The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 1/17/23

Good morning kids. So, it seems as if the most popular, if not plausible, explanation for the explosion of Biden's "Document-Gate" into the controlled public discourse is that the powers that be do not want old Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants around to run in '24. Either that or in their eyes he has outlived his usefulness as a puppet, and worse, his rapidly degenerating brain function makes his unfiltered mouth a liability.

But if that is the case, why not just try and 25th Amendment him as opposed to ruining the narrative of Trump being a reckless, dangerous foreign agent by revealing Biden doing the same things Trump was falsely accused of – and orders of magnitude worse? Knowing what we know of this CIA and FBI, all they have to do is slip a little polonium into Joey's daily gallon of Ben & Jerry's Rachel Corrie Crunch, find some Yakov Smirnoff-looking stooge, slap a MAGA hat on him and proclaim him to be Putin's cousin, and before the casket can be removed from the Capitol Rotunda and shoved into Arlington National Cemetery, our Army would be deployed into Ukraine and the National Guard called up here to round up every single non-Democrat with martial law declared.

C'mon, Langley. Do I have to do your work for you?! And yet, we have Merrick "Gumm-Shoe" Garland and company seemingly circling the wagons. For Donald Trump, they raided his home and either found nothing or attempted to paint him as some sort of criminal for the documents they did find – all of which were legally declassified and permitted to be kept by him as per the laws and regulations regarding such declassification. Biden? Not so much. And yet, get this:

Attorney General Merrick Garland is feeling the heat over the obvious double standard between the Mar-a-Lago FBI raid on Donald Trump’s home to retrieve classified documents and Joe Biden’s Car-a-Lago scandal. As a result, Biden’s hit man, who “can’t comment on an ongoing investigation,” has clearly green-lighted his patented leaks to friendly media to make excuses for his duplicity. If this weren’t such a tell for how corrupt the Justice Department is, the excuses would be funny. But since America’s system of jurisprudence in the DOJ and the FBI is clearly so irretrievably fallen, and could take civil society sliding down the hill with it, we should consider Garland’s excuses in the seriousness with which they’re offered.
Now you can laugh.
It’s going to take more than one of Garland’s no-comment-comments to convince anyone paying attention to this ridiculous charade that there’s no gambling at Rick’s. Yet, Garland’s excuse-making is amazing to behold for his audacity in believing anyone is dumb enough to believe this claptrap. . .
. . . Garland’s lackeys leaked that [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden’s own attorneys were allowed to search the documents without FBI presence (read: raid) because he trusted Biden’s attorneys to do the search for them. On his word as a Biden. “Not a joke, not a joke. . .”
. . . The DOJ raided Trump’s house because they didn’t like him.
We don’t know who’s going after Joe Biden for what, but we won’t find out because there are only two ways this special counsel probe will go: As a Mueller-like CYA cover-up operation or as a wrist slap that will be spun as a well, we investigated him and all we got was his lousy 5th Amendment, a crack pipe, and the numbers of a couple of hookers. This will be a Hunter Biden/Joe Biden proxy “investigation,” and it will end there.

Well, thank goodness we now control the House and the real investigations will begin. Like the guy above said, "Try not to laugh."

The new Republican House will soon begin investigating the Biden administration and his family, namely his brother James and son Hunter. Congressional investigations are critical to the separation of powers and make for great political theater. Yet those enthused by the prospect of investigations, revelations, and resignations ought to temper their expectations: Republicans are underachievers when it comes to oversight. . .
. . . The last and most serious attempt to use a congressional investigation against him came with the revelations of Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky. The specific transgression was perjury, but grandstanding Republicans relentlessly focused on the president's sexual peccadilloes, for which the public had already forgiven him when he first became a candidate in 1992. Republicans mistakenly tried to shame a shameless individual, and the president used their indignation against them. . .
. . . The investigation immediately hit a wall when the main antagonist in the IRS scandal, Lois Lerner, twice pleaded the Fifth. Republicans voted to find Lerner in contempt, but the Justice Department declined to pursue criminal contempt charges against her and closed its investigation. Conservatives then sought to impeach John Koskinen, the acting IRS commissioner, only to be defeated by a coalition of Democrats and moderate Republicans. Concurrent investigations concluded that the episode had resulted from mismanagement, not political intent, and that no administration principals had been involved. Lerner retired before the IRS could fire her and Koskinen remained at his post ten months after Obama left office. . .
. . . Each misfire highlights Democratic tactics that Republicans should have learned to expect by now: being criticizing as overzealous sore losers obsessed with "old news"; being characterized as prudish bullies solely interested in publishing "revenge porn"; being reminded the GOP never did anything about accusations made against the Trump family; and arguing the rules governing presidential family members' business activities are unclear.

While all of this is certainly true, the $100 trillion dollar gorilla in the room is that our entire government, both the elected and unelected bureaucracy are absolutely thoroughly corrupted that any sort of real oversight and reform, let alone punishment is my proverbial pipe dream, wrapped in an LSD trip inside a drunken stupor.

Let me revise that by stating it's not that the government has been corrupted. It's that corruption is the government. At least it has been since the early 60s if not as far back as World War 2. And it's not even government or systems. It's the people, elected or otherwise, who are corrupt.

So, what the Machiavellian hell is really going on here with this document "scandal?" And at the end of the day, does it matter? Does the ultimate outcome really change the trajectory we are on? So, Biden goes and we get Harris. Or Biden skates and either he gets re-"selected" with yet another "fortified" election or some other as yet unknown Democrat is installed. Or, even if by some 2016-like fluke the Republican candidate, whoever it may be, beats the cheat and then survives the instantaneous call for impeachment as soon as he/she is sworn in.

As Joey might say, keep the 30-round magazines fully loaded in your F-15.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"Though an orthodox Catholic, a Gen Z reader says she would plug in to Robert Nozick's 'Experience Machine.'" (hat-tip to Michael the Texan - jjs)
Young, Christian, and Eager to Escape
"Charles Thaxton asked whether the scientific evidence we’ve gained since Darwin truly supports the evolutionist’s ideas."
How a Chemist, an Engineer, and a Geologist Destroyed Darwin’s Warm Soup Theory
"Ravensburg itself, aside from the slave factory, was the site of numerous Nazi crimes against humanity, such as forced sterilization for the purpose of 'racial improvement.' But to Eugen Schwab, that was just the cost of doing business with the Third Reich. You want to make an omelet, you gotta break some eggs, right?"
Klaus Schwab's Father Ran "National Socialist Model Company," Exploited Nazi Slave Labor
Naomi Wolf: "A major book launches, revealing a massive scandal – and grotesque attacks begin."
Pixels, Bots and Human Cruelty

BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS

DOJ officials considered sending FBI agents to monitor the search conducted by Biden’s personal attorneys, but decided against the oversight to avoid “complicating” the investigation and because Biden’s legal team had been cooperative, according to The Wall Street Journal.
DOJ Declined To Monitor Biden Attorneys’ Search For Classified Docs at So-Called Quote-Unquote "president's" Home, Report Says
Garland’s lackeys leaked that [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden’s own attorneys were allowed to search the documents without FBI presence (read: raid) because he trusted Biden’s attorneys to do the search for them. On his word as a Biden. “Not a joke, not a joke.”
Try Not to Laugh at DOJ's Excuse for Not Sending FBI to Raid Biden's Homes for Classified Docs
Lloyd Billingsley: "From Alger Hiss to Sandy Berger, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, it’s all about memory against forgetting."
The Garage Papers
"News of funding comes as Biden under fire for classified docs found at think tank."
Since Biden Inauguration/Installation, Anonymous Chinese Donors Poured Millions Into University That Houses His Think Tank
" . . . And it looks like their friends are trashing them."
Don’t Forget: The Bidens Are Trash
"Emails found on Hunter’s 'Laptop from Hell' show Hunter paid a $49,910 rental deposit to the House of Sweden for an office for the Biden family business’s venture with the infamous CEFC China Energy Co. The Biden family had previously negotiated a deal with CEFC whereby President Joe Biden (Big Guy) would receive a ten percent equity stake in the joint venture, whistleblower Tony Bobulinski stated."
Republicans Rip Hunter’s Recorded $49,910 Rent/Deposit Payments as Corrupt
“Based on what we know so far, it seems unlikely that he’s at risk of any of legal consequences,” Shaub claimed, “but I’m glad Garland appointed a special counsel to show even-handed treatment of the current [so-called quote-unquote "president"] and former president.”
Obama Ethics Chief Slams Biden Over Classified Doc Scandal: ‘Inexcusable Neglect of Most Basic Security Protocols’
“Last summer, in the course of regular website maintenance, a couple of links to previous tax returns were broken,” DNC spokesman Ammar Moussa told the Washington Times.
DNC Comes Up With Lamest Excuse for Biden’s Missing Tax Returns on Site
"Why should we think 2023 will be any different from 1993, 1996, 2014, or 2016?"
Grand Old Investigations
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Robert Spencer: "If Joe Biden were consistent and honest, and of course, those ships have sailed a long, long time ago, he would admit that there was absolutely no danger of the government falling on Jan. 6, 2021. The protesters didn’t have F-15s, or AR-15s either, for that matter, and now Old Joe has stated openly that without that kind of firepower, patriots don’t stand a chance against tyranny. But if that’s true, then the Jan. 6 'insurrectionists' never had a chance."
Oops: Joe Biden Just Torpedoed the Left’s Entire Jan. 6 ‘Insurrection’ Narrative
"The Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government must be zealous and thorough in its pursuit of tyranny."
For the Sake of the Republic, the Church-Style Weaponization Committee Must Answer These Questions
“The committee also proposed wiping out all debts associated with educational, personal, credit card and payday loans for black households.”
San Francisco Reparations Panel Now Recommending $5 Million for Each Black Resident
Jeffrey Lord: "Support for identity politics resegregates America."
Biden and the Left Reject Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Americans push back against petty tyrants."
Don’t Tell Me What to Do
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"An astonishing glimpse into the fiscal power of Big Pharma, and the industry’s focus on profits instead of real science, national security, and basic humanity."
Latest Twitter Files Shows How Big Pharma Pushed Social Media to Silence #PeoplesVaccine Movement
Margot Cleveland: "Despite being embroiled in multiple scandals, Biden need not fret. Corporate media have dispatched their journalists to moonlight as his PR team."
4 Absurd Media Narratives to Distract Americans from Joe Biden’s Simultaneous Scandals
"Will the Big Media ever take a real look into Biden’s mishandling of classified documents?"
Cleaning Out Joe Biden’s Dirty Garage
"The move out of the CNN Center is largely a cost-cutting measure, of course, but it also marks the network’s continued entrenchment in the New York-D.C. corridor that Ted Turner sought to at least somewhat isolate his network from."
CNN Is Closing Its Iconic CNN Center in Atlanta
"The panelists claimed that the spread of fake news was among the greatest threats currently facing society, and praised Europe for its strict internet regulations."
Bipedal Lipid Mass/Tuber Brian Stelter Hosts WEF Media 'Disinformation' Panel, Suggests US Adopt EU Censorship Policies
The public interest “cannot be overstated.”
MSM Outlets Demand To Know Who Guaranteed Bankman-Fried’s $250 Million Bond
"In essence, what we have is a marketplace of ideas that is skewed by an enormous, conspiratorial form of price-rigging – an effort to ensure that owners of the spaces where public deliberation now unfolds get to dictate the costs and benefits that attend the commercial exchange of information. This rigging is an existential threat to whatever remains of genuine democratic governance."
Price-Fixing in the Marketplace of Ideas
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"The 'climate change' agenda's new target."
The War on Gas Stoves
"If your children or teenagers have access to one or more of these items, a gas stove is the least of your worries."
27 Household Items That Pose a Greater Risk to Your Kids Than a Gas Stove
“So, you could go down the line and cobalt mine and move the community out, and that would be horrific and there would be all sorts of problems, of course, but without that data you can’t — you know, understanding the broader impact of what we’re trying to achieve, understanding biodiversity impacts, understanding health impacts, bringing all of that evidence together, it’s very difficult to make the right choice.” (Clean and renewable, my ass. Shocked they didn't drag this guy off the stage. Carbon Is Life - jjs)
Davos Speaker Details The ‘Horrific’ Costs Of Mining Key Metal Used In Electric Car Batteries
Dr. Jerome Corsi: "Recent studies using honest methodologies establish that the panicky predictions are wrong by as much as 50%."
IPCC Climate Models Grossly Exaggerate 'Global Warming'
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"It’s about expanding government dependency – for health care, for college aid, or for illegals getting on welfare."
Biden Wants It Both Ways on Chinese COVID — But Either Way, Taxpayers Get Screwed
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
It's closer to 30 million. And real dignity means deporting every last one of them as far south of the border as possible. Death to the GOP.
At Davos, GOP Rep. Maria Salazar Urges ‘Dignity’ For ’13, 15 Million’ Illegal Immigrants in the US
If these filthy backstabbing criminals continue like this, I say it's time to unionize all those migrants and demand Tillis' cronies pay up. Or hire real Americans.
Republican Sen. Thom Tillis on Amnesty: CEOs Need "Affordable" Migrant Labor
"Tucson Sector Chief Patrol Agent John R. Modlin tweeted a photo of a group of migrants apprehended by Ajo Station agents near Lukeville, Arizona, on January 9. The group of 52 migrants crossed the border in a rural area."
Hundreds of Migrants from 7 Nations Cross Border into Arizona
"Eric Adams is telling truths about the border many in his party don’t want to hear."
Mr. Adams Goes to the Border
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"The council’s decision comes as crime in D.C. has seen a 23% uptick, according to data from the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police. In 2023, D.C. has already seen a 100% increase in murders and a 200% increase in sex abuse, though violent crimes are overall down by 9%."
D.C. Council Overrides Bowser’s Veto of Crime Reform Bill
"Elliot Bay Community Fitness owner Rohan Joseph consistently posts videos of drug-intoxicated people causing disturbances in his area, with other local business owners reporting break-ins and theft at their establishments."
After Seattle Defunded Its Police, Local Business Owners Say Crime Is Worse Than Ever
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
"U.S. district court ruled in April 2022 that CDC's mask mandate for public transportation was unlawful."
Biden Junta Fights To Reverse Ruling That Blocked Airline Mask Mandate
"A Trojan horse with three primary reasons for existing."
Jewish Orthodox Women’s Medical Association Exposed
SECOND AMENDMENT
"J.B. [Sitz-] Pritzker's gun ban is 'divisive, unenforceable, and offers dubious efficacy as a crime-fighting tool,' argues Illinois Gun Rights Alliance."
'Dangerous Infringement': Gun-Rights Group Launches Legal Challenge Against Dem Gov's Weapons Ban
"Brace yourself: The ATF is back with another rule that puts up to 40 million law-abiding gun owners at risk for a federal felony." (Who elected the ATF? I thought the Legislature passes laws - jjs)
With New Pistol Brace Rule, ATF Seeks To Turn Millions Of Law-Abiding Gun Owners Into Felons
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
“It would rip away essentially thousands of dollars that we as taxpayers already pay into the system, that is for our children already . . . It really, really, really, really would hinder Arizona as a whole and the leg up that we have compared to other states to provide and to produce excellent educated children.”
‘Cripple Children’: Parents Protest Against Spurious Gov. Katie Hobbs’ Move To Scrap Key School Choice Program
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"A win for Lorie in 303 Creative is a win for us all."
Graphic Artist’s Case at Supreme Court is About Freedom, Not Discrimination
Roth relentlessly pushed the fraudulent “Israel Apartheid” narrative, turning Human Rights Watch into a primary instigator of anti-Semitism.
Ken Roth, Whose Anti-Israel Obsession Defiled Human Rights Watch, Rejected For Prestigious Harvard Fellowship; Left Goes Crazy
"It wasn’t rich Jewish donors who did him in."
The Real Reasons Ken Roth was Bounced by Harvard’s Kennedy School
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"Chasten admonished critics of his husband’s absence last week with the same condescending snark that’s almost become expected of modern-day leftists." (Chasten; what a name for this sick pervert - jjs)
Chasten Buttigieg Says It’s Old News to Cover Pete’s Lengthy Paternity Leave After DOT Concealed It for a Year
"Fred Kempe did not disclose millions in Emirati funding in gushing article."
The UAE Has Donated Millions to the Atlantic Council. They Just Got a Glowing Op-Ed From the Think Tank's Chief.
POLITICS
"In their recent inaugural addresses, Governors Ron DeSantis and Gavin Newsom outline starkly different understandings of freedom."
A Conflict of Visions
"The House GOP Steering Committee voted on Tuesday to give Greene a seat on the House Homeland Security Committee, which has oversight of the Homeland Security Department, as well as on the powerful House Oversight Committee, according to The Hill."
Marjorie Taylor Greene Set To Make Comeback With New Committee Assignments
"Despite bipartisan calls for his removal, Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Santos would serve on committees, but he will not serve on any top House committees, according to The Hill."
George Santos Will Be Seated On House Committees, McCarthy Says
“He could not get a security clearance in the private sector so would you like to give him a government clearance?”
Speaker McCarthy: ‘If You Got the Briefing I got From the FBI, You Wouldn’t Have Eric Swalwell on Any Committee’
Americans do not view Democrats the same way, as 38 percent believe they are “about the same” as usual, followed by 30 percent who said they are “more united.” Just 17 percent believe Democrats are currently more divided.
Survey: Nearly Half of Americans Say Republicans ‘More Divided’ Than Usual
"America needs a proven leader, and a visionary who will not merely motivate the masses to get to the polls but who can craft a meaningful vision in which Americans can place their hope."
Without Trump It’s Business as Usual
"How about a Chinese dinner instead?"
Eric "Fang-Banger" Swalwell Challenges Ted Cruz to Bet on Cowboys-49ers Game, It Goes Badly
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"Bolsonaro left his country on December 30, according to many reports, to take a vacation following the end of his presidential tenure on January 1. He is currently staying in a luxury condominium in Kissimmee, central Florida, owned by MMA fighter José Aldo, according to the Brazilian outlet Metropoles, which published a video of his conversation with supporters on Monday."
Brazil’s Bolsonaro Laments ‘Unbelievable’ Riot in Florida Street Chat with Fans
"Being the world's second-largest economy and most populous nation, China has been facing an aging population and low birth rates for several years. The last population decline in China was recorded in 1961, during Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward when tens of millions of people were either killed or perished from hunger. Despite lifting the one-child policy in 2015 to boost birth rates, it has continued to fall."
China's Population Falls for First Time in Over 60 Years
"It now joins the shrinking West."
China Has Begun Its Inevitable Demographic Tailspin
"The United States consistently has made bad decisions regarding the CCP threat owing to the fecklessness of the foreign policy community, the media, universities, Wall Street, and Silicon Valley."
Mike Gallagher’s China Committee Has Its Work Cut Out for It
"It would appear that for those protesting, the biggest concern is the presence of oil companies at the meeting. That hypocrisy has them up in arms. The fact that people attending the event are using and degrading other human beings does not seem to be a cause for alarm."
Prostitutes Join the World Elites at Davos
"Nationwide protests in Iran also have challenged the clerical government's grip on power, with dissidents taking to the streets to demand regime change. The Iranian government has reacted to the protests with violence, including by killing protest movement leaders. These actions have been punctuated by a more hardline foreign policy stance against Israel and the United States, which Iran sees as fueling the protest movement."
Day-Ending-in-"Y" Dept.: Iranian Military Leader Threatens Destruction of US and Israel
"Almost a decade after the Department of Justice filed charges against a Jordanian woman in connection with a 2001 bombing in Jerusalem in which U.S. citizens were killed, she remains at large because Jordan, a major recipient of U.S. aid, refuses to extradite her."
Jordan, Recipient of Billions in US Aid, Still Won’t Extradite Terrorist Linked to Murder of Americans
Germany’s state-run DW TV: “Fishing for edible food in dumpsters could soon become legal in Germany.”
With Poverty Rising, Germany Set to Legalize ‘Fishing For Food’ in Dumpsters
"Nationalists of any country can look to Jozef Pilsudski for inspiration."
The Father of Poland
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
"Most certainly it can, particularly if U.S. military aid peters out."
Can Russia Outlast Ukraine?
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
I doubt Lloyd Austin will fall on his short, blunt sword . . .
Pentagon Still Can’t Account For Roughly $220 Billion In Equipment, Gov’t Watchdog Says
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
Hurricane season typically runs from June 1 to Nov. 30 over the Atlantic, but January hurricanes are not unheard of in recent years. “From satellite imagery, this thing looks like a hurricane. It’s got an eyewall feature to it, it’s got thunderstorms in the center, and it’s got a concentric, buzzsaw-like shape. To the untrained eye, this looks like a tropical system, and it’s way out of season,” Fox 35 Meteorologist Brooks Garner stated.
National Hurricane Center is Tracking Something Strange Over the Atlantic
"SCOTUS seizes opportunity to clarify religious accommodation jurisprudence."
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Postal Worker’s Religious Liberty Lawsuit
"Californians are squandering millions of acre-feet of storm runoff at the same time as they face permanent water rationing."
California’s Mega Water Wasters
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"What is happening regarding euthanasia in Canada should be a warning of what may happen in the United States."
Canada’s Euthanasia Law is a Bridge Too Far
The Democrats claimed Obamacare saves you money, and they were right!
Gallup: Costs Deter More Americans than Ever from Seeking Health Care
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
“Gender-affirming surgeries will be unattainable for many transgender people who need them, depriving them of lasting concordance with their gendered self and enhanced psychological wellbeing and overall health,” a letter from two plastic surgeon groups to state lawmakers read; one surgeon shared the letter with Levine, who thanked him and said it was “great.”
Delusional Freak Pervert "Rachel" Levine Cozied Up With Activists To Fight Bill Blocking State Funding For Child Sex Changes
Robert Spencer: "The 'suicide' threat is a classic example of the Left’s emotional manipulation, demanding that we acquiesce to insanity and accommodate it at all costs or the negative consequences will be our fault. Is Jesus really an emotional blackmailer? Claire Celsi certainly is. And of course, the usual chorus of Leftist officials joined in to slam the diocese for standing up for sanity."
Leftists Enraged as Iowa Catholics Reject Gender Madness
"Those who wrote off masculinity as ‘toxic’ never truly understood the concept."
Masculinity Isn’t Toxic, Our Erasure of It Is
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"How bad do things need to get before Hollywood either changes its ways and returns to the business of entertainment and pleasing the customer or an alternative Hollywood blossoms manned by talented people who want to return to the business of free expression and entertainment?"
Critics Choice Awards Collapse to Record-Low Ratings
"Harry & Meghan claim another scalp."
Clarkson is Cancelled
" . . . But it’s mostly for those already used to good news."
Some Good News on the Family Front
Christian Toto: "Film's appeal to 'flyover country,' old-school skills, sparks word-of-mouth hit."
Heartland Hanks: Man Called Otto Scores with Red States
Is it just me or does it seem as if a lot of people need to get the living shit beat out of them?
ANOTHER 'Transgender' Biological Male Offered Lucrative Tampon Endorsement Deal
HITHER & YON
“[Bret Easton] Ellis is correct that conformity makes bad art.”
American Non-Psycho
"We get a sense from That Hagen Girl that neither Tom Bates nor Jordan, Ohio would meet with Reagan’s approval or measure up to his understanding of American possibilities."
Ronald Reagan’s Uneasy Role
"A great journalist and a world-renowned historian has left us."
Paul Johnson, RIP

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Comments

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1 Its Hump Day

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 18, 2023 07:35 AM (BRHaw)

2 fd

Posted by: fd at January 18, 2023 07:35 AM (iayUP)

3 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 18, 2023 07:35 AM (uNylN)

4 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at January 18, 2023 07:36 AM (z99Zw)

5 Morning all! Top 200,000!

Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at January 18, 2023 07:36 AM (HeaXC)

6 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at January 18, 2023 07:36 AM (JaCO5)

7 hiya

Posted by: JT at January 18, 2023 07:38 AM (T4tVD)

8 Kamala for President! Bring on the destruction!

Posted by: fd at January 18, 2023 07:38 AM (iayUP)

9 Mornin', all! It's a rainy Hump Day here in flyover country. I'll take it over the feet of snow I know we could get.

Thanks for the newz, JJ!

