The Morning Report

The Morning Report - 5/30/22

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Good morning, kids. Today is Memorial Day, and I will have a separate post in a short while devoted solely for remembrance, introspection and prayer for those who gave their lives for our freedoms, such as they are or were.

In the meantime, the beat-down goes on. While Malig-Nancy Pelosi, battling it out for the title of most horrible woman in America (she remains turkey-neck and neck with Hillary Clinton) was off at Brown University reciting her litany of horseshit accented by the occasional grand mal seizure, her husband, Big Paulie got himself pinched for drunk driving back in Napa. I assume it was near one of their vineyards. Can you blame the old bastard? If you were married to that, you'd have to be drunk off your ass just to take the edge off, even when the ball and chain is 3,000 miles away. You'd think sharing a bank account worth millions from decades of political graft and inherited Baltimore mob money would improve one's morale, but I guess even that wears thin if you're forced to endure waking up next to that beast. Meh, Big Paulie will get a slap on the wrist and the officers who pulled him over written up for not recognizing his royal/untouchable status.

Just like Broward County's ex-sheriff Scott Israel.

Just like traitor, I mean "national hero" Kevin Clinesmith.

And now, just like those wonderful ham 'n eggers at the FIB who fucked up the Larry Nasser investigation.

After all, this is America, the land of the freebie and the home of the enslaved.

Meanwhile, President Sponge Brain Shits Pants actually got within 50 miles of the southern border yesterday, albeit completely unintentionally. Considering he and his handlers are hell bent on absolutely erasing our borders and national sovereignty to China and the Great Reset Co-Prosperity Sphere, it's the last place he wanted to be. Well, at least he and Jill the Shill get to stand on the corpses of the victims and hurl invective at two thirds of the nation.

The [so-called quote-unquote "president"] is right to visit Uvalde, but there’s no reason he can’t visit the border too, even though he will most likely use his trip to grandstand about restricting Americans’ access to guns. Uvalde is about an hour from illegal immigration hotspots such as Eagle Pass and Del Rio, making them an easy stop for Biden, who hasn’t visited the border in more than a decade, next week. . .
. . . Biden’s deliberate decision to avoid the ongoing border crisis because it is politically inconvenient for him and his plummeting approval rating is not an isolated event. As Fox News White House Correspondent Peter Doocy noted to the White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre in a press briefing last week, Biden rushed to visit Buffalo, N.Y. after a deadly grocery store shooting by a white supremacist but not Waukesha, Wis. after a criminal who called for violence against white people mowed down dozens of Christmas parade performers and bystanders.

Politically inconvenient as in an absolute disaster, both politically and in real life terms. Crime, disease, societal dissolution and even terrorism are flooding up and drowning us. But let's blame guns. And let's blame white people with guns. Despite the fact that tragic though it is, what happened in Uvalde is essentially a statistical rarity, while black youth have been committing a Uvalde every single weekend against each other for years already in every ADI (Area of Democrat-Dominated Indifference) across the country.

There are people who get it.

Elon Musk:

"I strongly believe that the right to bear arms is an important safeguard against potential tyranny of government," wrote Musk in the email to CNBC. "Historically, maintaining their power over the people is why those in power did not allow public ownership of guns,” he added.

Ted Cruz:

“It’s far easier to slander one’s political adversaries and to demand that responsible citizens forfeit their constitutional rights than it is to examine the cultural sickness giving birth to unspeakable acts of evil,” Cruz said. “It’s far less comfortable to ask why despair and isolation and violent hatred is so prevalent in America. It requires a sick soul to drive a truck into a crowded sidewalk, to plan a bomb at a marathon, or to fly a plane into a building. It requires a sick soul to open fire in a movie theater or in a church or in a school. A speeding automobile in the hands of a madman is as deadly as is a jet airplane.”

And yet we get this from loathsome, criminal slug Chris Murphy:

“What we’re talking about is not insignificant. Inside this room, we’re talking about red flag laws. We’re talking about strengthening, expanding the background check system. We’re talking about safe storage, but yes, we’re also talking about mental health resources and more security dollars for schools. A package that really, in the end, could have a significant downward pressure on gun violence in this country and break the logjam.”

Yes, gentle reader. Elon Musk and Ted Cruz (at least in this instance) are outliers. Murphy might be a lying, filthy sack of shit but in this instance, he's probably stating the emmes truth that the GOP is ready, willing and able to gut whatever is left of the Second Amendment even further. We'll see what actually happens but even if this does blow over and no new edicts are rammed through, the silence on the real causes and perpetrators of Uvalde and every other mass shooting — as well as every other act of violence that amount to political terrorism is deafening.

It is the intentional societal, cultural rot imported to this nation nearly 100 years ago by Soviet agents, supercharged by our own homegrown Marxists that have destroyed our families, our morality and ethics, our faith and fostered dangerous mental pathologies to the extent that we have the blood and carnage of Uvalde, the human abattoirs of Planned Parenthood and Kermit Gosnell, and black youth gunning themselves into extinction.

The guilt for all of it rests at the feet of the Democrat Party and the Leftists. If nothing is done, it will ultimately consume us as well.

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

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Roger Kimball: "In recoiling from the fragmentation of values that characterizes modernity, MacIntyre has presented less an alternative to the depredations of liberal individualism than an escape from its challenges."
Alasdair MacIntyre’s Essential Liberalism
Daniel Greenfield: "The issue isn’t school shootings, it’s crime."
In the BLM Year, 52% of Black Teens Who Died Were Murdered

SECOND AMENDMENT, UVALDE MASS MURDER

"The retired agent is believed to be one of six people who had regular contact with the attacker in an extremist online chat room."
Retired Federal Agent May Have Known Of Buffalo Shooting In Advance: Report
The source says mid-level managers from the Border Patrol were tasked to decide who will attend and feels those left out will assume their role in the event was unimportant. “It appears now as if this planned meeting was nothing more than a photo opportunity with the law enforcement community,” the source says.
Many Border Patrol Agents, Cops Who Responded to Uvalde School Shooting Uninvited from Biden Event
"The reports about Ramos’s background seem a lot more sketchy than they should."
Regarding the Uvalde Shooter, Are We Really Being Told the Truth?
"Inside this room, we’re talking about red flag laws. We’re talking about strengthening, expanding the background check system. We’re talking about safe storage, but yes, we’re also talking about mental health resources and more security dollars for schools. A package that really, in the end, could have a significant downward pressure on gun violence in this country and break the logjam.” (outside in America, we're talking about something else entirely, asshole - jjs)
Dem Sen. Murphy: Republicans Negotiating Federal Gun Laws in a "Significant Way Right Now"
"The lengths that they’ll go to in order to argue for gun control are amazing, including inflating — or at least confusing — school shooting statistics."
How (and Why) the Media Deliberately Inflates the Numbers on School Shootings
They'll conclude the department wasn't diverse or transexual enough, and did not use proper pronouns properly.
Justice Department Launches Probe of Uvalde Police’s Botched Response to School Shooting
"Leftists want gun control and Republicans want mental health funding but it’s naïve to point to only one pivotal cause or moment when there were really several."
A Series of Critical Failures Led to the Uvalde Tragedy

