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21st Congressional District Voter biking near the Kern River

The FBI and IRS Target a Democrat

Well, today I am starting off with a sort of local story. On Wednesday the 17th, you may recall this piece from J.J. Sefton's Morning Report from Joel Pollak: Former Democrat Congressman T.J. Cox Indicted on 28 Counts of Fraud. It's a good, short piece:

Former Rep. T.J. Cox (D-CA), who was part of the 2018 "blue wave" election that brought Democrats and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) back to power, was indicted Tuesday on 28 federal counts, including fraud and campaign contribution fraud.

Among the charges is one that Cox fraudulently claimed to have purchased a property as his primary residence. Cox faced allegations during the 2018 campaign that his real "principal residence" was in Maryland and that he did not actually live in California. It is unclear whether the indictment concerns Cox's attempt to prove that he lived in California in that race.

I haven't seen that in other pieces, but it reminds me of another person in the news who lives in Maryland while representing people elsewhere.

There is a discussion of legal ballot harvesting connected to his 2018 win in this piece, too.

From the DOJ press release:

A 28-count indictment was unsealed today in the Eastern District of California charging a former member of Congress with multiple fraud schemes and campaign contribution fraud.

Terrance John "TJ" Cox, 59, of Fresno, is charged with 15 counts of wire fraud, 11 counts of money laundering, one count of financial institution fraud, and one count of campaign contribution fraud.

According to allegations in the indictment, Cox perpetrated multiple fraud schemes targeting companies he was affiliated with and their clients and vendors. Cox created unauthorized off-the-books bank accounts and diverted client and company money into those accounts through false representations, pretenses and promises. From 2013 to 2018, across two different fraud schemes, Cox illicitly obtained over $1.7 million in diverted client payments and company loans and investments he solicited and then stole.

There is more.

I first learned about this story from the radio while riding back from Fresno after surgery. I had been under conscious sedation, so I might get some details wrong, but he was arrested at the federal courthouse in Fresno and soon after that, someone stuck a microphone in his face. I heard a vague statement about how he had not read the indictments and how politics was tough and how he would not be there now if it weren't for politics.

Well, he would not have faced the campaign-related charges, but what about the tax charges and the business fraud charges? Would he have been a fine, upstanding citizen if he had steered clear of politics? Was he being framed?

The charges seem really serious:

This case is the product of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the IRS Criminal Investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Henry Z. Carbajal III and Jeffrey A. Spivak are prosecuting the case.

Nearly six hours after being arrested TJ Cox pleaded not guilty during his arraignment in Fresno federal court Tuesday afternoon. The judge agreed to release the former congressman without bail on three conditions. He has to surrender his passport, not contact witnesses in the case, and have no control over financial matters.

If convicted, Cox faces a maximum statutory penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for wire fraud and money laundering.

He faces a maximum statutory penalty of 30 years in prison and a $1 million fine for wire fraud affecting a financial institution and financial institution fraud.

He faces a maximum statutory penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine for campaign contribution fraud.

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The "daily buzz question" from the radio station concerned whether or not we thought the charges against Cox were politically motivated.

What do you think?

The New York Times pointed out that "In recent months, the Justice Department has pursued a handful of cases against Democratic officials."

That proves that they are not just targeting Trump and his supporters. Right?

Has Cox lost favor with Democrats?

How did Cox go from being a big wheel in Fresno to a representative of an even more rural district?

The 21st Congressional District

This congressional district is very rural, and BIG. Well, not as big as, say, Wyoming. But still, it stretches through parts of Kern County, all of Kings County and parts of Tulare and Fresno Counties. If you have ever driven along the I-5 from Los Angeles to San Francisco or flown your plane into Harris Ranch for a steak, you have been to the 21st District.

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Much of this land is in the rain shadow of the Coast Range, and is dependent for water on the California Aqueduct and canals from the Sierra for water. Thus, it is very dependent on government decision-makers. There are oil and mining interests as well as farms in the district. Even though there are a lot of conservative people in the district, there are also a lot of old-fashioned labor union type activists representing farm workers as well as newer "Erin Brockovich" type activists (the movie was about a town in this district). As of 2022, it is the most Democratic district to be represented by a Republican. David Valadao, the current representative, is one of the few Republicans who voted to impeach Trump.

Politics in the 21st District

Devin Nunes once represented the district, but the boundaries have not always been the same. He represented the 22nd congressional district from 2003 to 2022. He was a bulldog as Adam Schiff engaged in serial lying during the Russia Collusion miasma.

21st dist.jpg

Nunes is something of a contrast to Valadao. Still, Valadao seems preferable to Cox, who won by just a few votes in 2018 long after election day. It was the last election decided that year. There seemed to be something fishy about the late votes coming in.

When Cox first ran in the district, he live a little outside of it and was known as a Fresno community development leader. That is, he got grants for development projects. And, as we learned later, scammed his business partners and others. From what I have read, all of the federal charges are from before he was elected in 2018.

March of 2018:

"Obviously the DCCC doesn't think too highly of any of the residents of California's 21st Congressional District. Instead, they have decided Washington insiders know best, coercing out locals and running their own handpicked candidate," wrote Cole Rojewski, campaign spokesman for Valadao.

The "local" he is referring to is Huerta, the son of farm labor icon Dolores Huerta, who was the only opponent facing Valadao until this weekend when he announced he would drop out of the race. . .

"I decided it would be best for everyone - particularly the rural communities in the 21st - for me not to run," Huerta said. "I wanted to preserve the opportunity for us locally and the Democratic Party to flip that seat. The fight is against Valadao."

Cox appears to have more financial resources than Huerta did.

According to Federal Election Commission filings, Cox raised more than $408,000 in the second half of 2017.

About half of that was a personal loan from Cox to his campaign.

But $200,974 of those contributions were from donors. Cox raised in six months more than twice what Huerta raised in a full year of fundraising in 2017. He said he will be able to transfer those funds from his 10th District race into the 21st District.

Unfortunately for Cox, it appears that part of the contributions from donors were from money he gave to the donors to contribute back to his campaign. Those are some of the charges made against him this week. Campaign finance laws can cause problems for "the little people", but this guy seemed to go way beyond breaking the rules in one area of the law.

2020 election

Cox was criticized for pushing to gain preferential access into Yosemite National Park over the July 4 weekend. In October 2020, Cox's campaign acknowledged fabricating a tweet to make it appear as if Valadao had retweeted a message from President Trump saying "California is going to hell. Vote Trump!"

I remember the news about the July 4 weekend. Didn't seem like a real big scandal to me. The fabricated tweet is really creepy. There were rumors about problems with taxes and business dealings, but they seemed kind of vague. Not anymore, I guess. Cox's time in Congress seemed kind of vague, too. Anyway, Valadao won the seat back in another squeaker. Before the Cox scandals really hit.

Valley politics could use some upgrading.

I wonder if Cox thought he would be able to skate forever?

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Think Piece for the Weekend

Remember this tweet about from Kurt Shideler?

There's a follow-up. A really detailed follow-up.

You got me. I have never yet written a serious word about the left's desire to make war on half the country. I will do better.

Here's "better":

How the government shifted its "Counter-Extremism" strategy to target the mainstream.

The narrative is here, and it doesn't like you very much.

In recent remarks before members of the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee, the chief of the D.C. Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency claimed that domestic extremism has become "part of the cultural mainstream."

Former DHS official and USA Today contributor Elizabeth Neumann agrees: "Far-Right Extremists went mainstream under Trump."

"Extremists have gone mainstream," echoes journalist Zahra Ahmad. "Lawyers, realtors and every-day folks make up their ranks." Ahmad cites a figure suggesting a quarter of Americans hold "ideas incubated by white nationalists."

Not to be left out, NPR warns that white extremism "seeps" into the mainstream. The Atlantic says the mainstream has gone extremist too. A study by the Chicago Project on Security and Threats warns that most January 6 "insurrectionists" were mainstream to the extreme:

They work as CEOs, shop owners, doctors, lawyers, IT specialists, and accountants. Strikingly, court documents indicate that only 9 percent are unemployed. Of the earlier far-right extremist suspects we studied, 61 percent were under 35, 25 percent were unemployed, and almost none worked in white-collar occupations.

The Chicago Project is led by Robert Pape, a University of Chicago academic best known for declaring that Islamic extremism plays no role in suicide bombings and who once urged a U.S. government-identified front group for the terror organization Hamas to purchase copies to promote his book. So it's an open question whether Pape and company can actually identify extremism when they see it.

But what does it say about America's elites--security officials, academics, and media personalities--that they are all convinced that those holding the prevailing attitudes and values of our society are a dangerous threat? And a threat to whom?

There's a question you don't often see: "A threat to whom?"

Then Shideler tackes the questions, How did we get here? And What do we do about it?

He goes back to decisions made early in the War on Terror. Other decisions built on those, and gradually, the official narrative became ridiculous. People turned into dopes.

Anyway, read the whole thing. The last heading in the piece is correct:

The Elites are the Extremists

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Music

Lie to me

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Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Serving your mid-day open thread needs


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Last week's Thread, August 13, Yes, woke institutions really are that bad

Comments are closed so you won't ban yourself by trying to comment on a week-old thread. But don't try it anyway.

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Trivia:

When Bakersfield was first settled downstream from its present location, it was so swampy that many people, especially children, died from various fevers. The town was moved. These photos are from somewhere on the Kern river:

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Posted by: K.T. at 11:08 AM




Comments

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1 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at August 20, 2022 11:10 AM (iTxNj)

2 Corgis called.

Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at August 20, 2022 11:12 AM (iTxNj)

3 (winnowed)

I know that Sam Harris has been talked about, but there was a nugget not mentioned.

He used the phrase attack "on the institutions we rely on so much" and I wonder if he has a gnawing doubt that makes him so angry. What institution would that be? I can tell what harm many agencies cause me, but I would challenge him to identify one that benefits.

Does he presume like Ralph Nader that we would all be driving terrible death-trap cars if not for government mandated safety? Us idiot boobs just running into stuff and bursting into flames like Tesla drivers, if the experts weren't there to save us?

Does he presume that statistics will bear out the risks and costs of masks and jabs?

Does he presume I will collect unemployment some day?

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 20, 2022 11:13 AM (ybIRR)

4 Am I a brown white extremist then?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 20, 2022 11:13 AM (ynpvh)

5 Wow, #4 and I actually read (most of) the content!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 20, 2022 11:14 AM (ynpvh)

6 *retirement, not unemployment

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 20, 2022 11:15 AM (ybIRR)

7 Truth is, the Overton Window on the left has accelerated, and what was once considered normal, patriotic beliefs are now anathema.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 20, 2022 11:15 AM (ynpvh)

8 That skin-tag hanging off the southern end of the 21st district. Doesn't look gerrymandered at all. No siree.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 20, 2022 11:17 AM (g1EEm)

9 "Extremists have gone mainstream," echoes journalist Zahra Ahmad. "Lawyers, realtors and every-day folks make up their ranks." Ahmad cites a figure suggesting a quarter of Americans hold "ideas incubated by white nationalists."

Not to be left out, NPR warns that white extremism "seeps" into the mainstream. The Atlantic says the mainstream has gone extremist too. A study by the Chicago Project on Security and Threats warns that most January 6 "insurrectionists" were mainstream to the extreme:

They work as CEOs, shop owners, doctors, lawyers, IT specialists, and accountants. Strikingly, court documents indicate that only 9 percent are unemployed. Of the earlier far-right extremist suspects we studied, 61 percent were under 35, 25 percent were unemployed, and almost none worked in white-collar occupations.


Substitute "communists" for "white extremists" and this could be the most fevered rantings of the nuttier Birchers and their ilk. Except for the fact that communists actually did exist in the government.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 20, 2022 11:18 AM (/NCI4)

10 That Cox guy sounds talented and motivated...just what we need in government.

Posted by: BignJames at August 20, 2022 11:19 AM (AwYPR)

11 10 That Cox guy sounds talented and motivated...just what we need in government.