Posted by: Catherine at January 18, 2023 07:39 AM (ZSsrh)

10 Buenos dias dear morons and gracias JJ

What did he know, when did he know it?
/obligatory
/hopeless question of a demented person
/that was so six years ago

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 18, 2023 07:40 AM (EZebt)

11 Moronin', Hourde!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at January 18, 2023 07:42 AM (u7pQw)

12 Wump wump!

Posted by: Marooned at January 18, 2023 07:43 AM (w6hJ9)

13 "It's closer to 30 million"

I've been hearing "30 million" for a dozen years. Probably closer to 50 million.

Posted by: fd at January 18, 2023 07:46 AM (iayUP)

14 "You ain't seen nothing yet! My word as a Biden!"
-President Kamala Harris

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 18, 2023 07:46 AM (EZebt)

15 The federales have been out of control for a long, long time but most people over the years have found ways to dodge this or that or them but those days are over. The federales interfere in every aspect of everyone's daily lives and they need to be assigned to the dust bin of history.

Never Give Up Your Guns!

Rootin For Putin!

Free Buffalo Guy!

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 18, 2023 07:46 AM (YypaB)

16 Let me revise that by stating it's not that the government has been corrupted. It's that corruption is the government. At least it has been since the early 60s if not as far back as World War 2.

You need to go back further, Roosevelt's alphabet soup agencies pre-dated WW2.

The FBI was formed in 1908. Was it ever not corrupt?

The Progressives changed a lot about how the government was run in response to numerous corruption scandals.

The difference NOW is that all the corruption appears to be pulling in the same direction.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at January 18, 2023 07:46 AM (z99Zw)

17 This Santos guy is a bad egg all around. Not that it makes any difference when compared to the Dems.

Posted by: fd at January 18, 2023 07:48 AM (iayUP)

18 Polar bear kills woman and boy in a remote western Alaskan village before being shot and killed.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 18, 2023 07:48 AM (Vwz3I)

19 Good morning and thanks, JJ!

Posted by: Doof at January 18, 2023 07:48 AM (ChAEn)

20 Polar bear kills woman and boy in a remote western Alaskan village before being shot and killed.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 18, 2023 07:48 AM (Vwz3I)

Well global warming is making the poles too warm for them so they have to flee south to where the people live because... uuhhhh.....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 18, 2023 07:49 AM (9UlRk)

21 Chauvin's appeal in George Floyd heart-attack/O.D. death to be heard today.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 18, 2023 07:49 AM (Vwz3I)

22 8 Kamala for President! Bring on the destruction!

People keep saying But She’s Worse! Which is a great reason to throw Creepy Joe overboard. Let Cameltoe work her magic for the Regime.

Posted by: a police state if you can keep it at January 18, 2023 07:51 AM (Fj8Gx)

23 I think I heard a DC council person got carjacked. And he STILL vetoed the mayor? LMAO.. insanity.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at January 18, 2023 07:51 AM (nxdel)

24 Ravensburg itself, aside from the slave factory, was the site of numerous Nazi crimes against humanity, such as forced sterilization for the purpose of 'racial improvement.

That could be downtown Houston or Detroit.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 18, 2023 07:51 AM (BRHaw)

25 U.S. Feds to crack down on nursing homes' abuse of antipsychotic drugs and misdiagnoses of schizophrenia.

I don't know if good or bad. Genuine abuses or emptying out asylums today as in the '70s to eff up normals even more than already.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 18, 2023 07:51 AM (Vwz3I)

26 "It's closer to 30 million"

I've been hearing "30 million" for a dozen years. Probably closer to 50 million.
Posted by: fd

30 million since the 70's.

Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at January 18, 2023 07:52 AM (HeaXC)

27 Magnitude 7.0 earthquake shakes eastern Indonesia and the southern Philippines, no damage reported.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 18, 2023 07:53 AM (Vwz3I)

28 I don't know if good or bad. Genuine abuses or emptying out asylums today as in the '70s to eff up normals even more than already.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 18, 2023 07:51 AM (Vwz3I)

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest was the Silent Spring of psychiatric care.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 18, 2023 07:53 AM (9UlRk)

29 I wonder if that "Adjacent room" to the Corvette was Hunters rented space...

Posted by: Jeff at January 18, 2023 07:53 AM (n4v0M)

30 Some Brit nurses holding [another??] walkout over two days over pay.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 18, 2023 07:53 AM (Vwz3I)

31 27 Household Items That Pose a Greater Risk to Your Kids Than a Gas Stove

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Let me add another. Quite possibly the worst. The Democrat Left's obsession with enabling groomers in public schools via the Big Gay Agenda.

You want to protect children? Really protect them? There ya go... ^^

But they don't care about children and we all know that. They're only a vehicle to implementing a leftist agenda. And we all know that, too.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 18, 2023 07:55 AM (sVtYq)

32 "The DOJ raided Trump’s house because they didn’t like him"

Ok, this line is wrong. I mean, maybe there was an element of that in there, but especially given the timing, it was a combined pre-election meddling stunt (successful) and a fishing expedition to get ANYTHING the J6 witch trial could potentially use (unsuccessful).

Posted by: can of spam at January 18, 2023 07:55 AM (7oNMO)

33 24 Ravensburg itself, aside from the slave factory, was the site of numerous Nazi crimes against humanity, such as forced sterilization for the purpose of 'racial improvement.

That could be downtown Houston or Detroit.
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 18, 2023 07:51 AM (BRHaw)

Sterilization or other types of neutralization (such as lobotomy) have always been a goal of the technocrat. Eugenics always seems to get into it. The odd thing is, it is never about improving man by addition (making man better) but rather about... pruning others.

The thing that seems to fascinate them is extending their life span. Which is telling. It is the only thing that they see as beneficial. Get rid of the people I do not like and make me live forever.

It's consistent and somewhat breathtaking in it's simplicity.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 18, 2023 07:55 AM (CsVWE)

34 One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest was the Silent Spring of psychiatric care.
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And the antihero/hero was faking mental illness to avoid real prison over raping a 14-year-old girl.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 18, 2023 07:55 AM (Vwz3I)

35 Republican Sen. Thom Tillis on Amnesty: CEOs Need "Affordable" Migrant Labor

You want affordable non-American labor? Move your business to where those people are. And pay a tariff to get your cheap-ass shit into my country.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at January 18, 2023 07:55 AM (z99Zw)

36 Polar bear kills woman and boy in a remote western Alaskan village before being shot and killed.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 18, 2023 07:48 AM (Vwz3I)
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Their fate was sealed.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 18, 2023 07:56 AM (UouaT)

37 Qantas flight from N.Z. to Sydney lands safely on one engine after issuing Mayday call.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 18, 2023 07:56 AM (Vwz3I)

38 DOJ officials considered sending FBI agents to monitor the search conducted by Biden’s personal attorneys, but decided against the oversight to avoid “complicating” the investigation and because Biden’s legal team had been cooperative.

Worthless Organization

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 18, 2023 07:57 AM (BRHaw)

39 It's consistent and somewhat breathtaking in it's simplicity.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 18, 2023 07:55 AM (CsVWE)

"I deserve to live and you don't" is the most baseline lizard brain thinking possible.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 18, 2023 07:57 AM (9UlRk)

40 USA Today and Snopes tried to float out there yesterday that the idea that the VP can't declassify documents is false - har - har! They site some Obama executive order suggesting he could.

Yeah, no. He can't. First, the EO by Obama only suggested the VP could declassify just the docs the VP himself classified, but that just an EO, not Federal Law, and its unconstitutional anyway. But USA Today and Snopes need to re-acquaint themselves with Art 2 of the US Constitution - the VP is not the executive officer and cannot assume his duties in anyway, and only the President may declassify what the Executive Branch has classified.

Posted by: Boswell at January 18, 2023 07:58 AM (+Cgut)

41 Get rid of the people I do not like and make me live forever.

It's consistent and somewhat breathtaking in it's simplicity.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 18, 2023 07:55 AM (CsVWE)

nice

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 18, 2023 07:58 AM (BRHaw)

42 Four members of a TN church die in small-plane crash during the approach to an airport east of San Antonio.

A small plane made an emergency landing on a highway in the NE Toronto area a few days ago too although with no fatalities.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 18, 2023 07:58 AM (Vwz3I)

43 Good morning horde

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 18, 2023 07:58 AM (Kd4bG)

44 Tiny boxes

Posted by: torabora at January 18, 2023 07:59 AM (OUiUM)

45 ||At least six people, including a 17-year-old mother and her six-month-old baby, were killed in what California’s Tulare County Sheriff’s Office described to CNN as a “cartel-style execution” early Monday morning.

“While investigators cannot confirm the shooters were from a cartel, the sheriff thinks it appears to be a ‘cartel-style execution,’” CNN reported. “Drug cartels have notoriously engaged in deadly violence, including the deployment of hit squads against perceived enemies and members of law enforcement that threaten their drug trafficking efforts.”||

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 18, 2023 08:00 AM (Vwz3I)

46 "but that just an EO, not Federal Law"

Almost all of the regulations regarding the handling of classified information are codified by executive orders, and for good reason. The sole power to classify and declassify information resides with the President, and he uses EOs to specify how he delegates that authority to his subordinates.

Posted by: can of spam at January 18, 2023 08:01 AM (7oNMO)

47 People keep saying But She’s Worse! Which is a great reason to throw Creepy Joe overboard. Let Cameltoe work her magic for the Regime.
Posted by: a police state if you can keep it at January 18, 2023 07:51 AM (Fj8Gx)
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Yeah, I don't buy the argument that KH would be worse than FJB. She'll do what she's told, no more, no less.

She may be stupid, but she has the low animal cunning that has allowed her to get to where she is.

She is smart enough to know how things will go once FJB is out of the picture.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 18, 2023 08:01 AM (YIVH2)

48 Germany’s state-run DW TV: “Fishing for edible food in dumpsters could soon become legal in Germany.”
With Poverty Rising, Germany Set to Legalize ‘Fishing For Food’ in Dumpsters

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Can one tell me at what point, exactly, do the citizens of these 1st world countries (including ours) finally say enough is enough and pull these decision-makers and politicians creating such abysmal conditions out of their homes by the hair of their heads and throw them to the lions? There has to be a boiling point. Where is it?

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 18, 2023 08:01 AM (sVtYq)

49 We're seriously witnessing the opening phases of Idiocracy unfold in real time. Except it isn't that idiots breed and smarties don't. It's that the smarties are all actually the idiots, and have programmed generations of idiot kids to never become adults.

It's Infantocracy.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 18, 2023 08:01 AM (9UlRk)

50 Obama administration ethics chief Walter Shaub

There are so many confusing things in that sentence.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 18, 2023 08:01 AM (BRHaw)

51 The depth and breadth of corruption shuts my brain down. It's too much to comprehend. It makes me not even care because I know nothing will ever change. I guess that's how they win.

Posted by: nogooddeed at January 18, 2023 08:02 AM (BE1+B)

52 "I deserve to live and you don't" is the most baseline lizard brain thinking possible.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 18, 2023 07:57 AM (9UlRk)

This. And you see it in other things. The shit we hear about like adenochrome or whatever all speak to the fear of death.

