The Morning Report

The Morning Report - 6/2/22

Good morning, kids. Thursday and there was another shooting incident this time at a Tulsa, OK medical center. Five dead including the gunman, as well as multiple injuries. The media is likely not going to be all over this since the shooter has been identified as “a Black male between 35-40 years old.” If it doesn't further the narrative or sends the wrong signals, it's to be embargoed or otherwise rewritten if possible. You know the drill.

No matter. The constant drumbeat of guns, the Second Amendment and the NRA among other straw men as the cause(s) of mass shootings has always been loud in the wake of these incidents. But Uvalde has cranked it up to a whole new level. Why? Aside from being used as a distraction from the disaster of the Sponge Brain Shits Pants era, for whatever reason, the self-evident logic that guns cannot kill unless a human being pulls the trigger has finally sunk in to the populace at large. And that has caused said populace to want to ask the question of motive. Yes, you'd have to be out of your mind to kill someone let alone nearly two dozen unarmed children. But how did you get to be crazy in the first place? That is a question that the Left does not even want asked, let alone answered. And not only the Left, but too many supposed "conservatives" who get a slice of the grift for playing along.

The shooters, the mass murderers, even most of the terrorists, and essentially all violent criminals (plus many drugs addicts and a majority of the homeless) share this one quality: they are all fatherless.
And no, fatherlessness is not intractable.  These destructive and self-destructive adolescents are not victims of impersonal forces that defy remedy — still less of "irresponsible" fathers who "abandon" them, as the political class invariably reports without evidence.  These falsehoods provide the politicians with excuses to throw up their hands in despair or devise useless, self-serving programs that actually make the problem worse.  The shooters are the products of government policies that intentionally remove children from their fathers and proliferate single-mother homes.  They are the offspring of the two hostaeries that breed fatherless children: the welfare state and the divorce industry.
The social science is unequivocal.  Virtually every major social pathology can be laid at the door of fatherless homes and communities — not race, not poverty.  Single parent homes.  That means crime, truancy, addiction, and more single parents.
Decade after decade, the problem only worsens until we are left with not only social chaos, but, increasingly, political chaos, too, and even tyranny.  It is easily demonstrable that the BLM riots in 2020 that prepared the way for the leftist takeover of the U.S. government were perpetrated by dysfunctional, violent, and fatherless adolescents.
. . . Conservatives do have a better explanation readily at hand — the only one.  It is a stock conservative platitude that family breakdown will mean civilizational breakdown.  Yet now that it is happening, they ignore the fulfillment of their own prophecies.  Instead, they enact pointless programs designed by the liberals: fatherhood and marriage "promotion," psychotherapy, child support enforcement, and other make-work for functionaries.
Why?  Because "fatherhood" and "pro-family" groups also make money on these programs that do more harm than good.  Because Republican lawyers (including "Christian" ones) amass huge sums looting families through divorce.  Because conservative leaders fear feminists and lack the spine to stand up to them.  Because vast powers accrue to judicial operators, including Republican ones, as the divorce juggernaut systematically rolls over every limitation on expanding judicial power.

This is quite a good essay but the author does not even mention the weekly Uvaldes happening in inner cities from coast to coast that has been going on for years. Horrible and horrendous as these mass shootings are, despite happening more and more frequently since the name Columbine ingrained itself on our collective memories, they are statistically rare occurrences. Fatherlessness, and all the other pathologies that go along with it are a direct outgrowth of the massive welfare state created by LBJ in 1965. Whether LBJ believed "the (you-know-whos) will be voting for us for 200 years" because their lives would have been improved or because he knew they'd be re-enslaved via the welfare state is irrelevant.

Nearly 60 years on, black America has been devastated and now, thanks to radical feminism, radical homosexuality and radical transexuality, the traditional family — with the traditional male at the head of the table — has been targeted for termination. We are starting to reap the whirlwind of psychological and even physical castration of men and boys who have been demonized, marginalized and stripped of any meaning, purpose or even dignity in this topsy turvy society that the radical left have created.

Does this excuse the actions of this shooter and all the other shooters? No. Just as the gun didn't shoot itself, neither did "society" pull the trigger. But society, mostly of "The Great" variety surely did play a significant role in creating the monsters that perpetrate these acts, whether its Uvalde, Columbine, Marjorie Stoneman Douglas HS, or Cabrini Green, Compton, East St. Louis or half a hundred other hell holes that make Mogadishu look like the Hamptons by comparison.

Along with every other issue that, sooner or later, is turning into an existential crisis, who will pick up the mantle and call out the Left on their hypocrisy and culpability? Andrew Breitbart's axiom of politics being downstream of culture is certainly in effect here, just as it is with abortion, transgenderism and other issues that are political winners for our side not just with the base but with growing numbers of disaffected Democrats. If you think it's the GOP, think again.

Usually, it’s the typical cast of characters who attempt to strip Americans of our constitutional rights: Democrats like Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer. But this time, instead of standing firm against the slimy hands of Washington’s most politically shameless, unprincipled Republicans are also rallying to support a new national gun control regime, with the potential for a renewed federal assault weapons ban, more unconstitutional background checks, and a national red flag law.

Miranda Devine has quite a good column today, and without saying it, she delivers a clarion call for American men, and by extension America itself, to grow a pair.

We ignore the crisis that sees men commit suicide at ever-increasing rates or succumb to drug abuse and porn addiction while savvy young women graduate from college in disproportionate numbers. Trained from childhood to be entitled and unrealistic about relationships, their fertility and the sacrifices and joys of motherhood, many become bitter and blame men for their confusion.
Along the way, we emasculate the institutions that were necessarily masculine for our protection, notably the military. As an example, on Wednesday, the US Marines celebrated Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex Pride Month by tweeting a picture of a combat helmet adorned with rainbow-colored bullets.
So, what do men do? They recoil and retreat. They leave the stage for hysterical epsilon men like Beto O’Rourke who whine and posture but can’t protect a thing.
Then when we need strong, quick-thinking Gary Cooper to save us from outlaws, he’s nowhere to be found.
He has been rendered extinct, leaving 19 kids to be slaughtered inside a classroom while men and women wearing the legacy costume of toxic masculinity stand around waiting for orders.
“We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise,” C.S. Lewis foretold in his dystopian 1943 book The Abolition of Man.
“We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.”

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

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"The Tulsa Police Department reported that five people were killed, including the shooter, during the attack on the Natalie Building on the St. Francis Hospital Campus."
Shooter Opens Fire at Tulsa Medical Facility, Multiple Casualties Reported

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"Leftists are patient , however, and Biden will no doubt try again to promote his amendments or push his internationalist agenda in another way so it’s worth looking at what he tried to do. Biden still has plenty of time to bribe foreign leaders with foreign aid and other goodies to win their support. His WHO defeat is likely only temporary."
The WHO's Pandemic Power Grab
"It is probably safe to say that no American president has done so many different things badly at the same time and seemed so utterly unconcerned about the consequences of his actions or even willingness to take responsibility for the consequences of his actions."
Is Biden the Worst [so-called quote-unquote] "president" in U.S. History? He's Doing His Best to Earn the Title.
Miranda Devine: “'We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise,' C.S. Lewis foretold in his dystopian 1943 book The Abolition of Man. “We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.'”
Where Are the Men of Courage? They're Gone Thanks to "Toxic Masculinity"
Daniel Greenfield: "Liberal Jews and their politicians are vanishing."
The Last Jewish Congressman in New York

SECOND AMENDMENT, UVALDE MASS MURDER

“The chief of the Uvalde CISD Police provided an initial interview but has not responded to a request for a follow-up interview with the Texas Rangers that was made two days ago.”
Report: Uvalde Police and School District Stopped Cooperating With School Shooting Investigation
“It is an epidemic – the gun violence we are seeing across the country and we have to do something.”
Video: White House Says Executive Action On Gun Control Coming
"A compromise entails giving up something to get something, striking a deal. That’s not what’s happening here. This is just surrender."
There Is No Bipartisan Gun "Compromise" in the Works, Just GOP Capitulation
"Americans are craving genuine leadership. They won’t get that with weak-kneed Republicans who are looking for openings to compromise with the Democrats on our constitutional rights."
The Biggest Threat to the Second Amendment? RINOs
David Harsnyi: "Buyback programs exemplify the downside of focusing on guns rather than criminals. What they do not do, as virtually every study on the program has shown, is mitigate criminality or suicide."
Newsom’s Gun Buyback Program Makes Zero Sense
Lloyd Billingsley: "Biden’s VP blames 'assault weapons' for the actions of criminals and terrorists.
Kamala and the AK-47 Killer
"All the fentanyl you want."
Tucker Carlson Calls Out Canada For Banning Guns But Legalizing Fentanyl
Wayne Allyn Root: "Leftists will be shocked and horrified."
The 12 Lessons Every Conservative Patriot Learned From the Tragic Texas School Shooting
"Democrats deny it, and Republicans refuse to do anything about it."
The Real Reason Why Mass Shooters Kill
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"Would-be assassin John Hinckley Jr. will go free June 15."
The Crazed Gunman Who Shot Ronald Reagan Will Be a Free Man
"Serial looter committed serious crimes, never spent a day in prison."
One Man’s Case Shows Why the Looting Isn’t Going To Stop Any Time Soon
THE ECONOMY, STUPID, & THE DEMOCRAT WAR ON OIL,
"All of the crises the Biden [junta] created are converging and could cause food insecurity for the first time in the living memories of many Americans."
Get Ready for $1 Per Egg: USDA Forecast Predicts Highest Food Inflation Since 1980
"You better brace yourself."
Billionaire Banker Says Economic ‘Hurricane’ Is Heading For US
"One executive said they knew right away that the Abbott formula plant closure in February would be a problem."
Joe Biden Admits He Did Not Realize Seriousness of Infant Formula Shortage Soon Enough
"The graph showed the price of one gallon of gas declining from $3.40 to $3.38 by Nov. 29. The average price of gasoline hit $4.62 on Memorial Day. Gas prices are up more than 92% since Biden took office. Gas prices in California hit a high of $7.25, according. to the New York Post."
Tweet From Democrats Comes Back to Bite Them in the Ass Six Months Later
"I refuse to entertain the 'He feels your pain' musings of the underling for an increasingly senescent, scheming mediocrity who made himself rich suckling on the government teat."
Another Embarrassing Jean-Pierre Gaffe as She Tries, Fails to Cover for Biden's White Privilege
The meeting at the White House and the Yellen apology tour are not really about addressing inflation. They are part of an effort to “contain the political damage caused by inflation,” as the Washington Post put it. The aim was for the White House to “demonstrate to the public that it is responding to its concerns.”
Janet Yellen’s Apology Tour
"So, while no trend has emerged, it’s still something to keep an eye on, and it continues to cause more stress on an already overburdened domestic food supply system."
Update on Food Plants Blowing Up: More Explosions, More Stress on Domestic Food Supply
"Since the Tea Party arose in reaction to runaway spending and Obamacare, the national debt has more than doubled, from less than $12 trillion in 2009 to more than $30 trillion today."
Biden’s Shameless Portrayal of Himself as a Deficit Hawk
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"The decision was somewhat unusual, with Democrat Justice Elena Kagan joining Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch, and Republican Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh voting with Chief Justice John Roberts, Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer. The decision was a blow to Texans who, under the bill signed into law last year by Gov. Greg Abbott, would have had recourse against the biased enforcement of rules on social media platforms that have ultimately silenced conservatives."
Supreme Court Blocks Texas Law on Big Tech Censorship
"Despite the media’s attempts to retroactively paint Sussmann’s trial as a nothingburger, Durham’s criminal charges against the lawyer provided the public with crucial evidence proving Clinton’s interference in the lead-up to the 2016 election."
Corrupt Media Suddenly Covers Michael Sussmann’s Acquittal After Ignoring His Criminal Trial For Weeks
"The Gun Violence Archive misrepresents shootings in the U.S. to serve the Left’s political ends."
Mass Shootings: The Media Misinformation Campaign
"The FDA Commissioner's embarrassing lecture on 'misinformation.'"
Physician, Heal Thyself!
"The topic that continues to not be mentioned."
The Media’s Holiday Narrative: All Guns, No Abortion
"The entire farce once again underscores the lightening scope of censorship, where Big Tech and other political interest groups can step in to stop a conversation between two icons being broadcast in America, a country founded on freedom of speech."
Mike Tyson Podcast With Alex Jones Censored After Pressure From Big Tech
"The attack began shortly after the start of the live-stream of Daily Wire’s Backstage program, which preceded the premiere and featured Daily Wire hosts discussing the making and meaning of the film. Many users encountered difficulty accessing the live-stream due to the malicious event."
The Daily Wire Comes Under "Sustained DDoS Attack" Intended to "Disrupt" Premiere of What is a Woman?
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"America’s enemies are targeting our porous border as the most effective way to get its agents into the country."
More Proof the Border Is a National Security Issue
Send them all to Bernie's mansions!
Biden Opens U.S. Borders to 44,000 Ukrainians – Exceeding Population of Burlington, Vermont
I guess the Agriculture Dept. will be training spies now, right?
Dept. of Homeland Security—Responsible for Securing Border—Advises Women: "Eat a Healthy and Balanced Diet"
LOCKDOWN 2: MONKEY POX MONKEY BUSINESS BOOGALOO???
Unless and until people restore enough of their stolen liberty to thwart the march toward globalist domination.
GOOD NEWS! WHO Not Expecting "At This Moment" for Monkeypox to Reach Pandemic Level
AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
"In an appeal filed hours before the deadline, the Justice Department argued that the CDC’s 2021 mask mandate was 'within' the agency’s legal authority."
Justice Department Asks Court to Reinstate Chinese COVID-19 Travel Mask Mandate
“One of the issues … it’s less about mandates on the plane than it is about who has the right and the authority and the capability of making public health decisions.”
Fauci Admits Fight Over Travel Mask Mandate Is All About Hoarding Power
"It’s not over."
Chinese COVID Restrictions Are Coming Back
“Plaintiffs each have sincere religious beliefs that prohibit them from receiving the [Chinese] COVID-19 vaccine,” the lawsuit reads.
Air Force Members File Lawsuit Over Chinese COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"California scraps plans for a desalination plant and intends to tear down four dams."
Green Justice Policies Could Cause Desertification of California
"It’s a masochistic one, to boot."
The Carbon Tax Pipe Dream
"There is good reason to be wary of government efforts to force this technology onto the masses."
Unsafe At Any Speed? Electric Cars Keep Catching Fire
"Today marks the first official day of hurricane season, and with it, new risks to a power grid already on edge."
Americans Bracing For Summer Blackouts Better Hope For Tame Hurricanes
"Never in history has a civilization willfully embarked on destroying its own material foundations."
Green Energy Chickens Coming Home to Roost
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"Critics of the [junta's] decision said it could unnecessarily harm disadvantaged students. Christian K-12 schools that participate in the NSLP can apply for a religious exemption, but public and nonreligious private schools must follow the new rules or lose their funding."
No Free Lunch: Biden Junta Will Pull Meal Funding for Schools That Don’t Comply With Its LGBT Agenda
"New York State throws obstacles in the way of mayoral control of city schools."
Thwarting Real Education Reform
"A new study shows that public schools are highly segregated, while polls reveal that educational freedom is more popular than ever."
School Choice and Segregation: Fact and Fiction
ABORTION
"We are the arbiters."
Nazi Collaborator Soros Prosecutor Says He Won’t Enforce Abortion Laws if Roe is Overturned
"The only two Republicans who did not sign the letter were Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska." (I didn't even have to read the article to predict that one - jjs)
48 Senate Republicans Tell Schumer They Will Block Any Bill Undermining Hyde Amendment
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
Margot Cleveland: "It was not the verdict, however, that confirmed that the FBI belongs to career bureaucrats, high-powered D.C. elites who revolve in and out of the government as political appointees, and the families and friends of all the above. Rather, it was the speed with which the acquittal came, coupled with the in-court testimony and other evidence exposed by the special counsel throughout the prosecution that proved the FBI isn’t America’s anymore."
The Special Counsel Proved the FBI Belongs to the Swamp
Defendant or prosecutor, it doesn’t matter. If you’re not on the Left’s side, you’re shit out of luck in “the District of Corruption,” as one observer put it.
The D.C. Swamp – A Place Where Only Leftists Like Sussmann Get a Jury of Their Peers
"Tuesday’s verdict comes as no surprise to those who know the truth about the Watergate trials."
Sussmann and the Bias of D.C. Juries
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
I am selective about the messages that I create or promote – while I will serve anyone I am always careful to avoid communicating ideas or messages, or promoting events, products, services, or organizations, that are inconsistent with my religious beliefs.”
SCOTUS Case: Christian Artist Forced to Create Designs That Violate Her Beliefs About Marriage
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
"Hunter Biden is a sick man, that much is clear. And I know he and his dad are close, but one report suggested something that is just weird."
Um…Did Hunter Biden Send Joe Biden Porn Links?
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
In a letter sent on May 26 to the Federal Election Commission, Swalwell's campaign lawyer said Swalwell receives "many invitations" to travel overseas because of his status as a "well-known member of Congress" and position in Democratic Party leadership. The lawyer urged the expansion of an FEC rule that allows candidates to use campaign funds to pay for nannies during campaign events and fundraisers.
Nanny State: Fang-Fang Bang-Bang Swalwell Wants To Use Campaign Cash To Pay Babysitters During His Overseas Work Trips
"Jay Chen thrice voted to raise tuition at local college, now blames student loan debt 'crisis' on skyrocketing costs."
This California Dem Hates Increased Tuition Costs, Except at the College That Pays Him
POLITICS
Victor Davis Hanson: "The path to the 2024 presidential election will be shaped entirely by how things look for Donald Trump in the wake of the 2022 midterms."
Trumpology
"What kind of president could expect to survive politically when everything he touches brings more pain for the American people?"
Help! The (Pretend) President's Fallen and Can't Get Up!
"The country's growing number of political 'tribes' is damaging its unique sense of national belonging."
Another Biden Fail: Unity Index Shows Divisions Deepening — I&I/TIPP Poll
But SCOTUS “paused the counting of some mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania.”
PA GOP Senate Primary Candidate McCormick Wants Ballots Recounted by Hand in 12 Counties
"Businessman Perry Johnson was one of five Republican candidates looking to take on incumbent Democrat Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer but whose petition sheets were found to have thousands of fraudulent or invalid signatures. The candidates were deemed ineligible to appear on the primary ballot after the Board of State Canvassers deadlocked on May 26, the AP reported." (the gall of this after what happened on election night in 2020 - jjs)
Judge Removes Republican From Ballot In Key Gubernatorial Race
"A shocking new poll puts Republican Christine Drazan just slightly ahead of Democrat Tina Kotek in the Oregon governor’s race." (Dao-Min Yen will "tamp on" that - jjs)
Shock Poll: Republican Leads Oregon Governor Race
"Data shows San Francisco has 7,754 homeless people. Only 400 of them fall under the transgender category. What about the other 7,354 homeless people?"
CA Gov. Candidate Lashes Out at San Francisco Mayor’s Plan to Only Tackle Transgender Homelessness
"Why the rich Harvard grad in cargo shorts wants to punish poor people."
Obese Stroke Survivor John Fetterman Thinks He Knows What’s Best for Your Health
"Describes Paul as 'the person who singlehandedly blocked an antilynching act from being federal law' despite the fact Paul co-sponsored the anti-lynching bill that became federal law."
Video: Rand Paul’s Democrat Opponent Dons a NOOSE to Suggest Senator Supports LYNCHING
"The welfare of our citizens is being sacrificed for the Democrat Party’s political gain."
How the Democrats Defraud Black America
Charlie Kirk: "A true America First platform is the only way forward."
The Origins of the New Right – And its Future
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"Agatha — the strongest hurricane to hit Mexico’s Pacific coast in the month of May since record-keeping began in 1949 — made landfall as a category two hurricane Monday."
At Least 11 Dead, 33 More Missing After Hurricane Agatha Slams Mexico
"A pathetic slap in the face."
Dissidents Blast Biden’s Tepid Support for Iranian Protesters
Daniel Greenfield: "Confronting the forgotten history of Muslim occupation of Israel."
Liberating Our Jerusalem
"Struggling to stay relevant -- via Islamic supremacist bravado."
Hassan Nasrallah, the Miles Gloriosus, Boasts of His Victories
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE, THE COURTS
"WalletHub used five metrics to rank 182 U.S. cities as the best places to raise children: family fun, health and safety, education and child care, affordability, and socioeconomics. Detroit ranked dead last in an aggregation of those metrics."
City Run by Democrats for 60 Straight Years Ranked Worst Place To Raise Family
"It’s the only way to prevent more travesties like the Sussmann case."
Drain the Swamp, Move Them Out
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"The move comes even as Canada, and British Columbia especially, is in the midst of a growing opioid crisis, but the province actually cited that crisis as one of the reasons it requested the exemption."
Canadian Province Decriminalizes Opioids, Other Drugs, Despite Overdose Deaths Nearly Doubling
"New York subway-ad campaigns on fentanyl and pot endorse destructive social norms."
Empowering Addiction
"Most studies of alleged discrimination in medical care document racial disparities in clinical results, not biased treatment."
Different Outcomes, Not Different Treatment
"The effects of new variants of marijuana aren't a joke. This issue is deadly serious, and decriminalizing marijuana won't fix it."
The Return of Reefer Madness
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
“If you had every kid in America had a loving father in the home, we would have far, far fewer problems that we would have to deal with as a society."
DeSantis: Fatherlessness is to Blame For Far Too Many of Society’s Problems
"In a new poem, a gender-bending minister for the nation’s third-largest denomination says that queerness is divine."
Methodist Church’s First Drag Queen Pastor: "God Is Nothing"
"Musk has been criticized before regarding his opinions on the LGBT community, and many feel he should have been more careful with this latest post."
Elon Musk Sparks Outrage With LGBT Pride Tweet
"The San Francisco Police Department responded by refusing to participate."
San Francisco Pride Bans Police Uniforms At Parade While Other Attendees Prepare To March Naked
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"The #metoo movement reached its nadir in the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who faced absurd accusations of having been a gang rapist in high school, decades before. But its real undoing came in the 2020 presidential campaign, when Democrats — with rare exceptions — ignored credible accusations by a former staffer for Joe Biden, Tara Reade, who claimed that he had sexually assaulted her in the 1990s."
Johnny Depp Verdict Marks End of ‘Believe All Women’ in Hollywood
"Though the system purports to be objective, Oaks and other Republican state treasurers contend that progressive ESG metrics are giving investment funds an excuse to discriminate against states with conservative values."
Wall Street is "Trying to Punish" Middle America for Religious and Cultural Views Through Woke Investing, Republican State Treasurers Warn
"They spit in your face constantly."
Woke NASCAR Blasted Over Pride Month Tweet
HITHER & YON
"Spacek and Simmons power Amazon's thoughtful science fiction yarn."
Night Sky Demands, and Rewards, Your Patience
"From George Shadroui, a fresh angle on the phenomenon that was WFB."
Celebrating William F. Buckley

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1 First?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 02, 2022 06:59 AM (fPQZI)

2 First

Posted by: WiNO at June 02, 2022 06:59 AM (EpDzw)

3 Yep.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 02, 2022 06:59 AM (fPQZI)

4 Photo finish.

Posted by: WiNO at June 02, 2022 07:00 AM (EpDzw)

5 @4

>>Photo finish.

