would-be homeowners in a bad, bad place.

I'm very glad we decided to stay put. I really think it was the smart thing to do.

Posted by: Jewells45 at April 15, 2022 08:28 AM (nxdel)

169 Joe has proclaimed that aviation will be carbon free by 2050. Of course he will be long gone by then so will never see the folly. That's what really pisses me off, that none of these people will suffer any consequences for the destruction of everything.
Posted by: fd at April 15, 2022 08:03 AM (vrz2I)

I believe in a just and loving GOD. I suspect he'll have his hands full trying to reconcile just and loving in some of these cases.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at April 15, 2022 08:28 AM (nR2nR)

170 My taxes went in yesterday and the fucvkin Feds already took the money out of my account. The State of NJ will probably take a week LOL

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 15, 2022 08:27 AM (d0Qel)


I got my state refund in three days. My federal in 5. I was shocked.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 15, 2022 08:28 AM (45fpk)

171 Some MLB farm team has signed "the first female to play for a 'MLB connected' team".
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

1) I don't watch the MLB (or any other 'sport', as they are all circuses for the masses)
- Hired for her skills: no problem just like the lady hired by the Harlem Globetrotters.
- Hired for SJW status: may the team drop to negative ratings at speed.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 15, 2022 08:29 AM (UgemJ)

172 It would not surprise me in the slightest if housing prices drop dramatically, especially in bubblier areas. It won't be universal, but it seems likely. Unless this inflation is pushed out into wages in a meaningful way, the only way to balance the equation is for house prices to fall.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2022 08:23 AM (DU+/6)
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This makes sense, except here.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 15, 2022 08:29 AM (EZebt)

173 It's funny how we're supposed to "Stand with Ukraine" and no one in Ukraine, Europe, or the CIA can even tell us if the flagship of the Russian fleet was sunk, and if so it was done by Ukraine or the Russians themselves.

You can tell why I'm a tad hesitant to give a sh*t about Standing Wiff Ukrainse, right?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The diary is real, too at April 15, 2022 08:29 AM (Uq2G4)

174 Blessed Passover to the Saturday people. Blessed Good Friday to the Sunday people.
Posted by: grammie winger

Yes, seconded!

I like how you put this grammie.
Posted by: Tonypete

Thirded !

Posted by: JT at April 15, 2022 08:29 AM (arJlL)

175 Short but sweet FOAD list:

Bushs greatest cheerleaders were David Frum, Max Boot, Bill Kristol, and other neoconservatives.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 15, 2022 08:29 AM (yrol0)

176 Remember Abscam? With all the corruption in washington, the fbi could abscam for years and never clean the place up.

But they don't...which is all you need to know.

Free Buffalo Guy!

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 15, 2022 08:30 AM (R/m4+)

177 160 It's breathtaking how fast the NPC update went from "Twitter only bans racists" to "Twitter has to ban any who threatens our democracy!"
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The quote 'our democracy' comes from the Khmer Rouge. Evidently 3M+ Cambodians had to be murdered for 'our democracy.' These NWO guys make Lenin, Mao and Hitler look like pikers.

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 15, 2022 08:30 AM (tiR3O)

178 Off topic here but reading todays posts, folks in the articles continue saying Biden did this and Biden decided that. Biden didnt do a thing. He is incapable. He is Charlie McCarthy to Obama-Soros Edgar Bergen!

Posted by: AnnaS at April 15, 2022 08:30 AM (l4l/z)

179 Look up why Tax Day is the 18th instead of the 15th. Spoilers: It's not because of Easter or Good Friday.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The diary is real, too at April 15, 2022 08:26 AM (Uq2G4)
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"The Internal Revenue Service's District of Columbia offices will be closed on Friday, April 15, in observance of the locally-recognized Emancipation Day."

Which is April 16th, so I guess April 15th is actually "Emancipation Day (observed)." So every few years, it will fall on Good Friday. But here's what I find puzzling: this isn't a federal holiday, it's a local DC holiday. So why defer returns? *No* returns are sent tot he IRS DC offices. Depending on where you live, they're sent to Kansas City, Mo, Austin, TX, Fresno, CA, Ogden, UT, Louisville, KY, Charlotte, NC, San Francisco, CA, Cincinnati, OH or Hartford, CT.

DC is for administration, not production work. So why defer tax day for a non-federal holiday when the main office being closed doesn't matter for return processing?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2022 08:31 AM (DU+/6)

180 Vindman: Trump Has Spiraled Down Mentally He Is Not Viable Contender for 2024

Since when has mental ability been a desired component in POTUS?

Seems to me that the PtB specifically wants the most brain damaged and defective pushing the signing pen.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 15, 2022 08:31 AM (AHeqJ)

181 173 It's funny how we're supposed to "Stand with Ukraine" and no one in Ukraine, Europe, or the CIA can even tell us if the flagship of the Russian fleet was sunk, and if so it was done by Ukraine or the Russians themselves.

You can tell why I'm a tad hesitant to give a sh*t about Standing Wiff Ukrainse, right?
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My guess is we sunk it.

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 15, 2022 08:32 AM (tiR3O)

182 Nasty little secret: Fast Charger need about 250 kv service versus 25 to 35 kv for a gas station 7-11 type store.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 15, 2022 08:07 AM (yrol0)

While the design and materials used are entirely different, I wonder if EV batteries act the same as submarine batteries in that repeated fast charges lessen their lifespan.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at April 15, 2022 08:32 AM (nR2nR)

183 So Ed Buck finally goes down . . .

Posted by: Tom Servo

Well played TS, (even if inadvertent).

Posted by: Tonypete at April 15, 2022 08:32 AM (0Ao06)

184 Joe has proclaimed that aviation will be carbon free by 2050

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Joe Biden has an extensive car collection, including multiple classics and Trump's presidential limo (The Beast), which is interesting because one would think that would be destroyed after service was no longer needed. Oh well. China probably already has the secrets anyway.

Regardless, guess what type of car he does not own?

Go ahead. Guess.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The diary is real, too at April 15, 2022 08:32 AM (Uq2G4)

185 Also, even if you file electronically, the E-File system is managed by the private sector with major data processing occurring outside of Washington, DC.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2022 08:33 AM (DU+/6)

186 huh, "emancipation day", isn't that nice.

I.Did.Not.Know.That.

same here; schools, library, etc all closed today, no one said why.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez -gaslighted?, more like napalmed at April 15, 2022 08:33 AM (987Sx)

187 This makes sense, except here.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 15, 2022 08:29 AM (EZebt)
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Perhaps. San Francisco is crazy in every possible way.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2022 08:33 AM (DU+/6)

188 151 The Russians are quite capable of sinking their own vessels
Posted by: Skip's new phone at April 15, 2022 08:24 AM (2JoB

They are, but the story of how it was sunk is out (found it from some overseas sources yesterday) It's quite fascinating, and this checks with all available evidence. The Moskva had an air defense system that should have been able to shoot down any incoming anti-ship missiles, so how was this neutralized? First, as even a Russian govm't video shows, the Ukrainian military had one or more Bayraktar TB-2 drones operating in the area at the time (obtained from Turkey) These are fairly large, and can carry weapons, so they attract attention. This is how the Moskva's location was determined precisely, not by any satellite info. (to be continued)

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 15, 2022 08:33 AM (r46W7)

189 While the design and materials used are entirely different, I wonder if EV batteries act the same as submarine batteries in that repeated fast charges lessen their lifespan.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

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Physics don't care if it's a car or a boat or a flashlight.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The diary is real, too at April 15, 2022 08:33 AM (Uq2G4)

190 Aviation carbon free?
Hot air balloons and gliders

Posted by: Skip's new phone at April 15, 2022 08:33 AM (2JoB8)

191 Female suspects can be strip-searched by police officers who were born male but identify as women and could be accused of a hate crime if they object, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Gooder and Harderer!

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 15, 2022 08:34 AM (yrol0)

192 Go ahead. Guess.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The diary is real, too at April 15, 2022 08:32 AM (Uq2G4)
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I'll go with "an EV."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2022 08:34 AM (DU+/6)

193
Maybe a naive question, but what legal basis does Chris Wray have to invoke "sources and methods" as a privilege against questions in a Congressional hearing?

Q: How many informants did you have at the Capitol on J6?
A: Sources and methods, can't say... etc.

To my understanding this is an exception to what JQ Public can get in a Freedom of Information of Act request, not a true "privilege" that you can invoke to avoid answering a question by a Congressman with actual oversight.