I just had a thought occur to me: Howard Stern is a good example. He was edgy and carefree and 'fearless' when young. Then he got rich and successful. Then as he aged he has turned into a paranoid, neurotic shut-in.

The whole deal also speaks to the turn from the eternal (family and physical achievements, building a better world for your children to live-and their kids) to the personal (I want to make a paradise on earth- for ME.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 18, 2023 08:02 AM (CsVWE)

53 I think it would have been interesting to talk to the only person in the class you didn't want to plug into the "Experience Machine " because floating in a tank while electrodes are attached to your brain by God knows who sounds like a really, really bad idea to me.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2023 08:03 AM (D+F6R)

54 There has to be a boiling point. Where is it?
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 18, 2023 08:01 AM (sVtYq)
Ask a North Korean.

Posted by: Word to your mother at January 18, 2023 08:03 AM (3uf3+)

55 But if that is the case, why not just try and 25th Amendment him as opposed to ruining the narrative of Trump being a reckless, dangerous foreign agent by revealing Biden doing the same things Trump was falsely accused of – and orders of magnitude worse?
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Because if the 25th him, it will come out that he was riddled with dementia when they were running him and stealing an election for him. Talk about egg on the face. Much better to have a controversy like this than make people ask questions. This way, they can just put on their big eyes and say "I didn't know! I'm as shocked as you are!"

If that's even the plan. If there is even a plan. It could just be as simple as one of the IC factions acting alone and making a run at a weak king. The US government is chaos, it just looks periodically stable from the outside.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 18, 2023 08:04 AM (t0OGg)

56 "I deserve to live and you don't" is the most baseline lizard brain thinking possible.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 18, 2023 07:57 AM (9UlRk)

"I deserve to live large at your expense."

Posted by: davidt at January 18, 2023 08:04 AM (SYTee)

57
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 18, 2023 08:04 AM (ENBF0)

58 this weren’t such a tell for how corrupt the Justice Department is, the excuses would be funny.
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But it *is* funny. Sure, it sucks that I have to live through it, but it's funny as hell.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 18, 2023 08:04 AM (t0OGg)

59 Polar bear kills woman and boy in a remote western Alaskan village before being shot and killed.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 18, 2023 07:48 AM (Vwz3I)
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Their fate was sealed.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at Januar
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Fake News. Algore said the polar bears all drowned because their ice floes melted.

Posted by: torabora at January 18, 2023 08:04 AM (OUiUM)

60 Obama administration ethics chief Walter Shaub

There are so many confusing things in that sentence.

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I thought the same thing with reference to the "Biden Think Tank" and U Penn.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 18, 2023 08:05 AM (sVtYq)

61 Too much watching Breaking Bad, dude.

@Breaking911 · 11h
'Jones ordered numerous items from the internet to produce ricin, had reportedly tested water guns to see which ones leaked, and said that he would go on vacation after spraying his former ex in the face with the ricin, so that he would have an alibi.'

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 18, 2023 08:05 AM (Vwz3I)

62 The thing that seems to fascinate them is extending their life span. Which is telling. It is the only thing that they see as beneficial. Get rid of the people I do not like and make me live forever.

It's consistent and somewhat breathtaking in it's simplicity.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 18, 2023 07:55 AM (CsVWE)
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The quest for immortality (or conquering death) is one of mankind's oldest dreams...And it ALWAYS comes with a brutal price for the rest of us...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 18, 2023 08:05 AM (YIVH2)

63 48 There has to be a boiling point. Where is it?

Americans in 2023 are a very passive lot. There won’t be a boil so long as the Regime keeps the TVs on and the Sportsball flowing.

Posted by: a police state if you can keep it at January 18, 2023 08:06 AM (Fj8Gx)

64 Can one tell me at what point, exactly, do the citizens of these 1st world countries (including ours) finally say enough is enough and pull these decision-makers and politicians creating such abysmal conditions out of their homes by the hair of their heads and throw them to the lions? There has to be a boiling point. Where is it?
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 18, 2023 08:01 AM (sVtYq)

The problem is they are still edging. They try to gauge the reaction, see what they can get away with without triggering a massive response. Gas Stoves are a good, latest example. They KNOW they cannot push things TOO far and worry about it (hence Biden's remarks about the citizens being defenseless against the State.)

They want to edge to the point to where there is no defense. Then they can finally let themselves off the leash.

Strictly speaking, we are past the time when action should have been taken. They have shown us who they are. The problem is we are all locked into worrying that we would be alone. No one wants to be the Meteor.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 18, 2023 08:06 AM (CsVWE)

65 For the Sake of the Republic, the Church-Style Weaponization Committee Must Answer These Questions

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"What would you say ... you DO here?"

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at January 18, 2023 08:06 AM (BRmwW)

66 The new Republican House will soon begin investigating the Biden administration and his family, namely his brother James and son Hunter. Congressional investigations are critical to the separation of powers and make for great political theater. Yet those enthused by the prospect of investigations, revelations, and resignations ought to temper their expectations: Republicans are underachievers when it comes to oversight.
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Mighty tame language. I already know the script for this one.
Republican Congressman: :: fierce soundbite ::
Private Witness: :: bald-faced lie ::
Public Witness: :: flips the bird ::
LE Witness: "I can't comment on an ongoing investigation"
Democrat Congressman: :: fierce soundbite ::
Republican Congressman: :: fierce soundbite ::

There. Now you don't have to watch.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 18, 2023 08:07 AM (t0OGg)

67 And it ALWAYS comes with a brutal price for the rest of us...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 18, 2023 08:05 AM (YIVH2)
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Same as in town?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 18, 2023 08:07 AM (UouaT)

68 The sole power to classify and declassify information resides with the President, and he uses EOs to specify how he delegates that authority to his subordinates.
Posted by: can of spam at January 18, 2023 08:01 AM (7oNMO)

USA Today and Snopes declared it Federal Law - so no. And the use of subordinates to perform executive branch decisions without direct involvement of the President has never been tested in court, even for just those they have de-classified themselves - and for good reason. The US Constitution does not give the authority to the Chief Executive to delegate his authority indirectly by implication. In other words, he can sign an EO suggesting that Fred the Migrant Worker from Mexico can declassify documents or have authority to push the go button on our nuclear arsenal.

Posted by: Boswell at January 18, 2023 08:07 AM (+Cgut)

69 I'd be inclined to also tie their quest for immortality on their rejection of G*d and the afterlife. If there is no afterlife to look forward to, extending this mortal life as long as possible becomes very appealing.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 18, 2023 08:08 AM (sVtYq)

70 There. Now you don't have to watch.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 18, 2023 08:07 AM (t0OGg)
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Wow! What will I do with all my free time now?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 18, 2023 08:08 AM (YIVH2)

71 #61 BTW, Jones is a "Florida man" but then I expected you to have guessed that on your own.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 18, 2023 08:08 AM (Vwz3I)

72 Same as in town?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 18, 2023 08:07 AM (UouaT)

Well, your life in this case, but yeah.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 18, 2023 08:08 AM (CsVWE)

73 L.A. judge declares porn actor Ron Jeremy mentally incompetent to stand trial on rape and sexual assault charges.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 18, 2023 08:08 AM (Vwz3I)

74 I'd be inclined to also tie their quest for immortality on their rejection of G*d and the afterlife. If there is no afterlife to look forward to, extending this mortal life as long as possible becomes very appealing.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 18, 2023 08:08 AM (sVtYq)
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These people really should read some Anne Rice or something...Being a vampire or lich is a very sad, lonely, life. No joy. No fulfillment. Nothing to look forward to except the heat death of the universe.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 18, 2023 08:09 AM (YIVH2)

75 "I deserve to live and you don't" is the most baseline lizard brain thinking possible.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 18, 2023 07:57 AM (9UlRk)

I'm not sure that's the goal. After all, if you rid yourself of all the lesser people then who are you better than? I think it's more "I deserve to live well and you don't". Now, they won't be bothered if you should die... but I don't think that's their primary goal.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at January 18, 2023 08:09 AM (z99Zw)

76 The thing that seems to fascinate them is extending their life span. Which is telling. It is the only thing that they see as beneficial. Get rid of the people I do not like and make me live forever.

It's consistent and somewhat breathtaking in it's simplicity.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 18, 2023 07:55 AM (CsVWE)
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The quest for immortality (or conquering death) is one of mankind's oldest dreams...And it ALWAYS comes with a brutal price for the rest of us...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 18, 2023 08:05 AM (YIVH2)

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The God That Failed.

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at January 18, 2023 08:09 AM (BRmwW)

77 "They want to edge to the point to where there is no defense. Then they can finally let themselves off the leash."

The 2A is our only defense against that.

Posted by: fd at January 18, 2023 08:09 AM (iayUP)

78 So, what the Machiavellian hell is really going on here with this document "scandal?" And at the end of the day, does it matter? Does the ultimate outcome really change the trajectory we are on?
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I'm in the "it doesn't matter" camp. They get rid of Biden or keep him. They run him '24 or they don't. They have a palace coup or they don't. Whatever. It doesn't matter for two reasons.

First, Biden isn't in charge anyway. If they slot in Kamala to be not-in-charge instead, it will make little practical difference. The only practical difference is that she's better-spoken than Joe and is obviously healthier.

Second, none of this will blow back on the government. Whatever the schemes and whatever their purposes, the power networks and factions and whatnot are still well in place and shall continue.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 18, 2023 08:10 AM (t0OGg)

79 Not sure why people are surprised about that dick statue of MLK. It's '23 in DC... Anyone receiving a major commission will necessarily be a neo-Marxist who hates representational art and views aesthetics as secondary to, and a vehicle for, political messaging. And who will also be at least a little cock-curious.

It's public art in America. Who could think it would be good, or even inoffensive?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 18, 2023 08:11 AM (oINRc)

80 I'm not sure that's the goal. After all, if you rid yourself of all the lesser people then who are you better than? I think it's more "I deserve to live well and you don't". Now, they won't be bothered if you should die... but I don't think that's their primary goal.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at January 18, 2023 08:09 AM (z99Zw)

Valid. Death is still part of it. I think that is one thing they love about abortion. They have convinced themselves that that is not life that they are snuffing out. It is one of the reasons they are so fanatical about it.

They want to be Nazis, but still think they are good people.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 18, 2023 08:11 AM (CsVWE)

81

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at January 18, 2023 08:12 AM (vwCZJ)

82
Chauvin's appeal in George Floyd heart-attack/O.D. death to be heard today.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 18, 2023 07:49 AM (Vwz3I)

You know the position that Floyd was placed - on his side with legs extended? That's referred to as the 'recovery position' for people with breathing issues. Which Floyd - also stricken with covid - obviously had. Ineffective counsel for not bringing this up at initial trial.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 18, 2023 08:12 AM (enJYY)

83 It's public art in America. Who could think it would be good, or even inoffensive?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 18, 2023 08:11 AM (oINRc)

I may not be surprised in the slightest that the kid with a wiffle ball bat inevitably thwacked me in the doobly-doo, but I'm still gonna say "Ow".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 18, 2023 08:12 AM (9UlRk)

84 The 2A is our only defense against that.
Posted by: fd at January 18, 2023 08:09 AM (iayUP)

Yes, but we have allowed all sorts of abridgement already and they are constantly feeling for more. Edging. Or the ratchet, however you want to term it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 18, 2023 08:12 AM (CsVWE)

85 And "young traditional Catholic " who's dealing with difficult times and wants to escape her life by using an Experience Machine "needs to find some competent , caring Catholic spiritual direction.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2023 08:13 AM (JeLLH)

86 I just want to see Kamala as President to rub Hillary's face in it. Otherwise, it probably makes no difference. You can bet she's got some shit in her background the Dems will bring up if they need too.