Old and busted: There can be only one!
New hotness: Participation Firsts.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 02, 2022 07:01 AM (fPQZI)

6 Despite the media’s attempts to retroactively paint Sussmann’s trial as a nothingburger, Durham’s criminal charges against the lawyer provided the public with crucial evidence proving Clinton’s interference in the lead-up to the 2016 election.

I see everyone is breaking out the Hopium supplies.

"Now that we've laid everything out with geometric precision, we're actually winning." - Captain Queeg

Posted by: WiNO at June 02, 2022 07:02 AM (EpDzw)

7 Old and busted: There can be only one!
New hotness: Participation Firsts.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 02, 2022 07:01 AM (fPQZI)

Hey, I didn't dispute your victory. Just stated it was very close. Although I suspect you use of PEDs. :-)

Posted by: WiNO at June 02, 2022 07:03 AM (EpDzw)

8 >>Woke NASCAR Blasted Over Pride Month Tweet.

The forces of evil are essentially forcing us to completely detach from the wider culture where everyone will exist in their own discreet cultural silo.

I can't wait till the US is a half a billion completely disconnected, angry people.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 02, 2022 07:04 AM (fPQZI)

9 Fine post, jjs!

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Vigor at June 02, 2022 07:07 AM (qpX6U)

10 Wow. What a cavalcade of great links. Looked at the menu, and will start linking soon.

Thank you, J.J. May your move preps continue ot be smooth as you ramp up NYexit.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 02, 2022 07:08 AM (u82oZ)

11 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 02, 2022 07:09 AM (u82oZ)

12 @7

>>Hey, I didn't dispute your victory. Just stated it was very close. Although I suspect you use of PEDs. :-)

PED Regime..
14 oz of Bengay rubbed on liberally.
16 oz of Metamucil, 3 times a day.
1 ml B12 injected into each buttock.
10 cups of coffee
4 glazed and 1 jelly doughnut.
1 jar cashews.
15 minute Therapy Llama sessions, 4 times a day.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 02, 2022 07:09 AM (fPQZI)

13 Time to wake up and get organized.

Posted by: IanDeal at June 02, 2022 07:09 AM (MGjjz)

14 8 But I like my silo!

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Vigor at June 02, 2022 07:09 AM (qpX6U)

15 They leave the stage for hysterical epsilon men like Beto O’Rourke

*

I despise this "Beto" crap.

His name is Robert Francis. Literally "Bob". He's an O'Rourke for goodness' sake.

I've got $100 that there is no record of him being called "Beto" before he entered politics.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - the CEO of Moderna acknowledged the presence of patented sequence in Covid-19 at June 02, 2022 07:11 AM (c1p4Y)

16 Mornin' Horde!

Posted by: Hawkpilot at June 02, 2022 07:12 AM (bD9HN)

17 Durham = Ukraine?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - the CEO of Moderna acknowledged the presence of patented sequence in Covid-19 at June 02, 2022 07:13 AM (c1p4Y)

18 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at June 02, 2022 07:13 AM (1Z8zZ)

19 With few exception, I can point to every single mom kid in school. We have a lot of intact families out here in rural Kansas. But a lot of rot as well.

When I worked in the city of Manhattan, for some of the kids, I was the only adult male that even paid the slightest attention to them. The boys in particular needed, and sometimes heeded, my advice, but my observations seem to surprise them.

Peer pressure is strong for people that you know will be in trouble. I used to guess which of my poorly self-controlled students would be in jail as an adult. I could see this even in 3rd graders, the ones from very dysfunctional families.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 02, 2022 07:15 AM (u82oZ)

20 Biden/Carter collaspe similarities :

1979 inflation 13.3%
2022 projected inflation 8.7%

April 1980 botched Iran hostage rescue
August 2021 botched Afghanistan withdrawal

1979 gasoline increase 52%
2022 gasoline increase (6 months ) 30%

February 1980 underdog USA Olympic hockey team upsets the favorite
May 2022 Longshot Rich Strike upsets the favorites in the Kentucky Derby.

Posted by: redenzo at June 02, 2022 07:15 AM (E7vND)

21 15 When I was clerking a job in AZ, I would go and get day laborers every so often. Boss insisted I ask them for ID, which I did. A couple times I encountered some Mexican guys with Irish names. Maybe descendants of the San Patricios, Irish army deserters during the Mexican War.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 02, 2022 07:15 AM (lz5hY)

22 Prayers ascending for Jane D'oh, who should be recovering from surgery. I do doubt she will be on her feet by now. Hope her medical team has a cute Doctor.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 02, 2022 07:16 AM (u82oZ)

23 ASSCAR

Posted by: fd at June 02, 2022 07:17 AM (vrz2I)

24 > I despise this "Beto" crap.

"Beatoff" works for me.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 02, 2022 07:17 AM (bW8dp)

25 Thank you, J.J.!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 02, 2022 07:17 AM (1n+EO)

26
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 02, 2022 07:18 AM (ENBF0)

27 Miss me yet?

Posted by: Donaldus Trumpus at June 02, 2022 07:18 AM (flINI)

28 > A couple times I encountered some Mexican guys with Irish names.

Anthony Quinn probably the most famous.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 02, 2022 07:19 AM (bW8dp)

29 The Left hates competent Fathers. Daddy issues.

Gonna be hard to fix this, with the current culture.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 02, 2022 07:19 AM (u82oZ)

30 I think O'Rourke is doing a Bialystock campaign, trying his best to lose and just scam the campaign warchest.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 02, 2022 07:19 AM (lz5hY)

31 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 02, 2022 07:20 AM (yrol0)

32 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

Are you duckless?

This is a particularly AoS question. I can't imagine working this into conversation.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 02, 2022 07:21 AM (u82oZ)

33 Hey! Hunter is making educational films. No kidding. I know I learned a lot. I am not joking. One of his co-stars looks a lot like Jill. From the back anyway. My word as a Biteum.

Posted by: Joe Biteum at June 02, 2022 07:21 AM (vrz2I)

34 Imagine the sky high numbers from mass shootings if Blacks could shoot with just average accuracy.
Silver Linings and shit...

Posted by: Heavy Squats at June 02, 2022 07:22 AM (0tkMf)

35 bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the doo

If he sings songs out of the Producer, put him down.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 02, 2022 07:22 AM (u82oZ)

36 Heavy Squats

Hey NRA -- a growth opportunity.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 02, 2022 07:22 AM (u82oZ)

37 1979 inflation 13.3%
2022 projected inflation 8.7%

It's my understanding that it's no longer measured the same in the hopes that they can fool people into not believing their own eyes.

True inflation is closer to 18-20%

Posted by: Moron Robbie - the CEO of Moderna acknowledged the presence of patented sequence in Covid-19 at June 02, 2022 07:23 AM (c1p4Y)

38 The NRA does not sell arms. Planned Parenthood does.

This has been a PSA from the Ad Council.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 02, 2022 07:24 AM (u82oZ)

39 Moron Robbie - the CEO of Moderna acknowledged the presence of patented sequence in Covid-19

We see USA Republic lying face up on the bridge of the Enterprise. McCoy is working on him.

Clear!!! Bzzz. Bzzz. Bzzz. He's dead Jim.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 02, 2022 07:25 AM (u82oZ)

40 The inflation numbers are a lie like everything else that comes from this administration. Joe lies as easily as he breathes.

Posted by: fd at June 02, 2022 07:25 AM (vrz2I)

41 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

OK, so that's what's happening.

I believe the more fundamental understanding has got to be that this outcome is intentional, and whom it benefits. This is not incompetence, it is success. It is not "pathology," but evil.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 02, 2022 07:26 AM (EZebt)

42 37 Grocery shopping yesterday and got 9 or 10 items, all stuff I buy on a regular basis. Off the top of my head, five of those items have doubled or more in price in the past couple months. The others, increased by at least 20%.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 02, 2022 07:27 AM (lz5hY)

43 They are the offspring of the two hatcheries that breed fatherless children: the welfare state and the divorce industry.

Big Divorce was created by Hollywood liberals and transplanted to middle America. Just a big ripoff to destroy wealth and create kids that need Big Govt help!

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 02, 2022 07:27 AM (yrol0)

44 San Franpsycho

Alas. This is what winning looks like for the Left. And they want to get more winnings.

Buckle up. Ride gonna be bumpy.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 02, 2022 07:27 AM (u82oZ)

45 > I think O'Rourke is doing a Bialystock campaign, trying his best to lose and just scam the campaign warchest.

I've had the same suspicion for a while.

Collect loot, bang bored housewives with a Kennedy fetish, and convince his father-in-law that he's "trying to get a job", at long last.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 02, 2022 07:27 AM (bW8dp)

46 J.J.

Thanks for all the great links and hard work.

Posted by: Actually Inside the Beltway at June 02, 2022 07:27 AM (fMhOl)

47 G'morning, Salty.

The teenage ducks are just now getting into the air occasionally.

Fun to watch.

The babies are less than two weeks old, and besides Little Clyde, whom we drove up to Charlotte for rehab due to a deformed foot at birth, the momma has lost two additional ones to nature. But, the other six and momma show up at sunrise and sunset for their meals.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 02, 2022 07:28 AM (1n+EO)

48 believe the more fundamental understanding has got to be that this outcome is intentional, and whom it benefits. This is not incompetence, it is success. It is not "pathology," but evil.

*

It absolutely is. As Romeo13 pointed out a couple of days ago, it's the only campaign promise Biden has kept.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - the CEO of Moderna acknowledged the presence of patented sequence in Covid-19 at June 02, 2022 07:28 AM (c1p4Y)

49 rhennigantx

As long as total collapse does not touch their pension, they are good.

And good morning to you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 02, 2022 07:28 AM (u82oZ)

50 No Free Lunch: Biden Junta Will Pull Meal Funding for Schools That Don’t Comply With Its LGBT Agenda

--

Today, it's the queering of your children. Tomorrow, only Lucifer knows. But the point remains...if we don't put our foot down as a country right now to these federal gov't threats, we will be forced to do whatever they decree, no matter how noxious, no matter how against our principles it may be.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 02, 2022 07:28 AM (sVtYq)

51 Clear!!! Bzzz. Bzzz. Bzzz. He's dead Jim.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 02, 2022 07:25 AM (u82oZ)

Dammit Jim Im a doctor, not a NIH Administrator with almost zero medical experience.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 02, 2022 07:29 AM (yrol0)

52 > many feel he should have been more careful with this latest post

Yeah, well, Musk doesn't give two shits about how "many feel".

I'm not 100% behind him on every position he holds, but he is definitely moving in the right direction.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 02, 2022 07:30 AM (bW8dp)

53 The thing about the NASCAR tweet is not that it is pro gay but it is groveling. And they say they took actions that weren't super affirming for the LGBTWTFBBQ community. The action? Having the governor of Texas wave the starting flag.

Posted by: blaster at June 02, 2022 07:30 AM (9otr5)

54 Montreal monkeypox cases have more than doubled from 25 to 52 in the past two weeks. No word on demographics oddly enough.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 02, 2022 07:31 AM (yikp0)

55 There are more individuals who support the belief that the 2020 election was stolen than there are that identify as trans.

Yet we alter our language and lifestyle to affirm one group.

And force the other into hiding.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 02, 2022 07:32 AM (1n+EO)

56 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Village Idiot's Apprentice

Wow. Only two gone. You are a safe haven.

I've watched two groups of baby turkeys, guarded by alert and very fit hens, lose three each after two days in my neck of the prairie. I saw one baby turkey getting a bit behind the flock, and said "He is not going to make it." And I was right.

We got a lot of hungry predators around here.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 02, 2022 07:32 AM (u82oZ)

57 You cannot go on explaining away for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.

Posted by: CSL at June 02, 2022 07:33 AM (yrol0)

58 So let me get this straight: our talking points ought to be constructed to look very similar to the Left's and that is to substitute "patriarchy" is the problem and respond with "matriarchy" as the problem.

I always figured that this is what it looks like when society rejects God. I subscribe to the Doctrines of Grace which includes the concept of Election. That is, we are all awful sinners (many are over achievers), not a one of us seeks God, but that some are inexplicably chosen by God to become His followers/examples.

Therefore, I have zero expectations on the reprobates to act well, only for as much as they maintain a false piety (sort of pretending to be good as virtue signaling) that just so happens is a social positive.

Fewer true Christians, less influence, fewer posers. Posers don't shoot up schools and hospitals.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 02, 2022 07:33 AM (AHeqJ)

59 Re: "Current events", and hinted at by Miranda Devince, plus "wind-up-toys":

“In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.”

C. S. Lewis, "The Abolition of Man"

Posted by: Bruce at June 02, 2022 07:34 AM (63NOB)

60 "The country's growing number of political 'tribes' is damaging its unique sense of national belonging."

--

Uh, it's been severely damaged and quite possibly past the point of resuscitation for a long time. They have successfully balkanized, ideologically and ethnically, the American population. I only wish we still retained even a fragment of E pluribus unum. It's dead, Jim.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 02, 2022 07:34 AM (sVtYq)

61 Creepy Joe feels your pain...

Breaking911 @Breaking911
BIDEN: "The idea we're going to be able to click a switch, bring down the cost of gasoline, is not likely in the near term. Nor is it with regard to food."

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/
1532097085981474818

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 02, 2022 07:34 AM (yikp0)

62 "We are the arbiters of the law." There are no words, except, there is no common cause with these people.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at June 02, 2022 07:35 AM (oWBc3)

63 Now is when the experience of surviving a childhood in the streets of dystopian 70s NYC is going to pay off baby!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 02, 2022 07:37 AM (EZebt)

64 Reuben Hick

I pay attention to your analysis.

Advanced Civilization seems to be out of reach of places without a good religion. Christianity, but looking at Singapore, the late Hong Kong, and Japan, as well. Although Japan got weird after I left.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 02, 2022 07:37 AM (u82oZ)

65 many feel he should have been more careful with this latest post

--

I saw his post yesterday. To which I say, what's the big deal? I took it to be him poking fun at the in-your-face-month-long-gay-pride-palooza-dog-and-pony-show we're going to be browbeaten with. Let's face it, everyone feels the same way.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 02, 2022 07:37 AM (sVtYq)

66 Get ready to be Pouponned...

"The harvest for mustard in Canada wasn't great last year," he said. "So that's been a challenge." Last year's drought in the prairies significantly impacted mustard production, which is particularly problematic given that Canada is the second-largest producer of mustard seed in the world. [andy: French production is down too.]

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 02, 2022 07:37 AM (yikp0)

67 Lady in Black

Tribes are in our future. Choose carefully.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 02, 2022 07:38 AM (u82oZ)

68

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at June 02, 2022 07:39 AM (SWi3y)

69 The thing about the NASCAR tweet is not that it is pro gay but it is groveling. And they say they took actions that weren't super affirming for the LGBTWTFBBQ community. The action? Having the governor of Texas wave the starting flag.

What makes that action especially despicable is that it implies that the Texas governor is anti LGBT+. NASCAR might as well just admit that they hate Republicans and that NASCAR is in service to the WEF/Devil in advocating depravity while sliming traditional America.

NASCAR needs to die. It wasn't just Noosegate or even the greater sin of putting throttle-plate restrictors on the big track races.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 02, 2022 07:39 AM (AHeqJ)

70 Father's Day this year falls on Juneteenth.

Mark your calendar.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 02, 2022 07:39 AM (1n+EO)

71 San Franpsycho

I can see it now. Stickball games, now guarded with AR-15s.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 02, 2022 07:39 AM (u82oZ)

72 Health Canada [our feds] approves Pfizer C-19 booster shot for 16- and 17-year-olds based on data from two studies but has added a warning about potential risk of heart inflammation added to the shot's label. BTW, I think only three kids aged 16-19 have died in Ontario over all two years of WuFlu.

Pfizer and Moderna currently aiming for their U.S. okay too.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 02, 2022 07:39 AM (yikp0)

73 No. 5: How can we afford all this? I've argued from day one it was a disastrous decision and tragic mistake to give another $40 billion to Ukraine. We need to worry about America. We could have used that $40 billion here at home. Half of it ($20 billion) should have been used to pay for armed security at every school in America.

America hate our kids but love Ukrainians.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 02, 2022 07:40 AM (yrol0)

74 Father's Day this year falls on Juneteenth.
-------------------
Chaos in Harlem!

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 02, 2022 07:40 AM (yikp0)

75 68 Hillary Clinton

Ah, the really scary one has arrived. A great Old One from the outer cosmos.

No one gets a saving throw for sanity.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 02, 2022 07:41 AM (u82oZ)

76 rhennigantx

I asked my wife if we can sponsor a Ukrainian women, to do our part. Her response was swift, final, and to no ones surprise, NO!!

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 02, 2022 07:42 AM (u82oZ)

77 74 Father's Day this year falls on Juneteenth.
-------------------
Chaos in Harlem!
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 02, 2022 07:40 AM (yikp0)

I regret this year our sales will be down in June as some buyers prefer the combo Juneteeth Fathers Day card to traditionally buying 2 cards.

Posted by: Hallmark CEO at June 02, 2022 07:42 AM (yrol0)

78 You will be nutless (aka GOPe) --and like it.

Posted by: Voter theater. at June 02, 2022 07:42 AM (pgcLn)

79 I asked my wife if we can sponsor a Ukrainian women, to do our part. Her response was swift, final, and to no ones surprise, NO!!
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 02, 2022 07:42 AM (u82oZ)

I always wanted a French Au pair but alas, NO!

Posted by: Hallmark CEO at June 02, 2022 07:43 AM (yrol0)

80
BIDEN: "The idea we're going to be able to click a switch, bring down the cost of gasoline, is not likely in the near term. Nor is it with regard to food."

Well, he's right. That's why it's important not to pursue policies that cause the cost of gasoline and food to shoot up. But to progressives, cause and effect seem completely unrelated items.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 02, 2022 07:43 AM (/U27+)

81 hiya

Posted by: JT at June 02, 2022 07:43 AM (arJlL)

82 Hinckley gets final judicial okay on permanent release. I don't know if that will include parole-like conditions or completely free as a bird.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 02, 2022 07:43 AM (yikp0)

83 Which had higher volume sales yesterday, 9mm or 5.56? Which caliber broke all-time sales records?

Posted by: Mr Gaga at June 02, 2022 07:43 AM (KiBMU)

84 "Welfare payments will not exceed the contributions of the father." Putting skin into the game might incentivize the father to cultivate his "investment"

Posted by: thomas eugene johnson at June 02, 2022 07:43 AM (whLKa)

85 Uh, it's been severely damaged and quite possibly past the point of resuscitation for a long time. They have successfully balkanized, ideologically and ethnically, the American population. I only wish we still retained even a fragment of E pluribus unum. It's dead, Jim.
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 02, 2022 07:34 AM (sVtYq)

Vast demographic changes never work well. It used to be common knowledge that shoving a bunch of disparate people together leads to upheavals and instability. People start voting their religion and ethnic group. Whites are going to have to do that as they slip into the minority.

Posted by: WiNO at June 02, 2022 07:44 AM (EpDzw)

86
NaCly Dog,

On summer holiday?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 02, 2022 07:44 AM (/U27+)

87 Morning peeps.

Personally I don't think the rejection of God is the singular reason we're going down the shitter. An awful lot of the nation's problems are of our own making and will require strong willed people with purpose to set right... if they have the fortitude to do so.

Many have put their faith in the politicians and the processes surrounding them in the hope they will set things right. The thing is, politicians thrive on your misery and enjoy the fruits of the status quo.