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Boom. Nailed it.
Elon Musk: "The Right to Bear Arms is an Important Safeguard Against Potential Tyranny of Government"
“It’s far easier to slander one’s political adversaries and to demand that responsible citizens forfeit their constitutional rights than it is to examine the cultural sickness giving birth to unspeakable acts of evil.”
Ted Cruz Gives Fiery Defense of Second Amendment: We’re Not Responding to Tragedy By Giving Up Rights
"Until we are willing to address the breakdown of family and community, nothing will change, the massacres will continue."
School Shootings Aren’t Caused By Faulty Gun Laws But By the Collapse of the Family
"These events only fuel the efforts of demagogues to use them for other sleazy political purposes."
Something About School Shootings
"After what happened in Uvalde, why on earth would anyone give up their weapons and trust to police to do anything?"
No Duty to Protect
"Reflections on law enforcement’s failure in Uvalde."
Police Must Rush to the Sound of the Guns
CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
“Maintaining a white supremacist institution like policing costs Black lives,” the group wrote. “This continued commitment by politicians to support our killers makes them accessories to our demise.” (Buy Large Mansions - jjs)
BLM Rails Against Biden Executive Order: "Policing" is a "White Supremacist Institution" Rooted in "Slave Patrolling"
"Patrisse Cullors admits she’s made a 'few mistakes' as the ugly headlines continue to mount over her scandalous spending as the disgraced former leader of Black Lives Matter."
Patrisse Cullors: Martyr to the IRS
". . . Indeed, the ADL admits that the majority of murders it attributes to white supremacists were non-ideological."
The ADL Murder Report That Cried "White Supremacist"
"The focus of DEI programs is blame culture and scapegoating — they harm, rather than help, our efforts to build a culture of equal respect and dignity."
Opposing DEI (more like DIE - jjs)
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
“Instead of running from the threat, she engaged with the threat and saved several lives last night.”
West Virginia: Legally-Armed Woman Saves Lives By Shooting Would-be Mass Shooter
. . . thirteen of Nassar’s victims are currently seeking a 410 million settlement each from the FBI over the agents’ mishandling of the investigation."
Justice Department Declines to Prosecute FBI Agents Who Mishandled Larry Nassar Case
"It was not clear Sunday night whether the incident was being investigated as a hate crime against an Asian New Yorker — a persistent problem since the onset of the pandemic, which some politicians labeled the 'China Virus.' Some claimed the attack was a case of vigilante justice. Cops said they are looking into the video." (not that it in any way excuses violence against innocent Asians, but it was a Chinese Virus, asshole editors of the NY Post
Video Shows Men Holding Down, Beating Asian Man in NYC Subway Station
THE ECONOMY, STUPID, & THE DEMOCRAT WAR ON OIL,
"The Democrats' War on Oil comes home."
America's Economic "Bad Luck" Began with Keystone
"[So-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden has raided the Strategic Petroleum Reserve three times, but the actions have had minimal impact on oil and gasoline prices, data showed."
Every Time Biden Drained Strategic Oil Reserves, Prices Ended Up Higher. Here’s the Proof
“Rolling back the tariffs on China would undermine the U.S. position in negotiations, expose many U.S. companies and workers to a sudden flood of imports, and signal to China that waiting out the United States is preferable to changing their non-market behavior or complying with the Phase One Agreement,” the Senators wrote.
Both Senate Republicans AND Democrats Rebuke Joe Biden, Janet Yellen: "Tariffs Are Not a Driver of Today’s Inflation"
"Rampant inflation dooms the incumbent, vindicates right-wing economic theories, and sets back the post-war liberal welfare project a generation. Those are not the words of a Wall Street Journal editorial, but of Joe Biden. They came during an interview in 1987, at the early stages of Biden's first presidential run."
How Biden Stopped Worrying and Learned To Love Inflation
"FDA chief Robert Califf admits his agency’s bureaucrats were ‘too slow’ to act."
Out-of-Stock Rates Surge to 70% for Baby Formula
"Not only does the action stretch the definition of 'defense' way beyond breaking point, it does nothing to fix the underlying problem."
Militarizing the Baby Formula Crisis is Infantile
"So what solution did they come up with? Lean into high prices. This is Putin's doing, yes, but it is also part of the glorious green energy transition which will leave us all better off! That is to say: Don't worry, this was all part of the plan. It's a desperate move and it isn't going to help them in November.
All Part of the Plan
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Motion filed in trial court today: “If Defendants wanted to stay execution of the mandate of the Ninth District Court of Appeals, they were required to seek that stay in the Ohio Supreme Court. They did not. Plaintiffs are entitled to judgment on the surety bond ….”
Oops – Gibson’s Bakery Seeks To Execute On $36 Million Appeal Bond Since Oberlin College Failed To Obtain Stay Of Appeals Court Mandate
"The one-time Fox News journalist exposes how the left wraps hardcore censorship in the loving mantle of public safety."
Carl Cameron Embodies the Leftist Drive to Censorship
"This list could be far longer: there’s no shortage of targets. But make no mistake. Government officials and media mandarins are all too willing to brandish 'expert' status as they’re selling you a load of bull."
The Shameful Six: Never Listen to These People Again
"It's like something out of a mob movie, except in this movie, the mob is the State."
The Mafia Tactic That Brought Down CNN
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"Biden’s deliberate decision to avoid the ongoing border crisis because it is politically inconvenient for him is not an isolated event."
Biden’s Uvalde Visit Will Be the Closest He’s Been to the Border Since Assuming Office
Daniel Greenfield: "The latest ISIS refugee terror plot shows why we need a travel ban right now."
Bush Opposed "Muslim Ban": The One That Would Have Stopped a Terror Plot Against Him
AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
“Joe Biden’s decision to reenter the WHO on his first day in office perfectly represents his America last agenda. Taxpayers should not be forced to fund a destructive and anti-American organization. The WHO must answer for lying about [Chinese] COVID and the lab leak theory, kowtowing to the Chinese Communist Party, and its role in promoting destructive global lockdowns'”
House Republicans Call on Biden to Withdraw from World Health Organization
"The same medical establishment that denied the existence of effective treatments for [Chinese] COVID in their push for vaccines, now works against those injured by them. But there is hope."
Hope for the Vaccine Injured
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"Inflation is putting many things on hold."
Wind and Solar Will Have to Wait
"The environmental organizations have full veto power on all energy projects through the legal system."
Why Does Boston Buy Natural Gas From Russia?
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"Wisconsin schools are already infused with leftist, Marxist, racist, and queer indocutrination. A better more productive response would be for Darlingh to open up her own small single-room school, offering parents an option to the corrupt public schools. She would likely make almost as much money, while being her own boss."
Today's Blacklisted American: Teacher Threatened With Loss of License for Expressing an Opinion
"Some key reforms could restore accountability in higher education, making colleges affordable and focused on actually educating students."
Can America’s Colleges and Universities Be Saved?
ABORTION
"She babbles about the 'Gospel of Matthew' while accusing the Church of playing politics."
Malig-Nancy Pelosi’s Lame Response to Archbishop Cordileone
"Why Janet Yellen has so much in common with Margaret Sanger."
Abortion and the Progressive Agenda
"We’ve created a culture of death, and now we have to live with it."
A Culture That Celebrates Dismembering Children in the Womb Can’t Understand Why It’s Afflicted With Mass Shootings
"Get this one right, and the whole issue is solved."
The Only Relevant Question About Abortion
THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH
"Filed by the Thomas More Society on behalf of voters against Green Bay, Kenosha, Madison, Milwaukee, and Racine, the legal complaints allege that city officials ignored state law by implementing unmanned drop boxes over the course of the 2020 cycle."
Wisconsin Voters Sue Democrat Cities Over Illegal Drop Boxes In 2020 Election
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
"Margot Cleveland: "The evidence prosecutors elicited from witnesses over the last two weeks provides overwhelming proof of Sussmann’s guilt."
Why The Jury Should Convict Michael Sussmann of Lying to the FBI, But Probably Won’t
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
Miranda Devine: ". . . Hunter’s team is attempting to sow confusion about how the laptop became public, by denying that he abandoned his laptop in John Paul Mac Isaac’s Delaware repair shop on April 12, 2019, and claiming his private information was somehow stolen, 'hacked' or 'cloned.'”
Tangled Web: New Bid to Spin Hunter Biden’s Laptop
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
The exact details of the arrest have yet to be released, as well as the mugshot of the person arrested, a “Paul Pelosi.” However, as TMZ also reported, the description of the 82-year-old aligns with his publicly known description, particularly his birthday — April 15, 1940.
Malig-Nancy Pelosi’s Husband Paul Pelosi Arrested for DUI in Napa Valley
"Generation Investment Management, which Gore formed in 2004, has stakes in Tencent, Anta, and Alibaba . . . Tencent, a tech conglomerate, routinely censors the internet at the behest of the Chinese Communist Party and has surveilled foreign users of its WeChat messaging app. Anta, a sports apparel company, has faced accusations of using cotton sourced from labor camps in Xinjiang. Alibaba, which operates China's equivalent to Google, has links to the People's Liberation Army."
Inconvenient Truth: Al Gore’s ‘Woke’ Firm Invests in Chinese Slave Labor
POLITICS
Robert Spencer: "The part of the speech that got the most attention was when Joe whispered, 'I’m your commander-in-chief.' And yeah, that is the scariest part."
Confused Old Man Shouts at Navy Grads That Putin Wants to "Findalize" Europe
"Endless, nonsensical, bloody, horrible wars."
Trump Targets Liz-ard Cheney at Wyoming Rally
"The Cook Political Report expects Republicans to pick up 'between 20 and 35 seats,' Wasserman wrote, enough for the GOP to retake the House."
Dems Keep Hoping Their Midterm Chances Are Getting Better. Election Forecasters Say They’re Wrong.
"The Keystone State’s unresolved primary was a test of populism vs. moderation."
Down with the Status Quo in Pennsylvania
"The Democrat Party's goal of cementing a permanent majority through demographic change and immigration policy is a case study of what happens when assumptions about the seriousness of the relationship are taken too far. "
Uneasy Bedfellows
"The California GOP remains committed to its decline."
Permanent Irrelevance
"Georgians focused on the future and the GOP candidates who could ensure a better Georgia going forward. Those candidates, whether at the state or congressional level, are the ones in office now."
Georgia's Primary Demonstrates How Incumbency Mattered to Voters
"They are not authentic nor do they reflect reality."
Beware of Fake Polls and Paid Endorsements
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
Victor Davis Hanson: "We are on new ground, in which a nonnuclear Western ally—understandably but dangerously—may now seek to destroy a nuclear Russia’s assets on Russian soil or in neutral or even Russian seas."
What Now, Ukraine?
". . . some see it as just another provocation against Russia that may make it harder to negotiate a peace."
U.S. Prepares to Send Long-Range Rocket Systems to Ukraine
Mollie Hemingway: "Voters across the political spectrum are souring on the Biden-McConnell foreign policy approach toward Ukraine."
Mitch McConnell’s Media Tour to Brag About Defeating GOP Opponents of Biden’s Foreign Policy Was Remarkably Ill-Advised
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"The mullahs in Tehran are now only weeks away from producing weapons grade uranium as Iran's proxies menace our Middle Eastern allies."
On Iran, Biden’s Minimum Pressure Campaign Comes Home To Roost
Robert Spencer: "Treasonous actions by the minion of the first post-American [so-called quote-unquote] president."
Revealed: New Info on Kerry’s Efforts to Undermine Trump’s Iran Policy
"Their decision to do so was the latest illustration of gridlock in the world body’s most powerful organ, as Moscow and Beijing work together to counter U.S.-led efforts to enforce international norms, including through the use of sanctions."
Russia and China Veto Resolution Responding to North Korean Missile Launches; First Time in 15 Years
Israel’s Ynet News: “[S]everal marchers were attacked and injured by Palestinians in several locations around the Old City in the clashes that preceded the rally.”
Jerusalem Day: 50,000 Flag-Waving Israelis March Through the Old City, Defying Hamas Terror Threats
"After repressive rule often comes an opportunity for change. But it’s temporary, and democracies have missed it before."
What Will Happen to China After Xi’s Second Term?
"With rumors swirling about China invading Taiwan, it’s worth thinking about the CCP’s strengths and weaknesses."
The Practical Realities If China Invades Taiwan
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Raymond Ibrahim: "After centuries of brutal warfare, by 1492, the last Muslim-held territory in Spain, Granada, was liberated. And it all came to pass thanks to Pelayo’s Asturian mustard seed, planted nearly eight hundred years earlier at the battle of Covadonga."
Today in History: A Christian "Mustard Seed" Liberates Spain From Islam
Raymond Ibrahim Part Deux: "Coming from the developers of 'Combat Islamophobia Day.'”
European Parliament: Don't Mention Christian Persecution
"Even as socialism seems ascendant in America, we commit a grave error if we ignore Islam’s 1,400 years (and counting) of brutal conquest and subjugation." (there is no "radical" Islam; only Islam - jjs)
A Compelling Book Warns of the Dangers of Radical Islam
"An infamous Imam unveils the face of Islam."
Why a Slain Palestinian Journalist is Not a Martyr
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
"REVIEW: Paul Kennedy’s Victory at Sea."
How We Achieved Naval Supremacy—And How We Could Lose It
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE, THE COURTS
“More than any time in our history, the various factors currently impacting our operation — weather and air traffic control, vendor staffing, increased [Chinese] COVID case rates contributing to higher-than-planned unscheduled absences in some work groups — are resulting in an operation that isn’t consistently up to the standards Delta has set for the industry in recent years,” Allison Ausband, the airline’s customer experience officer, said in a press release.
Hundreds of Flight Cancellations Ruin Memorial Day Weekend for US Travelers
“Many forecasters believe the number of travelers will match or even exceed levels in the good-old, pre-pandemic days,” writes the AP’s David Koenig. “However, airlines have thousands fewer employees than they did in 2019, and that has at times contributed to widespread flight cancellations.”
Biden-Era Problems Are Already Plaguing the Busiest Travel Season Since 2019
John Stossel: "Planning to fly this summer? Good luck."
Government Delays Flights
Abolish the SBA. Problem solved.
Small Business Administration Had No Plan To Stop Billions of Dollars in Loan Fraud, Report Finds
"We shouldn’t worry about the big cities. Rich people will always want to live in the cultural and commercial hubs. And the poor will live in cities where the welfare benefits are most generous. But the middle class has already decided to find someplace else to live and work. And that spells trouble for the future of these metropolises."
The Real "Great Replacement" Theory
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"America’s mental health decline coincides almost perfectly with the invention of smartphones and the popularization of social media. The number of mass shootings, especially those conducted by young males, also ticks up in the same time period." (I pin it with the free-love/women's lib movement and societal dissolution of the 60s, but this for sure didn't help - jjs)
The Collapse of Teen Mental Health — And Deadly Mass Shootings — Can Be Traced to One Single Trend
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
“On Monday night into Tuesday morning, the Earth may cross paths with the remnants of comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (SW3), a defunct comet that broke apart in 1995,” Accuweather meteorologist Brian Lada explained. “After SW3 splintered into countless pieces nearly three decades ago, debris from the breakup could intersect the Earth at the end of Memorial Day weekend. If this comes to fruition, it could spark a brief but intense meteor shower over North America.” (Triffids, anyone? - jjs)
Rare Meteor Storm Could Strike Over Holiday Weekend, Astronomers Say
"Capitalism in space: Stratolaunch [Thursday] released the first pictures of its first Talon-A test vehicle, dubbed TA-0, to be used to test in-flight the pylon on the company’s giant Roc airplane that the Talon-A will be attached to."
Stratolaunch Unveils First Talon-A Test Vehicle
"The plan right now is to get that next manned flight off by the end of the year, though it could slip into ’23 should it become difficult to pin down and fix the thruster issues."
NASA Blesses Starliner as Ready for Manned Missions
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"I would never not stand up!"
Baseball Legend Tony La Russa Scorches San Fran’s Kapler Over National Anthem Protest
The cafe's founder looks exactly like you'd expect him to look. Gabriel Sims-Fewer set up shop in Toronto "after leaving Vancouver due to its unwelcoming sense of classism." He envisions his for-profit enterprise as one that is impervious to "the inherently oppressive parts that small businesses absorb from their capitalist surroundings." The bathroom code, 1312, is a numerical rendering of the acronym ACAB, meaning "All Cops Are Bastards."
Anti-Capitalist Coffee Shop Sells "People Over Profit" Shirts — For Profit
"The 1.2 billion consumers of American pop culture in China may not be allowed to see the film because of its unabashedly pro-American messaging. Paramount Pictures may have also upset the Chinese by adding back Japanese and Taiwanese flags to Cruise’s leather flight jacket after the Chinese backer of the film, Tencent, demanded they be removed in 2019."
Pro-American Top Gun Sequel Riles Chinese Communists
"In recent weeks, companies as diverse as Netflix, Old Navy and Warner Bros. Discovery, parent of CNN among others, have all backed off woke politics. Others are doing the same."
"Woke" U.S. Companies Relearn An Old Lesson: Profits Before Politics
"The tale of two companies, Disney and Netflix, may provide some insight."
Is Woke Corporatism Peaking?
Christian Toto: "Streaming chief gave, and gave, to same liberals now waging war on him."
Is Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos Getting Red-Pilled in Real Time?
"America’s founders did not avoid 'being political.'”
Church of Cowards?
"Reject the oikophobic temptation."
Don’t Hate Yourself
"Within the pages of the Guardian, I habitually encounter a species of human being bearing no resemblance to those of my working-class roots."
Sandal Wearers and Sex Maniacs
HITHER & YON
"With drummer and fellow Arkansan Levon Helm, Hawkins put together a Canadian backing group that included guitarist-songwriter Robbie Robertson, keyboardists Garth Hudson and Richard Manuel and bassist Rick Danko. They became the Hawks, educated in the Hawkins school of rock."
Ronnie Hawkins, Rockabilly Star and Mentor of "The Band," Dead at 87
"There can be no authentic political science or genuine understanding of human beings and society, without a willingness to give the proper conjugation of greatness, courage, and moderation its due."
Churchill, Political Judgment, and the "Courage to See"
FINALLY . . .
"The unfathomable cost of lives lost deserves our contemplation before those who wish to "fundamentally transform" America desecrate the sacred ideals so many died to defend."
I Wish Our Government Understood Memorial Day
"There are things worth fighting and dying for. A country founded on decent principles—something that no other country shares—is one such cause."
Reflections on Memorial Day 2022
". . . And there are things worse than war."
Memorial Day 2022: War Will Always Be With Us

