The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 7/8/22

Good morning, kids. The weekend is here and, mangling Elton John's lyrics, I guess that's why they call it the news, as about the last thing I expected to report is that former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe was assassinated yesterday while making a campaign speech. From what I can glean, the assassin is in custody, though nothing about possible motives is known, or has yet to be released.

Out of the blue as this is, there are some connections to things we are dealing with at home as well as on the international scene. For starters, Japan is one of the most peaceful societies on the planet. Murder is extremely rare, mostly owing to the complete homogeneity of the population and culture, and — take note 2-A abolitionists — private ownership of firearms is virtually 100% illegal. The weapon used to kill Abe is supposedly some sort of homemade shotgun. But there are other things that might raise an eyebrow:

Abe was the first world leader to meet with President Trump after his 2016 election and the two had a warm relationship. Trump posted on Truth Social early Friday morning:
"Absolutely devastating news that former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan, a truly great man and leader, has been shot, and is in very serious condition. He was a true friend of mine and, much more importantly,
America. This is a tremendous blow to the wonderful people of Japan, who loved and admired him so much. We are all praying for Shinzo and his beautiful family!" . . .
. . . [So-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden has apparently not yet been roused from his slumber to comment on the situation. No doubt his staff is scrambling to figure out a way to blame Trump for the shooting. . .
. . . The former PM has been a critic of China in recent years and has angered the government there. In November he declared that the U.S. and Japan should defend Taiwan from Chinese aggression: “A Taiwan emergency is a Japanese emergency, and therefore an emergency for the Japan-U.S. alliance. People in Beijing, President Xi Jinping in particular, should never have a misunderstanding in recognising this,” he said. In an April op-ed, he blasted [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden for his ambiguous policy toward Taiwan, criticizing “America’s unwillingness to say explicitly that it will ‘defend Taiwan’ should it be attacked.”

Unequivocal friend of Trump and America, openly adversarial to Xi. Make of that what you will. Of course, it could have been just a lone psycho addicted to eyeball-licking and tentacle porn (Kurt Eichenwald evidently has an alibi). In any case, the real America has lost a friend and staunch ally at a time when we can ill afford to lose one.

このたびはご愁傷さまでございます — “On this sad occasion we grieve with you.”

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Closer to home, a lot closer in my case, this story that Ace covered yesterday is about as Orwellian a nightmare that you can find. Except in this case, it's all too real.

Under our law, a person may use deadly physical force upon another individual when, and to the extent that, “he/she reasonably believes it to be necessary to defend himself/herself [or someone else] from what he/she reasonably believes to be the use or imminent use of [unlawful] deadly physical force by such individual.”
Are the actions of Mr. Alba reasonable? Of course they are. Mr. Alba was attacked; he was not the aggressor. The attacker came behind the counter to attack him. The attacker was bigger, younger and stronger. A reasonable person would have believed he was in imminent threat from an attacker who kept coming. To those who disagree, I ask: what should have Mr. Alba have done? There is no time to call the police and no assistance was coming from anywhere. . .
. . . It is truly shocking that the DA has decided to prosecute Mr. Alba for defending himself in a clear-cut case of self-defense Fortunately, we will have a jury that will make things right.
In the current environment, bodegas and retail stores have become open targets for shoplifters and those seeking to hurt store employees. There is no fear of any consequences because the police have made these cases a low priority. And this is the result of a misguided policy. Mr. Alba and others like him have had to step into the breach and protect themselves. The right to defend ourselves is a long-established right that goes back to the earliest codification of criminal law.
When the police will not act, when the DA’s Office has taken the side of the attackers, what is one to do?

Given the fact that NYC is a microcosm of the Junta that controls our government, what the ordinary citizen— and in reality, serf — is supposed to do is lie back and take it. "To preserve our liberal world order," of course. Unaffordable gas, groceries and medicine? Letting street thugs rob you at knife- or gunpoint, or DC thugs rob you on April 15th? You better believe it. And you better sing their praises lest you find yourself in the Garland Archipelago, or in the case of Jose Alba, Rikers Island.

To effectively defend yourself against an attacker is to negate the argument that only the government and its sanctioned agents in law enforcement can do that, or are qualified to do that. Guns are far too dangerous to allow ordinary citizens to own one, or so goes the rationale. Hello, Uvalde? Marjorie Stoneman-Douglass? Bueller? "Fuck you, Sefton. The guy didn't even have a gun!" BINGO! As I said, it's not that you shouldn't be allowed to defend yourself with a gun. You should not be allowed to defend yourself, period.

This junta and its Nazi collaborator Soros puppets masquerading as DAs, and in this case the putrid, Marxist scumbag racialist Alvin Bragg, are all in on "social justice." Translation: retribution for slavery and Jim Crow that have not been a real thing for 60-160 years and the imaginary sin of existing while white. White being normal American of any color. NB, Jose Alba is Indian (dot, not feathers).

There has been an update to this story as I am writing:

The Manhattan bodega worker charged with murder after fighting off a violent ex-con in his store over the weekend was finally home Thursday night after he was released on bail in the highly publicized case.
Jose Alba, 61, arrived at his Hamilton Heights apartment around 8:30 p.m. wearing an electronic monitor hours after a Manhattan judge agreed to lower his sky-high bail from $250,000 to $50,000. . .
. . .Before his release, Alba had been locked up at Rikers Island on a murder rap for his fatal encounter with Austin Simon, 35, on Friday night inside the Hamilton Heights bodega where he works.
Relatives and Alba’s boss posted $5,000 needed to spring him on a bail bond.
As part of his release agreement, Alba is also barred from leaving New York City and he had to surrender his passport, ensuring he will not be going to the Dominican Republic on a previously planned trip.

What a fucking travesty. But what do you expect when we have a criminal justice system that lets rioters run wild in the streets for weeks at a time, B-urning L-ooting M-urdering and laying waste to scores of American cities and hailed as mostly peaceful legitimate protestors while actual peaceful protesters are locked up for a year-and-a-half on an entrapment sting and slimed as traitors and insurrectionists. On top of that, those that stole a national election and committed actual treason sit in judgement in kangaroo courts over the real victims, Trump and his allies, while rigged courts and juries in DC let the Klinesmiths, McCabes, Strzoks, Sussmans off scot free with apologies, book deals and CNN gigs as parting gifts.

To continue with the theme of positivity from yesterday, this Chesa Boudin psycho was recalled from San Francisco, a city whose citizenry in the main are not known for being conservative and his replacement was just named, Brooke Jenkins, who quit Boudin’s office in 2021 to volunteer for the recall. Again this is San Francisco, after all, so we'll see how she does, although the problem there is systemic and structural. Laws will have to be changed and that's on London Breed, the city council and ultimately the brilliantine pretty boy governor.

Ditto for this George Gascon freak a few hundred miles to the south in LA, where he too will now face a recall. Again, it's California. And yet Californians seemingly have had enough of what they themselves voted for. But, they did vote for it which begs the question, do they now have the self-awareness to understand that and to actually change their mindset? That is the question and it is applicable to our society as a whole as we hurtle headlong into an abyss with a drooling, gibbering, demented vegetable being manipulated out of Kalorama.

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Friends, this will be my last column for a while, since one week from today I'll be leaving New York. Until then, I'll be knee deep in bubble wrap, boxes and tape, but I'll be back on Tuesday the 19th if all goes to plan.

Have a great weekend.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was fatally shot while delivering a campaign speech in the western city of Nara on Friday, a government official and local media reported."
SHINZO ABE, JAPAN'S LONGEST-SERVING PM, ASSASSINATED

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"As progressives migrate to freer climes, they’re bringing their horrible electoral schemes with them."
It’s Time to Lock Down Red State Elections
"The Antifa summer camp for kids is back this summer for the first time since their fellow travelers in communist China unleashed the [Chinese] COVID-19 virus on the world. Once again, Portland Leftists will support another new crop of screamers, taggers, rioters, looters, and IWW dead-enders at the Antifa training camp for kids called the Budding Roses Summer Camp." (hello muddah, hello faddah, here I am at, Camp Intifada . . . - jjs)
Hey, Hey! Ho, Ho! Here's a Big Reason Why Portland's Antifa Seems to Have a Never-Ending Supply of Rioters

CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

"Demonstrators on Wednesday wanted a face-to-face with Carolyn Bryant Donham, now in her 80’s and living in North Carolina, according to WRAL. Till’s family and supporters are making a renewed push for her arrest after the 70-year-old warrant against her was found in the basement of a Mississippi courthouse last week."
Emmett Till Thugs-cum-Protesters Invade Senior Living Site Hunting Woman Tied to Infamous Case

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“That was a First Amendment activity by a majority of those people, myself included,” Kelley said during the debate. “We were there protesting the government because we don’t like the results of the 2020 election, the process of how it happened. And we have a First Amendment right. And that’s what 99% of the people were there for that day.”
Michigan GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Appears In Federal Court, Pleads Not Guilty To January 6 Charges
"Basking in progressive praise - while demonizing Trump supporters as a 'cult.'"
NeverTrump Republicans Just Can’t Let Go of Trump
DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS
“You didn’t answer his important question. Everyone in the nation wants to know the answer to the question he asked you. Who is advising the president on shockingly naive price theory over a gallon of gas?”
Bloomberg Host Calls Biden "Shockingly Naive" to WH Adviser’s Face
"The case, led by 10 environmental groups, includes all the trademarks of a ‘sue and settle’ suit."
Biden’s Swamp Brings Back "Sue and Settle" to Hide Behind Courts as to Stomps Out Fossil Fuels
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"Environmental activists decry the plan as 'green-washing' fossil fuel and nuclear energy."
European Union Votes to Classify Natural Gas and Nuclear as "Green Energy"
"Farmers rebellion erupts in the Netherlands."
Revolt Against the "Liberal World Order"
"Obama’s Clean Power Plan was an unprecedented move to make the EPA into the nation’s industrial policy czar. SCOTUS upended that plan."
How The Supreme Court Upended EPA’s Power Grab and Curbed the Administrative State
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"The Fed’s past complacency undermines its present effort to fight inflation."
Self-Inflicted Wounds
"In much the same way that the 2008 bankruptcy of one of our banks spelled trouble for the rest of the world economy, so too could a debt crisis in Europe or in the emerging-market economies damage our already-troubled economy."
How a Looming Economic Crash Abroad Could Smack US Shores
ABORTION
"[Mike DeWine]'s the executive of the state. He has the power to launch an investigation with every resource aimed at finding out the truth here. Do it. Make them prove that this actually happened and wasn’t a cooked-up political hit job by an abortionist activist who is losing her abortion grift."
This Is How We Lose: Ohio Gov on Defense Over Dubious Tale of 10-Year-Old Rape Victim Who Fled to Indiana for Abortion
"There are reasons to fear that the public will kept in the dark forever."
Will We Ever Know the Identity of the Supreme Court Leaker?
"The pro-life movement must become a pro-life culture."
Living Dobbs
"This is a case that represents a larger clash about approaches to the Constitution…with the majority taking a more originalist-oriented, historically-focused approach.”
Former Alito Clerk: Dobbs is "Most Important Supreme Court Decision Since Brown v. Board of Education"
"Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization has done more to preserve the separation of powers, the rule of law, federalism, and the Constitution itself, than any decision in centuries."
The Best Supreme Court Ruling in Almost
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"Not only is Joe Biden allowing illegal aliens to swarm into Texas…. He’s transporting minor illegal aliens — children — to states outside of Texas to kill their babies and has been for some time—nine months, actually, if you can appreciate a ghoulish kind of irony…"
Biden Junta Flies Illegal Alien Minors Out of Texas for Abortions
They should be flown, driven or, if necessary, trebucheted down to Patagonia, if possible.
Abbott Orders Texas Authorities To Arrest Illegal Migrants, Return Them To Border
"Will the border states assert their constitutional right to protect their lawful residents?"
Stop The Border Invasion Now
Terry Jeffrey: "Human trafficking, minors crossing illegally in record numbers, and tragic deaths."
An Unsecured Border Is a Mortal and Moral Hazard
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"It is truly shocking that the DA has decided to prosecute Mr. Alba for defending himself in a clear-cut case of self-defense Fortunately, we will have a jury that will make things right." (shocking, but not surprising given the thug, commie racialist who Alvin Bragg is - jjs)
By Law, the Actions of Accused NYC Bodega Worker Jose Alba Are Justified
"Gascón blames Republicans."
Recall Gascón Submits Over 700,000 Signatures to LA County Registrar
"[Brooke] Jenkins, who quit Boudin’s office in 2021 to volunteer for the recall, is both Black and Latina. She will be San Francisco’s first Latina district attorney. Vice President Kamala Harris was the city’s first Black DA." (so, they'll still be "stylish," as Inspector Harry Callahan once said - jjs)
Replacement Named for Ousted San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin
"If politicians are serious that they’re sick of ‘living with this carnage,’ the Highland Park shooter should be executed immediately." (CBD, you magnificent bastard, she read your rant! - jjs)
You Know What Would Deter More Shootings Than Red Flag Laws? Executing Mass Killers Quickly
". . . And if we don't get a handle on this one, it's all over." (his Japan analogy is wrong, but his premise is right - jjs)
On This Important Metric, America Is a Failure
"The Biden [junta] denied in February that it was giving grants to fund distribution of crack pipes, following a Washington Free Beacon report that HHS had closed applications for funding to do so."
Clinic Funded By Biden Junta Distributes Crack Pipes to Addicts Outside a "School"
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"Illegal invaders planned a July 4 terror attack with assault weapons. Why isn't this big news?"
The Biggest Story the Media Don't Want to Tell You About
“What is most striking is that Ms. Flores won by shunning moderates, embracing the far right and wearing her support for Donald J. Trump on her sleeve.”
NY Times: Be Afraid of "Far-Right Latinas" Like Republican Mayra Flores
"The Washington Post reported that Musk’s team has stopped engaging in discussions with investors about the funding behind the purchase because they believe that the spam figures provided by the company are incomplete."
Musk To Take ‘Potentially Drastic Action’ As Twitter Buyout ‘In Serious Jeopardy’; Twitter Makes Major Cuts
"In other words, the Rolling Stone article’s headline perfectly captured the deceptive narrative presented by the authors — Peggy’s praying with justices led to Dobbs and the downfall of Roe. Distortion, not reality."
Supreme Court Prayer Calumny Is Classic Illustration of Elite Media Manipulation of Facts
“'One of the awesome opportunities about being a queer person is that we may not be as entrenched in some of the gender narratives and roles that can be kind of prescriptive around sexuality,” Davis said. “So I think it can be a really amazing opportunity for us to explore our sexuality outside of those norms and patterns.' — And, you know, groom kids."
NPR Goes Full Groomer, Promotes "Queer" Sex Education
“Is it too much to ask the gun seller to do a cursory check?”
CNN Suggests Gun Shops Should Check Buyers’ Social Media Pages Before Agreeing Sales
"Western opinion leaders continue to offer preposterous and dangerous 'solutions' to world problems."
Summer Fun with the New York Times
"Team Choice's rhetorical tactics after Dobbs v. Jackson.
Abortion on Facebook
AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
"In October 2021, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) mandated that all eligible students be vaccinated for [Chinese] COVID-19 by Jan. 10, 2022, or be required to go back to virtual learning. The mandate was promptly challenged and has now been struck down by a Los Angeles County judge who ruled on July 5 that the district lacks the authority to impose the mandate."
Another Chinese COVID Vax Mandate Bites the Dust
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"A look at the dire warnings of Fox broadcaster Pete Hegseth, for you and your children."
In the Kill Zone
“It’s important that if we have councils, that their views be independent and not be rubber-stamped and influenced inappropriately by inventive actors. We don’t think that the council is free from inappropriate influence from the Biden [junta].”
Education Groups Sue Biden Junta for Staffing Parent Council With Left-Wing Activists
"What about employees who want to be addressed as a mother or a father? They don’t count?"
National Education Association Wants to Replace "Mother" With "Birthing Parent" in Contracts
"Teachers’ self-centered approach privileges their preferred social narratives and identities over students’ needs. Teachers who instruct based on their own identities and preferences safeguard this practice by inserting ‘my truths’ and ‘lived experiences’ in the curriculum, which make publicly criticizing those ideas cruder and less socially acceptable."
On America’s Selfish Teacher Problem
"Maine's Biden-funded lesson described transgender person as 'someone who the doctors made a mistake about when they're born.'"
This Blue State Cites George Floyd’s Death To Justify Trans Lesson for Kindergartners
THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH
"The new data will send shivers up the spines of election fraudsters."
52% Say Cheating Impacted 2020 Election, While 50% Say It Will Blight U.S. Mid Terms
Look at that headline and let the in-your-face insanity sink in.
DOJ Suing Arizona Over Proof-of-Citizenship Requirements for Voters
Mollie Hemingway: "The two recommend that state officials take action to prevent Biden’s plot. Since the National Voting Rights Act provides states the authority to designate voter registration agencies beyond those already required by federal law, the federal government cannot designate additional agencies without a change to federal law enacted by Congress."
Good Government Groups Ask State Officials to Stop Biden’s Federal Takeover of Elections
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
Julie Kelly: "After the much-hyped John Durham probe ends with a whimper and House Democrats ratchet up their public pursuit of Trump associates, the Republican base wants action, not more sternly worded letters."
Republican Voters Want "Blood"—Will Their Leaders Deliver?
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
Robert Spencer: "Apparently, their views are compatible."
Why Do So Many Top Democrats Have No Problem Associating With a Virulent Anti-Semite?
"Morningstar Inc., a financial research firm that advises investors, is facing accusations that its recently acquired research firm, Sustainalytics, downgrades companies that help Israel combat terrorism and bolsters the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS), which wages economic warfare on the Jewish state. A third-party analysis published by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) alleges that Sustainalytics employs biased methods to investigate and downgrade firms doing business with Israel and its security sector."
This Financial Giant Blacklists Companies That Supply Arms to Israel
"Asks judge to prevent settlement agreed to in separate case, in which Unilever agreed to sell Ben & Jerry’s business in Israel to an Israeli manufacturer-distributor, enabling sale of Ben & Jerry’s brand ice cream in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria (the West Bank)."
Ben & Jerry’s Sues Corporate Parent Unilever To Thwart Sale Of Branded Ice Cream In Jewish Quarter of Old City, Judea and Samaria
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
"It pays to be close to the [so-called quote-unquote "president"] — or at least one of his closest advisers." Easy Access: Top Biden Adviser Hosted Lobbyist Brother’s Clients at White House
"Not since the Kennedys has the mainstream media ignored such familial dysfunction, lack of sexual boundaries, hardcore substance abuse issues, the hiring of sex workers, the leveraging of presidential access for money and trails of corruption, greed and thirst for power that supersede all." (of course Maureen Callahan could not resist taking a shot at Trump in this piece, but so be it - jjs)
Bidens Are as Dysfunctional as the Kennedys — And Protected by the Press
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"Democrat Iowa house district candidate Sonya Heitshusen has been charged with the reckless use of a firearm after she allegedly shot a gun through a sliding glass door in her home June 27."
REPORT: Democrat Candidate Charged With Reckless Use of a Firearm
"The [so-called quote-unquote "president's"] son was seen shaking hands and hugging multiple ceremony attendees as they entered the White House’s East Room and took their seats."
Hunter Biden Gets Front Row Seat at White House Medal of Freedom Ceremony
POLITICS
"The poll found that Biden is underwater with adult independents as 58 percent are unsatisfied with his performance with an even 40 percent strongly disapproving. Just 28 percent of independents said they are happy with his job as president, and another 15 percent remained unsure."
Poll: Only 1 in 5 Americans Wants Joe Biden to Run for President in 2024
"During the 2016 campaign, the 'T-Bird' (as the former president calls it) served as a potent campaign icon, a powerful backdrop at rallies, and a symbol of candidate Trump’s power, success, and prestige. Will the custom-fitted jet soon be returning to the campaign trail to show off its gleaming new paint job?"
Is He Running? Trump Plane Gets a Fresh Coat of Paint
"Now, Bezos is a devoted Leftist, and there is very little chance that he supports anyone other than the Democrat nominee in the next presidential contest. But his frustration with Biden's incompetence in these tweets is palpable."
Biden's Billionaire Donors Having Buyers' Remorse
"Many of the Somalis in the Twin Cities have conservative values. They came to America to pursue a better life and to live in a safer place. Many of them have entrepreneurial spirits and have started their own businesses. Ilhan Omar is a wrecking ball to their aspirations."
The Boo Heard Around the World: Ilhan Bro-Fo Omar/Nur/Burqawitz/Ikeeelyou is Falling Out of Favor With the Minnesota Somali Community
"Stop pissing me off." (probably thinks they haven't completely decimated the country fast enough - jjs)
A Liberal TikToker’s Viral, Epic Rant Against Tone-Deaf Dems and Why They'll Lose in November
"It is tough to find younger candidates who embody the right philosophy, who have the ability to win a hard campaign, and who will excel for their constituents and country when they reach office."
Our Young Guns
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"Boris alone could have survived years alone in Downing Street. In the end, it was his wife who the public really needed out."
Boris Johnson Resigns: He Couldn’t "Carrie On" Any Longer. So What Next?
"Boris Johnson steps down."
Another Kind of Brexit
"While many Conservative voters are angered at the way Johnson has been ousted by a few dozen politicians after winning the first substantial parliamentary majority for his party since the 1980s only in late 2019, others are not particularly sorry to see the man who claimed he would govern as a libertarian and 'take back control' of Britain’s borders go after years of draconian lockdowns, leftist greenery, and record-breaking immigration — both legal and illegal."
Send in the Clowns: Britain Faces Gallery of Fools, Flyweights, and Fake Conservatives as Next Prime Minister
"Tehran and Moscow also recently inked an economic deal to carry some 10 million tons of goods from Russia into Iran through a land corridor."
Iran and Russia Expand ‘Sanctions Busting’ Network
"Iran's tyrants turn to internal purges."
Fear and Loathing in an Islamic Republic
"Chinese secret police are also targeting Chinese nationals living abroad whom they consider to be enemies of the state, going so far as to harrass and intimidate certain individuals."
The FBI and MI5 Issue Dire Warning: The Chi-Coms Are the World's Biggest Threat, and They Are Everywhere
"The [so-called quote-unquote "president"] called Brittney Griner’s family but not Paul Whelan’s family."
Family of Former Marine Imprisoned in Russia Says Biden Only Cares About Jailed Celebrity Basketball Player
BIDEN AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER
"The measure comes after Afghanistan has been back under the control of the Taliban for nearly 11 months since the Biden [junta] completed its withdrawal last August. The American-backed regime collapsed within two weeks as the Taliban took control of the Afghan capital of Kabul after nearly two decades of military and economic support. Thousands of Americans and billions of dollars worth of military equipment were left."
Biden Moves to Rescind Afghanistan’s Status as a Major Non-NATO Ally
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
The training slide offers a “vignette” instructing soldiers on what to do if they encounter a female soldier who identifies as male according to the Department of Defense’s personnel tracking system known as Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS), but has not surgically transitioned and still has “female genitalia.”
Army Training Says Soldiers Must Shower with Transgender Persons of Opposite Sex
"Sixty-two thousand Army National Guard and Reserve soldiers are being deprived of pay and benefits, due to noncompliance with the Biden [junta's] vaccine mandate."
Tens of Thousands of Soldiers Barred From Service Due to Biden Vaccine Mandate
"Craig Miller, a DHS deportation officer who has worked out of Minneapolis, Minnesota, for the last 15 years, and Derrick Taylor, a former DHS law enforcement agent and private investigator in Irvine, California, were indicted on Thursday by a federal grand jury, alongside three other men." Two Homeland Security Workers Charged In Alleged Chinese Spying Scheme
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
"Though the 'fact-checking' media attempted to distance a flailing Fauci — whose credibility had been completely shattered by his abysmal Covid response — from the unethical experiments on dogs, the reality is that as leader of the NIAID, Fauci is ultimately responsible for funding decisions."
Fauci Just Canceled $1.8 Million In Grisly Beagle Experiments After Fake Fact-Checkers Lied To Save His Behind
"A new book offers good advice for impoverished municipalities—if you read past the anti-capitalist bromides."
How to Save a City
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"Meanwhile, illegal opioids continue to be a bane for our nation."
FDA Temporarily Halts Ban on Juul E-Cigarettes
"The Supreme Court removes a lot of incompatible 'plug-ins' to the law."
SCOTUS 2022: What If They Went All the Way?
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"The asteroid does not fit NASA’s criteria for 'potentially hazardous asteroid,' and the object is small enough that it would almost certainly burn up in the atmosphere if it entered Earth’s gravity well"
Unexpected Asteroid Passing Really Close By Earth
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Daniel Greenfield: "Wokeness is the emotional pandemic of people without faith or country."
Identity Politics for People Without Identities
Christian Toto: "Stars question trans orthodoxy at their own peril, but what happens next?"
Macy Gray, Bette Midler Battle to Survive Latest Woke Wave
"It will take far more than one Supreme Court decision to undo nearly a century of moral decay."
Republicans Must Become a Pro-Family Party After Roe
"When you're willing to believe anything, you lose the ability to question everything."
Those Evil White Men
"Schulz didn’t say who the streamer was, though some of his previous specials were released by Netflix. He said the jokes on the chopping block included one about an abortion clinic he once lived near in New York."
Watch: Comedian Andrew Schulz Says Streamer Wanted to Censor His Special over Backlash Fear and These Searing Abortion Jokes
HITHER & YON
David Harsanyi: "I know, I’m very late to this, but I need to rant . . ."
No Time To Die is Garbage
"Caan, who died Thursday at age 82, always screamed New York. Having grown up here, he lived and breathed NYC throughout his life, and the five boroughs fed his legendary performances like the Hudson feeds the Atlantic."
James Caan Was the Ultimate New Yorker

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Posted by: J.J. Sefton at 07:28 AM

Comments

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1 Morning horde. Get up and start some trouble.