Until that changes nothing does.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 02, 2022 07:44 AM (BFigT)

88 Welp, time to go. Chores.

Have a great day everyone, full of observed beauty in your world.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 02, 2022 07:44 AM (u82oZ)

89 37 1979 inflation 13.3%
2022 projected inflation 8.7%

It's my understanding that it's no longer measured the same in the hopes that they can fool people into not believing their own eyes.

True inflation is closer to 18-20%
Posted by: Moron Robbie - the CEO of Moderna acknowledged the presence of patented sequence in Covid-19 at June 02, 2022 07:23 AM (c1p4Y)

That is true - under 70s measurements, we'd be much higher than we are (I'd have to see someone's computation, but pretty sure it's mid teens or higher)...

Posted by: Nova local at June 02, 2022 07:44 AM (exHjb)

90 Good morning horde
Said yesterday if Ukraine looses we will get 100,000 Ukraine immigrants, young men will rejoice

Posted by: Skip's phone at June 02, 2022 07:44 AM (zYGEz)

91 At least China Joe didn't say he was going to whip out his magic wand.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 02, 2022 07:44 AM (yikp0)

92 Be safe, Salty!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 02, 2022 07:45 AM (1n+EO)

93 Hadrian the Seventh

Yes.

School is out. There goes my excuse to not do more chores.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 02, 2022 07:45 AM (u82oZ)

94 I always wanted a French Au pair but alas, NO!
Posted by: Hallmark CEO at June 02, 2022 07:43 AM (yrol0)

It always ends badly for the evil male.

Posted by: Lifetime CEO at June 02, 2022 07:45 AM (EpDzw)

95 63 Now is when the experience of surviving a childhood in the streets of dystopian 70s NYC is going to pay off baby!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 02, 2022 07:37 AM (EZebt)

What's old is new again, b/c I think NYC is right back to its 70s state right now...

Posted by: Nova local at June 02, 2022 07:46 AM (exHjb)

96
Said yesterday if Ukraine looses we will get 100,000 Ukraine immigrants, young men will rejoice
Posted by: Skip's phone at June 02, 2022 07:44 AM (zYGEz)

"I no want drunken gopnik. I want nice American Moron."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 02, 2022 07:46 AM (/U27+)

97 I'm impressed that the media is identifying the shooter's skin color. They probably cried when they realized they had no choice.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 02, 2022 07:46 AM (4olE8)

98 GOPnik??

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 02, 2022 07:47 AM (yikp0)

99 " I'm impressed that the media is identifying the shooter's skin color. "

But he identified as white!

Posted by: The Media at June 02, 2022 07:48 AM (1n+EO)

100 95 What's old is new again, b/c I think NYC is right back to its 70s state right now...
Posted by: Nova local at June 02, 2022 07:46 AM (exHjb)

Worse in many many ways. Believe me.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 02, 2022 07:48 AM (s2VJv)

101 I've never heard of a Latino named Beto. Berto, yes.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 02, 2022 07:48 AM (KAi1n)

102 Pfizer and Moderna currently aiming for their U.S. okay too.
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 02, 2022 07:39 AM (yikp0)

One of my kids took it and a booster due to job requirements. Still caught the Fauci/CCP Virus. Ended up with pneumonia and has deep vein thrombosis (blood clots).

Posted by: WiNO at June 02, 2022 07:49 AM (EpDzw)

103 My earlier understanding was that the White-POC shooter was looking for a specific Doctor, perhaps as his intended target.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 02, 2022 07:49 AM (1n+EO)

104 Christopher Rufo wrote this months article for Imprimus Hillsdales monthly publication. He says we need to lay siege to the institutions as they have been thoroughly restructured by the Marxists. Just as the Marxists advised their followers to do after the 60s flower children revolution faded with little change to show for it. Recommended reading.

Posted by: Jen the original at June 02, 2022 07:50 AM (0/wfq)

105 97 I'm impressed that the media is identifying the shooter's skin color. They probably cried when they realized they had no choice.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 02, 2022 07:46 AM (4olE

It's the signal to all the repeaters on the newswire that there will be no further mention or followup to this story.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 02, 2022 07:50 AM (nRMeC)

106 Advanced Civilization seems to be out of reach of places without a good religion. Christianity, but looking at Singapore, the late Hong Kong, and Japan, as well. Although Japan got weird after I left.

I suspect that once relative prosperity hits a society there is more opportunity for mischief. Idle Hands/Devil's Workshop. What was the Chinese proverb? "No Food, One Problem; Have Food, Many Problems"

So as time is available away from sustenance, how is it regulated? Self regulated (through benevolent religion) or through a strong police state?

You want to have a docile population outside of God or brute strength? Keep them working. Destroy the welfare state and create scarcity (cause a war if you must).

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 02, 2022 07:50 AM (AHeqJ)

107 We had a powerful reality lesson recently when an Iraqi national, Shihab Ahmed Shihab Shihab, 52, was arrested in Ohio and charged with aiding and abetting a plot to murder former President George W. Bush

Is this good or bad news?

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 02, 2022 07:50 AM (yrol0)

108 We had a powerful reality lesson recently when an Iraqi national, Shihab Ahmed Shihab Shihab, 52, was arrested in Ohio and charged with aiding and abetting a plot to murder former President George W. Bush

Is this good or bad news?
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 02, 2022 07:50 AM (yrol0)

Ehhhh…….

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 02, 2022 07:52 AM (P8k+X)

109 The country turned its back on God and God's wrath is of our own doing. The only question now is are we heading to Babylon in chains or, the dwindling remnant in Sodom before the destruction? I'll ponder this on the Kubota today.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at June 02, 2022 07:52 AM (oWBc3)

110 103 My earlier understanding was that the White-POC shooter was looking for a specific Doctor, perhaps as his intended target.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 02, 2022 07:49 AM (1n+EO)

Apparently, that was the initial story - probably setting up a "underserved and let down by healthcare" excuse for sweeping this one under the rug...

Posted by: Nova local at June 02, 2022 07:52 AM (exHjb)

111 Women face diverse and unique health challenges that can affect their overall wellbeing, said the DHS statement.

?WHAT IS A WOMAN?

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 02, 2022 07:52 AM (yrol0)

112 Shihab Ahmed Shihab Shihab

***

John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt... That's my name too

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at June 02, 2022 07:53 AM (flINI)

113 We had a powerful reality lesson recently when an Iraqi national, Shihab Ahmed Shihab Shihab, 52, was arrested in Ohio and charged with aiding and abetting a plot to murder former President George W. Bush

Is this good or bad news?
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 02, 2022 07:50 AM (yrol0)

It looks like another FBI frame job. Read the story about it a couple weeks back and it had all of the hallmarks of an informant/agent leading a guy to commit a crime.

Posted by: WiNO at June 02, 2022 07:53 AM (EpDzw)

114 "charged with aiding and abetting a plot to murder former President George W. Bush"

Why and who cares? Is somebody goings after Jimmy too? All they would have to do is show up at the front door in a rabbit costume.

Posted by: fd at June 02, 2022 07:54 AM (vrz2I)

115 "Women face diverse and unique health challenges that can affect their overall wellbeing, said the DHS statement. "

Testicular and prostate cancer come immediately to mind as unique to some women.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 02, 2022 07:54 AM (1n+EO)

116 Scatter the federal agencies across the country...

Do the top conservative writers check in to Ace's comment section to see what jwest is saying in order to get material for their articles?

Posted by: jwest at June 02, 2022 07:55 AM (/BlEx)

117 Never in history has a civilization willfully embarked on destroying its own material foundations.

Thu Jun 2, 2022Bruce Thornton

Hey Bruce, you obviously never read about WW1 or 2, the Depression, or the War on Poverty.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 02, 2022 07:55 AM (yrol0)

118 Women face diverse and unique health challenges that can affect their overall wellbeing, said the DHS statement.

--

Could not the same be said of men?

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 02, 2022 07:56 AM (sVtYq)

119 Scatter the federal agencies across the country...

Do the top conservative writers check in to Ace's comment section to see what jwest is saying in order to get material for their articles?
Posted by: jwest at June 02, 2022 07:55 AM (/BlEx)

Fuck that. I want some of these agencies shuttered.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 02, 2022 07:56 AM (P8k+X)

120 "Scatter the federal agencies across the country"

From a helicopter?

Posted by: fd at June 02, 2022 07:57 AM (vrz2I)

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

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at June 02, 2022 07:57 AM (bnrVB)

122 "~~Women~~ Unwanted fetuses face diverse and unique health challenges that can affect their overall wellbeing, said the DHS statement. "

* A true, but never written DHS statement

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 02, 2022 07:58 AM (1n+EO)

123 Personally I don't think the rejection of God is the singular reason we're going down the shitter. An awful lot of the nation's problems are of our own making and will require strong willed people with purpose to set right... if they have the fortitude to do so.

But where does that sentiment come from? Where is it modeled? Right Now, depravity is celebrated. An entire month of sin and sexual perversion is devoted to the destruction of family and traditional values. Memorial Day, which is a joke now, was about five minutes, at best, of "Yeah, people died to preserve your freedom...lets go eat." What does "freedom" mean anymore? How is it somehow noble to sacrifice for something that isn't valued or even understood?

With a knowledge of God, people have a connection with that which transcends, has purpose and is everlasting, not that which is temporal, vain and vanishing.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 02, 2022 07:58 AM (AHeqJ)

124 Weeks after long weekends suck more than regular work weeks. Same amount of muck to shovel, less time to shovel it in.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at June 02, 2022 07:58 AM (bnrVB)

125 "From a helicopter? "

Works for me.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 02, 2022 07:58 AM (1n+EO)

126 125 "From a helicopter? "

Works for me.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 02, 2022 07:58 AM (1n+EO)

Too slow, thinking starlifters

Posted by: A dude in MI at June 02, 2022 08:02 AM (/6GbT)

127 Turkey formally asks the U.N. to approve changing country's name to "Turkiye" to disassociate its name from the bird.

I understand Erdogan originally wanted it changed to "Nobgobblero".

I sure hope Finland and Sweden don't manage to get the motion vetoed.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 02, 2022 08:02 AM (yikp0)

128 "Unwanted fetuses face diverse and unique health challenges that can affect their overall wellbeing, said the DHS statement. "

I don't care for the word 'fetus'. It distances itself from the fact that this is a living baby. No one ever has a fetus shower. No one ever asks when is your fetus due? No one ever says what will you name your fetus? It's a baby.

Posted by: grammie winger at June 02, 2022 08:03 AM (45fpk)

129 Probably already said, but if you want to end poverty and mass violence in the United States:

1. End no-fault divorce. Children need *both* parents.
2. In the case that the father is not in the picture (single mother with a "baby daddy", a woman after a divorce), tie mom's WIC and other government assistance to the father's child support (reducing the amount of money the government gives mom when dad is paying, but not giving her anything if she doesn't know who dad is so he can be on the official hook for child support).

Remove the perverse incentives that created our epidemic of fatherlessness.

Oh. And go to church, heathen.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at June 02, 2022 08:03 AM (bnrVB)

130 "Too slow, thinking starlifters"

C-130.

With a tree chipper mounted at the end of the lowered cargo ramp.

Slower than a Starlifter.

But still...

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 02, 2022 08:03 AM (1n+EO)

131 "Scatter the federal agencies across the country"

From a helicopter?
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From the mouth of a cannon.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 02, 2022 08:04 AM (yikp0)

132 "Women face diverse and unique health challenges that can affect their overall wellbeing, said the DHS statement. "

I'm looking at heyjackass.com and see that men are over five times more likely to be the victim of gun violence.

I'm sure that being gunned down in the streets is a "health challenge" and bleeding out in the gutter "can affect their overall wellbeing".

How that is a federal agency's concern is beyond me.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 02, 2022 08:04 AM (AHeqJ)

133 When does SCOTUS drop the controversial rulings and blow outta town?

Posted by: A dude in MI at June 02, 2022 08:04 AM (/6GbT)

134 Bill “Salad” Barr was on Watters last night. For some reason he is very defensive about the John Durham belly flop!

What an arrogant yet incompetent and weak AG he was. Please retire and go away for good.

Posted by: This is my Stop at June 02, 2022 08:04 AM (Dmb5D)

135 Oh. And go to church, heathen.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at June 02, 2022 08:03 AM (bnrVB)

I snicker every time they post that.

Posted by: grammie winger at June 02, 2022 08:05 AM (45fpk)

136 Hiya Grammie !

Posted by: JT at June 02, 2022 08:06 AM (arJlL)

137 "Scatter the federal agencies across the country"

From a helicopter?
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From the mouth of a cannon.
Posted by: andycanuck

From a wood chipper.

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 02, 2022 08:06 AM (OzJjC)

138
No one ever has a fetus shower. No one ever asks when is your fetus due? No one ever says what will you name your fetus? It's a baby.
Posted by: grammie winger at June 02, 2022 08:03 AM (45fpk)

That's what I've always said. We all know an abortion does and what it is. All the frantic attempts by feminazis to cast it in a positive light are ridiculous.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 02, 2022 08:06 AM (/U27+)

139 "I don't care for the word 'fetus'. It distances itself from the fact that this is a living baby. No one ever has a fetus shower. No one ever asks when is your fetus due? No one ever says what will you name your fetus? It's a baby."

I'm not a fan of the term either, but I wanted to ensure that we understood the birth-status of the baby.

Unwanted ~~fetuses~~ pre-born babies face diverse and unique health challenges that can affect their overall wellbeing, said the DHS statement.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 02, 2022 08:06 AM (1n+EO)

140 Hiya JT!

Posted by: grammie winger at June 02, 2022 08:06 AM (45fpk)

141 2040: Father Knows Bestiality

Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 02, 2022 08:07 AM (wtvvX)

142 Not sleeping well anymore.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 02, 2022 08:07 AM (P8k+X)

143 Oh. And go to church, heathen.

Before the welfare state, and before mandatory sex-ed from K-12, families, mutual benefit societies and the local church were capable of handling the occasional unwed mother problem and also supported local programs to keep young men occupied with things other than forming gangs or sitting in the basement loaded with drugs playing mindless video games.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 02, 2022 08:07 AM (AHeqJ)

144 So, what do men do? They recoil and retreat. They leave the stage for hysterical epsilon men like Beto O’Rourke who whine and posture but can’t protect a thing.

Then when we need strong, quick-thinking Gary Cooper to save us from outlaws, he’s nowhere to be found.
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And he'll show up, in one form or another. But it won't be the way people want or remember. He won't step in and defend because it's worth defending or because it's the right thing to do. He'll step in and conquer.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2022 08:07 AM (5zVb8)

145 I snicker every time they post that.

I get a smile out of it, too.

That said, it's based on some solid sociological evidence - going to church, even if you are not a believer yourself, has a lot of benefits. It's sort of like the link between dressing nicely and better behavior.

And, of course, you might listen to a sermon now and again and end up letting God save your soul.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at June 02, 2022 08:07 AM (bnrVB)

146 2. In the case that the father is not in the picture (single mother with a "baby daddy", a woman after a divorce), tie mom's WIC and other government assistance to the father's child support (reducing the amount of money the government gives mom when dad is paying, but not giving her anything if she doesn't know who dad is so he can be on the official hook for child support).

Tie mom's WIC to her ovaries.

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 02, 2022 08:07 AM (OzJjC)

147 The folks who don't want the nuclear family because it's "too normal" fail to realize that such things are traditional because they work. They demand that their unique relationship configuration be just as stable and happy as traditional families and they think that it's society's fault that reality isn't bending to their will.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 02, 2022 08:08 AM (4olE8)

148 Bavarian authorities to release all unpublished files on attack at the 1972 Munich Olympics that left 17 dead.

I think AP / CP might have omitted a few salient facts in that chyron.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 02, 2022 08:09 AM (yikp0)

149 Women face diverse and unique health challenges that can affect their overall wellbeing, said the DHS statement. ...
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 02, 2022 07:52 AM (yrol0)
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Pandering that is also pointless. You could substitute the word "woman" with *any* living thing and the statement is still true.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2022 08:09 AM (5zVb8)

150 I just felt a tremor (rolling kind) for the first time in several years.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 02, 2022 08:10 AM (KAi1n)

151 Hiya JT!
Posted by: grammie winger

Posted by: JT at June 02, 2022 08:10 AM (arJlL)

152 Tucker Carlson Calls Out Canada For Banning Guns But Legalizing Fentanyl

They want lots of dead people...for the planet...and guns are taking too long. Plus, you can't use fentanyl against them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at June 02, 2022 08:10 AM (1Z8zZ)

153 " I just felt a tremor (rolling kind) for the first time in several years."

Sandworms....Run!!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 02, 2022 08:11 AM (1n+EO)

154 Pandering that is also pointless. You could substitute the word "woman" with *any* living thing and the statement is still true.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

otter ?

Posted by: JT at June 02, 2022 08:11 AM (arJlL)

155 Andycanuck @ 148-
Anyone who didn't learn what islam was from the 72 Olympics wasn't paying attention.

Posted by: Eromero at June 02, 2022 08:11 AM (gktX6)

156 This is quite a good essay but the author does not even mention the weekly Uvaldes happening in inner cities from coast to coast that has been going on for years.
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Which is odd, because socially the gangland violence in the inner city slums has been well studied and correlates very, very strongly with fatherless households. When subjectively studied, the young men (usually early teenagers) who hook up with the gangs cite as reasons things like protection, leadership, having someone on their side, group cohesion, etc. - all things that the home and family should be providing, but can't (usually) without a father present.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2022 08:11 AM (5zVb8)

157
142 Houston, TX 46.14 49 160 130 131 132
143 Dallas, TX 46.06 91 132 136 139 105

ho lee fuck

These could be great cities! There is wealth, commerce, trade, and land. But they have been turned into rubbish city-states by race-baiter and hate-mongers.

I hope there is a extry special place in Hell for Fuck Hidalgo and SlickVester.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 02, 2022 08:11 AM (yrol0)

158 The government doesn't create divorce and fatherlessness.

Women do. The government merely enables them.

But make no mistake, it's women who are to blame.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 02, 2022 08:12 AM (jOKqt)

159 Tucker Carlson Calls Out Canada For Banning Guns But Legalizing Fentanyl

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Good lord, did they legalize Fentanyl for recreational use???

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 02, 2022 08:13 AM (sVtYq)

160 Can't wait to find why the newest shooting mass decided decided to do it.
But won't be surprised if it's a racial reason.

Posted by: Skip's phone at June 02, 2022 08:13 AM (kksxG)

161 Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 02, 2022 08:07 AM (AHeqJ)

And they still could, in point of fact. Many of them still try, to their credit, but people like the idea of the Government providing for them because they are "entitled" instead of dealing with any charity - especially a church - where they would have to admit that they're being given something they don't deserve and haven't earned.

One of the major benefits of private charity is that people hate it - they hate accepting charity. In general, it makes them feel like, not to put too fine a point on it, losers. The vast majority, not wanting to feel like losers but also not wanting to freeze or starve to death, find a way to contribute to their own well-being until eventually they don't need charity anymore.

The best ones then keep growing and start giving to charities, both because they know what it's like to be cold and hungry AND because it lets them feel like, in some way, they're repaying the kindness they already received.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at June 02, 2022 08:13 AM (bnrVB)

162 "The country's growing number of political 'tribes' is damaging its unique sense of national belonging."

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It would be funny to remind people that everything the "slippery slope" people said would happen is happening, except it's so tragic and serious that it doesn't matter.

Hyphenated America, press one for Mexican, hooray!

Posted by: Moron Robbie is not enjoying the Amber Heard presidency at June 02, 2022 08:14 AM (HQPbJ)

163 Canada ... Legalizing Fentanyl
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Background: B.C.'s leftist New Democrat Party premier [provincial "prime minister"] got Justin to waive federal drug laws on "small amounts" for "personal use" possession charges of all hard drugs for the next three years.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 02, 2022 08:14 AM (yikp0)

164 This is quite a good essay but the author does not even mention the weekly Uvaldes happening in inner cities from coast to coast that has been going on for years.

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No worries. Biden's coming EO will fix all that.

/s

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 02, 2022 08:14 AM (sVtYq)

165 Aha! I've located the root cause!!

♫♪

I don’t wanna grow up
I’m a Toys R’ Us kid

Posted by: Muldoon at June 02, 2022 08:15 AM (cPDW+)

166 Good lord, did they legalize Fentanyl for recreational use???
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 02, 2022 08:13 AM (sVtYq)

There’s NARCAN now, so totes cool.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 02, 2022 08:15 AM (P8k+X)

167 The folks who don't want the nuclear family because it's "too normal" fail to realize that such things are traditional because they work. They demand that their unique relationship configuration be just as stable and happy as traditional families and they think that it's society's fault that reality isn't bending to their will.

"traditional" means that it has a history. If it has a history, then it means it perseveres over time and the baggage of calamities, natural and otherwise that occur.

It should be a grim reminder that what the Left is advocating now is not "traditional", that is, it has no history because it can't be sustained.

There is no "tradition" of sodomy, transexualism, abortion and single parent households. Its social death.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 02, 2022 08:15 AM (AHeqJ)

168 Re: yesterday's podcast.

Albert Fall, a leading figure in the Teapot Dome scandal and a cabinet officer, went to prison. He was not a "minor figure", as was said in the podcast.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 02, 2022 08:16 AM (WMRRe)

169 Sandworms....Run!!!
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Damn the spice!

Save SFGoth's stash!!

Posted by: duke leto atreides at June 02, 2022 08:16 AM (yikp0)

170 This is quite a good essay but the author does not even mention the weekly Uvaldes happening in inner cities from coast to coast that has been going on for years.