Posted by: BignJames at August 20, 2022 11:19 AM (AwYPR)

If he had been better aligned with Nancy, Biden, and Clinton, he would've been fine.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 20, 2022 11:19 AM (ynpvh)

12 Michael Hayden deserves to be mocked. People have such reverence for the CIA, and it needs to be taken down first, BEFORE you can go after the people who have been systematically destroying this country with impunity, by hiding behind their corrupt-from-the-start three letter agencies.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 20, 2022 11:20 AM (NWBBy)

13 “This contract language was something that we are, first of all, extremely proud of for achieving but it also doesn’t go far enough,” Greta Callahan, president of the teachers’ union, told “GMA3” host Amy Robach. “We need to support and retain our educators, especially those who are underrepresented, and this language does one tiny, minuscule step towards that but doesn’t solve the real crisis we’re in right now.”

Laying off white teachers first is a great start but there is so much more to be done! To the left there is no victory, only a great start on a journey.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 20, 2022 11:21 AM (hwoGt)

14 "There seemed to be something fishy about the late votes coming in."

Naw, perfectly fine and above board. I mean, I live in a county with 118% voter registration.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 20, 2022 11:21 AM (ynpvh)

15 TJ Cox is following the recommended formulae for congressional office holders. Two terms: One in office, one in jail.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at August 20, 2022 11:21 AM (Bd6X8)

16 When everyone is extreme, no-one is extreme.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 20, 2022 11:22 AM (g1EEm)

17 12 Michael Hayden deserves to be mocked. People have such reverence for the CIA, and it needs to be taken down first, BEFORE you can go after the people who have been systematically destroying this country with impunity, by hiding behind their corrupt-from-the-start three letter agencies.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 20, 2022 11:20 AM (NWBBy)

Michael Hayden is an example of the evil that is the Deep State that used to keep a low profile, but is now more in the open. These folks committed TREASON with their actions, but will never see the inside of a cage like these animals deserve.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 20, 2022 11:22 AM (ynpvh)

18 "Extremists have gone mainstream," echoes journalist Zahra Ahmad. "Lawyers, realtors and every-day folks make up their ranks."

Which means that by definition the views are mainstream and those that do not hold them are now the extremists.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at August 20, 2022 11:23 AM (Bd6X8)

19
What Germany is doing to itself by its energy policy, its stance on Ukraine, and its agreements with other EU member countries. In short, the people in charge are expecting a miracle to save them, or don't care what happens.

https://tinyurl.com/3bnpz3j6

Posted by: Kindltot at August 20, 2022 11:23 AM (xhaym)

20 The left used to hate the CIA. Do they love them now?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 20, 2022 11:23 AM (63Dwl)

21 16 When everyone is extreme, no-one is extreme.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 20, 2022 11:22 AM (g1EEm)

Dunno. Substitute dead for extreme...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 20, 2022 11:24 AM (ynpvh)

22 Had family in Madera years ago. ( 60's/early70's) Seemed like a nice little town then. Fast forward 20 years. Last kid still living there turned in to a dem politico. What an asshole.

Posted by: Infidel at August 20, 2022 11:24 AM (QgnTJ)

23 There are three St. Louis Aldermen (including an Alderwoman?), all Democrats of course, who have federal charges against them at the moment.

It all looks fairly small fish, so maybe these people are up against it to hide the bigger fish. I don't know. All I know is these days, if the Eff Bee Eye is after you, I gotta wonder WHERE the corruption is, not whether there's corruption or not.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 20, 2022 11:24 AM (NWBBy)

24 20 The left used to hate the CIA. Do they love them now?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 20, 2022 11:23 AM (63Dwl)

The left even exempts the $20 traditionally charged in town for the CIA and FIB

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 20, 2022 11:24 AM (ynpvh)

25

A letter sent by New York Attorney General Letitia James to Cornerstone Church in Batavia, New York, threatened the church in advance of its hosting a ReAwaken America Tour event this past weekend, with investigation and prosecution of “acts of violence, intimidation, threats, or harassment” toward others based on “a belief or perception” of characteristics including “race,” “national origin,” “gender,” and “sexual orientation.”

“As New York’s top law enforcement officer, I have significant concerns that the ReAwaken America Tour’s upcoming event at the Cornerstone Church in Batavia, New York on August 12 and 13 could spur extremist or racially motivated violence,” James said in the letter sent, in care of the church, to Clay Clark, organizer of the tour, and General Michael Flynn, who travels with it.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 20, 2022 11:25 AM (63Dwl)

26 What extremist stuff exactly are these extreme extremists doing? Could somebody explain please?

Posted by: NLurker at August 20, 2022 11:25 AM (eGTCV)

27 Checking back in before I head out, well, believe it or not, Cox was far preferable to Huerta. Huerta is a far left wing radical who uses her family name to grift off of local illegals, while "fighting" for them. It is hard to believe, but, as bad as Cox is, Huerta is far worse.

I suspect Huerta had a hand in the demise of Cox.

Anyway, I couldn't resist commenting, as Bakersfield is my former home town.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 20, 2022 11:25 AM (5pTK/)

28 Michael Hayden is an example of the evil that is the Deep State that used to keep a low profile, but is now more in the open.

View this as the good news it is. They are in the open either because they think there's nothing that can be done about them or because they think it's their last chance to control things. They're wrong on the first, right on the second, but they won't succeed. People are paying attention now.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 20, 2022 11:25 AM (/NCI4)

29 What extremist stuff exactly are these extreme extremists doing? Could somebody explain please?

Not being extreme leftists is my guess.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at August 20, 2022 11:26 AM (Bd6X8)

30 23 There are three St. Louis Aldermen (including an Alderwoman?), all Democrats of course, who have federal charges against them at the moment.
It all looks fairly small fish, so maybe these people are up against it to hide the bigger fish. I don't know. All I know is these days, if the Eff Bee Eye is after you, I gotta wonder WHERE the corruption is, not whether there's corruption or not.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 20, 2022 11:24 AM (NWBBy)

Family courts in St. Louis is also filled with corruption. There were a series of articles of how the system was worked so that the wealthier one got the kids, no matter how depraved. It was so bad that when a judge was caught, all the other judges recused themselves...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 20, 2022 11:26 AM (ynpvh)

31 Unlike when a GOP politican gets indicted( and over 200 associated with Trump) you don't see big name Dems like Pelosi rushing to his defense. He will probably lose committee assignments.

Posted by: Paul at August 20, 2022 11:26 AM (Y2qxy)

32 Michael Hayden deserves to be mocked. People have such reverence for the CIA, and it needs to be taken down first, BEFORE you can go after the people who have been systematically destroying this country with impunity, by hiding behind their corrupt-from-the-start three letter agencies.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 20, 2022 11:20 AM (NWBBy)

Michael Hayden is an example of the evil that is the Deep State that used to keep a low profile, but is now more in the open. These folks committed TREASON with their actions, but will never see the inside of a cage like these animals deserve.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 20, 2022 11:22 AM (ynpvh)

Exactly. They've been at this for as long as they've been on the job. The Deep State, the so-called elites, are the enemies of the American people.

It's not left vs. right. It's all of us, versus all of them. Period.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 20, 2022 11:26 AM (NWBBy)

33 AS you can probably tell, I have lost a great deal of respect for our legal system then last decade...I've seen too much and experience too much to feel otherwise.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 20, 2022 11:28 AM (ynpvh)

34 They send the letter that they are concerned the event "could spur violence" and the church is responsible for any violence, then send their antifa goons to start violence "in response to" dangerous rhetoric at the event.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 20, 2022 11:28 AM (hwoGt)

35 Somebody fart?...oh, there's Paul.

Posted by: BignJames at August 20, 2022 11:29 AM (AwYPR)

36 Yet another inflation example. I have a two-year electricity plan that ends in October, which means that for the last two years I’ve been paying Trump prices for electricity.

Just got the renewal notice today. “Your expiring energy charge is 5.7¢ per kWh. You can renew on an energy charge of 11.3¢ per kWh.” So the energy portion of my electrical bill is set to double.

Thanks, Brandon. And to all in the GOP who enabled you.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 20, 2022 11:29 AM (U+Oxn)

37 I'm guessing in lock up, TJ will become BJ Cox

Posted by: REDACTED at August 20, 2022 11:29 AM (us2H3)

38 View this as the good news it is. They are in the open either because they think there's nothing that can be done about them or because they think it's their last chance to control things. They're wrong on the first, right on the second, but they won't succeed. People are paying attention now.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 20, 2022 11:25 AM (/NCI4)

In order for these people to be taken down, people need to at least pause the left v. right thing, which is part of how they kept such a low profile for so long. If we were fighting against each other, they could do whatever they wanted, because we're so easily distracted by bullship.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 20, 2022 11:30 AM (NWBBy)

39 Here is an excellent article detailing the changes to the Republican Party now that the politicial dynasties (Bush, Cheney, Clinton, Kennedy) are ended.

“Neo-conservative dynasties have been rejected by voters across the country. Middle-class Americans have repudiated the Republican oligarchy. It is a new day for the Republican Party,” he told us.

And Democratic pollster John Zogby said the end of modern political dynasties suggests that Washington and its elites have lost their influence.

“With Liz Cheney leaving office, it looks like the end of the notion of a ‘D.C. elite.’ I don't see any other family on the horizon. Both a fulfillment of our culture and a revolution away from inside-the-Beltway dominance,” he said.


https://tinyurl.com/3bknca37

Posted by: Archimedes at August 20, 2022 11:30 AM (/NCI4)

40 Can we distinguish between 'elites' and 'elitists'? Nothing negative about being elite. It properly describes proficiency and excellence in any trade, craft, skill, knowledge, etc.

'Elitist' on the other hand describes those who think they are superior and entitled. (e.g. nearly everyone management and leadership roles in our institutions - media, entertainment, public schools, universities, administrative state, NGOs, foundations, big tech media, etc.)

Posted by: Java Joe at August 20, 2022 11:30 AM (VsPm9)

41 1985: Kiki Camarena, DEA agent killed by Drug Cartel in Guadalajara Mexico. Info has come out it was one one of our guys that did the torturing, wanting to know if Kiki was aware that one of the drug bases in Mexico he was keeping an eye on was being used to train contras funded by the CIA using drug monies. They guy even testified in Congress and said he dun knew nuffin...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 20, 2022 11:31 AM (ynpvh)

42 BLM/Antifa burning down cities is mainstream, but those of us who believe in the Constitution and rule of law are radicals.

Gosh, never saw that one coming.

Anyway, and, sorry, KT, to distract, but I could use some prayer. I've an upcoming surgery, which should be no big deal, but, I have some health issues, which I've made the doctors aware of, which could be a wild card. I go in Tuesday morning. It should be an outpatient procedure, but, still, it involves general anesthetic, which is where the problems could occur.

Thanks!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 20, 2022 11:31 AM (5pTK/)

43 Willowage: The 2020 Census was botched to a shocking extent, by the Census Bureau's own admission. The bureau's 2020 Post-Enumeration Survey revealed that FL was deprived of two House seats and TX was deprived of one House seat. MN and RI each kept one House seat that should have been lost. CO gained one House seat it shouldn't have.