Posted by: IanDeal at July 08, 2022 07:29 AM (MGjjz)

2 not first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 08, 2022 07:30 AM (bVYXr)

3 morning horde

RIP Abe

coffee is ready. now off to the content.

Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at July 08, 2022 07:30 AM (p03vF)

4 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 08, 2022 07:32 AM (uvymP)

5 Wow I worked yesterday. I am tired!

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 08, 2022 07:32 AM (ex2Cx)

6 Top ten!

Posted by: Squid at July 08, 2022 07:32 AM (qdTex)

7 Doesn't the hyde amendment prohibit the federal government from spending any money on abortions or abortion related care and travel?

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 08, 2022 07:32 AM (bVYXr)

8 I've worked with the Japanese on and off for about two decades. One thing they do not possess is individual initiative. Everything is done by group consensus. Its maddening.

It is highly unlikely that this assassin acted alone.

Posted by: Once More With Feeling at July 08, 2022 07:33 AM (vwb+V)

9 I definitely did NOT oversleep this morning. I've been up since 6:00.

J.J. so glad you are finally leaving that hellhole.

Posted by: jewells45 at July 08, 2022 07:33 AM (nxdel)

10 Thank you, J.J.!!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 08, 2022 07:34 AM (uLr+K)

11 [So-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden has apparently not yet been roused from his slumber to comment on the situation. No doubt his staff is scrambling to figure out a way to blame Trump for the shooting. . .

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"I new Abe Lincoln, HE was was no Abe Lincoln." -- F. Joe "Beijing" Biden

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun & games & Starveflation aims at July 08, 2022 07:36 AM (QbCrG)

12 JJ, I'm sure you're sad to be leaving New York because of the happy memories you had growing up there, but also happy to be leaving the ruins of that once-great city behind.

Good luck with your move, and I hope it decreases your stress level by leaps and bounds!

Posted by: bluebell at July 08, 2022 07:36 AM (aeePL)

13 Mornin', all. Things do seem to be gettin' real worldwide. I hope all the Morons have a good plan to get somewhere safe in a SHTF scenario.

Happy Friday, and thanks for the newz, JJ!

Posted by: Catherine at July 08, 2022 07:36 AM (ZSsrh)

14 We will miss you JJ! Best oof luck, Wisconsin!

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 08, 2022 07:37 AM (aACSV)

15 Thank you J.J. for all you do here, hoping your move is seamless as possible.

Posted by: WeBoned! at July 08, 2022 07:38 AM (8k7U7)

16 So JJ you are pulling a Snake Pliskin and escaping NYC? I may have missed it but have you mentioned the greener pastures that you'll be residing in?

Posted by: Defenestratus at July 08, 2022 07:38 AM (9V81o)

17 Is it time yet?

Posted by: Snake Plissken at July 08, 2022 07:38 AM (PiwSw)

18 Illegal invaders planned a July 4 terror attack with assault weapons. Why isn't this big news?

Oh you don't have to read too far into the story to figure out why.

Posted by: jewells45 at July 08, 2022 07:39 AM (nxdel)

19 Thank God you're leaving that hellhole, JJ. Good on you. As for Holland and Japan, if this is what's happening with manageable oil prices, you can expect regime change or violent crackdowns in multiple NATO countries this winter. Bank on it.

Posted by: trev006 at July 08, 2022 07:39 AM (8AI3C)

20 I can only imagine what it must be like to move from the only place you've called home all your life. Especially at the ripe old age of 29.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 08, 2022 07:39 AM (BFigT)

21 Friends, this will be my last column for a while, since one week from today I'll be leaving New York. Until then, I'll be knee deep in bubble wrap, boxes and tape, but I'll be back on Tuesday the 19th if all goes to plan.

Safe travels, JJ, and may the Lord be with you.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 08, 2022 07:39 AM (2JVJo)

22 Unequivocal friend of Trump and America, openly adversarial to Xi. Make of that what you will.

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I fully expected multiple attempts on Trump's life while he was POTUS and since. For all we know, there were ... but it was kept on the DL (Down Low) so as to not encourage other Bernie supporters like James Hodgkinson and the rest to fulfill their Utopian destiny.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun & games & Starveflation aims at July 08, 2022 07:40 AM (QbCrG)

23 Good morning all!

I have my yearly physical this morning at 9:30. Yuck. No coffee until afterward. I am not okay with this!

Posted by: jmel at July 08, 2022 07:40 AM (bVhJi)

24 Chyna. No doubt.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 08, 2022 07:40 AM (mE7cY)

25 Ha! Pulling a Snake Pliskin, excellent. Good nickname too. Good luck with the move.

Posted by: ScottyV at July 08, 2022 07:40 AM (Gg9of)

26 CONTEXT
"Liberal World Order" is a conspiracy theory which hypothesizes a secretly emerging totalitarian world government. Click our Wikipedia link for irrefutable proof that we are right, and you are wrong.

Posted by: Obese Purple-Haired Googlecensor at July 08, 2022 07:41 AM (EcQad)

27 25 Ha! Pulling a Snake Pliskin, excellent. Good nickname too. Good luck with the move.
Posted by: ScottyV at July 08, 2022 07:40 AM (Gg9of)

Pulling a snake Plisken sounds like a euphemism for a masturbating mohel.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 08, 2022 07:41 AM (s2VJv)

28 Glad you're getting out of NY, JJ!

Safe travels brother

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 08, 2022 07:41 AM (mE7cY)

29 Good morning horde

Criminals are the Leftists best friends

Posted by: Skip's phone at July 08, 2022 07:41 AM (4o9mN)

30 Even the Olympic Committee has responded to the Abe murder. You would think the Junta's crack team would too.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 08, 2022 07:42 AM (aACSV)

31 Former Jap PM Gunned Down In Street
Ventilated He Was And Died
Godzilla Awakes From Slumber And Slowly Weeps...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 08, 2022 07:42 AM (DDw5Y)

32 Driving past Japanese Embassy this a.m., there is a camera crew outside. Curious. Knew something was up, but Japan is usually not one of the "active" embassies (other than on Dec. 8 1941). Then the radio says Shinzo Abe was assassinated. Since he's out of power, it's even more puzzling.

Posted by: Actually Inside the Beltway at July 08, 2022 07:42 AM (fMhOl)

33 Good thoughts to you for the move, JJ

Posted by: Grog at July 08, 2022 07:42 AM (esAC9)

34 In the current environment, bodegas and retail stores have become open targets for shoplifters and those seeking to hurt store employees. There is no fear of any consequences because the police have made these cases a low priority. And this is the result of a misguided policy. Mr. Alba and others like him have had to step into the breach and protect themselves. The right to defend ourselves is a long-established right that goes back to the earliest codification of criminal law.

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Those who make criminal justice impossible will make vigilante justice inevitable.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun & games & Starveflation aims at July 08, 2022 07:43 AM (QbCrG)

35 "Demonstrators on Wednesday wanted a face-to-face with Carolyn Bryant Donham, now in her 80’s and living in North Carolina, according to WRAL. Till’s family and supporters are making a renewed push for her arrest after the 70-year-old warrant against her was found in the basement of a Mississippi courthouse last week."

I'll simply note this story and say this woman is a dead lady walking. Whether BLM frightens her to death or kills her outright, she is dead.

My other thoughts would have me perma-banned.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 08, 2022 07:43 AM (2JVJo)

36 So all we get next week is content free EMT's? Or maybe not even that?

Posted by: lowandslow at July 08, 2022 07:43 AM (qH6FZ)

37 Pulling a snake Plisken sounds like a euphemism for a masturbating mohel.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 08, 2022 07:41 AM (s2VJv)

I'm sure I don't know what you're talking about.

Posted by: Jeffrey Toobin at July 08, 2022 07:43 AM (PiwSw)

38 Doesn't Japan have very strict gun laws?

More coffee.

Posted by: dantesed at July 08, 2022 07:44 AM (88xKn)

39 Unequivocal friend of Trump and America, openly adversarial to Xi. Make of that what you will.
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CCP must be feeling pretty strong right now, given how well world events are working in their favor, and Abe was their outspoken opponent. Wouldn't shock me if they were behind this.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 08, 2022 07:44 AM (aACSV)

40 JJ, when things settle down, give us a little diary of your drive from NYC to Wisconsin. Or drop in on the open threads and ask for a little local info as to restaurants and the like. You have spies everywhere.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 08, 2022 07:44 AM (lz5hY)

41 But did Californians vote for this?

What with jungle primaries and vote harvesting, there hasn't been an honest election there in three decades.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at July 08, 2022 07:45 AM (lKAqb)

42 Escape From New York!
Written by JJ Sefton
Starring JJ Sefton

Posted by: Eromero at July 08, 2022 07:45 AM (gktX6)

43 JJ, you will be missed while moving.

Godspeed and keep your eye on the sparrow.

Posted by: Kurtz at July 08, 2022 07:45 AM (st/4a)

44 Daily Mail is saying the shooter has copped to it (duh) and that he says he was 'frustrated' with Abe.

Not sure what that means. 41 year old guy, former member of the Japanese Navy

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 08, 2022 07:48 AM (mE7cY)

45 Thank you, J.J. I think you covered it all.

I will be SO relieved when you're out of there.

Posted by: creeper at July 08, 2022 07:48 AM (cTCuP)

46 It's wasn't a manufactured gun. Homemade shotgun.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 08, 2022 07:49 AM (mE7cY)

47 45 Thank you, J.J. I think you covered it all.

I will be SO relieved when you're out of there.
Posted by: creeper at July 08, 2022 07:48 AM (cTCuP

+1

Now to get everyone else out.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 08, 2022 07:49 AM (mE7cY)

48 She will be San Francisco’s first Latina district attorney.

Maybe they should shoot for first competent DA.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 08, 2022 07:50 AM (uvymP)

49 holy shitballs, JJ did you see the report from Disclose.tv about an Israeli cohort study on covid vaccines? 196,992 unvaxxed adults had "NO increase in incidence of myocarditis or pericarditis after covid infection".

seems like a ANOTHER smoking gun against the vaxx. will be buried by the fnm...

Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at July 08, 2022 07:50 AM (p03vF)

50 Good morning morons and happy birthday JJ

I'll be sure to let you know which university winds up providing Cheesehead his next cushy no-show job.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 08, 2022 07:50 AM (EZebt)

51 Welcome to the land of Leinenkugels!!!

Posted by: Johnsonville Brats at July 08, 2022 07:51 AM (ly8Qv)

52 "Not sure what that means. 41 year old guy, former member of the Japanese Navy"

I'm wondering if the "shotgun" was using flare gun rounds or some other improvised ammo. From the pics at the DM it looks like there may be wires at the breech so maybe it was electrically activated?

Posted by: fd at July 08, 2022 07:51 AM (sn5EN)

53 *puts on Tinfoil Hat of Shame*

Abe shot and killed right as news breaks that Joe sold SPR oil to China firm that Hunter has a stake in.

*takes off Tinfoil Hat of Shame*

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 08, 2022 07:51 AM (mE7cY)

54 David Harsanyi finally got around to watching "No Time To Die".

Amazingly, since I have watched all the Bond films many times, I have not yet seen that movie. After reading his review, maybe I'll skip it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 08, 2022 07:51 AM (FZnf6)

55 7 Doesn't the hyde amendment prohibit the federal government from spending any money on abortions or abortion related care and travel?
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Like the Biden junta gives a shit what the law says.

They're using our money to fly illegal alien pregnant women and girls out of Texas to states where abortions (also paid for by U.S. taxpayers) are easier to obtain. What law authorizes that bullshit? No law, but the Biden junta don't need no stinkin' laws!

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at July 08, 2022 07:52 AM (MvHI3)

56 I'll simply note this story and say this woman is a dead lady walking. Whether BLM frightens her to death or kills her outright, she is dead.

There's video of a mob going into a nursing home demanding they give her up. She wasn't there but oh yeah they are going to kill her if they find her.

Posted by: jewells45 at July 08, 2022 07:52 AM (nxdel)

57 And yet Californians seemingly have had enough of what they themselves voted for. But, they did vote for it which begs the question, do they now have the self-awareness to understand that and to actually change their mindset?

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2 million illegals a year, buys a lot of beer
Things are going great, and they're only getting better
I'm doing all right, prolly gettin' AIDS
The future's so bright, I'm at Ace of Spades.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun & games & Starveflation aims at July 08, 2022 07:53 AM (QbCrG)

58 The logistics of moving out of NYC must be a nightmare.

After leaving California back in 2013 I had a two year argument with the DMV over a truck that was no longer titled or registered in the state. Seems they thought I owned them some more money.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 08, 2022 07:53 AM (BFigT)

59 Abe was inconvenient, a loose end for TPTB, and a possible future threat. Maybe. I suspect that GovernMedia will spinnit as something quite different, to further their narrative.

Posted by: kraken at July 08, 2022 07:53 AM (Vr12I)

60 JJ may you have a soft landing in WI.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 08, 2022 07:54 AM (EZebt)

61 Trump's use of the word "beautiful" is a glimpse into his nature, I think, i.e., to a guileless and loving side. It reveals a sincerity, and an affection for and insight into what constitutes "beauty" in a civic and patriotic sense. What politician or leader in recent times or ever has used the word in any context?

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 08, 2022 07:54 AM (H8QX8)

62 Thank you, JJ.
Blessings on your move and may we see you on the flip side!

Constant prayer for return to sanity. I've got a horrible bad outlook on the current trajectory.

Posted by: The Biden Abomination What Causes Desolation at July 08, 2022 07:54 AM (jV+aN)

63 If Sefton leaves NYC, who is going to send me Knish?

Posted by: garrett at July 08, 2022 07:54 AM (CB/or)

64 What politician or leader in recent times or ever has used the word in any context?
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 08, 2022 07:54 AM (H8QX

Oh, I think it all the time when I look in the mirror!

Posted by: Barack Obama at July 08, 2022 07:55 AM (PiwSw)

65 safe travels also, JJ and congrats on getting out to safety before the roads are closed and the wall goes up. would hate to have to send Snake in to get you out...

Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at July 08, 2022 07:55 AM (p03vF)

66 63 If Sefton leaves NYC, who is going to send me Knish?
Posted by: garrett at July 08, 2022 07:54 AM (CB/or)

Talk to the Dildo I guess.

Posted by: kraken at July 08, 2022 07:55 AM (Vr12I)

67 We share a birthday JJ, along with a similar worldview.

Other than that, got nothing

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 08, 2022 07:56 AM (sJHOI)

68 Well, that cinches it. I never met a single Japanese national that was self-motivated enough both to improvise a firearm and plan a fatal attack by themselves. This guy most definitely did not act alone. No way.

Posted by: Once More With Feeling at July 08, 2022 07:56 AM (vwb+V)

69 "After reading his review, maybe I'll skip it."

I watched it the other night.

I would say that his review was if anything....too kind.

With thirty minutes still left to watch, I was begging for it to be over.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 08, 2022 07:56 AM (uLr+K)

70 The Japanese are not shy about administering the death penalty. They do have a unique sentencing procedure in that you will be sentenced to death in a given year, but they don't tell you the date. Anytime you hear footsteps approaching your cell gives you a chance to reflect on your crime. Their COs will also get slappy with inmates not showing enough shame.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 08, 2022 07:56 AM (lz5hY)

71 There's video of a mob going into a nursing home demanding they give her up. She wasn't there but oh yeah they are going to kill her if they find her.
Posted by: jewells45 at July 08, 2022 07:52 AM (nxdel)

And yet not one ratfucking GOP bought-and-paid-for stooge will stand up to call out BLM as a domestic terror group. Wouldn't want to be called RAYCISSSS!

But yay, red wave, right?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 08, 2022 07:56 AM (2JVJo)

72 After leaving California back in 2013 I had a two year argument with the DMV over a truck that was no longer titled or registered in the state. Seems they thought I owned them some more money.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 08, 2022 07:53 AM (BFigT)

When I left in 2017 I had a protracted exchange over my jury duty. They required multiple verification that I'd moved. I finally gave up.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 08, 2022 07:56 AM (H8QX8)

73 Thank God you're leaving that hellhole, JJ. Good on you. As for Holland and Japan, if this is what's happening with manageable oil prices, you can expect regime change or violent crackdowns in multiple NATO countries this winter. Bank on it.
Posted by: trev006 at July 08, 2022 07:39 AM (8AI3C)

Supposedly some unrest in Italy and Australia also. Media not covering it for some strange reason.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 08, 2022 07:57 AM (uvymP)

74 May your move be smooth Mr. Sefton. I always hoped to find a way to meet you on on of our visits to NYC while visiting our NYU grad naive daughter. I would have liked to introduce you to her. Best wishes on your adventure!

Posted by: RedDish at July 08, 2022 07:57 AM (AjwWO)

75 >>> What politician or leader in recent times or ever has used the word in any context?
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 08, 2022 07:54 AM (H8QX

TFG's or his ghost writer's comments vis-à-vis muslim caterwaluling. Said they were beautiful. Because that is an NPC approved use of the word.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 08, 2022 07:58 AM (0fVbu)

76 That Richmond 'almost' mass shooting is a real head scratcher.

EVERY component needed for a juicy headline burning story is there.

And one item that is potentially embarrassing for this administration.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 08, 2022 07:59 AM (uLr+K)

77 An anti-CCP candidate for Congress opposes former Mayor DiBlahBlah and the Chinese are caught on tape organizing an attack on him.

A Chinese infiltrator, Lin Qiming, hired a private investigator (PI) to produce "proof" of tax evasion, child pornography, and prostitution against Xiong in hopes of scuttling his election chances and sending him to prison. Lin went so far as to suggest the PI physically assault Xiong.

"But in the end, violence would be fine too," Lin stated in a voicemail. "Beat him until he cannot run for election."

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 08, 2022 08:00 AM (TfShH)

78 When news broke about the Abe shooting last night, my wife started scanning cable news. An analyst on CNN was only able to talk about two things. 1) How awful Americas gun culture is compared to Japan’s; and 2) How Abe risked his reputation by not repudiating Trump.

Our media is an obsessive clown show that knows nothing beyond what the AWFLs in their social circle obsess about.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at July 08, 2022 08:00 AM (d9Cw3)

79 The post WWII system of trade, finance, alliances and military cooperation to fight off communism was the original liberal world order. It has morphed into the current one that seeks to stop history, remake society and preserve and consolidate power for the worlds ruling class. I doubt the best and brightest Brian Deese is even aware of this distinction.

Posted by: Ripley at July 08, 2022 08:00 AM (MxEKc)

80 Friends, this will be my last column for a while, since one week from today I'll be leaving New York.

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Congratulations,JJ! Don't know how you managed to persuade your wifey ... hey, there may be a second book in there somewhere.

As I said around two years ago (going on three years of insomnia): The Morning Report is about the only think I look forward to anymore ... be well, my friend -- and thanks for the tremendous daily effort! As you hopefully know, you are loved.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun & games & Starveflation aims at July 08, 2022 08:01 AM (QbCrG)

81 Happy Friday, one and all.

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

82 Calling it now: Abe was shot because of Indiana's lax gun laws!

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

83 Very, very bad news about Abe. From the standpoint of a non-Japanese, his administration has not been all wine and roses, but he's been a stalwart in East Asia and a major pillar in the effort to contain and constrain Red China.

May his replacement be as good as as he was.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 08:03 AM (WWh8n)

84 The AP described Abe as a 'divisive arch-conservative'. I'll bet the farm that they have never once described anyone as a divisive arch-liberal, the propagandizing bastards.

Posted by: Citizen Ultra Cake at July 08, 2022 08:03 AM (HmZuC)

85 congratulations on the move, J.J.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (UgAdJ) - at July 08, 2022 08:04 AM (MrZQl)

86 The Manhattan bodega worker charged with murder after fighting off a violent ex-con in his store over the weekend was finally home Thursday night after he was released on bail in the highly publicized case.
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Wait, I thought that NYC declared bail to bad and evil. Or is it only evil when applied to a non-productive thug?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 08:04 AM (WWh8n)

87 The post WWII system of trade, finance, alliances and military cooperation to fight off communism was the original liberal world order.

I'll say it until I the day I die; everything started falling to shit, rapidly, about fifteen minutes after the USSR collapsed. Because everything the West had built to counter the Soviets immediately started looking for a new enemy. They found it, all right. The West itself.

If we were smart, we would have immediately started tearing those institutions down, as fast as the Germans dismantled the Berlin Wall. We chose poorly.

Posted by: Once More With Feeling at July 08, 2022 08:04 AM (vwb+V)

88 > I have watched all the Bond films many times, I have not yet seen that movie. After reading his review, maybe I'll skip it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood

yeah, it was not good. And I'm a fan of Daniel Craig's Bond. But these types of movies are clearly out of ideas, imo

Posted by: DB - Unless I'm Wrong at July 08, 2022 08:04 AM (geLO8)

89 One of my least favorite sounds is packing tape being stretched from the roll. It reminds me of moving, and I hate moving.

Posted by: Weasel at July 08, 2022 08:04 AM (0IeYL)

90
Friends, this will be my last column for a while, since one week from today I'll be leaving New York. Until then, I'll be knee deep in bubble wrap, boxes and tape, but I'll be back on Tuesday the 19th if all goes to plan.

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Welcome to America, JJ

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 08, 2022 08:05 AM (/U27+)

91
Excellent and insightful writing as always, Mr. Sefton.
Look forward to your return.
Blessings and stay safe. And congrats (I hope) on getting out of NY.

Posted by: Bach in Black at July 08, 2022 08:05 AM (7ubmG)

92 Friends, this will be my last column for a while, since one week from today I'll be leaving New York. Until then, I'll be knee deep in bubble wrap, boxes and tape, but I'll be back on Tuesday the 19th if all goes to plan.
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Congratulations, JJ. It's gonna suck because moving - especially interstate long-distance moves - always sucks, but I am glad you're giving yourself plenty of time. Don't work yourself to death, and I hope all goes well!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 08:05 AM (WWh8n)

93 It was chinee gunshow roophoe.

Posted by: Eromero at July 08, 2022 08:05 AM (gktX6)

94 >>I'll say it until I the day I die; everything started falling to shit, rapidly, about fifteen minutes after the USSR collapsed.