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The left tells you who they are if you'll only pay attention.

The equivalent of a church van of non-blacks killed out of a nation of 330M? THAT requires presidential visits and immediate federal legislation to address.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is not enjoying the Amber Heard presidency at June 02, 2022 08:16 AM (HQPbJ)

171
One of the major benefits of private charity is that people hate it - they hate accepting charity.

100 years ago, people would have preferred dying to taking charity. Now? They think it's their right. It comes not from a local organization but from a large, faceless bureaucracy. You don't feel ashamed if you have no one to be ashamed to.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 02, 2022 08:16 AM (/U27+)

172 $12 for a dozen eggs will collapse the entire egg industry. I know very few people that can afford that kind of price for eggs.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at June 02, 2022 08:17 AM (bVYXr)

173 "But make no mistake, it's women who are to blame."

Can't really agree with that blanket statement.

Too many women have left their husbands.
And too many husbands have left their wives, no matter the reason.

And unless some woman is collecting baby batter and shooting it up, it takes sperm to create the baby, usually from consensual sexual intercourse.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 02, 2022 08:17 AM (1n+EO)

174 ... One of the major benefits of private charity is that people hate it - they hate accepting charity. In general, it makes them feel like, not to put too fine a point on it, losers. The vast majority, not wanting to feel like losers but also not wanting to freeze or starve to death, find a way to contribute to their own well-being until eventually they don't need charity anymore. ...
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at June 02, 2022 08:13 AM (bnrVB)
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That's a part of it, I think, but another major factor - and it's likely related, and possibly even just a restatement of the same concept - is that private charity is *personal.* It's you going to another person and asking for help, and usually not being able to do so anonymously (like how a street corner panhandler is anonymous). You go as yourself and ask for help.

With government - or probably even with a private national mega-charity - it's all safely depersonalized. The person who processes your paperwork is just a cog in a grand machine. The benefit you're given has been safely laundered and thoroughly depersonalized. It's just money, and you're just a recipient. Every person is just a cog in his respective machine.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2022 08:18 AM (5zVb8)

175 The most common was refused. If a patient refused treatment, refused recommendation for a procedure, refused allowing a blood draw, or refused a medication, the authors consider a physicians or nurses writing about the refusal in the medical record an indicator of racism.

After COVID I think most people understand the entire medical system is a joke. To this day, UTMB has NO STANDARD OF CARE for COVID.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 02, 2022 08:18 AM (yrol0)

176 We could have used that $40 billion here at home. Half of it ($20 billion) should have been used to pay for armed security at every school in America.

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We wouldn't have to spend a penny. Every concealed carry holder is no longer a criminal the moment he or she walks on school grounds, and parents are welcome to visit the school and walk school grounds any time they would like. They can arrange shifts if they would like to, too.

Done and done.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is not enjoying the Amber Heard presidency at June 02, 2022 08:18 AM (HQPbJ)

177 100 years ago, people would have preferred dying to taking charity. Now? They think it's their right. It comes not from a local organization but from a large, faceless bureaucracy. You don't feel ashamed if you have no one to be ashamed to.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 02, 2022 08:16 AM

Back in my youth there were no food stamps, you went to the place where they handed out food and you got what the government had. We enjoyed many, many wonderful green cans of government peanut butter and bricks of "free" government cheese.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at June 02, 2022 08:18 AM (bVYXr)

178 Interesting news from the early Oregon polling on the governor's race. No Republican has won there in 40 years.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 02, 2022 08:19 AM (WMRRe)

179 But make no mistake, it's women who are to blame.

I think there's plenty of blame to go around.

The government gets most of my ire because people are going to people, there's nothing new about that and people haven't really changed in the last 6000 years.

Prostituting yourself (which is what most baby-mommas are doing, even if they don't think of it that way) has long been a way for single women to take care of their physical needs (shelter, food, water), and frequently leads to multiple children by many different fathers. The United States in the 20th and 21st centuries is far from unique in that respect.

Fathers or Husbands not wanting to stick around for the responsibility that goes along with marriage and children is also not new. It is often not the unwed mother who kicked out the man; he often heard "I'm pregnant" and went all Caspar.

The Government just makes all of it worse than it otherwise would be.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at June 02, 2022 08:19 AM (bnrVB)

180 " I know very few people that can afford that kind of price for eggs."

Or any product which contains eggs.

Including the WaffleHouse breakfast.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 02, 2022 08:19 AM (1n+EO)

181 For Lizzie's 70th anniversary, they started w/ E II and her cousin, George, Duke of Kent. Seems like he's an dude to replace Prince Philip.

This pretty historic, after 70 yrs she's not gonna be around much longer.

Posted by: Farmer at June 02, 2022 08:19 AM (55Qr6)

182 So, if the regime were serious about getting us of petroleum to a carbon free future there would have to be some enormous program underway too actually, you know, produce carbon free electricity. Construction of dozens of nuclear plants, and hydroelectric dams Huge program with thousands of scientists and engineers to research into better, cheaper batteries. And most of all purchase and preparation of millions of acres of land for solar panels which is what it will take. Is any of this going on? Some of it?

No. Nothing. But do we get higher fuel economy standards, regulations and smug platitudes. Yeah, that is going to work. Disaster does not even begin to describe this situation.

Posted by: Ripley at June 02, 2022 08:19 AM (MxEKc)

183 $12 for a dozen eggs will collapse the entire egg industry. I know very few people that can afford that kind of price for eggs.

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What you can do, if you're in the right location, say more rural, is locate local farmers that sell their eggs directly. We have some around me, and while I haven't gotten any of their eggs lately, I'm thinking I need to start doing business with them again. Hopefully, if eggs in stores go to a buck apiece, these individual sellers won't do the same.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 02, 2022 08:20 AM (sVtYq)

184 In other drugs news, the Taliban have begun a campaign to eradicate poppy cultivation.

The prewar Taliban did that too but I understand it was to see to it that they had a monopoly on the production and not unaffiliated tribes/clans.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 02, 2022 08:20 AM (yikp0)

185 while savvy young women graduate from college in disproportionate numbers. Trained from childhood to be entitled and unrealistic about relationships, their fertility and the sacrifices and joys of motherhood, many become bitter and blame men for their confusion.

A smarter society would encourage women to get married and have children after HS. We live long enough that if you want a career as well there is more then enough time after your kids go to school. This best fits women's biology both fertility and energy to raise children.

And interestingly, that's what 50s America mostly did.

That would require an inversion of how things work now though where we tell women to go to college, build a career, then look for a husband and finally in your late 30s then have kids.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 02, 2022 08:20 AM (ESjRY)

186 We had a powerful reality lesson recently when an Iraqi national, Shihab Ahmed Shihab Shihab, 52, was arrested in Ohio and charged with aiding and abetting a plot to murder former President George W. Bush

Is this good or bad news?
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 02, 2022 07:50 AM (yrol0)

Yes.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at June 02, 2022 08:20 AM (1DgE4)

187 There Is No Bipartisan Gun "Compromise" in the Works, Just GOP Capitulation
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And yet they expect us to vote for them in a "wave". Personally, with few exceptions, the "wave" I have for the GOP means "goodbye."

Posted by: Eeyore at June 02, 2022 08:20 AM (R0Tis)

188 Fortunately we can get as many eggs as we like from Daughter's chickens. They lay around a lot.

Posted by: grammie winger at June 02, 2022 08:20 AM (45fpk)

189 167
There is no "tradition" of sodomy, transexualism, abortion and single parent households. Its social death.

Exactly. But the still demand that the world change to accommodate them because they are the Enlightened Ones we have all been waiting for.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 02, 2022 08:21 AM (4olE8)

190 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2022 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)

191 the United Methodist Church accepted Isaac Simmons, who regularly preaches dressed as a drag queen under the name Ms. Penny Cost, as a candidate for ordination.

offered without comment

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 02, 2022 08:21 AM (yrol0)

192 172 $12 for a dozen eggs will collapse the entire egg industry. I know very few people that can afford that kind of price for eggs.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at June 02, 2022 08:17 AM (bVYXr)

And baking and restaurants and everything that uses eggs as an ingredient.

But, if you want to make an omelette . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 02, 2022 08:21 AM (s2VJv)

193 Back in my youth there were no food stamps, you went to the place where they handed out food and you got what the government had. We enjoyed many, many wonderful green cans of government peanut butter and bricks of "free" government cheese.
Posted by: Mister Scott

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And I don't know a single conservative who is against that.

I'm even fine with delivering the dry stuff. You get staples and a cookbook every year. If you want the cheap-ass bologna you'll need to come pick it up, and if you want steak you need to get a job. But I don't want anyone to starve.

Screw this $700/month to buy energy drinks, though.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is not enjoying the Amber Heard presidency at June 02, 2022 08:22 AM (HQPbJ)

194 The church ain't going to help anything. Cultural marxism is just as ingrained in it as it is anywhere else. Go to church on Fathers Day and hear what pieces of shit men are, what you need to do for your woman.......a big diatribe of feminist bullshit. You hear it on Mothers Day too.
Of course, "I don't know what church you go to because mine is perfect". Nothing attractive about "the hell with it its end times, please take me now" talk either.
The church is dead.

Posted by: JROD at June 02, 2022 08:22 AM (0jZnq)

195 Any theories on how this scum bag walked unmolested into a hospital and up to the second floor carrying a pistol and a rifle?

Posted by: Queequeg unemployed harpooner at June 02, 2022 08:22 AM (6cB8e)

196 183 Paying $4 for an 18 count carton, brown XLarge to jumbo at the barber shop. Barber's neighbor has a small egg operation going. Please return the cartons if you remember.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 02, 2022 08:22 AM (lz5hY)

197 Drain the Swamp, Move Them Out

Wall them in. Then cut off power and supplies.

"It’s the only way to prevent more travesties like the Sussmann case."

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at June 02, 2022 08:22 AM (1Z8zZ)

198 Interesting news from the early Oregon polling on the governor's race. No Republican has won there in 40 years.

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The Ds have had it made in OR for so long, maybe their fraud machine is a little rusty! Think positive! Although, it will still take a miracle for an R to be elected governor there, it sure would be a kick in their face and an overall embarrassment to their wretched party.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 02, 2022 08:22 AM (sVtYq)

199 Answer: Morality, individual responsibility, culpability, conscience, integrity, honesty, sobriety, Biblical precepts, self-discipline, loyalty, reverence, self-sacrifice, delayed gratification.

Question: What are 13 things the Left will never propose as remedies for gun violence?

Posted by: Muldoon at June 02, 2022 08:22 AM (cPDW+)

200 Lancet published a massive study showing mask mandates in schools did no good, as Ace pointed out in his post.

That study has not seen the light of media day. Censorship is "curating" the news, just like the Virginia prosecutor "curating" which legislature-passed laws he will enforce.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 02, 2022 08:23 AM (WMRRe)

201 "Any theories on how this scum bag walked unmolested into a hospital and up to the second floor carrying a pistol and a rifle?"

Nobody could stop him.

It was a posted 'Gun Free Zone'

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 02, 2022 08:23 AM (1n+EO)

202 The church is dead.

Posted by: JROD at June 02, 2022 08:22 AM (0jZnq)

No.

Posted by: grammie winger at June 02, 2022 08:23 AM (45fpk)

203 That said, it's based on some solid sociological evidence - going to church, even if you are not a believer yourself, has a lot of benefits. It's sort of like the link between dressing nicely and better behavior.

I need to thank my profession for the severe decay in office behavior. As the legend goes, computer programmers were defined as geeks because most of the good ones trend to being introverts, the best often are "on the spectrum". So when IT departments grew, and they were trying to find talent, the candidates were not known for hygiene and tailored suits.

Other departments saw that management accepted a category of people dressing as mendicants at the office and wanted to dress down too. One thing led to another and pretty soon we don't even bother to put on pants to attend Zoom meetings.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 02, 2022 08:23 AM (AHeqJ)

204 Women initiate 70% of divorce proceedings and have entire control over the reproductive child from spreading of legs to crowning of the head.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 02, 2022 08:24 AM (jOKqt)

205 Question: What are 13 things the Left will never propose as remedies for gun violence?
Posted by: Muldoon at June 02, 2022 08:22 AM (cPDW+)
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Exactly right.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 02, 2022 08:24 AM (WMRRe)

206 Two and a 1/2 packages of 5-10 mg gummies is all i have.... I'm not the druggie some people think i am (though i had 3 bottles of miller high life last friday).

Posted by: SFGoth at June 02, 2022 08:24 AM (KAi1n)

207 That would require an inversion of how things work now though where we tell women to go to college, build a career, then look for a husband and finally in your late 30s then have kids.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 02, 2022 08:20 AM (ESjRY)
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A husband they will find with decreasing frequency in aggregate. The numbers of acceptable men shrink as a woman moves up the status ladder (they marry up, not down) and desirability of women shrinks as they age. Finding a husband is much harder with this configuration. They way we've managed to set it up is a 1-2 punch against the odds of the plan ever working, even if the fertility curve was flat (it isn't).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2022 08:25 AM (5zVb8)

208 Supreme Court Blocks Texas Law on Big Tech Censorship

Any Comely Ferret and Rapey McBoof joining with John Iscariot Roberts.

Thanks a bunch, Bitch McConnell and the Federalist Society!

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 02, 2022 08:25 AM (HsAzN)

209 Any theories on how this scum bag walked unmolested into a hospital and up to the second floor carrying a pistol and a rifle?

******

The picture of the handgun with a red circle and a slash on the front door was on its lunch break?

Posted by: Muldoon at June 02, 2022 08:26 AM (cPDW+)

210 "3 bottles of miller high life "

The champagne of bottled beer, right there.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 02, 2022 08:26 AM (1n+EO)

211 What you can do, if you're in the right location, say more rural, is locate local farmers that sell their eggs directly.

That's why we have chickens ourselves, in fact. It'll still be a couple of months before they start laying, but not having to pay for eggs will be helpful.

And the goats for milk (which then extends to cheese, yogurt, ice cream, soap, etc).

Next year: meat chickens and bees, I think.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at June 02, 2022 08:26 AM (bnrVB)

212 Heh. Just noticed the picture of Robert Young. Has that "damn sobriety isn't all it's cracked up to be" look on his face. Guy was a world class drunk for a long time.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 02, 2022 08:26 AM (lz5hY)

213 "Any theories on how this scum bag walked unmolested into a hospital and up to the second floor carrying a pistol and a rifle?"

Theory One: "Not my problem, man."
Theory Two: too busy whipping out their mobile devices to video it straight to TikTok
Theory Three: people are that clueless and unobservant
Theory Four: This is Oklahoma, wandering around with guns is normal

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 02, 2022 08:27 AM (AHeqJ)

214 The defenestration of Cosby may have been all about destroying black America's TeeVee Father.

Posted by: Puddinhead at June 02, 2022 08:27 AM (J7wri)

215 172 $12 for a dozen eggs will collapse the entire egg industry. I know very few people that can afford that kind of price for eggs.

We go through 450 dozen each week.

Posted by: jwest at June 02, 2022 08:27 AM (/BlEx)

216 "even if the fertility curve was flat"

Pun intended?

Posted by: SFGoth at June 02, 2022 08:27 AM (KAi1n)

217 Miranda Devine's article reinforces what should be now known as one of the greatest lines in a movie.

In Watchmen, Rorschach's dialog

....and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout: 'Save us!'. And I'll look down and whisper: 'No.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 02, 2022 08:27 AM (GsQOb)

218 [quote]133 When does SCOTUS drop the controversial rulings and blow outta town?

Posted by: A dude in MI at June 02, 2022 08:04 AM (/6GbT) [/quote]

There's no "Opinion Issuance Days" listed on their calendar past May in the coming year. Apparently it's whenever they decide it's appropriate.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 02, 2022 08:27 AM (nRMeC)

219 @207 Joe Mannix-Youre treading on thin ice speaking truth like that even here. Be careful, no-one wants to hear it.

Posted by: JROD at June 02, 2022 08:27 AM (0jZnq)

220 Heh. Just noticed the picture of Robert Young. Has that "damn sobriety isn't all it's cracked up to be" look on his face. Guy was a world class drunk for a long time.

--

LOL, the rest of the family looks like they're saying, "do something!" and he's thinking, "where's the scotch?"

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 02, 2022 08:27 AM (sVtYq)

221 I thought Jumbos were shrimp not eggs??

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 02, 2022 08:27 AM (yikp0)

222 172 $12 for a dozen eggs will collapse the entire egg industry. I know very few people that can afford that kind of price for eggs.

We go through 450 dozen each week.
Posted by: jwest at June 02, 2022 08:27 AM (/BlEx)

That's some egg salad!

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 02, 2022 08:28 AM (4I/2K)

223 Democrats have driven men out of every major institution--education, government, entertainment, families.

Democrats, and the emotion-driven decision making that underpines them, is the problem.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 02, 2022 08:28 AM (Zf0+a)

224 "Has that ~~"damn sobriety isn't all it's cracked up to be"~~ Jerry Nadler, 'Was that a fart?' look on his face.

Either one works though.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 02, 2022 08:28 AM (1n+EO)

225 I recall, in the aftermath of the Lewinsky revelations, a Florence King commentary in her 'Misanthrope's Corner' column. She asked rhetorically, 'Where are the fathers, and the brothers, the men who used to provide protection against, and extract vengeance from cads?'

I think that the ink was hardly dry on that before the Gary Condit affair surfaced. In neither Clinton's nor Condit's case did the families of the young women stand up and condemn the behavior of either.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 02, 2022 08:28 AM (A+/mw)

226 Posted by: Heavy Squats at June 02, 2022 07:22 AM (0tkMf)

I suspect their rounds per hit are better than the Army's.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at June 02, 2022 08:28 AM (1Z8zZ)

227 Finding a husband is much harder with this configuration

I've talked with many career minded single women over the years and they are *amazed* that men don't care that much about their career success. Which in turn amazes me.

Among the many, many problems in Soviet America one is that we somehow have produced highly "educated" women then know less about men then their HS diploma only grandmothers did.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 02, 2022 08:29 AM (ESjRY)

228 "A compromise entails giving up something to get something, striking a deal. That’s not what’s happening here. This is just surrender."
There Is No Bipartisan Gun "Compromise" in the Works, Just GOP Capitulation

This is why it's a 'uniparty.' They don't care about us. They care about power.

I don't want my elected representatives 'reaching across the aisle.' I want them laying waste to the assholes on the other side who do NOT represent ANYTHING I hold dear.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2022 08:29 AM (Zz0t1)

229 Excellent article from Miranda Devine on toxic masculinity. She really nails it.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 02, 2022 08:29 AM (NpAcC)

230 Women are also responsible for the proliferation of the homosexual and transsexual agenda in schools.

They comprise 80% of 'educators'.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 02, 2022 08:29 AM (jOKqt)

231 @202 gramme winger-step outside your bubble and yes, the church is dead. I'm not happy about it either.

Posted by: JROD at June 02, 2022 08:29 AM (0jZnq)

232 Any theories on how this scum bag walked unmolested into a hospital and up to the second floor carrying a pistol and a rifle?

*******

Misallocated resources?

Security guard: "Sir, STOP!!!! You need to wear a face mask at all times, and we need to swipe your forehead for a temperature check. Okay, you're good to go. Be safe!"

Posted by: Muldoon at June 02, 2022 08:29 AM (cPDW+)

233 The WSJ says the U.S. is "working at unblocking" sanctions against Russian grain exports, as the world tries to avoid the oncoming train of a Biden food crisis.

Good luck with that, says Abbott Labs.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 02, 2022 08:29 AM (WMRRe)

234 Anybody else catch "Destination Moon" on TCM last evening? Had a real Elon Musk vibe to it.

Not enough green Orion slave girls, but otherwise a pretty visionary space movie.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at June 02, 2022 08:30 AM (906pl)

235 Hell, Chandra Levy's family actively protected Condit!

That's always disturbed me. Over your dead daughter's body, you protect the politician?

There was some unknown shit going on there.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 02, 2022 08:31 AM (HsAzN)

236 As soon as I saw "shooting in Tulsa hospital " I knew it was gonna be some gangsta shooting up his rivals pals

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2022 08:31 AM (r46W7)

237 The church is dead.
Posted by: JROD at June 02, 2022 08:22 AM (0jZnq)

Nope. But it is hard to find a good one sometimes, that's true.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 02, 2022 08:23 AM (AHeqJ)

I don't really blame the developers for that (being a developer *may* play into that, but I'm trying to be objective here). Management could always say "no" first to the developer, and then to the other departments.

The real issue, in my mind, is that most people never bother to understand *why* we do things the way we do, so they can never defend them properly. Then, when someone says "well, yeah, but *I'll* never be in front of a customer!" you have nothing but "stodgy traditionalism" to fall back on, and that just doesn't work. We do it because we've always done it is... not rigorously logical.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at June 02, 2022 08:31 AM (bnrVB)

238 I've talked with many career minded single women over the years and they are *amazed* that men don't care that much about their career success.

**

hahahaha

Sweetheart, you are bright, and that's nice and makes it easy to talk about stuff when we're not having sex, but I'm still mainly just interested in sex.

All of that education and you never learned how men worked.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is not enjoying the Amber Heard presidency at June 02, 2022 08:31 AM (HQPbJ)

239 Also: I'm supposed to wear pants when I'm on a zoom meeting? Why does no one tell me these things?

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at June 02, 2022 08:31 AM (bnrVB)

240 @134
>>What an arrogant yet incompetent and weak AG he was. Please retire and go away for good.

Bill Barr is a clown, he also said that what HillDog did was, "almost seditious."