The census overcounted in CO, DE, HI, MA, MN, NY, OH, RI, and UT. The census undercounted in AR, FL, IL, MS, TN, and TX. If you detect a pattern in that, you're a domestic terrorist. And also raysis.

https://tinyurl.com/29523hjc

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at August 20, 2022 11:31 AM (sWM8x)

44 So yes, the CIA has been doing bad stuff for a very, very long time.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 20, 2022 11:32 AM (ynpvh)

45
“As New York’s top law enforcement officer, I have significant concerns that the ReAwaken America Tour’s upcoming event at the Cornerstone Church in Batavia, New York on August 12 and 13 could spur extremist or racially motivated violence,” James said in the letter sent, in care of the church, to Clay Clark, organizer of the tour, and General Michael Flynn, who travels with it.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 20, 2022 11:25 AM (63Dwl)

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If I ran that church, my letter in response would have three words.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 20, 2022 11:32 AM (XG2Fi)

46 Morning.

Posted by: Robert at August 20, 2022 11:32 AM (1Yy3c)

47 AS you can probably tell, I have lost a great deal of respect for our legal system then last decade...I've seen too much and experience too much to feel otherwise.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 20, 2022 11:28 AM (ynpvh)

I've come to believe the criminal justice system is essentially an obstacle to peace. It stops none of the bad behavior of the people who harm the law-abiding, and it turns way too many otherwise law-abiding people into criminals for the most arbitrary and pointless reasons.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 20, 2022 11:33 AM (NWBBy)

48 "Associated with trump"

And I see they are circling back to "Trump obstructed justice in the Russia probe". He obstructed justice by not cooperating with a fake investigation into a fake crime. But he was supposed to go along with it, and because he didn't play along, he needs to go to jail.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 20, 2022 11:33 AM (hwoGt)

49 45 If I ran that church, my letter in response would have three words.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 20, 2022 11:32 AM (XG2Fi)

"Fuck off"? No, two words.
"Molon Labe"? No, two works again.
"Go Fuck Yourselves"? maybe...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 20, 2022 11:34 AM (ynpvh)

50 40 Can we distinguish between 'elites' and 'elitists'? Nothing negative about being elite. It properly describes proficiency and excellence in any trade, craft, skill, knowledge, etc.

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They're self-defined elites. To the rest of us they're entitled, incompetent, malicious, corrupt parasites.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 20, 2022 11:34 AM (XG2Fi)

51 blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 20, 2022 11:25

Dolores Huerta is remarkably radical. Don't know much about her son, but he doesn't seem to be as flamboyant.

Posted by: KT at August 20, 2022 11:34 AM (rrtZS)

52 Gavin Newsom is going to run for President.

California currently bans state employees from traveling to 23 states, due to a variety of imagined sins.

So, is Newsom going to ditch his state police bodyguard when traveling to these states?

I can only imagine his campaign speeches:

"Vote for me! Your scum state isn't good enough for California, but you inbred losers can partially redeem yourselves by voting for me!"

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 20, 2022 11:34 AM (I2/tG)

53 The Erin Brockovich movie was about a situation in the town of Hinkley, near Barstow in southern California. It isn't that close to Bakersfield and is not currently in District 21.

Posted by: Hank Archer at August 20, 2022 11:35 AM (MlUIL)

54 These photos are from somewhere on the Kern river:

I think I can see why Ol' Merle wouldn't want to swim there.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 20, 2022 11:35 AM (nfrXX)

55 48 "Associated with trump"

And I see they are circling back to "Trump obstructed justice in the Russia probe". He obstructed justice by not cooperating with a fake investigation into a fake crime. But he was supposed to go along with it, and because he didn't play along, he needs to go to jail.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 20, 2022 11:33 AM (hwoGt)

All I know is that Hunter was probing russian hookers. Does that count?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 20, 2022 11:35 AM (ynpvh)

56 If you detect a pattern in that, you're a domestic terrorist. And also raysis.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at August 20, 2022 11:31 AM (sWM8x)

I suspected as much. I am denouncing myself, as we speak.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 20, 2022 11:36 AM (NWBBy)

57 So, is Newsom going to ditch his state police bodyguard when traveling to these states?

Newsom only needs to campaign in CA, IA and NY.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 20, 2022 11:36 AM (hwoGt)

58 I can only imagine his campaign speeches:

"Vote for me! Your scum state isn't good enough for California, but you inbred losers can partially redeem yourselves by voting for me!"


He knows the only people in those states who will vote for him consider themselves above their fellow citizens. For them, it's an opportunity to demonstrate their virtue. Besides, he won't win those states anyway.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 20, 2022 11:36 AM (/NCI4)

59 blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 20, 2022 11:31 AM

Prayers up for your surgery!

Posted by: KT at August 20, 2022 11:36 AM (rrtZS)

60 52 Gavin Newsom is going to run for President.

California currently bans state employees from traveling to 23 states, due to a variety of imagined sins...
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 20, 2022 11:34 AM (I2/tG)

I wondered about the legality of that. Isn't that interfering with interstate commerce? De Santis or Trump should have an investigation in 2025...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 20, 2022 11:37 AM (ynpvh)

61 I think I can see why Ol' Merle wouldn't want to swim there.

I almost never like maudlin songs, but almost always like Merle Haggard’s. Kern River is one of my favorites. Life sucks, and you learn from it, but that doesn’t mean you’re happy for the lesson.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 20, 2022 11:37 AM (U+Oxn)

62 Sinema called her constituents losers and got elected easily.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 20, 2022 11:37 AM (hwoGt)

63 Obviously Cox can't blame politics for his woes except insofar as 'who let the dogs out' on him?
Usually Dems skate on these types of shenanigans so either he crossed an influential Dem partner or he has transgressed politically and we don't know why, yet.
Maybe The Big Guy didn't get 10% ?

Posted by: Ciampino -- who was actually deciding what was misinformation? at August 20, 2022 11:37 AM (qfLjt)

64 I love the upper Kern

spent a lot of time at the Ponderosa in Springville

even bartended there for a couple of summers

Posted by: REDACTED at August 20, 2022 11:38 AM (us2H3)

65 Sinema called her constituents losers and got elected easily.

But again, those who voted for her "knew" that she didn't mean them. She only meant those other people.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 20, 2022 11:38 AM (/NCI4)

66 62 Sinema called her constituents losers and got elected easily.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 20, 2022 11:37 AM (hwoGt)

While she was wearing those high boots and mini-skirt?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 20, 2022 11:38 AM (ynpvh)

67 I can only imagine his campaign speeches:

"Vote for me! Your scum state isn't good enough for California, but you inbred losers can partially redeem yourselves by voting for me!"
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 20, 2022 11:34 AM (I2/tG)

Gavin Nuisance: Is your state running out of water? Let them drink wine!

Posted by: BurtTC at August 20, 2022 11:38 AM (NWBBy)

68 Jun 16, 2022Rep. Mondaire Jones submitted a request Wednesday to again designate a House colleague to vote on his behalf — just as The Post published an expose showing he cast votes from France.

Posted by: SMOD at August 20, 2022 11:39 AM (X5CsJ)

69 67 I can only imagine his campaign speeches:

"Vote for me! Your scum state isn't good enough for California, but you inbred losers can partially redeem yourselves by voting for me!"
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 20, 2022 11:34 AM (I2/tG)

Gavin Nuisance: Is your state running out of water? Let them drink wine!

Posted by: BurtTC at August 20, 2022 11:38 AM (NWBBy)

Which needs what for the grapes to grow? Delta Smelt, of course!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 20, 2022 11:39 AM (ynpvh)

70 Maybe The Big Guy didn't get 10% ?
Posted by: Ciampino -- who was actually deciding what was misinformation? at August 20, 2022 11:37 AM (qfLjt)

I agree, I'm sure Cox did nothing more than any democrat candidate has ever done, but somehow he ran afoul of the leadership. So he's being made an Example of.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 20, 2022 11:39 AM (trdmm)

71 I was out having a beer with an old colleague. I had known him for 20+ years. He started to tell me I was an extremist. The same as an Iranian immigrant he knew that wanted to impose communism.

I got up and told him I was done. Then I asked

Is it extreme to love your country?

Is it extreme not to want boys in girls bathrooms
(Believe or not that used to be the argumemt!)

Is it extreme to resist invasion of your country and destruction of its culture?

I haven’t looked back. I was happy to debate but he was done with debating. That’s where the left is and so we are in fir dangerous times

Posted by: Justin Castreau at August 20, 2022 11:39 AM (ZW1rs)

72 Sinema called her constituents losers and got elected easily.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 20, 2022 11:37 AM (hwoGt)

See, again this isn't left v. right. The Arizona Republican Party wanted this cow in there as much as the Democrats did. They also wanted Penishead Kelly in there.

Otherwise, why in the world would they have run that idiot McSally against both of them?

Posted by: BurtTC at August 20, 2022 11:40 AM (NWBBy)

73 @23

>>It all looks fairly small fish, so maybe these people are up against it to hide the bigger fish.

Pretty much, they banged up some no name GOP congressman from NY but let Brian Kemps sugar mama, Kelly Laughler skate for insider trading that dwarfed what that guy was banged up for by a wide margin.

As the saying goes, it's a big club and you and I and apparently that dude from NY ain't in it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 20, 2022 11:41 AM (Nmxop)

74 Posted by: Justin Castreau at August 20, 2022 11:39 AM (ZW1rs)

The Constitution means nothing to them. The "theory" that it is a "living" document was one small step along that path. And now we find ourselves here, a dead Republic being worn as a skin-suit by deep-staters and communists (but I repeat myself).

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 20, 2022 11:41 AM (ynpvh)

75 15 TJ Cox is following the recommended formulae for congressional office holders. Two terms: One in office, one in jail.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at August 20, 2022 11:21 AM (Bd6X
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Hey that's our line !

Posted by: Illinois Governors past & present at August 20, 2022 11:43 AM (qfLjt)

76 41 1985: Kiki Camarena, DEA agent killed by Drug Cartel in Guadalajara Mexico. Info has come out it was one one of our guys that did the torturing, wanting to know if Kiki was aware that one of the drug bases in Mexico he was keeping an eye on was being used to train contras funded by the CIA using drug monies. They guy even testified in Congress and said he dun knew nuffin...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 20, 2022 11:31 AM (ynpvh

That's the basis for a plot point in Sicario - our DEA is no different than the Cartels, they're just in it to control the operation and funnel the money to where they want it to go, not to stop it. You know a few years ago I would have called that crazy conspiracy talk.

The only really big busts happen when one of the Cartels decides it would be useful to set up one of its rivals.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 20, 2022 11:44 AM (trdmm)

77 When will Senile Joe, the Great Uniter, support the right of people to think differently than the left?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 20, 2022 11:44 AM (eGTCV)

78 The left used to hate the CIA. Do they love them now?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 20, 2022 11:23 AM (63Dwl)


Everyone loves their own cops.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 20, 2022 11:45 AM (xhaym)

79 Sinema chose "carried interest" as her hill to die on. It enables hedge fund managers to transmute ordinary income into capital gains, which is important if you want to become a hedge fund billionaire.

Immediately after, lots of donations from hedge fund managers went to Sinema.

This isn't an Arizona issue, but many other Ds are in bed with hedge fund managers. Sure looks like the whole thing was structured to shake down the hedgies to bribe the 50th vote.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 20, 2022 11:45 AM (i0slg)

80 @72

>>Otherwise, why in the world would they have run that idiot McSally against both of them?

On paper McSally is a very solid candidate, I've also seen her give interviews and debates, she no worse than your average GOPe office holder.

For whatever reason she just doesn't cut it with your average Arizonan. They rejected her outright twice.

But like holllywood trying to make Mila Kunis a thing, the people have spoken.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 20, 2022 11:45 AM (Nmxop)

81 76 41 1985: Kiki Camarena, DEA agent killed by Drug Cartel in Guadalajara Mexico. Info has come out it was one one of our guys that did the torturing, wanting to know if Kiki was aware that one of the drug bases in Mexico he was keeping an eye on was being used to train contras funded by the CIA using drug monies. They guy even testified in Congress and said he dun knew nuffin...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 20, 2022 11:31 AM (ynpvh

That's the basis for a plot point in Sicario - our DEA is no different than the Cartels, they're just in it to control the operation and funnel the money to where they want it to go, not to stop it. You know a few years ago I would have called that crazy conspiracy talk.
The only really big busts happen when one of the Cartels decides it would be useful to set up one of its rivals.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 20, 2022 11:44 AM (trdmm)

They guys that investigated it were later set up. One was told to bring in a doctor that was present at the torturing. When he got somebody to do it, the higher-ups at the DEA said they never gave him authorization (and the authorization conveniently disappeared). Dirty, dirty, dirty.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 20, 2022 11:47 AM (ynpvh)

82 Michael Hayden is an example of the evil that is the Deep State that used to keep a low profile, but is now more in the open.