I think America started coming apart the morning of September 11, 2001

Posted by: DB - Unless I'm Wrong at July 08, 2022 08:05 AM (geLO8)

95 When I was Senator and Vice President, I never had the chance to personally meet him. Now, at the hands of an assassin, Abe Vigoda is finally dead.

Joseph R. Biden

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 08, 2022 08:06 AM (lz5hY)

96 Don't worry JJ!

Shelsky's will ship bialys to Wisconsin.

https://shelskys.com/

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 08, 2022 08:06 AM (TfShH)

97 It was chinee gunshow roophoe.
Posted by: Eromero at July 08, 2022 08:05 AM (gktX6)
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I'm more worried about a Chinese-sponsored assassin. That isn't really Xi's style, so there's that at least, but it isn't out of the question.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 08:06 AM (WWh8n)

98
In a month JJ will be telling people how much better they did things in NYC and life is hell with no nearby Au Bon Pain.

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

99 Musta had some dirt on Hillary...

Posted by: Al Shabbah at July 08, 2022 08:06 AM (xWFMH)

100 >.Friends, this will be my last column for a while, since one week from today I'll be leaving New York. Until then, I'll be knee deep in bubble wrap, boxes and tape, but I'll be back on Tuesday the 19th if all goes to plan.

you forgot "Keep your feet on the ground, and keep reaching for the stars."

Posted by: DB - Unless I'm Wrong at July 08, 2022 08:06 AM (geLO8)

101 Best of luck on your move, J.J. Wishing you safe travels and much happiness in your new, saner location.

RIP PM Abe. He seemed like a truly decent man, which is likely why he was assassinated.

Posted by: Hoplite Housewife at July 08, 2022 08:07 AM (n+4K5)

102 In a month JJ will be telling people how much better they did things in NYC and life is hell with no nearby Au Bon Pain.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 08, 2022 08:06 AM (/U27+)
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Heh. And no good pizza, nobody makes a decent hoagie and it doesn't smell like piss at all!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 08:07 AM (WWh8n)

103 83. Abe resigned as prime minister two years ago due to complications from ulcerative colitis.

Posted by: Jen the original at July 08, 2022 08:07 AM (PZtWe)

104 In a month JJ will be telling people how much better they did things in NYC and life is hell with no nearby Au Bon Pain.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 08, 2022 08:06 AM (/U27+)
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"Can't find a good bagel to save my life!"

Posted by: bluebell at July 08, 2022 08:08 AM (aeePL)

105 >> nobody makes a decent hoagie

It's called a wedge.

Posted by: garrett at July 08, 2022 08:08 AM (CB/or)

106 Where you gonna get Thai food at 3 am now, JJ?

Posted by: kraken at July 08, 2022 08:08 AM (Vr12I)

107 "I think America started coming apart the morning of September 11, 2001"

That's the date the loss of our freedom really started snowballing. Before that no one had ever conceived of having to take off your shoes and throw away your shampoo to get on an airplane.

Posted by: fd at July 08, 2022 08:08 AM (sn5EN)

108 Abe resigned as prime minister two years ago due to complications from ulcerative colitis.
Posted by: Jen the original at July 08, 2022 08:07 AM (PZtWe)
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Fair - I had forgotten that. He was still active but not PM.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 08:08 AM (WWh8n)

109 102 In a month JJ will be telling people how much better they did things in NYC and life is hell with no nearby Au Bon Pain.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 08, 2022 08:06 AM (/U27+)
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Heh. And no good pizza, nobody makes a decent hoagie and it doesn't smell like piss at all!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 08:07 AM (WWh8n)

And where are all the rats? Hardly any wildlife at all.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 08, 2022 08:08 AM (b2nrj)

110 NPR's obit calls Shinzo Abe "a divisive arch-conservative". Good lord. I guess he's not an austere religious scholar.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 08, 2022 08:09 AM (1TuZk)

111 104 In a month JJ will be telling people how much better they did things in NYC and life is hell with no nearby Au Bon Pain.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 08, 2022 08:06 AM (/U27+)
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"Can't find a good bagel to save my life!"
Posted by: bluebell at July 08, 2022 08:08 AM (aeePL)

You can get chewy donuts a lot of places.

Posted by: kraken at July 08, 2022 08:09 AM (Vr12I)

112 I think America started coming apart the morning of September 11, 2001.

It was certainly a milestone. A sitting Republican president, with full support of his party, responded to an attack at the hands of two dozen muslims in the country illegally - by declaring a war of surveillance on the three hundred million citizens who survived. All while Lee Greenwood sang and everyone held their hands over their hearts for about a month as TSA put up more barriers and scanners at the airport.

Posted by: Once More With Feeling at July 08, 2022 08:09 AM (vwb+V)

113 Doesn't the hyde amendment prohibit the federal government from spending any money on abortions or abortion related care and travel?
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Lol, laws.

You're thinking of the former United States

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 08, 2022 08:09 AM (R+X/W)

114 Very shocked to hear of PM Abe's murder. He truly was a staunch ally of America. RIP PM Abe.

Posted by: sidney at July 08, 2022 08:09 AM (Uy/WF)

115 Having just heard that Abe has been shot, I've immediately tasked the FBI to apprehend John Wilkes Booth.

Posted by: Joe Biden at July 08, 2022 08:09 AM (HmZuC)

116
Took over as OOD while Her Majesty lies down for a while. While I fall asleep almost instantly, she has more trouble. I hate calling her at 2:00 AM for the shift change and I get up promptly when it's my turn.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 08, 2022 08:09 AM (/U27+)

117 If we were smart, we would have immediately started tearing those institutions down, as fast as the Germans dismantled the Berlin Wall. We chose poorly.
Posted by: Once More With Feeling at July 08, 2022 08:04 AM (vwb+V)

Concur.

NATO should have been abolished to the dust bin of history and still should be.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 08, 2022 08:09 AM (DDw5Y)

118 The planet seems to be run by a crime syndicate, so who knows what happened to Abe.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 08, 2022 08:10 AM (89T5c)

119 He was still active but not PM.
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Primarily an active voice in defense of Taiwan

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 08, 2022 08:10 AM (TfShH)

120 NPR's obit calls Shinzo Abe "a divisive arch-conservative". Good lord. I guess he's not an austere religious scholar.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 08, 2022 08:09 AM (1TuZk)
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NPR is asshoe.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 08:10 AM (WWh8n)

121 with all due respect to the American Thinker article about locking down elections; I believe most of the exodus heading to red states is from people like JJ, not from progs who are happy where they are.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 08, 2022 08:10 AM (r46W7)

122 Cheese, JJ!

Posted by: Wallace (Gromit is on holiday) at July 08, 2022 08:10 AM (PiwSw)

123 84 The AP described Abe as a 'divisive arch-conservative'.

Disgusting but predictable. Anybody who doesn't conform to their ideology or holds to common sense over Leftist dogma is "divisive" or "far right."

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 08, 2022 08:11 AM (H8QX8)

124 Primarily an active voice in defense of Taiwan
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 08, 2022 08:10 AM (TfShH)
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Very.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 08:11 AM (WWh8n)

125 well, poo. when did my nic's hash change?

updated, now.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (MrZQl) - at July 08, 2022 08:11 AM (MrZQl)

126 It appears that China has picked their first target close to home.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 08, 2022 08:13 AM (lTGtQ)

127 "Demonstrators on Wednesday wanted a face-to-face with Carolyn Bryant Donham"

Something didn't seem right to me with this story, why do they care about a 65-year-old arrest warrant? They don't even say what the warrant is for. After reading the article it turns out the warrant wasn't some revelation, it was public knowledge back. So the discovery of the actual piece of paper is just an excuse to harass her and get some free publicity.

Posted by: lowandslow at July 08, 2022 08:13 AM (qH6FZ)

128 with all due respect to the American Thinker article about locking down elections; I believe most of the exodus heading to red states is from people like JJ, not from progs who are happy where they are.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 08, 2022 08:10 AM (r46W7)
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It is the biggest question of our times, in my opinion. If the people fleeing the shitholes are refugees who are looking for a new place to live after their home states were ruined, then there will be pressures and conflict (there always are with rapid growth) in the target areas but it will be generally okay. If the people fleeing are colonists who learned nothing, then the future of the South and Midwest can be divined by looking at what happened to Colorado and New Mexico.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 08:13 AM (WWh8n)

129 Abe is described as an "arch conservative", if my recollection is correct, primarily because of his visits to the Shinto shrine glorifying Japan's militaristic past. And his expansion of the self-defense budget, I suppose.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 08, 2022 08:13 AM (TfShH)

130 JJ might be best decision to move but will be a adventure

Posted by: Skip's phone at July 08, 2022 08:14 AM (4o9mN)

131 Before that no one had ever conceived of having to take off your shoes and throw away your shampoo to get on an airplane.
Posted by: fd

But liquid explosives!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 08, 2022 08:14 AM (AutJR)

132 . . . It is truly shocking that the DA has decided to prosecute Mr. Alba for defending himself in a clear-cut case of self-defense Fortunately, we will have a jury that will make things right.
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They can't make it right, and that is by design. Remember, the final verdict isn't the point. The process is the punishment.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 08, 2022 08:14 AM (TgBWG)

133 126 It appears that China has picked their first target close to home.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 08, 2022 08:13 AM (lTGtQ)

Could've been Whoa, Fat! but he doesn't take a dump with Chi-Com Pooh-Pooh Platter giving permission.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 08, 2022 08:14 AM (s2VJv)

134 CNN this am said Abe was giving a quote campaign speech unquote. I am unaware Abe was running for any office.

Posted by: Jen the original at July 08, 2022 08:15 AM (PZtWe)

135
So the ball-bouncing bitch pled guilty in Russia to carrying illegal substances. And it's your fault for not supporting the WNBA.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 08, 2022 08:15 AM (/U27+)

136 It is the biggest question of our times, in my opinion. If the people fleeing the shitholes are refugees who are looking for a new place to live after their home states were ruined, then there will be pressures and conflict (there always are with rapid growth) in the target areas but it will be generally okay. If the people fleeing are colonists who learned nothing, then the future of the South and Midwest can be divined by looking at what happened to Colorado and New Mexico.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 08:13 AM (WWh8n)

Which is why it helps to encourage proper sorting with pro-life laws and anti-grooming bills.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 08, 2022 08:15 AM (b2nrj)

137 80 Friends, this will be my last column for a while, since one week from today I'll be leaving New York.

Wait! Who's gonna feed my news habit while you're in transit?

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

138 Reports say the GA guidestones were blown up with a bottle of Prell.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 08, 2022 08:15 AM (AutJR)

139 CCP must be feeling pretty strong right now, given how well world events are working in their favor, and Abe was their outspoken opponent. Wouldn't shock me if they were behind this.

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It would shock me if they weren't.

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

140 130 JJ might be best decision to move but will be a adventure
Posted by: Skip's phone at July 08, 2022 08:14 AM (4o9mN)

The destination was far from my first choice, but I have been there many times and I know I can adjust.

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

141 >.CNN this am said Abe was giving a quote campaign speech unquote. I am unaware Abe was running for any office.

Posted by: Jen the original

he was stumping for another politician

Posted by: DB - Unless I'm Wrong at July 08, 2022 08:16 AM (geLO8)

142 After reading the article it turns out the warrant wasn't some revelation, it was public knowledge back.

It's not like her name was some damn state secret. Here's an article from March that mentions it. Any article you ever read about Emmett Till gives her name.

https://bit.ly/3RhUU10

Posted by: Once More With Feeling at July 08, 2022 08:16 AM (vwb+V)

143 Just before I went to bed last night at about 10:45 I saw a news chyron reporting something like "gunshots heard near Abe speaking venue" and turn on the TV this a.m. to read he'd been fatally shot. How the heck could you not know that from the time of the first odd-sounding report last night??

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at July 08, 2022 08:16 AM (yikp0)

144 Japan needs more 2A restrictions.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 08, 2022 08:17 AM (AutJR)

145 From NBC:
Though Abe had been praised for amplifying Japan’s profile on the world stage, his party was plagued by scandals and he was accused of mishandling the country’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

I wonder if the official press manual states as a rule that "There shall be a COVID angle on every story."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 08:17 AM (WWh8n)

146 Friends, this will be my last column for a while, since one week from today I'll be leaving New York.

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Safe travels, JJ. I'm both very happy for you...and very sad that you were left with such a choice. A choice I fully understand. We'll all be waiting on the flip side once you get settled in your new digs.

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

147 It is truly shocking that the DA has decided to prosecute Mr. Alba for defending himself in a clear-cut case of self-defense Fortunately, we will have a jury that will make things right.
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Remember one of the prosecutors in the Rittenhouse case made an argument to the effect of "Sometimes you just have to take a beating." This is how the Left thinks. If a member of a favored group is beating on you, you have no rights, other than the right to take a beating, and hope they don't kill you.

Posted by: Wally at July 08, 2022 08:18 AM (FJYfm)

148 Prior to 9/11, didn't AQ murder some opposition leader that would have been the likely candidate to help with a US retaliation?

What are the chances Abe getting killed is something similar?

Posted by: hubcap at July 08, 2022 08:18 AM (zpnPn)

149 Abe is described as an "arch conservative", if my recollection is correct, primarily because of his visits to the Shinto shrine glorifying Japan's militaristic past. And his expansion of the self-defense budget, I suppose.

Also he was strongly anti-socialist and friendly with Trump, which is what probably really pisses off the media.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 08, 2022 08:18 AM (1TuZk)

150 In more Japanese news... Kazuki Takahashi, Japanese creator of "Yu-Gi-Oh!" manga comic and trading card game, dies while snorkelling.

I'm not a follower but the man and his work does sound familiar.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at July 08, 2022 08:18 AM (yikp0)

151 CNN this am said Abe was giving a quote campaign speech unquote. I am unaware Abe was running for any office.
Posted by: Jen the original at July 08, 2022 08:15 AM (PZtWe)
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Since Japan has a parliamentary system, every local election is important (for generating numbers in the Diet , the Parliament). Abe was campaigning for his party.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 08, 2022 08:19 AM (TfShH)

152 Have you met your neighbors yet, JJ, or moving in cold???

Posted by: kraken at July 08, 2022 08:19 AM (Vr12I)

153 Good luck J.J. I’m stuck in that same blue hellhole for 3 more years due to family obligations. Lived here my entire life and I’m way past 29. It’s nothing like it was growing up. I feel for my grandkids and my children. I’m happy for you that you are able to get out. There is no future in this state for the young people today. It’s sad. Very sad.

Posted by: Uncle Slayton at July 08, 2022 08:19 AM (NVtgT)

154 Not going to bother with that American Thinker piece. It already suffers from two fatal flaws in the title.

1) The people fleeing the blue states are not liberals, they are conservatives. Case in point, Cruz had a higher margin of victory among new residents of Texas than established residents. The migration is making the red states redder. The two generation Democrat dominance in Florida was wiped out by new registrations.

2) The states they are moving to have all passed new election laws to reduce fraud. There is nothing to "bring" with them, since the election processes are in place already.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 08, 2022 08:20 AM (5p7BC)

155 JJ is moving on his birthday?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, at July 08, 2022 08:20 AM (eGTCV)

156 J.J., wishing you a safe trip out to your new home. Hopefully, once you're settled, you can begin construction of a nice little model railroad layout. One of the most relaxing and satisfying hobbies one can have. Now, you'll have to room to do it. And thank you so very much for all you do to keep us informed. My morning breakfast routine is not complete until I log on and begin reading your amazing Morning Report. Take care.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 08, 2022 08:20 AM (Zvtjl)

157
The destination was far from my first choice, but I have been there many times and I know I can adjust.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 08, 2022 08:15 AM (s2VJv)

_________

You and Mis Hum are now neighbors?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 08, 2022 08:20 AM (/U27+)

158 Heard someone speculate this am that Abe had been vocal in wanting Japan to be more active militarily with international defense efforts which is in conflict with Japan s pacifist constitution and the former Navy sailor was upset with that.

Posted by: Jen the original at July 08, 2022 08:20 AM (y6HpB)

159 The destination was far from my first choice, but I have been there many times and I know I can adjust.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 08, 2022 08:15 AM (s2VJv)
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I've never completely adjusted to California. My accent isn't strong but other NYers can tell.

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

160 Good luck to JJ & his lady as they load their ole Conestoga wagon with their worldly goods and journey the westward trail

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 08, 2022 08:20 AM (kf6Ak)

161 I think China, all the way. Abe has been outspoken about Japan's sovereignty, and the need to defend Taiwan.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 08, 2022 08:21 AM (mE7cY)

162 >>Also he was strongly anti-socialist and friendly with Trump, which is what probably really pisses off the media.

Posted by: Ian S.

he also seemed to be something of a hawk on immigration

Posted by: DB - Unless I'm Wrong at July 08, 2022 08:21 AM (geLO8)

163 Bloomberg Host Calls Biden "Shockingly Naive" to WH Adviser’s Face
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What hope is there when even Bezos and Bloomberg are pushing misinformation contrary to Our Leader's Declared Truth?

Bring back Nazi Poppins.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 08, 2022 08:21 AM (TgBWG)

164 "Remember one of the prosecutors in the Rittenhouse case made an argument to the effect of "Sometimes you just have to take a beating." This is how the Left thinks. If a member of a favored group is beating on you, you have no rights, other than the right to take a beating, and hope they don't kill you."

We are seeing that unfolding by the minute right here. I had posted earlier about the Baltimore driver who was being hassled by a squeegee kid at a downtown intersection during rush hour yesterday afternoon. Got out of the car with a baseball bat to get his point across about being left alone. Squeegee kid pulls gun and kills him right there in front of about a jillion people.

Official message seems to be 'Don't piss off the squeegee kids'

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 08, 2022 08:21 AM (uLr+K)

165 Speaking of leftist stupidity, the WH economic advisor Heather Boushey grilled by Bloomberg has that cultish stare and is typical of those running the regime. She comes form a world of leftist NGO's with her primary area of expertise being economic social justice, equity, sexism etc... These are the adults in charge at the WH. Frankly, we are lucky thing aren't even worse than they are. But they soon will be with experts like this.

Posted by: Ripley at July 08, 2022 08:21 AM (MxEKc)

166 You can't get bagels at 2AM in Wisconsin, so maybe bring some with you on the move!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 08, 2022 08:22 AM (mE7cY)

167 143 Just before I went to bed last night at about 10:45 I saw a news chyron reporting something like "gunshots heard near Abe speaking venue" and turn on the TV this a.m. to read he'd been fatally shot. How the heck could you not know that from the time of the first odd-sounding report last night??

They had to get their shit straight, comrade.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 08, 2022 08:22 AM (89T5c)

168 161 I think China, all the way. Abe has been outspoken about Japan's sovereignty, and the need to defend Taiwan.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 08, 2022 08:21 AM (mE7cY)

That would imply that the lesson China took from the conflict in Ukraine is that it's time to begin making more aggressive moves.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 08, 2022 08:22 AM (b2nrj)

169 121 with all due respect to the American Thinker article about locking down elections; I believe most of the exodus heading to red states is from people like JJ, not from progs who are happy where they are.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 08, 2022 08:10 AM (r46W7)

I hope you're right. Anecdotal evidence from SC is split. I meet both pro-Trump Yankee emigres as well as unregenerate northern leftists who complain about the backward politics here.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 08, 2022 08:22 AM (H8QX8)

170 The states they are moving to have all passed new election laws to reduce fraud. There is nothing to "bring" with them, since the election processes are in place already.

There is no rule that can't be broken, given sufficient effort.

Posted by: Once More With Feeling at July 08, 2022 08:22 AM (vwb+V)

171 At a guess, I'd be suspicious of North Korea. They like this kind of direct action. And, obviously, are happy to be China's errand bitch.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 08, 2022 08:22 AM (TfShH)

172 Abe is described as an "arch conservative", if my recollection is correct, primarily because of his visits to the Shinto shrine glorifying Japan's militaristic past. And his expansion of the self-defense budget, I suppose.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 08, 2022 08:13 AM (TfShH)
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He is not the first postwar PM to visit Yasukuni and I never understood the lambasting they take for doing so. Japan was despicable and evil in the early-mid 20th century and are rightly condemned for their behavior, but all countries honor their war dead. Yasukuni is not a shrine to the dead of expansionist Imperial Japan, it is a shrine to all of Japan's war dead and state visits there are not inappropriate.

His expansion of the defense budget was probably the bigger deal, along with his approach - which I think is right for a national leader - that he was more interested in revitalizing Japan and building her hegemony than he was interested in other things. Nobody every excoriates Xi because Red China is priority 1 for him. He isn't an "divisive conservative" for some reason. Odd, that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 08:22 AM (WWh8n)

173 166 You can't get bagels at 2AM in Wisconsin, so maybe bring some with you on the move!
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 08, 2022 08:22 AM (mE7cY)
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See my @96

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 08, 2022 08:23 AM (TfShH)

174 "Illegal invaders planned a July 4 terror attack with assault weapons. Why isn't this big news?"
The Biggest Story the Media Don't Want to Tell You About "
They are ILLEGAL ALIENS and from GUATEMALA.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 08, 2022 08:23 AM (NpAcC)

175 In the famous picture where Angela Merkel is red-faced glaring at The Donald, Shinzo Abe is glaring at her.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 08, 2022 08:23 AM (1TuZk)

176 151. Thanks Huck.

Posted by: Jen the original at July 08, 2022 08:24 AM (y6HpB)

177 and he was accused of mishandling the country’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

*

I'd be interested in the numbers. Did more than the standard 99.97% of the population die from the COVIDs like everywhere else because it was a cold virus that doctors and hospitals weren't allowed to treat based on a coordinated goal of the WEF?

Or were Japan's numbers exactly like everyone elses? Matter of fact, I'm betting everyones numbers were 100% exactly the same. There was no standard of counting so far as I know (see also: live birth), so the numbers can never be adequately compared.

It was an op. They moved elderly people into nursing homes on purpose for it. They killed your friends and family for this moment. Look around at what's happening with oil and gas prices, inflation, and your loss of wealth. This is why they did it.. Never forget that.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - How Joe Biden is just like the Founding Fathers, no seriously at July 08, 2022 08:24 AM (QsOFZ)

178 he also seemed to be something of a hawk on immigration
Posted by: DB - Unless I'm Wrong at July 08, 2022 08:21 AM (geLO

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It's kind of difficult to find a Japanese person that is not something of a hawk on immigration. The Japanese are extremely clannish and don't like outsiders in their midst.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 08:25 AM (WWh8n)

179 In the famous picture where Angela Merkel is red-faced glaring at The Donald, Shinzo Abe is glaring at her.

Shinzo was a Nationalist. So was Trump. Merkel was a Globalist. That's the difference.

Spoiler Alert - the Chinese version of Globalism has the Chinese playing the part of first among equals.

Posted by: Once More With Feeling at July 08, 2022 08:25 AM (vwb+V)

180 174 "Illegal invaders planned a July 4 terror attack with assault weapons. Why isn't this big news?"

Because there's no such thing as an illegal alien, because July 4th is no big deal, because terrorism is only possible from the "far-right" and because the media are full-time propagandists.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 08, 2022 08:26 AM (H8QX8)

181 Congratulations on your move J.J.!
I don't know what we're going to do without you till the 19th.
You're pretty much irreplaceable.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 08, 2022 08:26 AM (NpAcC)

182 Shockingly naive. No, fucking evil.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 08, 2022 08:26 AM (89T5c)

183 173 166 You can't get bagels at 2AM in Wisconsin, so maybe bring some with you on the move!
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 08, 2022 08:22 AM (mE7cY)
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See my @96
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 08, 2022 08:23 AM (TfShH)

But you can get gas station sushi and Hostess powdered sugar donuts, so what's the problem??

Posted by: kraken at July 08, 2022 08:26 AM (Vr12I)

184 His expansion of the defense budget was probably the bigger deal, along with his approach - which I think is right for a national leader - that he was more interested in revitalizing Japan and building her hegemony than he was interested in other things. Nobody every excoriates Xi because Red China is priority 1 for him. He isn't an "divisive conservative" for some reason. Odd, that.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 08:22 AM (WWh8n)

How does China afford to buy everyone? The media, our politicians, corporations (though that's usually a threat of denying access to their buyer base). That's the shit that rounded up the NBA, NFL, etc. Also the threat for all movie productions.