Now I despise Hillary, but how exactly is her "dirty trick" campaign, "seditious?"

It's a profoundly unserious charge from a profoundly unserious and ridiculous man.
The Coup was so much bigger than Hillary.
I hate all of these people.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 02, 2022 08:32 AM (GudYW)

241 Hell, Chandra Levy's family actively protected Condit!

That's always disturbed me. Over your dead daughter's body, you protect the politician?

There was some unknown shit going on there.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 02, 2022 08:31 AM (HsAzN)

Follow the money.

Some truly deny the existence of their soul.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2022 08:32 AM (Zz0t1)

242 Nothing to learn about Tulsa non-event on Faux 'News', but Queen Liz has now reached her retirement goal with 75 years service.

Posted by: Eromero at June 02, 2022 08:32 AM (gktX6)

243 Big Divorce was created by Hollywood liberals and transplanted to middle America. Just a big ripoff to destroy wealth and create kids that need Big Govt help!
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 02, 2022 07:27 AM (yrol0)

All part of the great happiness lie.

You are supposed to be in a state of blissful happiness at all times and the instant that you're not...destroy your marriage, start using drugs, "do what thou will shall be the whole of the law".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at June 02, 2022 08:32 AM (1Z8zZ)

244 Theory Three: people are that clueless and unobservant

I notice this all the time. Hanging out with other people in public, "Hey did you see that weird thing that guy did over there?"

Other person: "Huh? What? There's another person here?"

Smart phones have made it worse but people just do not notice things outside of what they are immediately focused on.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 02, 2022 08:32 AM (ESjRY)

245 Posted by: JROD at June 02, 2022 08:22 AM (0jZnq)

Here's Mr Sunshine today! I have never preached on men being pieces of s***. I expect the men ion the church I serve feel loved and appreciated because they are. and I take with a huge grain of salt any Poster who is almost perpetually angry and said just yetsterday that he was glad that his own father got stoned so much because he wouldn't get beaten up. I am sorry you had such a terrible experience and no, I am neither goi g to read or reply to your vitriol.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 02, 2022 08:32 AM (VB0zr)

246 Also: I'm supposed to wear pants when I'm on a zoom meeting? Why does no one tell me these things?
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at June 02, 2022 08:31 AM (bnrVB)

This is not true.

Posted by: Brian Stelter at June 02, 2022 08:33 AM (Zz0t1)

247 236 Yep. If you get a chance, check out the casino in Tulsa. I'm surprised they don't pass out Hi Points with players reward points.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 02, 2022 08:33 AM (lz5hY)

248 grammie winger, did you see what the Pope announced to celebrate June?

Posted by: Moron Robbie is not enjoying the Amber Heard presidency at June 02, 2022 08:33 AM (HQPbJ)

249 Also: I'm supposed to wear pants when I'm on a zoom meeting? Why does no one tell me these things?
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at June 02, 2022 08:31 AM (bnrVB)
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Liability reduction. The Toobin out front shoulda told ya.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2022 08:33 AM (5zVb8)

250 239 Also: I'm supposed to wear pants when I'm on a zoom meeting?

As a veteran of many a Zoom meeting lo these last 2 years: No one can see you from the torso down. Pants are optional.

Also, you can tack bullet points and notes to the wall behind your laptop and no one will know you're using notes. It makes you look smaaaht!

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 02, 2022 08:33 AM (HsAzN)

251 "The real issue, in my mind, is that most people never bother to understand *why* we do things the way we do, so they can never defend them properly. "

Required teaching of 'Chesterton's gate' sometimes referred to as 'Chesterton's Fence' can provide a solution.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 02, 2022 08:33 AM (1n+EO)

252 250 239 Also: I'm supposed to wear pants when I'm on a zoom meeting?

As a veteran of many a Zoom meeting lo these last 2 years: No one can see you from the torso down. Pants are optional.

Also, you can tack bullet points and notes to the wall behind your laptop and no one will know you're using notes. It makes you look smaaaht!
Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 02, 2022 08:33 AM (HsAzN)

========

Just never stand up during the meeting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at June 02, 2022 08:34 AM (LvTSG)

253 Hindu bank manager in Kashmir Province fatally shot by extremists.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 02, 2022 08:34 AM (yikp0)

254 Yep. If you get a chance, check out the casino in Tulsa. I'm surprised they don't pass out Hi Points with players reward points.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 02, 2022 08:33 AM (lz5hY)
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Rough part of town?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2022 08:34 AM (5zVb8)

255 grammie winger, did you see what the Pope announced to celebrate June?
Posted by: Moron Robbie is not enjoying the Amber Heard presidency at June 02, 2022 08:33 AM (HQPbJ)

Blasphemy. It's what's for dinner.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2022 08:34 AM (Zz0t1)

256 235 Hell, Chandra Levy's family actively protected Condit!

That's always disturbed me. Over your dead daughter's body, you protect the politician?

There was some unknown shit going on there.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 02, 2022 08:31 AM (HsAzN)

Didnt the same thing happen for whats his name on PMSNBC?

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 02, 2022 08:34 AM (yrol0)

257 > I don't want my elected representatives 'reaching across the aisle.' I want them laying waste to the assholes on the other side who do NOT represent ANYTHING I hold dear.
__________

The problem here is that your, my, everyone's elected representatives are never going to act in our interests. The power they wield over people is so intoxicating and the amount of wealth they accumulate so overwhelming you are not even a second thought to them.

The left, and increasingly the right looks upon politics as the new religion. The left has wholly embraced that concept and uses it to great effect.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 02, 2022 08:34 AM (BFigT)

258 The numbers of acceptable men shrink as a woman moves up the status ladder (they marry up, not down) and desirability of women shrinks as they age. Finding a husband is much harder with this configuration. They way we've managed to set it up is a 1-2 punch against the odds of the plan ever working, even if the fertility curve was flat (it isn't).
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2022 08:25 AM (5zVb

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Like many, I bet I know a dozen lonely women who wish they could find mates. My wife and I talk about this all the time, that these women are watching their fertile years go by with increasing desperation. A couple are freezing their eggs even. Insane social pressure to build a career is entirely misplaced; social pressure to build a family is what should be at work.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 02, 2022 08:35 AM (WMRRe)

259 254 Clientele.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 02, 2022 08:35 AM (lz5hY)

260 Top story at NYPost is a 19y/o male lax player died. Wichita is up but in flyover news.

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at June 02, 2022 08:35 AM (b+v9B)

261 It absolutely is. As Romeo13 pointed out a couple of days ago, it's the only campaign promise Biden has kept.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - the CEO of Moderna acknowledged the presence of patented sequence in Covid-19 at June 02, 2022 07:28 AM (c1p4Y)

Not true.

He promised (not necessarily in these precise words) to flood the country will illegals, destroy domestic energy production, cozy up to the mullahs, and roll over and show his belly to Chynah.

Promises made, promises kept.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at June 02, 2022 08:36 AM (1Z8zZ)

262 Because conservative leaders fear feminists and lack the spine to stand up to them.

See? It's not us!

Posted by: Huevos at June 02, 2022 08:36 AM (a3Q+t)

263 $12 for a dozen eggs will collapse the entire egg industry. I know very few people that can afford that kind of price for eggs.

We go through 450 dozen each week.

Posted by: jwest at June 02, 2022 08:27 AM

You will make it up on volume.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at June 02, 2022 08:36 AM (bVYXr)

264 https://tinyurl.com/2n3n4tzf

The USDA is now developing a "framework" for transforming our food chain delivery system to something "fairer" - get ready for starvation for any class of people not deemed to be in the "fair" class.

Posted by: Boswell at June 02, 2022 08:37 AM (5iUNf)

265 Which is odd, because socially the gangland violence in the inner city slums has been well studied and correlates very, very strongly with fatherless households. When subjectively studied, the young men (usually early teenagers) who hook up with the gangs cite as reasons things like protection, leadership, having someone on their side, group cohesion, etc. - all things that the home and family should be providing, but can't (usually) without a father present.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2022 08:11 AM (5zVb

For boys and young men, the gangs are now the surrogate for fatherhood and the once transformative institutions like the Boy Scouts, sports teams, and the military. The Marine Corp surrender to sexual deviancy is a societal inflection point.

Posted by: 7man at June 02, 2022 08:37 AM (qwO6y)

266 and roll over and show his belly to Chynah.

Gotta say the money Ukraine and China spent on Biden appears to have had significant returns for both...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 02, 2022 08:37 AM (ESjRY)

267 The USDA is now developing a "framework" for transforming our food chain delivery system to something "fairer" - get ready for starvation for any class of people not deemed to be in the "fair" class.
Posted by: Boswell at June 02, 2022 08:37 AM (5iUNf)
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In other words, everyone outside of Democrat strongholds (i.e., the cities)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 02, 2022 08:38 AM (YIVH2)

268 Built on the Rock the church doth stand,
even when steeples are falling
crumbled have spires in every land
bells still are chiming and calling
calling the young and old to rest
but above all the soul distressed
calling all men to salvation

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2022 08:38 AM (r46W7)

269 Where does one even start?

https://tinyurl.com/mcxyzwpm

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 02, 2022 08:38 AM (1n+EO)

270 Man, imagine society if couples put the effort into the relationship that they put into the corporate ladder.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is not enjoying the Amber Heard presidency at June 02, 2022 08:38 AM (HQPbJ)

271 Top story at NYPost is a 19y/o male lax player died. Wichita is up but in flyover news.
Posted by: Jamaica NYC at June 02, 2022 08:35 AM (b+v9B)

Seems to be a lot of sudden deaths in young athletes these days. Hmm. Could it be ...

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 02, 2022 08:38 AM (4I/2K)

272 Top story at NYPost is a 19y/o male lax player died. Wichita is up but in flyover news.
Posted by: Jamaica NYC at June 02, 2022 08:35 AM (b+v9B)

Female golfer Nelly Korda returns to the course but refuses to discuss exactly what caused the 'mysterious' massive blood clots that caused her absence.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2022 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

273 NYC Mayor Eric Adams Pushes Subway Gun Detecting Technolgy As Shootings Surges In Gun-Controlled City

Dude, you cant even stop fair cheaters!

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 02, 2022 08:38 AM (yrol0)

274 Alright, this has been greatly encouraging and edifying, but I have to work at work.

Hopefully catch y'all tomorrow.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at June 02, 2022 08:38 AM (bnrVB)

275 Like many, I bet I know a dozen lonely women who wish they could find mates. My wife and I talk about this all the time, that these women are watching their fertile years go by with increasing desperation. A couple are freezing their eggs even. Insane social pressure to build a career is entirely misplaced; social pressure to build a family is what should be at work.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 02, 2022 08:35 AM

Sounds like my cousin. Her career was the first, last and the only thing in her life. She got married and had her first and only child at 48, divorced baby daddy soon after. Her doctor was not happy with her decision.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at June 02, 2022 08:39 AM (bVYXr)

276 252 Just never stand up during the meeting.

If you absolutely must, then for G-d's sake cover your camera and look at your meeting "box" and make sure you can't see yourself first.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 02, 2022 08:39 AM (HsAzN)

277 Not true.

He promised (not necessarily in these precise words) to flood the country will illegals, destroy domestic energy production, cozy up to the mullahs, and roll over and show his belly to Chynah.

*

That's the thing, though. He used the exact words regarding oil and gas. He promised to break us, and he is.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is not enjoying the Amber Heard presidency at June 02, 2022 08:39 AM (HQPbJ)

278 "In other words, everyone outside of Democrat strongholds (i.e., the cities)"

Unless these clowns can pull of a Soviet style starving of the farmers, ain't gonna happen.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 02, 2022 08:39 AM (1n+EO)

279 We are now far enough into "Pride Month" for me to be thoroughly ashamed, of my country and my species.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 02, 2022 08:40 AM (R0Tis)

280 https://tinyurl.com/2n3n4tzf

The USDA is now developing a "framework" for transforming our food chain delivery system to something "fairer" - get ready for starvation for any class of people not deemed to be in the "fair" class.
Posted by: Boswell at June 02, 2022 08:37 AM (5iUNf)
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This is the scariest thing yet.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 02, 2022 08:40 AM (WMRRe)

281 Promises made, promises kept.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at June 02, 2022 08:36 AM (1Z8zZ)
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Yeah. This would be good marketing for the GOP, but they don't want to win anything. Biden is, by and large, doing exactly what he promised to do. He's killing energy, flooding us with drugs and illegals across our open border, being "tough on Russia," spending money like it's going out of style, increasing regulation to pursue "fairness," pushing for higher taxes, and subordinating policy to foreign objectives.

He's delivering what he promised.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2022 08:40 AM (5zVb8)

282 She got married and had her first and only child at 48, divorced baby daddy soon after. Her doctor was not happy with her decision.

A lot harder to raise a kid at 48 then 28.

That energy where you can party all night long at 28? You have that to take care of kids all night...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 02, 2022 08:40 AM (ESjRY)

283 Janet Yellen is Mr Magoo in a whig. What a dunce.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 02, 2022 08:40 AM (VpIIl)

284 194 The church ain't going to help anything. Cultural marxism is just as ingrained in it as it is anywhere else. Go to church on Fathers Day and hear what pieces of shit men are, what you need to do for your woman.......a big diatribe of feminist bullshit. You hear it on Mothers Day too.
Of course, "I don't know what church you go to because mine is perfect". Nothing attractive about "the hell with it its end times, please take me now" talk either.
The church is dead.
Posted by: JROD

Lots of false teaching out there and many a church has succumbed to it. That doesn't mean 'The church is dead'. It means we are witnessing the sifting of the wheat from the chaff. Jesus is cleaning up His church. We'll continue to see this the closer we get to the Great Day of the Lord.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 02, 2022 08:41 AM (sAmhv)

285 Heh. Just noticed the picture of Robert Young. Has that "damn sobriety isn't all it's cracked up to be" look on his face. Guy was a world class drunk for a long time.

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LOL, the rest of the family looks like they're saying, "do something!" and he's thinking, "where's the scotch?"
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 02, 2022 08:27 AM (sVtYq)

He's contemplating the orthodontist's bill for his daughter's braces.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 02, 2022 08:41 AM (4I/2K)

286 Weather coming in. Just got dark enough for some of the outdoor lights to click on. Time for a second cup outdoors and watch the action.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 02, 2022 08:41 AM (lz5hY)

287 Darkly amusing picture and headline up there, JJ. Thanks

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 02, 2022 08:41 AM (l7p9i)

288 Unless these clowns can pull of a Soviet style starving of the farmers, ain't gonna happen.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 02, 2022 08:39 AM (1n+EO)
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When the farmers can't afford fuel, can't obtain fertilizer, and can't get replacement parts for critical machinery, it most certainly can and will happen.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 02, 2022 08:41 AM (YIVH2)

289 Mass Demicide continues...

California State Senate Passes Bill to Allow Schools Not to Report Threats
The California State Senate has passed a bill that would allow schools not to report threats or attacks against employees or officials to law enforcement, despite the ongoing national shock and outrage over the Uvalde, Texas, mass school shooting.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 02, 2022 08:41 AM (yikp0)

290 Like many, I bet I know a dozen lonely women who wish they could find mates. My wife and I talk about this all the time, that these women are watching their fertile years go by with increasing desperation. A couple are freezing their eggs even. Insane social pressure to build a career is entirely misplaced; social pressure to build a family is what should be at work.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 02, 2022 08:35 AM (WMRRe)

this is the big lie built into our system, one that no one dares speak: Women in their very early 20's need to be having children, not going to colleges. That's a big part of why our current social system is going to crash, and needs to crash. It can't work in the long run.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2022 08:41 AM (r46W7)

291 The gays at my work all seem to have taken next Monday off. I guess to recover from their weekend of debauchery. Wonder if they have to use personal time or if they get a free "gay day" off.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 02, 2022 08:41 AM (HsAzN)

292 BIDEN: "The idea we're going to be able to click a switch, bring down the cost of gasoline, is not likely in the near term. Nor is it with regard to food."

Left unstated: "We will also not do anything to bring down these prices in the intermediate, or long, term. You proles will need to learn to tighten your belts."

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at June 02, 2022 08:42 AM (1Z8zZ)

293 Alright, this has been greatly encouraging

LOL

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 02, 2022 08:42 AM (l7p9i)

294 Election Wizard
@ElectionWiz

15m
CNBC: Job creation at companies decelerated just 128,000 in May, falling well short of the 299,000 Dow Jones estimate. Small business took the biggest hit. May's big drop-off in job creation marks the worst month since the massive layoffs in April 2020.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 02, 2022 08:42 AM (NpAcC)

295 The lawyer urged the expansion of an FEC rule that allows candidates to use campaign funds to pay for nannies during campaign events and fundraisers.

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Hookers and blow.

Posted by: runner at June 02, 2022 08:42 AM (8yWvW)

296 The USDA is now developing a "framework" for transforming our food chain delivery system to something "fairer"

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People freely walking into any store of their choosing and purchasing anything they wanted from the vast selection at hand is seen as a problem to a very specific type of person.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is not enjoying the Amber Heard presidency at June 02, 2022 08:43 AM (HQPbJ)

297 When former Our Gang kid Robert Young (Our Gang nickname: "Bonedust") graduated to adult acting, he had to revert to his given name of Clifton Young because by then there was the other Robert Young.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 02, 2022 08:43 AM (HsAzN)

298
Any theories on how this scum bag walked unmolested into a hospital and up to the second floor carrying a pistol and a rifle?

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There was probably a sign saying Gun Free Zone. So he shouldn't have.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 02, 2022 08:43 AM (/U27+)

299 BIDEN: "The idea we're going to be able to click a switch, bring down the cost of gasoline, is not likely in the near term. Nor is it with regard to food."

Left unstated: "We will also not do anything to bring down these prices in the intermediate, or long, term. You proles will need to learn to tighten your belts."
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at June 02, 2022 08:42 AM (1Z8zZ)

It's not like there's a 'magic wand' out there or anything.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2022 08:43 AM (Zz0t1)

300 My theory is gun man being a Black guy with a grievance is allowed to continue on his way, wouldn't want to make him madder than he is.

Posted by: Skip's phone at June 02, 2022 08:43 AM (kksxG)

301 "Queen Liz has now reached her retirement goal with 75 years service."

Never understood why the British Monarchy is more popular in the US than the UK

Posted by: Queequeg unemployed harpooner at June 02, 2022 08:44 AM (6cB8e)

302 "When the farmers can't afford fuel, can't obtain fertilizer, and can't get replacement parts for critical machinery, it most certainly can and will happen."

But in that case, the Democratic cities starve as well.

I'm talking about the government appropriation of crops for 'equitable distribution'.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 02, 2022 08:44 AM (1n+EO)

303 NYC Mayor Eric Adams Pushes Subway Gun Detecting Technolgy As Shootings Surges In Gun-Controlled City
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Adams is a ridiculous man, a posturing ass who spouts nonsense and thinks it is an idea.

A bicyclist got off his bicycle in midtown, on Third Avenue and something like 60th the other day, and randomly stabbed a pedestrian walking down the sidewalk. Are you going to put "knife detecting technology" at crosswalks next, you bonehead?!?!

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 02, 2022 08:44 AM (WMRRe)

304 @ElectionWiz
CNBC: Job creation at companies decelerated just 128,000 in May, falling well short of the 299,000 Dow Jones estimate. Small business took the biggest hit. May's big drop-off in job creation marks the worst month since the massive layoffs in April 2020.
Posted by: redridinghood at June 02, 2022 08:42 AM (NpAcC)
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And with productivity collapsing (with profitability to follow) on the eve (or early days) of a global recession, consolidation and layoffs are coming. Get ready for some *big* negative employment prints, probably starting in earnest at the end of the year or early next, which will last for several quarters at least.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2022 08:44 AM (5zVb8)

305 If Republicans move forward on phony gun control, good luck in the midterms. I'm out.

McConnell, Cornyn and others are about to sell us out for a nice headlines from their friends at the NY Times.

I haven't heard one cogent argument addressing the fundamental mental health and school security issues from the caucus. Not one.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 02, 2022 08:44 AM (VpIIl)

306 @ElectionWiz

15m
CNBC: Job creation at companies decelerated just 128,000 in May, falling well short of the 299,000 Dow Jones estimate. Small business took the biggest hit. May's big drop-off in job creation marks the worst month since the massive layoffs in April 2020.
Posted by: redridinghood at June 02, 2022 08:42 AM (NpAcC)

As designed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2022 08:44 AM (Zz0t1)

307 243 Big Divorce was created by Hollywood liberals and transplanted to middle America. Just a big ripoff to destroy wealth and create kids that need Big Govt help!
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 02, 2022 07:27 AM (yrol0)

All part of the great happiness lie.

You are supposed to be in a state of blissful happiness at all times and the instant that you're not...destroy your marriage, start using drugs, "do what thou will shall be the whole of the law".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society

A Brave New World. Soma for the masses!

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 02, 2022 08:44 AM (sAmhv)

308 15m
CNBC: Job creation at companies decelerated just 128,000 in May, falling well short of the 299,000 Dow Jones estimate. Small business took the biggest hit. May's big drop-off in job creation marks the worst month since the massive layoffs in April 2020.

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Again, every positive - everything - we've seen over the last two years has been residual momentum from Trump. It's gone. Worse, it's being actively worked against.

We're in a tremendous amount of trouble.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is not enjoying the Amber Heard presidency at June 02, 2022 08:45 AM (HQPbJ)

309 The church as the unifying cornerstone of American society overall is dead. I could almost say that's a good thing, in a way. Chaff and wheat. Though times are coming, and social-club poser faith isn't going to help anybody through it.