I've been reading "Command and Control", which is the first book in a new series intended to evoke Tom Clancy thrillers.

It is full of brave, selfless jut-jawed Americans fighting evil foreigners to protect our country.

Frankly, I find it hilarious reading this in 2022.

After looking at Hayden, Brennan, and the other forty-eight "intelligence experts" who assured us that the Hunter Biden laptop was "Russian disinformation", not to mention military geniuses like Miley and Austin, who continue to hold on to their sinecures despite being in charge during the disaster in Afghanistan, the idea that we have a noble and self-sacrificing class of people defending the country is ludicrous.

They're far more interested in crushing half the American people than dealing with foreign threats.

It would be fun to do neo-Tom Clancy novels populated by the incompetent losers who actually run our national defense and intelligence establishments. They can lurch from disaster to disaster without any consequences for them personally.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 20, 2022 11:47 AM (I2/tG)

83 Good morning everyone.

From the previous thread - prayers for all afflicted, and those that love them.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 20, 2022 11:49 AM (LsEU/)

84 Mini-series on what happened to Kiki Camarena is called "The Last Narc". It's like 6 or 8 parts.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 20, 2022 11:50 AM (ynpvh)

85 84 Mini-series on what happened to Kiki Camarena is called "The Last Narc". It's like 6 or 8 parts.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 20, 2022 11:50 AM (ynpvh)

Just looked it up; 4 parts.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 20, 2022 11:51 AM (ynpvh)

86 When will these monsters start calling conservatives running dogs of imperialism, like the good little Maoists they are?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 20, 2022 11:51 AM (eGTCV)

87 I've been reading "Command and Control", which is the first book in a new series intended to evoke Tom Clancy thrillers. It is full of brave, selfless jut-jawed Americans fighting evil foreigners to protect our country. Frankly, I find it hilarious reading this in 2022.
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Yeah, I started one of those Clancy-branded novels, then the raid on MAL hit. Suspending disbelief enough to allow the novel to work is just a bridge too far right now. I don't think I'll finish it.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at August 20, 2022 11:52 AM (sWM8x)

88 When will these monsters start calling conservatives running dogs of imperialism, like the good little Maoists they are?
Posted by: N.L. Urker

When they page through their copies of the Little Red Book, they'll suddenly remember.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 20, 2022 11:54 AM (LsEU/)

89 87 I've been reading "Command and Control", which is the first book in a new series intended to evoke Tom Clancy thrillers. It is full of brave, selfless jut-jawed Americans fighting evil foreigners to protect our country. Frankly, I find it hilarious reading this in 2022.
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Yeah, I started one of those Clancy-branded novels, then the raid on MAL hit. Suspending disbelief enough to allow the novel to work is just a bridge too far right now. I don't think I'll finish it.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at August 20, 2022 11:52 AM (sWM8x)

"They Live". Just put on the glasses, man, and see them for what they really are.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 20, 2022 11:54 AM (ynpvh)

90 David Valadao, the current representative, is one of the few Republicans who voted to impeach Trump.

What are Valadao's re-election chances looking like?

Posted by: olddog in mo, No Cheetos allowed on the 'toon at August 20, 2022 11:55 AM (a97Ka)

91 90 David Valadao, the current representative, is one of the few Republicans who voted to impeach Trump.

What are Valadao's re-election chances looking like?

Posted by: olddog in mo, No Cheetos allowed on the 'toon at August 20, 2022 11:55 AM (a97Ka)

"and one of two Republicans to be renominated in the ensuing primary, along with Dan Newhouse of Washington. " --Wikipedia

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 20, 2022 11:55 AM (ynpvh)

92 "They Live". Just put on the glasses, man, and see them for what they really are.
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Heh.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at August 20, 2022 11:56 AM (sWM8x)

93 It would be fun to do neo-Tom Clancy novels populated by the incompetent losers who actually run our national defense and intelligence establishments. They can lurch from disaster to disaster without any consequences for them personally.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 20, 2022 11:47 AM (I2/tG)

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Oh, there are consequences. They're called promotions.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 20, 2022 11:56 AM (XG2Fi)

94 89 87

Having the same problem reading books where feds are good guys

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 20, 2022 11:59 AM (CwwOT)

95 If somehow the dims keep control of the house and senate

Mitch

Kevin

Ronna

all have to go, they are poison

Posted by: REDACTED at August 20, 2022 12:00 PM (us2H3)

96 94 89 87

Having the same problem reading books where feds are good guys

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 20, 2022 11:59 AM (CwwOT)

Seeing how corrupt they are, and seeing how they are the armed extension of the leftists, akin to the SS police forces, will do that to you.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 20, 2022 12:00 PM (ynpvh)

97 It would be fun to do neo-Tom Clancy novels populated by the incompetent losers who actually run our national defense and intelligence establishments. They can lurch from disaster to disaster without any consequences for them personally.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 20, 2022 11:47 AM (I2/tG)

In other news, the Eff Bee Eye guy who ran the Frau Whitmer kidnap plot, is now in charge of the agency's J6 "investigation."

Posted by: BurtTC at August 20, 2022 12:01 PM (NWBBy)

98 97 It would be fun to do neo-Tom Clancy novels populated by the incompetent losers who actually run our national defense and intelligence establishments. They can lurch from disaster to disaster without any consequences for them personally.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 20, 2022 11:47 AM (I2/tG)

In other news, the Eff Bee Eye guy who ran the Frau Whitmer kidnap plot, is now in charge of the agency's J6 "investigation."

Posted by: BurtTC at August 20, 2022 12:01 PM (NWBBy)

It's not incompentence when it's part of the plan.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 20, 2022 12:02 PM (ynpvh)

99 Just saw that I waas added to the prayer list. Mrs. Mahon really appreciates the prayers, as do I. She is doing fine BTW, the procedure was done in less than an hour and there was no sepsis.

She'll be back to work on Monday.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, it's pronounced Muh-Hone at August 20, 2022 12:02 PM (x8Wzq)

100 Remember Andrew Gillum? DeSantis defeated him for governor by about half a point. You remember Gillum and his anal bleeding and meth and male prostitutes?

The FBI was investigating him for all sorts of campaign malfeasance, during the campaign. He denied everything. The media did not press him on it, did not make a deal of the fact.

He has since been arrested and charged for all the things he was investigated for. NOT for the male hookers and meth stuff.

But, is that news? No DeSantis is the devil, all the time. And, yeah, speaking of timing, it took FOUR YEARS for them to bring the case. The trial, scheduled for August, has been postponed to April. I am also reminded that my Republican governor was investigated in 2013, indicted in 8 months, and convicted in just 7 more. Oh, probably worth mentioning that the convention was overturned by SCOTUS - they found what he had been convicted of was not even a crime.

Posted by: blaster at August 20, 2022 12:02 PM (6TxNR)

101 100
Posted by: blaster at August 20, 2022 12:02 PM (6TxNR)

The media is the propaganda arm of the left. They won't say anything without the blessings of their masters.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 20, 2022 12:04 PM (ynpvh)

102 Any fictional work that centers on some super-secret federal agency with tough, dedicated agents, state-of-the-art surveillance systems and near omnipotent wisdom is unreadable/ unwatchable for me now. We all know the truth, and the truth is the FBI/CIA/IRS. It's a perverse mockery of competence and intelligence.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 20, 2022 12:05 PM (XG2Fi)

103 You know, if we on the Constitutionalist Right were the "extremists" they accuse us of being, there would long ago have been a bloodbath of leftists so as to make the St. Valentine's Day Massacre look like a Sunday School Picnic.

They project on us though, all the shit they're neck deep in doing. Every time. Which is what justifies them kicking down doors and killing pet dogs and all of the etc., and even more etc.

Most federal enforcement is now indistinguishable from the crimes they claim to prevent. Me, I just want to find some remote acreage, move out there and pull the hole in after me. Charter Member of the "Leave Me The Hell Alone" party. Even *that* seems to piss off the left, aka "The Busybody Party."

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 20, 2022 12:05 PM (tkOps)

104 Charter Member of the "Leave Me The Hell Alone" party. Even *that* seems to piss off the left, aka "The Busybody Party."

Jim

Oh yeah my Brother.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 20, 2022 12:07 PM (LsEU/)

105 I believe it's not incompetence, but part of the plan. Make our military weak. Harass and stigmatize those believing in Constitutional law and order. Prevent the police from protecting the disfavored while allowing your brown-shirts to kill and destroy with near impunity. Have a Reichstag fire event to further demonize those you hate...and more and more and more.

This is no accident. It's intentional.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 20, 2022 12:07 PM (ynpvh)

106
When Bakersfield was first settled downstream from its present location, it was so swampy that many people, especially children, died from various fevers.

These photos are from somewhere on the Kern river:

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Brain-eating amoebas! I can smell them!

Wait, they enter the brain through the nose!

*runs away*

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 20, 2022 12:09 PM (qOuMB)

107 "They Live". Just put on the glasses, man, and see them for what they really are.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 20, 2022 11:54 AM (ynpvh)

Let's put it this way, if I see Rowdy Roddy Piper (and/or Keith David) coming at me in an alley, with a pair of sunglasses in their hand, I'm puttin' them on.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 20, 2022 12:09 PM (NWBBy)

108 Any fictional work that centers on some super-secret federal agency with tough, dedicated agents, state-of-the-art surveillance systems and near omnipotent wisdom is unreadable/ unwatchable for me now. We all know the truth, and the truth is the FBI/CIA/IRS. It's a perverse mockery of competence and intelligence.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 20, 2022 12:05 PM (XG2Fi)

Why, it's almost as if Hollowood has been in on the plot, to brainwash people into blind obedience of our government agencies.

Almost.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 20, 2022 12:11 PM (NWBBy)

109 @102

Helps explain the popularity of Reacher. He does it all by himself with mad police skillz he perfected in his former life.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 20, 2022 12:12 PM (i0slg)

110 106
When Bakersfield was first settled downstream from its present location, it was so swampy that many people, especially children, died from various fevers.
These photos are from somewhere on the Kern river:
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Brain-eating amoebas! I can smell them!
Wait, they enter the brain through the nose!
*runs away*
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 20, 2022 12:09 PM (qOuMB)

Politicians either build in swaps or turn places they run into swaps. It's their natural habitat.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 20, 2022 12:12 PM (ynpvh)

111 Is judging people by the content of their character extremist?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 20, 2022 12:12 PM (eGTCV)

112 103 In the movie, Charlie Wilson's War, Charlie Wilson, portrayed by Tom Hanks (spit) says he's the luckiest member of Congress. His people want nothing but keep their taxes low and hands off their guns.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 20, 2022 12:13 PM (lz5hY)

113 111 Is judging people by the content of their character extremist?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 20, 2022 12:12 PM (eGTCV)

Yes. Their pronouns is all you need to judge their character.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 20, 2022 12:13 PM (ynpvh)

114 Is judging people by the content of their character extremist?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 20, 2022 12:12 PM (eGTCV)

I'm not sure. Are you white? Male? Heterosexual?

Then yes, yes it is.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 20, 2022 12:13 PM (i3yPZ)

115 What Germany is doing to itself by its energy policy, its stance on Ukraine, and its agreements with other EU member countries. In short, the people in charge are expecting a miracle to save them, or don't care what happens.
https://tinyurl.com/3bnpz3j6
Posted by: Kindltot

they believe the usa will came charging in again, like it has twice before.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (MrZQl) - at August 20, 2022 12:14 PM (MrZQl)

116 Speaking of the CIA.

https://tinyurl.com/2p8thcyx

Posted by: JackStraw at August 20, 2022 12:15 PM (ZLI7S)

117 112 103 In the movie, Charlie Wilson's War, Charlie Wilson, portrayed by Tom Hanks (spit) says he's the luckiest member of Congress. His people want nothing but keep their taxes low and hands off their guns.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 20, 2022 12:13 PM (lz5hY)


Well, that'w what movie people want you to believe.