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1 Yeah Buddy

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at May 30, 2022 07:30 AM (R5lpX)

2 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at May 30, 2022 07:30 AM (P7v2k)

3 Nancy's hubby arrested for dui. Has she blamed PDT yet and had him impeached?

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 30, 2022 07:30 AM (2NHgQ)

4
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at May 30, 2022 07:31 AM (ENBF0)

5 Paul Pelosi was not only drunk, he worked his Porsche. That's how they got him.

Posted by: fd at May 30, 2022 07:33 AM (vrz2I)

6 Wrecked not worked.

Posted by: fd at May 30, 2022 07:33 AM (vrz2I)

7 Good morning, one and all.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 30, 2022 07:34 AM (leJpm)

8 Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip at May 30, 2022 07:34 AM (2JoB8)

9
The Collapse of Teen Mental Health — And Deadly Mass Shootings — Can Be Traced to One Single Trend

Social media is the trend, according to the article. But school shootings have been around long before Facebook and the others.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 30, 2022 07:37 AM (dQvv7)

10 Good morning, horde. It's a National Holiday, so I get to read the whole morning report.

Many thanks for your diligence in putting this together five days a week, J.J.

Posted by: April--dash my lace wigs! at May 30, 2022 07:38 AM (OX9vb)

11 Meh, Big Paulie will get a slap on the wrist and the officers who pulled him over written up for not recognizing his royal/untouchable status.

Apparently big Psuli plowed his portion to another car. I'm betting the cop and the other driver her already wearing black hoods on their way too being stuffed into a DC jail cell.

Posted by: Lost In Space at May 30, 2022 07:38 AM (YwurZ)

12 Good morning dear morons and thanks JJ

Mr. Pelosi had every good reason to be driving drunk around Napa in his Porsche on Saturday night, peasant.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 30, 2022 07:39 AM (EZebt)

13 Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 30, 2022 07:39 AM (MKu/Q)

14 Maintaining a white supremacist institution like policing costs Black lives

Then leave. Get out of this country. We're tired of you and your kind acting like chimpanzees on a meth bender and destroying our beautiful country. Leave and take two friends with you. I promise that you won't be missed.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 30, 2022 07:40 AM (lFQWf)

15 Motion filed in trial court today: “If Defendants wanted to stay execution of the mandate of the Ninth District Court of Appeals, they were required to seek that stay in the Ohio Supreme Court. They did not. Plaintiffs are entitled to judgment on the surety bond ….”

I saw this story over at LI last night; this is really hilarious, and furthermore I don't see any flaws in the Gibson families filing. After 4 years of ridiculousness, Oberlin's high powered, high dollar legal team may have just made a $36 million mistake. And the best part is that they apparently didn't see it coming because they didn't read the Appeals Court ruling closely, they just ignored it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 30, 2022 07:41 AM (r46W7)

16 Meanwhile, President Sponge Brain Shits Pants actually got within 50 miles of the southern border yesterday, albeit completely unintentionally.

I am expecting at the next press conference the little lesbian to come up with something like he he got really close to the border so that's good enough, he's a busy man. Plus there had to be some Mexicans in that audience.

Posted by: Lost In Space at May 30, 2022 07:41 AM (YwurZ)

17 Morning, Horde... How goes it?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 30, 2022 07:42 AM (K5n5d)

18
And the best part is that they apparently didn't see it coming because they didn't read the Appeals Court ruling closely, they just ignored it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 30, 2022 07:41 AM (r46W7)

Laws don't apply to the Elite.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 30, 2022 07:43 AM (/U27+)

19 hey y'all

Posted by: Nearsighted Cyclopes at May 30, 2022 07:44 AM (4TZI4)

20 Apropos for Memorial Day
Saint of the Day
St. Joan of Arc (1412-1431) was born in Domremy, France. She was a pious child, and from age 13 on she received visions of saints, most notably St. Michael the Archangel, St. Margaret of Antioch, and St. Catherine of Alexandria, who became her special patrons. Through these visions, Joan understood that she was to help the King of France regain his throne. After overcoming her own reluctance, she heroically led the French army in battle. With her leadership they recaptured Orleans and Troyes, which allowed Charles VII to be restored to the throne of France. All the while she wore the dress of a soldier to protect her virtue and modesty. The following year she was captured by the English, imprisoned, and placed on trial under accusation of heresy and witchcraft. Under political pressure she was condemned and burned alive at the stake, even though she proved herself to be blameless and fearless in character and faith. A second Church trial twenty-five years later nullified the earlier verdict and found her innocent of all charges. St. Joan of Arc is the patron saint of captives, rape victims, soldiers, and France. Her feast day is May 30th.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 30, 2022 07:44 AM (MKu/Q)

21 17 Morning, Horde... How goes it?

Honestly, quite well. I decided to take today off since no one else would be in the office. Just finished breakfast and about to have my second cup of coffee.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 30, 2022 07:44 AM (lFQWf)

22 Morning, Horde... How goes it?

Honestly, quite well. I decided to take today off since no one else would be in the office. Just finished breakfast and about to have my second cup of coffee.
Posted by: NR Pax at May 30, 2022 07:44 AM (lFQWf)
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I think that's a good attitude to have. I, too, have the day off, the last day of a four-day weekend (I took off Friday). So I get to read my book, play with my cats, and enjoy a couple of tasty burgers for lunch...Can't complain too much.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 30, 2022 07:46 AM (K5n5d)

23 Regular is holding at 4.99 in Morristown.

Probably waiting to see who blinks first.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 30, 2022 07:48 AM (M52Rm)

24 email from Talcum X:

"What happened in Uvalde, Buffalo, and beyond are all unforgivable failures of law enforcement from top to bottom. Police do not keep us safe. Period."

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at May 30, 2022 07:48 AM (Ynyl9)

25 11 Meh, Big Paulie will get a slap on the wrist and the officers who pulled him over written up for not recognizing his royal/untouchable status.

Apparently big Psuli plowed his portion to another car. I'm betting the cop and the other driver her already wearing black hoods on their way too being stuffed into a DC jail cell.
Posted by: Lost In Space at May 30, 2022 07:38 AM (YwurZ)

As someone here pointed out last night, the big question is, What was a rich 82 year old man doing driving himself around in the middle of the night? He's worth $50 million plus, he has drivers to take him anywhere he wants anytime. The logical conclusion is that he was out doing something he should not have been doing, and that he didn't want anyone back home to know about.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 30, 2022 07:48 AM (r46W7)

26
St. Joan of Arc is the patron saint of captives, rape victims, soldiers, and France. Her feast day is May 30th.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 30, 2022 07:44 AM (MKu/Q)

She died in 1431 but was made a saint only in 1920. Better late than never.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 30, 2022 07:49 AM (/U27+)

27 Morning peeps. The sun was filtering through our American flag hanging off the garage this morning. Beautiful sight. Too bad what is used to represent is gone.

I call it "our legacy flag."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 30, 2022 07:49 AM (BFigT)

28
"What happened in Uvalde, Buffalo, and beyond are all unforgivable failures of law enforcement from top to bottom. Police do not keep us safe. Period."
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at May 30, 2022 07:48 AM (Ynyl9)

Sounds like a good endorsement of universal gun ownership.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 30, 2022 07:50 AM (/U27+)

29 As someone here pointed out last night, the big question is, What was a rich 82 year old man doing driving himself around in the middle of the night? He's worth $50 million plus, he has drivers to take him anywhere he wants anytime. The logical conclusion is that he was out doing something he should not have been doing, and that he didn't want anyone back home to know about.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 30, 2022 07:48 AM (r46W7)
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Eh, he's 82 years old and married to Pelosi. Maybe he is in the throes of his own dementia (probably a welcome state, considering who he's married to) and didn't even know what he was doing.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 30, 2022 07:50 AM (K5n5d)

30 She died in 1431 but was made a saint only in 1920. Better late than never.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

The Congregation for the Causes of the Saints fast tracked her case.