I suppose another way of putting it is that gutless, rudderless "churches" have no business drawing people away from a proper healthy conversation with their Creator by luring them with distracting Progressive opiates and guilt soothing heresies. Church isn't a club, it's a school.

I'm a rotten heathen though, so don't listen to me too much on such matters.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 02, 2022 08:45 AM (6FeV1)

310 Former EPA employee caught in predator sting:
youtube.com/watch?v=RNXGg8udQg4

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at June 02, 2022 08:45 AM (qpX6U)

311 The 2022 picture atop JJ's post is a perfect example of donning a skin-suit and demanding respect. It's never been clearer to me.

The same thing goes with Lena Dunham posing sexily. She is donning the skin-suit of the typical 'glamorous' Hollywood star and demanding we respect her as glamorous and sexy and hot.

In other words, they're rubbing everyone's nose in it.

Posted by: 496 at June 02, 2022 08:45 AM (VJsqe)

312 I'm talking about the government appropriation of crops for 'equitable distribution'.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 02, 2022 08:44 AM (1n+EO)
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In that case, their absolute incompetence at managing a lemonade stand may be our only saving grace.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 02, 2022 08:46 AM (YIVH2)

313 Glenna Milberg
@GlennaWPLG

Charlie Crist has said assault weapons should be banned.
In our convo following his backing by both Florida & Miami Dade teachers' unions, Crist said if elected Governor, he will do it by Executive Order on his first day

Posted by: redridinghood at June 02, 2022 08:46 AM (NpAcC)

314 276 252 Just never stand up during the meeting.

If you absolutely must, then for G-d's sake cover your camera and look at your meeting "box" and make sure you can't see yourself first.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 02, 2022 08:39 AM (HsAzN)

A wait to go to another room before you jack off

Posted by: Toobin at June 02, 2022 08:46 AM (yrol0)

315
Never understood why the British Monarchy is more popular in the US than the UK
Posted by: Queequeg unemployed harpooner at June 02, 2022 08:44 AM (6cB8e)

All those AWFLs see themselves as princesses.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 02, 2022 08:47 AM (/U27+)

316 @245 Fenelon Spoke-And here is the biggest fraud of a Christian right here on AoS. When not obsessing over Scogg Dogg and accusing me of stalking. Accusing me of having an abusive attitude towards women, which if that was true didn't even have the decency to discuss. You just post shit like this and tuck tail and run because if you did have a discussion it would just confirm what a terrible Christian woman you are. It's people just like you Fenelon Spokethat keep me out of the church. Not worth fraternizing with and being amongst like minded people. Really "christ like" of you Fenelon Spoke. I used to actually like your posts and enjoyed your scripture you post up. Once you turned your bullshit accusations on me, didn't even have the decency to back them up or discuss, you exposed yourself. I know everyone here kisses your ass and views you as a "spiritual leader", I sure as hell don't. Its no wonder either that your church congregation is small and struggling with someone like you in it. If you treat people in your congregation like you do me, your pews will remain empty. You are no better than me Fenelon Spoke. You are not a good person.

Posted by: JROD at June 02, 2022 08:47 AM (0jZnq)

317 In other words, they're rubbing everyone's nose in it.

The point of all this crap is the same thing as O'Brien making you say you see the wrong number of fingers.

If you can make people publicly lie about stupid things you can make them do terrible things.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 02, 2022 08:47 AM (ESjRY)

318 Oddly enough, the company with its name on the side of the building and the ability to change the colors is still all white. They did the Ukraine thing lately and rainbow last year

Posted by: A dude in MI at June 02, 2022 08:47 AM (/6GbT)

319 BIDEN: "The idea we're going to be able to click a switch, bring down the cost of gasoline, is not likely in the near term. Nor is it with regard to food."
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It's all related to oil and NatGas supplies. Free up the economy from the Biden economic policies and our problems will begin to dissipate almost immediately, as expectations of large increases in supplies start to do their magic.

This is simple economics, but it completely escapes the ideologues in the Democrat party. More than a little amazing.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 02, 2022 08:47 AM (WMRRe)

320 A Brave New World. Soma for the masses!
Posted by: Puddleglum at June 02, 2022 08:44 AM (sAmhv)

better a gram than a damn

Posted by: Toobin at June 02, 2022 08:48 AM (yrol0)

321 A lot harder to raise a kid at 48 then 28.

That energy where you can party all night long at 28? You have that to take care of kids all night...
Posted by: 18-1 at June 02, 2022 08:40 AM (ESjRY)

good god, when that kid is 18 she's gonna be 66 years old.
Parenting teens is NOT a job for the old. Pretty hard job for the young as well. I remember my dad always playing sports with me, going to all kinds of active events with them. But then I was born when my dad was 22 and mom was 20. That makes for a great childhood.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2022 08:48 AM (r46W7)

322 this is the big lie built into our system, one that no one dares speak: Women in their very early 20's need to be having children, not going to colleges. That's a big part of why our current social system is going to crash, and needs to crash. It can't work in the long run.

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Add to it that their presence effectively doubled the available workforce and halved salaries, making it so that both parents had to work 40+ hour weeks just to tread water where the husband had been able to provide prior to their "freedom."

Yay womens liberation!

Posted by: Moron Robbie is not enjoying the Amber Heard presidency at June 02, 2022 08:48 AM (HQPbJ)

323 off jack off sox

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 02, 2022 08:49 AM (yrol0)

324 I have been accused, in an angry retort from a modern woman, of wanting to return to the 1950's. Proverbs has it right - it IS better to live on the corner of a rooftop.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 02, 2022 08:49 AM (4I/2K)

325 Not reading it , JJ . Same old same old I expect.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 02, 2022 08:49 AM (l7p9i)

326 Never understood why the British Monarchy is more popular in the US than the UK
Posted by: Queequeg unemployed harpooner at June 02, 2022 08:44 AM (6cB8e)

For us, they're fanciful people in nice clothes who represent the pinnacle of something that we once gave up, namely aristocracy.

For them, they're a passel of inbred criminals living off the public like parasites and not even having the decency of noblesse oblige in return to ride off with a lance on a destrier to poke dangerous foreigners to death.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 02, 2022 08:49 AM (6FeV1)

327
This is simple economics, but it completely escapes the ideologues in the Democrat party. More than a little amazing.

One of the big complaints of the ruling class in the Trump years was that the working class was doing too well. I remember seeing the uber rich complaining they were waiting in lines with plumbers...PLUMBERS!...from OHIO!...at their fancy European get a ways.

So this is intentional. Sure they are taking a loss under Biden too - but if it means that they won't have to associated with Joe Average American any more that is more then worth it to them.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 02, 2022 08:50 AM (ESjRY)

328 325 JROD not JJ

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 02, 2022 08:50 AM (l7p9i)

329 JROD not JJ
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 02, 2022 08:50 AM (l7p9i)

He can safely be ignored.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2022 08:51 AM (Zz0t1)

330 A bicyclist got off his bicycle in midtown ... and randomly stabbed a pedestrian...

*******

Why does that bicyclist hate baby doctors?!

Posted by: Muldoon at June 02, 2022 08:51 AM (cPDW+)

331
this is the big lie built into our system, one that no one dares speak: Women in their very early 20's need to be having children, not going to colleges. That's a big part of why our current social system is going to crash, and needs to crash. It can't work in the long run.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2022 08:41 AM (r46W7)

Society has done everything it can to suppress the natural female inclination to have and nurture children. We brainwash young women entering their most fertile years into thinking they're not fulfilled unless they have a career, we brainwash them into porn star fantasies, we drug them so they can't reproduce.

Then they wake up at 30 to find that even if they could find a man who wants them that they can't have what they really want. No wonder more than a few are nuts.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 02, 2022 08:51 AM (/U27+)

332 What's that? Oh pe-DES-trian. never mind!

Posted by: Muldoon at June 02, 2022 08:51 AM (cPDW+)

333 this is the big lie built into our system, one that no one dares speak: Women in their very early 20's need to be having children, not going to colleges. That's a big part of why our current social system is going to crash, and needs to crash. It can't work in the long run.
Posted by: Tom Servo

This. Women live longer than men, it would make more sense for women to live in harmony with their bodies: family in the 20/30s, and then a career from 40 - 70. But corporations want their expanded labor pool to drive wages down, and younger women don't seem to realize they are going to get older and decent men are scarce on the ground for older women. One of the reasons I've changed from libertarian to populist is big corporations are not just neutral, but actively oppose family formation and support.

Posted by: MaureenTheTemp, Ultra Dark MAGA at June 02, 2022 08:52 AM (rWFyW)

334 Right Now, depravity is celebrated. An entire month of sin and sexual perversion is devoted to the destruction of family and traditional values. Memorial Day, which is a joke now, was about five minutes, at best, of "Yeah, people died to preserve your freedom...lets go eat." What does "freedom" mean anymore?

Posted by: Reuben Hick

This is an important point. Who gave authority to force celebration of mental illness, which is what trans and homosexuality are? People need to stand up for their values, the values of the vast majority, and that means refusing to cooperate with false authorities, and making false authorities fear for their safety if necessary.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 02, 2022 08:52 AM (lTGtQ)

335 The point of all this crap is the same thing as O'Brien making you say you see the wrong number of fingers.

If you can make people publicly lie about stupid things you can make them do terrible things.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 02, 2022 08:47 AM (ESjRY)

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Dead on, and that's what that 2022 picture is doing. Now that child may grow up in a wonderful household where she's loved and have the best childhood and adult life ever. I hope she does. But they're wearing the 'traditional couple' skinsuit and making us lie and say 'what a wonderful couple'.

That pic just sort of crystallized the concept for me.

Posted by: 496 at June 02, 2022 08:52 AM (VJsqe)

336 somebody's got a weed up their ass this morning

Posted by: DB at June 02, 2022 08:52 AM (geLO8)

337 “HB20 would compel platforms to disseminate all sorts of objectionable viewpoints, such as Russia’s propaganda claiming that its invasion of Ukraine is justified, ISIS propaganda claiming that extremism is warranted, neo-Nazi or KKK screeds denying or supporting the Holocaust, and encouraging children to engage in risky or unhealthy behavior like eating disorders,” NetChoice and the Computer and Communications Industry Association said in the petition.
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So? They think it's their job to protect us from dangerous thoughts. I don't need a nanny to watch over what I read, I'm an adult.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 02, 2022 08:52 AM (fs1hN)

338 100 years ago, people would have preferred dying to taking charity. Now? They think it's their right. It comes not from a local organization but from a large, faceless bureaucracy. You don't feel ashamed if you have no one to be ashamed to.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 02, 2022 08:16 AM (/U27+)

Back when I was in middle school, and early on in high school, I was in the free lunch program. Back in those days, at least at the schools I attended, parents could come in and buy lunch tickets for their kids rather than giving them cash. The free lunch tickets were a different color.

I would go weeks without eating lunch because I could not face the shame of handing in that red ticket.

Now you get a card, just like everyone else. No shame, no reason to improve.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at June 02, 2022 08:52 AM (1Z8zZ)

339 Eugene Scott @Eugene_Scott; 18h
Senate has confirmed 66 Biden judges, a pace unmatched since JFK. Seventy-five percent of his judicial nominees confirmed by the Senate are women, and nearly two-thirds are people of color. washingtonpost.com/politics/...
Jun 1, 2022 · 8:17 PM UTC

Rachel Bovard @rachelbovard; 16h
So Biden has broken judicial confirmation records in a 50/50 Senate. Lots of Rs helping out here.

Remember this the next time they tell you the Senate is gridlocked.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 02, 2022 08:53 AM (yikp0)

340 somebody's got a weed up their ass this morning
Posted by: DB at June 02, 2022 08:52 AM (geLO8

Seems a daily occurrence.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2022 08:53 AM (Zz0t1)

341 "... I remember seeing the uber rich complaining they were waiting in lines with plumbers...PLUMBERS!...from OHIO!...at their fancy European get a ways."

The plumbers we just paid for the work at the garden center don't stand in line with anyone. They have people that do that for them.

Posted by: jwest at June 02, 2022 08:53 AM (/BlEx)

342 One of the big complaints of the ruling class in the Trump years was that the working class was doing too well. I remember seeing the uber rich complaining they were waiting in lines with plumbers...PLUMBERS!...from OHIO!...at their fancy European get a ways.

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I think there's a video floating around out there of Davos confirming this at a recent WEF conference. Literally saying something about how the middle class was doing too well in the housing sector and that's why Trump had to go.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is not enjoying the Amber Heard presidency at June 02, 2022 08:53 AM (HQPbJ)

343 Eugene Scott @Eugene_Scott; 18h
Senate has confirmed 66 Biden judges, a pace unmatched since JFK. Seventy-five percent of his judicial nominees confirmed by the Senate are women, and nearly two-thirds are people of color. washingtonpost.com/politics/...
Jun 1, 2022 · 8:17 PM UTC

But when Trump did it, it was a threat to our democracy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2022 08:54 AM (Zz0t1)

344 Bonk bonk on the head

Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 02, 2022 08:54 AM (vuisn)

345 Thank you, JJ.

Gas hit $5.09/gallon here in Springfield, IL yesterday.
Threats of brownouts/blackouts this summer, combined with 50%+ increase in natural gas and electricity prices.
I carried $95.00 in groceries yesterday easily in one hand.

Posted by: The Biden Abomination That Causes Desolation at June 02, 2022 08:56 AM (jV+aN)

346 Monthly in ChiTown and nobody says a word. All black folk:

Final May Totals
Shot & Killed: 59
Shot & Wounded: 293
Total Shot: 352
Total Homicides: 62

h/t heyjackass(dot)com. Yes, it is a very real source.

Posted by: Danimal28 at June 02, 2022 08:56 AM (klw0w)

347 But when Trump did it, it was a threat to our democracy.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2022 08:54 AM (Zz0t1)

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Fulfilling his constitutionally appointed duties is a constitutional crisis, yo!

Posted by: 496 at June 02, 2022 08:56 AM (VJsqe)

348 Maybe some women want to have more to life than motherhood in their early 20s? Especially while dad gets to go out in the world everyday and do/be things?

Posted by: SFGoth at June 02, 2022 08:56 AM (KAi1n)

349 It doesn't matter where you raise them. Feed costs are driving up the price of eggs.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at June 02, 2022 08:56 AM (YynYJ)

350 US Engaged In "Offensive" Cyber Ops Against Russia In Ukraine: NSA Director

Out: Hacking is something pariah states do!

In: International law? Is that still a thing?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 02, 2022 08:57 AM (ESjRY)

351 Monthly in ChiTown and nobody says a word. All black folk:

Final May Totals
Shot & Killed: 59
Shot & Wounded: 293
Total Shot: 352
Total Homicides: 62

h/t heyjackass(dot)com. Yes, it is a very real source.
Posted by: Danimal28 at June 02, 2022 08:56 AM (klw0w)

They obviously need stricter gun control laws.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2022 08:57 AM (Zz0t1)

352 Good morning everyone.
Saint of the Day
St. Elmo (d. 303 AD), was an Italian bishop during the reign of Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian. During their brutal persecution against Christians, St. Elmo left his diocese and fled to Mount Lebanon where he lived for seven years. An angel advised him to return to his diocese in order to vanquish his enemies. As he traveled there he was stopped and questioned by Roman soldiers. After declaring himself to be a Christian, he was brought to stand trial before Diocletian himself. St. Elmo confessed his faith in Christ and denounced the emperor for his impiety. For this he was tortured and thrown into prison, but an angel freed him so that he could continue on his journey and save souls along the way. Tradition states he died at peace in Formia, though later accounts have him being martyred there by disembowelment. St. Elmo is the patron of mariners and sailors, abdominal pain, intestinal cramps, and women in labor. The electrical discharge on ships at sea, "St. Elmo's Fire," is named for him. His feast day is June 2nd.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 02, 2022 08:57 AM (Msys3)

353 Maybe some women want to have more to life than motherhood in their early 20s? Especially while dad gets to go out in the world everyday and do/be things?
Posted by: SFGoth at June 02, 2022 08:56 AM (KAi1n)

And no one is saying they can't.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2022 08:58 AM (Zz0t1)

354 Morning everyone.

Fine podcast on the sidebar

Posted by: Dave in Fla at June 02, 2022 08:58 AM (mMOUP)

355 Add to it that their presence effectively doubled the available workforce and halved salaries, making it so that both parents had to work 40+ hour weeks just to tread water where the husband had been able to provide prior to their "freedom." ...
Posted by: Moron Robbie is not enjoying the Amber Heard presidency at June 02, 2022 08:48 AM (HQPbJ)
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It's more complicated than that, and I think you might be conflating cause and effect. Women starting entering the workforce en masse - including leaving children at home to do it - in the 70s, especially after 1974 and again during the Carter years.

A result of this was, yes, a major increase in workforce labor participation, but it was not itself - initially - a cause of lower wages. Lower wages forced the increase in employment, not the other way around. Wages were shrinking under the weight of inflation, and household finances were seriously strained. When faced with the failure of the household vs. women going to work, the women went to work. The "liberation" aspect was window-dressing until the boom years of the mid 80s through the late 90s, when those same women would have likely exited the workforce.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2022 08:58 AM (5zVb8)

356 301 "Queen Liz has now reached her retirement goal with 75 years service."

Never understood why the British Monarchy is more popular in the US than the UK
Posted by: Queequeg unemployed harpooner at June 02, 2022 08:44 AM (6cB8e)

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We're not paying for the show.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at June 02, 2022 08:59 AM (LvTSG)

357 258 The numbers of acceptable men shrink as a woman moves up the status ladder (they marry up, not down) and desirability of women shrinks as they age. Finding a husband is much harder with this configuration. They way we've managed to set it up is a 1-2 punch against the odds of the plan ever working, even if the fertility curve was flat (it isn't).
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2022 08:25 AM

A man in his 40's can marry the good looking house maid and consider himself the luckiest man on earth. A woman in her 40's could never feel proud of marrying the cabana boy.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2022 08:59 AM (r46W7)

358 Thomas Massie
@RepThomasMassie
2h
Technically Congress is in recess but today Democrats in the Judiciary Committee (many via a zoom meeting?) are going to pass eight unconstitutional gun control bills in one piece of legislation.

I'm flying to DC this morning to join the fight against this in person.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 02, 2022 08:59 AM (NpAcC)

359 Morning everyone.

Fine podcast on the sidebar
Posted by: Dave in Fla at June 02, 2022 08:58 AM (mMOUP)
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Thanks to your shameless self-promotion, I will definitely listen to it today!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 02, 2022 08:59 AM (YIVH2)

360 The electrical discharge on ships at sea, "St. Elmo's Fire," is named for him. His feast day is June 2nd.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 02, 2022 08:57 AM (Msys3)

Thanks, Tonypete! (But that's an earworm I didn't need this early in the morning!)

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at June 02, 2022 08:59 AM (906pl)

361 Maybe some women want to have more to life than motherhood in their early 20s? Especially while dad gets to go out in the world everyday and do/be things?

Posted by: SFGoth at June 02, 2022 08:56 AM (KAi1n)

What is more fulfilling than parenthood?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 02, 2022 09:00 AM (jOKqt)

362 A man in his 40's can marry the good looking house maid and consider himself the luckiest man on earth. A woman in her 40's could never feel proud of marrying the cabana boy.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2022 08:59 AM (r46W7)

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Years ago I learned that by and large, women do not dress for, or do their hair for, men. Most often, they do these things for women.

Posted by: 496 at June 02, 2022 09:01 AM (VJsqe)

363 @329 Sponge-.....apparently I can't be safely ignored by Fenelon Spoke now can I? I mention something about "the church" and she takes it as a direct attack on her. Good grief.

Posted by: JROD at June 02, 2022 09:01 AM (0jZnq)

364 Maybe some women want to have more to life than motherhood in their early 20s?

As with many things, its a choice. Do you want kids or 50 hours/week in a office and partying afterwards?

It seems most of those career minded women don't get that they are making a choice. They think they'll find Mr Right at exactly 35 - he'll be two rungs higher in the corporate hierarchy. They'll have two perfect kids at 36 and 38. He'll 50/50 raising the kids and still pull in his VP salary and she'll have the best nanny so she can still work and get promoted to VP eventually as well.

And when none of that happens they feel cheated. It isn't that no one pulls this off but it isn't really likely.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 02, 2022 09:01 AM (ESjRY)

365 353 Maybe some women want to have more to life than motherhood in their early 20s? Especially while dad gets to go out in the world everyday and do/be things?
Posted by: SFGoth at June 02, 2022 08:56 AM (KAi1n)

when it's only "some" women its fine. When it's ALL women, the society collapses, or is completely replaced by immigrants with a more traditional social structure within a generation or two. Looks like both of those are happening in California right now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2022 09:01 AM (r46W7)

366 family in the 20/30s, and then a career from 40 - 70

Doing what? What kind of a career could such a woman have?

Posted by: SFGoth at June 02, 2022 09:01 AM (KAi1n)

367 Sarc Alert:

John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre; 16h
Thousands of jobs will be created to add an extra digit to the signs at gas stations.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 02, 2022 09:01 AM (yikp0)

368 but it was not itself - initially - a cause of lower wages.