Wilson was an old school anti-Communist Democrat in 1970s Texas. Not much work required.

Posted by: blaster at August 20, 2022 12:16 PM (6TxNR)

118 Apparently the talking points went out and "extremists" are now Republican politicians, candidates and their supporters.

Rule 13:
"Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 20, 2022 12:16 PM (BFigT)

119 His people want nothing but keep their taxes low and hands off their guns.
Posted by: bill in arkansas

And yet, even my (R)!!? Governor, Senator and Representative won't do that. In fact, quite the contrary.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 20, 2022 12:16 PM (LsEU/)

120 "...were mainstream to the extreme:"

Heh!
That just sounds funny.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 20, 2022 12:16 PM (anj39)

121 These idiots would be safer living in a neighborhood dominated by extremist than in a neighborhood dominated by their kind of people.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 20, 2022 12:18 PM (eGTCV)

122
Us idiot boobs just running into stuff and bursting into flames like Tesla drivers, if the experts weren't there to save us?

___________

I recently took a look at workplace fatalities in the US over time. From about 1900 to 1970, when OSHA was established, the rate per 100,000 workers had fallen by more than two-thirds.

My experience in the chemical industry has taught me that most on-the-job injuries don't come from heartless capitalists deliberately endangering workers in order to generate obscene profits, it's because someone failed to follow an established procedure they should have followed

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2022 12:19 PM (1Nxff)

123 119 Tonypete, I was surprised the Dwarf governor of Ohio signed the Constitutional Carry bill.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 20, 2022 12:19 PM (lz5hY)

124 I make a rare visit to Drudge and what do I see? "Golfer set to become first trans to earn LPGA tour card ..."

LOLOL

Posted by: mrp at August 20, 2022 12:20 PM (6eRlp)

125
they believe the usa will came charging in again, like it has twice before.
Posted by: BifBewalski @ (MrZQl) - at August 20, 2022 12:14 PM (MrZQl)

_________

The Berlin Gaslift!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2022 12:20 PM (1Nxff)

126 They send the letter that they are concerned the event "could spur violence" and the church is responsible for any violence, then send their antifa goons to start violence "in response to" dangerous rhetoric at the event.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

nasty suspicious Bif, would go ahead and advertise the event, set up, and everything. then pull back from the water hole with an entrapment video exercise. then id the ringleaders and follow them home. for future use.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (MrZQl) - at August 20, 2022 12:21 PM (MrZQl)

127 Who did the Democrats Law Enforcement stuble upon a Democrat crook?

Posted by: Skip's phone at August 20, 2022 12:21 PM (j2owp)

128 124 I make a rare visit to Drudge and what do I see? "Golfer set to become first trans to earn LPGA tour card ..."

LOLOL
Posted by: mrp at August 20, 2022 12:20 PM (6eRlp)


I can't imagine what the Korean mobsters who took over the tour for their daughters must think.

Posted by: blaster at August 20, 2022 12:22 PM (6TxNR)

129 124 I make a rare visit to Drudge and what do I see? "Golfer set to become first trans to earn LPGA tour card ..."

LOLOL
Posted by: mrp at August 20, 2022 12:20 PM (6eRlp)

must be Jordan Spieth

he already hits like a girl

Posted by: REDACTED at August 20, 2022 12:22 PM (us2H3)

130 127 Who did the Democrats Law Enforcement stuble upon a Democrat crook?
Posted by: Skip's phone at August 20, 2022 12:21 PM (j2owp)

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It was a rogue operation within the agency.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 20, 2022 12:22 PM (XG2Fi)

131 My experience in the chemical industry has taught me that most on-the-job injuries don't come from heartless capitalists deliberately endangering workers in order to generate obscene profits, it's because someone failed to follow an established procedure they should have followed
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2022 12:19 PM (1Nxff)

It is not well known, but Marx wrote his book on the topic of poor working conditions in German industries, and did so based on data that was over 20 years old when he started.

Basically, all the complaints he noted, the capitalists had ALREADY fixed, because it was in their financial interest to have a safe and fair workplace for their workers.

Government agencies (i.e. marxists) don't bring progress to workers, they get in the way of it.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 20, 2022 12:23 PM (i3yPZ)

132 make a rare visit to Drudge and what do I see? "Golfer set to become first trans to earn LPGA tour card ..."

Did he grip it and rip it off?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 20, 2022 12:23 PM (eGTCV)

133 I watched "The Informer" Thursday night. The eff-bee-eye Special Agent in charge was a total dirtbag. But the ethical special agent (played by my sweetheart, Rosamund Pike), after agonizing over "what to do", ratted him out.

What is OCP? Is it a real thing?

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at August 20, 2022 12:23 PM (JVCkA)

134 Any fictional work that centers on some super-secret federal agency with tough, dedicated agents, state-of-the-art surveillance systems and near omnipotent wisdom is unreadable/ unwatchable for me now.
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Out taking a walk, I passed by one of those little curbside take-a-book, leave-a-book libraries. Since I was about to run out of bedtime fiction reading, I took a look. Pulled out a Baldacci spy/intrigue book. I'm about halfway through now, and find myself snorting in derision about every fourth paragraph, as the magnificent skills of the sundry three-letter agencies are portrayed.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 20, 2022 12:24 PM (ZlD3b)

135 A-Z - Stranded.

https://youtu.be/q1QGAAc3qmA

Sort of mainstream-ish prof rock group started by former Fates Warning drummer Mark Zonder (who, I didn't realize, plays traditional grip). Features Ray Alder on vocals. This song has a bit of an 80s vibe.

Posted by: Robert at August 20, 2022 12:24 PM (1Yy3c)

136 must be Jordan Spieth

he already hits like a girl
Posted by: REDACTED at August 20, 2022 12:22 PM (us2H3)

Dang it, you made me go back and actually check the article. No, it's somebody named Hailey Davidson.

Posted by: mrp at August 20, 2022 12:25 PM (6eRlp)

137 Let's remake the TV series "The FBI". But instead of a Zimblast-type star..

.. we'll have the whole series produced, written, casting and broadcast by such of the Monty Python crew that still remain.

Sountrack needs to be straight up Benny Hill though, just sayin'.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 20, 2022 12:25 PM (tkOps)

138 It was a rogue operation within the agency.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 20, 2022 12:22 PM (XG2Fi)

Yup, sorta like feds, working with local law enforcement, who compiled an airtight case against Epstein back in Florida.

Only to have the powers that be in Justice come in and give Epstein a deal that would be completely unprecedented... and illegal to boot.

By the by, the guy who signed off on that, got promoted to be Trump's Labor Secretary, until he had to resign in shame. I'd sure like to know who in the Trump administration pushed that clown forward.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 20, 2022 12:26 PM (i3yPZ)

139 133 I watched "The Informer" Thursday night. The eff-bee-eye Special Agent in charge was a total dirtbag. But the ethical special agent (played by my sweetheart, Rosamund Pike), after agonizing over "what to do", ratted him out.

What is OCP? Is it a real thing?

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at August 20, 2022 12:23 PM (JVCkA)


Rosamund Pike's - indeed a sweetheart - character only ratted out the bad guy AFTER playing along for a while.

So, yeah, fictional.

Posted by: blaster at August 20, 2022 12:26 PM (6TxNR)

140 "Drive for show. Putt for dough."

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at August 20, 2022 12:26 PM (JVCkA)

141 Sountrack needs to be straight up Benny Hill though, just sayin'.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at August 20, 2022 12:25 PM (tkOps)

Heh, before I read that, the Benny Hill song was already playing in my head.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 20, 2022 12:27 PM (i3yPZ)

142 Harley Davidson would be a better name.

Leaks oil.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at August 20, 2022 12:27 PM (JVCkA)

143 make a rare visit to Drudge and what do I see? "Golfer set to become first trans to earn LPGA tour card ..."


Xe will be easy to identify in the locker room. Xe is the one with the boner.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 20, 2022 12:28 PM (anj39)

144 125
they believe the usa will came charging in again, like it has twice before.
Posted by: BifBewalski @ (MrZQl) - at August 20, 2022 12:14 PM (MrZQl)

_________

The Berlin Gaslift!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2022 12:20 PM (1Nxff)
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Fartclams unite!

Posted by: Ciampino - hey, all that wasted methane from cow farts ... at August 20, 2022 12:28 PM (qfLjt)

145 must be Jordan Spieth
he already hits like a girl
Posted by: REDACTED at August 20, 2022 12:22 PM (us2H3)
Dang it, you made me go back and actually check the article. No, it's somebody named Hailey Davidson.
Posted by: mrp

my systems engineering mentee, Micheala Williams, has decided to take a leave of abscence from the Open qualifier events recently. i wonder if this is related to the dude with a dick pushing the ladies out?

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (MrZQl) - at August 20, 2022 12:29 PM (MrZQl)

146 Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at August 20, 2022 12:23 PM (JVCkA)

Rosamund Pike's - indeed a sweetheart - character only ratted out the bad guy AFTER playing along for a while.

So, yeah, fictional.
Posted by: blaster at August 20, 2022 12:26 PM (6TxNR)

Show of hands, who watched Pike in the movie "Gone Girl," and said when it was finished, "Yeah, I'd still like to date her."

Posted by: BurtTC at August 20, 2022 12:29 PM (i3yPZ)

147 Note that the investigation and arrests of Cox and Gillum came WELL after they were defeated and out of office.

Posted by: blaster at August 20, 2022 12:29 PM (6TxNR)

148 women's sports are ripe for these shenanigans

cuz they are kinda fun to watch the women compete against each other, like Olympic Skiing
but women's sports are really a joke
like 5 steps below JV

as I've commented before, I played against Lady Magic in her prime, ground her in the dust and I was 35

at 15, I coulda beat any LPGA pro

Posted by: REDACTED at August 20, 2022 12:30 PM (us2H3)

149 Kinda related to intelligence and Rosamund Pike is the movie "Beirut". How such a reasonably advanced country could swirl down to stone age levels is beyond me.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 20, 2022 12:30 PM (lz5hY)

150 Xe will be easy to identify in the locker room. Xe is the one with the boner.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 20, 2022 12:28 PM (anj39)

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It's a clitoris, you big meanie!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 20, 2022 12:30 PM (XG2Fi)

151 Sountrack needs to be straight up Benny Hill though, just sayin'.

Jim
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Will there be Yackety-sax?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 20, 2022 12:31 PM (X1qOg)

152 Xe will be easy to identify in the locker room. Xe is the one with the boner.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 20, 2022 12:28 PM (anj39)

From what I know of the LPGA tour, this guy having a boner isn't going to do him any good.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 20, 2022 12:31 PM (i3yPZ)

153 Dang it, you made me go back and actually check the article. No, it's somebody named Hailey Davidson.
Posted by: mrp

well, if your name if Jordan and you're short on the tee and you are a total mental case on the course

you're a natural fit

Posted by: REDACTED at August 20, 2022 12:32 PM (us2H3)

154 Show of hands, who watched Pike in the movie "Gone Girl," and said when it was finished, "Yeah, I'd still like to date her."
Posted by: BurtTC at August 20, 2022 12:29 PM (i3yPZ)


She goes through a wide range of looks. In Reacher she was actually pregnant, and, well, nature helped her out a LOT. Sometimes she looks weird. And in the Wheel of Time series on Amazon I am not sure if they made her look old, or whether that's how she has aged. It's not a good look.

Also she did a musiv video for Massive Attack that is in the "yeah I'd date her" category.