China is a pimp and everyone is a whore.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 08, 2022 08:26 AM (mE7cY)

185 I'm off to the Vigoda Pagoda for a gin and club soda.

Posted by: Transylvania Station at July 08, 2022 08:26 AM (EcQad)

186 Well, this is certainly not a slow news Friday.

Posted by: creeper at July 08, 2022 08:27 AM (cTCuP)

187 "Because there's no such thing as an illegal alien, because July 4th is no big deal, because terrorism is only possible from the "far-right" and because the media are full-time propagandists."

But mostly because the Media are full time propagandists.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 08, 2022 08:27 AM (uLr+K)

188 oh my god... I'm going to kill some field people. nothin glike blaming the factor for a motor problem when the bloody tech drops a tap in the windings AND LEAVES IT THERE...

fml.

if i by the gun, will you shoot me?

#rhetorical

Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at July 08, 2022 08:27 AM (p03vF)

189 Wasn’t PM Abe a big Elvia fan? I seem to remember that he visited Graceland with W.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 08, 2022 08:28 AM (Q5p+u)

190 Shinzo was a Nationalist. So was Trump. Merkel was a Globalist. That's the difference.

Spoiler Alert - the Chinese version of Globalism has the Chinese playing the part of first among equals.
Posted by: Once More With Feeling at July 08, 2022 08:25 AM (vwb+V)
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Somebody has to be the strong horse and, to mix metaphors, the lion's share goes to the lion. Xi wants to be the lion, and the sniveling western expert class thinks they will be the de facto lion while Xi is the de jure lion and that together they'll split the jungle.

They're idiots. Trump knew it. Abe knew it. Your average man on the street knows it. It takes decades of college education and institutional grooming to *not* know it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 08:28 AM (WWh8n)

191 Friends, this will be my last column for a while, since one week from today I'll be leaving New York.

--

Safe travels, JJ. I'm both very happy for you...and very sad that you were left with such a choice. A choice I fully understand. We'll all be waiting on the flip side once you get settled in your new digs.
Posted by: Lady in Black

Seconded!

Posted by: rickb223 at July 08, 2022 08:28 AM (c8pZY)

192
How does China afford to buy everyone? The media, our politicians, corporations (though that's usually a threat of denying access to their buyer base). That's the shit that rounded up the NBA, NFL, etc. Also the threat for all movie productions.

China is a pimp and everyone is a whore.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 08, 2022 08:26 AM (mE7cY)

Politicians are generally surprisingly cheap. Most of the media being not very wealthy outside of a few talking heads are probably even cheaper.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 08, 2022 08:28 AM (b2nrj)

193 The real crime Alba committed was killing a black man. That is the message they are trying to send. Unless you are also black, killing someone who is black, regardless of the circumstances, is illegal. You are to take whatever abuse or threat that is given to you, and accept it.

I find this to be the most abhorrently racist position of all time, but that is leftism in America.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 08, 2022 08:28 AM (5p7BC)

194 FIRST!!!!!

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

195 They had to get their shit straight, comrade.
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For the first time ever!

I mean it's one thing not knowing right away it was fatal but not knowing the 'nearby gunshots' were INTO him?!

And I never did see the last five minutes of that one Larry Sanders Show that Princess Di's initial 'car accident' report interrupted. What? CTV couldn't wait five minutes until the 12:30 end of the show to start reporting!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at July 08, 2022 08:29 AM (yikp0)

196 JJ - Wisconsin! Woot!!!!

Posted by: Grammie winger's ipad at July 08, 2022 08:29 AM (S7ug5)

197
This talk of Trump and Abe being "nationalists" gets me nowhere. Thinking of the good of your own country first is what we used to expect from leaders. And it's meant to be pejorative. No one called Charles De Gaulle a nationalist despite a career of selfishness.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 08, 2022 08:29 AM (/U27+)

198 How does China afford to buy everyone? The media, our politicians, corporations (though that's usually a threat of denying access to their buyer base). That's the shit that rounded up the NBA, NFL, etc. Also the threat for all movie productions.

China is a pimp and everyone is a whore.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 08, 2022 08:26 AM (mE7cY)
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But the whores are being subsidized by the pimp and the pimp gets the money from the bond market. China is built on debt and cheap labor. The cheap labor is gone, but the debt is still there.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 08:30 AM (WWh8n)

199 121 with all due respect to the American Thinker article about locking down elections; I believe most of the exodus heading to red states is from people like JJ, not from progs who are happy where they are.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 08, 2022 08:10 AM (r46W7)

True. The Lefties hate to admit their states are failures. It was big last summer on Minnesota Twitter for Lefties to post pictures of their backyard, or gated community, and snark something along the lines of "Ooooh! Looks really terrible, right?"
Meanwhile, at the time they're taking their pics, downtown Minneapolis would be like a scene out of Grand Theft Auto, but the Lefties don't have to go there, and can't admit that their policies destroyed downtown. But they're not moving. And why would they? Venezuela's a failed state, but Maduro is living well.

Posted by: Wally at July 08, 2022 08:30 AM (FJYfm)

200 Just posting the new nic in honor of a true friend of America.

Posted by: motionview, divisive arch-conservative at July 08, 2022 08:30 AM (Yuudf)

201 JJ.

Good luck on your move. I sincerely wish you the best. Safe travels and may your new home provide you warmth and happiness for years to come.

And HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 08, 2022 08:30 AM (Zz0t1)

202 I hope you're right. Anecdotal evidence from SC is split. I meet both pro-Trump Yankee emigres as well as unregenerate northern leftists who complain about the backward politics here.

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I've been extremely worried about the massive influx of movers to SC from deep blue hell holes (evidenced by the out-of-state plates I constantly see).

So far, in my anecdotal orbit, the ones we've had the pleasure of talking to all share the same sentiment. They could no longer stand living in those blue hell holes, and were very clear about why they moved away. IOW, they are not leftists. They are escapees from their toilet states. At least, this has been my experience in the upstate.

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

203 RIP Mr. Abe. A True Friend to America and his Democratic Neighbors.

Posted by: Jonah at July 08, 2022 08:30 AM (WY8d2)

204 I believe most of the exodus heading to red states is from people like JJ, not from progs who are happy where they are.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 08, 2022 08:10 AM (r46W7)

Progs are never happy. They’re a miserable lot no matter where they live.

Posted by: 7man at July 08, 2022 08:30 AM (qwO6y)

205 So the Richmond illegals had an AR-15, and exactly 223 rounds of ammo for it?

Oddly specific number of rounds.
And 223 to boot?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 08, 2022 08:31 AM (uLr+K)

206 JJ 'Cheese Head' Sefton.

Eh, not bad.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 08, 2022 08:31 AM (mE7cY)

207 How does China afford to buy everyone?

Easy. They buy you with your own money. They us their own populace as indentured servants, then use the profits off that labor to buy the leadership of the countries who purchase the goods those servants produce.

In the old days, China would export opium. Now its easier; they get the client states to supply the means of manufacturing, China supplies their one main asset - cheap labor - and the resulting product is apparently more addictive than chasing the dragon.

Posted by: Once More With Feeling at July 08, 2022 08:31 AM (vwb+V)

208 People are fuming over Biden giving barrels of oil to a commie company with Hunter ties.

Where the F are Republican Senators on this? This is a impeachable offense

Posted by: Jonah at July 08, 2022 08:31 AM (WY8d2)

209 J. J., you gotta start wearing a cheesehead.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 08, 2022 08:31 AM (Q5p+u)

210 The people fleeing the blue states are not liberals, they are conservatives.

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Except they're blue state conservatives, which is center left red state anything. I say this from experience because we're surrounded by them in NC.

Are they conservative in Chicago? Yes. Are they likely going to vote to f*ck up whatever rural area they buy 30 acres in when they move to the South? Yes. Bigly. Unaccountable teachers, useless solar, etc. is just a few hundred million in spending away.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - How Joe Biden is just like the Founding Fathers, no seriously at July 08, 2022 08:32 AM (QsOFZ)

211 May God bless and keep you J. J. while you transport yourself and all your trappings out of that hellscape.

Thanks! for being a sentinel.

Posted by: Paul in Texas at July 08, 2022 08:32 AM (RaWcF)

212 Can't wait for JJ to start talking funny in the podcasts.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 08, 2022 08:32 AM (mE7cY)

213 Politicians are generally surprisingly cheap. Most of the media being not very wealthy outside of a few talking heads are probably even cheaper.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 08, 2022 08:28 AM (b2nrj)
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What really astounded me in all the revelations during the Trump era was just how cheaply our government class can be bought. I remember seeing that John Bolton betrayed the president for around, I think, $10k or $15k - the political equivalent of a ham sandwich.

When I learned that I - just a guy with a good W2 job - could afford to buy the likes of John Bolton (assuming I had the connections and access, which I don't), it actually did shock me. I figured these guys selling out their country and making deals with the devil would be pulling serious coin - not less than the cost of a cheap midsized car.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 08:32 AM (WWh8n)

214 Japan today proves, the only gun control, is legal guns and the law abiding people who have them

Posted by: Jonah at July 08, 2022 08:32 AM (WY8d2)

215 "So far, in my anecdotal orbit, the ones we've had the pleasure of talking to all share the same sentiment. "

Same here.
Although the Lowcountry does indeed attract some leftists due to the higher percentage of progressives in Charleston and Mt Pleasant.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 08, 2022 08:33 AM (uLr+K)

216 204 I believe most of the exodus heading to red states is from people like JJ, not from progs who are happy where they are.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 08, 2022 08:10 AM (r46W7)

Progs are never happy. They’re a miserable lot no matter where they live.
Posted by: 7man at July 08, 2022 08:30 AM (qwO6y)

Not 100% convinced about it is mostly conservativ types who move out of state. I am thinking of Colorado, New Mexico, Idaho, North Carolina, and maybe some other states to. Even more so with cities in " Red" states.

Posted by: kraken at July 08, 2022 08:33 AM (Vr12I)

217 212 Can't wait for JJ to start talking funny in the podcasts.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 08, 2022 08:32 AM (mE7cY)

"Plus ca change . . . "

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 08, 2022 08:33 AM (s2VJv)

218
I find this to be the most abhorrently racist position of all time, but that is leftism in America.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 08, 2022 08:28 AM (5p7BC)

Hopefully, he took the great advice I was given in my conceal carry course: "I feared for my life. I want my lawyer."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 08, 2022 08:33 AM (Zz0t1)

219 Heck, it can be argued that our NC senators are Chicago conservatives.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - How Joe Biden is just like the Founding Fathers, no seriously at July 08, 2022 08:33 AM (QsOFZ)

220 197
This talk of Trump and Abe being "nationalists" gets me nowhere. Thinking of the good of your own country first is what we used to expect from leaders. And it's meant to be pejorative. No one called Charles De Gaulle a nationalist despite a career of selfishness.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 08, 2022 08:29 AM (/U27+)

Most leaders were either nationalists or imperialists (in the sense of having discrete realms under their control instead of trying to have one more unified one). Putin's expressed sentiments are typically more imperialist, that is multicultural. Opposing the country that they control and live in like the Left does is fairly unusual.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 08, 2022 08:33 AM (b2nrj)

221 Easy. They buy you with your own money. They us their own populace as indentured servants, then use the profits off that labor to buy the leadership of the countries who purchase the goods those servants produce.

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Communism. It follows a pattern.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 08, 2022 08:33 AM (sVtYq)

222 Congrats on your Move JJ. Godspeed

Posted by: Jonah at July 08, 2022 08:34 AM (WY8d2)

223 Official message seems to be 'Don't piss off the squeegee kids'
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 08, 2022 08:21 AM (uLr+K)

Unofficial message: don't bring a baseball bat to a gunfight.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 08, 2022 08:34 AM (r46W7)

224 When the GOP takes the House and Senate they will look into Joe's corruption but Joe will kick so whatcha gonna do?

Posted by: fd at July 08, 2022 08:34 AM (sn5EN)

225
When I learned that I - just a guy with a good W2 job - could afford to buy the likes of John Bolton (assuming I had the connections and access, which I don't), it actually did shock me. I figured these guys selling out their country and making deals with the devil would be pulling serious coin - not less than the cost of a cheap midsized car.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 08:32 AM (WWh8n)

You can probably get the access for like a couple thousand dollars. That's what some donor events are for.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 08, 2022 08:34 AM (b2nrj)

226 The Left wants more crime to therefore argue for more government power to "deal with crime".

Allowing citizens to defend themselves obviously is at odds with that idea, so of course they will prosecute you for such things.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 08, 2022 08:34 AM (ESjRY)

227 "Morningstar Inc., a financial research firm that advises investors, is facing accusations that its recently acquired research firm, Sustainalytics, downgrades companies that help Israel combat terrorism..."

Read that as Stan-alytics, which with the Morningstar and the overt military-adjacent opposition to the future site of God's earthy kingdom (Coming Soon!) seemed a little on the nose.

Posted by: me at July 08, 2022 08:35 AM (5jdq3)

228 "The real crime Alba committed was killing a black man. That is the message they are trying to send. Unless you are also black, killing someone who is black, regardless of the circumstances, is illegal.

Posted by: Dave in Fla"

Yep, that's my take on it. Just like school discipline, but taken to a higher level. Also, you risk getting canceled for pointing this out in polite society. The increase in crime and violence is nothing compared to what we will see in 10 more years after the message is fully absorbed and the feral yutes get a little older. .

Posted by: Ripley at July 08, 2022 08:35 AM (MxEKc)

229 When I learned that I - just a guy with a good W2 job - could afford to buy the likes of John Bolton (assuming I had the connections and access, which I don't), it actually did shock me. I figured these guys selling out their country and making deals with the devil would be pulling serious coin - not less than the cost of a cheap midsized car.

*

Something came out before the election that Biden - through Hunter, of course - was bought by China for $10M. Not even money made by a first round QB in the NFL draft, and they own the most powerful office in the United States.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - How Joe Biden is just like the Founding Fathers, no seriously at July 08, 2022 08:35 AM (QsOFZ)

230 Where is JJ moving too? Florida?

Posted by: Jonah at July 08, 2022 08:35 AM (WY8d2)

231 British civil servants say post Brexit trade talks will not be affected by BoJo's departure.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at July 08, 2022 08:35 AM (yikp0)

232 Where is JJ moving too? Florida?
Posted by: Jonah

Wisconsin.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 08, 2022 08:36 AM (c8pZY)

233 Hopefully, he took the great advice I was given in my conceal carry course: "I feared for my life. I want my lawyer."

Mine was phrased as "I'm going to be happy to cooperate with you, as soon as I've had an opportunity to speak with counsel".

Posted by: motionview, divisive arch-conservative at July 08, 2022 08:36 AM (Yuudf)

234 So do we know anything about the Abe assassin yet?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 08, 2022 08:36 AM (ESjRY)

235 224 When the GOP takes the House and Senate they will look into Joe's corruption but Joe will kick so whatcha gonna do?
Posted by: fd at July 08, 2022 08:34 AM (sn5EN)

Snort!

More like, thanks guys for putting us in power! This is a time for healing, not for retribution. We're better than that!

Now leave us alone. We have many tee times to see to.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 08, 2022 08:36 AM (mE7cY)

236 JJ - first thing you do is buy a Packers jersey so as to disguise your New Yorkishness.

Posted by: Grammie winger's ipad at July 08, 2022 08:36 AM (S7ug5)

237 JJ is moving during Pride month??

Posted by: dantesed at July 08, 2022 08:36 AM (88xKn)

238 I find this to be the most abhorrently racist position of all time, but that is leftism in America.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 08, 2022 08:28 AM (5p7BC)
===

Further proof of what an awful racist country this is.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 08, 2022 08:36 AM (EZebt)

239 Jeff Beck and Johnny Depp just put out an album. I heard one song and Depp is much better than you would have expected.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 08, 2022 08:36 AM (Y5qcH)

240 Where the F are Republican Senators on this? This is a impeachable offense
Posted by: Jonah at July 08, 2022 08:31 AM (WY8d2)
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It might not be. When the SPR is released, it is sold. That company may have put in a winning bid and Hunter's history with them is purely coincidental. There is a significant chance that this is exactly what happened.

But it also doesn't matter in the slightest. The onus to prevent conflicts of interest (or the appearance of conflicts of interest) is on the conflicted party. That company - and more to the point, any company from any rival or enemy country - should have been excluded from the operation. It wasn't. That's on the administration and therefore that's on Biden.

If my division puts out a call for bids on a project and my brother's company puts in a winning bid - even if I didn't know about it at the time - I am required to disclose the relationship and have the executive staff or board make the call as to whether to continue or change vendors. I will certainly not be part of the project from that day forward if they keep the same vendor. If I don't do that, I'll be fired for good reason.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 08:37 AM (WWh8n)

241 Where is JJ moving too? Florida?
Posted by: Jonah

Wisconsin.

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He wasn't ready to give up the blinding winters.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 08, 2022 08:37 AM (sVtYq)

242 234 So do we know anything about the Abe assassin yet?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 08, 2022 08:36 AM (ESjRY)

Yes. Read up. That way. *point north*

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 08, 2022 08:37 AM (mE7cY)

243 234 So do we know anything about the Abe assassin yet?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 08, 2022 08:36 AM (ESjRY)

He wasn't a ninja.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 08, 2022 08:37 AM (Y5qcH)

244 When I learned that I - just a guy with a good W2 job - could afford to buy the likes of John Bolton (assuming I had the connections and access, which I don't), it actually did shock me.

The downside of all that would be - you'd be stuck with ownership of friggin' John Bolton.

Posted by: Once More With Feeling at July 08, 2022 08:37 AM (vwb+V)

245 Good luck, JJ. But know that you'll always be the second most popular JJ in Wisconsin, at least as long as JJ Watt is alive.

Posted by: Wally at July 08, 2022 08:37 AM (FJYfm)

246 234 So do we know anything about the Abe assassin yet?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 08, 2022 08:36 AM (ESjRY)

"John Wilkes Boothe, Fat!"

- - Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 08, 2022 08:37 AM (s2VJv)

247 "I feared for my life. I want my lawyer."
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And say nothing else.

Sage advice.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 08, 2022 08:37 AM (5p7BC)

248 I've yet to meet someone who's fleeing a blue shithole and not bringing their political and social baggage along for the ride. They're uncomfortable where they are but they've no idea how or why that is.

Two months into their new life in "rural, red America" and they're bitching about the lack of a charging station for their EV and no Whole Foods.

Locusts. Always locusts.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 08, 2022 08:38 AM (BFigT)

249 At least, this has been my experience in the upstate.
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 08, 2022 08:30 AM (sVtYq)

Heartening to hear.

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

250 241
He wasn't ready to give up the blinding winters.
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 08, 2022 08:37 AM (sVtYq)

I was. The wife wasn't. Plus, it's the mother-in-laws house she inherited that's the clincher.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 08, 2022 08:38 AM (s2VJv)

251 So how is it "strategic" if we just give it away?

And it is just giving it away. We don't need the money since we can simply print more. If it was "strategic" it would be a strategy to only be ours.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - How Joe Biden is just like the Founding Fathers, no seriously at July 08, 2022 08:39 AM (QsOFZ)

252 Goody, we have a Talking Points Troll.

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

253 JJ - first thing you do is buy a Packers jersey so as to disguise your New Yorkishness.
Posted by: Grammie winger's ipad at July 08, 2022 08:36 AM (S7ug5)
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Definitely. Also, I hear the custom is to hang a slice of cheese from your car's radio antenna every morning before heading out. If your car doesn't have an external aerial, sell it and buy a car that does. Ideally, get an AMC Eagle to maximize your Wisconsiness.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 08:39 AM (WWh8n)

254 Very sorry about Shinzo Abe. I remember a picture of he and his wife and Trump and Melania smiling and feeding koi from a bridge when the Trumps visited Japan. He seemed like a decent, good man.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 08, 2022 08:40 AM (FZ2cV)

255 You know, I can't blame Abe for not apologizing for shit that happened before his time. I don't apologize for shit that happened before I was born either.

Posted by: Once More With Feeling at July 08, 2022 08:40 AM (vwb+V)

256 "Unofficial message: don't bring a baseball bat to a gunfight."

True Dat.

But to be fair, up until now the media has portrayed the Squeegee Kids (SKs) as peaceful yutes, trying to eek out a living, and trying to turn their lives around.

Unfortunately, the Police Commissioner said the quiet part out loud at the news conference when he explained that they had just arrested ANOTHER SK at the same intersection with a gun less than an hour earlier.
Prior to that, there was no publicized confirmation by law enforcement nor the Mayor that these folk are known to be illegally armed and dangerous.

Gonna see a whole lot of red-light running downtown from here on out.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 08, 2022 08:40 AM (uLr+K)

257 Cool thing about Wisconsin is they sell beer everywhere.

Churches. Hospital waiting rooms. Dunkin Donuts.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 08, 2022 08:40 AM (mE7cY)

258 The exodus to the red states (which JJ is a part of) is a sign that we have all given up on the idea of ever reforming the blue states. They are on their own, the only option for any rational person is to get out. (and it should be pretty obvious what's going to happen after every rational person leaves)

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 08, 2022 08:40 AM (r46W7)

259 How did Abe's security detail not have his back? Serious question, he's the former PM. Were they only watching forward?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 08, 2022 08:40 AM (Rcp6g)

260 Two months into their new life in "rural, red America" and they're bitching about the lack of a charging station for their EV and no Whole Foods.

**

Ha. I recently heard someone at a Dollar General out in Bumf*ck, NC talking about how amazing it was that they could buy something there for so much cheaper than at the whole foods in Greenville where they usually shop.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - How Joe Biden is just like the Founding Fathers, no seriously at July 08, 2022 08:40 AM (QsOFZ)

261 The downside of all that would be - you'd be stuck with ownership of friggin' John Bolton.
Posted by: Once More With Feeling at July 08, 2022 08:37 AM (vwb+V)
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Eh, it's a time share at worst. One of the reasons these guys are so cheap is that, like other whores, they sell themselves more than once...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 08:41 AM (WWh8n)

262 258 Cool thing about Wisconsin is they sell beer everywhere.

Churches. Hospital waiting rooms. Dunkin Donuts.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 08, 2022 08:40 AM (mE7cY)

day care centers.

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

263 JJ - first thing you do is buy a Packers jersey so as to disguise your New Yorkishness.
Posted by: Grammie winger's

And then learn ice-back lingo, don'tcha know.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 08, 2022 08:41 AM (c8pZY)

264 Posted by: Paul at July 08, 2022 08:38 AM (9LVM2)

Hi and bye, trolly.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 08, 2022 08:41 AM (FZ2cV)

265 Disclose.tv
@disclosetv
2m
JUST IN - United States nonfarm payrolls rise by 372,000 in June, much higher than expected.
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Although we still have 11 million job openings.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 08, 2022 08:41 AM (NpAcC)

266 Cheese bagel head!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at July 08, 2022 08:41 AM (yikp0)

267 Good luck, JJ. But know that you'll always be the second most popular JJ in Wisconsin, at least as long as JJ Watt is alive.

Posted by: Wally at July 08, 2022 08:37 AM

Vat?!

Posted by: Yohn Yohnsen at July 08, 2022 08:41 AM (RkC6l)

268 260 How did Abe's security detail not have his back? Serious question, he's the former PM. Were they only watching forward?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 08, 2022 08:40 AM (Rcp6g)

they believed there were no guns in Japan.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 08, 2022 08:42 AM (r46W7)

269 I can't believe Abe never apologized for all the damage Godzilla did.

Posted by: Wally at July 08, 2022 08:42 AM (FJYfm)

270 Ha. I recently heard someone at a Dollar General out in Bumf*ck, NC talking about how amazing it was that they could buy something there for so much cheaper than at the whole foods in Greenville where they usually shop.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - How Joe Biden is just like the Founding Fathers, no seriously at July 08, 2022 08:40 AM (QsOFZ)
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It's crazy how cheap cars are here!