Posted by: fd at January 18, 2023 08:14 AM (iayUP)

87 Imbecile joins Biden...

@Breaking911 · 13h
WATCH: Fox News’ Geraldo Rivera says an AR-15 “is not a rifle” and ‘AR’ stands for “automatic rifle”
https://tinyurl.com/39x6aapt

[Almost said "machinegun", changed it to "automatic rifle" if you don't want to listen to the 31-second clip. More IRS agents good too.]

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 18, 2023 08:14 AM (Vwz3I)

88 Mornin’, All. Happy Waffle Wednesday.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 18, 2023 08:14 AM (m4xMr)

89 "Yes, but we have allowed all sorts of abridgement already and they are constantly feeling for more. Edging. Or the ratchet, however you want to term it."

Chipping away.

Posted by: fd at January 18, 2023 08:15 AM (iayUP)

90 The artist that did the MLK penis sculpture is the same one that did the afro pick comb statue. Dude is getting rich off of bad public art, but the important thing is he's black.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at January 18, 2023 08:15 AM (WNfWI)

91 55 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 18, 2023 08:04 AM (t0OGg)

I thought the Jill Biden eyelid skin cancer thing would be the obvious out, despite the fact that it's probably the least invasive most easily cured thing.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 18, 2023 08:15 AM (x0n13)

92 It's consistent and somewhat breathtaking in it's simplicity.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 18, 2023 07:55 AM (CsVWE)

"I deserve to live and you don't" is the most baseline lizard brain thinking possible.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 18, 2023 07:57 AM (9UlRk)

So's your mother!

Posted by: Gorn Commander at January 18, 2023 08:16 AM (4I/2K)

93 Hillary coming to the realization that she didn't suck enough cock to rise to President would be priceless.

Posted by: fd at January 18, 2023 08:17 AM (iayUP)

94 I thought the Jill Biden eyelid skin cancer thing would be the obvious out, despite the fact that it's probably the least invasive most easily cured thing.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 18, 2023 08:15 AM (x0n13)
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Yeah, some sort of "health" issue for Jill would be the easiest way to get her out of the White House, with the implication that her health issues might worsen (due to the strain) if she stays...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 18, 2023 08:17 AM (YIVH2)

95 @Breaking911 · 13h
JUST IN: West Virginia Governor Tests Positive For COVID... Again

"Thankfully, I am experiencing only mild symptoms and I will isolate at home until I am well again," Gov. Justice said.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 18, 2023 08:17 AM (Vwz3I)

96 Though an orthodox Catholic, a Gen Z reader says she would plug in to Robert Nozick's 'Experience Machine

*******

I tried to read this girl's letter but all I kept hearing was "Wah, wah, wah, poor pitiful meeeeeeee!" It doesn't say what her college major was, only that her degree did not position her for a high paying corporate gig. Well to borrow a timeworn phrase, "Suck it up, buttercup!"

Pull your nose out of your video games, grow your nascent Catholic faith and engage with life. Go build something,. Fix something that's broken. Make yourself useful to someone. Find a way. Go listen to that Konstantin Kisin talk at the Oxford Union. Rearrange your expectations to comport with reality rather than expecting reality to fit your desires. Get outside of your own head and don't be a ninny! Nihilism isn't a virtue, it's a surrender.

/r

P.S. Orthodox Catholic? Assumes facts not in evidence.

Posted by: Muldoon at January 18, 2023 08:17 AM (ykeLU)

97 Dude is getting rich off of bad public art, but the important thing is he's black.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at January 18, 2023 08:15 AM (WNfWI)

True, but *all* public art in the Current Year is awful. The institutions commissioning it are evil misanthropes paying cronies for it with stolen/counterfeit money, and the proof of that pudding is in the tasting.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 18, 2023 08:18 AM (oINRc)

98 Posted by: Muldoon at January 18, 2023 08:17 AM (ykeLU

Well said. Thanks

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2023 08:19 AM (D+F6R)

99 Colorado governor Jared Polis took the First Gentleman's sex organ out of his mouth long enough to say this about his gun control proposals:

“It’s a lot right?” Polis responded. “So if it was, I wish it was, one silver bullet. Sometimes politicians will say, ‘It’s just this.’ It’s never just that. It’s very comprehensive.”

Clears that up

Posted by: DB - you know my name at January 18, 2023 08:20 AM (geLO8)

100 Hi, Fen.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 18, 2023 08:20 AM (m4xMr)

101 I thought the Jill Biden eyelid skin cancer thing would be the obvious out...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

******

Maybe they could announce that she's pregnant...

Posted by: Muldoon at January 18, 2023 08:21 AM (ykeLU)

102 Good morning, Bulgar.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2023 08:21 AM (4POYX)

103 The artist that did the MLK penis sculpture is the same one that did the afro pick comb statue. Dude is getting rich off of bad public art, but the important thing is he's black.

--

And if you don't worship and appreciate said terrible and lousy "art," you're a racist. Yes, I'm starting to see those exact comments online from blacks if you dare criticize that terrible MLK structure, or wet bowel movement, as I call it. Worship it...or else.

Interesting that the same artist did that afro comb abomination. Why am I not surprised?

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 18, 2023 08:21 AM (sVtYq)

104 Thaxton recounts a session with about 25 professors and graduate students during which scientists in different disciplines objected to his critique, each by calling upon another scientist in another field. As each man in turn unexpectedly affirmed the correctness of Thaxton’s points, it became clear that the scientists had relied on what they believed to be true outside of their own areas of expertise to shore up their own theories, where they recognized weaknesses. These scientists needed an interdisciplinary view of evolutionary theory to see its true state.

Posted by: SMOD at January 18, 2023 08:22 AM (TkTTq)

105 Maybe they could announce that she's pregnant...
Posted by: Muldoon at January 18, 2023 08:21 AM (ykeLU)

Well, Hunter does have lot of free time.

Posted by: dantesed at January 18, 2023 08:22 AM (88xKn)

106 It looks like someone's movin'...

Items at Twitter HQ, ranging from decorations and furniture to basic office equipment, being auctioned.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 18, 2023 08:23 AM (Vwz3I)

107 That guy said "slot" and "Kamala" in the same sentence. There must be some sort of sanction for that.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at January 18, 2023 08:23 AM (flINI)

108 Posted by: SMOD at January 18, 2023 08:22 AM (TkTTq)

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I just read that piece. I don't know about his work, so now I want to look up more information about him.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 18, 2023 08:23 AM (sVtYq)

109 We are observing one of the most blatant and vile "rules for thee, but not for me" episodes in recent memory--except for the Hildebeast Clinton Crime Family felonies--when we watch the duck and cover maneuvers for the Joey "magic fingers" Bidet La Cosa Nostra. Fuck these people. . . . right in their Clinton dirt chutes. . . .forever. . . . .all the way. . .with a blow torch and a red hot poker.

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards & Sundowner Delawarens at January 18, 2023 08:24 AM (8m/Xb)

110 What matters other than how people's experiences feel "from the inside"? Suppose there were an experience machine that would give you any experience that you desired.
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We Can Remember it For You Wholesale.

This is what Big Tech is trying to build. It's the entire point of the "metaverse." What the young woman described in her letter in that article is precisely the point. Life sucks, so escape it. You live in a pod and eat bugs and can't cross the 15-minute boundary and own nothing? That's okay. Hang out in the metaverse. That ersatz reality sucks less than the real reality.

It's like Leary's "Turn on, tune in, drop out" but one step more insidious because it offers companionship in exchange for removing yourself from the world. It's more like Cracker's version of it: Turn on, tune in, drop out. Give up. With me."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 18, 2023 08:24 AM (t0OGg)

111 Apparently there were AA's who found the penis like statue which was supposed to be arms terrible too. Are they racist too?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2023 08:24 AM (4POYX)

112 Good morning and thank you, J.J.

Posted by: Lola at January 18, 2023 08:25 AM (p39Z2)

113
It looks like someone's movin'...

Items at Twitter HQ, ranging from decorations and furniture to basic office equipment, being auctioned.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 18, 2023 08:23 AM

♪ They say Californie is the place you wanna flee... ♪

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 18, 2023 08:25 AM (enJYY)

114 ||UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres accused oil firms on Wednesday of peddling a “big lie” about their role in global warming and warned they should be held accountable.

“Some in Big Oil peddled the big lie,” Guterres told the World Economic Forum in the Swiss Alpine village of Davos, a week after a study said ExxonMobil denied the findings of its own scientists on the role of fossil fuels in climate change.

“We learned last week that certain fossil fuel producers were fully aware in the 1970s that their core product was baking our planet,” Guterres said.

“Just like the tobacco industry, they rode rough-shod over their own science,” Guterres said. “And like the tobacco industry, those responsible must be held to account.”||

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 18, 2023 08:26 AM (Vwz3I)

115 We Can Remember it For You Wholesale.

This is what Big Tech is trying to build. It's the entire point of the "metaverse." What the young woman described in her letter in that article is precisely the point. Life sucks, so escape it. You live in a pod and eat bugs and can't cross the 15-minute boundary and own nothing? That's okay. Hang out in the metaverse. That ersatz reality sucks less than the real reality.

It's like Leary's "Turn on, tune in, drop out" but one step more insidious because it offers companionship in exchange for removing yourself from the world. It's more like Cracker's version of it: Turn on, tune in, drop out. Give up. With me."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 18, 2023 08:24 AM (t0OGg)
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Red Dwarf had the video game "Better Than Life." It was so insidious that people starved to death rather than return to the real world.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 18, 2023 08:26 AM (YIVH2)

116 Former Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger is selling signed hardcover copies of the January 6 Committee Report for $100 through his County First PAC’s website.

Posted by: SMOD at January 18, 2023 08:26 AM (TkTTq)

117 Apparently there were AA's who found the penis like statue which was supposed to be arms terrible too. Are they racist too?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2023 08:24 AM (4POYX)
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We're white supremacists in blackface.

And yes, I think it looks like a penile turd.

Posted by: SMH at January 18, 2023 08:26 AM (E/NJa)

118 #114 related

Drew Hernandez @DrewHLive · Follow
DAVOS WATCH: Al Gore goes on an anti fossil fuel rant claiming anything “anti climate” needs to be defunded

He proclaims the WEF and it’s global affiliates need to “reign in” the anti climate activities of the fossil industry #wef23

[I must have missed Al giving up all that TN oil money of his and his family.]

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 18, 2023 08:27 AM (Vwz3I)

119 >Apparently there were AA's who found the penis like statue which was supposed to be arms terrible too. Are they racist too?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke

no, it's not racist when they do it

Posted by: DB - you know my name at January 18, 2023 08:27 AM (geLO8)

120 I tried to read this girl's letter but all I kept hearing was "Wah, wah, wah, poor pitiful meeeeeeee!" It doesn't say what her college major was, only that her degree did not position her for a high paying corporate gig. Well to borrow a timeworn phrase, "Suck it up, buttercup!"

Posted by: Muldoon at January 18, 2023 08:17 AM (ykeLU)

Most of the Millennials and Gen-Z kids are messed up because their parents did a terrible job of raising them. Add in that things are tougher (jobs, family formation, etc.) on them than in our day and they do have some legitimate complaints. Yes, her article is a painful whine. Did anyone tell her that, as a woman, she only has so many fertile years? That maybe forming a family should take priority over a career? Meanwhile, many Boomers and Gen-X types abdicated their job to raise their kids.

Posted by: Crom Laughs at January 18, 2023 08:27 AM (N+wj4)

121 ... “We learned last week that certain fossil fuel producers were fully aware in the 1970s that their core product was baking our planet,” Guterres said. ...
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 18, 2023 08:26 AM (Vwz3I)
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Then why am I not living in an oven? Why was the dominant climate theory in the 1970s "Snowball Earth?" Why has the runaway global warming not happened on any of the provided timelines?