Posted by: blaster at August 20, 2022 12:32 PM (6TxNR)

155
women's sports are really a joke
like 5 steps below JV

____________

The women's world record in the mile was the men's world record in 1915.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2022 12:32 PM (1Nxff)

156 Kinda related to intelligence and Rosamund Pike is the movie "Beirut". How such a reasonably advanced country could swirl down to stone age levels is beyond me.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 20, 2022 12:30 PM (lz5hY)

Stick around the U.S. another 20 or so years.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 20, 2022 12:32 PM (i3yPZ)

157 So, not extremist: Killing babies up to birth, censoring and jailing people with contrary opinions, embracing a 2 tiered justice system, letting criminals free with no consequences, arming IRS agents, believing a dementia riddled pudding brain got more votes than any president in history, cheering when we abandon our troops and allies in Afghanistan, crickets over droning an innocent family and babies, believing men can give birth and breast feed, disfiguring young children....
I'll stay extreme.

Posted by: LASue at August 20, 2022 12:33 PM (Ed8Zd)

158 Show of hands, who watched Pike in the movie "Gone Girl," and said when it was finished, "Yeah, I'd still like to date her."
Posted by: BurtTC at August 20, 2022 12:29 PM (i3yPZ)

She goes through a wide range of looks. In Reacher she was actually pregnant, and, well, nature helped her out a LOT. Sometimes she looks weird. And in the Wheel of Time series on Amazon I am not sure if they made her look old, or whether that's how she has aged. It's not a good look.

Also she did a musiv video for Massive Attack that is in the "yeah I'd date her" category.
Posted by: blaster at August 20, 2022 12:32 PM (6TxNR)

If you haven't seen the movie "Gone Girl," I'm not talking about her looks.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 20, 2022 12:34 PM (i3yPZ)

159 142 Harley Davidson would be a better name.

Leaks oil.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at August 20, 2022 12:27 PM (JVCkA)
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Hey that's our line !

Posted by: British Leyland at August 20, 2022 12:35 PM (qfLjt)

160 at 15, I coulda beat any LPGA pro
Posted by: REDACTED at August 20, 2022 12:30 PM (us2H3)


If I were15, I'd let Paige Spiranic make me a man.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 20, 2022 12:35 PM (anj39)

161 She is older. The cheeks are flatter. She was the "beauty of the county" in "Pride and Prejudice."

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at August 20, 2022 12:35 PM (JVCkA)

162 There are no fries worth buying anymore. Nothing compares to McDogballs French Fries from the 70's that were deep fried in Beef Tallow and copious amounts of salt. The good old days

Yet Communists almost totally make up current federal government today.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 20, 2022 12:36 PM (3hSHB)

163 Note that the investigation and arrests of Cox and Gillum came WELL after they were defeated and out of office.
Posted by: blaster at August 20, 2022 12:29 PM (6TxNR

If I were on the jury, the prosecution would have to be 100 percent rock sold. These people have lost my faith and I don't see them winning it back.

Posted by: LASue at August 20, 2022 12:37 PM (Ed8Zd)

164 I pray the rosary (look up "combat rosary." Great history) every day, so yeah, I'm an xtremeist.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at August 20, 2022 12:37 PM (JVCkA)

165 If I were15, I'd let Paige Spiranic make me a man.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 20, 2022 12:35 PM (anj39)


hard but doable

Posted by: REDACTED at August 20, 2022 12:37 PM (us2H3)

166
The only really big busts happen when one of the Cartels decides it would be useful to set up one of its rivals.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 20, 2022 11:44 AM (trdmm)

I totally believe this now. I never would have entertained any conspiracies prior. I believe if we knew the level of corruption, well I doubt any of us would be shocked.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 20, 2022 12:38 PM (wRauk)

167 as I've commented before, I played against Lady Magic in her prime, ground her in the dust and I was 35

at 15, I coulda beat any LPGA pro
Posted by: REDACTED at Augus

Who's Lady Magic?

Posted by: LASue at August 20, 2022 12:39 PM (Ed8Zd)

168 hard but doable
Posted by: REDACTED at August 20, 2022 12:37 PM (us2H3)


Hopefully her thoughts as well.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 20, 2022 12:39 PM (anj39)

169 In addition to piss poor french fries, if you hit a nationwide chain for their advertised fish and fries, you can't get malt vinegar. Looking at you, Arby's.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 20, 2022 12:40 PM (lz5hY)

170 Note that the investigation and arrests of Cox and Gillum came WELL after they were defeated and out of office.

Posted by: blaster at August 20, 2022 12:29 PM (6TxNR

They were checking Cox's bonafides to see if he's qualified for IRS/FBI...he is.

Posted by: BignJames at August 20, 2022 12:41 PM (AwYPR)

171 I remember Chris Everett said her hubby, who was ranked like 200 on the mens circuit, beat her like a rented mule on the court

not sure any balls were involved

Posted by: REDACTED at August 20, 2022 12:41 PM (us2H3)

172 In addition to piss poor french fries, if you hit a nationwide chain for their advertised fish and fries, you can't get malt vinegar. Looking at you, Arby's.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 20, 2022 12:40 PM (lz5hY)

Bonefish Grill.

Posted by: BignJames at August 20, 2022 12:43 PM (AwYPR)

173
Who's Lady Magic?
Posted by: LASue at August 20, 2022 12:39 PM (Ed8Zd)

Nancy Lieberman, at that time, the #1 woman's BB player

Posted by: REDACTED at August 20, 2022 12:44 PM (us2H3)

174 It's very plausible that the Fed's would bust a few of the most egregious Dem Pols to cover their traitorous acts against innocent Americans.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 20, 2022 12:45 PM (DveAR)

175 Fried saltwater fish filets and malted vinegar are a splendid combination, especially before eating a battered 3 musketeers bar fried in the fish oil.

Posted by: mrp at August 20, 2022 12:46 PM (6eRlp)

176 175 Fried saltwater fish filets and malted vinegar are a splendid combination, especially before eating a battered 3 musketeers bar fried in the fish oil.
Posted by: mrp at August 20, 2022 12:46 PM (6eRlp)

you had me for a sec but you totally lost me

Posted by: REDACTED at August 20, 2022 12:48 PM (us2H3)

177 Would or government and Uncle Joe ever do this, I don't think so. It would make AOC and the left have out right rebellion not living up to the so called Paris agreement.


Germany’s two houses of parliament have passed emergency legislation to reactivate mothballed coal-fired power plants in order to support electricity generation amid fears of gas shortages as Russia curbs capacity.

Posted by: Colin at August 20, 2022 12:48 PM (61DMD)

178 before eating a battered 3 musketeers bar ...
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That seems a harsh way to treat a candy bar.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 20, 2022 12:48 PM (BlQBM)

179 Bill in ark @ 149- how could Lebanon swirl down?
Yassir Arafat, the Mufti's nephew.

Posted by: Eromero at August 20, 2022 12:49 PM (gktX6)

180 >>It's very plausible that the Fed's would bust a few of the most egregious Dem Pols to cover their traitorous acts against innocent Americans.

We are close to the point where they would go after anyone who threatened their exposure.

Trump is about to file a 4th Amendment motion against an illegal search and seizure of his property. He wants those documents back because they will expose the CIA/FBI corruption in the Russia hoax all the way to the top. They are getting desperate and cranking the hate of those who support Trump to 11.

Anyone supporting them at this point is doing so out of Trump hate. They are too blinded by hate to realize they could be next.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 20, 2022 12:51 PM (ZLI7S)

181 before eating a battered 3 musketeers bar ...
-----

That seems a harsh way to treat a candy bar.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

There's a Shelter named 'Tempera' nearby. It's for lightly battered women.


HeyOhhhhhh!!

Okay, in terribly poor taste, I'll admit. I denounce myself. Dear wifey was a victim long ago. Her abuser met with an untimely end somehow. Imagine that.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 20, 2022 12:52 PM (LsEU/)

182 174 It's very plausible that the Fed's would bust a few of the most egregious Dem Pols to cover their traitorous acts against innocent Americans.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 20, 2022 12:45 PM (DveAR)

Stalin had Yezhov and Beria shot! And they were committed Stalinists!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 20, 2022 12:52 PM (dNqv+)

183 Talking of Chris Evert:
"In 2021 Evert became a supporter of the new Women's Sports Policy Working Group formed in response to President Joe Biden’s executive order that mandates blanket inclusion for all transgender female athletes."

Goodbye Women's Tennis.

Posted by: Ciampino - she can't stop getting married at August 20, 2022 12:53 PM (qfLjt)

184 Blake, Prayers will be said for successful surgery and recovery.

Posted by: Mrs. JTB at August 20, 2022 12:54 PM (7EjX1)

185 Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 20, 2022 11:25 AM (5pTK/)

Good luck, blake.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 20, 2022 12:55 PM (dNqv+)

186 It's a thing in Scotland and some chippies in northern England.


LINK: tinyurl.com/3v4u76yr

Posted by: mrp at August 20, 2022 12:55 PM (6eRlp)

187 Speaking of Ukraine, there's been a significant escalation that's gone almost unnoticed. The US has officially endorsed Uke attacks on targets in Crimea.

It was always US policy that Crimea still belongs to Ukraine, but this was seen primarily as leverage for any future negotiated settlement that would cede some territory to Russia.

Things have started mysteriously blowing up in Crimea lately, and the US is explicitly supporting Uke military action there, saying things like "Crimea is Ukraine."

HIMARS, recently sent to Ukraine, seems tailor-made for targeting Russian assets deep inside Crimea. The US previously seemed to be trying to set up conditions for a negotiated settlement, but that no longer appears to be the case.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at August 20, 2022 12:55 PM (sWM8x)

188
Stalin had Yezhov and Beria shot! And they were committed Stalinists!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 20, 2022 12:52 PM (dNqv+)

__________

*polite cough*

Yagoda and Yezhov. Beria was shot after Stalin's death.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2022 12:55 PM (1Nxff)

189 Posted by: JackStraw at August 20, 2022 12:51 PM (ZLI7S)

well, then I'm fucked cuz I support Trump to the twelvesys

Posted by: REDACTED at August 20, 2022 12:56 PM (us2H3)

190 169 In addition to piss poor french fries, if you hit a nationwide chain for their advertised fish and fries, you can't get malt vinegar. Looking at you, Arby's.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 20, 2022 12:40 PM (lz5hY)

Their new fish strips are odd. Their tartar sauce is good, but the vaunted 'Hushpuppy coating' (was someone clamoring for this?) leaves a bit to be desired. My thing is usually, crispiness is key and these are not.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 20, 2022 12:57 PM (dNqv+)

191 *polite cough*

Yagoda and Yezhov. Beria was shot after Stalin's death.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2022 12:55 PM (1Nxff)

Quiet you!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 20, 2022 12:57 PM (dNqv+)

192 American Thinker had article on .e golfer who is 2 under par in LGPA, hope he wins ND rubs their faces in letting him ay

Posted by: Skip's phone at August 20, 2022 12:59 PM (j2owp)

193 Eh, I just woke up and was looking for some who got purged who were not of another of the ten thousand varieties of commie and also had name recognition. Fair play, Hadrian.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 20, 2022 01:00 PM (dNqv+)

194 It's very plausible that the Fed's would bust a few of the most egregious Dem Pols to cover their traitorous acts against innocent Americans.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 20, 2022 12:45 PM (DveAR)


I proceed from the position that they are all corrupt. This makes it easy for them when they need a token dem to get busted.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 20, 2022 01:00 PM (anj39)

195 Yagoda and Yezhov. Beria was shot after Stalin's death.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2022 12:55 PM (1Nxff)


I thought Nikita beat him to death with his shoe

Posted by: REDACTED at August 20, 2022 01:00 PM (us2H3)

196 I thought Nikita beat him to death with his shoe
Posted by: REDACTED at August 20, 2022 01:00 PM (us2H3)

No, that was Pyotr Podium.