LOL

Posted by: Tonypete at May 30, 2022 07:51 AM (MKu/Q)

31 What does a guy gotta do to get a drink around here...

Posted by: Paul Pelosi at May 30, 2022 07:52 AM (flINI)

32 Thanks JJ

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 30, 2022 07:52 AM (yrol0)

33 The following year she was captured by the English, imprisoned, and placed on trial under accusation of heresy and witchcraft. Under political pressure she was condemned and burned alive at the stake, even though she proved herself to be blameless and fearless in character and faith."

there's a black and white film which used nothing but the transcript from her trial, which was faithfully recorded and preserved. I think many people want to say oh, she was just crazy and got lucky - but her trial transcript was incredible. Her accusers were some of the top legal and religious experts of the day, and yet her words confounded them at every step, and they could not show anything wrong. At the end, they did what wicked and powerful men always end up doing; they had her killed just to be rid of her, and because they could.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 30, 2022 07:53 AM (r46W7)

34 Hey! I went to the border. No kidding. I didn't know it was Halloween yet. Jill tells me the booing is the way the Hispanix scare off the ghosts. I am not joking. My word as a Biteum.

Posted by: Joe Biteum at May 30, 2022 07:54 AM (vrz2I)

35 Even well before this the CDC’s own numbers found that among black men under the age of 20, homicide is the leading cause of death at 35.3%

It's also the leading cause of death for black men from 20-44 years old at 27.6%.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 30, 2022 07:54 AM (yrol0)

36 So Pelosi's mobbed up spouse crashed into another car and that's only a misdemeanor DUI?

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at May 30, 2022 07:55 AM (y7DUB)

37 Maybe Pelosi’s husband just likes to get out and drive, especially when buzzed. Even the dementia case in the White House dotes on that ‘69 Corvette of his and he’ll never have to get in the driver’s seat for the rest of his days if he chooses.

Posted by: QuikReview at May 30, 2022 07:56 AM (6ydKt)

38 The Admiral across the street just left home in her choker whites. She has a full day of speechifing today at various venues I'd bet.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 30, 2022 07:56 AM (MKu/Q)

39 When I lived in England, you could have a shotgun for sport shooting but it involved a safe storage requirement - this included: having the gun registered, having a gun police officer come to your house and ensure your weapon was stored in an approved locker with the keys non adjacent, and being subject to random inspections. No thanks.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at May 30, 2022 07:56 AM (QZ/dC)

40 So Pelosi's mobbed up spouse crashed into another car and that's only a misdemeanor DUI?
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt

That is what I have been reading.

Posted by: Lost In Space - Now Fortified with Ultra Maga Moon Beams at May 30, 2022 07:56 AM (2mSQi)

41 @35

>>It's also the leading cause of death for black men from 20-44 years old at 27.6%.

The vast majority of violent crime in this country is committed by black people against other black people in a cohort that represents about 2pct of the country.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 30, 2022 07:56 AM (M52Rm)

42 Someone is Paul Pelosi's position (rich, notable) would not only have a driver but likely one or two security as well. Given how Nancy has expanded the Capitol Police's reach I would not be surprised to learn he has taxpayer funded security. He ditched that in some manner to do whatever it was he was doing.

I'm betting it was a meeting with a foreign government (China, probably) official that he shouldn't have been talking to.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 30, 2022 07:57 AM (BFigT)

43 " So Pelosi's mobbed up spouse crashed into another car and that's only a misdemeanor DUI?"

$5000 bond. He had that in the console.

The guy that killed 5 people when the boat he was driving on a Georgia river collided with another is out on a $3500 bond.

Posted by: fd at May 30, 2022 07:57 AM (vrz2I)

44 Later everyone. Gotta get out and do stuff before it gets too hot.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at May 30, 2022 07:57 AM (R5lpX)

45 Good for the armed lady in WV. No doubt she's black like the perp, or the "media" would be jumping on this. "White supremacist shoots black man" -- except they'd leave out that he started shooting first, and just hadn't hit anybody yet before a prepared citizen took him down.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 30, 2022 07:58 AM (c6xtn)

46 "The 1.2 billion consumers of American pop culture in China may not be allowed to see the film because of its unabashedly pro-American messaging. Paramount Pictures may have also upset the Chinese by adding back Japanese and Taiwanese flags to Cruise’s leather flight jacket after the Chinese backer of the film, Tencent, demanded they be removed in 2019."

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I don't mean to be intentionally obtuse, but in the richest country in the world, why would a movie like this Top Gun sequel need freaking Chinese backing???

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 30, 2022 07:59 AM (sVtYq)

47 I can't find a new reports about FJB opening his yap publicly while he was Uvalde. If he didn't make any public comments, I am betting it is because he f'd up the Buffalo trip so badly. In other news I read he disinvited from a meet and greet in Uvalde most of the Border Patrol agents that actually killed the shooter. That is pretty outrageous.

Posted by: Lost In Space - Now Fortified with Ultra Maga Moon Beams at May 30, 2022 08:00 AM (2mSQi)

48 From 45% out of stock to 70% out of stock in one week. For something as vital as baby formula. I will not be surprised when this happens with fuel. Hunker down folks...

Posted by: fd at May 30, 2022 08:01 AM (vrz2I)

49 That Uvalde crowd for the Kiddie Sniffer sounds like SOP for the Democrats. Bussed in actors to supplement the town to give a roaring enthusiasm for the dipsh*t in chief.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 30, 2022 08:03 AM (sVtYq)

50 Figures dont lie by Liars Figure:

During the same 10-year period cited by the ADL in its 2021 report citing 244 murders by white supremacists, there were at least 165,000 murders in the U.S., meaning those the group attributes to white supremacists accounted for 0.001 percent of such violent deaths in that decade.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 30, 2022 08:03 AM (yrol0)

51 The fact that liberals won't even discuss the cultural rot and instead always laser focus on removing a constitutional right shows that they are never logical and always political.

Politics trumps logic, hypocrisy, common sense and compassion. For the love of power, they've given up their souls to Satan.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 30, 2022 08:04 AM (3aLWR)

52 I can't find a new reports about FJB opening his yap publicly while he was Uvalde.

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That tells me he came across badly and made an ass of himself. Otherwise, it would've been shown and shown again on every news network.

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

53 Boker Tov Patriots

G-D Bless America and all who have Fallen in her Defense

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 30, 2022 08:04 AM (Irn0L)

54 Imagine half the gas stations you go to are out of fuel and the others have lines a mile long. This is what the Democrats have brought us. When it's 100 degrees this Summer and they start turning the power off, it's really going to come to a head.

Posted by: fd at May 30, 2022 08:05 AM (vrz2I)

55 Politics trumps logic, hypocrisy, common sense and compassion. For the love of power, they've given up their souls to Satan.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Hell, stan didn't even have to ask them. They sought him out.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 30, 2022 08:05 AM (MKu/Q)

56 I'm betting it was a meeting with a foreign government (China, probably) official that he shouldn't have been talking to.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 30, 2022 07:57 AM (BFigT)

I don't doubt that someone Chinese was involved, but I'm betting it was more of the "Me so horny foh you!!!" variety.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 30, 2022 08:05 AM (r46W7)

57 But no mean tweets.

Posted by: fd at May 30, 2022 08:05 AM (vrz2I)

58 The National School Boards Association planned to ask the Biden administration to deploy the Army National Guard and military police to school districts beset by parent protests over policies including mandatory masking and the teaching of critical race theory, an internal review has found.

The stunning request was included in a draft letter to the president from September of last year, but was ultimately removed from the final version by the NSBA’s then-CEO Chip Slaven, according to a report from Milwaukee-based law firm Michael Best & Friedrich LLP.

Posted by: SMOD at May 30, 2022 08:06 AM (X5CsJ)

59 I think there were morons who attended the NRA convention this weekend. Any news from the members meeting regarding Allen West nomination?

Posted by: Jen the original at May 30, 2022 08:06 AM (Ejmwn)

60 Lady in Black, because over the last 10 or 15 years the Chinese have had a lot of money to burn and Hollywood has no qualms with whoring themselves out to get a film made and also be able to make some cash off of millions of regular Chinese with disposable cash to spend at the movie theater. It was a win-win situation until now.

Posted by: QuikReview at May 30, 2022 08:07 AM (6ydKt)

61 Imagine half the gas stations you go to are out of fuel and the others have lines a mile long. This is what the Democrats have brought us. When it's 100 degrees this Summer and they start turning the power off, it's really going to come to a head.
Posted by: fd at May 30, 2022 08:05 AM (vrz2I)

The Lines and Brown outs are coming

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 30, 2022 08:07 AM (Irn0L)

62 But no mean tweets.
Posted by: fd

I have taken to challenging my lib friends with "Was it worth it?" They don't have much to say to that.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 30, 2022 08:07 AM (MKu/Q)

63 I pretty much fill up when my tank is at 3/4 if I see a good price now a days

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 30, 2022 08:08 AM (Irn0L)

64 57 But no mean tweets.
Posted by: fd at May 30, 2022 08:05 AM (vrz2I)

That was just the excuse. They couldn't care less about Trump's tweets. Just needed reasons to call him unfit for office. Which makes Biden's actually being unfit for office all the more ironic.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 30, 2022 08:08 AM (3aLWR)

65 Why was old fart Pelosi driving around at 4am? That's weird even without being trashed.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at May 30, 2022 08:08 AM (HMTci)

66 cheapest gas in my area .. $4.69 at Costco
cheapest diesel .. $6.09

Posted by: SMOD at May 30, 2022 08:08 AM (X5CsJ)

67 The Lines and Brown outs are coming

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Perfect time to disarm the citizens and strip them of their 2A, huh? McConnell is on it.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 30, 2022 08:09 AM (sVtYq)

68 Imagine half the gas stations you go to are out of fuel and the others have lines a mile long. This is what the Democrats have brought us. When it's 100 degrees this Summer and they start turning the power off, it's really going to come to a head.

The power companies operating within ERCOT (Texas' dysfunctional and doomed grid) are already sending out notices to customers foreshadowing the new age of third world power quality with planned rolling brown/black outs.

I am so glad that I removed myself from that train wreck.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 30, 2022 08:09 AM (AHeqJ)

69 DEI ideology, include such evils as objectivity, perfectionism, and worship of the written word.

I reject this 1000%. I have about 40 to 50 hours in helping a friend put together proposal software for his home remodeling business.

We are trying to get unit line items accurate in cost, descriptions, and pricing. Trying to make the quote perfectly clear to the home owner.
1. To be accurate and true on each quote and job.
2. To create standards that ensure the homeowner gets what they want or vision for their project.

I reject DIE in total!

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 30, 2022 08:10 AM (yrol0)

70 Mr. Nancy Pelosi was driving around drunk at 4am?! Ok, I'm thinking he's got a little, young side piece action in a set-up sugar daddy apartment somewhere. LOL on the embarrassment to the Pelosi family...but the arresting officer will probably be reprimanded.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 30, 2022 08:11 AM (sVtYq)

71 65 Why was old fart Pelosi driving around at 4am? That's weird even without being trashed.
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Probably had been out partying with a hooker and had to get back home before the old battle-axe called in the morning to check up on him.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at May 30, 2022 08:12 AM (MvHI3)

72 Mr. Nancy Pelosi was driving around drunk at 4am?! Ok, I'm thinking he's got a little, young side piece action in a set-up sugar daddy apartment somewhere. LOL on the embarrassment to the Pelosi family...but the arresting officer will probably be reprimanded.
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 30, 2022 08:11 AM (sVtYq)

But at 80+? That's a lot of cialis...