Posted by: Ferrari customer at the Hyundai dealer at July 08, 2022 08:42 AM (WWh8n)

271 Your writing will be more positive once you get out of NYC and see the madness hasn’t spread to most of the country yet. Just stay out of Madison.

Posted by: Sean at July 08, 2022 08:42 AM (2oHWb)

272 In fairness I don't want America apologizing for sh*t, either.

You can't judge past actors who were acting in accordance with past morals and ethics by our modern standards. Especially our "woke" modern standards. F*ck you if you think otherwise.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - How Joe Biden is just like the Founding Fathers, no seriously at July 08, 2022 08:42 AM (QsOFZ)

273
I wonder if Abe's assassination is Xi clearing the decks for his functional elevation to New Mao(Same taste as the Old Mao but with new delightful Silly Old Bear packaging!) this Fall.

Abe was one of the strongest proponents of changing the Japanese constitution to allow Japan to defend itself better (against China) and one of the strongest voices pushing for defense of Taiwan since Senile Joe has not said he'll defend Taiwan should China invade.

Which, you know, plays directly into the question of Will the US defend Japan?

Posted by: naturalfake at July 08, 2022 08:43 AM (5NkmN)

274 @disclosetv
JUST IN - United States nonfarm payrolls rise by 372,000 in June, much higher than expected. ...
Posted by: redridinghood at July 08, 2022 08:41 AM (NpAcC)
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:: exhales heavily ::

I've been holding my breath waiting for this report. I expected a decline because we're in the opening stages of what promises to be a fairly serious recession. This won't last, but I'm glad it hasn't given up yet.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 08:43 AM (WWh8n)

275 255 Very sorry about Shinzo Abe. I remember a picture of he and his wife and Trump and Melania smiling and feeding koi from a bridge when the Trumps visited Japan. He seemed like a decent, good man.

I remember that.

The Orange Ogre was trying to kill all the fish according to the commies.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 08, 2022 08:44 AM (89T5c)

276 I figured these guys selling out their country and making deals with the devil would be pulling serious coin - not less than the cost of a cheap midsized car.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Huh, I never thought of that.

Who should I buy? I think it would be kind of cool to have a pet politician. I could make them read things like "Madison Cornbread" into the congressional record.

Too bad Katie Hill quit, she would have been a good choice.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 08, 2022 08:44 AM (5p7BC)

277 ++++
It's crazy how cheap cars are here!
Posted by: Ferrari customer at the Hyundai dealer at July 08, 2022 08:42 AM (WWh8n)

I LOL'd.

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

278 JUST IN - United States nonfarm payrolls rise by 372,000 in June, much higher than expected. ...

*

I'm betting lots and lots of people who were retired decided "uh, better not."

Posted by: Moron Robbie - How Joe Biden is just like the Founding Fathers, no seriously at July 08, 2022 08:44 AM (QsOFZ)

279 WHO says Ghana has reported two suspected cases of Marburg Virus.
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"Marburg virus disease is a highly virulent disease that causes haemorrhagic fever, with a fatality ratio of up to 88%."

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at July 08, 2022 08:44 AM (yikp0)

280 Ben & Jerry’s Sues Corporate Parent Unilever To Thwart Sale Of Branded Ice Cream In Jewish Quarter of Old City, Judea and Samaria
________

Why would anyone there buy the shit?

Posted by: Eeyore at July 08, 2022 08:44 AM (TgBWG)

281 Good article by Maureen Callahan on the corrupt, cognitively impaired, creepy and clueless Bidens.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 08, 2022 08:44 AM (FZ2cV)

282 "I remember a picture of he and his wife and Trump and Melania smiling and killing koi from a bridge when the Trumps visited Japan."

FIFY

Posted by: The Media at July 08, 2022 08:44 AM (sn5EN)

283 JJ - prepare yourself.

Have you seen wild animals before? They have this thing called deer, dontcha know?

Shocking to see for city dwellers. They look like Bambi but folks eat them. After shooting them from their car during rush hour.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 08, 2022 08:45 AM (mE7cY)

284 Abe was killed with a homemade firearm.

Derp all gun grabbers.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 08, 2022 08:45 AM (Y5qcH)

285 @disclosetv
JUST IN - United States nonfarm payrolls rise by 372,000 in June, much higher than expected. ...
Posted by: redridinghood at July 08, 2022 08:41 AM (NpAcC)

Nonfarm = Government Jobs

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 08, 2022 08:45 AM (Zz0t1)

286

Godzilla was "mostly peaceful." Or so I have been led to believe.

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

287 Has Senile Joe said anything offensively stupid about the Abe murder yet?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, at July 08, 2022 08:45 AM (eGTCV)

288 259 The exodus to the red states (which JJ is a part of) is a sign that we have all given up on the idea of ever reforming the blue states. They are on their own, the only option for any rational person is to get out. (and it should be pretty obvious what's going to happen after every rational person leaves)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 08, 2022 08:40 AM (r46W7)

^^^This^^^

I traded Iowa (which has an incipient liberal streak) for Oklahoma five years ago. Haven't regretted it for one second.

Well, that's not entirely true. I regret not doing it five years sooner.

Posted by: creeper at July 08, 2022 08:45 AM (cTCuP)

289 Unfortunately, the Police Commissioner said the quiet part out loud at the news conference when he explained that they had just arrested ANOTHER SK at the same intersection with a gun less than an hour earlier.
Prior to that, there was no publicized confirmation by law enforcement nor the Mayor that these folk are known to be illegally armed and dangerous.

Gonna see a whole lot of red-light running downtown from here on out.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

Prefer to see a whole shitload of SK's being shot while approaching cars. Running reds are dangerous to innocent motorists.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 08, 2022 08:45 AM (c8pZY)

290 Tha American Thinker article is pretty much spot on. Look at states that were solidly red that are now blue or purple. Lefties that retire and move to blue states a lot of the time quite simply can’t afford to live where the voted and worked. At best it’s a 50/50 mix of dipshit leftists and conservatives.

Just give it time. Between Dem/lefty lawlessness, illegal immigration even Texas will return to being blue as it once was. Locusts.

Posted by: JROD at July 08, 2022 08:45 AM (nsFgR)

291 @disclosetv
JUST IN - United States nonfarm payrolls rise by 372,000 in June, much higher than expected. ...
Posted by: redridinghood at July 08, 2022 08:41 AM (NpAcC)

Check the "seasonal adjustment". It's probably +400,000.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 08, 2022 08:46 AM (Y5qcH)

292 276 I figured these guys selling out their country and making deals with the devil would be pulling serious coin - not less than the cost of a cheap midsized car.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
-----------
Huh, I never thought of that.

Who should I buy? I think it would be kind of cool to have a pet politician. I could make them read things like "Madison Cornbread" into the congressional record.

Too bad Katie Hill quit, she would have been a good choice.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 08, 2022 08:44 AM (5p7BC)

As Joe noted above the payments are more in exchange for favors or support on a given issue, they generally aren't owned outright by one group. That Senate seat Blagojevich tried to sell for 1 million would've been paid for by selling out a multitude of times for smaller amounts.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 08, 2022 08:46 AM (b2nrj)

293 2m
JUST IN - United States nonfarm payrolls rise by 372,000 in June, much higher than expected.

Praise Biden! I remember when "only" adding 300,000 jobs was a complete disaster.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 08, 2022 08:46 AM (AutJR)

294 279 WHO says Ghana has reported two suspected cases of Marburg Virus.

"Marburg virus disease is a highly virulent disease that causes haemorrhagic fever, with a fatality ratio of up to 88%."
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at July 08, 2022 08:44 AM (yikp0)

"Marburg vs Madison? Abolish the court!"

- - Titty Caca, stacked but stupid

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 08, 2022 08:46 AM (s2VJv)

295 "Who should I buy?"

I believe it is morally wrong to purchase another human being.

But....how much to rent Lauren Boebert for a bit?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 08, 2022 08:46 AM (uLr+K)

296 U.S has to protect Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan at all costs.

If we do not, no other countries int he World will ever trust us again.

Pentagon and their crony defense contractors make billions off protecting these countries also

Posted by: Jonah at July 08, 2022 08:47 AM (WY8d2)

297 Yeah, it's a weird situation where even though companies are beginning to turtle, many are still trying to fill open positions from Covid times.

It won't last. Those two curves will meet in the fall.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 08, 2022 08:47 AM (mE7cY)

298 This Is How We Lose: Ohio Gov on Defense Over Dubious Tale of 10-Year-Old Rape Victim Who Fled to Indiana for Abortion
______

The trouble is that this is by Megan Fox, who is not reliable, or even stable. So it goes in the "maybe" pile.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 08, 2022 08:47 AM (TgBWG)

299 Imagine if the dead bodega-beatdown guy had brought a buck fifty into the store, instead of intent to rough up the owner.

Posted by: 496 at July 08, 2022 08:47 AM (VJsqe)

300 It's going to take a few months before JJ starts saying 'Oh, Jeez!' on the podcast.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 08, 2022 08:47 AM (lTGtQ)

301 ________

Why would anyone there buy the shit?
Posted by: Eeyore at July 08, 2022 08:44 AM (TgBWG)

Last time my wife bought some, I quietly uttered the quote from Lou Brown (Major League): "Don't ever fuckin' do that again."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 08, 2022 08:47 AM (Zz0t1)

302 >Godzilla was "mostly peaceful." Or so I have been led to believe.

aspiring rapper, trying to turn his life around

Posted by: DB - Unless I'm Wrong at July 08, 2022 08:47 AM (geLO8)

303 Making a senator your personal meat puppet probably costs closer to a couple million these days.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 08, 2022 08:47 AM (b2nrj)

304 The part of PA i am in is deeeeeeeep red. Itnis just unfortunate that the state has a deep blue area to drown it out. And a bunch of gope squishes in harrisburg.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 08, 2022 08:48 AM (AutJR)

305 Posted by: Eeyore at July 08, 2022 08:44 AM (TgBWG)

I haven't bought their ice cream since their initial anti Israel screeds two or more years ago.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 08, 2022 08:48 AM (FZ2cV)

306 This Is How We Lose: Ohio Gov on Defense Over Dubious Tale of 10-Year-Old Rape Victim Who Fled to Indiana for Abortion

*

So the takeaway is that she was still able to get her valuable abortion?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - How Joe Biden is just like the Founding Fathers, no seriously at July 08, 2022 08:48 AM (QsOFZ)

307 The exodus out of blue states to red is more economic than ideological. Also fleeing violence. There are plenty of democrats among the refugees who will bring their voting habits with them, not understanding how their votes promote what they flee.

Posted by: davidt at July 08, 2022 08:48 AM (oTZbj)

308 300 It's going to take a few months before JJ starts saying 'Oh, Jeez!' on the podcast.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 08, 2022 08:47 AM (lTGtQ)

You can take the kid out of Brooklyn, etc.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 08, 2022 08:48 AM (s2VJv)

309 Speaking of EV charging stations, saw a picture yesterday of 30 cars lined up to use one.

Also heard bitching about the cost to charge their cars. Usually they are having to pay between $12 and $45, but one woman got hit with a $152 charge.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 08, 2022 08:48 AM (5p7BC)

310 I'm jealous. I hate it here every day and can't wait to get out. That won't be for several more years unfortunately.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 08, 2022 08:48 AM (EZebt)

311 "Marburg virus disease is a highly virulent disease that causes haemorrhagic fever, with a fatality ratio of up to 88%."
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at July 08, 2022 08:44 AM (yikp0)

-------
That'd get us down to the Georgia Guidelines population cap pretty quickly.

Posted by: 496 at July 08, 2022 08:48 AM (VJsqe)

312 The real crime Alba committed was killing a black man. That is the message they are trying to send. Unless you are also black, killing someone who is black, regardless of the circumstances, is illegal.

Posted by: Dave in Fla

That is what they are saying, without saying it. Everyone gets it.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 08, 2022 08:49 AM (lTGtQ)

313 This Is How We Lose: Ohio Gov on Defense Over Dubious Tale of 10-Year-Old Rape Victim Who Fled to Indiana for Abortion

*

Say, doesn't the "morning after" pill still exist?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - How Joe Biden is just like the Founding Fathers, no seriously at July 08, 2022 08:49 AM (QsOFZ)

314 VIA - Boebert was at the top of my list, but I think she is one of the few not for sale.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 08, 2022 08:50 AM (5p7BC)

315 JUST IN - United States nonfarm payrolls rise by 372,000 in June, much higher than expected.

Praise Biden! I remember when "only" adding 300,000 jobs was a complete disaster.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

That's 6,000 jobs per state.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 08, 2022 08:50 AM (c8pZY)

316 Today is a big expiration day for many Call options. So even with a good jobs report, the market is down due to the ruthless market makers trying to screw over call holders.

Posted by: Jonah at July 08, 2022 08:50 AM (WY8d2)

317 Sysco, the largest U.S. food distributor, joins other businesses in accusing the four largest meat processors of price fixing.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at July 08, 2022 08:50 AM (yikp0)

318 So far the site seems to be working faster and better today.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 08, 2022 08:51 AM (NpAcC)

319 $45 to charge an electric car? Ah hahahahaha.

Posted by: fd at July 08, 2022 08:51 AM (sn5EN)

320 .
@PhilipWegmann
: "You seemed to dismiss Peter's question about his conversation with his son Hunter Biden...how is that silence consistent with the president's promise to always level with the American public?"

KJP: "I can not comment on any materials from the laptop."

Get used to hearing this dodge. Until such time as reporters beyond Ducey and Wegmann start asking, that is, and that might be never (unless the Democrats decide Joe Must Go).

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 08, 2022 08:51 AM (+v9Cm)

321 Nonfarm = Government Jobs
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 08, 2022 08:45 AM (Zz0t1)
++++
Not according to this month's release. Most of the growth is in the professional/business services, hospitality (specifically restaurants and bars) and medical. Per the release:
Employment showed little change over the month in other major industries, including construction, retail trade, financial activities, other services, and government.

We'll see what the inevitable adjustments say.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 08:51 AM (WWh8n)

322 @207 In the old days, China would export opium...

The dog kind of ate your homework on this one, no?

Posted by: Stringer Davis at July 08, 2022 08:51 AM (videA)

323 285 @disclosetv
JUST IN - United States nonfarm payrolls rise by 372,000 in June, much higher than expected. ...
Posted by: redridinghood at July 08, 2022 08:41 AM (NpAcC)

Nonfarm = Government Jobs
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 08, 2022 08:45 AM

And I'd be skeptical of where those figures came from.

Posted by: creeper at July 08, 2022 08:51 AM (cTCuP)

324 one woman got hit with a $152 charge.

A charge charge?

Posted by: Squid at July 08, 2022 08:51 AM (qdTex)

325 Speaking of EV charging stations, saw a picture yesterday of 30 cars lined up to use one.

Also heard bitching about the cost to charge their cars. Usually they are having to pay between $12 and $45, but one woman got hit with a $152 charge.
Posted by: Dave in Fla
*

I posted a link in the ONT about a video comparison between a normal truck and a new Electric Ford Lightning towing a small 6000 pound RV. Spoilers: The EV Ford made it from north Denver to south Denver before needing to stop for a break.

https://youtu.be/-e55Vued028

Worth a watch if you were wondering about tow capacities of EV trucks.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - How Joe Biden is just like the Founding Fathers, no seriously at July 08, 2022 08:51 AM (QsOFZ)

326 Also heard bitching about the cost to charge their cars. Usually they are having to pay between $12 and $45, but one woman got hit with a $152 charge.

*gazes upon a barren field of fucks*

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 08, 2022 08:52 AM (89T5c)

327 Imagine if the dead bodega-beatdown guy had brought a buck fifty into the store, instead of intent to rough up the owner.
Posted by: 496 at July 08, 2022 08:47 AM (VJsqe)

Civilized people walk into a store, buy what they want and leave.

A feral savage walks into a store, intent on stealing and or assaulting someone. Glad the store owner took him out. Probably saved other lives the feral savage would have wrecked down the road.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 08, 2022 08:52 AM (DDw5Y)

328 Remember the shock throughout the left when they realized that no one Rittenhouse killed was black?

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 08, 2022 08:52 AM (5p7BC)

329 Speaking of EV charging stations, saw a picture yesterday of 30 cars lined up to use one.

Also heard bitching about the cost to charge their cars. Usually they are having to pay between $12 and $45, but one woman got hit with a $152 charge.
Posted by: Dave in Fla

Wave the bill around! Wave. The. Bill. Around!!!
Virtue signal!!!

Posted by: rickb223 at July 08, 2022 08:52 AM (c8pZY)

330 Oh yeah, and then the EV Lightning and the small RV blocked the Target parking lot while recharging for another 80 mile drive to find a charger, which is hilarious in itself.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - How Joe Biden is just like the Founding Fathers, no seriously at July 08, 2022 08:52 AM (QsOFZ)

331 And welcome to WI, JJ!

Just keep in mind the urban areas of WI are just as dangerous as the urban areas of other states.

Posted by: davidt at July 08, 2022 08:52 AM (oTZbj)

332 "but I think she is one of the few not for sale."

I used to always say...

My affections can't be bought.

But, my rental rates aren't bad.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 08, 2022 08:53 AM (uLr+K)

333 Ben & Jerry’s Sues Corporate Parent Unilever To Thwart Sale Of Branded Ice Cream In Jewish Quarter of Old City, Judea and Samaria

Think of the cognitive dissonance. Ben and Jerry sell their socialist ice cream company to make millions for themselves personally, then sue the buyer because the new owner won't be an anti-semite like they are, being good socialists (but now rich).

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 08, 2022 08:53 AM (lTGtQ)

334 "The new data will send shivers up the spines of election fraudsters."
52% Say Cheating Impacted 2020 Election, While 50% Say It Will Blight U.S. Mid Terms
_______

Why shivers? They got away with it, and will likely do so again. The North Korean Media will cover for them, forever.

(To those of us paying attention, this was clear in Nov, 2018, if not earlier. But it took 2020 to get many to see it.)

Posted by: Eeyore at July 08, 2022 08:53 AM (TgBWG)

335 >>> There are plenty of democrats among the refugees who will bring their voting habits with them, not understanding how their votes promote what they flee.
Posted by: davidt at July 08, 2022 08:48 AM (oTZbj)

They understand. They are nihilists that want to see the world burn. Once their location becomes engulfed in flames they move on to another and start setting things alight.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 08, 2022 08:53 AM (E9ZCZ)

336 JJ is moving to Wis? That is great

Posted by: Jonah at July 08, 2022 08:54 AM (WY8d2)

337 I'm jealous. I hate it here every day and can't wait to get out. That won't be for several more years unfortunately.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 08, 2022 08:48 AM (EZebt)
++++
I've been meaning to ask you about your nic. Several years ago, I was flying in to SFO and I saw a storefront in the airport that - unless I misread it - was called "San Franpsycho." Is that the name of a local store there?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 08:54 AM (WWh8n)

338 Dint think I could be shocked anymore.
But gosh, PM Abe?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty of BAD TRUMPY MANS! at July 08, 2022 08:54 AM (pbX1I)

339 Worth a watch if you were wondering about tow capacities of EV trucks.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - How Joe Biden is just like the Founding Fathers, no seriously at July 08, 2022 08:51 AM (QsOFZ)

A car magazine had a (half) cross country race between a Model S and a Model T.

Spoiler, the Model S won. By about 1.5 hrs. To a hundred year old car with 29 HP.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 08, 2022 08:54 AM (Y5qcH)

340 Good luck with the move JJ. Gonna be weird moving on your birthday. Thanks for this read every morning.

Posted by: ... at July 08, 2022 08:55 AM (tkQF5)

341 A $152 charge charge!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at July 08, 2022 08:55 AM (yikp0)

342 The Bidens sell everything that's not nailed down. Everything is a Grift with these crims.

I expect to see a line of Ashley Biden Shower Accessories almost any time now.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at July 08, 2022 08:55 AM (Ndje9)

343 A car magazine had a (half) cross country race between a Model S and a Model T.

Spoiler, the Model S won. By about 1.5 hrs. To a hundred year old car with 29 HP.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 08, 2022 08:54 AM (Y5qcH)
++++
So you're saying that the Model S is both faster and more comfortable and easier to operate than an IC car!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 08:55 AM (WWh8n)

344 I 'm actually rather surprised that the Biden crime family hasn't put a hit on Maureen Callahan and Miranda Devine-
the latter whom, I believe, has also been covering the Biden laptop and family scandals, but since only a comparatively few people read the NYP and Pravda Media American style has mostly been ignoring the story I guess they don't need to. May God keep them both safe.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 08, 2022 08:55 AM (FZ2cV)

345 Also heard bitching about the cost to charge their cars. Usually they are having to pay between $12 and $45, but one woman got hit with a $152 charge.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 08, 2022 08:48 AM (5p7BC)
---------

Can you imagine a new EV owner pulling into his/her first charging station:

"Wait, What? It's not free"

Posted by: WisRich at July 08, 2022 08:55 AM (G0vdT)

346 304

In PA over the holiday and saw that a section of the interstate has been re-named "President Biden Expressway."

Posted by: Ziba at July 08, 2022 08:55 AM (4h9M3)

347 These cities hate the Honkey's until it is time to pay taxes.

In Chicago, Black Partisan women control The Mayor's office, Cook County Chair, and DA's office.

North side of Chicago pays all the taxes like Sheep

Posted by: Jonah at July 08, 2022 08:56 AM (WY8d2)

348
I haven't bought their ice cream since their initial anti Israel screeds two or more years ago.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 08, 2022 08:48 AM (FZ2cV)

________

Say no to commie Ice cream. Blue Bell FTW.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 08, 2022 08:56 AM (/U27+)

349 What you need is a 3MW battery in the camper to feed the truck while you tow.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 08, 2022 08:56 AM (AutJR)

350 There are plenty of democrats among the refugees who will bring their voting habits with them, not understanding how their votes promote what they flee.
Posted by: davidt at July 08, 2022 08:48 AM (oTZbj)

They understand. They are nihilists that want to see the world burn. Once their location becomes engulfed in flames they move on to another and start setting things alight.
Posted by: banana Dream at July 08, 2022 08:53 AM (E9ZCZ)

I think it's simpler than that. Urban living requires a certain degree of collectivism. That's a hard habit to break. It'll be interesting to see how JJ does with it.

Might make for a good journal topic - NYC resident slowly adjusts to culture shock of rural Wisconsin.

Posted by: Once More With Feeling at July 08, 2022 08:56 AM (vwb+V)

351 I expect to see a line of Ashley Biden Shower Accessories almost any time now.
Posted by: The Gipper Lives at July 08, 2022 08:55 AM (Ndje9)
++++
Bitch better stay in her lane.

Posted by: Gweneth Paltrow at July 08, 2022 08:56 AM (WWh8n)

352 That's 6,000 jobs per state.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 08, 2022 08:50 AM (c8pZY)

A red state vs blue comparison would be interesting

Posted by: 7man at July 08, 2022 08:56 AM (qwO6y)

353 Just give it time. Between Dem/lefty lawlessness, illegal immigration even Texas will return to being blue as it once was. Locusts.
Posted by: JROD at July 08, 2022 08:45 AM (nsFgR)

Wait and see what's happening to the Texas hispanic vote. Texas is moving towards being 75% red, and will stay there for at least a generation or two.

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

354 This Is How We Lose: Ohio Gov on Defense Over Dubious Tale of 10-Year-Old Rape Victim Who Fled to Indiana for Abortion

*

Say, doesn't the "morning after" pill still exist?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - How Joe Biden is just like the Founding Fathers, no seriously at July 08, 2022 08:49 AM (QsOFZ)

The baby killers are wailing and gnashing their teeth because the trigger law that went into effect after Dobbs limits abortion at the 6 weeks mark.

DeWine is worthless. He's better than the whale the Dems have lined up with her CRT/pro-grooming stances.