Posted by: mrp at August 20, 2022 01:02 PM (6eRlp)

197 One of the things about corruption is not just graft and lining your nest, it is also about using the mechanism of state to go after personal opponents. This is as old as time and why corruption is either viscously purged or it takes over everything. Because people tend to think of politics as a spoils system. Once they have some power, they use it.

Did the dems under discussion just piss off some local FBI guy or gal? Insult them? Screw their daughter? Their son?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 20, 2022 01:03 PM (dNqv+)

198 >>well, then I'm fucked cuz I support Trump to the twelvesys

Pretty sure that includes all of us even if you are just Trump curious.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 20, 2022 01:04 PM (ZLI7S)

199 I'm not a fan of Big Government and they ALWAYS take a good thing too far. They always take a bad thing too far too. But one OSHA...has been a success. Far more than ANY union.
We went from 40,000 dead to 4,000 dead on workplaces each year. Crazzzzy stuff.

But now they're counting Covid workplace deaths.So everything gets corrupted.
But it is interesting that workplace deaths sorta flatlined at 4000 a year.

Just like drunk driving deaths did after MADD laws. Some level of enforcement/deaths has to be tolerated.

Posted by: torabora at August 20, 2022 01:04 PM (3qoBw)

200 Teleprompter of the US > Pyotr Podium

Posted by: Diogenes at August 20, 2022 01:04 PM (anj39)

201 Why the heck is Arby's selling fish? Is their other stuff not selling? Will they soon be offering cricket salads?

Posted by: fd at August 20, 2022 01:04 PM (sn5EN)

202 Why the heck is Arby's selling fish? Is their other stuff not selling? Will they soon be offering cricket salads?
Posted by: fd

With a side of short and curly fries.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 20, 2022 01:08 PM (LsEU/)

203 Just like drunk driving deaths did after MADD laws.

MADD is a grift that exists to pay itself.
Nothin about illegals whose national pastime is drunk driving. Borracho yo se pude!!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at August 20, 2022 01:09 PM (sb4oq)

204 >>> 183 Talking of Chris Evert:
"In 2021 Evert became a supporter of the new Women's Sports Policy Working Group formed in response to President Joe Biden’s executive order that mandates blanket inclusion for all transgender female athletes."

Goodbye Women's Tennis.
Posted by: Ciampino - she can't stop getting married at August 20, 2022 12:53 PM (qfLjt)

Wasn't Martina Navratilova one of the early critics of men playing as women? But she backed down on whatever her heresy was after the woketards started screeching.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 20, 2022 01:09 PM (llON8)

205 Arbys. We have the Cod.

No?

Posted by: James Earl Jones at August 20, 2022 01:09 PM (XG2Fi)

206 Everyone sells fish during Lent.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at August 20, 2022 01:12 PM (JVCkA)

207 I don't think that's it, fd. I think every fast food place is looking for a fish offering of some sort- especially during Lent (which this is not.) Arby's has had a decent fish sandwich from time to time.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 20, 2022 01:13 PM (dNqv+)

208 Arby's got their start in Youngstown OH, no doubt from legitimate businessmen of a certain descent who hung around with Sheriff Jim Trafficant at the Bagnolia Club.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 20, 2022 01:13 PM (lz5hY)

209 **Former** congressman. In other words does not hurt the party at all.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at August 20, 2022 01:14 PM (3vQN0)

210 They’ve been pushing for a reaction since November 2020. They haven’t gotten one yet. If they do, what’s their play? A crack down? Martial law? They don’t have the numbers for either.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 20, 2022 01:16 PM (u73oe)

211 138 It was a rogue operation within the agency.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 20, 2022 12:22 PM (XG2Fi)

Yup, sorta like feds, working with local law enforcement, who compiled an airtight case against Epstein back in Florida.

Only to have the powers that be in Justice come in and give Epstein a deal that would be completely unprecedented... and illegal to boot.

By the by, the guy who signed off on that, got promoted to be Trump's Labor Secretary, until he had to resign in shame. I'd sure like to know who in the Trump administration pushed that clown forward.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 20, 2022 12:26 PM (i3yPZ)

I'm into season 2 of Fringe, and when I saw how the FIB agents behaved with the local field office...well, let's just say the local sheriff was correct that it was NOT an FBI matter even as the FBI forced their way in...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 20, 2022 01:16 PM (ynpvh)

212 who hung around with Sheriff Jim Trafficant at the Bagnolia Club.
Posted by: bill in arkansas

Heh. True dat.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 20, 2022 01:17 PM (LsEU/)

213 Love the Kern River. Favorite camping/tubing/fishing spot for me and my son while he was growing up.

Posted by: Bonnie Blue - the ungrateful colonial maniac at August 20, 2022 01:17 PM (gao0c)

214 Edward Luce: "I've covered extremism and violent ideologies around the world over my career. Have never come across a political force more nihilistic dangerous & contemptible than today's Republicans. Nothing close.

Gen Michael Hayden: "I agree. And I was CIA Director.

That's the agency that assassinated Jack Kennedy. And Bobby Kennedy. And Martin Luther King. And tried with Reagan. And overthrew Trump. So I should know."

I quote from memory.

Roseanne Boyland's.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at August 20, 2022 01:17 PM (Ndje9)

215 150 Xe will be easy to identify in the locker room. Xe is the one with the boner.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 20, 2022 12:28 PM (anj39)

---------

It's a clitoris, you big meanie!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 20, 2022 12:30 PM (XG2Fi)

HER penis, you TERF!

Posted by: Ricky Gervais at August 20, 2022 01:18 PM (ynpvh)

216 212 Sometimes we speak in code.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 20, 2022 01:18 PM (lz5hY)

217 Womens tennis is unwatchable due to the grunting on every shot.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at August 20, 2022 01:18 PM (3vQN0)

218 Women's Sports Policy Working Group
talk about double speak

Our mission is to protect girls’ and women’s competitive sport for biological females while including trans girls and trans women

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 20, 2022 01:19 PM (DveAR)

219 It's a clitoris, you big meanie!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

HER penis, you TERF!
Posted by: Ricky Gervais

"IT'S MA'AM!!"


No, it isn't. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at August 20, 2022 01:19 PM (LsEU/)

220 Apropos of nothing I was in a restaurant in San Luis last week for lunch and I overheard the table of suits next to me debating some photo op that Newsom wanted with them and their industry. They did not like Newsom or his policies but were fearful of the punishment if they didn't comply. They were talking about specific legislation they were afraid of.
One dude kept saying he's going to use the photo for his run for president and say our industry supports him. I don't know what they did but I don't see many suits in my area. My guess is bankers/investments or attorneys. I could be wrong.
It just struck me how they were afraid of making him angry, that the legislature would punish them.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 20, 2022 01:20 PM (wRauk)

221 "Apparently the talking points went out and extremists are now Republican politicians, candidates and their supporters"

Apparently?

That ship for sure sailed two years ago. For some of us, we've heard that shit since Reagan.......hell, since Goldwater.

Posted by: JROD at August 20, 2022 01:20 PM (0jZnq)

222 217 Womens tennis is unwatchable due to the grunting on every shot.
Posted by: Joe XiDen
--------------------------

they should only speak when spoken to

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 20, 2022 01:20 PM (DveAR)

223 I had a he/she as a waiter/tress last night. I couldn’t help but just be in awe at the retardation of it all. I wasn’t rude or anything just in awe of how fucked up society is.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at August 20, 2022 01:21 PM (3vQN0)

224 210 They’ve been pushing for a reaction since November 2020. They haven’t gotten one yet. If they do, what’s their play? A crack down? Martial law? They don’t have the numbers for either.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 20, 2022 01:16 PM (u73oe)

I think they figure that it does not matter. They control both the mechanisms of justice and have been making a concerted effort to completely transform the military. I think they figure if they can just purge the bad elements (anyone who disagrees) the control of those will allow them to do whatever they want.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 20, 2022 01:21 PM (dNqv+)

225 Bankers and attorneys loooooove Democrats.

It was most likely oil and gas execs.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at August 20, 2022 01:22 PM (3vQN0)

226 215 150 Xe will be easy to identify in the locker room. Xe is the one with the boner.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 20, 2022 12:28 PM (anj39)
---------
It's a clitoris, you big meanie!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 20, 2022 12:30 PM (XG2Fi)

HER penis, you TERF!

Posted by: Ricky Gervais at August 20, 2022 01:18 PM (ynpvh)
----
If it's a puffadder it's a clit but if it's a spitting cobra then it's a dick.

Posted by: Ciampino - know your snakes in the grass at August 20, 2022 01:23 PM (qfLjt)

227 If it's a puffadder it's a clit but if it's a spitting cobra then it's a dick.
Posted by: Ciampino - know your snakes in the grass at August 20, 2022 01:23 PM (qfLjt)

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 20, 2022 01:23 PM (dNqv+)

228 Arby's fish sandwich is really big. I have a bottle of malt vinegar at home.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at August 20, 2022 01:23 PM (JVCkA)

229 217 Womens tennis is unwatchable due to the grunting on every shot.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at August 20, 2022 01:18 PM (3vQN0)

What, you want moaning?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 20, 2022 01:24 PM (ynpvh)

230 Womens tennis is unwatchable due to the grunting on every shot.
Posted by: Joe XiDen
--------------------------

My neighbor in the next apartment complained about the grunting from my morning sex. I told his it was just me trying to put on socks.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 20, 2022 01:25 PM (anj39)

231 More Ann B memes; some will be familiar:
https://is.gd/NFbGnS

(and does anyone know where the two drivers passing each other comes from?)

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 20, 2022 01:25 PM (llON8)

232 Annnd...Gardening NOOD

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 20, 2022 01:25 PM (ynpvh)

233 229 217 Womens tennis is unwatchable due to the grunting on every shot.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at August 20, 2022 01:18 PM (3vQN0)

What, you want moaning?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 20, 2022 01:24 PM (ynpvh)

Girlish giggle.

No, wait, that would be novel but quickly descend into horror.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 20, 2022 01:26 PM (dNqv+)

234 231 More Ann B memes; some will be familiar:
https://is.gd/NFbGnS

(and does anyone know where the two drivers passing each other comes from?)

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 20, 2022 01:25 PM (llON

I like the Umbrella Academy one...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 20, 2022 01:28 PM (ynpvh)

235 They’ve been pushing for a reaction since November 2020. They haven’t gotten one yet. If they do, what’s their play? A crack down? Martial law? They don’t have the numbers for either.
Posted by: Duke Lowell
-----

Perceptions = Reality, for the LIV's. It's only necessary that they mind-control a significant minority in order to maintain control. The last Presidential election made that plain, I think. They can do whatever they p;ease.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 20, 2022 01:29 PM (ZlD3b)

236 My guess is bankers/investments or attorneys. I could be wrong.
It just struck me how they were afraid of making him angry, that the legislature would punish them.
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 20, 2022 01:20 PM (wRauk)
----------------

Newsom did a photo op in the oil fields of Kern County, write up and all, for the Bakersfield Californian. I was pretty sure the op occurred, because execs knew Newsom was gunning for them. It didn't work, Newsom went after them, anyway.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 20, 2022 01:29 PM (5pTK/)

237 'please'...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 20, 2022 01:30 PM (nVDxD)

238 Chatterbox Mouse @ 228-
Never had Arbys, but McDonalds 'fish' portion is about the size of my old Zippo lighter. Makes the bun look big as a frizbee. Taste's about the same too.

Posted by: Eromero at August 20, 2022 01:30 PM (gktX6)

239 238 Chatterbox Mouse @ 228-
Never had Arbys, but McDonalds 'fish' portion is about the size of my old Zippo lighter. Makes the bun look big as a frizbee. Taste's about the same too.