Piss off, you totalitarian globalist ponce.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 18, 2023 08:27 AM (t0OGg)

122 It's a common theme in shady governance to claim that a simple, rational, obvious solution to a problem is a "silver bullet" that couldn't possibly work.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 18, 2023 08:29 AM (9UlRk)

123 It's like Leary's "Turn on, tune in, drop out" but one step more insidious because it offers companionship in exchange for removing yourself from the world. It's more like Cracker's version of it: Turn on, tune in, drop out. Give up. With me."
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It's Better Than Life ©®

https://tinyurl.com/2bjm8s5z

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 18, 2023 08:29 AM (Vwz3I)

124 Apparently there were AA's who found the penis like statue which was supposed to be arms terrible too. Are they racist too?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

I would like to see all of the other art submissions, and have someone explain why they thought that was the winner !

Posted by: JT at January 18, 2023 08:30 AM (T4tVD)

125 Because racism has nothing to do with skin color. It is all ideology now.

Racist=against Left (Left taking the place of technocrats, commies, socialists, whatever)
Nazi=anything the Left does not like or even does not aid them
Equity=thing that helps the Left
Freedom=any tyranny that aids the Left
Science=Leftist narrative

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 18, 2023 08:30 AM (CsVWE)

126 It's a common theme in shady governance to claim that a simple, rational, obvious solution to a problem is a "silver bullet" that couldn't possibly work.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 18, 2023 08:29 AM (9UlRk)
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Any con, really. "Here's your problem. Here's my solution. Don't look at the details, just pay me and my silver bullet makes it all go away."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 18, 2023 08:30 AM (t0OGg)

127 Good morning everybuddy and happy Birthday JJ.

The Experience Machine sounds like some sort of desire to return to your mother's womb.

But with the active video streaming component it becomes a womb with a view!!

Posted by: Muldoon at January 18, 2023 08:31 AM (ykeLU)

128 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 18, 2023 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)

129 123 It's like Leary's "Turn on, tune in, drop out" but one step more insidious because it offers companionship in exchange for removing yourself from the world. It's more like Cracker's version of it: Turn on, tune in, drop out. Give up. With me."
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It's Better Than Life ©®

https://tinyurl.com/2bjm8s5z
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 18, 2023 08:29 AM (Vwz3I)

The Holodeck would be the world shattering invention. And they are trying to create it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 18, 2023 08:31 AM (CsVWE)

130 This world is getting pretty damn depressing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 18, 2023 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)

131 andycanuck, re Twitter. I'm a guessing after ridding HQ of useless staff they are now ridding it of useless accoutrements. Maybe those former Twitter staff can buy them for their overpriced SF rentals. Ooops, probably not since they are now unemployed.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 18, 2023 08:31 AM (2NHgQ)

132 The Experience Machine sounds like some sort of desire to return to your mother's womb.

But with the active video streaming component it becomes a womb with a view!!
Posted by: Muldoon at January 18, 2023 08:31 AM (ykeLU)

Just watch out for abortion.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 18, 2023 08:31 AM (CsVWE)

133 In a change of pace, this is funny. Car guys will smack their foreheads repeatedly......

https://youtu.be/LaURAgBgdU0

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 18, 2023 08:32 AM (Zz0t1)

134 130 This world is getting pretty damn depressing.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 18, 2023 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)

It was always thus.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 18, 2023 08:32 AM (CsVWE)

135 Accoutrement! is a fun word to say if you go full frenchie when you do it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 18, 2023 08:32 AM (CsVWE)

136 101 I thought the Jill Biden eyelid skin cancer thing would be the obvious out...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

******

Maybe they could announce that she's pregnant...
Posted by: Muldoon at January 18, 2023 08:21 AM (ykeLU)

Obviously, someone still won't give the family the blanket pardon and the golden parachute...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 18, 2023 08:33 AM (exHjb)

137 Accoutrement! is a fun word to say if you go full frenchie when you do it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

I AM NOT dropping my rifle just to say "accoutrement".

Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at January 18, 2023 08:34 AM (HeaXC)

138
The Experience Machine sounds like some sort of desire to return to your mother's womb.

But with the active video streaming component it becomes a womb with a view!!

Posted by: Muldoon at January 18, 2023 08:31 AM

Hysterical - in the classic sense of the word.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 18, 2023 08:34 AM (enJYY)

139 This world is getting pretty damn depressing.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 18, 2023 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)
___

I'm finding myself tuning out the world, and turning to Jesus more.

Even commenting here less.

Posted by: SMH at January 18, 2023 08:34 AM (E/NJa)

140 This world is getting pretty damn depressing.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

We could have Lizzo sit on your lap !

Posted by: JT at January 18, 2023 08:34 AM (T4tVD)

141 If your meatspace life sucks, what makes anyone think your virtual self wouldn't also suck?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 18, 2023 08:34 AM (9UlRk)

142 The Holodeck would be the world shattering invention. And they are trying to create it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 18, 2023 08:31 AM (CsVWE)
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At least with a Holodeck, the WEF deviants could slake their perverse lusts without actually hurting anyone...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 18, 2023 08:35 AM (YIVH2)

143 I AM NOT dropping my rifle just to say "accoutrement".
Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at January 18, 2023 08:34 AM (HeaXC)

Well it is your accoutrement! it is right there in your nic.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 18, 2023 08:35 AM (CsVWE)

144 Greta calls Saul!

https://tinyurl.com/yjk3fdsn

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 18, 2023 08:35 AM (Vwz3I)

145 Down to making my 4th soup today (tomato, pepper, artichoke) for the Church's homeless shelter and then I get a break til the weekend sandwich making.

Spouse found out from the organizer yesterday that my potato corn chowder from the day before was wildly popular, so note to self - that one gets repeated next year (thyme/rosemary/garlic must be a popular flavor combo - and creamed corn is a genius ingredient if you aren't blending it).

Posted by: Nova Local at January 18, 2023 08:35 AM (exHjb)

146 Abstain from wrath, abandon anger:
do not envy him who turns to evil,
for those who do evil will be destroyed,
but those on the side of the Lord
will inherit the earth.
A moment yet – and the sinner will be gone:
you will look where he was and find nothing.

- Psalm 37

Posted by: SMH at January 18, 2023 08:35 AM (E/NJa)

147 In a change of pace, this is funny. Car guys will smack their foreheads repeatedly......

https://youtu.be/LaURAgBgdU0
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 18, 2023 08:32 AM (Zz0t1)
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Okay, that cow bell stunt (approx 2 minutes in) is freaking hilarious. I'd like to buy his buddies a beer.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 18, 2023 08:35 AM (t0OGg)

148 We could have Lizzo sit on your lap !
Posted by: JT at January 18, 2023 08:34 AM (T4tVD)

I, for one, would not want all *that* pressing on my D.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 18, 2023 08:36 AM (9UlRk)

149 I'm finding myself tuning out the world, and turning to Jesus more.

Even commenting here less.
Posted by: SMH

Amen.

Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at January 18, 2023 08:36 AM (HeaXC)

150 If your meatspace life sucks, what makes anyone think your virtual self wouldn't also suck?
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Ask Arnold Rimmer's hologram.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 18, 2023 08:36 AM (Vwz3I)

151 And I think young Catholic woman needs to go read some of the writings of St Teresa of Avila, who although caring, could be rather astringent with some of the young-and older- people under her charge.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2023 08:36 AM (ExP60)

152 Well it is your accoutrement! it is right there in your nic.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Golf clap.

Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at January 18, 2023 08:37 AM (HeaXC)

153 At least with a Holodeck, the WEF deviants could slake their perverse lusts without actually hurting anyone...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 18, 2023 08:35 AM (YIVH2)
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Then they wouldn't use it. The whole point is the perversion. If it's clean and virtual, the perversion isn't real. The corruption isn't real. The destruction isn't real. A WEF type would find no pleasure at all if they engaged in their excesses in a Holodeck.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 18, 2023 08:37 AM (t0OGg)

154 At least with a Holodeck, the WEF deviants could slake their perverse lusts without actually hurting anyone...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 18, 2023 08:35 AM (YIVH2)

Dammit. That has me thinking of a passage from Chesterton:
It is exactly this backdoor, this sense of having a retreat behind us, that is, to our minds, the sterlizing spirit in modern pleasure. Everywhere there is the persistent and insane attempt to obtain pleasure without paying for it. Thus, in politics the modern Jingoes practically say, ‘Let us have the pleasure of conquerors without the pains of soldiers: let us sit on sofas and be a hardy race.’ Thus, in religion and morals, the decadent mystics say: ‘Let us have the fragrance of sacred purity without the sorrows of self-restraint; let us sing hymns alternately to the Virgin and Priapus.’ Thus in love the free-lovers say: ‘Let us have the splendour of offering ourselves without the peril of committing ourselves; let us see whether one cannot commit suicide an unlimited number of times.’

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 18, 2023 08:37 AM (CsVWE)

155 Accoutrement! is a fun word to say if you go full frenchie when you do it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

It is a great way to clear the phlegm from the back of your throat.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 18, 2023 08:38 AM (8GeFp)

156 These scientists needed an interdisciplinary view of evolutionary theory to see its true state.
Posted by: SMOD at January 18, 2023 08:22 AM (TkTTq)

Back in the 1970s, a student once asked, “What does Carl Sagan say” about Thaxton’s critique of materialist theories of abiogenesis? For many, Sagan was the ultimate scientific authority. He was what we now call “the science.” Thaxton’s answer was to ask not what Carl Sagan says, but what the evidence says.
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What the evidence says? That's not science! The only thing which matters is the conclusion which will lead to greater governmental power and more funding for me! -- modern "scientists"

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at January 18, 2023 08:38 AM (z99Zw)

157 So, I am a MugClub member, so I went to BlazeTV and logged in. The only Crowder available is archives. No more live, no more daily broadcast.

I guess Beck is one that's gone to the Dark Side and he's now railing against.

A shame. I hope my MugClub membership goes to Crowder and not Blaze.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 18, 2023 08:39 AM (Zz0t1)

158 Emphatically it will not work. There are thrilling moments, doubtless, for the spectator, the amateur, and the aesthete; but there is one thrill that is known only to the soldier who fights for his own flag, to the aesthetic who starves himself for his own illumination, to the lover who makes finally his own choice. And it is this transfiguring self-discipline that makes the vow a truly sane thing. It must have satisfied even the giant hunger of the soul of a lover or a poet to know that in consequence of some one instant of decision that strange chain would hang for centuries in the Alps among the silences of stars and snows. All around us is the city of small sins, abounding in backways and retreats, but surely, sooner or later, the towering flame will rise from the harbour announcing that the reign of the cowards is over and a man is burning his ships.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 18, 2023 08:39 AM (CsVWE)

159 Thanks SMH !

Posted by: JT at January 18, 2023 08:39 AM (T4tVD)

160 ++++
Okay, that cow bell stunt (approx 2 minutes in) is freaking hilarious. I'd like to buy his buddies a beer.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 18, 2023 08:35 AM (t0OGg)

If you get far enough, my favorite has to be the tennis balls stuffed in the rear springs. If you think about it, the number of cans of tennis balls required would likely cost more than the actual shocks. I guess, unless you can raid a country club.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 18, 2023 08:40 AM (Zz0t1)

161 This is what Big Tech is trying to build. It's the entire point of the "metaverse." What the young woman described in her letter in that article is precisely the point. Life sucks, so escape it. You live in a pod and eat bugs and can't cross the 15-minute boundary and own nothing? That's okay. Hang out in the metaverse. That ersatz reality sucks less than the real reality.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 18, 2023 08:24 AM (t0OGg)

So they're peddling lies.

Don't be in the real world. Don't improve the real world. Don't advance. Don't think. Don't be. Exist in a lie.

And we know who is the Father of Lies.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at January 18, 2023 08:41 AM (z99Zw)

162 "C'mon, Langley. Do I have to do your work for you?!"

Lmao. You always slay me JJ. Thanks man.

Posted by: Just sayin at January 18, 2023 08:41 AM (ECHKg)

163 You're welcome, JT.

I'm in a much better mood now that I can breathe through my nose again.