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I'm fine with that. Poe-tay-toe, poe-tah-toe

We're here regardless. Congratulations, ladies. You won!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Like Biden said, no law is absolute at June 02, 2022 09:01 AM (Jdk1/)

369 I'm flying to DC this morning to join the fight against this in person.
Posted by: redridinghood at June 02, 2022 08:59 AM (NpAcC)

J6 says be careful.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 02, 2022 09:02 AM (HsAzN)

370 John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre; 16h
Thousands of jobs will be created to add an extra digit to the signs at gas stations.
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 02, 2022 09:01 AM (yikp0)

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Good one!

Posted by: 496 at June 02, 2022 09:02 AM (VJsqe)

371 J.K. Simmons is a seriously underappreciated actor. He was outstanding in the excellent final season of "Goliath", as a criminal pharma executive. His new series is "Night Sky" and the review in todays links says he does another great turn.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 02, 2022 09:02 AM (WMRRe)

372 A smarter society would encourage women to get married and have children after HS. We live long enough that if you want a career as well there is more then enough time after your kids go to school. This best fits women's biology both fertility and energy to raise children.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 02, 2022 08:20 AM (ESjRY)

But...but...but...how will a modern girl amass a triple digit body count by the time she's 22 if she does that?

It's Handmaid's Tale. Expect women in red robes to start picketing your house.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at June 02, 2022 09:03 AM (1Z8zZ)

373 Thanks for the information on St Elmo and his witness. I don't know whether RCs get the same sort of little amusement as I do at the things the are patrons for, because I'm having abdominal pain
But I guarantee you it's not even on the scale compared to disembowelment .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 02, 2022 09:03 AM (mFE74)

374 Maybe some women want to have more to life than motherhood in their early 20s? Especially while dad gets to go out in the world everyday and do/be things?

I would be more sympathetic to this point of view if our public policy did not intentionally insulate women from the consequences of their choices.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 02, 2022 09:04 AM (KFhLj)

375 Maybe some women want to have more to life than motherhood in their early 20s?

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I'd never connected the two, but it's absolutely the "everyone needs to go to college" thing.

No, everyone shouldn't go to college. That's absurd. It has ruined colleges, ruined education, ruined hiring, ruined the workforce, and we're at the point where we're about to get idiots' student loans paid off because they were convinced they needed to go to college.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Like Biden said, no law is absolute at June 02, 2022 09:04 AM (Jdk1/)

376 A man in his 40's can marry the good looking house maid and consider himself the luckiest man on earth. A woman in her 40's could never feel proud of marrying the cabana boy.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2022 08:59 AM (r46W7)

A man in his 40's can marry the good looking cabana boy and consider himself the luckiest man on earth.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 02, 2022 09:04 AM (yrol0)

377 You are no better than me Fenelon Spoke. You are not a good person.
Posted by: JROD at June 02, 2022 08:47 AM (0jZnq)

Sidles away from the lighning strike zone.

Beef with the chaplain is no bueno, man.

Posted by: blaster at June 02, 2022 09:05 AM (9otr5)

378 Beyond dumb policy, Crist is such a hack. He used to have an A rating from the NRA. Anything for a vote.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at June 02, 2022 09:05 AM (GE7na)

379 373 I don't know whether RCs get the same sort of little amusement as I do at the things the are patrons for,

This RC always has!

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 02, 2022 09:05 AM (HsAzN)

380 No, everyone shouldn't go to college. That's absurd. It has ruined colleges, ruined education, ruined hiring, ruined the workforce, and we're at the point where we're about to get idiots' student loans paid off because they were convinced they needed to go to college.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Like Biden said, no law is absolute at June 02, 2022 09:04 AM (Jdk1/)

SCOTUS caused this with throwing out aptitude and intelligence test.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 02, 2022 09:05 AM (yrol0)

381 Fenelon, As the recipient of 2 major, life-altering abdominal surgeries (in the hospital a week each time, out of work for a month+ each time) I understand what you're going through. Keep your head up, continue a normal schedule, and soldier on. Each week will get better.

Posted by: 496 at June 02, 2022 09:05 AM (VJsqe)

382 I don't think a "family woman" or a "career woman" should feel guilt or shame either way. Your life is yours to work out how you see fit. And what ever path you take, you'll wish you had done the other anyway just by human nature.

Think of it as a blessing that you get to pick your path. Men generally don't have that choice. Which in its own way is a blessing and a curse.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 02, 2022 09:05 AM (6FeV1)

383 Scrolls up...

Well...

Guess I need to do some work this morning.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at June 02, 2022 09:06 AM (qfhgi)

384 Lots of false teaching out there and many a church has succumbed to it. That doesn't mean 'The church is dead'. It means we are witnessing the sifting of the wheat from the chaff. Jesus is cleaning up His church. We'll continue to see this the closer we get to the Great Day of the Lord.
Posted by: Puddleglum at June 02, 2022 08:41 AM (sAmhv)

***

Amen

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at June 02, 2022 09:06 AM (flINI)

385 Comrade, soon we will have the most fair system. To each according to xher need, from each according to ability.

--USDA

Posted by: runner at June 02, 2022 09:06 AM (8yWvW)

386 The Tulsa shooter was a black man with a long rifle and took his own life.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 02, 2022 09:06 AM (NpAcC)

387 348 Maybe some women want to have more to life than motherhood in their early 20s? Especially while dad gets to go out in the world everyday and do/be things?
Posted by: SFGoth

As long as they are making informed choices with their eyes wide open, it's not a problem. But most women genuinely don't realize how much their fertility declines, and how difficult it is to have baby after 40, IVF treatments only result in a live birth something like 5% of the time. If women want to take the risk that's great, but society keeps pushing this myth you can easily have babies with fertility treatments practically forever, and that isn't true.

Posted by: MaureenTheTemp, Ultra Dark MAGA at June 02, 2022 09:06 AM (rWFyW)

388 "SCOTUS caused this with throwing out aptitude and intelligence test."

Griggs v Duke Power.

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at June 02, 2022 09:06 AM (qpX6U)

389 I'm so glad we have Amy Barrett and Bret Kavanaugh on our side. And that we fought so hard to have them approved.

Posted by: AnnaS at June 02, 2022 09:07 AM (l4l/z)

390 Good morning. I'm sleeping later and later it seems. Trying to decide if I should break down and go see the doctor. A week of this shit now.

Posted by: Jewells45 at June 02, 2022 09:07 AM (nxdel)

391 I'm looking for the WEF speaker at Davos who said Trump had to be removed because the middle class was growing too much. A moron mentioned it the other day but I didn't click the link. Does that ring a bell with anyone?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Like Biden said, no law is absolute at June 02, 2022 09:07 AM (Jdk1/)

392 "A compromise entails giving up something to get something, striking a deal. That’s not what’s happening here. This is just surrender."

Write it down, when gun confiscation finally comes to pass, it'll do so with Republican support. The GOP is no different on this than any other topic - it's just another one of those things they have to lie about to get elected.

Posted by: Nic of the Day at June 02, 2022 09:07 AM (a0nXr)

393 I'm so glad we have Amy Barrett and Bret Kavanaugh on our side. And that we fought so hard to have them approved.

My fee is $2M. Let me know if you need me to get my ghost writer ready again.

Posted by: Amy Barrett at June 02, 2022 09:07 AM (ESjRY)

394 389 I'm so glad we have Amy Barrett and Bret Kavanaugh on our side. And that we fought so hard to have them approved.

Thanks, Mitch & The Federalist Society

(Which sounds like a lousy bar band.)

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 02, 2022 09:08 AM (HsAzN)

395 "Lots of false teaching out there and many a church has succumbed to it"

Maybe best is to study scripture on your own, forsake churches.

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at June 02, 2022 09:08 AM (qpX6U)

396 How the hell are women going to meet the fellow who is 2 rungs up on the ladder if she doesn't go to college?

I kid, of course, but my college was known for it's marriage-upon-graduation rate. Lots of women there were just wanting to catch an enterprising male. It was a running joke acknowledged by all.

Posted by: 496 at June 02, 2022 09:08 AM (VJsqe)

397 Expect women in red robes to start picketing your house.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at June 02, 2022 09:03 AM (1Z8zZ)
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If that's all they wear, I'd be fine with that.

Dear Penthouse....

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 02, 2022 09:08 AM (WMRRe)

398 Then they wake up at 30 to find that even if they could find a man who wants them that they can't have what they really want. No wonder more than a few are nuts.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 02, 2022 08:51 AM (/U27+)

at the same time our society tells young men that they are useless and pointless and no one wants them around. And then act surprised when so many are filled with rage at they don't know what, and start lashing out.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2022 09:08 AM (r46W7)

399 Good morning. I'm sleeping later and later it seems. Trying to decide if I should break down and go see the doctor. A week of this shit now.
Posted by: Jewells45 at June 02, 2022 09:07 AM (nxdel)

Maybe take a coof test? I just had it and i was sick for two days and then a zombie for the next two weeks.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 02, 2022 09:08 AM (6FeV1)

400 Thanks to your shameless self-promotion, I will definitely listen to it today!

Heh - JJ and CBD were brilliant as always. I muddled through.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at June 02, 2022 09:08 AM (qfhgi)

401 I don't know whether RCs get the same sort of little amusement as I do at the things the are patrons for....

Oh, I know I do. Some of their claimed patronages are truly laugh out loud funny;

ST. ADRIAN OF NICODEMIA -- ARMS DEALERS
ST. CLOTILDE -- DISAPPOINTING CHILDREN
ST. ELIGIUS -- GAS STATION WORKERS

There's lots more.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 02, 2022 09:09 AM (Msys3)

402 Posted by: 496 at June 02, 2022 09:05 AM (VJsqe)

I am sorry you had so much trouble and pain. This is my third abdominal thing. The second one was much worse. Thanks for the encouragement. I appreciate that . I am carrying on.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 02, 2022 09:09 AM (mFE74)

403 396 How the hell are women going to meet the fellow who is 2 rungs up on the ladder if she doesn't go to college?

I kid, of course, but my college was known for it's marriage-upon-graduation rate. Lots of women there were just wanting to catch an enterprising male. It was a running joke acknowledged by all.
Posted by: 496 at June 02, 2022 09:08 AM (VJsqe)

The well-worn MRS degree.

Posted by: Roy at June 02, 2022 09:09 AM (Phd8w)

404 I kid, of course, but my college was known for it's marriage-upon-graduation rate. Lots of women there were just wanting to catch an enterprising male. It was a running joke acknowledged by all.
Posted by: 496 at June 02, 2022 09:08 AM (VJsqe)
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The "MRS degree"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2022 09:09 AM (5zVb8)

405 SCOTUS caused this with throwing out aptitude and intelligence test.

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Yeah, it's a lot like what Mannix and I were discussing with women's presence screwing up wages.

SCOTUS got the ball rolling, but academia really started screwing things up in the 80s or so. I clearly remember teachers insisting that every student should attend college, and that these student loans would make it easy.

I'm sure it was in all the NEA magazines and such.
They were on the ground floor of a business opportunity. Nothing more.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Like Biden said, no law is absolute at June 02, 2022 09:09 AM (Jdk1/)

406 396 How the hell are women going to meet the fellow who is 2 rungs up on the ladder if she doesn't go to college?"

newsflash - the guy 2 rungs up is NOT looking for some corporate drudge who works 60 hours a week to be his partner. He wants someone fun who will be focused on him, not on some job.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2022 09:10 AM (r46W7)

407 "No Free Lunch: Biden Junta Will Pull Meal Funding for Schools That Don’t Comply With Its LGBT Agenda"

This kind of blackmail/coercion should be illegal (probably is unconstitutional).

They seem do it a lot (national 55mph or lose some funding), I'm not sure what differentiated the ruling on Obamacare, where they said they could not force states to adopt Obamacare under threat of losing Medicaid funding (I think that was it, something like that).

Posted by: illiniwek at June 02, 2022 09:10 AM (Cus5s)

408 ST. ADRIAN OF NICODEMIA -- ARMS DEALERS

And Boxer's Wives, and Cigarettes!

My brothers and I used to crack ourselves up - quietly - during church doing that.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 02, 2022 09:10 AM (HsAzN)

409 great 'horde' minds

Posted by: Roy at June 02, 2022 09:11 AM (Phd8w)

410 The WSJ says the U.S. is "working at unblocking" sanctions against Russian grain exports, as the world tries to avoid the oncoming train of a Biden food crisis.

Good luck with that, says Abbott Labs.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 02, 2022 08:29 AM (WMRRe)

Does that mean we're trying to get sanctions placed and the rest of the world is saying "fuck you" or that sanctions are in place and we're trying to get them removed?

If the first - the stupid burns...if the second - how hard is it to say "hey, we'll buy your shit, evildoers".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at June 02, 2022 09:11 AM (1Z8zZ)

411 Wife and I are saving money by making our kids poop on the river and wash off like the Horse and Buggy Days.
We are making extra money by exploiting simps by my wife doing super chats on The Gram beginning at 20 bucks.
Real Old World meets New World Dystopia shit...

Posted by: Heavy Squats at June 02, 2022 09:12 AM (bt3Im)

412 How the hell are women going to meet the fellow who is 2 rungs up on the ladder if she doesn't go to college?

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Oh jeez, we've got a friend whose daughter is going to one of those in Pennsylvania. Bryan Marr or some nonsense. WILDLY expensive, and zero hard courses. No engineering, no anything. Essentially $400,000 teaching certificates.

But it's close to the serious schools where wealthy doctors and lawyers attend.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Like Biden said, no law is absolute at June 02, 2022 09:12 AM (Jdk1/)

413 339 Remember this the next time they tell you the Senate is gridlocked.
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 02, 2022 08:53 AM (yikp0)
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Exactly.

Mitch made a deal.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 02, 2022 09:12 AM (WMRRe)

414 "No Free Lunch: Biden Junta Will Pull Meal Funding for Schools That Don’t Comply With Its LGBT Agenda"

Pull all school meal funding. Turning schools into restaurants was a bad idea from the get-go. Kids can brown bag it. Refocus schools on education, drop all the other crap. If a kid is malnourished, why is that the school's job to fix?

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at June 02, 2022 09:12 AM (qpX6U)

415 But part of Mitch's success and True Conservative credentials during Trump was his judges!!!
/

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Like Biden said, no law is absolute at June 02, 2022 09:13 AM (Jdk1/)

416 Bryn Mar, i believe.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 02, 2022 09:13 AM (KAi1n)

417 @377 blaster-I've been to church plenty enough. If Fenelon Spoke is your idea of a chaplain then your bar is set low. She made an accusation based on defending the opinion of someone else here. She just decided to pile on. A good chaplain if they had a genuine beef would have at least engaged, discussed and backed up the accusation. You know, sorted it out. Fenelon Spoke did no such thing. No chance to defend being besmirched nothing. Nope, not a good "chaplain" at all.

Posted by: JROD at June 02, 2022 09:13 AM (0jZnq)

418 Bryn Mawr?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 02, 2022 09:13 AM (6FeV1)

419
at the same time our society tells young men that they are useless and pointless and no one wants them around. And then act surprised when so many are filled with rage at they don't know what, and start lashing out.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2022 09:08 AM (r46W7)

Look at any TV commercial. All of them are smart woman, dumb man.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 02, 2022 09:14 AM (/U27+)

420 But it's close to the serious schools where wealthy doctors and lawyers attend.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Like Biden said, no law is absolute at June 02, 2022 09:12 AM (Jdk1/)
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Cornell University and Ithaca College face each other atop their respective hills. The slogan I have heard is "Ithaca to bed, Cornell to wed."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2022 09:14 AM (5zVb8)

421
Posted by: Tonypete at June 02, 2022 09:09 AM (Msys3)

I like to think of some of the Saints standing around together in glory laughing with each other saying, " Did you get what they made me the Patron Saint for?!!

I expect there's a lot of laughter and joy in heaven.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 02, 2022 09:14 AM (mFE74)

422 Studying Scripture on your own is a good thing, and you should do it.

But as you are doing it, you'll notice that it says you should not forsake gathering together. And you'll notice that it says you should take its message to the ends of the earth. And you'll notice exhortation to reach out to the unsaved.

It's not like reading books on WW2 or the Irish Potato Famine, that serve as a history book.

It's the revealed word of God and it contains directives. If you Church is rudderless, the answer isn't to leave the Church, it's to be the rudder using the revealed word and directives God has given you as your training manual.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 02, 2022 09:14 AM (jOKqt)

423 Bryn Mawr?

I try to bryn less.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 02, 2022 09:14 AM (HsAzN)

424 Janet Yellen is Mr Magoo in a whig. What a dunce.
Posted by: Marcus T
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[recalls two book titles]

'Confederacy of Dunces', and 'Parliament of Whores'

The latter more applicable.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 02, 2022 09:14 AM (A+/mw)

425 Maybe take a coof test? I just had it and i was sick for two days and then a zombie for the next two weeks.

I just don't want to take another covid test. I feel like at some point we need to stop doing that and get away from oh it might be covid! This moved to my chest and that's my only concern. Could be bronchitis, could be pneumonia.

Posted by: Jewells45 at June 02, 2022 09:15 AM (nxdel)

426 Stop beefing about *beef*! It's making me hungry!!!

Posted by: SFGoth at June 02, 2022 09:15 AM (KAi1n)

427 Maybe some women want to have more to life than motherhood in their early 20s? Especially while dad gets to go out in the world everyday and do/be things?
Posted by: SFGoth at June 02, 2022 08:56 AM (KAi1n)

Eggs age and have a silly date.

While I'm sympathetic to the that view, if you're planning on having kiddos and a family IMHO it's better to pop out a few kids, then pursue the career.

In any event, once the kids hit their teens, they don't particularly want you hovering around them anyway.

And the early training in what's right and proper will yield big bennies esp when those kids hit their teens, instead of leaving it up to unionized groomers to raise your children.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 02, 2022 09:15 AM (5NkmN)

428 "No Free Lunch: Biden Junta Will Pull Meal Funding for Schools That Don’t Comply With Its LGBT Agenda"

This kind of blackmail/coercion should be illegal (probably is unconstitutional).

It was when Trump tried to do it.

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 02, 2022 09:15 AM (OzJjC)

429 418 Bryn Mawr?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 02, 2022 09:13 AM (6FeV1)

Third time's the charm!

Posted by: 496 at June 02, 2022 09:15 AM (VJsqe)

430 366 family in the 20/30s, and then a career from 40 - 70

Doing what? What kind of a career could such a woman have?
Posted by: SFGoth at June 02, 2022 09:01 AM (KAi1n)

My own mother had a family in her early 20's, got a teaching degree in her mid 30's, and then had a very successful 25 year career as a private school educator, in which she eventually become one of the top administrators. That kind of career, and it was a pretty good one.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2022 09:15 AM (r46W7)

431 silly = sell by

*shrugs*

Posted by: naturalfake at June 02, 2022 09:15 AM (5NkmN)

432 But most women genuinely don't realize how much their fertility declines, and how difficult it is to have baby after 40, IVF treatments only result in a live birth something like 5% of the time.
Posted by: MaureenTheTemp

Ding ding ding! We have a winner!
The mother of the little boy I watch (19 months) is 45. She waited until she was 42 to marry because career and world travel. She has spent 100s of thousands of $$ on IVF and fertility treatments with many failed implantations and medical issues stemming from it all.

No little boy is more loved than our little B., but Mom knows this is, and will, be her only baby. There is a heaviness about her regarding her early choices. She knows she waited too long.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 02, 2022 09:15 AM (Msys3)

433 Exactly.

Mitch made a deal.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions

I wonder if Mitch's calculus is the red wave will be so big, screwing over gun owners won't hurt him if he moves right now. I think he's wrong, but I'm not a powerful RINO Senator, I just am one of the serfs who won't vote if they hose over gun owners.

Posted by: MaureenTheTemp, Ultra Dark MAGA at June 02, 2022 09:15 AM (rWFyW)

434 TRUMP Junta Will Pull Meal Funding for Schools That Don’t Comply With Its MAGA Agenda

Just to compare and contrast what the Dem/MFM (birm) reaction would be.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 02, 2022 09:16 AM (HsAzN)

435 Could be bronchitis, could be pneumonia.
Posted by: Jewells45 at June 02, 2022 09:15 AM (nxdel)

Heh, honestly, i was thinking more along the lines of, "oh, good, it's just covid, I'll be fine".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 02, 2022 09:17 AM (6FeV1)

436
Pull all school meal funding. Turning schools into restaurants was a bad idea from the get-go. Kids can brown bag it. Refocus schools on education, drop all the other crap. If a kid is malnourished, why is that the school's job to fix?
Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at June 02, 2022 09:12 AM (qpX6U)

Way back when, during WWII I think, there was a reason for school lunches. Poor families didn't have access to sufficient food for the children. Now with all the various welfare programs that's no longer an excuse.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 02, 2022 09:17 AM (/U27+)

437 Oh jeez, we've got a friend whose daughter is going to one of those in Pennsylvania. Bryan Marr or some nonsense. WILDLY expensive, and zero hard courses. No engineering, no anything. Essentially $400,000 teaching certificates.

But it's close to the serious schools where wealthy doctors and lawyers attend.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Like Biden said, no law is absolute at June 02, 2022 09:12 AM (Jdk1/)

Caution her about the prevalence of kiln explosions.

Posted by: Frank from Amherst at June 02, 2022 09:17 AM (4I/2K)

438 434 TRUMP Junta Will Pull Meal Funding for Schools That Don’t Comply With Its MAGA Agenda

Just to compare and contrast what the Dem/MFM (birm) reaction would be.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 02, 2022 09:16 AM (HsAzN)

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Which points out the danger of a welfare society. Once you're on the dole they control you.