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at May 30, 2022 08:13 AM (HMTci)

73 Egads. Sometimes I feel like a majority of the country's population missed out on their 4th grade civics education.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 30, 2022 08:14 AM (BP3/z)

74 Florida 5th grader arrested for mass shooting threat

??? Arrest the parents and take this little piss ant out to the shed

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 30, 2022 08:14 AM (Irn0L)

75 Paul Pelosi is 82. Drives a Porsche. Like Biden and his Corvette. Wonder if he wears aviators?

Posted by: Jen the original at May 30, 2022 08:14 AM (Ejmwn)

76 I think Pelosi was arrested about 1 and booked at 4.

Posted by: fd at May 30, 2022 08:15 AM (vrz2I)

77 Egads. Sometimes I feel like a majority of the country's population missed out on their 4th grade civics education.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 30, 2022 08:14 AM (BP3/z)

They do not teach civics anymore, well beyond hate whitey males and heterosexuals

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 30, 2022 08:15 AM (Irn0L)

78 You're in fine fettle this morning, J.J.

Thanks for the news. Let's see how far I get today before I melt down.

Posted by: creeper at May 30, 2022 08:15 AM (cTCuP)

79 Sometimes I feel like a majority of the country's population missed out on their 4th grade civics education.

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Considering it's not taught anymore, yeah, that's correct. Today's "civics" education can be summed up in short order: America is bad. America is racist. America sucks.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 30, 2022 08:15 AM (sVtYq)

80 Institutionalize the insane.

This solve most of these Uvalde-style shootings. Stop making pop-culture stars out of the shooters. This will solve most of the rest.

Institutionalizing the insane will have the added benefit of solving 70% of the homelessness "problem".

In addition, institutionalizing the insane would remove from the public sphere 60% of Democrat politicians and 30% of Republicans.

Posted by: Wade Hampton at May 30, 2022 08:16 AM (Su9Le)

81 That Uvalde crowd for the Kiddie Sniffer sounds like SOP for the Democrats. Bussed in actors to supplement the town to give a roaring enthusiasm for the dipsh*t in chief.

On the lighter side. Because of the near conquest of the former United States by foreigners, a feature of our new culture is that anything placed along the curb or roadside is considered "thrown out" and is offered free to anyone who wants it. Push a broken lawn mower, box fan, water heater or old furniture out to the curb and men with trailers will haul it off in the dead of night.

The mental retards in Uvalde decided to emulate the OKC bombing's empty vanity gestures of putting chairs out along the road, one little chair for every child, and two adult office chairs for both adults murdered.

The next day, the city is asking that whoever took the two adult office chairs overnight to please return them.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 30, 2022 08:16 AM (AHeqJ)

82 Happy Birthday J.J.

Posted by: Spypeach at May 30, 2022 08:16 AM (eWCZe)

83 We saw Top Gun over the weekend. We enjoyed it. It was a bit corny, but we didn't care. It was entertaining.

Posted by: Quirky bookworm at May 30, 2022 08:17 AM (EbJ6H)

84 That Uvalde crowd for the Kiddie Sniffer sounds like SOP for the Democrats. Bussed in actors to supplement the town to give a roaring enthusiasm for the dipsh*t in chief.

Yes I was thinking the same thing

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 30, 2022 08:17 AM (Irn0L)

85 Daily Mail says he was arrested at 11:44. The DM always has the scoop. It's like they have real reporters or something.

Posted by: fd at May 30, 2022 08:17 AM (vrz2I)

86 Considering it's not taught anymore, yeah, that's correct. Today's "civics" education can be summed up in short order: America is bad. America is racist. America sucks.

That is the definition of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 30, 2022 08:18 AM (AHeqJ)

87 A positive male pregnancy test is actually a scary thing for a guy.

No, you're not pregnant, it just means that there is something more sinister going on that you need to get checked out immediately.

Now, peeing on a stick can be nerve-wracking for both sexes because it can indicate pregnancy for women, and cancer for men.

Posted by: SMOD at May 30, 2022 08:18 AM (X5CsJ)

88 Do they even teach Civics as a separate class anymore?
I’m not young and was never taught it. We had Social Studies through Middle School and a World History class and a U.S, History class in High School and that was it.

Posted by: QuikReview at May 30, 2022 08:19 AM (6ydKt)

89 The part that keeps haning me up is that the door was unlocked and propped open at the entrance nearest to exactly where Sally just happened to decide to park, and that door (and all the other doors, apparently) were left open while a man walked around school property shooting at people outside for twelve (12) minutes.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The Black family survived slavery but not welfare at May 30, 2022 08:19 AM (KTZdS)

90 It's absurd to believe that the same people who actively coordinated to kill a few hundred thousand elderly people entirely to remove Trump from office would kill a roomful of little kids in order to remove guns from the public, though.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The Black family survived slavery but not welfare at May 30, 2022 08:19 AM (KTZdS)

91 Smith’s first attempt to discredit Brooks happened when she told him the courts couldn’t find any evidence of widespread fraud, to which Brooks replied, “Time out! Don’t go into that! The courts are not the federal arbiter of who wins federal elections—Congress is! That is required by the United State Constitution!” The heated exchange continued between Brooks and the Fox News host, but when Brooks cited the 2000 Mules movie as evidence of widespread fraud and Smith attempted to discredit the well-researched and factual documentary, Brooks became especially irate.

The snarky Smith responded to Brooks’s assertion that the movie proves widespread fraud with mail-in-ballots, “That has been looked at and fact-checked by multiple outlets, including Reuters, who have debunked that as any sort of proof that there was widespread voter fraud.” Brooks shot back, “I’m sorry, Sandra, but other people have fact-checked it and find you’re absolutely wrong, Sandra! But keep going with that story.”

Posted by: SMOD at May 30, 2022 08:19 AM (X5CsJ)

92 84 That Uvalde crowd for the Kiddie Sniffer sounds like SOP for the Democrats. Bussed in actors to supplement the town to give a roaring enthusiasm for the dipsh*t in chief.

Yes I was thinking the same thing
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 30, 2022 08:17 AM (Irn0L)
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Here's what it really looked and sounded like. Link to Twitter:

tinyurl.com/rzh5f8vy

Posted by: Biden's Dog at May 30, 2022 08:19 AM (7i8O0)

93 In other news I read he disinvited from a meet and greet in Uvalde most of the Border Patrol agents that actually killed the shooter. That is pretty outrageous.

Because they stopped the body-count from escalating. The Left needs a vast carpet of dead bodies to dance on.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 30, 2022 08:20 AM (AHeqJ)

94 The FBI IG is saying that the agents won't be prosecuted because the agents only "gave incomplete or inaccurate information to investigators."

Didn't Martha Stewart and Scooter Libby go to prison for giving "inaccurate or incomplete" information to investigators?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 30, 2022 08:20 AM (OeBYn)

95 Many of my neighbors here, across the breadth and width of New Mexico are veterans. These men and woman wear their service proud and at times will erect memorials to their fallen comrades in their front yards. Another time, at a 4th celebration northeast of Santa Fe, Little Joe, a great Tejano musician, took time to honor the veterans by period beginning with WWII. When it came to the Vietnam period the entire plaza erupted; right there in that moment I understood, from the tone of their voices and the looks on their faces, these good people suffered the sacrifices honored on Memorial Day. I had a lot of dust in my eyes for a while. Memorial Day here in New Mexico is bigger than one day and I have had the honor to know that.

Posted by: Lost In Space - Now Fortified with Ultra Maga Moon Beams at May 30, 2022 08:21 AM (2mSQi)

96 72 Mr. Nancy Pelosi was driving around drunk at 4am?! Ok, I'm thinking he's got a little, young side piece action in a set-up sugar daddy apartment somewhere. LOL on the embarrassment to the Pelosi family...but the arresting officer will probably be reprimanded.
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 30, 2022 08:11 AM (sVtYq)

But at 80+? That's a lot of cialis...
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Yes, he may need three bathtubs.

Posted by: Ciampino at May 30, 2022 08:21 AM (qfLjt)

97 I don't mean to be intentionally obtuse, but in the richest country in the world, why would a movie like this Top Gun sequel need freaking Chinese backing???
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 30, 2022 07:59 AM (sVtYq)

Eh, this is all part of China's "War is for Suckaz" campaign.

Why build a huge cultural industry to influence world opinion, when you can just pay Hollywood to do it for you?

I'm just surprised that a visiting Chinese pilot wasn't the real hero of the new Top Gun.

And as for Hollywood, "Jeepers! that Chinese market sure is big. We're gonna be rich(er)! Who cares that we're selling out our birthright?"

Posted by: naturalfake at May 30, 2022 08:21 AM (5NkmN)

98 Liars, liars pants on fire:

Dr. Anthony Fauci
Christopher Steele
Randi Weingarten
James Clapper
Jake Sullivan
Mark Milley

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 30, 2022 08:21 AM (yrol0)

99 Do they even teach Civics as a separate class anymore?
I’m not young and was never taught it. We had Social Studies through Middle School and a World History class and a U.S, History class in High School and that was it.

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I've been out of public school since '81 and we didn't technically have a "Civics" class either. It was Social Studies, but I do remember learning about what would essentially be civics, the Constitution, American History (not the rewritten kind of today), etc. In 7th grade, I even remember us having to line up outside in the hallway, single file, and we couldn't enter the classroom until we orally recited the Preamble to the teacher at the door. To this day, I can still recite it in my sleep.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 30, 2022 08:21 AM (sVtYq)

100 No male is going to produce human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) on a pee stick. It's impossible.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at May 30, 2022 08:21 AM (HMTci)

101 The Supreme Court will soon issue its first major Second Amendment opinion in more than a decade, coming after a pair of recent mass shootings sent the nation reeling and reignited a tense debate over gun rights and public safety.

The conservative majority court is expected to rule in the coming days or weeks in a pending dispute over New York state’s tight limits on the concealed carry of handguns.

Experts said that while it’s unclear just how broadly the Supreme Court would rule, the restrictive New York law is likely to be invalidated in a decision that could have ramifications for gun control efforts across the country.

Posted by: SMOD at May 30, 2022 08:22 AM (X5CsJ)

102 I'm a lot more worried about 82 year old Nancy running the country.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 30, 2022 08:22 AM (ZLI7S)

103 To this day, I can still recite it in my sleep.

I thought everyone over "29" could sing it because of school house rock.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at May 30, 2022 08:22 AM (HMTci)

104 Why build a huge cultural industry to influence world opinion, when you can just pay Hollywood to do it for you?

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How easy it's been for them. Bankroll Hollywood and bankroll most of our politicians in DC.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 30, 2022 08:22 AM (sVtYq)

105 No male is going to produce human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) on a pee stick. It's impossible.
Posted by: dagny, first of her name at May 30, 2022 08:21 AM (HMTci)

Produce it? Hell, I can't even pronounce it.

Posted by: weirdflunky at May 30, 2022 08:23 AM (cknjq)

106 12 Good morning dear morons and thanks JJ

Mr. Pelosi had every good reason to be driving drunk around Napa in his Porsche on Saturday night, peasant.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Yes. He's married to Nancy Pelosi. You'd be drunk most of the time too.