Posted by: SMH at January 18, 2023 08:42 AM (SF4EO)

164 Graduate of the AOC school of show arrests:

https://tinyurl.com/yvxz437b

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 18, 2023 08:42 AM (8GeFp)

165 "Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of the heart. At that time each will receive their praise from God. "

1 Corinthians 4:5

Posted by: Marcus T at January 18, 2023 08:43 AM (M5z+9)

166 162 "C'mon, Langley. Do I have to do your work for you?!"

Lmao. You always slay me JJ. Thanks man.
Posted by: Just sayin at January 18, 2023 08:41 AM (ECHKg)

ISWYDT

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 18, 2023 08:43 AM (x0n13)

167 And we know who is the Father of Lies.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at January 18, 2023 08:41 AM (z99Zw)

I didn't know Sophus Lie had children... huh. Neat.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 18, 2023 08:43 AM (9UlRk)

168

As a TERM* I nobly and graciously volunteer to assist young women in learning the Sweet Mysteries of Life!

*Tranny Exclusionary Radical Male

Posted by: Dirty Frank at January 18, 2023 08:43 AM (exJVb)

169 Amen, MarcusT.

Thanks for that.

Posted by: SMH at January 18, 2023 08:43 AM (SF4EO)

170 146 Thank you for that, SMH.

And good morning.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 18, 2023 08:44 AM (m4xMr)

171 The Holodeck would be the world shattering invention. And they are trying to create it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 18, 2023 08:31 AM (CsVWE)

The holodeck. Powered by dilithium. Which is mined by slaves. Yes, they're trying to create all of that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at January 18, 2023 08:44 AM (z99Zw)

172 So they're peddling lies.

Don't be in the real world. Don't improve the real world. Don't advance. Don't think. Don't be. Exist in a lie.

And we know who is the Father of Lies.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at January 18, 2023 08:41 AM (z99Zw)
++++
Yup

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 18, 2023 08:44 AM (t0OGg)

173 Are they racist too?

You betcha. Freaking Uncle Toms they are.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at January 18, 2023 08:44 AM (TXFi7)

174 Late to this breakfast meeting but would be a miss if I didn't pop in
Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2023 08:45 AM (Z1Q1K)

175 The holodeck. Powered by dilithium. Which is mined by slaves. Yes, they're trying to create all of that.

it's like .. did no one watch The Matrix? or I guess a lot of people took the wrong message from it?

Posted by: BlackOrchidthenotsinger at January 18, 2023 08:45 AM (w0NJk)

176 I've been hearing rumors from the wife of a friend of a friend of a guy in a position to know that Pfizer, despite the windfall of a government-mandated taxpayer-funded COVID vaccine program is looking at a substantial internal shakeup, workforce reductions (i.e. layoffs) and restructuring. Keep your eyes peeled. Can't tell what's signal v. noise at this point.

Posted by: Muldoon at January 18, 2023 08:45 AM (ykeLU)

177
I'm finding myself tuning out the world, and turning to Jesus more.

Even commenting here less.
Posted by: SMH at January 18, 2023 08:34 AM (E/NJa

Your methods are not wrong.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 18, 2023 08:45 AM (Zz0t1)

178 You heard it here first: the "next George Floyd" case might be just around the corner (literally, at least from where I live).

Two paramedics in Springfield IL have been charged with murder in the death of a 35-year-old man (of color) who was experiencing alcohol withdrawal symptoms. He was strapped onto the ambulance gurney face down and suffocated on the way to the hospital:

tinyurl.com/4mjcvca8

It certainly appears that the paramedics acted very unprofessionally, and a charge of something like manslaughter or negligent homicide (not sure what the IL equivalent is) would have been appropriate IMO. (If you see the female paramedic's mug shot, you would definitely not want here anywhere near you in an emergency situation.) However, there is a definite effort underway to turn this into a racial issue because the paramedics were white and the deceased man was black. This story just started going national last week and I would keep an eye on it to see what develops.

Posted by: Secret Square at January 18, 2023 08:45 AM (9WuX0)

179 So John Kerry says an extra-terrestrial force brought the scum and villainy at the WEF together.

Are we living through the story line of That Hideous Strength?!?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 18, 2023 08:45 AM (lc5cP)

180 Hi Bulgaroctonus.

Posted by: SMH at January 18, 2023 08:45 AM (SF4EO)

181 Keep your eyes peeled. Can't tell what's signal v. noise at this point.
Posted by: Muldoon at January 18, 2023 08:45 AM (ykeLU

Maybe the "run" phase of "take the money and run"?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 18, 2023 08:46 AM (9UlRk)

182 165 Thank you, Marcus.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 18, 2023 08:46 AM (m4xMr)

183 Great picture up top, J.J. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2023 08:46 AM (ExP60)

184 Hang out in the metaverse. That ersatz reality sucks less than the real reality.

Leftists in 99: Living in the Matrix is a hell we need to escape

Leftists in 23: Living in the Matrix is pretty awesome isn't it?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 18, 2023 08:47 AM (lc5cP)

185 I've had the epiphany that I'd rather be on a beach in Tahiti, consuming rum drinks with little umbrellas in them, served by charmingly underdressed Polynesian ladies.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 18, 2023 08:48 AM (XlE1Z)

186 Leftists in 23: Living in the Matrix is pretty awesome isn't it?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 18, 2023 08:47 AM (lc5cP)

Leftists in '25: Living in the Matrix is a hell we need to escape....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 18, 2023 08:48 AM (9UlRk)

187 It's a common theme in shady governance to claim that a simple, rational, obvious solution to a problem is a "silver bullet" that couldn't possibly work.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 18, 2023 08:29 AM (9UlRk)
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Any con, really. "Here's your problem. Here's my solution. Don't look at the details, just pay me and my silver bullet makes it all go away."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 18, 2023 08:30 AM (t0OGg)

Aw, it's not for you. It's more of a Shelbyville idea

Posted by: Lyle Lanley at January 18, 2023 08:48 AM (4I/2K)

188 Garland is corrupt left wing hack who should be ducked walk out of Justice in chains

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2023 08:49 AM (Irn0L)

189 The expression “keep your eyes peeled” has always kinda grossed me out.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 18, 2023 08:49 AM (m4xMr)

190 They're not getting rid of Joe and they're not getting rid of the Ho.

They were afraid of Trump getting ahold of this issue and making hay with it so this is all a big cover and smokescreen. Just look at the timing and media treatment.

Posted by: ... at January 18, 2023 08:49 AM (iCWt+)

191 Watching through that car video Sponge posted, I'm just shaking my head.

I feel bad about the state of my car's interior, but I could be reasonably expected to drive royalty around in it by comparison to some of these.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 18, 2023 08:49 AM (t0OGg)

192 Nick Gerli @nickgerli1 · 15h
This is scary. 😬

KB Homes, a large home builder, just reported a 68% CANCEL RATE.

Meaning that over 2/3 of Homebuyers walked away from their contracts in the quarter. Leaving KB Homes with a massive pile-up of inventory.

Last year the Cancel Rate was only 13%.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 18, 2023 08:49 AM (Vwz3I)

193 "Thanks for that.
Posted by: SMH at January 18, 2023 08:43 AM (SF4EO)"

"Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 18, 2023 08:46 AM (m4xMr)"

Amen brothers and sisters. Amen.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 18, 2023 08:49 AM (M5z+9)

194 Well, they flew there. They didn't take land transportation.

That makes it extra-terrestrial.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at January 18, 2023 08:50 AM (TXFi7)

195 It's a common theme in shady governance to claim that a simple, rational, obvious solution to a problem is a "silver bullet" that couldn't possibly work.

The left: We can't stop illegal immigration by guarding the border and using police efforts to find illegals.

Also the left: We can stop a flu like illness by stopping people from traveling and using police efforts to stop people from doing things we don't want them to do

Posted by: 18-1 at January 18, 2023 08:50 AM (lc5cP)

196 JFC! You don't strap a guy face down on the stretcher as a form of restraint!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 18, 2023 08:50 AM (8GeFp)

197 At least with a Holodeck, the WEF deviants could slake their perverse lusts without actually hurting anyone...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 18, 2023 08:35 AM (YIVH2)

Where would the fun be for them in THAT?

Posted by: ... at January 18, 2023 08:52 AM (iCWt+)

198 I've had the epiphany that I'd rather be on a beach in Tahiti, consuming rum drinks with little umbrellas in them, served by charmingly underdressed Polynesian ladies.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 18, 2023 08:48 AM (XlE1Z)

Looking good, Captain Obvious!

Posted by: Billy Ray Valentine at January 18, 2023 08:52 AM (4I/2K)

199 JFC! You don't strap a guy face down on the stretcher as a form of restraint!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 18, 2023 08:50 AM (8GeFp)

Could they have been trying to prevent aspiration?

Posted by: grammie winger at January 18, 2023 08:52 AM (45fpk)

200 JFC! You don't strap a guy face down on the stretcher as a form of restraint!
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 18, 2023 08:50 AM

Unless you're at Man's Country.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 18, 2023 08:52 AM (a3Q+t)

201 189 The expression “keep your eyes peeled” has always kinda grossed me out.
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Heh, always be on your toes and keep your eyes peeled sounds a bit like S/M to me. Painful is no way to go through life.

Posted by: Puddinhead at January 18, 2023 08:52 AM (sVfvf)

202 KB Homes, a large home builder, just reported a 68% CANCEL RATE.

Meaning that over 2/3 of Homebuyers walked away from their contracts in the quarter. Leaving KB Homes with a massive pile-up of inventory.

And when the cancellation rate drops to 50% next month, FJB will claim victory because the cancellation rate has dropped 18%! That's something to build on!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 18, 2023 08:53 AM (8GeFp)

203 Accoutrement! is a fun word to say if you go full frenchie when you do it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

*******

Several of us in the Muldoon clan had a lively discussion the other day about the difference between 'accessory' and 'accoutrement' and concluded that the only difference was the exaggerated French pronunciation. I offered my son in law $5 if he would toss the word 'accoutrement' into his next Zoom work meeting.

Posted by: Muldoon at January 18, 2023 08:53 AM (ykeLU)

204 I guess Beck is one that's gone to the Dark Side and he's now railing against.

------

He was an unstable, lachrymose cuck in the mold of John Boehner, but he really showed his true colors years ago, when he joined in canceling Gavin McInnes for no real reason. Beck's no different than the rest of ConInc.

I simply assumed Crowder was, because almost every public conservative is a grifter, but perhaps there's more to the man than the love of the shell game.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 18, 2023 08:53 AM (oINRc)

205 Watching through that car video Sponge posted, I'm just shaking my head.

I feel bad about the state of my car's interior, but I could be reasonably expected to drive royalty around in it by comparison to some of these.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 18, 2023 08:49 AM (t0OGg)

"The technician discovered that the interior was saturated with Curry."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 18, 2023 08:54 AM (Zz0t1)

206 The holodeck. Powered by dilithium. Which is mined by slaves. Yes, they're trying to create all of that.

it's like .. did no one watch The Matrix? or I guess a lot of people took the wrong message from it?
Posted by: BlackOrchidthenotsinger at January 18, 2023 08:45 AM (w0NJk)

Do tell.

Posted by: George Orwell at January 18, 2023 08:55 AM (4I/2K)

207 Could they have been trying to prevent aspiration?
Posted by: grammie winger

No. You lay them on their side "lateral recumbent" for that. They put him face down and pulled the chest strap tight across his back. But then, they were probably prohibited from using ketamine for chemical restraint, so I imagine the medics were in a shitty position.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 18, 2023 08:55 AM (8GeFp)

208 I was lied to in the 80's by my teachers about "evolution".

They explicitly claimed that monkeys were the only other creatures on earth besides humans that used "tools".

It was a lie and a joke. But they were deadly serious.

Birds use fucking tools. Many animals do.