And if for any reason it was actually a legal prohibition to releasing certain information in public, then freaking move to have a closed hearing and get a freaking answer. I'm fed up with the FBI and the posers in Congress who let them get away with it.

Posted by: Zek at April 15, 2022 08:34 AM (OzNIz)

194 same here; schools, library, etc all closed today, no one said why.

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I wonder why that is?

They want you to assume, and people do because we assume we're a Christian nation.

But this is something else.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The diary is real, too at April 15, 2022 08:34 AM (Uq2G4)

195 The FDA authorizes the first Covid "breathalyzer".

||The Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) Thursday for the first COVID-19 diagnostic test using breath samples.

What they're saying: "Today's authorization is yet another example of the rapid innovation occurring with diagnostic tests for COVID-19," Jeff Shuren, director of the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health, said in the press release.||

Unfortunately, I understand they shove it up your ass like the 18th Century smoke-blowing machine.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 15, 2022 08:34 AM (UHVv4)

196 183 So Ed Buck finally goes down . . .

Posted by: Tom Servo

Well played TS, (even if inadvertent).
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So Ed will be sent to a prison full black guys that like butt sex? I don't think this qualifies as punishment.

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 15, 2022 08:35 AM (tiR3O)

197 That is probably my favorite fringe character. The idea of somebody building a robot that does nothing but engage in hedonistic consumption is so absurd that it makes me laugh every time.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2022 08:26 AM (DU+/6)
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HedonismBot was my spirit bot. I loved that me formed his own recliner.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 15, 2022 08:35 AM (Dc2NZ)

198 WH confirms Biden will NOT travel to Ukraine.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 15, 2022 08:35 AM (NpAcC)

199 189 While the design and materials used are entirely different, I wonder if EV batteries act the same as submarine batteries in that repeated fast charges lessen their lifespan.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

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Physics don't care if it's a car or a boat or a flashlight.
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Do subs use Lithium Ion batteries?

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 15, 2022 08:36 AM (tiR3O)

200 190 Aviation carbon free?
Hot air balloons and gliders
Posted by: Skip's new phone at April 15, 2022 08:33 AM (2JoB



How does one heat the air in the balloon.

Hint: it's got carbon.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 15, 2022 08:36 AM (s2VJv)

201 198 WH confirms Biden will NOT travel to Ukraine.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 15, 2022 08:35 AM (NpAcC)

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It was a stutter.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 15, 2022 08:36 AM (LvTSG)

202 198 WH confirms Biden will NOT travel to Ukraine.
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Was the UFO scheduled for Himalaya already booked up?

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 15, 2022 08:36 AM (tiR3O)

203 200 How does one heat the air in the balloon.

Hint: it's got carbon.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 15, 2022 08:36 AM (s2VJv)

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EVERYTHING!!!!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 15, 2022 08:37 AM (LvTSG)

204 Which is April 16th, so I guess April 15th is actually "Emancipation Day (observed)."

Federal workers never miss an opportunity for a day off.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 15, 2022 08:38 AM (HY3gN)

205
178 Off topic here but reading todays posts, folks in the articles continue saying Biden did this and Biden decided that. Biden didnt do a thing. He is incapable. He is Charlie McCarthy to Obama-Soros Edgar Bergen!
Posted by: AnnaS at April 15, 2022 08:30 AM (l4l/z)

Hi Anna. You are on the mark. Oh, and topics? We have a million, every thread. It's a Smorgasbord!!

Posted by: kraken at April 15, 2022 08:38 AM (Vr12I)

206 Hot air balloons use propane

Posted by: Skip's new phone at April 15, 2022 08:39 AM (2JoB8)

207 Morning peeps. And Good Friday. I've got some yard work to tend to as soon as it dries out. Want to get all the chores done so I can relax on a real weekend. Being retired, every day is sorta' like a weekend TBH.

Anyway, I seem to recall back during the lightbringer's 8 years of fun the FBI and many state/local law enforcement agencies began to "lighten up" on the black communities and individuals who were responsible for a healthy dose of crime. In conjunction with a lightening up on the radical Jihadi set. Also responsible for a healthy dose of crime and terror.

Might be time to revisit the concept of street justice as there doesn't appear to be any coming out of the capitol city.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 15, 2022 08:39 AM (BFigT)

208 Biden has a comrade now: Dianne Feinstein.

Mark Halperin: let's be respectful. She's 88 and senile and loves her job.

Posted by: Ziba at April 15, 2022 08:39 AM (S1hrL)

209 Durham

Posted by: DURHAM at April 15, 2022 08:39 AM (1gBxb)

210 198 WH confirms Biden will NOT travel to Ukraine.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 15, 2022 08:35 AM (NpAcC)

I wonder who made that decision?

Posted by: kraken at April 15, 2022 08:39 AM (Vr12I)

211 125. LIB. Agree. As several of the women said Hefner preyed on 18 year olds because they were so easy to manipulate. Many came from very dysfunctional homes that included incest and pedophilia. More than a few had photos taken by Playboy when they were 17 and photos were held for publishing until they were 18. Hefner required his girlfriends and playmates to participate in his orgies four nights a week in his bedroom that included his celebrity friends and were video taped by him. He used those tapes as blackmail to keep people quiet. Two other nights were pig nights in which security would bring street walkers off Hollywood blvd. and after Hefners personal MD would check them for obvious disease would be selected by the celebs for service. These women were called pigs.

Posted by: Jen the original at April 15, 2022 08:40 AM (Snu9m)

212 It is difficult for me to see how we win the contest of ideas if in fact we are not able to agree on a baseline of facts that allow the marketplace of ideas to work

Fuck you BHO, 1984 is not a HOW TO manual!

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 15, 2022 08:41 AM (yrol0)

213 We have a million, every thread. It's a Smorgasbord!!
Posted by: kraken

Damn Skandies!

Posted by: Tonypete at April 15, 2022 08:41 AM (0Ao06)

214 The Moskva had radar similar to a Ticonderoga class, guiding it's anti-air defenses. This should have been able to stop any sea-skimming anti ship missiles, like Ukraine's Neptune anti ship missile system. But it had one big built in weakness; unlike the Ticonderoga class, the Moskva's most powerful radar system only had 180 degree coverage, not 360. (the Russian theory was that they would always operate as part of a Fleet, and the Fleet would be behind them so they didn't need 360 coverage) There also were less powerful radars covering the entire area, just not the main fire control radar.

So there was a storm on the Black Sea the night of the attack; the white caps would have made any sea skimmers difficult to pick up with anything but the most powerful radar. Then they staged a mock attack with the Bayraktar from the left, forcing the Russians to concentrate their radar and air defense systems to that axis. As this mock attack happened, the Ukrainians fired two Neptune sea skimmers from the *other* side, and the Russians, being totally distracted by the mock attack, never picked them up on radar. And this set fire to the ship's magazine, which eventually sank it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 15, 2022 08:41 AM (r46W7)

215 I would love to hear their personal definition of "democracy" and then ask the required follow up question as to at what time did the former United States give up on its form of government as Constitutional Republic and mandate this perverted form of "democracy".
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You would not understand it. The stupidity and evil are packed tighter than a neutron star.
Someone yesterday explained that their views are that real socialism is a democracy. So, when they say "our democracy" it really means "our socialism."
I don't disagree: The unproductive majority voting themselves a share of the wealth of the productive minority.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 15, 2022 08:41 AM (yr66z)

216 Schools here always close for Good Friday.Starts on Wednesday, and kids return on Monday. It's just a given.

Posted by: kraken at April 15, 2022 08:42 AM (Vr12I)

217 "Democracy" is "Our Democracy" is "power for the Democrat Complex."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2022 08:43 AM (DU+/6)

218 I'm still pulling for Russia in whatever the war is being called.

Does it have a name?

Posted by: MJ at April 15, 2022 08:44 AM (zwDuR)

219 217 "Democracy" is "Our Democracy" is "power for the Democrat Complex."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2022 08:43 AM (DU+/6)

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I'm gonna start outright rooting against Democracy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 15, 2022 08:44 AM (LvTSG)

220 Do subs use Lithium Ion batteries?
Posted by: Puddinhead

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No idea. I wouldn't be surprised if they were still using lead-acid (but some crazy bleeding edge tech lead acid) because of longevity and safety and reliability.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The diary is real, too at April 15, 2022 08:44 AM (Uq2G4)

221 I fear that the next big leap of censorship is at the ISP level, with ISP's blocking access to Gab.com. You solve that problem with Starlink. Together we can build infrastructure for a free speech internet.

I am willing to offer you a Board seat along with equity in the company in exchange for you selling your Twitter position and investing $2B into Gab. My offer is my best and final offer.