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 30, 2022 08:24 AM (sAmhv)

107 Produce it? Hell, I can't even pronounce it.
Posted by: weirdflunky at May 30, 2022 08:23 AM (cknjq)
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Aich. See. Gee.

You can do it!

Posted by: Biden's Dog at May 30, 2022 08:24 AM (7i8O0)

108 H.B. JJ After all these years it still astounds me how gov't officials refuse to punish gov't officials who break the law and are actually bad people right down to their core.

Posted by: sidney at May 30, 2022 08:24 AM (itAo5)

109 “It does seem relatively clear that the court is going to strike down New York’s law and make it harder for cities and states to restrict concealed carry of firearms,” said Adam Winkler, a professor at UCLA School of Law. “It remains to be seen exactly how broad the Supreme Court goes, but one thing is clear: as mass shootings become more of a political issue, the court is going to take options away from lawmakers on the basis of the Second Amendment.”

Posted by: SMOD at May 30, 2022 08:25 AM (X5CsJ)

110 Mornin', all! Neil Patrick Harris' best role was Charles in an excellent movie about Joan D'Arc. He was pitch perfect . . . naturally.

Here's to the beginning of yet another Recovery Summer! Batten down those financial hatches and hold on tightly.

Posted by: Catherine at May 30, 2022 08:25 AM (ZSsrh)

111 >>>We saw Top Gun over the weekend. We enjoyed it. It was a bit corny, but we didn't care. It was entertaining.

>I heard a review that suggested this flick would be best viewed in an IMAX. I looked it up: ticket price; $15, round trip gas bill to travel to nearest IMAX, $125.

Damn.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 30, 2022 08:25 AM (BP3/z)

112 Shocking DUI....

https://twitter.com/sdamnja1/status/1530998502720950272

Posted by: Biden's Dog at May 30, 2022 08:25 AM (7i8O0)

113 A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday [may 11, 2022] that California’s ban on the sale of semiautomatic rifles to adults younger than 21 was unconstitutional.

In a 2-1 decision, a panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals found that the 2nd Amendment “protects the right of young adults to keep and bear arms, which includes the right to purchase them.”

The ruling reverses a lower court’s decision not to issue an injunction to block a 2019 state law that banned the sale of semiautomatic centerfire rifles to young adults, which the appeals court called a “legal error.”

“America would not exist without the heroism of the young adults who fought and died in our revolutionary army,” Judge Ryan D. Nelson, an appointee of President Trump, wrote for the appeals court. “Today we reaffirm that our Constitution still protects the right that enabled their sacrifice: the right of young adults to keep and bear arms.”

Posted by: SMOD at May 30, 2022 08:25 AM (X5CsJ)

114 Posted by: SMOD at May 30, 2022 08:25 AM (X5CsJ)
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BASED!

Posted by: Biden's Dog at May 30, 2022 08:27 AM (7i8O0)

115 “Biden told the midshipmen that he applied to the Naval Academy in 1965. He told a tale of applying to the Academy with a letter from then-Delaware Senator J. Caleb Boggs. However, in 1965, Biden graduated from the University of Delaware. He wouldn’t have been applying for graduate courses at the Naval Academy because there were none. The tale was an odd one, mixing his dream of playing football with his interest in the Naval Academy.”

Posted by: SMOD at May 30, 2022 08:27 AM (X5CsJ)

116 WTG, DOJ. Kick those lady gymnasts in the teeth one more time. They shoulda just shut up and tumbled, huh?

$400 mil isn't enough.

Posted by: creeper at May 30, 2022 08:28 AM (cTCuP)

117 115 “Biden told the midshipmen that he applied to the Naval Academy in 1965. He told a tale of applying to the Academy with a letter from then-Delaware Senator J. Caleb Boggs. However, in 1965, Biden graduated from the University of Delaware. He wouldn’t have been applying for graduate courses at the Naval Academy because there were none. The tale was an odd one, mixing his dream of playing football with his interest in the Naval Academy.”
Posted by: SMOD at May 30, 2022 08:27 AM (X5CsJ)
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Now watch the movie:

https://youtu.be/mCJMF7mflGE

Posted by: Biden's Dog at May 30, 2022 08:31 AM (7i8O0)

118 Top Gun should have been against space aliens to appease the Chinese.

Posted by: Skip at May 30, 2022 08:32 AM (2JoB8)

119 We saw Top Gun over the weekend. We enjoyed it. It was a bit corny, but we didn't care. It was entertaining.

>I heard a review that suggested this flick would be best viewed in an IMAX. I looked it up: ticket price; $15, round trip gas bill to travel to nearest IMAX, $125.

Damn.
Posted by: Dr. Bone

Just go to a local screen of reasonable size. I live in Las Cruces, NM and the closet IMAX is on a different planet. I could not have cared less. It is a great summer blockbuster film with lots of cheezball stuff, nostalgia, hot bods, lots of Tom Cruse being slightly annoying and charming at the same time, an impossible mission a predicable outcome, and the greatest aerial jet scenes ever filmed. I would give it 7 stars out of 5 but the production company refuses to pay me for the last two stars.

Posted by: Lost In Space - Now Fortified with Ultra Maga Moon Beams at May 30, 2022 08:32 AM (2mSQi)

120 89 The part that keeps haning me up is that the door was unlocked and propped open at the entrance nearest to exactly where Sally just happened to decide to park, and that door (and all the other doors, apparently) were left open while a man walked around school property shooting at people outside for twelve (12) minutes.
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Yep, and the classrooms where the shootings took place was fairly close to where the idiot was shooting outside, and then the idiot came inside and shot at some cops who'd come in. Those shootings were in the hallway. But the kids who survived from the classrooms where the shootings took place said that the teacher didn't know there was a shooter until she got an email alert, and then it was too late because the shooter was already at their door.

I know the kids in the classroom were watching a Disney movie. Was it turned up so loud that it masked the sound of gunfire nearby? And why did it take so long for the school administration to send the email alert to the teachers?

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at May 30, 2022 08:32 AM (MvHI3)

121 Going to bike ride to Memorial day parade

Posted by: Skip's phone at May 30, 2022 08:35 AM (2JoB8)

122 Thomas Sowell had a great comment: he said the word 'racism' is like ketchup- you can put it on anything

I hope there is a God, I hope He smiles on this country- because right now we are going down the fucking tubes

Posted by: DB at May 30, 2022 08:35 AM (geLO8)

123 The part that keeps haning me up is that the door was unlocked and propped open at the entrance nearest to exactly where Sally just happened to decide to park, and that door (and all the other doors, apparently) were left open while a man walked around school property shooting at people outside for twelve (12) minutes.

Seems weird that he found a rare unlocked door?

Even in my kids underfunded catholic elementary school they have an intruder alarm and voice announcement which they practice lockdown stuff with.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at May 30, 2022 08:36 AM (HMTci)

124 Mornin'
(sips coffee)

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 30, 2022 08:37 AM (sAmhv)

125 Didn't Martha Stewart and Scooter Libby go to prison for giving "inaccurate or incomplete" information to investigators?
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 30, 2022 08:20 AM (OeBYn)

IIRC

Comey was the prosecutor in Martha's case

good thing

dunno

Posted by: REDACTED at May 30, 2022 08:38 AM (us2H3)

126 I know the kids in the classroom were watching a Disney movie. Was it turned up so loud that it masked the sound of gunfire nearby? And why did it take so long for the school administration to send the email alert to the teachers?

That is cartel country; gunshots could just be considered ambient noise these days.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 30, 2022 08:38 AM (AHeqJ)

127 I saw Fucking Tubes open for Top Gun at the Hollywoody Bowl

1981

Posted by: REDACTED at May 30, 2022 08:39 AM (us2H3)

128 Government layabouts like Scott Israel go from one sinecure to another collecting fat checks and bennies while pretending to work. Probably related to someone at his new "job" which is how he really got hired. He outta be in prison.

Rootin For Putin!

Free Buffalo Guy!

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 30, 2022 08:39 AM (R/m4+)

129 As it wasn't a school for the deaf, there is zero chance they didn't hear a Daniel AR being fired anywhere near the school - one reason for the agony of the parents that were kept away from he school by the boys in blue - they could hear the carnage.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at May 30, 2022 08:40 AM (QZ/dC)

130 Well, I went to elementary school right outside Ft Bragg and there was artillery noise everyday but Christmas. But that was WAY before school shootings...back when crazy people were locked up. Before Hollywood made a movie about it.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at May 30, 2022 08:40 AM (HMTci)

131 >>After all these years it still astounds me how gov't officials refuse to punish gov't officials who break the law

'government' is a club. Very exclusive, and the members have special privileges. Club members do not punish fellow club members.

Posted by: DB at May 30, 2022 08:40 AM (geLO8)

132 That is cartel country; gunshots could just be considered ambient noise these days.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 30, 2022 08:38 AM (AHeqJ)

It could've been a drug lord "op". That wouldn't surprise me at all.

A message to someone.

A lot of things had to go very wrong for this to turn into the disaster that it did. Is it possible? Sure. Is it probable? Ehhhhhh...maybe?

Posted by: naturalfake at May 30, 2022 08:41 AM (5NkmN)

133 If only we had a super hero as a journalist.

Hey i have an idea.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 30, 2022 08:41 AM (7AOc2)

134 She propped the door open to go get her phone....for like an hour? How long does that take?

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at May 30, 2022 08:42 AM (HMTci)

135 Good morning, JJ, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at May 30, 2022 08:43 AM (rXcVW)

136 The whole school was watching a Disney movie? They don't have alarms? I thought they had tornado alarms at least. Every adult failed.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at May 30, 2022 08:44 AM (HMTci)

137 Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

Mills was a pretty sharp cookie!

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 30, 2022 08:45 AM (yrol0)

138 129 As it wasn't a school for the deaf, there is zero chance they didn't hear a Daniel AR being fired anywhere near the school - one reason for the agony of the parents that were kept away from he school by the boys in blue - they could hear the carnage.
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Yep, killer was firing an AR and the cops who fired at him inside the school hallway were probably firing 9mm's. So how it is possible that the teachers who were in classrooms mere feet away from this gunfire didn't hear it?

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at May 30, 2022 08:45 AM (MvHI3)

139 You really think that was the first time Paul Pelosi was stopped driving drunk?

Why was he arrested this time? Why is it public this time?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 30, 2022 08:46 AM (EZebt)

140 The wicked flee when no man pursueth

Posted by: DB at May 30, 2022 08:47 AM (geLO8)

141 If police won't even attempt to save 9 year-olds from mass murder, then what is the point of them?

Posted by: grammie winger at May 30, 2022 08:48 AM (45fpk)

142 136 The whole school was watching a Disney movie?
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Not the whole school, just the 4th grade classrooms where the fatal shootings took place.

But one of the kids who survived said that the teacher (the first one to be shot) didn't know about the shooter until she received an email alert from the administration. She got up to go lock the classroom door, but the shooter was already there.

But why didn't she hear the shooting that was taking place outside the school, and then in the hallway outside the classrooms, for more than 10 minutes before that?

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at May 30, 2022 08:50 AM (MvHI3)

143 >>If police won't even attempt to save 9 year-olds from mass murder, then what is the point of them?