Posted by: WiNO - Time for a Marriage Amendment at July 08, 2022 08:56 AM (EpDzw)

355 It takes a special kind of psycho to make a homemade shotgun(electrically fired?) to kill a political figure.

Posted by: davidt at July 08, 2022 08:56 AM (oTZbj)

356 Alba shows good technique: going for the carotid upfront. Looks like he hit it first try.

Oh, and fuck NYC. I lived there for a while. Full of leftard morons who believe you just have to sing "kumbaya" and the criminals will stop criminaling.

You voted for this shit, you get what you voted for.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 08, 2022 08:56 AM (vcv8B)

357 A car magazine had a (half) cross country race between a Model S and a Model T.

Spoiler, the Model S won. By about 1.5 hrs. To a hundred year old car with 29 HP.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

Bwahahahahahahaha

Posted by: rickb223 at July 08, 2022 08:56 AM (c8pZY)

358
In PA over the holiday and saw that a section of the interstate has been re-named "President Biden Expressway."

Posted by: Ziba at July 08, 2022 08:55 AM (4h9M3)

___________

Have to pay 10% more in that section.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 08, 2022 08:57 AM (/U27+)

359 jj - hope the move goes smoothly. Congrats on your Escape from New York.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 08, 2022 08:57 AM (JzDjf)

360 Assassination of PM Abe a foreshadowing of what's to come?

Posted by: Ziba at July 08, 2022 08:57 AM (4h9M3)

361 charge charge Horde Mind

And, off, old sock number.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 08, 2022 08:57 AM (yikp0)

362 Ben and Jerry-two more leftist Jews (JINO's) who hate Israel.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 08, 2022 08:57 AM (FZ2cV)

363 I've yet to meet someone who's fleeing a blue shithole and not bringing their political and social baggage along for the ride. They're uncomfortable where they are but they've no idea how or why that is.

Two months into their new life in "rural, red America" and they're bitching about the lack of a charging station for their EV and no Whole Foods.

Locusts. Always locusts.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 08, 2022 08:38 AM (BFigT)

I would love to move to rural red America. I don't have an EV and have never shopped at a Whole Foods in my life. I can't imagine anything here in MA that I would pine for in another state.

So long as I have a good used book store and a friendly local pub, I think I would be happy.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 08, 2022 08:57 AM (2JVJo)

364 Interview yesterday on Triggernometry with Brett Weinstein in which he itemized several potential extinction level events we're facing without any effort to address them. 1. Failure to prepare outdated power grids if knocked out by solar flares (imagine a major urban area losing electricity for months). 2. failure to remove nuclear waste into deep storage but retaining it in a state dependent on a constant stream of cool water. If water supply is cut off, sayonara to surrounding civilization in short order. 3. unchecked gain-of-function research still ongoing.

His point was ignorance, arrogance and incompetence of institutional leadership across the globe are unlike any time in the past and threaten human survival.

Cheers. Video has been scrubbed from youtube.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 08, 2022 08:57 AM (H8QX8)

365 Just wanted to jump in quick and say, "Happy travels" to JJS!!

Posted by: Brunnhilde at July 08, 2022 08:58 AM (aW5/6)

366 Speaking of EV charging stations, saw a picture yesterday of 30 cars lined up to use one.

Also heard bitching about the cost to charge their cars. Usually they are having to pay between $12 and $45, but one woman got hit with a $152 charge.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 08, 2022 08:48 AM (5p7BC)
*******
The other day I was thinking about all the apartment complexes across the country and how it would be impossible to charge all the resident's cars if everyone in the complex had an electric car.

Imagine the fights that would happen fighting over the 1-2 charging stations.

Right now most complexes don't have any charging stations.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 08, 2022 08:58 AM (NpAcC)

367 I 'm actually rather surprised that the Biden crime family hasn't put a hit on Maureen Callahan and Miranda Devine-
==================
Miranda Devine is a great reporter. ANd has a voice I could listenn to all day long.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 08, 2022 08:58 AM (+v9Cm)

368 Yep. Instead of Mobil or Shell on the corner, it would just adapt to Com Ed Or Power stations where Electricity is $5 a unit suckers.

No way in Hell, Local, State or County gubmints will give gas tax revenue.

Reason they pushed pot when Cig use went down

Posted by: Jonah at July 08, 2022 08:58 AM (WY8d2)

369 On the bright side, today is my last day working in the blue sh*thole they call Oakland.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 08, 2022 08:58 AM (EZebt)

370 313 Say, doesn't the "morning after" pill still exist?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - How Joe Biden is just like the Founding Fathers, no seriously at July 08, 2022 08:49 AM (QsOFZ)

Only on capsized ocean liners . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 08, 2022 08:58 AM (s2VJv)

371 Might make for a good journal topic - NYC resident slowly adjusts to culture shock of rural Wisconsin.
Posted by: Once More With Feeling at July 08, 2022 08:56 AM (vwb+V)

Make a TV series, hire a Hungarian actress who looks like Zsa Zsa Gabor.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 08, 2022 08:59 AM (r46W7)

372 > Also heard bitching about the cost to charge their cars. Usually they are having to pay between $12 and $45, but one woman got hit with a $152 charge.
____________

Yet, you still hear EV owners claim they either pay "nothing" or "practically nothing" to charge their vehicles. It's obviously bullshit, but so many people still believe it.

My electric COOP puts out a monthly magazine and a couple issues ago had some pretty useful info on what it takes, money and power wise to home charge an EV. The costs are nowhere near "nothing." In fact, depending on the type of charging kit required for the EV it could cost 10's of thousands of dollars to get one installed and hooked up to the grid. Assuming it can support it.

Lastly, with the junta's crippling energy policies I think the "free" charging stations at businesses and elsewhere are a thing of the past.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 08, 2022 08:59 AM (BFigT)

373 Thanks, JJ. Congrats, and a safe trip to your new home.

Posted by: Lola at July 08, 2022 08:59 AM (NIYa7)

374 U.S has to protect Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan at all costs.

If we do not, no other countries int he World will ever trust us again.

So what? I don't trust anyone in power in the former United States. Other nations need to fledge, leave the nest and strike out on their own.

I can't afford the parasites in this country, and the Party Military hasn't done a damned thing to secure freedom or do anything of value for We The People in over seventy years.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 08, 2022 08:59 AM (AHeqJ)

375 Wait and see what's happening to the Texas hispanic vote. Texas is moving towards being 75% red, and will stay there for at least a generation or two.

That's the joke on "W". He hoped legal immigrants from Central America would be natural Republicans, with a deference to the New England Republicanism sold by the Bush clan for decades.

Turns out, they're Nationalist Populists, more like the politics sold by Trump. I'll wager, if you caught "W" in an honest moment now - he'd prefer to send them all back.

Posted by: Once More With Feeling at July 08, 2022 09:00 AM (vwb+V)

376 On Tucker last night re: Mr Alba: it's the same with the DA in Rittenhouse trial when he chastised Rittenhouse " hey, everyone gets beat up once in awhile. "

Mr Rittenhouse changed a lot of people's thinking on both sides. I believe it has a bit to do with why there was no mass violence after Roe decision. Plus Ds being in charge and it would be a bad look.

The Rooftop Koreans were very effective. Many can learn from that and Mr Rittenhouse.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 08, 2022 09:00 AM (NW9xb)

377 Nuclear waste, specifically spent fuel rods, only need to be constantly cooled for 10-15 years. After that they don't generate enough decay heat to damage themselves and can be moved to dry storage.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 08, 2022 09:00 AM (Y5qcH)

378 JJ the cheesehead

even if I squint really, really hard

can't see it

Posted by: REDACTED at July 08, 2022 09:00 AM (us2H3)

379 I've said it before, but I'm truly and genuinely excited to watch charging stations at section 8 housing projects.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - screw anyone here who thinks he should tell Americans what they need or should buy at July 08, 2022 09:00 AM (agX07)

380 I think the White House is missing a sure thing in the "rubbing our noses in it" category; why wasn't Hunter awarded the Medal of Freedom, with crack pipe clusters?

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at July 08, 2022 09:00 AM (ZEHVO)

381 Have to pay 10% more in that section.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Indexed annually.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 08, 2022 09:00 AM (vcv8B)

382 Should be a requirement for any american Jew who hates Israel and supports Palestinans, that they be contestants on
"Survivor: West Bank"

Posted by: Jonah at July 08, 2022 09:00 AM (WY8d2)

383 Has Senile Joe said anything offensively stupid about the Abe murder yet?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, at July 08, 2022 08:45 AM (eGTCV)

I am dreading his utterance. I hope Hapan knows he and his ilk do not speak for the rest of America.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at July 08, 2022 09:01 AM (zjVy3)

384 379 I've said it before, but I'm truly and genuinely excited to watch charging stations at section 8 housing projects.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - screw anyone here who thinks he should tell Americans what they need or should buy at July 08, 2022 09:00 AM (agX07)

What is there to watch? None of them work.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 08, 2022 09:01 AM (b2nrj)

385
I traded Iowa (which has an incipient liberal streak) for Oklahoma five years ago. Haven't regretted it for one second.

Well, that's not entirely true. I regret not doing it five years sooner.
Posted by: creeper at July 08, 2022 08:45 AM (cTCuP)

Did Iowa have state income tax? We're considering OK in the near future, but Texas doesn't have state income tax and I don't want to get boofed by moving there.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 08, 2022 09:01 AM (Zz0t1)

386 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 08, 2022 08:57 AM (2JVJo)

Come here to NE Florida. Just to let you know , it's little hot this time of year.

Posted by: dantesed at July 08, 2022 09:02 AM (88xKn)

387 (To those of us paying attention, this was clear in Nov, 2018, if not earlier. But it took 2020 to get many to see it.)
Posted by: Eeyore at July 08, 2022 08:53 AM (TgBWG)

I've arrived at the point where I refuse to read any article about so-called "elections".

That was added to the previous list of "COVID" and "global warming". There is no truth in any coverage of these now.

Posted by: creeper at July 08, 2022 09:02 AM (cTCuP)

388 Invading a nursing home is not an act designed to win hearts and minds.

Posted by: mr tmz at July 08, 2022 09:02 AM (rJ48h)

389 Might make for a good journal topic - NYC resident slowly adjusts to culture shock of rural Wisconsin.
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Green Acres is the place for me!

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

390 The worst part about interstate moves is having to pick whether time or money is more important, and then preparing to spend a whole lot of the other one.

When I moved last year, time was by far the most important factor, since I had started a new job and didn't have vacation time yet and so was off the clock. I packed everything I could in the lead-up and then took a total of three days off work to finish packing and disassembly, finish cleanup, get the movers in, pack up the container load my vital shit I need for work into the car, and hit the road. I worked from an empty room while I waited for the container to arrive and get movers in for the unload.

But I got a long-haul move done with only three days off work. All it took was a lot of money and discomfort and exhaustion. If I ever do this again, I'm taking more time and damn the consequences.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 09:02 AM (WWh8n)

391 369. Congrats. A's game the other day, had only 2k fans

Posted by: Jonah at July 08, 2022 09:02 AM (WY8d2)

392 So all we get next week is content free EMT's? Or maybe not even that?
Posted by: lowandslow

We'll get NOTHING and LIKE it !

Posted by: JT at July 08, 2022 09:02 AM (T4tVD)

393 2 to 1, JJ is living in Morris Plains NJ within 2 years

Posted by: REDACTED at July 08, 2022 09:03 AM (us2H3)

394 I've said it before, but I'm truly and genuinely excited to watch charging stations at section 8 housing projects.

It'll be like when the starting gun goes off at the beginning of the Hunger Games. I'm hoping to get box seats and season tickets.

Posted by: Once More With Feeling at July 08, 2022 09:03 AM (vwb+V)

395 One more factor, since the effective range on an EV is lower, for a longer trip those ~$30 charges are happening more frequently, along with a nice 45+ minute break while the batteries charge.

The EV is really not a practical choice for anything other that a commute, where you can charge the vehicle at home.

But the $152 bitching still makes me smile.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 08, 2022 09:03 AM (5p7BC)

396 Posted by: Ordinary American at July 08, 2022 08:57 AM (H8QX

It won't take the sun to wipe out the grid. It's deteriorating anyways. But, this worry about the sun has been around for 40 years. Nuclear waste can be solved by running spent rods through a breeder reactor and reusing them. Carter killed several projects in process and even though Reagan rescinded it, no one wants to invest the cash. (see refineries for current reference) Want to fix it? There needs to be an ironclad law that investments like that can't be undone and only phased out after the life of the investment.

Posted by: WiNO - Time for a Marriage Amendment at July 08, 2022 09:03 AM (EpDzw)

397 On Tucker last night re: Mr Alba: it's the same with the DA in Rittenhouse trial when he chastised Rittenhouse " hey, everyone gets beat up once in awhile. "

Never mind the fact that at least one attacker said "I'm going to kill you."

Don't believe your lying ears and just take that whoopin like a MAN!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 08, 2022 09:03 AM (Zz0t1)

398 Might make for a good journal topic - NYC resident slowly adjusts to culture shock of rural Wisconsin.
Posted by: Once More With Feeling at July 08, 2022 08:56 AM

P.J. O'Rourke did something like that back in the day. Iirc, Republican Party Reptile has a chapter on Moving to New Hampshire that was pretty damned funny.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 08, 2022 09:03 AM (RkC6l)

399 FNC reports Biden has "several speaking events today" and hopefully he will "talk about PM Abe."

No, hopefully he won't. He'll make a mess of whatever they tell him to say, starting with pronouncing his name correctly.

Posted by: Ziba at July 08, 2022 09:03 AM (4h9M3)

400 [Lastly, with the junta's crippling energy policies I think the "free" charging stations at businesses and elsewhere are a thing of the past.

You also get the other benefit of capricious vanity intervention in the market: politicians want to receive honor, praise and glory for funding the construction of new charging stations, but don't set aside even one dime for the maintenance of this growing fleet of obsolete rubbish.

More and more of these things are susceptible to vandalism, weathering, and regular wear and tear. The connection "standards" are still evolving making older first generation connections undesirable and thus unmaintained.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 08, 2022 09:03 AM (AHeqJ)

401 382 Should be a requirement for any american Jew who hates Israel and supports Palestinans, that they be contestants on
"Survivor: West Bank"
Posted by: Jonah

Naked and Afraid: Damascus

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 08, 2022 09:04 AM (xSnmX)

402 Did Iowa have state income tax? We're considering OK in the near future, but Texas doesn't have state income tax and I don't want to get boofed by moving there.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 08, 2022 09:01 AM (Zz0t1)

Yes, it did. Oklahoma does, too, but it ranges from 1% to 5%.

Maybe this will help...

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/taxes/oklahoma-state-tax/

Posted by: creeper at July 08, 2022 09:04 AM (cTCuP)

403 Lastly, with the junta's crippling energy policies I think the "free" charging stations at businesses and elsewhere are a thing of the past.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 08, 2022 08:59 AM (BFigT)

Were they ever free? I actually don't know one way or the other however I always assumed the user needed to swipe a credit card in those stations. If they didn't then I'm really pissed because it means I've been paying a lot more for groceries and other items at every business that provides them.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at July 08, 2022 09:04 AM (mVMcL)

404 I've been meaning to ask you about your nic. Several years ago, I was flying in to SFO and I saw a storefront in the airport that - unless I misread it - was called "San Franpsycho." Is that the name of a local store there?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 08:54 AM (WWh8n)

===
I'm currently suing those bastards for trademark infringement.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 08, 2022 09:04 AM (EZebt)

405 I think the White House is missing a sure thing in the "rubbing our noses in it" category; why wasn't Hunter awarded the Medal of Freedom, with crack pipe clusters?
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at July 08, 2022 09:00 AM (ZEHVO)

Might as well. Between Tiger Woods and Megan Rapinoe, the medal has zero significance or value anymore.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 08, 2022 09:04 AM (Zz0t1)

406 Shortly after being filmed screaming 'F*ck Clarence Thomas!!', Lori Lightfoot held a press conference decrying the increase in violence, re: July 4th shooting, saying, 'the toxicity in our public discourse.'...is to blame.

Its mind blowing.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 08, 2022 09:04 AM (mE7cY)

407 I'n glad EV's are an option for people that want them, but I don't think they have a chance of replacing ICE vehicles like politicians want.

Transformational technologies take over very quickly. Horses disappeared from transportation in less than 10 years. EV's have already been around for longer than that.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 08, 2022 09:05 AM (Y5qcH)

408 Lastly, with the junta's crippling energy policies I think the "free" charging stations at businesses and elsewhere are a thing of the past.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 08, 2022 08:59 AM (BFigT)
++++
Yeah, they were always doomed but the schedule is likely accelerating now. Nobody will subsidize EV charging forever. My old office building did it when they put in the charging stations. About 13 months after installation they yelled, "SURPRISE! You pay now!"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 09:05 AM (WWh8n)

409 So all we get next week is content free EMT's? Or maybe not even that?
Posted by: lowandslow

We'll get NOTHING and LIKE it !
Posted by: JT at July 08, 2022 09:02 AM (T4tVD)
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We gotta start transitioning to a lower content threshold to save the planet!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 08, 2022 09:05 AM (K5n5d)

410 Speaking of EV charging stations, saw a picture yesterday of 30 cars lined up to use one.

Also heard bitching about the cost to charge their cars. Usually they are having to pay between $12 and $45, but one woman got hit with a $152 charge.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 08, 2022 08:48 AM (5p7BC)

I look forward to an administration tacking on a surcharge for environmental costs.

Posted by: WiNO - Time for a Marriage Amendment at July 08, 2022 09:05 AM (EpDzw)

411 Turns out, they're Nationalist Populists, more like the politics sold by Trump. I'll wager, if you caught "W" in an honest moment now - he'd prefer to send them all back.
Posted by: Once More With Feeling at July 08, 2022 09:00 AM (vwb+V)

it's amazing and amusing that the architects of our immigration policies could be so blind; working class populations have *always* been populists, in any era. Both party's allowed themselves to be captured by self appointed "elites", which merged into the uniparty. Neither side of the uniparty could see how they were abandoning the vast majority of the people whose votes they took for granted.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 08, 2022 09:05 AM (r46W7)

412 "Did Iowa have state income tax? We're considering OK in the near future, but Texas doesn't have state income tax and I don't want to get boofed by moving there."

South Carolina has just made ALL military retirement State income tax free.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 08, 2022 09:05 AM (uLr+K)

413 Michelle Ye Hee Lee
@myhlee

The first bullet did not hit Abe; he turned around to look back at the gunman after hearing the bullet, and was hit by second bullet in his chest & neck, Nara police said.
Doctors said there were 2 wounds in his neck/chest area.

The gunman hand-made his weapon, police confirm. There were multiple hand-made guns confiscated from his home, similar to the weapon he used in the shooting. The gun was 43cm (nearly 15.7 inches) long.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 08, 2022 09:05 AM (NpAcC)

414 Half my wealth has vanished, cars cost 40% more, houses are similar, real inflation is 30-50%, gas will be $10/gallon by the end of the year and last for decades, but Emmitt Till.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - screw anyone here who thinks he should tell Americans what they need or should buy at July 08, 2022 09:05 AM (agX07)

415 Possibly related to the assassination: China says Japan needs to “get used to” the Chinese navy running drills near Japan.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 08, 2022 09:06 AM (1TuZk)

416 Come here to NE Florida. Just to let you know , it's little hot this time of year.

I used to think of moving to far north NH, finding myself an old farm and buying a pickup with a snowplow, but I'm too old to deal with cold anymore.

I'd like to find some small town in north or south Carolina or perhaps in KY, where there's not much snow, out of hurricane range and, as I said, with a small downtown with a bookstore, cozy pub, general store and so on. A sort of Hanover NH without the imbecilic Dartmouth College.

All academic, though, since I don't believe I ever will be able to leave MA.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 08, 2022 09:06 AM (2JVJo)

417 What is going on with Sarah Palin?

Posted by: Jonah at July 08, 2022 09:06 AM (WY8d2)

418 ---
We gotta start transitioning to a lower content threshold to save the planet!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 08, 2022 09:05 AM (K5n5d)

Bring Back Monty to pinch-hit!!! DOOOMMMM!!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 08, 2022 09:06 AM (r46W7)

419 I'm currently suing those bastards for trademark infringement.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 08, 2022 09:04 AM (EZebt)
++++
Good luck. Tell your gofundme and I'll throw a few bucks into your campaign...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 09:06 AM (WWh8n)

420 Yes, it did. Oklahoma does, too, but it ranges from 1% to 5%.

Maybe this will help...

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/taxes/oklahoma-state-tax/
Posted by: creeper at July 08, 2022 09:04 AM (cTCuP)

That does. Thanks!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 08, 2022 09:06 AM (Zz0t1)

421 The gunman hand-made his weapon, police confirm. There were multiple hand-made guns confiscated from his home, similar to the weapon he used in the shooting. The gun was 43cm (nearly 15.7 inches) long

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GHOST GUNS!!!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - screw anyone here who thinks he should tell Americans what they need or should buy at July 08, 2022 09:06 AM (agX07)

422 Futures drop despite the "strong" jobs report....

Posted by: Ziba at July 08, 2022 09:06 AM (4h9M3)

423 Joe Biden: "I'm saddened by the news that Abe Lincoln was shot."

You know he will.

Posted by: dantesed at July 08, 2022 09:06 AM (88xKn)

424 What is going on with Sarah Palin?
Posted by: Jonah at July 08, 2022 09:06 AM (WY8d2)

Still a GILF. Why?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 08, 2022 09:07 AM (Zz0t1)

425 Possibly related to the assassination: China says Japan needs to “get used to” the Chinese navy running drills near Japan.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 08, 2022 09:06 AM (1TuZk)
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Then maybe China needs to "get used to" a nuclear-armed Japan...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 08, 2022 09:07 AM (K5n5d)

426 414. don't forget that 30% haircut on your 401k

Posted by: Jonah at July 08, 2022 09:07 AM (WY8d2)

427 Want to fix it? There needs to be an ironclad law that investments like that can't be undone and only phased out after the life of the investment.

Your "ironclad" law is called "Constitutional Amendment" even though the 18th didn't fare to well even with that status.

I have saying for quite some time now that for critical infrastructure, it must be removed from the bonds of wicked and corrupt politicians and bureaucrats - ergo, a Constitutional Amendment.

I have no idea what that language would look like, and for practical purposes, the amendment itself might end up several times longer than the Constitution itself.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 08, 2022 09:07 AM (AHeqJ)

428 422 Futures drop despite the "strong" jobs report....

Posted by: Ziba at July 08, 2022 09:06 AM (4h9M3)

I was surprised that Boris resigning and the EDF nationalization didn't have more impact yesterday.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 08, 2022 09:08 AM (b2nrj)

429 423 Joe Biden: "I'm saddened by the news that Abe Lincoln was shot."

You know he will.
Posted by: dantesed at July 08, 2022 09:06 AM (88xKn)

I loved Abe Vigoda in Taxi!

Posted by: Joe Biden at July 08, 2022 09:08 AM (mE7cY)

430 she be running for the House in alaska

Posted by: Jonah at July 08, 2022 09:08 AM (WY8d2)

431 422 Futures drop despite the "strong" jobs report....

Posted by: Ziba at July 08, 2022 09:06 AM (4h9M3)

Yes, it makes a Fed rate hike more likely.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 08, 2022 09:08 AM (Y5qcH)

432 No one needs a truck or to tow a camper more than 85 miles before taking a two hour break.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - screw anyone here who thinks he should tell Americans what they need or should buy at July 08, 2022 09:08 AM (agX07)

433 The gun was 43cm (nearly 15.7 inches) long.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 08, 2022 09:05 AM (NpAcC)

And he was able to just walk right up and start firing.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 08, 2022 09:08 AM (Zz0t1)

434 Thought Abe was the Sausage King of Chicago

Posted by: Jonah at July 08, 2022 09:09 AM (WY8d2)

435 So could you power your house by stealing the juice from a "free charging station"? If so I think I need to get my town to install one in my neighborhood.

Biden-tricity is getting expensive.