Gab has extraordinary potential. Let's unlock it together.

Andrew Torba
CEO, Gab.com

That will never happen, but can't blame the guy for trying.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2022 08:45 AM (DU+/6)

222 218 I'm still pulling for Russia in whatever the war is being called.

Does it have a name?

Posted by: MJ at April 15, 2022 08:44 AM (zwDuR)


Double-Eagle Shit-on-the-Biden-Shoulder Snit.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 15, 2022 08:45 AM (s2VJv)

223 From The Hill:
The Memo: Democrats hope Trump will save them from midterm disaster

"Democrats believe Trump's backing of flawed candidates in Republican primaries could saddle the GOP with losers in the general election.
They also hope Trump will retain his power as a powerful motivator of Democratic voters even when he isn't on the ballot.
Then there is the long shadow of the Jan. 6 insurrection."

https://tinyurl.com/5n6kkptz

Posted by: redridinghood at April 15, 2022 08:46 AM (NpAcC)

224 While the design and materials used are entirely different, I wonder if EV batteries act the same as submarine batteries in that repeated fast charges lessen their lifespan.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

*

Physics don't care if it's a car or a boat or a flashlight.
--------------
Do subs use Lithium Ion batteries?

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 15, 2022 08:36 AM


Lead acid batteries. Can't do the lithium battery stuff because if there is ever a battery fire you can't extinguish that stuff and the boat sinks.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at April 15, 2022 08:46 AM (bVYXr)

225 ... "Democrats believe Trump's backing of flawed candidates in Republican primaries could saddle the GOP with losers in the general election.
They also hope Trump will retain his power as a powerful motivator of Democratic voters even when he isn't on the ballot.
Then there is the long shadow of the Jan. 6 insurrection." ...
Posted by: redridinghood at April 15, 2022 08:46 AM (NpAcC)
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The "insurrection." Keep fuckin' that chicken, guys.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2022 08:47 AM (DU+/6)

226 I have always thought of democracy as a methodology for voting, not as an end in itself. It iss not without its dangers, as our constitutions authors were well aware of. They went to great lengths to limit it.

Posted by: kraken at April 15, 2022 08:47 AM (Vr12I)

227 Good Friday [called that] is a provincial and federal holiday here; with Easter Monday as a federal holiday although with a few provinces and the northern Territories celebrating it too.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 15, 2022 08:47 AM (UHVv4)

228 SEMOLINA

Posted by: semolina at April 15, 2022 08:48 AM (UHVv4)

229 Double-Eagle Shit-on-the-Biden-Shoulder Snit.
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Catchy.

I was thinking the Track Suit Wars.

Posted by: MJ at April 15, 2022 08:48 AM (zwDuR)

230 The experts playing with matches now. Finland!
Sweden! NATO!

Consequences. Who cares? "Democracy" forever!

Posted by: Ziba at April 15, 2022 08:49 AM (S1hrL)

231 I was thinking the Track Suit Wars.
Posted by: MJ at April 15, 2022 08:48 AM (zwDuR)
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The Gopnik Grapple

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2022 08:49 AM (DU+/6)

232 229 Double-Eagle Shit-on-the-Biden-Shoulder Snit.
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Catchy.

I was thinking the Track Suit Wars.
Posted by: MJ at April 15, 2022 08:48 AM (zwDuR)

The Laundering Affair.

Posted by: kraken at April 15, 2022 08:49 AM (Vr12I)

233 218 I'm still pulling for Russia in whatever the war is being called.

Does it have a name?
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Slav Wrestling?

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 15, 2022 08:52 AM (tiR3O)

234 Sundowner wants a war only fitting he goes first to scope out a plan

Posted by: Skip's new phone at April 15, 2022 08:52 AM (BmXZ9)

235 229 Double-Eagle Shit-on-the-Biden-Shoulder Snit.
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Catchy.

I was thinking the Track Suit Wars.
Posted by: MJ at April 15, 2022 08:48 AM (zwDuR)

The Laundering Affair.
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John Wick Chapter 4: You Killed My Dog, Zelensky

Posted by: MJ at April 15, 2022 08:53 AM (zwDuR)

236 Perhaps Biden was congratulating Thin Air for providing all the COVID data of the last 2-1/2 years...

Posted by: Muldoon at April 15, 2022 08:54 AM (m45I2)

237 Lead acid batteries. Can't do the lithium battery stuff because if there is ever a battery fire you can't extinguish that stuff and the boat sinks.
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That's what I thought. As Marines we carry Lithium batteries. They were always stored above decks in seperate lockers for this reason. Same deal with white gas.

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 15, 2022 08:54 AM (tiR3O)

238 Slav Wrestling?

*

I'm becoming more interested. That's pretty much like Czech chicks, right?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The diary is real, too at April 15, 2022 08:54 AM (Uq2G4)

239 I watched the clip yesterday of Joe looking around the stage in confusion after he spoke. Allowing him to continue on is a calculated move by TPTB. Why?

Posted by: kraken at April 15, 2022 08:55 AM (Vr12I)

240 206 Hot air balloons use propane
Posted by: Skip's new phone at April 15, 2022 08:39 AM (2JoB

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I tell you what!

Posted by: Hank Hill at April 15, 2022 08:55 AM (CAJOC)

241 238 Slav Wrestling?

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I'm becoming more interested. That's pretty much like Czech chicks, right?
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Eastern Europe has some the finest mud in the world.

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 15, 2022 08:55 AM (tiR3O)

242 233 218 I'm still pulling for Russia in whatever the war is being called."

A lot of people disliked FDR and Churchill, for good reason. But that was still no reason to support Hitler.

most of the time everyone is bad when you look deep enough.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 15, 2022 08:56 AM (r46W7)

243 Brain dead Democrats vote Democrat irregardless of who is on the Republican ticket.

Posted by: Ziba at April 15, 2022 08:56 AM (S1hrL)

244 Libs of Tik Tok is back-

Libs of Tik Tok
@libsoftiktok
5th grade teacher shows her lesson plan for teaching gender and sexuality.

https://tinyurl.com/yckvwbkx

Posted by: redridinghood at April 15, 2022 08:56 AM (NpAcC)

245 Quadrotriticale

Posted by: QUADROTRITICALE at April 15, 2022 08:57 AM (UHVv4)

246 Ya know, it's a little ironic that April 15 is "Emancipation Day" when it's also a constant reminder that we are all wage slaves to the IRS.

Maybe coincidentally, "Tax Freedom Day" is tomorrow, April 16.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 15, 2022 08:57 AM (YIVH2)

247 And if for any reason it was actually a legal prohibition to releasing certain information in public, then freaking move to have a closed hearing and get a freaking answer. I'm fed up with the FBI and the posers in Congress who let them get away with it.
Posted by: Zek at April 15, 2022 08:34 AM (OzNIz)

I think that's the rub. A closed session would be the answer, but then it's not public and members can't get their publicity.

Posted by: Mainah at April 15, 2022 08:58 AM (B+qrE)

248 WH confirms Biden will NOT travel to Ukraine.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 15, 2022 08:35 AM (NpAcC)

I love the use of the word "confirms". Aren't they actually *disputing* the fake president?

Posted by: DURHAM at April 15, 2022 08:58 AM (842IN)

249 243 Brain dead Democrats vote Democrat irregardless of who is on the Republican ticket.

Posted by: Ziba at April 15, 2022 08:56 AM (S1hrL)

Sadly, I know people like that. There seems to be no way to reach them, short of divine intervention.

Posted by: kraken at April 15, 2022 08:58 AM (Vr12I)

250 You're probably right as long as Hef would have let his Playboy Philosophy be edited into oblivion.
Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at April 15, 2022 08:23 AM (y7DUB)

I remember when I was young my dad had a few playboys up on the shelf of his den. I found them and looked at them just for the articles and quality of the writing, of course.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 15, 2022 09:00 AM (r46W7)

251 Ezra Levant @ezralevant; 21h
I'm excited to hear objections to Elon Musk buying Twitter from:

@nytimes (owned by Carlos Slim, Mexico's richest man)
@washingtonpost (owned by Amazon's Jeff Bezos)
@TheAtlantic (owned by Steve Jobs' widow)
@globeandmail (owned by Canada's richest man)

Etc.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 15, 2022 09:00 AM (UHVv4)

252 Quadrotriticale
Posted by: QUADROTRITICALE

Trichlorofloroethylene
- trich

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (UgAdJ) - at April 15, 2022 09:00 AM (UgAdJ)

253 Sorry to interrupt this sober and solemn MR with stoopid fun shit, but here's a compilation of funny local news interviews:

https://tinyurl.com/yppn3wxv

My favorite (so far) is the guy telling the news team about hiding upstairs from an intruder:

"I had to do what that little Holocaust girl did...Anne Frankenberry? Anne Frank? That's that hidin' bitch, ain't it?"