Posted by: grammie winger

to wear lots of cool gear, secured with Velcro, paid for with your tax dollars-
seems like

Posted by: DB at May 30, 2022 08:51 AM (geLO8)

144 141 If police won't even attempt to save 9 year-olds from mass murder, then what is the point of them?
Posted by: grammie winger at May 30, 2022 08:48 AM (45fpk

Report writing?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 30, 2022 08:51 AM (3aLWR)

145 Road down. 10min to spare

Posted by: Skip's phone at May 30, 2022 08:51 AM (jrB0w)

146 I got the sous vide working on the ribs. I love it, - it's the laziest cooking I've ever done. This afternoon, when there's a break in the rain, I'll throw those bad boys on the grill.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 30, 2022 08:51 AM (BP3/z)

147 It's a terrible thing for me to contemplate - but there is something so wrong with all these type of events, beyond the act itself. In Uvalde you have an almost inconceivable collection of errors by the school and responders an in Buffalo they are now saying a "retired" fed may have been aware of that shooters plans because he was in the same chat rooms. Current events remind me of that awful Mel Gibson movie at times.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at May 30, 2022 08:52 AM (QZ/dC)

148 Meanwhile in Alexandria va on the same day a gang fight breaks out at noon in a upperclass strip mall parking lot near the High School. Cops respond as best they can but local pols blame them for 1 stabbing death.

Both scenarios make cops look bad. The first in which they do nothing and the second where they couldn't break up the mob because "racism" until there was a death (about 5 minutes).

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at May 30, 2022 08:53 AM (HMTci)

149 If police won't even attempt to save 9 year-olds from mass murder, then what is the point of them?
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Hey, those cushy police pensions aren't going to spend themselves!

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at May 30, 2022 08:53 AM (MvHI3)

150 > Why was he arrested this time? Why is it public this time?
____________

I presume the long knives are out for Nan-Nan? Whatever. It's a lot like the details surrounding Hunter suddenly becoming newz. Gives mushbrain shitpants something to ponder and this might give Pelosi pause to think about something or other she's neck deep in.

The deep state has a weird way of telling people their time's up.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 30, 2022 08:53 AM (BFigT)

151 This is changing of the guard at the Tomb Of The Unknowns, Arlington

about 9 minutes
a picture of a disappearing world
https://tinyurl.com/9s76ah23

Posted by: DB at May 30, 2022 08:54 AM (geLO8)

152 99 Lady in Black - In 7th grade, I even remember us having to line up outside in the hallway, single file, and we couldn't enter the classroom until we orally recited the Preamble to the teacher at the door. To this day, I can still recite it in my sleep.

Same here except we did it in 8th.
Only she made us stand up in class and recite it after giving us a week to memorize it.

Sorry teach, I’ve forgotten most of it now.
(But I sure do appreciate the Constitution now more than ever)

Posted by: QuikReview at May 30, 2022 08:54 AM (6ydKt)

153 Hiya Grammie !

Posted by: JT at May 30, 2022 08:54 AM (arJlL)

154 "Why was he arrested this time? Why is it public this time?"

It did take 4 hours to book him. I don't know if that's normal for that area. I bet there were some frantic phone calls. I'd like a look at those phone records.

Posted by: fd at May 30, 2022 08:55 AM (vrz2I)

155 Hiya JT!

Posted by: grammie winger at May 30, 2022 08:55 AM (45fpk)

156 A conspiracy theorist would say that the feds are encouraging and creating events.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at May 30, 2022 08:55 AM (HMTci)

157 These things that happen, things that are so beyond the pale and seemingly crazy - from the shooters to the response is just part of evil's plan to sow enough insanity to cause major bloodshed. Remember, evil has a plan too, just like God has his own. But evil is too stupid to know it's already lost.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 30, 2022 08:55 AM (3aLWR)

158 Considering that Mr. and Mrs. Pelosi have been married since 1963, have five children , have profited very handsomely from political graft and corruption and shared the same politics, I imagine they get along pretty well when together. It is worth a laugh that he got arrested for DUI and I'm glad nobody was hurt. I'm more interested in the fact that the Archbishop of SF showed some balls and won't give her the Eucharist
and a few other prelates backed him up. Leftist prelates will bend the knee but someone told Nancy "No". It needs to happen more frequently.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 30, 2022 08:56 AM (F+uRC)

159 Hiya JT!
Posted by: grammie winger

Posted by: JT at May 30, 2022 08:56 AM (arJlL)

160 If it had just been a DUI we probably never would have heard about it but he also ran into someone else's car.

Posted by: fd at May 30, 2022 08:56 AM (vrz2I)

161 As Orwell said, The truth is that, to many people calling themselves Socialists, revolution does not mean a movement of the masses with which they hope to associate themselves; it means a set of reforms which we, the clever ones, are going to impose upon them, the Lower Orders.

Liawatha, AoC, Rice, Obama, et al just described PERFECTLY.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 30, 2022 08:56 AM (yrol0)

162 Hiya Fen !

Feeling better ?

Posted by: JT at May 30, 2022 08:57 AM (arJlL)

163 Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald

That the political survival of the Cheney family in Wyoming and Washington depends on Democrats rallying to Liz Cheney's cause and doing everything possible to keep her in Congress is pretty much all you need to know about current-day Democrats.

https://tinyurl.com/ywb8u3hp

Posted by: redridinghood at May 30, 2022 08:57 AM (NpAcC)

164 Oh, i just love the caste system in the 1 Party.

Does India still practice the caste there, or was my history teacher wrong 40 years ago?

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 30, 2022 08:58 AM (7AOc2)

165 Hi Fen, nice to see you and I hope you are feeling better.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 30, 2022 08:58 AM (ZLI7S)

166 If it had just been a DUI we probably never would have heard about it but he also ran into someone else's car.
Posted by: fd at May 30, 2022 08:56 AM (vrz2I)

That would do it. At their age, Nancy and her old man should be home giving each other warm water enemas and hope something moves, not driving around terrorizing the citizens of Napa at zero dark thirty. Old Swine.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 30, 2022 09:00 AM (R/m4+)

167 Staged show in Texas:

https://voxday.net/2022/05/29/the-staged-show-in-texas/

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 30, 2022 09:00 AM (a3Q+t)

168 Look how the media tries to twist it:

Highway Patrol said Mr Pelosi was trying to cross State Route-29 in his 2021 Porsche when his car was hit by a 48-year-old man in a Jeep.

No one was hurt, and the other driver wasn't arrested.

Posted by: fd at May 30, 2022 09:01 AM (vrz2I)

169 That the political survival of the Cheney family in Wyoming and Washington depends on Democrats rallying to Liz Cheney's cause and doing everything possible to keep her in Congress is pretty much all you need to know about current-day Democrats.
___________

And all you need to know about current-day Cheneys.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at May 30, 2022 09:01 AM (MvHI3)

170 The speaker will not be commenting on this private matter which occurred while she was on the East Coast.

Posted by: fd at May 30, 2022 09:02 AM (vrz2I)

171 Much much subdued than long ago parade

Posted by: Skip's phone at May 30, 2022 09:04 AM (jrB0w)

172 The part that keeps haning me up is that the door was unlocked and propped open at the entrance nearest to exactly where Sally just happened to decide to park, and that door (and all the other doors, apparently) were left open while a man walked around school property shooting at people outside for twelve (12) minutes.
__________

Yep, and the classrooms where the shootings took place was fairly close to where the idiot was shooting outside, and then the idiot came inside and shot at some cops who'd come in. Those shootings were in the hallway. But the kids who survived from the classrooms where the shootings took place said that the ?
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB

and if all the doors were supposed to be locked, then how did Mrs. Gomez get her own two kids out safely after being uncuffed and escaping the dumbasses out front?

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (UgAdJ) - at May 30, 2022 09:05 AM (UgAdJ)

173 Slept late, woke up thinking about it being Memorial Day, turned on the computer expecting to see the Google doodle red white and blue probably Stars and Stripes but I forgot how much the googlers hate America - it's freaking battleship gray, no celebration whatsoever of the sacrifice our citizens have made clearing OTHER countries of their tyrannical governments.

Maybe one day we can do the same here for ourselves.

Posted by: A Grateful American MAGA at May 30, 2022 09:06 AM (uhWoa)

174 "Pelosi was attempting to cross SR-29 when his 2021 Porsche was hit by a 2014 Jeep traveling northbound on the road, according to a collision report from the California Highway Patrol, which doesn't identify either driver as being at fault in the crash. Troopers were called to the scene just before 10:30 p.m., the report said."

He was attempting to cross a State route highway and got hit by somebody on the highway? How does that work? Doesn't traffic crossing a highway usually have to stop?

Posted by: fd at May 30, 2022 09:06 AM (vrz2I)

175 >>The speaker will not be commenting on this private matter which occurred while she was on the East Coast.

Posted by: fd

of course not- the story won't even survive to Tuesday

Posted by: DB at May 30, 2022 09:07 AM (geLO8)

176 The speaker will not be commenting on this private matter which occurred while she was on the East Coast.
Posted by: fd

I can't wait for the cop's body cam footage to get released under a FOIA request to obtain the...oh, what?, the body cam malfunctioned? Who knew? At that point you are racist and a white supremist is you ever bring this incident up again. And if you do you get a black hood and trip to a DC jail cell.

Posted by: Lost In Space - Now Fortified with Ultra Maga Moon Beams at May 30, 2022 09:08 AM (2mSQi)

177 He was attempting to cross a State route highway and got hit by somebody on the highway? How does that work? Doesn't traffic crossing a highway usually have to stop?
Posted by: fd

There is an exception in the CA traffic laws: If you are oligarch it is never your fault.

Posted by: Lost In Space - Now Fortified with Ultra Maga Moon Beams at May 30, 2022 09:10 AM (2mSQi)

178 Thanks, Jack. and JT.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 30, 2022 09:11 AM (BxHw2)

179 Why doesn't Nazi just come out as a Moloch worshipper already?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of thchickens at May 30, 2022 09:11 AM (eGTCV)

180 "There is an exception in the CA traffic laws: If you are oligarch it is never your fault.
Posted by: Lost In Space"

He's probably so used to traffic having to stop for his convoy that he just forgot to look both ways.

Posted by: fd at May 30, 2022 09:11 AM (vrz2I)

181 There is an exception in the CA traffic laws: If you are oligarch it is never your fault.
Posted by: Lost In Space - Now Fortified with Ultra Maga Moon Beams at May 30, 2022 09:10 AM (2mSQi)

That would make a pretty funny vanity plate...."Oligarch 1".

People who cause an accident should have to have their license plate changed to "Asshole 1" for at least 2 years to warn other drivers what their all about. Just keep increasing the number for every new license plate issued.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 30, 2022 09:13 AM (R/m4+)

182 Ronnie Hawkins, a brash rockabilly star from Arkansas who became a patron of the Canadian music scene after moving north and recruiting a handful of local musicians later known as the Band, has died.

Posted by: SMOD at May 30, 2022 09:13 AM (X5CsJ)

183 I can't wait for the cop's body cam footage to get released under a FOIA request to obtain the...oh, what?, the body cam malfunctioned? Who knew? At that point you are racist and a white supremist is you ever bring this incident up again. And if you do you get a black hood and trip to a DC jail cell.
Posted by: Lost In Space - Now Fortified with Ultra Maga Moon Beams at May 30, 2022 09:08 AM (2mSQi)
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I'm waiting for the "camera wasn't operating at the time" excuse.