Posted by: 496 at June 02, 2022 09:17 AM (VJsqe)

439 I wonder if Mitch's calculus is the red wave will be so big, screwing over gun owners won't hurt him if he moves right now.

*

All the Republicans are on the "who else are you dummies going to vote for?" wagon, same as they've been since Clinton. And we dummies keep falling for it.

My biggest disappointment with Trump was him not starting a new party the day after he was removed from office.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Like Biden said, no law is absolute at June 02, 2022 09:17 AM (Jdk1/)

440 377 You are no better than me Fenelon Spoke. You are not a good person.
Posted by: JROD at June 02, 2022 08:47 AM (0jZnq)

Dude, your 2nd sentence is ban worthy and apology necessary.

Posted by: Nova local at June 02, 2022 09:18 AM (exHjb)

441 For all have sinned and come short of the glory of JROD

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Like Biden said, no law is absolute at June 02, 2022 09:18 AM (Jdk1/)

442 I wonder if Mitch's calculus is the red wave will be so big, screwing over gun owners won't hurt him if he moves right now.

If we look back, Mitch and company didn't want the Tea Party Wave. They'd rather be in the minority that make ranks with that kind of rabble. This latest betrayal could be nothing more than trying to get ahead of the next wave, stop it before it starts. We're screwed until we get a third party going. There won't be any "taking over" of this one.

Posted by: Nic of the Day at June 02, 2022 09:19 AM (a0nXr)

443 "But as you are doing it, you'll notice that it says you should not forsake gathering together."

Haven't found any Christians in real life who have actually read scripture yet. I've attended four churches here, and they all teach stuff that's either not in Bible, or misinterpreted.

"If you Church is rudderless, the answer isn't to leave the Church, it's to be the rudder using the revealed word and directives God has given you as your training manual."

I couldn't lead anybody out of a wet paper bag. If I am to be the rudder, then the course I set is: go read the Bible on your own, and don't let other people try to misinterpret it for you.

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at June 02, 2022 09:19 AM (qpX6U)

444
Maybe best is to study scripture on your own, forsake churches.
Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at June 02, 2022 09:08 AM (qpX6U)

Over 25 years of showing dogs has convinced me that the capacity people have for self-delusion is well nigh infinite.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 02, 2022 09:19 AM (/U27+)

445 The USDA is now developing a "framework" for transforming our food chain delivery system to something "fairer" - get ready for starvation for any class of people not deemed to be in the "fair" class.
Posted by: Boswell at June 02, 2022 08:37 AM (5iUNf)

Glancing at their statement, their goal is to have food producers get a larger percentage of total food expenditures. Which, of course, means higher prices - even if it were possible.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at June 02, 2022 09:20 AM (1Z8zZ)

446 I kid, of course, but my college was known for it's marriage-upon-graduation rate. Lots of women there were just wanting to catch an enterprising male. It was a running joke acknowledged by all.
Posted by: 496 at June 02, 2022 09:08 AM (VJsqe)

The well-worn MRS degree.

Posted by: Roy at June 02, 2022 09:09 AM

Happens a lot in the Military also. Woman joins up finds a guy she wants, gets pregnant and married then gets out.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at June 02, 2022 09:20 AM (bVYXr)

447 390 Good morning. I'm sleeping later and later it seems. Trying to decide if I should break down and go see the doctor. A week of this shit now.
Posted by: Jewells45 at June 02, 2022 09:07 AM (nxdel)

Do you have one of those watches that tracks your sleep? They aren't 100% accurate, but they can let you know how deep/light you're sleeping (and how restful your sleep might be)...

Posted by: Nova local at June 02, 2022 09:20 AM (exHjb)

448 >>"No Free Lunch: Biden Junta Will Pull Meal Funding for Schools That Don’t Comply With Its LGBT Agenda"

"If you don't celebrate buttsex, you can't have any food! How can you have any food if you don't celebrate buttsex?"

Leave them kids alone

Posted by: DB at June 02, 2022 09:20 AM (geLO8)

449 No little boy is more loved than our little B., but Mom knows this is, and will, be her only baby. There is a heaviness about her regarding her early choices. She knows she waited too long.
Posted by: Tonypete

Tony, it's deliberate. I remember the American Society of Reproductive Medicine tried to put out a series of PSA, explaining to women how age affected fertility. Feminists shrieked about it and the ASPM pulled the ads. Even freezing your eggs is not enough, you need to literally freeze 100 eggs to have a realistic shot at having a live birth. A lot of fertility clinics use numbers like conception, which is just getting the egg and sperm together, not live births, which is the stat you want. Saddest article I read a couple years ago was a woman who froze 30 eggs and wasn't able to have a baby. Fertility treatment is not a consumer service and it isn't engineering, it is not guaranteed and the odds are against you.

Posted by: MaureenTheTemp, Ultra Dark MAGA at June 02, 2022 09:21 AM (rWFyW)

450 Jewells,

Try inhaling steam. Heat water to boilin, take off the stove. Use a towel to cover your head and funnel the steam. It helps. Using a nebulizer helps with that too. It sounds like what I had and I don't think it was Covid. I took ivermectin the entire time.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at June 02, 2022 09:21 AM (YynYJ)

451 My 2 grandkids 2 and 5 got the rona .... knocked it out in 2 days.

I told my son, don't say the the kids had the rona... say rona had the kids, and didn't make it.

Posted by: Haywood at June 02, 2022 09:21 AM (5o1JZ)

452 If you're in a city, leave the city. Go find a little church in the country. You might need to drive 30 minutes, but it will be worth it.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Like Biden said, no law is absolute at June 02, 2022 09:21 AM (Jdk1/)

453
So basically it's blackmail. Celebrate LGBTQ+ or your kids will starve.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 02, 2022 09:21 AM (/U27+)

454 Could be bronchitis, could be pneumonia.
Posted by: Jewells45 at June 02, 2022 09:15 AM (nxdel)

I am sorry you're not feeling well. Please go to the doctor, dear. I had awful symptoms for while but it was because the pollen count was sky high and was terrible for seasonal allergies.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 02, 2022 09:21 AM (mFE74)

455 I wonder if Mitch's calculus is the red wave will be so big, screwing over gun owners won't hurt him if he moves right now. I think he's wrong, but I'm not a powerful RINO Senator, I just am one of the serfs who won't vote if they hose over gun owners.
Posted by: MaureenTheTemp, Ultra Dark MAGA at June 02, 2022 09:15 AM (rWFyW)
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Good insight. I bet he thinks the so-called "red wave" will cover lots of his RINO sins. Schumer will get more bills passed around the election than he expects in his wildest dreams.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 02, 2022 09:22 AM (WMRRe)

456 I didn't even miss any work time with the 'rona. But only because I work from home - if it had involved going to the office I would have missed 2 or 3 days.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 02, 2022 09:22 AM (HsAzN)

457 She asked rhetorically, 'Where are the fathers, and the brothers, the men who used to provide protection against, and extract vengeance from cads?'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
-----

An interesting novel by Moron OldSailor'sPoet, 'Amy Lynn', addresses the topic. It's a page-turner, note 5 Stars at Amazon https://tinyurl.com/2p8t49jx

It enjoys the Hammer Seal of Approval.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 02, 2022 09:22 AM (8On0t)

458 *sigh*

The library in which work (but don't work for) has several carts of books that are scheduled to be thrown out. I was told that I could go through them and take what I wanted. Naturally, I couldn't resist, but I only walked away with 7 books...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 02, 2022 09:22 AM (YIVH2)

459 Heh, honestly, i was thinking more along the lines of, "oh, good, it's just covid, I'll be fine".

lol.. well there is that. That's why I don't think it is the coof. None of the usual symtoms.

Posted by: Jewells45 at June 02, 2022 09:22 AM (nxdel)

460 Fenelon, are you awaiting news post-surgery?

Posted by: ... at June 02, 2022 09:22 AM (pJ5Ej)

461 If I'd have known how much fun kids were I'd of had another 3 or 4.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at June 02, 2022 09:24 AM (flINI)

462 Which points out the danger of a welfare society. Once you're on the dole they control you

Which is why all the uniparty's policies are designed to make you poorer, less well informed, less capable of making your own decisions.The whole lot of them have China envy.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 02, 2022 09:24 AM (KFhLj)

463 I agree that young women do need to understand the opportunity costs of delaying motherhood. Just as i'm not going to procreate going into year 55, but i have never wanted kids.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 02, 2022 09:24 AM (KAi1n)

464 No Free Lunch: Biden Junta Will Pull Meal Funding for Schools That Don’t Comply With Its LGBT Agenda"

"If you don't celebrate buttsex, you can't have any food! How can you have any food if you don't celebrate buttsex?"

Leave them kids alone
Posted by: DB

🎼Hey! Teacher! Leave those kids alone!
All we are is another dick in the wall. 🎶

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 02, 2022 09:24 AM (OzJjC)

465 For all have sinned and come short of the glory of JROD

I laughed so hard my stomach hurt but it was worth it.Thx

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 02, 2022 09:24 AM (mFE74)

466 Hope you feel better Jewells - no fun to be sick like this.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 02, 2022 09:25 AM (Msys3)

467 Never understood why the British Monarchy is more popular in the US than the UK
Posted by: Queequeg unemployed harpooner at June 02, 2022 08:44 AM (6cB8e)

It has absolutely no effect on us.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at June 02, 2022 09:25 AM (1Z8zZ)

468 Which points out the danger of a welfare society. Once you're on the dole they control you

Which is why all the uniparty's policies are designed to make you poorer, less well informed, less capable of making your own decisions.The whole lot of them have China envy.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

We don't call it the Dem Plantation lightly.

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 02, 2022 09:25 AM (OzJjC)

469 225 I recall, in the aftermath of the Lewinsky revelations, a Florence King commentary in her 'Misanthrope's Corner' column. She asked rhetorically, 'Where are the fathers, and the brothers, the men who used to provide protection against, and extract vengeance from cads?'

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A man needs to know his place in this world. We are dumb, farting idiots who only grunt and satisfy our desires according to stereotypes perpetuated for last 50+ years.

When we fought back against the stereotype and proved that we actually do have real thoughts and are not stupid, the phrase "mansplaining" to shut us up again.

Posted by: 496 at June 02, 2022 09:25 AM (VJsqe)

470 Fenelon I actually thought it was allergies at first. But pretty sure now that it's not. I hope you are doing okay. I've not been on here much so I haven't been able to catch up on how you have been since your surgery.

Posted by: Jewells45 at June 02, 2022 09:25 AM (nxdel)

471 If I'd have known how much fun kids were I'd of had another 3 or 4.
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report

I can send you two for a time.

I have spares.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 02, 2022 09:26 AM (Msys3)

472 I generally don't go to churches because i loathe humanity and don't want nasty, horrible People befouling what tenuous little link i might have with the Creator.

I'm.... not bragging about this. Confessing, really.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 02, 2022 09:27 AM (6FeV1)

473 I am sorry you're not feeling well. Please go to the doctor, dear. I had awful symptoms for while but it was because the pollen count was sky high and was terrible for seasonal allergies.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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A. I have followed your recent travails, and am very glad that you are with us again, and I am hoping that recovery is proceeding.

B. Second point, Jewells, hie thee to a Doc. I have been struggling with what I thought was an ear infection. First Doc prescribed antibiotic. Didn't work. Now taking Prednisone to help combat what seems to be allergic reaction to pollen.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 02, 2022 09:27 AM (Xnr/7)

474 Ellipses-

I have an in person visit with the doctor next week. I actually prefer seeing a real person than having to read potential bad news from a patient portal.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 02, 2022 09:27 AM (mFE74)

475 "I've attended four churches here, and they all teach stuff that's either not in Bible, or misinterpreted. "

I don't doubt the veracity of what you are saying.

My question for you is this:

If your church was teaching antithetical or misinterpreted beliefs, did you approach the preacher or Sunday School teacher afterwards and challenge them using Scripture and the Holy Spirit as your guide?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 02, 2022 09:27 AM (jOKqt)

476 Is there anybody here who JROD would prefer to nominate for the AoSHQ chaplain job?

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at June 02, 2022 09:28 AM (qpX6U)

477 In GA, Ratshitberger was re elected with 37k Democrats crossing over for him. And now the payoff is in place, he is testifying in the Trump witch hunt.

Can you feel the red wave baby?.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at June 02, 2022 09:28 AM (3vQN0)

478 ACK-shually the Queen is very popular in the UK

William and Kate as well

the rest of the family, less so
but a majority of Britons support the monarchy

any US president would be ecstatic to have the Queen's numbers

Posted by: DB at June 02, 2022 09:28 AM (geLO8)

479 "If your church was teaching antithetical or misinterpreted beliefs, did you approach the preacher or Sunday School teacher afterwards and challenge them using Scripture and the Holy Spirit as your guide?"

I did not. I went home and read scripture.

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at June 02, 2022 09:29 AM (qpX6U)

480 Jewells

I am sore and tired, but please do go to the doctor.
It's better to know what's going on.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 02, 2022 09:29 AM (mFE74)

481 How can you have any food if you don't celebrate buttsex?"

Leave them kids alone
Posted by: DB

🎼Hey! Teacher! Leave those kids alone!
All we are is another dick in the wall. 🎶
Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 02, 2022 09:24 AM (OzJjC)

How can you have any pudding if ya don't beat yer meat!

Posted by: Failed Floyd at June 02, 2022 09:30 AM (/6GbT)

482 How do democrats in the judiciary committee pass gun control bills? I do not understand what Massie is saying.

Posted by: Jen the original at June 02, 2022 09:30 AM (kPjD5)

483 Art is up. Nice one.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at June 02, 2022 09:31 AM (906pl)

484 Imagine Trump withholding funds if an NRA gun safety course wasn't taught in every grade.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Like Biden said, no law is absolute at June 02, 2022 09:31 AM (pLe6i)

485 I miss Fawn, but Shelley was nice.

Posted by: Frank from Amherst at June 02, 2022 09:31 AM (4I/2K)

486 Gun control then amnesty.

Red wave!!!!

Posted by: Joe Xiden at June 02, 2022 09:32 AM (3vQN0)

487 Unless these clowns can pull of a Soviet style starving of the farmers, ain't gonna happen.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 02, 2022 08:39 AM (1n+EO)
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The "O's" will put the "E's" on half rations for 2 weeks, run them all day and fill the mess halls with CNN reports of farmers hoarding food. They'll barely have to whisper "go" and the tanks will roll out to the farms with excited glee. To protect "our democracy."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 02, 2022 09:32 AM (Zf0+a)

488 This whole discussion of fathers prompts me to ask the horde a question. I sincerely love and miss my father, and he was an integral part of raising my children. As a grandfather he was 100% different than he was as a father however. As a single mother he would constantly caution me not to break my children's spirit. Finally I told him he had spent my entire life trying to break my spirit, and now he says that is wrong??? I was afraid of him my whole life! Possibly because he was an immune, and his upbringing had been really strict, but he was putty in my children's hands.

My question is, how can men not realize how much their children need a strict and loving guide in their lives? I was afraid of my dad, but I never doubted that he loved me

Posted by: Chillin the most at June 02, 2022 09:33 AM (UkN0J)

489 @476 gp's Dark Energy Acceleration-Sure someone that doesn't pile on another commenters baseless accusation of being abusive towards women. If you are going to make accusations like that towards a commenter that has been here a long time you should at least back it up with evidence. Not too much to ask especially of the "AoS chaplain".

By the way gp, when did you stop beating your wife?

Posted by: JROD at June 02, 2022 09:34 AM (0jZnq)

490 "So basically it's blackmail. Celebrate LGBTQ+ or your kids will starve." Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Maybe the blackmail was the WH response to those damn parents showing up at school board meetings and complaining about their daughters being forced to share a bathroom with a boy (and school board covering up a rape of one?).

The threat is to the school though, but still, it is a chilling effect on parents perhaps.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 02, 2022 09:34 AM (Cus5s)

491 Imagine a world where the gop would be fighting the gay kids for school money blackmail instead of fighting legal gun ownership.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at June 02, 2022 09:35 AM (3vQN0)

492 "By the way gp, when did you stop beating your wife?"

Didn't. I'm still at it.

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at June 02, 2022 09:35 AM (qpX6U)

493 Doing what? What kind of a career could such a woman have?
Posted by: SFGoth at June 02, 2022 09:01 AM (KAi1n)
___

My mom went into nursing, and I went back into the Army.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 02, 2022 09:38 AM (AHuy6)

494 @492 gp's Dark Energy Acceleration-Good for you! Protect your hands though.

Posted by: JROD at June 02, 2022 09:38 AM (0jZnq)

495 494 I'll punch her once for you.

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at June 02, 2022 09:39 AM (qpX6U)

496 There’s no doubt that Democrats are seeing a perplexing disconnect with the public: In one particularly daunting example, the onetime recipients of the now-expired expanded child tax credit have, according to polls, moved from supporting the Democrats to supporting Republicans—all despite the fact that no member of the GOP supported the expansion of the credit. But the carping over how the people are failing to truly see the distinction between the parties only underscores the self-pitying tone of the administration and its leader at the moment.

Posted by: SMOD at June 02, 2022 09:41 AM (RHGPo)

497 Greetings:

Sometimes, the arc of history is a sine curve.

Posted by: 11B40 at June 02, 2022 09:41 AM (uuklp)

498 If I'm the chaplain the pay leaves a lot to be desired 😉 although I appreciate the kindness of some people to suggest that. I claim to be what I am- a pastor of a dear little church. There are many fine folks here who quote scripture or sayings of various Saints or heroes of the faith, or post links to sermons or bits of hymns all of which is great in building up the Body Of Christ

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 02, 2022 09:42 AM (jyss5)

499 @465 Fenelon Spoke-No not all that have fallen short of my glory, just you and your baseless accusations thats it. Maybe you can quote the scripture that says it's ok to accuse someone of something and not backing it it up or allowing them to defend themselves. By all means chaplain Fenelon Spoke, speak your glory and square that circle.

Posted by: JROD at June 02, 2022 09:44 AM (0jZnq)

500 Posted by: Chillin the most at June 02, 2022 09:33 AM (UkN0J)

*

Discipline from dads is different than discipline from moms. And that's a good thing.

And grandkids-grandparents are different animals entirely.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is not enjoying the Amber Heard presidency at June 02, 2022 09:45 AM (HQPbJ)

501 First, Joe Biden redeemed Jimmy Carter by taking the banner for the "Worse President Evah"
Now, Joe Biden is attempting to bring Herbert Hoover back from banishment.

Posted by: SMOD at June 02, 2022 09:53 AM (RHGPo)

502 I make a motion for an order of “no confidence” in Joe Biden

Who will second it ?

Posted by: SMOD at June 02, 2022 09:55 AM (RHGPo)

503 'she delivers a clarion call for American men, and by extension America itself, to grow a pair.'

If American men decide to do that, the first thing they need to do is take on a government and culture that hates them and wants to drive them down.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 02, 2022 10:11 AM (JTztk)

504 "Would-be assassin John Hinckley Jr. will go free June 15."

types...deletes...types...deletes...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 02, 2022 10:22 AM (ynpvh)

505 502 I make a motion for an order of “no confidence” in Joe Biden

Who will second it ?
Posted by: SMOD at June 02, 2022 09:55 AM (RHGPo)

I'll send Paul to pick him and Kamala up.

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at June 02, 2022 10:23 AM (ynpvh)

506 I didn't realize the Methodists were so far gone. John Wesley would be horrified.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 02, 2022 10:35 AM (ynpvh)

507 Posted by: JROD at June 02, 2022 09:44 AM (0jZnq)

I suggest you deal with whoever accused you of that and don't bring it to me-who didn't.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 02, 2022 11:02 AM (l7p9i)

508 Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 02, 2022 10:35 AM (ynpvh)

John Wesley would be probably be on board with the Global Methodist Church which asserted its independence in May and has members from around the world and is more concerned with the Lordship of Jesus Christ, discipleship and making disciples than the latest thing in progressivism.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 02, 2022 11:04 AM (l7p9i)

509 https://globalmethodist.org/

Website for the Global Methodist Church.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 02, 2022 11:05 AM (l7p9i)

510 @507 Fenelon Spoke-Now you are going the gaslighting route? You piled on the accusation with commenter Christopher R Taylor, whom I squashed the issue with, but you doubled down on. I guess when you're not bearing false witness you are going to flat out deny what you did!?! You are worse than I thought Fenelon Spoke. You attack me upthread like I said something against you when I was speaking about the state of the church in general. I even mentioned that it is too bad it is like that. That is my opinion. Whats more is you with your behavior towards me and now denying you've accused me of anything pretty much validates my claim. The bad thing about the church is the people in it.

Now you are going to try the tactic of denial and accuse me of bringing shit to you when nothing upthread was aimed at you until you jumped in and started shit with me. You're completely nuts lady!

Posted by: JROD at June 02, 2022 11:23 AM (0jZnq)

511 Not reading it, JROD. I'm done here. Stop playing the victim.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 02, 2022 11:30 AM (l7p9i)

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Posted by: accenting at June 02, 2022 11:39 AM (y89c4)

513 @511 Fenelon Spoke-No you are reading it and what pisses you off is you know I'm right. You are a bald face liar hiding behind a convenient memory. You remember damn good and well your white knighting and piling on with the abusive attitude towards women accusation that you did with CRT. I'm not making this shit up to get in a perpetual pissing contest with you. You are the one that started shit with me with your comment. No, I'm not a victim but I will fire back at your bullshit childish attacks for comments that had nothing to do with you.

Posted by: JROD at June 02, 2022 12:19 PM (0jZnq)

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