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 15, 2022 09:01 AM (Dc2NZ)

254 A lot of people disliked FDR and Churchill, for good reason. But that was still no reason to support Hitler.
----------------
Watched a bit of the Hitler Channel last night. The focus was on young Hitler beating up commies and winning elections. The man gave impassioned speeches and drove around in a killer Mercedes Benz and wore serious flare. Compare that to the Commies wearing poorly made grey workers' hats and jackets carrying signs and looking miserable. Then there was Hindenburg looking like Biden. No contest.

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 15, 2022 09:01 AM (tiR3O)

255 I watched the clip yesterday of Joe looking around the stage in confusion after he spoke. Allowing him to continue on is a calculated move by TPTB. Why?

Posted by: kraken at April 15, 2022 08:55 AM (Vr12I)

Because they never intended to do anything else. A lot of it is wanting us to know who is in charge and that they can do anything they want.

Posted by: ... at April 15, 2022 09:01 AM (73i8/)

256 251 Ezra Levant @ezralevant; 21h
I'm excited to hear objections to Elon Musk buying Twitter from:
@nytimes (owned by Carlos Slim, Mexico's richest man)
@washingtonpost (owned by Amazon's Jeff Bezos)
@TheAtlantic (owned by Steve Jobs' widow)
@globeandmail (owned by Canada's richest man)
Etc.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 15, 2022 09:00 AM (UHVv4)

========

If Musk isn't allowed to buy Twitter, then all media properties should be gifted to the workers by their owners.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 15, 2022 09:01 AM (LvTSG)

257 251 Ezra Levant @ezralevant; 21h
I'm excited to hear objections to Elon Musk buying Twitter from:

@nytimes (owned by Carlos Slim, Mexico's richest man)
@washingtonpost (owned by Amazon's Jeff Bezos)
@TheAtlantic (owned by Steve Jobs' widow)
@globeandmail (owned by Canada's richest man)

Etc.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 15, 2022 09:00 AM (UHVv4)

Also hearing that Musk offered to buy CNN+ for $28. Total.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 15, 2022 09:02 AM (N39Ws)

258 The "insurrection." Keep fuckin' that chicken, guys.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2022 08:47 AM (DU+/6)

Judges would have also accepted lizard.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 15, 2022 09:02 AM (yrol0)

259 WH confirms Biden will NOT travel to Ukraine.
___

Did anyone think he was?

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 15, 2022 09:03 AM (00enZ)

260 Schools here always close for Good Friday.Starts on Wednesday, and kids return on Monday. It's just a given.
Posted by: kraken

Follow the money. Feds pay by student attendance. Local school boards don't like their numbers for 'students missing school days' going up.
Families pull their kids out on Good Friday; so, close down the schools that day and you avoid adding many days of missed school to the numbers.

Sorry if this was 'known' and everyone is playing /s games.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 15, 2022 09:03 AM (UgemJ)

261 5th grade teacher shows her lesson plan for teaching gender and sexuality.

*

I'd love to see her grades from college.

I also guarantee she struggles with basic math and scientific concepts, and has to review the 5th grade lesson in order to teach her students the math.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The diary is real, too at April 15, 2022 09:03 AM (Uq2G4)

262 Libs of Tik Tok
@libsoftiktok
5th grade teacher shows her lesson plan for teaching gender and sexuality.

5th graders don't understand physical attraction yet. They need to convince these kids that 400lb blue haired trigglypuff is beautiful and if your brain tells you it is not, you are a terrible person before their brains mature.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 15, 2022 09:03 AM (HY3gN)

263 Sorry to interrupt this sober and solemn MR with stoopid fun shit, but here's a compilation of funny local news interviews: ...
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 15, 2022 09:01 AM (Dc2NZ)
++++
Dude spins a yarn, that's for sure.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2022 09:04 AM (DU+/6)

264 My favorite (so far) is the guy telling the news team about hiding upstairs from an intruder:

"I had to do what that little Holocaust girl did...Anne Frankenberry? Anne Frank? That's that hidin' bitch, ain't it?"
Posted by: All Hail Eris

I tried Anne Frankenberry once. Still preferred Count Chocula or Captain Crunch.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2022 09:04 AM (H4qIP)

265 5th grade teacher shows her lesson plan for teaching gender and sexuality.

*

Also that woman should be thrown in prison and charged with sex crimes immediately.

That's the only way this stops.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The diary is real, too at April 15, 2022 09:05 AM (Uq2G4)

266 A lot of people disliked FDR and Churchill, for good reason. But that was still no reason to support Hitler.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 15, 2022 08:56 AM (r46W7)

"If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons."
-- Winston Churchill

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 15, 2022 09:05 AM (XIJ/X)

267 259 WH confirms Biden will NOT travel to Ukraine.
___

Did anyone think he was?
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 15, 2022 09:03 AM (00enZ)

What mystifies me is that the idea was even brought forward. This might be a glimpse into the disarray and internal wars going on in DC.

Posted by: kraken at April 15, 2022 09:05 AM (Vr12I)

268 I tried Anne Frankenberry once. Still preferred Count Chocula or Captain Crunch.
------------------
Captain Crunch will cut your gums.

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 15, 2022 09:05 AM (tiR3O)

269 If Musk isn't allowed to buy Twitter, then all media properties should be gifted to the workers by their owners.
----------------------------
From each according to his ability, to each according to his memes, comrade!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 15, 2022 09:06 AM (UHVv4)

270 From each according to his ability, to each according to his memes, comrade!
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 15, 2022 09:06 AM (UHVv4)
++++
Sadly, those with excellent memes are often those with excellent ability.


The rich get richer.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2022 09:06 AM (DU+/6)

271 "Rising interest rates, where even minor rate increases have enormous impact on one's ability to pay their monthly mortgage amounts, coupled with insane housing prices now will put a lot of would-be homeowners in a bad, bad place. Especially first time buyers.
Posted by: Lady in Black"



I don't think I could qualify for the house I bought 20 months ago due to massive price increase. Even if I did the payment would be crushing. Property taxes already went 20% last year and I'm expecting even more this year. I don't know how most people can afford to buy a house. Atlanta suburbs used to be extremely cheap, It is becoming like California prices around here.

Posted by: Ripley at April 15, 2022 09:07 AM (MxEKc)

272 268 I tried Anne Frankenberry once. Still preferred Count Chocula or Captain Crunch.
------------------
Captain Crunch will cut your gums.
Posted by: Puddinhead at April 15, 2022 09:05 AM (tiR3O)

It's the armor plating on it.

Posted by: kraken at April 15, 2022 09:07 AM (Vr12I)

273 Now December 20th, 1860 begins to make more sense.

Posted by: Clear-Eyed Killer at April 15, 2022 09:07 AM (ln5wD)

274 All of those news rooms are unionized, right?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 15, 2022 09:07 AM (HY3gN)

275 Because they never intended to do anything else. A lot of it is wanting us to know who is in charge and that they can do anything they want.
Posted by: ...

*

There it is.

It's the entire reason they chose Joe and Karmella, and they had such public shows of no one at the campaign stops, and "car rallies" of seven vehicles.

They want you to know that they can do it with a dementia sufferer and a lady who came in 4th place in her own state in the presidential primaries. That's the entire point of having that level of control and power. F*ck you, that's why.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The diary is real, too at April 15, 2022 09:07 AM (Uq2G4)

276 270 Sadly, those with excellent memes are often those with excellent ability.


The rich get richer.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2022 09:06 AM (DU+/6)

========

How about this: A strong centralized authority that will met out the memes equally that will never be corrupted by base human desires because we will only populate it with the New Memetastic Man.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 15, 2022 09:07 AM (LvTSG)

277 The other interesting tidbit about the Slava class guided missile cruiser Moskva...

It was only one of 3 built by the Russians to counter American aircraft carriers with 16 supersonic sea skimming missiles. It also acted as a fleet anti-air platform. It is (was) considered a formidable target. Other than the aforementioned weather, possible ruse by a drone and poor crew training it's also likely the gear onboard wasn't exactly in "wartime" prepared condition. IOW shitty maintenance.