Posted by: Biden's Dog at May 30, 2022 09:14 AM (7i8O0)

184 Yes; Hawkins was 87.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at May 30, 2022 09:14 AM (yikp0)

185 and if all the doors were supposed to be locked, then how did Mrs. Gomez get her own two kids out safely after being uncuffed and escaping the dumbasses out front?
=====

Mrs Gomez took her own kids out through some kind of pathway, but no others? Stories that make you go hmmm. . .

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 30, 2022 09:15 AM (MIKMs)

186 JJ, your net was cast wide this morning. Thank you for standing on the wall.

Posted by: Eromero at May 30, 2022 09:15 AM (0OP+5)

187 From what I heard the rescued kids were brought out a window

Posted by: blaster at May 30, 2022 09:16 AM (9otr5)

188 "Police Must Rush to the Sound of the Guns"

Unfortunately, this will not happen every time. We may wish that the first police officer or officers arriving on-scene immediately attack and neutralize a shooter, but it will not happen every time. Human nature and the varying character of individuals are in-play.

This must be factored into the defense plans for schools and other soft targets.

Posted by: I like the P229 at May 30, 2022 09:16 AM (DGHm3)

189 But why didn't she hear the shooting that was taking place outside the school, and then in the hallway outside the classrooms, for more than 10 minutes before that?

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It would be interesting to hear just how often the teachers hear gunfire directly outside of school for ten or more minutes.

It's clearly often enough that they now disregard it when it happens. If not, then explain their actions.

And an email? WTF? Every government employee in the chain is a f*ck up and caused the death of those children. No PA system in the school? The principal wasn't hauling ass to make sure the doors were locked and going door to door making sure teachers knew what was going on?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - the CEO of Moderna acknowledged the presence of patented sequence in Covid-19 at May 30, 2022 09:17 AM (c1p4Y)

190 This must be factored into the defense plans for schools and other soft targets.

Like churches.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 30, 2022 09:17 AM (45fpk)

191 I'm not sure but I think Robbie Robertson is the last remaining member of The Band.

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 30, 2022 09:18 AM (sAmhv)

192 I commented yesterday on one of the local "Freedom Rides" that was traveling up a nearby road. I lost count after the first hundred bikers passed by. There must have been over 300 in total. The roar went on for half an hour as they headed north towards the Ohio River and Indiana.

Our tiny little town has American flags on all the downtown lampposts. The city workers put them up. Same for Christmas decorations. I'm sure it's fleeting...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 30, 2022 09:19 AM (BFigT)

193 Our tiny little town has American flags on all the downtown lampposts. The city workers put them up. Same for Christmas decorations. I'm sure it's fleeting
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Same as Christmas, it's just a reminder that there are sales at some stores for most people.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - the CEO of Moderna acknowledged the presence of patented sequence in Covid-19 at May 30, 2022 09:20 AM (c1p4Y)

194 The 'right' trained and armed teacher. Just one.

Posted by: Eromero at May 30, 2022 09:20 AM (0OP+5)

195 Thanks for the reminder, Martini Farmer.

*hangs flag...resists temptation to add black ribbon*

Posted by: creeper at May 30, 2022 09:21 AM (cTCuP)

196 "new ground, in which a nonnuclear Western ally -understandably but dangerously - may now seek to destroy a nuclear Russia’s assets on Russian soil or in neutral or even Russian seas."

yeah, another "red line" for Putin. BUT seems odd that Russia invades and levels whole cities, but Russian soil is somehow sacred ... "not fair for you to hit back". I guess the line is whether we give Ukraine the extended reach weapons to make Russia pay?

Posted by: illiniwek at May 30, 2022 09:22 AM (Cus5s)

197 Heck, I'd be satisfied with teachers and staff that decide to lock the doors when a gunman is shooting outside their classrooms for the length of an entire SpongeBob SquarePants episode.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - the CEO of Moderna acknowledged the presence of patented sequence in Covid-19 at May 30, 2022 09:22 AM (c1p4Y)

198 I am really torn between The Band and Joan Baez.

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

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 30, 2022 09:23 AM (MIKMs)

199 100 year old B-17 pilot, who is not a senile drooling idiot like certain presidents I could name, (but who does resemble him in one way, see 38:50) talks about bombing Germany.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2CAxfsBxK5U&t=2343s

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, That's AnonosaurX WrX, hater! at May 30, 2022 09:24 AM (FVME7)

200 Wait, so Ukraine is winning, and that means they need to go on the offensive?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - the CEO of Moderna acknowledged the presence of patented sequence in Covid-19 at May 30, 2022 09:24 AM (c1p4Y)

201 Later folks, gotta work a half shift.

Posted by: Eromero at May 30, 2022 09:26 AM (0OP+5)

202 Propaganda/instructional video about the P-47 by USAAF officer Jimmy Stewart.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DtztViqvAG4&t=8s

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, That's AnonosaurX WrX, hater! at May 30, 2022 09:27 AM (FVME7)

203 When the Nazis come to town, throw money around, tourists traps. Chicago is one big trap.

Tired of nazi as a name.

How about. Deep Fried Nazi?

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 30, 2022 09:29 AM (7AOc2)

204 At ceremony, has not started yet. Couple hundred here

Posted by: Skip's phone at May 30, 2022 09:29 AM (jrB0w)

205 On Ronnie Hawkins passing...

One of the great unsung bands from back in the day was Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks. The Hawks broke off from Mr. Hawkins and became the backup band for some folk singer. If I remember correctly his name was Bob Dylan, something like that. Hawkins greatest achievement was pushing his sidemen to grow from being a so-so bar band, in part from constant touring, into a crack ensemble that let his vibrant voice soar.

Bo Diddley (I am pretty sure the Hawks on this recording were those fellows that went on to be The Band - it is smoking hot) https://youtu.be/IDpenk9sDS8

Posted by: Lost In Space - Now Fortified with Ultra Maga Moon Beams at May 30, 2022 09:30 AM (2mSQi)

206 Man dressed as woman in wheelchair doffs disguise, gets up and attacks Mona Lisa with cake in the name of Climate Change. Did he not know that a real European protest should have nekked chick boobies?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at May 30, 2022 09:33 AM (Pu/aU)

207 how did Mrs. Gomez get her own two kids out safely after being uncuffed and escaping the dumbasses out front?
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Mrs Gomez took her own kids out through some kind of pathway, but no others? Stories that make you go hmmm. . .
Posted by: mustbequantum at May 30, 2022 09:15

Again, odd. We're they twins? In the same room? Why no others?

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at May 30, 2022 09:33 AM (HMTci)

208 I am really torn between The Band and Joan Baez.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jREUrbGGrgM
Posted by: mustbequantum

That performance of The Night They Drove Old Dixe Down from The Last Waltz is perfection.

In honor Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks, Who Do You Love from The Last Waltz.

https://youtu.be/IYPVyJwzerM

Posted by: Lost In Space - Now Fortified with Ultra Maga Moon Beams at May 30, 2022 09:35 AM (2mSQi)

209 RIP actor Bo Hopkins

he also had a car club called the Pharaohs

Posted by: DB at May 30, 2022 09:35 AM (geLO8)

210 At ceremony, has not started yet. Couple hundred here
Posted by: Skip's phone at May 30, 2022 09:29

My dad is on the east end, my brother in law on the west end and my brother on the north end.

Last year Arlington engaged in white supremacists theater and it took us 4 hours to get my 100 year old mother WITH ID AND PASSES through the gates.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at May 30, 2022 09:36 AM (HMTci)

211 The Anarchist is a "proudly anti-capitalist" coffee shop and "radical community space on stolen land" that recently opened in Canada (the guy who is selling people before profits t-shirts at a profit)...

If you put a business on stolen land, acknowledging that you are setting up business on stolen land, as some sort of phony atonement, still makes you a thief doesn't it? Just asking questions here.

Posted by: Lost In Space - Now Fortified with Ultra Maga Moon Beams at May 30, 2022 09:42 AM (2mSQi)

212 Just go to a local screen of reasonable size. I live in Las Cruces, NM and the closet IMAX is on a different planet. I could not have cared less. It is a great summer blockbuster film with lots of cheezball stuff, nostalgia, hot bods, lots of Tom Cruse being slightly annoying and charming at the same time, an impossible mission a predicable outcome, and the greatest aerial jet scenes ever filmed. I would give it 7 stars out of 5 but the production company refuses to pay me for the last two stars.
Posted by: Lost In Space - Now Fortified with Ultra Maga Moon Beams at May 30, 2022 08:32 AM (2mSQi)

Agreed. The real stars of the movie are the F/A-18s being put through their paces. I've heard that the actors were exposed to up to 7-Gs. Some of the aerial footage is amazing. I also liked the homage to the F-14 at the end.

Also, as an old Forward Observer, the movie got the High Explosive detonations at the enemy's secret facility looking correct. None of this flame and black smoke from gas bombs; just the dirty greyish smoke of the real thing.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 30, 2022 09:52 AM (pJWtt)

213 "Can you blame the old bastard? If you were married to that, you'd have to be drunk off your ass just to take the edge off, even when the ball and chain is 3,000 miles away. "

Exactly the first thought I had, too.

Posted by: dad29 at May 30, 2022 10:00 AM (mzJmr)

214 BSE - Biden Spongiform Encephalopathy.

Posted by: aelfheld at May 30, 2022 10:14 AM (Zy9Yy)

215 I think a lot of improvements can be made to reduce risk without taking away someone's rights. How about doing some of those first.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn DA at May 30, 2022 10:28 AM (T9Dgk)

216 Elon Musk: "The Right to Bear Arms is an Important Safeguard Against Potential Tyranny of Government"

and against the robots.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at May 30, 2022 11:01 AM (yQpMk)

217 More shitty laws from corrupt politicians used to take away rights of law abiding citizens. Unless we as a citizenry decide to vet the slimy politicians we elect, or we're not going to make it much further as a republic. That may be the plan.

Posted by: Mean Tweets at May 30, 2022 11:04 AM (BOJAx)

218 150 > Why was he arrested this time? Why is it public this time?
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He crashed his Porsche into another car, cops came, saw that he was obviously at fault, probably automatically checked for or smelled alcohol and there you go.
That's my view. Even if he played the Pelosi trump card the cops might have reasoned he gets arrested, then let the duty sergeant worry about the details.

Posted by: Ciampino at May 30, 2022 12:28 PM (qfLjt)

219 212
Also, as an old Forward Observer, the movie got the High Explosive detonations at the enemy's secret facility looking correct. None of this flame and black smoke from gas bombs; just the dirty greyish smoke of the real thing.
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Hollywood special effects guys used naphthalene (moth balls) to get that flame and black smoke effect. Don't know if they still do.

Posted by: Ciampino at May 30, 2022 12:45 PM (qfLjt)

220 "Confused Old Man Shouts at Navy Grads That Putin Wants to 'Findalize" Europe'"

That because Biden wanted to "findalize" and sniff the Europeans first, especially those born female under 12.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 30, 2022 01:50 PM (ynpvh)

221 "West Virginia: Legally-Armed Woman Saves Lives By Shooting Would-be Mass Shooter"

Unpossible. She killed an AR-15-wielding gunman with a pistol. According to the Uvalde police, that can't be done unless you have a specially-trained border-patrolman.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 30, 2022 02:00 PM (ynpvh)

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