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

436 in American politics, to lose your place at the trough

#1 you have to go way off the loon scale

# 2 your lunacy has to be an anathema to your base

there is no punishment for anything outside of these boundaries

Lori's good

Liz Cheney is gone

Posted by: REDACTED at July 08, 2022 09:09 AM (us2H3)

437 well I'm not surprised that the BoJo news had no impact - someone who never did anything guarantees that he will never do anything in the future.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 08, 2022 09:09 AM (r46W7)

438 They changed the "free" charging stations at my work to variable-rate high-cost stations a few years ago. There was a tax incentive for a company to install "free" stations but at some point, that productive-citizen tax-theft diminishes in the amount that's awarded.

The nanosecond after the cost line went under the incentive line they stopped being "free"

Posted by: banana Dream at July 08, 2022 09:09 AM (E9ZCZ)

439 After that they don't generate enough decay heat to damage themselves and can be moved to dry storage.
------------------------------------
Bette Midler's cooch??

Hmm. Brave's dictionary had 'cooch' in it, not reporting it as a spelling error. Hmm.

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

440 Joe Biden: "I'm saddened by the news that Abe Lincoln was shot."

You know he will.
Posted by: dantesed at July 08, 2022 09:06 AM (88xKn)

I loved Abe Vigoda in Taxi!

Posted by: Joe Biden at July 08, 2022 09:08 AM (mE7cY)

Sulu is dead? Oh No! I liked him.

Posted by: Joe Biden at July 08, 2022 09:10 AM (gmo/4)

441 Then maybe China needs to "get used to" a nuclear-armed Japan...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 08, 2022 09:07 AM (K5n5d)

I would just start announcing that the JDF is holding live fire exercises in some "Chinese" fishing area. Oh, sorry about those getting sunk.

Posted by: WiNO - Time for a Marriage Amendment at July 08, 2022 09:10 AM (EpDzw)

442 The new gas stations being constructed here in the Bay Area(7-11’s am pm’s, etc) are being built with about two dozen or more EV charging stations. They are huge. Between the store, separate car wash, vacuum cleaning stations, fuel pumps and charging stations these places take up a lot of real estate.

Posted by: JROD at July 08, 2022 09:10 AM (nsFgR)

443 Me: Does Bond die in the latest movie?

Geeky co-worker: Well, they do things they've never done in a Bond movie before.

Me: That sounds like yes.

We're both bad at conversation here. It's cliche but true, talking is like game, the best play invites the next move.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 08, 2022 09:10 AM (44ww/)

444 Sponge, I don't have any state withholding but somehow I get several hundred dollars back from the state every April.

Real estate prices are a fraction of what they are elsewhere. We have constitutional carry here.

Best of all, the people leave you alone if that's what you want.

On the (sort-of) down side, it's like stepping back in time fifty years if you move to a rural area. The nearest grocery store will probably be twenty miles away (and good luck finding miso) but a good percentage of the products are local.

Posted by: creeper at July 08, 2022 09:10 AM (cTCuP)

445 Then maybe China needs to "get used to" a nuclear-armed Japan...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 08, 2022 09:07 AM (K5n5d)
++++
I suspect that question is moot at this point. Of the Asian countries with the technical and industrial capacity (Japan, Korea, probably Taiwan), I imagine they all have nukes now or soon will. Any that didn't have them before would have been insane to *not* start crash programs within a few weeks after the 2020 elections here. America's security umbrella is extremely questionable now and they need to maintain deterrence through the risk of nuclear vengeance.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 09:10 AM (WWh8n)

446 435 So could you power your house by stealing the juice from a "free charging station"? If so I think I need to get my town to install one in my neighborhood.

Biden-tricity is getting expensive.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 08, 2022 09:09 AM (ESjRY)

I think the long extension cord would be a dead giveaway.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 08, 2022 09:10 AM (r46W7)

447 Your "ironclad" law is called "Constitutional Amendment" even though the 18th didn't fare to well even with that status.

I have saying for quite some time now that for critical infrastructure, it must be removed from the bonds of wicked and corrupt politicians and bureaucrats - ergo, a Constitutional Amendment.

I have no idea what that language would look like, and for practical purposes, the amendment itself might end up several times longer than the Constitution itself.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 08, 2022 09:07 AM (AHeqJ)

National environmental standards don't make a whole lot of sense. Maybe national environmental guidelines for easy reference? But Louisiana has a whole different set of environmental concerns from California. Our states are big enough that power plants are effectively local issues.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 08, 2022 09:10 AM (b2nrj)

448 The gunman hand-made his weapon, police confirm. There were multiple hand-made guns confiscated from his home, similar to the weapon he used in the shooting. The gun was 43cm (nearly 15.7 inches) long.
Posted by: redridinghood

Were they painted black with a thing that goes up?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 08, 2022 09:10 AM (AutJR)

449 What is going on with Sarah Palin?
Posted by: Jonah at July 08, 2022 09:06 AM (WY8d2)

She's got it going on. What else?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 08, 2022 09:10 AM (2JVJo)

450 Good buys are a small minority of politicians, and Abe was one of them.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 08, 2022 09:10 AM (44ww/)

451 No one needs a truck or to tow a camper more than 85 miles before taking a two hour break.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - screw anyone here who thinks he should tell Americans what they need or should buy at July 08, 2022 09:08 AM (agX07)

I'm wondering if there's truth to this or if it's the 'media' being 'the media.'

Top Gear got blasted when they reviewed the Nissan Leaf and it was found that they didn't charge it fully and said it didn't come close to range declarations.

ABC and the whole Chevy Truck thing.....or was that CBS....NBC? They all fucking suck, so it matters not.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 08, 2022 09:10 AM (Zz0t1)

452 Tax Honkey, Arrest Honkey

Posted by: Jonah at July 08, 2022 09:11 AM (WY8d2)

453 It's Critical Race Theory, everything done to minority is done because racism. The minority is not at fault due to being held down by society.

Posted by: Skip's phone at July 08, 2022 09:11 AM (4o9mN)

454 Possibly related to the assassination: China says Japan needs to “get used to” the Chinese navy running drills near Japan.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 08, 2022 09:06 AM (1TuZk)
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Japan makes pretty good mines and torpedos. China should get used to that.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 08, 2022 09:11 AM (31WUl)

455 "I'd like to find some small town in north or south Carolina"

Google Summerville South Carolina.

Freight tracks run right across Main St. in the heart of historic downtown.

I can get a hot dog at the oldest continuously operating drugstore in the State, and Even Hurricane Hugo while it did cause damage was largely unable to harm the town.

Oh, the drugstore is across the street from the bookstore.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 08, 2022 09:11 AM (uLr+K)

456
All academic, though, since I don't believe I ever will be able to leave MA.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 08, 2022 09:06 AM (2JVJo)

__________

Eastern Tennessee. God's country.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 08, 2022 09:11 AM (/U27+)

457 well I'm not surprised that the BoJo news had no impact - someone who never did anything guarantees that he will never do anything in the future.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 08, 2022 09:09 AM (r46W7)

The more interesting thing is of 3 of the 5 to replace him, one is Iraqi, one Pakistani, and one Indian. Yeah, they are busy conserving England.

Posted by: WiNO - Time for a Marriage Amendment at July 08, 2022 09:11 AM (EpDzw)

458 442 The new gas stations being constructed here in the Bay Area(7-11’s am pm’s, etc) are being built with about two dozen or more EV charging stations. They are huge. Between the store, separate car wash, vacuum cleaning stations, fuel pumps and charging stations these places take up a lot of real estate.
Posted by: JROD at July 08, 2022 09:10 AM (nsFgR)

Ironically the real estate needed makes that more practical in non-urban environments.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 08, 2022 09:11 AM (b2nrj)

459 No one needs a truck or to tow a camper more than 85 miles before taking a two hour break.
Posted by: Moron Robbie

Correct. No one needs their livestock to arrive at market alive!

Posted by: rickb223 at July 08, 2022 09:12 AM (c8pZY)

460 What is going on with Sarah Palin?
Posted by: Jonah
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She won the first round of the jungle election in AK and is moving on to the second round.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 08, 2022 09:12 AM (5p7BC)

461 452 Tax Honkey, Arrest Honkey
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Cill my landlord.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 08, 2022 09:12 AM (4eKPg)

462 All academic, though, since I don't believe I ever will be able to leave MA.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 08, 2022 09:06 AM (2JVJo)

I found you the perfect match but it’s in a red area of a purple state. Consider this a recruiting drive. I hate to pry but why is escaping not an option.

Posted by: 7man at July 08, 2022 09:12 AM (qwO6y)

463 457 well I'm not surprised that the BoJo news had no impact - someone who never did anything guarantees that he will never do anything in the future.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 08, 2022 09:09 AM (r46W7)

The more interesting thing is of 3 of the 5 to replace him, one is Iraqi, one Pakistani, and one Indian. Yeah, they are busy conserving England.
Posted by: WiNO - Time for a Marriage Amendment at July 08, 2022 09:11 AM (EpDzw)

Britain, not England. Downsides of an empire.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 08, 2022 09:13 AM (b2nrj)

464 There's an asian guy on youtube, I think Japanese, that makes knives out of weird stuff, like milk, and gummy bears, and glass, etc.. The videos are entertaining, he tries to make them like little stories.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 08, 2022 09:13 AM (E9ZCZ)

465 Jill and I are sadden to hear that Mr. Miyagi was killed by and assassin from Cobra Kai.

Posted by: Joe Biden at July 08, 2022 09:13 AM (gmo/4)

466 So could you power your house by stealing the juice from a "free charging station"?
Posted by: 18-1

You could. F150 lightning has bi-directional charging and 130kWh battery. But it will mean a lot of trips to the water well, depending on your consumption.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 08, 2022 09:13 AM (vcv8B)

467 All academic, though, since I don't believe I ever will be able to leave MA.

Northeastern liberals are a whole separate world of suck.

At least the west coast ones sometimes have a sense of fun - the NE ones are basically East Germans with a less pleasant accent.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 08, 2022 09:13 AM (ESjRY)

468 Charge your F150 at a free charging station, then use it to backfeed your house.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 08, 2022 09:14 AM (AutJR)

469
It's all great until your electron tank starts leaking and has to be dug up.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 08, 2022 09:14 AM (/U27+)

470 At least the west coast ones sometimes have a sense of fun - the NE ones are basically East Germans with a less pleasant accent.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 08, 2022 09:13 AM (ESjRY)
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There is perhaps nothing more grating than a thick Boston accent on a woman.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 09:14 AM (WWh8n)

471 It's Critical Race Theory, everything done to minority is done because racism. The minority is not at fault due to being held down by society.

Posted by: Skip's phone

So says billionaire Oprah.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 08, 2022 09:14 AM (c8pZY)

472 The other day I was thinking about all the apartment complexes across the country and how it would be impossible to charge all the resident's cars if everyone in the complex had an electric car.

Posted by: redridinghood

All we need to do is upgrade to 60-250Kw every commercial building and every house in the country, and all of the power line wiring across the country in order to charge EVs. Just a few trillion dollars to do that. Of course, we would also need to increase our power generation using windmills and solar panels, so we would need to depopulate an area from Texas to Arizona, and fill it completely with windmills and solar panels, so that on sunny, windy days, they could possibly provide the power. Oh, and also find a planet or asteroid with a billion tons of lithium, and get it back to earth, because there isn't enough lithium on this planet. Easy peasy.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 08, 2022 09:14 AM (lTGtQ)

473 *casting for more bait to throw at Sponge*

Oklahoma would welcome you with open arms.

Posted by: creeper at July 08, 2022 09:14 AM (cTCuP)

474 Britain, not England. Downsides of an empire.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead!

Downside of Tony Blair's deliberate replacement policy.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 08, 2022 09:14 AM (vcv8B)

475
Best of all, the people leave you alone if that's what you want.

On the (sort-of) down side, it's like stepping back in time fifty years if you move to a rural area. The nearest grocery store will probably be twenty miles away (and good luck finding miso) but a good percentage of the products are local.
Posted by: creeper at July 08, 2022 09:10 AM (cTCuP)

This intrigues me greatly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 08, 2022 09:14 AM (Zz0t1)

476 I suspect that question is moot at this point. Of the Asian countries with the technical and industrial capacity (Japan, Korea, probably Taiwan), I imagine they all have nukes now or soon will. Any that didn't have them before would have been insane to *not* start crash programs within a few weeks after the 2020 elections here. America's security umbrella is extremely questionable now and they need to maintain deterrence through the risk of nuclear vengeance.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 09:10 AM (WWh8n)

I suspect it is "Oh look, with all of these parts laying around, we can assemble a nuke in 48 hours. That is so convenient."

Posted by: WiNO - Time for a Marriage Amendment at July 08, 2022 09:15 AM (EpDzw)

477 Someone will invent a MW scale battery trailer.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 08, 2022 09:15 AM (AutJR)

478 I have no idea what that language would look like, and for practical purposes, the amendment itself might end up several times longer than the Constitution itself.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 08, 2022 09:07 AM (AHeqJ)

If there's one thing I've learned, its that there is no such thing as an airtight contract or law. Rules are made to be broken, no matter how perfectly written. That was the critical flaw in our founding - the idea that men would be constrained by the chains of constitution. Shit simply does not work that way.

Long story short - there is no law that can be made to stop a culture from routinely destroying it's own infrastructure. If they want to do that, they will. The best thing you can do is don't protect them; let some other culture that's slightly less stupid displace them.

Posted by: Once More With Feeling at July 08, 2022 09:15 AM (vwb+V)

479 As far as "voting" in Corruptifornia for the likes of Gascon and Boudin, every "election" here is 2020, all the way down. I don't anticipate any changes on that front.

Posted by: the Butcher at July 08, 2022 09:15 AM (JsenR)

480 NY Times - Now - Be Afraid of "Far-Right Latinas" Like Republican Mayra Flores

Then: White Women Helped Elect Donald Trump, Nov 2016

Posted by: Lola at July 08, 2022 09:15 AM (NIYa7)

481 All we need to do is upgrade to 60-250Kw every commercial building and every house in the country, and all of the power line wiring across the country in order to charge EVs. Just a few trillion dollars to do that. Of course, we would also need to increase our power generation using windmills and solar panels, so we would need to depopulate an area from Texas to Arizona, and fill it completely with windmills and solar panels, so that on sunny, windy days, they could possibly provide the power. Oh, and also find a planet or asteroid with a billion tons of lithium, and get it back to earth, because there isn't enough lithium on this planet. Easy peasy.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 08, 2022 09:14 AM (lTGtQ)
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This, right here, is how we Build Back Better!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 09:15 AM (WWh8n)

482 Other than that, Mrs Abe, how did you like the play?

Posted by: joey biden at July 08, 2022 09:15 AM (yikp0)

483 Who knows what President Moth Balls will say, but I'm pretty sure it will have a rant about the evil of guns.

Surely a quip about how shotguns should only be used on knees.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 08, 2022 09:15 AM (mE7cY)

484 When I heard a few days ago that Unilever stated they will sell ice cream in the Gaza Strip and other areas of Israel and the two communist hippies that used to own the ice cream company were outraged and planning to sue, I bought three pints. Hope Unilever gets to pull the royalties etc. from the Bernie Bros.

Posted by: Jen the original at July 08, 2022 09:15 AM (y6HpB)

485 At least the west coast ones sometimes have a sense of fun - the NE ones are basically East Germans with a less pleasant accent.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 08, 2022 09:13 AM (ESjRY)
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There is perhaps nothing more grating than a thick Boston accent on a woman.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Fran Drescher. Where do I collect my winnings?

Posted by: rickb223 at July 08, 2022 09:16 AM (c8pZY)

486 My old office building did it when they put in the charging stations. About 13 months after installation they yelled, "SURPRISE! You pay now!"

I guess they decided to look in to the claims by security that UHaul trucks with large lead-acid battery packs or crypto mining equipment were attached to them after hours.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 08, 2022 09:16 AM (AHeqJ)

487 Now - Be Afraid of "Far-Right Latinas" Like Republican Mayra Flores

Far-Right Latinas in your area > Hot Milfs in your area

Posted by: Obligatory at July 08, 2022 09:16 AM (ESjRY)

488 Will all of these grid upgrades that the unicorn lovers speak of require an increase in electrical conductors to carry the trons around?

Metal ores, where do they come from?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 08, 2022 09:17 AM (uLr+K)

489 Google Summerville South Carolina.

Looks nice, but a population of over 50K is too much for me.

I hate to pry but why is escaping not an option.

Personal reasons I don't care to discuss here. No offense intended; I appreciate your looking out for me!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 08, 2022 09:17 AM (2JVJo)

490 @458 Red Turban Someguy-I’ve also noticed stores like Target and Sprouts have added quite a few charging stations recently. Smart move I guess, get them in the store to spend $$$ while your vehicle charges.

Posted by: JROD at July 08, 2022 09:17 AM (nsFgR)

491
Metal ores, where do they come from?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 08, 2022 09:17 AM (uLr+K)

Rape.

Posted by: Earth at July 08, 2022 09:17 AM (Zz0t1)

492 The more interesting thing is of 3 of the 5 to replace him, one is Iraqi, one Pakistani, and one Indian. Yeah, they are busy conserving England.
Posted by: WiNO - Time for a Marriage Amendment at July 08, 2022 09:11 AM (EpDzw)

You inspired me to look them up - as to the two actual Englishmen being considered, one has been the leader of the UK's efforts to arm Ukraine, and the other was one of the biggest champions of the UK's Vaxx program.

no-longer great Britain is screwed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 08, 2022 09:17 AM (r46W7)

493 Best of luck, JJ!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 08, 2022 09:17 AM (906pl)

494 Fran Drescher. Where do I collect my winnings?
Posted by: rickb223 at July 08, 2022 09:16 AM (c8pZY)
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Her version of that accent was grating and overdone for comedic effect, but I find the Long Island and North Jersey accents - the real ones - on women to be pretty sexy. I understand that this may make people believe that I am some kind of space alien or deranged weirdo. C'est la vie.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 09:17 AM (WWh8n)

495 Fran Drescher. Where do I collect my winnings?

Oh no my friend on no. There are whole layers of hell deeper then Fran's accent.

I once asked a woman if she was putting me on with her Boston accent. And she was confused. Because she wasn't.

So anyway about my cahhhhhhhh

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

496 The new gas stations being constructed here in the Bay Area(7-11’s am pm’s, etc) are being built with about two dozen or more EV charging stations. They are huge. Between the store, separate car wash, vacuum cleaning stations, fuel pumps and charging stations these places take up a lot of real estate.
Posted by: JROD

From the research I have done, it takes 15 times longer to charge than to fill with liquid fuel. Ergo, 15 times more charging stations than gas stations, or maybe we can repurpose all of those closed retail stores.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 08, 2022 09:18 AM (lTGtQ)

497 there is no punishment for anything outside of these boundaries

Cuomo killed thousands of old people and was a crooked SOB... nothing
Grabbed some ass in the office..... gone

Posted by: McCool at July 08, 2022 09:18 AM (BqBIh)

498 No; They'll (Biden's press corps/speechwriter) will write a perfectly appropriate thing about Abe. Biden will just get the name incorrect unless they write it out phonetically in large letters. I'm waiting for Shih Tzu, the name of the little dog instead of Shinzo.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 08, 2022 09:18 AM (FZ2cV)

499 Of course, we would also need to increase our power generation using windmills and solar panels, so we would need to depopulate an area from Texas to Arizona, and fill it completely with windmills and solar panels, so that on sunny, windy days, they could possibly provide the power.

I'm in ETX, looking out the window and seeing a glass smooth lake surface. Windmills wouldn't wake up out here for another few hours and will still claim Miller Time in the late afternoon.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 08, 2022 09:18 AM (AHeqJ)

500 Abe's assassination reminds me of this old video from the 60s. As the announcer describes, the killer is a "radical conservative student" who was unhappy with the "socialist leader's policies".

The student ran the politician through with a wakizashi, I believe, in the middle of a televised speech.
https://youtu.be/iUbyxiRNrhE

I can't condone killing socialist politicians. Can I say I understand?

Posted by: Historical Moron at July 08, 2022 09:19 AM (JCZqz)

501 There is perhaps nothing more grating than a thick Boston accent on a woman.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 09:14 AM (WWh8n)

Only to be out done by the long island sub-species

Posted by: Joe Biden at July 08, 2022 09:19 AM (gmo/4)

502 Her version of that accent was grating and overdone for comedic effect, but I find the Long Island and North Jersey accents - the real ones - on women to be pretty sexy.

I worked a job on Staten Island once. Best thing about that part of the country is seeing it in the rear view mirror.

Posted by: Once More With Feeling at July 08, 2022 09:19 AM (vwb+V)

503 Cuomo killed thousands of old people and was a crooked SOB... nothing
Grabbed some ass in the office..... gone
Posted by: McCool at July 08, 2022 09:18 AM (BqBIh)
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To a point. If they didn't get rid of him, they'd have had to defend him. Better grab-ass than the slaughter of the elderly because they *weren't* going to be defending him. He's in the wrong faction. He's a Clinton-style gangster, not an Obama-style Maoist. They're not going to go to the mattresses for Cuomo, so they took him out on their own terms to protect their other assets who did the same things.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 09:20 AM (WWh8n)

504 It's all so fking stupid. Batteries and charging are enormously inefficient. Just the conversion from one voltage to another is lossy. Now they want to put wireless charging on top of that.

Posted by: fd at July 08, 2022 09:20 AM (sn5EN)

505 Thanks for everything JJ (and I do mean EVERYTHING !)

Best of luck and safe travels !

Posted by: JT at July 08, 2022 09:20 AM (T4tVD)

506 I feel sorry for Palin because the full weight of the regime/cathedral beast came down on her. Her family was wrecked. Yeah, they had issues, but like everyone has family issues that you get through. But they meant to destroy her and they succeded to a large degree.

If you think that her choice to have a high-profile life earned her this outcome understand that the attacks on limited high-profile persons like her are just optimization test runs for the machine that's coming for you.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 08, 2022 09:20 AM (E9ZCZ)

507 Best of all, the people leave you alone if that's what you want.

On the (sort-of) down side, it's like stepping back in time fifty years if you move to a rural area. The nearest grocery store will probably be twenty miles away (and good luck finding miso) but a good percentage of the products are local.
Posted by: creeper

This intrigues me greatly.
Posted by: Sponge

We have a Holiday Inn. Spend a week in Bonham.

I dare you.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 08, 2022 09:20 AM (c8pZY)

508 Hit Monkey will never be seen on Hulu again...

I saw this morning's tragic news, and I imagine that comic (and then tv show) never imagined their plot could ever happen, thus why it's set in Japan.

Now granted, an assassin monkey is unlikely to appear in the aftermath of this...

Posted by: Nova local at July 08, 2022 09:20 AM (exHjb)

509 Well, if all red states are going to be eventually turned blue by liberal locusts then there's no point in moving and we're all doomed no matter where we live, right?

Posted by: Secret Square at July 08, 2022 09:20 AM (9WuX0)

510 Shitzu Abe (pronounced like the shorted version of Abraham)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 08, 2022 09:21 AM (FZ2cV)

511 I once asked a woman if she was putting me on with her Boston accent. And she was confused. Because she wasn't.

Hmm. At a guess, I would say she was probably from Revere, Southie or Dorchester.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 08, 2022 09:21 AM (2JVJo)

512
JJ,

May your move be without problems. Best wishes for you and your lady.

Posted by: four seasons at July 08, 2022 09:21 AM (PisyI)

513 They should have kept up engineering efforts of the 1960's to perfect the nuclear powered car.

They're green.

Posted by: Archer at July 08, 2022 09:21 AM (gmo/4)

514 Yeah, they had issues, but like everyone has family issues that you get through.

It is instructive to compare the Palin family to the Biden family.

Yeah, one of her daughters got knocked up. Compare that to crack smoking, bribe taking Hunter...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 08, 2022 09:22 AM (ESjRY)

515 "Who should I buy?"

I believe it is morally wrong to purchase another human being.

But....how much to rent Lauren Boebert for a bit?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 08, 2022 08:46 AM (uLr+K)

I'm angling for the two-fer:

Boebert and MTG for a couple hours...

Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at July 08, 2022 09:22 AM (p03vF)

516 Good luck on the move!

Posted by: Mr. Senor Monsieur at July 08, 2022 09:22 AM (Udlax)

517 Hmm. At a guess, I would say she was probably from Revere, Southie or Dorchester.

I believe Revere

Posted by: 18-1 at July 08, 2022 09:22 AM (ESjRY)

518 I can't for the life of me imagine beach traffic over any weekend using any number of changing stations and not resulting in a major cluster-fuck.

Just... no.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 08, 2022 09:22 AM (BFigT)

519 Only to be out done by the long island sub-species
Posted by: Joe Biden at July 08, 2022 09:19 AM (gmo/4)

Yeah, my wife is from Lawn Guyland. 35 years out, her accent is mostly gone but reappears when she's angry or upset. It's actually a good storm warning flag.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 08, 2022 09:22 AM (906pl)

520 Where is JJ going?

Posted by: Archer at July 08, 2022 09:22 AM (gmo/4)

521 we're all doomed no matter where we live, right?

I see you're a charter subscriber to my newsletter.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 08, 2022 09:22 AM (2JVJo)

522 We have a Holiday Inn. Spend a week in Bonham.

I dare you.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 08, 2022 09:20 AM (c8pZY)

I'll see your Holiday Inn and raise you a cabin in the woods on a lake with a hot tub.

Welcome mat is out, Sponge.

Posted by: creeper at July 08, 2022 09:23 AM (cTCuP)

523 They should have kept up engineering efforts of the 1960's to perfect the nuclear powered car.

The military definitely should have kept working on portable reactors. Imagine a personal nuke reactor, buried in your back yard. No distribution grid to worry about.

Posted by: Once More With Feeling at July 08, 2022 09:23 AM (vwb+V)

524 Of course, we would also need to increase our power generation using windmills and solar panels, so we would need to depopulate an area from Texas to Arizona, and fill it completely with windmills and solar panels, so that on sunny, windy days, they could possibly provide the power.

I'm in ETX, looking out the window and seeing a glass smooth lake surface. Windmills wouldn't wake up out here for another few hours and will still claim Miller Time in the late afternoon.
Posted by: Reuben Hick

Wind is caused by varying heat gradients. When you wake up and it's already 80 degrees at sun up, um....

Posted by: rickb223 at July 08, 2022 09:23 AM (c8pZY)

525 I told Abe from my days as a double-naught secret agent that his security should have screendoor shotguns but the little Jap just laughed at me and asked me if I wanted koi for "runch".

Posted by: joey biden at July 08, 2022 09:23 AM (yikp0)

526 Will all of these grid upgrades that the unicorn lovers speak of require an increase in electrical conductors to carry the trons around?

Metal ores, where do they come from?

Chile and Peru have both gotten the Environmental Wacko Bug and are shutting down huge portions of their respective economies by killing its copper mine operations.

China ain't sharing, Australia has gone full Communist and I think we are at war with Russia, so there goes the vast majority of copper mining.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 08, 2022 09:23 AM (AHeqJ)

527 The military definitely should have kept working on portable reactors. Imagine a personal nuke reactor, buried in your back yard. No distribution grid to worry about.
Posted by: Once More With Feeling at July 08, 2022 09:23 AM (vwb+V)
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Distributed and decentralized electric power is entirely counter to our goals of total centralized control.

Posted by: The Ruling Class at July 08, 2022 09:24 AM (WWh8n)

528 Yeah, my wife is from Lawn Guyland. 35 years out, her accent is mostly gone but reappears when she's angry or upset. It's actually a good storm warning flag.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 08, 2022 09:22 AM (906pl)

Warning Will Robinson!

Posted by: Archer at July 08, 2022 09:24 AM (gmo/4)

529 Next, they'll change Earth's name for the reset.

Will this effect channel lineup on cable?

Posted by: humphreyrobot at July 08, 2022 09:24 AM (tmStG)

530 Long story short - there is no law that can be made to stop a culture from routinely destroying it's own infrastructure. If they want to do that, they will. The best thing you can do is don't protect them; let some other culture that's slightly less stupid displace them.
Posted by: Once More With Feeling at July 08, 2022 09:15 AM (vwb+V)

yep - the concept of law implies some overseer with the ability and power to enforce that law. See: the end of Rome in 476 AD; a millennium of highly codified law simply stopped, as a barbarian king assumed control. (and he arguably did a better job than the idiots he replaced)

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 08, 2022 09:24 AM (r46W7)

531
Now they want to put wireless charging on top of that.
Posted by: fd at July 08, 2022 09:20 AM (sn5EN)

__________

"Nikolai Tesla invented free electricity but Edison bought up all the patents and buried them!!1!" - Recent College Grad

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 08, 2022 09:24 AM (/U27+)

532 Here's a photo of my bronze glistening visage with a small pikachu in the background to mark the occasion of guy assassin... blah blah blah, whatever just look at me and kneel peasants!

Posted by: TFG at July 08, 2022 09:24 AM (E9ZCZ)

533
We have a Holiday Inn. Spend a week in Bonham.

I dare you.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 08, 2022 09:20 AM (c8pZY)

I installed PC's at Bonham schools way back in the day. However, driving up to the building in a UHaul so close to the OKC bombing made it an interesting journey.

And you have a Brookshires!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 08, 2022 09:24 AM (Zz0t1)

534 If China can buy an election, getting a vocal critic shot is probably child's play.

Great job, J.J., as per usual!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 08, 2022 09:24 AM (5pTK/)

535 Aba aba a-a-abraham was a fine american. States like japan with their lax gun laws is the reason we need better gun control, and background checks and assault weapons bans.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 08, 2022 09:25 AM (AutJR)

536
My old office building did it when they put in the charging stations. About 13 months after installation they yelled, "SURPRISE! You pay now!"

"Charging buffet ovah. You been heah four owha!"

Not unlike the "You'll pay lower tolls!" come-on to get folks to sign on to EZ-Pass. "Hey! What happened to the discount?"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at July 08, 2022 09:25 AM (pNxlR)

537 Fran Drescher. Where do I collect my winnings?

Not Boston, but enough to hit the mute button. Rocking body. Damn.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 08, 2022 09:25 AM (89T5c)

538 I suspect that question is moot at this point. Of the Asian countries with the technical and industrial capacity (Japan, Korea, probably Taiwan), I imagine they all have nukes now or soon will. Any that didn't have them before would have been insane to *not* start crash programs within a few weeks after the 2020 elections here. America's security umbrella is extremely questionable now and they need to maintain deterrence through the risk of nuclear vengeance.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 09:10 AM (WWh8n)
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Nuclear proliferation...Just one more thing Democrats managed to achieve!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 08, 2022 09:25 AM (K5n5d)

539 I'm angling for the two-fer:

Boebert and MTG for a couple hours...
Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at July 08, 2022 09:22 AM (p03vF)

Crimo's mom seems to fun

and open to new things

Posted by: REDACTED at July 08, 2022 09:25 AM (us2H3)

540 Posted by: joey biden at July 08, 2022 09:23 AM (yikp0)

LOL. We trust that they'll keep you tightly to script, .Joey

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 08, 2022 09:26 AM (FZ2cV)

541
Her Majesty is a native of New Zealand. When people ask where her accent is from, she says, "The Deep South."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 08, 2022 09:26 AM (/U27+)

542 As a weirdo who watches sumo, I still remember Trump creating and presenting "The President's Cup" to a tournament winner while he was President. Pretty awesome, and shows how much he cared about relations with Japan. Can you imagine scrawny Joe trying to get up on the dohyo and hand a +40lbs trophy to a huge sumo guy? It would be embarrassing.
https://tinyurl.com/yckjx5dd

Posted by: Otaku Guy at July 08, 2022 09:26 AM (JCZqz)

543 Horses disappeared from transportation in less than 10 years.

Not quite. Studebaker marketed their first car (an electric!) in 1902. They converted their wagon works to automotive production 20 years later. There was still enough wagon business that they sold the name and some patents to another company, who made wagons until the Depression put them under. It was still common to see horse-drawn freight (garbage haulers, milkmen, hucksters) until WWII, in or near cities. Farm horses had a resurgence during fuel rationing, too, but separate issue.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at July 08, 2022 09:26 AM (videA)

544 Wind is caused by varying heat gradients. When you wake up and it's already 80 degrees at sun up, um....

Posted by: rickb223 at July 08, 2022 09:23

Come on now that's a bit of an exaggeration, it was only 79.8 degrees at 6 this morning.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 08, 2022 09:26 AM (bVYXr)

545
Aba aba a-a-abraham was a fine american. States like japan with their lax gun laws is the reason we need better gun control, and background checks and assault weapons bans.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Guns from Indiana -- that's the scapegoat!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at July 08, 2022 09:26 AM (pNxlR)

546 Shitzu Abe (pronounced like the shorted version of Abraham)
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No. I was Shitzu Pope not Abe. I wasn't president when I met Abe.

Posted by: joey biden at July 08, 2022 09:27 AM (yikp0)

547 I'll see your Holiday Inn and raise you a cabin in the woods on a lake with a hot tub.

Welcome mat is out, Sponge.
Posted by: creeper

Hell. I'd take that over the complete nothingness of Bonham, Tx.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 08, 2022 09:27 AM (c8pZY)

548 "Long story short - there is no law that can be made to stop a culture from routinely destroying it's own infrastructure."

Corruption, like rust, never sleeps.

Posted by: davidt at July 08, 2022 09:28 AM (oTZbj)

549 Everyone must use our centralized gas fired circulating hot water for heat. It is more efficient and a better use of resources.
Oh, and that resource is getting scarce, so you get no heat this winter.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 08, 2022 09:28 AM (AutJR)

550 "Nikolai Tesla invented free electricity but Edison bought up all the patents and buried them!!1!" - Recent College Grad
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 08, 2022 09:24 AM (/U27+)
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I'll argue a lot of college professors and, by extension, their students, have no idea who Tesla or Edison were.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 08, 2022 09:28 AM (5pTK/)

551 Not unlike the "You'll pay lower tolls!" come-on to get folks to sign on to EZ-Pass. "Hey! What happened to the discount?"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at July 08, 2022 09:25 AM (pNxlR)
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Or, even worse, the whole "once the bond is paid, the toll will be removed." This is why I refused to drive the E-470 expressway in Denver. That highway complex was supposed to be an Interstate system ring road, but the enviros got it nixed and by the time that was overcome, the federal DOT said, "nah, we're not interested anymore." The state decided to build the road itself, in sections. The second section was E-470, which was a tolled highway. The premise was that construction was expensive and it needed major bonds, and those bonds had to be covered. It would be tolled through the bond life. Fair enough. It got voter approval.

The year the bonds were finished, they raised the tolls dramatically. I never drove on that lie of a road again.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 08, 2022 09:28 AM (WWh8n)

552 Fen, you posted a link earlier to an article on faith. It did a very good job of describing what faith is and how you practice it.

But it did not say anything about where faith comes from. Is there anything about that in your archives?

Posted by: creeper at July 08, 2022 09:29 AM (cTCuP)

553
I'll argue a lot of college professors and, by extension, their students, have no idea who Tesla or Edison were.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 08, 2022 09:28 AM (5pTK/)

Isn't he that crazy haired guy sticking his tongue out in that picture?

- - David Hoggshit

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 08, 2022 09:29 AM (Zz0t1)

554 284 Abe was killed with a homemade firearm.

Derp all gun grabbers.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 08, 2022 08:45 AM (Y5qcH)

The gun grabbers will use this as further rationale for banning what they call ghost guns. Ultimately the gun grabbers would require background checks and waiting periods to buy small diameter steel pipe and any other items they think could be used to make a firearm and its ammo. NOTE: Plans for homemade 12 gauge single and double barrel shotguns are all over the Webz.

Posted by: GLSD at July 08, 2022 09:29 AM (AMIL/)

555 Wind is caused by varying heat gradients. When you wake up and it's already 80 degrees at sun up, um....

Posted by: rickb223 at July 08, 2022 09:23

I have yet to talk to a utility that gets better than 20% utilization rate from any wind farm in the United States.

Ponder that ... every mW of wind purchased only gets you a fifth of what you think you bought. Every business case to construct one of these things is automatically off by a factor or five. It's stunning.

Every utility that I've talked to, every single one, has quit putting money back into the projects. They're cannibalizing the existing fleet - and that'll be the end of it.

Posted by: Once More With Feeling at July 08, 2022 09:29 AM (vwb+V)

556 "Long story short - there is no law that can be made to stop a culture from routinely destroying it's own infrastructure."
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Just like there is also no law that can prevent man from succumbing to his temptations...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 08, 2022 09:29 AM (K5n5d)

557 "Nikolai Tesla invented free electricity but Edison bought up all the patents and buried them!!1!" - Recent College Grad
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 08, 2022 09:24 AM (/U27+)
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So, Recent Grad, who's worse; Edison for bribing Tesla or Tesla for accepting?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 08, 2022 09:29 AM (s2VJv)

558
Wind is caused by varying heat gradients. When you wake up and it's already 80 degrees at sun up, um....

Exactly. Throughout the summer Texas sits under a massive high pressure dome which does two things: little to no wind, and very high temperatures.

This is why the boneheads in Texas government should be mercilessly hounded out of office and horse whipped because this is not Breaking Climate Science™ but well known, ageless fact. Their culpability in destroying ERCOT with vanity energy projects that are only reliable in the fact they don't produce power when it is most needed, should never be forgotten and punishment for this criminal sabotage should be painful.

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

559 Five wind turbines off the coast of Block Island, RI:
only one was turning, very slowly.

Posted by: Ziba at July 08, 2022 09:30 AM (4h9M3)

560 544 Wind is caused by varying heat gradients. When you wake up and it's already 80 degrees at sun up, um....

Posted by: rickb223 at July 08, 2022 09:23

Come on now that's a bit of an exaggeration, it was only 79.8 degrees at 6 this morning.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 08, 2022 09:26 AM (bVYXr)

one of the "big lies" about wind power (which everyone in the business knows about) is that even in supposedly windy West Texas, the windmills never produce at more than 40% of installed capacity. The wind is too low 60% of the time. Why are so many energy companies in on this game? Because to make up for the shortfall, every wind power plant has a back up "emergency" nat gas plant, which provides power that can then be sold at subsidized "green energy" rates.

yes, you read that correctly - the "emergency backup system" is running 60% of the time, the main system only is operational 40% of the time, and that's on a good day.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 08, 2022 09:30 AM (r46W7)

561 ---
Just like there is also no law that can prevent man from succumbing to his temptations...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 08, 2022 09:29 AM (K5n5d)

Really?

- - God

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 08, 2022 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

562 Where is JJ going?

Posted by: Archer at July 08, 2022 09:22 AM (gmo/4)
******
Wisconsin

Posted by: redridinghood at July 08, 2022 09:30 AM (NpAcC)

563 The ATF is already trying the "materials which can be made into a firearm" with solvent traps.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 08, 2022 09:31 AM (AutJR)

564 Or, even worse, the whole "once the bond is paid, the toll will be removed."

Ladies and Gentlemen; I give you the NYS Thruway Authority.

Posted by: Archer at July 08, 2022 09:31 AM (gmo/4)

565 I can't for the life of me imagine beach traffic over any weekend using any number of changing stations and not resulting in a major cluster-fuck.

Just... no.

Posted by: Martini Farmer

That will be solved by restricting entry to public places.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 08, 2022 09:31 AM (lTGtQ)

566 J.J.. Don't die on me fucker
I need the Voodoo that you do on those morning links.
I hope waking up from a NY coma doesn't hurt too much

Posted by: humphreyrobot at July 08, 2022 09:32 AM (tmStG)

567 "Nikolai Tesla invented free electricity but Edison bought up all the patents and buried them!!1!" - Recent College Grad
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 08, 2022 09:24 AM (/U27+)
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Yeah, well, what they don't tell you is that Tesla got all his "free" electricity by opening up a portal to a Hell dimension...

F. Paul Wilson wrote about this in his "documentary" (/sarc) Wardenclyffe

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 08, 2022 09:32 AM (K5n5d)

568 hey the art gallery is open

Posted by: DB - Unless I'm Wrong at July 08, 2022 09:33 AM (geLO8)

569 nood art

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 08, 2022 09:33 AM (yikp0)

570 Talked to a co-worker yesterday. He said his daughter moved from WA state to TX. Got twice the space on her property at a cheaper price. I know she will fit in. He hunts and I've seen photos of both his daughters with their kills.

If you move to OK, try to avoid Tulsa.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 08, 2022 09:33 AM (YynYJ)

571 Where is JJ going?
Posted by: Archer at July 08, 2022 09:22 AM (gmo/4)
~~~~~

He's moving to Middle Earth.

Posted by: IrishEi at July 08, 2022 09:33 AM (VhE0u)

572 one of the "big lies" about wind power (which everyone in the business knows about) is that even in supposedly windy West Texas, the windmills never produce at more than 40% of installed capacity. The wind is too low 60% of the time. Why are so many energy companies in on this game? Because to make up for the shortfall, every wind power plant has a back up "emergency" nat gas plant, which provides power that can then be sold at subsidized "green energy" rates.

yes, you read that correctly - the "emergency backup system" is running 60% of the time, the main system only is operational 40% of the time, and that's on a good day.

Posted by: Tom Servo

Addendum: the windmills receive a 33% construction subsidy. There isn't a windmill in the country that breaks even without the subsidy.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 08, 2022 09:33 AM (lTGtQ)

573 Try driving through Tehachapi, CA, highway 58. You'll see a bunch of small wind turbines doing nothing and a bunch of large wind turbines, some of them running.

The smaller wind turbine bases are built from what looks to be abandoned oil derricks from the 50's. Ugly as sin, and, near as I can tell, even more useless than when they were originally built.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 08, 2022 09:33 AM (5pTK/)

574 Posted by: creeper at July 08, 2022 09:29 AM (cTCuP)

I will look for you and post it in this thread, dear.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 08, 2022 09:34 AM (FZ2cV)

575 Nood

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 08, 2022 09:34 AM (Q5p+u)

576 Or, even worse, the whole "once the bond is paid, the toll will be removed."

Oddly enough, the stretch of I-30 between Ft Worth and Dallas was once tolled. Years after the roadway was paid for, they finally got around to completely rebulding it and dropping the tolls.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 08, 2022 09:34 AM (AHeqJ)

577
If you move to OK, try to avoid Tulsa.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 08, 2022 09:33 AM (YynYJ)
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Yeah, Tulsa Time is tough to deal with.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 08, 2022 09:34 AM (5pTK/)

578 I can't for the life of me imagine beach traffic over any weekend using any number of changing stations and not resulting in a major cluster-fuck.

Just... no.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 08, 2022 09:22 AM (BFigT)
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When we approve your holiday travel plans and your internal passport and other papers are in order, you can take a bus to the beach so you can enjoy your biannual People's Leisure Dividend.

Posted by: US Department of Commerce, Division of Leisure and Recreation Policy, ca. 2030 at July 08, 2022 09:34 AM (WWh8n)

579 The smaller wind turbine bases are built from what looks to be abandoned oil derricks from the 50's. Ugly as sin, and, near as I can tell, even more useless than when they were originally built.

It is part of the kink to take the edifices of the Oil Culture and pervert them for the utility of the Gaia Culture.

Sort of like when Muslims take over Christian churches and defile them.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 08, 2022 09:36 AM (AHeqJ)

580 NOOD chess players

Posted by: 18-1 at July 08, 2022 09:36 AM (ESjRY)

581 Creeper, This is a little link that discusses that. It is from a Christian perspective:

https://tinyurl.com/4kekjbm5

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 08, 2022 09:37 AM (FZ2cV)

582 Morning.

So this Carolyn Bryant Donham woman who accused Emmet Til, has an arrest warrant? Arrest warrant for what, exactly? Taking a wild guess, but lying to the cops? She didn't kill the kid, and the two guys that did unfortunately got off scot free.

Do arrest warrants expire? At some point you hit a statute of limitations.

These "protestors" are just a mob baying for blood. Donham will own up in the hereafter but at this point she's a decrepit old woman and should just be left alone.

Posted by: Robert is really, really tired at July 08, 2022 09:38 AM (OWe+L)

583 @509 Secret Square-yes we are all doomed because freedom loving people aren’t activist enough in politics. We do not peaceably assemble in large protests as the left does. We are not relentless as the left is. Whether people think the left is incompetent or not, they are effective at what they do, destroying things. They do not constrain themselves to our laws, they live by their own law.

Posted by: JROD at July 08, 2022 09:38 AM (nsFgR)

584 Sort of like when Muslims take over Christian churches and defile them.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 08, 2022 09:36 AM (AHeqJ)
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That is not an unfair comparison.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 08, 2022 09:38 AM (5pTK/)

585 "The Antifa summer camp for kids is back this summer... to support another new crop of screamers, taggers, rioters, looters, and IWW dead-enders at the Antifa training camp for kids called the Budding Roses Summer Camp."

On a hunch, looked up UU Summer Camps 2022. Holy cow, there are camps, retreats, and conferences for children, youth, family & men throughout North America. Yes, both new and staple crops of progressives for the future.

But Christians and Jews are the problem?

Posted by: Lola at July 08, 2022 09:38 AM (NIYa7)

586 Also, this book by a man who is RC, but I think a lot of what he says is relevant to Christians of all kinds and he talks about asking for faith:

Anthony DeStefano-Ten Prayers God Always Says Yes To

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 08, 2022 09:39 AM (FZ2cV)

587 Thanks for the daily morning report, JJ. Be safe in your travels. My friends, in NJ, have said, NYC has turned into its' own type of hellhole. Such a shame.

Posted by: sidney at July 08, 2022 10:00 AM (Uy/WF)

588 Friends, this will be my last column for a while, since one week from today I'll be leaving New York.
-

Who says there's no good news!

Posted by: Biden's Dog at July 08, 2022 10:01 AM (3mBSa)

589 Mr. Sefton, my best wishes to you and your family on your move - congratulations on getting out of new york!

Posted by: Isolden at July 08, 2022 10:50 AM (dB99g)

590 Congrats on your move, J. J. If it is indeed WI that's good. Repub legislature with Dem governor, so they can't do as much damage as NY or CA.

I'm thinking of going back to the Midwest too. Illinois is out of the question, so maybe Lake Geneva.

Safe travels, and we will miss your amazing morning posts.

Posted by: Ultra pj at July 08, 2022 11:01 AM (G1dq6)

591 I’m laughing about “Is it too much to ask the gun seller to do a cursory check?”
CNN Suggests Gun Shops Should Check Buyers’ Social Media Pages Before Agreeing Sales

If I had a shop & checked social media accounts, I’d send the lefties packing. “Oh, you retweeted BLM? Sorry, we cannot sell to the socially irresponsible.”

Posted by: Mr Banned from Twitter at July 08, 2022 11:53 AM (PVuHv)

592 Abe's murder:

Last night, on ONT, a poster explained that in Japan, like everywhere else, guns will ALWAYS be available for purchase, because of underworld smuggling.

I challenged that. The yakuza (Japanese organized crime) don't much use firearms now, because the penalties are incredible. LWOP (life without parole) is a genuine possibility for gun offenses in Japan.

But here's my real point: I just saw a photo of the firearm used to murder Abe. It's homemade, using duct tape & two small plumbing pipes! Built along the same lines as a 1950s zip gun.

So Abe's murder is NOT a good platform on which to expound that "guns are available everywhere, no matter what the law says." Buying a handgun in Japan is about as difficult as buying a surface-to-air missile.

I'm NOT a gun grabber. I just like to keep a gimlet eye on the facts.

Posted by: mnw at July 08, 2022 01:13 PM (NLIak)

593 592 Posted by: mnw at July 08, 2022 01:13 PM (NLIak)

The salient point, though, is that no matter what laws you create or even banning firearms completely, it will not absolutely deter anyone from either getting a gun, or in this case making one, and using it to kill, or killing with any other weapon or with bare hands.

Japan's culture and homogeneity of same is the reason so little murders are committed anyway.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 08, 2022 02:01 PM (s2VJv)

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