Like our Navy now.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 15, 2022 09:08 AM (BFigT)

278

All Hail Eris:

https://tinyurl.com/2mzj9mey

Posted by: ... at April 15, 2022 09:08 AM (73i8/)

279 268 I tried Anne Frankenberry once. Still preferred Count Chocula or Captain Crunch.
------------------
Captain Crunch will cut your gums.
Posted by: Puddinhead at April 15, 2022 09:05 AM (tiR3O)

--------------------------

That's 'cause the Cap'n is tired of yo shit!

Posted by: No One of Consequence at April 15, 2022 09:08 AM (CAJOC)

280 Biden does bring President von Hindenburg to mind most days.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 15, 2022 09:08 AM (EZebt)

281 Also hearing that Musk offered to buy CNN+ for $28. Total.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed


Meme on Facebook:
Picture of Musk with comment balloon - "I think I'll buy Amazon next"
Picture of Bezos: "Bruh"
Picture of Musk: "Add to cart!"

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2022 09:08 AM (H4qIP)

282 POONTRONAGE! Bwahahahahahahahaha!

Posted by: FIIGMO at April 15, 2022 09:08 AM (5Xtai)

283 How about this: A strong centralized authority that will met out the memes equally that will never be corrupted by base human desires because we will only populate it with the New Memetastic Man.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 15, 2022 09:07 AM (LvTSG)
++++
Brilliant. How do I join your eschatological cult?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2022 09:08 AM (DU+/6)

284 Ask not what your country can meme for you, but what you can meme for your country.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 15, 2022 09:09 AM (HY3gN)

285 In Durham news, in his case against Michael Sussman, the judge turned down Sussmann's motion to dismiss. This has been hailed as a thing, but its not, really. Just means it is going to trial.

It seems likely that Sussmann is going to be guilty of the charge that he lied to the FBI about not working for anyone when he brought the Russiagate stuff over. Durham has his texts to initiate the meeting that say "hey I am not working for anyone here" along with the documents that say, pretty much, "hey, I am working for the Clinton campaign and I am going to take this Russiagate stuff over and I told them I was just a concerned citizen." I think Sussmann might plea, it seems like a slam dunk case. Clinesmith pled to the same thing - he got nothing.

Hooray finally! Except the Left is going to declare victory because it has nothing to do with the underlying truth of Russiagate. That isn't the lie that Sussmann is indicted for.

Posted by: blaster at April 15, 2022 09:09 AM (9otr5)

286 Are the Little Rascals still available? Same deal with Tarzan movies. I miss both of those shows.

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 15, 2022 09:09 AM (tiR3O)

287 259 WH confirms Biden will NOT travel to Ukraine.


Staffers in the WH must be drinking like lushes over these Biden's comments in the past year or so.

Posted by: dantesed at April 15, 2022 09:09 AM (88xKn)

288 Okay, the "Anne Frankenberry" is funny, but the "that's a hiding b*tch, ain't it?!!" was even better.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The diary is real, too at April 15, 2022 09:09 AM (Uq2G4)

289 Fox on in background this morning - should Biden go to Ukraine? Why yes, he should, and on the way AF-1 should fly some slow, lazy circles over Russia's AA batteries in Donbas, so he can get a real good look at them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 15, 2022 09:11 AM (r46W7)

290 Wow. If you're a guy reduced to banging monitor lizards, then-

then banging a goat must make you feel like you're banging Scar-Jo.

Winning?

Posted by: naturalfake at April 15, 2022 09:11 AM (FwckK)

291 We Stand With Anne Frankenberry

Posted by: ... at April 15, 2022 09:11 AM (73i8/)

292 Hide and seek semifinalist.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 15, 2022 09:11 AM (HY3gN)

293 JJS, thank you for the Mamet essay at Tablet. It is just the tonic I needed.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 15, 2022 09:11 AM (/AvDT)

294 That's the entire point of having that level of control and power. F*ck you, that's why.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The diary is real, too at April 15, 2022 09:07 AM (Uq2G4)

Like I said, rubbing our noses in it.

Remember when the NYT said hey all that stuff on Hunter's laptop is real and we were like "the walls are closing in!" and then now all we have to talk about is how the SEC is going to take Tesla away from Elon Musk.

Posted by: blaster at April 15, 2022 09:12 AM (9otr5)

295 280 Biden does bring President von Hindenburg to mind most days.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 15, 2022 09:08 AM (EZebt)

Yes, or the last Hapsburg Emperor, Franz Joseph.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 15, 2022 09:12 AM (r46W7)

296 hey y'all

Posted by: Nearsighted Cyclopes at April 15, 2022 09:12 AM (4TZI4)

297 Remember to get your 5 year old boosted to protect against long covid.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 15, 2022 09:12 AM (HY3gN)

298 I don't think I could qualify for the house I bought 20 months ago due to massive price increase. Even if I did the payment would be crushing. Property taxes already went 20% last year and I'm expecting even more this year. I don't know how most people can afford to buy a house. Atlanta suburbs used to be extremely cheap, It is becoming like California prices around here.

Posted by: Ripley at April 15, 2022 09:07 AM


Talked with a neighbor yesterday. They put their 61 year old smallish house on the market and the listing went live Wednesday night for $169,000 (they bought the house 5 years ago for $99,000), they had the house sold on Thursday. Cash offer for their listing price with no quibbles. They had two other offers for more than the asking price but they had to wait for the mortgage papers to clear and they didn't want to wait for that. The housing market here in NE Texas is insane.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at April 15, 2022 09:12 AM (bVYXr)

299 287
Staffers in the WH must be drinking like lushes over these Biden's comments in the past year or so.
Posted by: dantesed at April 15, 2022 09:09 AM (88xKn)

Don't know if they are drinking, but I'll bet they are all higher than giraffe balls.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 15, 2022 09:13 AM (N39Ws)

300 Remember when the NYT said hey all that stuff on Hunter's laptop is real and we were like "the walls are closing in!"

Posted by: blaster at April 15, 2022 09:12 AM (9otr5)

The royal we.

Posted by: ... at April 15, 2022 09:13 AM (73i8/)

301 We Stand With Anne Frankenberry
Posted by: ...


Je suis Anne Frankenberry!

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2022 09:13 AM (H4qIP)

302 290 Wow. If you're a guy reduced to banging monitor lizards, then-

then banging a goat must make you feel like you're banging Scar-Jo.

Winning?
---------------
Monitor Lizards have very posionous siliva. Same deal with Hillary. Don't fuck posionous siliva chicks. Just don't do it.

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 15, 2022 09:13 AM (tiR3O)

303 286 Are the Little Rascals still available? Same deal with Tarzan movies. I miss both of those shows.
Posted by: Puddinhead at April 15, 2022 09:09 AM (tiR3O)

The Little Rascals is still available on disc from Amazon. For now.

Posted by: kraken at April 15, 2022 09:14 AM (Vr12I)

304 Remember when the NYT said hey all that stuff on Hunter's laptop is real and we were like "the walls are closing in!" and then now all we have to talk about is how the SEC is going to take Tesla away from Elon Musk.
Posted by: blaster at April 15, 2022 09:12 AM (9otr5)

Now don't be so pessimistic. I'm certain that Sussman is going to get a Very Sternly Worded Letter in his personal file. Maybe even 2 weeks of house arrest.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 15, 2022 09:14 AM (r46W7)

305 Monitor Lizards have very posionous siliva. Same deal with Hillary. Don't fuck posionous siliva chicks. Just don't do it.
Posted by: Puddinhead at April 15, 2022 09:13 AM (tiR3O)
++++
And if you are for some reason compelled to do so, be sure you suit up before going in!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2022 09:14 AM (DU+/6)

306 259 WH confirms Biden will NOT travel to Ukraine.
___

We should all mutter a prayer of thanks.

Can you imagine what he might have said while there? WW3 is enough of a danger without Meat Puppet's mouth on the loose in a war zone.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 15, 2022 09:15 AM (/AvDT)

307 Cash offer for their listing price with no quibbles.

Someone will flip it and try to sell for $250 in 6 months, but interest rates will be 8% on mortgages by then and it will sit vacant.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 15, 2022 09:15 AM (HY3gN)

308 Drives me crazy how the ordinary citizen--even if Patriot--cannot see that the run of Sundowner Joey shitpants Bidet is simply Barack Insane Odildo 3.0. Ramiriez' cartoon last week was so blatantly true. Valerie Jarret and Susan Rice are probably doing their "summon the spirit of V Lenin" right now as I type this.

Posted by: H8 Marxist Rat Bastards & beaver-sniffing Delawarens at April 15, 2022 09:15 AM (8m/Xb)

309 307 Cash offer for their listing price with no quibbles.