Posted by: Eromero at August 20, 2022 01:30 PM (gktX6)

I'll eat their roast beef with horsey sauce. I mean, it's gotten way more expensive as it used to be.
5 for $2!
6 for $3!
...
2 for $6!
...

and smaller.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 20, 2022 01:33 PM (ynpvh)

240 @210 Duke Lowell-They are not pushing for us to react. If 2 or 3 nut jobs do something, sure they're happy with that and they'll use it to paint every one of us as one of them.
They're doing this to dehumanize us, they're doing this for their side so when the time comes for them to use whatever LE apparatus to deal with us, be it one fell swoop(which I don't see happening) or a slow methodical drip of picking us off. Their voters/supporters will not only accept this without question, they'll cheer it on. All this rhetoric on their side isn't just hyperbole and it serves more than one purpose.
The big problem for some on our side has is wrapping their minds around it, accepting it is actually happening and what the intent is.
We are delusional to think we're going to defund and shutdown LE apparatus' that harbor the full force of the law easy-peasy without leftist politicians and those same agencies not labeling us "insurrectionist" trying to overthrow the government and dealing with us as they see fit with the blessing of the law and 50% of this country.........no, some of us are delusional not understanding what we are facing. Naive optimists.

Posted by: JROD at August 20, 2022 01:34 PM (0jZnq)

241 @235 Mike Hammer-Precisely

Posted by: JROD at August 20, 2022 01:36 PM (0jZnq)

242 American Thinker had article on .e golfer who is 2 under par in LGPA, hope he wins ND rubs their faces in letting him ay
Posted by: Skip's phone

Fonzie ?

Posted by: JT at August 20, 2022 01:37 PM (T4tVD)

243 The gop would not defund PBS. Hell they wouldn’t even cut 20% from the budget. Anyone fantasizing about them defunding the fbi is delusional.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at August 20, 2022 01:41 PM (3vQN0)

244 Best buy for the money at McDonald's is the
McChicken. $1.00

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 20, 2022 01:45 PM (DveAR)

245 JROD @ 240-
Exactly my thoughts. Many conservatives have one agenda item and can't or won't see the big picture. Time to listen to Steppenwolf's 'Monster' again? Wake up, young people! When my cohort's gone you'll be slaves. And you won't even realize it.

Posted by: Eromero at August 20, 2022 01:45 PM (gktX6)

246 244 Best buy for the money at McDonald's is the
McChicken. $1.00

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 20, 2022 01:45 PM (DveAR)

Jack-in-the-Box has a cheapo spicy chicken...or used to.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 20, 2022 01:45 PM (ynpvh)

247 Our dear leader (not)
https://is.gd/9jHD9f

Posted by: Ciampino -- know your snakes in the grass at August 20, 2022 01:47 PM (qfLjt)

248 Best buy for the money at McDonald's is the
McChicken. $1.00

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 20, 2022 01:45 PM (DveAR)

However, it's not really the McChicken of old, which was the best thing evar.

One should be aware though, I'm a fan of the Filet-o-Fish sammich. It's about the only fish I'll eat. So feel free to look down y'all noses at my taste in fastish food.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 20, 2022 01:51 PM (47mFt)

249 If you have a What A Burger in the neighborhood their fish sandwich is good but pricey.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 20, 2022 01:54 PM (DveAR)

250 Greetings:

Thank you for not mentioning the Eau de Harris Beef Ranch especially in August.

Posted by: 11B40 at August 20, 2022 01:56 PM (uuklp)

251 McChicken for $1? Not at any locations near me. Best deal I’ve seen is if you buy 2, then the second is $1.69. Normal price is $2.99 I think.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at August 20, 2022 02:01 PM (3vQN0)

252 142 Harley Davidson would be a better name.

Leaks oil.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at August 20, 2022 12:27 PM (JVCkA)
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Hey that's our line !

Posted by: British Leyland
===
But the electrics reliably work.

Posted by: Lucas Prince of Darkness at August 20, 2022 02:01 PM (u4CEu)

253 I'm over 29. I remember 5 for 5 Arby's roast beef sandwiches.

20 for 20 and there's plenty for the whole family.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at August 20, 2022 02:02 PM (JVCkA)

254 Back in the mid aughts, I traveled a lot and got $50 per diem for food. This was also the time of the Subway $5 foot longs. One for lunch one for dinner, pocket $40 (tax free) per day.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at August 20, 2022 02:04 PM (3vQN0)

255 More Kern River trivia. The Kern River makes the greatest elevation change of any river in the lower 48 states. It begins at 14,000+ ft. on the western slopes of Mt Whitney and descends to around 300 ft. at Buena Vista Lake.

Posted by: Joefrombako at August 20, 2022 02:05 PM (tAiFZ)

256 Cases of undetected cancers, cardiac problems and serious mental health conditions are surging, with excess deaths 14.4 per cent higher than the five-year average.

The The British Heart Foundation said it was “deeply concerned” by the situation.


We told you this was going to happen!

Noo! You didn't base your warning on science! It doesn't count! You were just a denier then.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 20, 2022 02:13 PM (hwoGt)

257 But the electrics reliably work.
Posted by: Lucas Prince of Darkness
----
[considers tired joke about warm beer. foregoes]

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 20, 2022 02:15 PM (c8iAR)

258
Time to listen to Steppenwolf's 'Monster' again?

Remember when the Right disliked "Monster" and the Left liked it?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 20, 2022 02:22 PM (63Dwl)

259
Remember when the Right disliked "Monster" and the Left liked it?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
-------

I can recall when Thomas Jefferson was a revered icon for Liberals. Now, he is 'problematic'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 20, 2022 02:26 PM (c8iAR)

260 Jeebus. Granholm is a dunce. "Nobody has ever weaponized access to the wind or sun"

And how do you access the energy from the sun and wind you twat?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 20, 2022 02:27 PM (hwoGt)

261 Jefferson was a democrat.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 20, 2022 02:27 PM (hwoGt)

262 Greetings Southern San Joaquin Valley and all other morons! I have lived in Bakersfield the past 20 years and it's the right people and size for me. In other places, people talk about the "six degrees of separation." Here, it's just two. If you don't know somebody, you know somebody who does.

I say if you meet someone new here, just scratch on them a little and you find all your friends inside.

The new election redistricting starting this year has gerrymandered Bakersfield into two interestingly different districts. Of course, if your party controls the gerrymandering, the object is to concentrate the other party's voters in one "concentration camp" district so you can win the adjoining three districts. That has been done in Bakersfield this decade. The only question is: Will it work?

The new CA 20th District (Bakersfield to Fresno along the Sierras -McCarthy) is 47% Republican, 27% Democrat. The new 22nd District (Hanford to Bakersfield and Arvin on the Valley floor -Valadao) is 46% D, 26% R.

The new 20th voted for Trump 63%. The new 22nd Trump 43%.

Kern County Republican politics would be worth a post sometime.

Posted by: Bill Lever at August 20, 2022 02:30 PM (mBZDL)

263 I don't golf but I might enjoy a threesome with Paige Spiranic.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 20, 2022 02:33 PM (VdGjU)

264 Cases of undetected cancers, cardiac problems and serious mental health conditions are surging, with excess deaths 14.4 per cent higher than the five-year average.

We told you this was going to happen!


Yep, many of us did. I didn't have to be a physician or a psychologist to make this prediction over two years ago. Just a gut feeling that something was terribly wrong in how the coof was dealt with.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 20, 2022 02:34 PM (Xrfse)

265 249

But I was recently disappointed to learn that Whataburger now only sells the excellent Whatacatch fish sandwich during Lent!

Posted by: Jayhawkone at August 20, 2022 02:39 PM (9rPx3)

266 Why are you people Dunkin on Tater Stelter? It’s cruller than cruel. Donut you have anything better to do?

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at August 20, 2022 02:41 PM (Ndje9)

267 https://tinyurl.com/2p8hnfwa

Assume Health Research is Fraudulent (BMJ)

Blog from last year.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at August 20, 2022 02:51 PM (5Qjf9)

268 https://amgreatness.com/where are these 87000 irs agents-going to come from

I suspect like the rest of this government appointments the Intersectionaly files, who needs to know how to do their job?
Arm them and get them on the payrole

Posted by: Skip at August 20, 2022 02:53 PM (k8B25)

269 No profession has done more damage to itself in the last two years than medicine.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 20, 2022 02:58 PM (u73oe)

270 Gab's Andrew just posted a letter he got from some Congresscritters linking social media posts to sooper danger to the beloved fibbers and demanding answers to pages of questions. Unbelievable, except it's not. I'm sure they're after Truth, too. Luckily Nunes has experience with these types.

I'm hoping they'll post their matching demands to the Left re: the threats to Kavanaugh and the other supremes, and what they demanded from Harris and her ilk when she was encouraging Antifa to go wild.

Posted by: LASue at August 20, 2022 03:01 PM (Ed8Zd)

271 Why are you people Dunkin on Tater Stelter? It’s cruller than cruel. Donut you have anything better to do?
Posted by: The Gipper Lives at August 20, 2022 02:41 PM (Ndje9)

Just frittering away our time

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 20, 2022 03:03 PM (VdGjU)

272 269 No profession has done more damage to itself in the last two years than medicine.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 20, 2022 02:58 PM (u73oe)

Except maybe Republican Politicians?

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 20, 2022 03:11 PM (oHd/0)

273 I'm sitting in the pub feeling weirdly sad. I don't know why.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 20, 2022 03:13 PM (VdGjU)

274 Except maybe Republican Politicians?
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 20, 2022 03:11 PM (oHd/0)

—————-

I used to trust medical professionals.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 20, 2022 03:13 PM (u73oe)

275 260 Jeebus. Granholm is a dunce. "Nobody has ever weaponized access to the wind or sun"

And how do you access the energy from the sun and wind you twat?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 20, 2022 02:27 PM (hwoGt)

Not weaponized wind power? I beg to differ...

Sancho? My Spear!

Posted by: Don Quixote at August 20, 2022 03:15 PM (oHd/0)

276 Has the tax-and-spent party and administration bankrupted the country yet? Can't we print some more money?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 20, 2022 03:16 PM (iRfpu)

277 That indicted Dem must have refused the blood sacrifice so is paying the price.

Posted by: SamIam at August 20, 2022 03:20 PM (oasF3)

278 Duke have to say 5 years ago tusted medicine fairly well, now I don't trust them at all.

Posted by: Skip at August 20, 2022 03:35 PM (k8B25)

279 PET NOOD

Posted by: Skip advising you of your Nood threads at August 20, 2022 03:42 PM (k8B25)

280 "Time to listen to Steppenwolf's 'Monster' again?"

Our anthem, no?

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 20, 2022 03:51 PM (i0slg)

281 275 260 Jeebus. Granholm is a dunce. "Nobody has ever weaponized access to the wind or sun"
--------------------------

She's talking about da joooooooooooooos

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 20, 2022 04:27 PM (DveAR)

282
John 'Jesse Ventura' Fetterman

.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 20, 2022 05:04 PM (DveAR)

283 It seems to me, even on their own terms, when your movement hits 25% of your citizens, your movement isn't fringe anymore.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 20, 2022 05:15 PM (6RVJj)

284 The Cartels ought to be glad I'm not President, because my first order to the military would be simultaneous Arc-Light, B-52 carpet bombings, of everything they possess, houses, families, dogs, cats, lizards, the entire Fentanyl smuggling line, and the Chinese ships bringing it in. Then address a joint meeting of the SES types at all the three letter agencies as follows: "Are there any questions, or any smart ass remarks? By the way, you're all fired."

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at August 20, 2022 06:06 PM (CecP5)

285 Now that Liz Cheney has been given the heave-ho Mike Pence is shaping up to be the next spoiler. OK. He knows he screwed up on J6 but he is going the wrong way about atoning. That fist-bump with Pelosi is who he is.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at August 20, 2022 06:50 PM (3JfbU)

286 Harley Davidson would be a better name.

Leaks oil.
-
Boeing doesn't leak oil.

It just flies into the ground at 200mph.

Posted by: Saucy Fellow at August 21, 2022 04:38 PM (dWN87)

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