Someone will flip it and try to sell for $250 in 6 months, but interest rates will be 8% on mortgages by then and it will sit vacant.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 15, 2022 09:15 AM (HY3gN)

========

They'll make it up in volume.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 15, 2022 09:15 AM (LvTSG)

310 Who the heck names their kid Rumpelstiltskin?

Posted by: Muldoon at April 15, 2022 09:15 AM (m45I2)

311 The Hold Up Wait a Minute Anne Frankenberry guy will get his Rhodes Scholarship before the perpetrators of RUSSIA are punished in any meaningful way.

Posted by: ... at April 15, 2022 09:16 AM (73i8/)

312 310 Who the heck names their kid Rumpelstiltskin?
Posted by: Muldoon at April 15, 2022 09:15 AM (m45I2)

=======

"Gary was my slave name!"
-Rumpelstiltskin

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 15, 2022 09:16 AM (LvTSG)

313 "Democrats believe Trump's backing of flawed candidates in Republican primaries could saddle the GOP with losers in the general election.
--
I was leaning towards the Oz endorsement being bad.
Until I read up on who he's running against.
Yeah, Oz is the better choice by far: the unknown, likely lib vs. the uniparty lacky, China stooge.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 15, 2022 09:16 AM (yr66z)

314 "Brain dead Democrats vote Democrat irregardless of who is on the Republican ticket.
Posted by: Ziba"


Not just the brain dead ones. My well educated, gentry lib sisters believe the worst of the worst told them by NPR and the NYT about Republicans and cannot be dissuaded. We are all worse than Hitler. But they not brain dead, just brainwashed.

Posted by: Ripley at April 15, 2022 09:16 AM (MxEKc)

315 Catturd
@catturd2

Only people desperate to hide their lies want to control free speech.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 15, 2022 09:16 AM (NpAcC)

316 310 Who the heck names their kid Rumpelstiltskin?
Posted by: Muldoon at April 15, 2022 09:15 AM (m45I2)

Right? Legolas is much better.

Posted by: kraken at April 15, 2022 09:17 AM (Vr12I)

317 Lying to the FBI is a crime? Who knew?

Posted by: Ziba at April 15, 2022 09:17 AM (S1hrL)

318 Housing...

Here in the Bluegrass my wife saw a mobile home on a small-ish lot not far from us... $129K.

Insane

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 15, 2022 09:17 AM (BFigT)

319 Talked with a neighbor yesterday. They put their 61 year old smallish house on the market and the listing went live Wednesday night for $169,000 (they bought the house 5 years ago for $99,000), they had the house sold on Thursday. Cash offer for their listing price with no quibbles. They had two other offers for more than the asking price but they had to wait for the mortgage papers to clear and they didn't want to wait for that. The housing market here in NE Texas is insane.
Posted by: Mister Scott

We didn't get that lucky, but we did sell ours in six days. Stepson listed theirs on a Saturday, had 12 offers by Sunday with a bidding war going on.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2022 09:18 AM (H4qIP)

320 278

All Hail Eris:

https://tinyurl.com/2mzj9mey
Posted by: ... at April 15, 2022 09:08 AM (73i8/)
---


Hide yo kids, hide yo wife:

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

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 15, 2022 09:18 AM (Dc2NZ)

321 Will the person who had Scarlett Johansson in an elevator with a sleazy butt pirate please come to the window to collect your winnings.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 15, 2022 09:19 AM (u82oZ)

322 Posted by: Ripley at April 15, 2022 09:16 AM (MxEKc)

Elected Republicans do not help our cause. Remember for most of our lives its been the Bushes, McCains and Romneys speaking for us. I'm not saying these people love Trump, but he has more crossover appeal by far than those taintlickers.

Posted by: ... at April 15, 2022 09:19 AM (73i8/)

323 Erich Hartmann
@erichhartmann

So let me get this straight: The progressive left is now rooting FOR Saudi Arabia, Wall Street, Vanguard / Blackrock and AGAINST free speech, liberty and the dude who makes electric cars and is going to Mars?

wut

Posted by: redridinghood at April 15, 2022 09:19 AM (NpAcC)

324 Biden does bring President von Hindenburg to mind most days.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Yes, or the last Hapsburg Emperor, Franz Joseph.
Posted by: Tom Servo
------------------------
Have I told you in the past ten minutes that my son was killed in Sarajevo?

Posted by: zombie franz josef at April 15, 2022 09:19 AM (UHVv4)

325 The value of my home has more than doubled in 3 years. This is disturbing, because of the reckoning to come.

Posted by: kraken at April 15, 2022 09:20 AM (Vr12I)

326 280 Yeah but can't see The Ho as chancellor

Posted by: Skip's new phone at April 15, 2022 09:20 AM (2JoB8)

327 Jen Psaki is asked if Peter Doocy is a stupid son of a bitch or does he just play one on tv:

He works for a network that provides people with questions that, nothing personal to any individual including Peter Doocy, but might make anyone sound like a stupid son of a bitch.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 15, 2022 09:20 AM (yrol0)

328 Ya know, it's a little ironic that April 15 is "Emancipation Day" when it's also a constant reminder that we are all wage slaves to the IRS.

Can we all just celebrate the 110th anniversary of both the sinking the Titanic and, with it, the main opposition to the Federal Reserve Bank?

Posted by: IRS at April 15, 2022 09:20 AM (LJsYz)

329 We should all mutter a prayer of thanks.
___

Oh believe me, I do.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 15, 2022 09:20 AM (00enZ)

330 I am fucking tired of these doctors who want to get their face on TV so they get themselves a spot to spout the standard bullshit.

Easter gatherings are going to be a superspreader event. We will likely see a spike in cases. Get vaxxed and boosted! Vax your kids! Boost your kids! Wear a mask! Get tested before gathering! Don't travel, meet virtually! Good lord.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 15, 2022 09:21 AM (HY3gN)

331 Home prices.....did someone mentioning skyrocketing home prices?

We bought stately VIA Manor two years ago for275K.
Four bedroom, nice yard, 2900+ square foot.

I just looked at homes for sale at that price now. I can get either a house trailer, or a 60 year old cottage with the floor coverings all removed, and gutted for the same price.

Or....ours is now estimated at 400K+.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 15, 2022 09:21 AM (3D/fK)

332 @erichhartmann
So let me get this straight: The progressive left is now rooting FOR Saudi Arabia, Wall Street, Vanguard / Blackrock and AGAINST free speech, liberty and the dude who makes electric cars and is going to Mars? ...
Posted by: redridinghood at April 15, 2022 09:19 AM (NpAcC)
++++
Well, yeah. Those things were only bad before they were subverted. Now that they've been subverted, they're good. KSA probably isn't a real ally, but they have some realpolitik reasons.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2022 09:21 AM (DU+/6)

333 The housing market here in NE Texas is insane.
Posted by: Mister Scott

Have you seen all the houses down 78? In town with 20 yard dumpsters in front of them? Someone is gutting the decrepit wreck and redoing them completely. One specific one by the new tire shop.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2022 09:22 AM (H4qIP)

334 We are blessed with our stupid enemies.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 15, 2022 09:22 AM (u82oZ)

335 Good morning, peeps!
A blessed Good Friday, Easter, and Passover to one and all!

Girl spawn has the day off from school but has tennis practice in a bit. Beautiful, sunny day here albeit a bit on the cool side.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at April 15, 2022 09:22 AM (Vxu+H)

336 330 I am fucking tired of these doctors who want to get their face on TV so they get themselves a spot to spout the standard bullshit.

Easter gatherings are going to be a superspreader event. We will likely see a spike in cases. Get vaxxed and boosted! Vax your kids! Boost your kids! Wear a mask! Get tested before gathering! Don't travel, meet virtually! Good lord.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 15, 2022 09:21 AM (HY3gN)

Coming next - kill your pets, just to be safe!

Posted by: kraken at April 15, 2022 09:22 AM (Vr12I)

337 Can we all just celebrate the 110th anniversary of both the sinking the Titanic and, with it, the main opposition to the Federal Reserve Bank?
Posted by: IRS at April 15, 2022 09:20 AM (LJsYz)
++++
That is my favorite conspiracy theory of all time.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2022 09:22 AM (DU+/6)

338 Chairman Meme's Little Red Book will be mandatory reading from Grade 3 and later.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 15, 2022 09:23 AM (UHVv4)

339 Severely conservative OH lawmaker lectures about the conservative case for allowing schools to groom kids because his kid is trans and happy.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 15, 2022 09:23 AM (HY3gN)

340 "The Spread of Ocean's Seafloors Appears to be Slowing"


Oh.My.God! Human-caused climate change is slowing Continental Drift! We're all going to die in 2035 if the next super-continent forms in 325 million years instead of 310 million years! The models are clear on this! Buy an EV NOW!

Posted by: AOC at April 15, 2022 09:23 AM (AMIL/)

341 Fedsurrection, fednapping
DOJ/FBI = democrat Gestapo
Beria agrees.

Posted by: National Review the shiny new Jen Rubin of Conservative Urinalism at April 15, 2022 09:24 AM (jV+aN)

342 328 Ya know, it's a little ironic that April 15 is "Emancipation Day" when it's also a constant reminder that we are all wage slaves to the IRS.

Can we all just celebrate the 110th anniversary of both the sinking the Titanic and, with it, the main opposition to the Federal Reserve Bank?
Posted by: IRS at April 15, 2022 09:20 AM (LJsYz)

wage slaves to the IRS

Its not just wages, it is any income. Work hard, drive 10 YO trucks, put money away AFTER TAXES and then they come after the bucks you get as return from investments.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 15, 2022 09:24 AM (yrol0)

343 Sorry to interrupt this sober and solemn MR with stoopid fun shit, but here's a compilation of funny local news interviews: ...
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 15, 2022 09:01 AM (Dc2NZ)
++++
The Crichton Leprechaun is way up there:
https://youtu.be/K1ljOcl39PQ

Dude is definitely making hay while the sun shines. These people don't believe a word of it, but hey - they're on TV and spinning a tale.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2022 09:24 AM (DU+/6)

344 Every time the valuation of houses goes up, the government gets more tax revenue. At some point, there is no more free money to tax. Act accordingly with local officials.

FWIW, I made 3 tax reductions in my first term, and even after I had (alas) to raise the mill levy this year, I still take out less taxes than when I was elected in 2016. It can be done.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 15, 2022 09:25 AM (u82oZ)

345 Zillow can't be right. Prompted by you guys talking housing costs, I just checked my house and Zillow claims the value is up 4.6% in the last thirty days.

Now, that's some kind of inflation.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 15, 2022 09:25 AM (/AvDT)

346 Hey, watch out for that iceberg!

Posted by: some guy on the deck of Titanic at April 15, 2022 09:26 AM (88xKn)

347 Oh.My.God! Human-caused climate change is slowing Continental Drift! We're all going to die in 2035 if the next super-continent forms in 325 million years instead of 310 million years! The models are clear on this! Buy an EV NOW!
Posted by: AOC at April 15, 2022 09:23 AM (AMIL/)

The increase in CO2 in the last 200 years has ending starvation in most of the world.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 15, 2022 09:26 AM (yrol0)

348 Speaking of housing costs and inventory shortage:

So I notice that a home in Fairfax county comes complete with a squatter in the basement. The 3500 sqft home, built in 1964 has a number of other problems too that would likely add a minimum of $25k to remediate.

Yet it had five offers, and was under contract in two days, and was listed at $800k.

The party listing the home for sale didn't know how to get rid of the squatter, and the legal mechanisms that exist promise a three month or longer ordeal to remove.

I'm sure that The Horde™ could come up with more cost effective and rapid disposal methods.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 15, 2022 09:26 AM (AHeqJ)

349 Nice photoshop JJ

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 15, 2022 09:27 AM (kf6Ak)

350 345 Zillow can't be right. Prompted by you guys talking housing costs, I just checked my house and Zillow claims the value is up 4.6% in the last thirty days.

Now, that's some kind of inflation.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 15, 2022 09:25 AM (/AvDT)

========

Mine's up 5.6% in the last 30 days.

Now, if only my money could grow that fast.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 15, 2022 09:27 AM (LvTSG)

351 347 Oh.My.God! Human-caused climate change is slowing Continental Drift! We're all going to die in 2035 if the next super-continent forms in 325 million years instead of 310 million years! The models are clear on this! Buy an EV NOW!
Posted by: AOC at April 15, 2022 09:23 AM (AMIL/)

The increase in CO2 in the last 200 years has ending starvation in most of the world.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 15, 2022 09:26 AM (yrol0)

========

Why do you think the elite hate it?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 15, 2022 09:27 AM (LvTSG)

352 The zesstimate on my property is up 25% in 30 days. Lol.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 15, 2022 09:28 AM (HY3gN)

353 Sorry to interrupt this sober and solemn MR with stoopid fun shit, but here's a compilation of funny local news interviews: ...
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 15, 2022 09:01 AM (Dc2NZ)
++++
The Crichton Leprechaun is way up there:
https://youtu.be/K1ljOcl39PQ

Dude is definitely making hay while the sun shines. These people don't believe a word of it, but hey - they're on TV and spinning a tale.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2022 09:24 AM (DU+/6)
********
Lol. Now do the Easter Bunny.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 15, 2022 09:28 AM (NpAcC)

354 "Easter gatherings are going to be a superspreader event. We will likely see a spike in cases. Get vaxxed and boosted! Vax your kids! Boost your kids! Wear a mask! Get tested before gathering! Don't travel, meet virtually! Good lord.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy"


They are still pushing the vax for young kids on the radio around here. It is as if the propaganda tapes are on an endless loop and somebody in charge of it quit or died. It is maddening to hear it.

Posted by: Ripley at April 15, 2022 09:28 AM (MxEKc)

355 So, when they say "our democracy" it really means "our socialism."

"Our democracy" comes from the Greek "Rule by Democrats" or "Rule by our people"

Posted by: t-bird at April 15, 2022 09:28 AM (ELgVT)

356 313

The GOP is saddled with its own "in residence" flaws.
Start there.

Posted by: Ziba at April 15, 2022 09:28 AM (S1hrL)

357 347

The increase in CO2 in the last 200 years has ending starvation in most of the world.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 15, 2022 09:26 AM (yrol0)

Yep. A warm wet climate has always been better for everything and everyone. But that goes against the Cult.

Posted by: kraken at April 15, 2022 09:29 AM (Vr12I)

358 354 They are still pushing the vax for young kids on the radio around here. It is as if the propaganda tapes are on an endless loop and somebody in charge of it quit or died. It is maddening to hear it.
Posted by: Ripley at April 15, 2022 09:28 AM (MxEKc)

=========

I got a mailer about vaxxing my kids.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 15, 2022 09:29 AM (LvTSG)

359 Okay, I'll play, too. Since I bought this place in the Winter of 2020,
Zillow: +24.5%
Redfin: +30.9%

This is the first time I have ever seen Redfin "estimate" higher than Zillow. I actually hope it *isn't* true, because if it is then it's a long way down.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2022 09:29 AM (DU+/6)

360 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 15, 2022 09:29 AM (Zz0t1)

361 At best, this is going forward with a fundamental misunderstanding of the facts and at worst, it is the weaponization of the criminal justice system for political purposes so Im not going to play into that, FUCK Hidalgo whined to ABC13 on Wednesday. My staffers are hardworking people. They work day and night for the people of Harris County and weve got work to do, like this catalytic converter issue or like childhood education, homelessness, huge wins.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 15, 2022 09:29 AM (yrol0)

362 May The Lord forgive me, but I hope and pray that Joe Biden is suffering mightily with his affliction. He is the Devil incarnate and has wrought havoc on this country like no one has ever seen. He and his inbred trailer trash family has sold out the citizens of this country and can't burn hot enough to make amends.

I wish them nothing but pain and suffering for what they've done.


HAPPY EASTER!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 15, 2022 09:29 AM (Zz0t1)

363 Good morning, peeps!
A blessed Good Friday, Easter, and Passover to one and all!

Girl spawn has the day off from school but has tennis practice in a bit. Beautiful, sunny day here albeit a bit on the cool side.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench)

Backatcha Madame !

Posted by: JT at April 15, 2022 09:30 AM (arJlL)

364
=========

I got a mailer about vaxxing my kids.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 15, 2022 09:29 AM (LvTSG)


Write "return to sender" in poo and put it in a drop box.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 15, 2022 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

365 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2022 09:24 AM (DU+/6)

It's like a whole community got together and agreed to troll the news!

The guy directing traffic on a dead end street is my hero.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 15, 2022 09:30 AM (Dc2NZ)

366 The 3rd Bus has arrived in DC with illegals.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 15, 2022 09:30 AM (NpAcC)

367 It's like a whole community got together and agreed to troll the news!

The guy directing traffic on a dead end street is my hero.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 15, 2022 09:30 AM (Dc2NZ)
++++
That segment is comedy gold. And the newstalkers very much think those people are insane and stupid, and don't seem to realize that they're being screwed with.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2022 09:31 AM (DU+/6)

368 Christ is up on Art Thread

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2022 09:32 AM (H4qIP)

369 Zillow give me a valuation of 57% above what I paid in August 2020. Based on recent sales in my neighborhood I could put in on the market at that price and have multiple offers in three days for 5-10% more than that.

Posted by: Ripley at April 15, 2022 09:35 AM (MxEKc)

370 I'm surprised they're not sending Kamalaho to the War Zone.

Posted by: ... at April 15, 2022 09:35 AM (aXigK)

371 366 The 3rd Bus has arrived in DC with illegals.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 15, 2022 09:30 AM (NpAcC)


What's to stop Biden from shipping them off somewhere else?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 15, 2022 09:35 AM (s2VJv)

372 I'm not reading a story about a lizard gang rape. I'm just not.

My husband and I were talking about the mortgage rates and reminiscing on when we bought our respective first houses. I had something like six and a quarter, and I thought that was amazing.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at April 15, 2022 09:36 AM (8548M)

373 > The 3rd Bus has arrived in DC with illegals.
____________

So... 60-ish out of what? 6 million...

Abbott should have rounded up every last illegal in Texas, put 'em on a freight train, packed into boxcars and told the engineer not to stop until he hits the trainyard in Anacostia.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 15, 2022 09:36 AM (BFigT)

374 372 I'm not reading a story about a lizard gang rape. I'm just not.
-----------------
Lizards are cold blooded. So to rape one you'd need to set it out in the sun for awhile. Unless you are necrophiliac.

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 15, 2022 09:37 AM (tiR3O)

375 Abbott should have rounded up every last illegal in Texas, put 'em on a freight train, packed into boxcars and told the engineer not to stop until he hits the trainyard in Anacostia.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 15, 2022 09:36 AM (BFigT)

That would have been fun, and it's no fun to defend Abbott. But he is operating at the legal limits of what he has the power to do. It goes on because he's found a way to keep the operation going without the Courts having an excuse to get involved. Anything more and the first Judge that heard the case would shut it down within 24 hours.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 15, 2022 09:38 AM (r46W7)

376 Since I bought my home in 1998 it has increased in value 300%. All funny numbers in my opinion

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at April 15, 2022 09:39 AM (flINI)

377 The teams unite to catch a not one but 3 Monitor Lizards. They ate one but wait until you see how they utilize the other 2 to have some fun and work out some stress and aggression while forming a bond between teams and individuals that will last a lifetime.
Don't miss out on next Sunday at 7pm for very special 3 hour episode of Naked and Afraid XL.

Posted by: Next time on Naked and Afraid XL at April 15, 2022 09:50 AM (fH5l6)

378 Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald

Yesterday was a flagship day in corporate media. It was the day they were forced to explicitly state what has long been clear: they not only favor censorship but desperately crave and depend on it. Even if Musk doesn't buy Twitter, never forget what yesterday revealed. [ ... ]

Let's put it this way: On Google/YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, you are free to say the 2000 and 2016 elections were stolen and fraudulent. You can't say that about 2020. Before the 2020 election, you weren't allowed to post reporting on the Biden emails. It's all ideological.

Read it all.

Thread: https://bit.ly/3vkU0Xt
ThreadReaderApp Link: https://bit.ly/3uH4uRM

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 15, 2022 09:54 AM (Do5/p)

379

HEAVY, a good,solid Source for any
Overheated News claims:

https://heavy.com/news
/patrick-lyoya-video-full-graphic/

*I'm recently retired,
trying to Learn info-gathering.
as a Worker-Bee, was fully
immersed in that grind.

Posted by: zigzag at April 15, 2022 09:57 AM (4+mTE)

380 Anyone have any decent animation skills? Draw in some cartoon character, and an obviously cartoon character, to accept the hand shake?

Kind of like those stick-like additions to various GIFs to make them funny, like the dog without forelegs that walked just on his hindlegs... and drawing him waving and saluting with stick arms?

Posted by: Another Anon at April 15, 2022 10:03 AM (bW28E)

381 Since I bought my home in 1998 it has increased in value 300%. All funny numbers in my opinion
Posted by: Truck Monkey
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Just read that home values are being assessed higher, way higher this year. Luckily we have a 10% cap on what we can actually be taxed on. I still expect to pay substantially more in property taxes this year. Also my tax return was filed yesterday.... and we owe a big chunk ....again. I even upped my withholding $400/month last year. Between the inflation and taxes we're making way less than 2 years ago even though it looks like we're making more on paper..... I hate this administration!!!

Posted by: lin-duh at April 15, 2022 10:12 AM (UUBmN)

382
Heavy.com
Grand Rapids
Authorities,Investigation--

https://archive.ph/mSUpD

Posted by: zigzag at April 15, 2022 10:26 AM (Vk6q0)

383 Has any attorney representing a J6 defendant brought a habeas corpus petition based on deprivation of the Federal Constitutional right to a speedy trial?

Not previous prosecution, not statutory speedy trial or readiness rule, but Federal Constitutional right to a speedy trial? Barker v Wingo.

Posted by: Tonawanda at April 15, 2022 10:35 AM (iY46z)

384 How God Through Christ Kept An Ancient Promise To Abraham

ED
Well she was speaking in Esperanto at the time through a translation device producing unintelligible ancient Sumerian dialect of unknown origin. But I have been assured by experts from the intel community they used the double secret Captain Midnight Ovaltine decoder ring to translate the message according to the preordained outcome they had been dictated to produce. In this case at least JFC was playing the Jack Ruby Character in this new age farce come absurdist charade made for TV mini series documentary offered thru CNN and Disney Plus. Stay tuned for the forthcoming episode - Resurrection - The Sequel.

Posted by: Ray at April 15, 2022 11:01 AM (sw3xv)

385 'Yes we have free speech but there are limits.'

That Bari Weiss?

Posted by: Patchy at April 15, 2022 11:04 AM (KoeRN)

386 290 Wow. If you're a guy reduced to banging monitor lizards, then-

then banging a goat must make you feel like you're banging Scar-Jo.

Winning?

Posted by: naturalfake at April 15, 2022 09:11 AM (FwckK)

Too bad they didn't try that with a tiger. I'm sure the results would have been...exciting.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 15, 2022 11:10 AM (ynpvh)

387 385 'Yes we have free speech but there are limits.'

That Bari Weiss?

Posted by: Patchy at April 15, 2022 11:04 AM (KoeRN)

And here I thought the Constitutional limits were on Government...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 15, 2022 11:11 AM (ynpvh)

388 "Shanghai is home to China's wealthiest people and industries."

Xi is looking at Ukraine and hesitating on Taiwan. Pooty is looking at Shanghai and worrying about his oligarchs. Ukes are looking for the next fat warship.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at April 15, 2022 11:13 AM (Ucb0d)

389 After we figured out that only the old and very sick/obese were dying of Covid, they came up with "long Covid."

The key is keep the enemy unseen/unverifiable for maximum panic and inability to falsify.

Posted by: Zek at April 15, 2022 11:16 AM (OzNIz)

390 389 After we figured out that only the old and very sick/obese were dying of Covid, they came up with "long Covid."

The key is keep the enemy unseen/unverifiable for maximum panic and inability to falsify.
Posted by: Zek at April 15, 2022 11:16 AM (OzNIz)


See also: Climate Change Predictions

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 15, 2022 11:18 AM (s2VJv)

391 388 Ukes are looking for the next fat warship.
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at April 15, 2022 11:13 AM (Ucb0d)


How about the Price of Wales? Nudge Nudge Wink Wink. . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 15, 2022 11:18 AM (s2VJv)

392 The Fed's shut down the entire "Big Five" accounting firm of Arthur Andersen due to the Enron scandal. Not everyone at Arthur Andersen worked on or was complicit with the Enron corruption, didn't matter, they all had to go. The same justice never applies to the Feds.

Posted by: TitanTom at April 15, 2022 11:44 AM (oQ1G4)

393 >A nation is its history, its culture and the willingness of its citizenry to support it

Liar.

"natio". Birth. GENETICS.

The STATE is a political construct. The NATION is physically derived from the people constituting it, and cannot be changed any more than a boy can be changed into a girl.

Posted by: rold at April 16, 2022 07:50 AM (ftZ3t)

394 I've been reading your website for a few years, I enjoy it and I like the garden section especially. I would like to send you some pictures of wild flowers in Arizona; If you receive this post, please send me your e-mail address. Thanks. Leila

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