This is why I didn't pay attention in school and got by with D's and F's. I knew they were full of shit. I just didn't know how much shit until later.

Posted by: ... at January 18, 2023 08:55 AM (iCWt+)

209
Alcohol withdrawal symptoms:
Stage 1 (mild): symptoms may include headache, sweating, insomnia, anxiety, hand tremors, nausea, vomiting, and heart palpitations
Stage 2 (moderate): in addition to stage 1 symptoms, you may also experience increased blood pressure or heart rate, confusion, rapid breathing, and mild hypothermia
Stage 3 (severe): in addition to stage 2 symptoms, you may also experience visual or auditory hallucinations and seizures

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 18, 2023 08:56 AM (enJYY)

210 I prefer “paraphernalia” to “accoutrements.” I wonder if it has a singular form.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 18, 2023 08:57 AM (m4xMr)

211 Birds use fucking tools.
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Perv birds!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 18, 2023 08:57 AM (XlE1Z)

212 "The technician discovered that the interior was saturated with Curry."

Lemon curry???

Posted by: fd at January 18, 2023 08:57 AM (iayUP)

213 KB Homes, a large home builder, just reported a 68% CANCEL RATE.

Meaning that over 2/3 of Homebuyers walked away from their contracts in the quarter. Leaving KB Homes with a massive pile-up of inventory.

Last year the Cancel Rate was only 13%.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 18, 2023 08:49 AM (Vwz3I)
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I am not even remotely surprised, assuming I am correct that the contract would be signed with a deposit and then financing would be settled closer to delivery. In September, the 30-year fixed rate was a bit over 6%. During the summer buying season, it was around 5.5% or so. By Q4, we it was flirting with (or crossing) 7%.

So assume the house is $250k and the buyers had 10% down. At 5.5%, the payment is $1,278 plus PMI. At 6.8%, it is $1,467 plus PMI. The higher interest makes that house almost 15% more expensive every month before PMI.

If the buyers were stretching - and they probably were given the economy and KB Homes' primary market segment - median income families in any given market and a lot of first-time buyers - then that price difference is huge and walk-away would become a serious consideration.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 18, 2023 08:57 AM (t0OGg)

214 I only remember Crowder making occasional appearances on Loesch's show on the Blaze. I always wondered why Glen never gave Steven his own show at a time he was filling hours of airtime with his radio show sidekicks.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 18, 2023 08:58 AM (8GeFp)

215 Didn't Beck cry at the border in 2012? I mean that was a long time ago.

Posted by: ... at January 18, 2023 08:58 AM (HMadg)

216 They explicitly claimed that monkeys were the only other creatures on earth besides humans that used "tools".

Sea otters use rocks to bust open clamshells. Jeez. Watch a nature program.

Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at January 18, 2023 08:59 AM (HeaXC)

217 Are we living through the story line of That Hideous Strength?!?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 18, 2023 08:45 AM (lc5cP)
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I read that book in early January 2021, during the height of the pandemic. It was one of the most terrifying reading experiences of my life.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 18, 2023 08:59 AM (YIVH2)

218 179 So John Kerry says an extra-terrestrial force brought the scum and villainy at the WEF together.

I consider demons to be extra-terrestrial

Posted by: BlackOrchidthenotsinger at January 18, 2023 08:59 AM (w0NJk)

219 Oh, yeah. Alcohol withdrawal ain't no joke. I have had hospitals run out of their entire supply of ativan for just one severe withdrawal.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 18, 2023 09:00 AM (8GeFp)

220 I consider demons to be extra-terrestrial

Posted by: BlackOrchidthenotsinger at January 18, 2023 08:59 AM (w0NJk)

👍🏻

Posted by: ... at January 18, 2023 09:00 AM (HMadg)

221 Oh, yeah. Alcohol withdrawal ain't no joke. I have had hospitals run out of their entire supply of ativan for just one severe withdrawal.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 18, 2023 09:00 AM (8GeFp)

I quit every week.

I only stop to start again.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 18, 2023 09:01 AM (Zz0t1)

222 I've found discerning XX chromosome holders appreciate the use of the word accoutrement.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 18, 2023 09:01 AM (a3Q+t)

223 188 Garland is corrupt left wing hack who should be ducked walk out of Justice in chains
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The whole purpose of the DoJ, created in 1870, was to keep the South and Southwest down and the Northeast Midwest up. It is exactly what NATO was designed to do - keep the Germans down, the Russians out and the Americans in. Methinks its time to retire the DoJ and recognize all domestic law inforcement is a State matter and not a Federal matter. A Fed AG may instruct a state to enforce a Federal mandate but it is the States perogative to enforce it.

Posted by: Puddinhead at January 18, 2023 09:01 AM (sVfvf)

224 Oh, yeah. Alcohol withdrawal ain't no joke. I have had hospitals run out of their entire supply of ativan for just one severe withdrawal.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 18, 2023 09:00 AM (8GeFp)

I quit every week.

I only stop to start again.
Posted by: Sponge

Always remember: no one likes a quitter.

Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at January 18, 2023 09:01 AM (HeaXC)

225 Funny how you remember things after so many years. Our ITR company at Camp Geiger had a troop handler, a Cajun guy, who would use the word accoutrements a lot. Must have been growing up and speaking something resembling French.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 18, 2023 09:02 AM (lz5hY)

226 The WEF cünt said it last year. The "elite" are coming together more and are getting on the same page. The rest of society is trusting them less and less and they CAN'T FIGURE OUT WHY.

They are the reason people hate the rich.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 18, 2023 09:02 AM (Zz0t1)

227 Sea otters use rocks to bust open clamshells. Jeez. Watch a nature program.
Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at January 18, 2023 08:59 AM

Did you know sea otters also hold hands?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 18, 2023 09:02 AM (a3Q+t)

228 No. You lay them on their side "lateral recumbent" for that. They put him face down and pulled the chest strap tight across his back. But then, they were probably prohibited from using ketamine for chemical restraint, so I imagine the medics were in a shitty position.

Then: Let's let people run wild and take away tools to deal with people out of control

Now: We are going to punish these EMTs for killing someone accidentally while trying to restrain him

Soon: Why don't ambulances go into "bad" neighborhoods? RACISM!

Posted by: 18-1 at January 18, 2023 09:02 AM (lc5cP)

229
Always remember: no one likes a quitter.
Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at January 18, 2023 09:01 AM (HeaXC)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 18, 2023 09:02 AM (Zz0t1)

230 I consider demons to be extra-terrestrial

You don't say?

Posted by: The movie Signs at January 18, 2023 09:03 AM (lc5cP)

231
We are not even being afforded the comfort of the old Soviet lie "If only Comrade Stalin knew what was going on".

Everybody knows Biden doesn't.

Posted by: Auspex at January 18, 2023 09:03 AM (j4U/Z)

232
Did you know sea otters also hold hands?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 18, 2023 09:02 AM (a3Q+t)

And they have homosexual relationships, right? Because everything is homosexual and is born that way, right?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 18, 2023 09:03 AM (Zz0t1)

233
Oh, yeah. Alcohol withdrawal ain't no joke. I have had hospitals run out of their entire supply of ativan for just one severe withdrawal.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 18, 2023 09:00 AM

Just give the guy a beer. I've read that they do that. Some famous alchy - perhaps it was the founder of AA.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 18, 2023 09:03 AM (enJYY)

234 Always remember: no one likes a quitter.
Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at January 18, 2023 09:01 AM (HeaXC)

*fistbump*

Posted by: VP Kamala, No Quit No Spit at January 18, 2023 09:04 AM (4I/2K)

235 Did you know sea otters also hold hands?
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Yes. To keep from floating away from each other.
Sea otters are really cute. River otters are asshoe.

Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at January 18, 2023 09:04 AM (HeaXC)

236 Maybe the EMTs transported the guy face down in case he vomited, so he wouldn't choke on his own vomit like a 70s rock star

Posted by: DB - you know my name at January 18, 2023 09:04 AM (geLO8)

237 Posted by: VP Kamala, No Quit No Spit at January 18, 2023 09:04 AM (4I/2K)

"To COMPLETION!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 18, 2023 09:04 AM (Zz0t1)

238 I've found discerning XX chromosome holders appreciate the use of the word accoutrement.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 18, 2023 09:01 AM (a3Q+t)
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Martha: I know what chromosomes are, baby, I love 'em!

George: Martha eats them -- for breakfast -- she sprinkles them on her cereal.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 18, 2023 09:04 AM (XlE1Z)

239 Posted by: The movie Signs at January 18, 2023 09:03 AM (lc5cP)

Strange film with Gibson and Phoenix.

Posted by: dantesed at January 18, 2023 09:05 AM (88xKn)

240 River otters are asshoe.
Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at January 18, 2023 09:04 AM (HeaXC)

Check out the giant river otters of the Amazon. Jaguars don't mess with them.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 18, 2023 09:05 AM (UuD2k)

241 Today's P-shop is Merrick Garand putting his finger on the scales of justice.

Scales of Justice? FISH PUNS!!!!!

Posted by: Muldoon at January 18, 2023 09:05 AM (ykeLU)

242
Strange film with Gibson and Phoenix.
Posted by: dantesed at January 18, 2023 09:05 AM (88xKn)

I thought it sucked.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 18, 2023 09:05 AM (Zz0t1)

243 Sea otters hold each other's tools.

Posted by: A river otter at January 18, 2023 09:05 AM (iayUP)

244 What is ignored is that some people get into such a state of excited delirium that it becomes a terminal event. No medical intervention will help, but whoever is caring for them at the time gets the blame, usually a cop or medic.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 18, 2023 09:05 AM (8GeFp)

245 225 Funny how you remember things after so many years. Our ITR company at Camp Geiger had a troop handler, a Cajun guy, who would use the word accoutrements a lot. Must have been growing up and speaking something resembling French.
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Heh, I went to ITR at Camp Geiger and I even drank the water, too!

Posted by: Puddinhead at January 18, 2023 09:06 AM (sVfvf)

246 233 Give the guy a beer, or three, with an ativan. Has a calming effect, so I've been told.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 18, 2023 09:06 AM (lz5hY)

247 Ugh!

CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism · 13h
Who agrees that any Secret Service agent who is still loyal to Donald Trump should NOT be permitted on President Biden's detail? ✋

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 18, 2023 09:06 AM (Vwz3I)

248 Vanity Fair, Apr 13, 2022, Exercise the White House of Trump's Demon Spirit. Valerie Biden Owens says she wanted "everything Trump had touched out of there."
In part, "...the latest transition, however, apparently required more extensive modifications than simply swapping some color schemes here and art choices there. That's because, according to Joe Biden's sister, they basically needed to rid the place of Donald Trump's demon spirit."

In a new memoir published Tuesday, Valerie Biden Owens, the sister and closest confidante of the 46th president, wrote that as part of the team decorating the Oval Office, she wanted "everything Trump had touched out of there." That meant getting rid of the former guy's "chosen portrait" of 19th-century populist president and ethnic cleanser Andrew Jackson and replacing it "with one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt," as well as adding "busts" ...she (also) wanted to ditch the Resolute desk Trump used and bring in FDR's..."

She's the office set up & breakdown person from the time of FJB's very 1st Senate office.

Trump had the chaotic departure from the WH & didn't seem to trust GSA's (goverment) packing. O&Joe - not so.

Posted by: Lola at January 18, 2023 09:06 AM (p39Z2)

249 Also, thanks for the "Customer states..." video

the level of the customers' stupidity was astonishing

Posted by: DB - you know my name at January 18, 2023 09:07 AM (geLO8)

250
CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism · 13h
Who agrees that any Secret Service agent who is still loyal to Donald Trump should NOT be permitted on President Biden's detail? ✋
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 18, 2023 09:06 AM (Vwz3I)

Biden already said he doesn't trust his SS because they're MAGA.

So fire them. I dare you.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 18, 2023 09:07 AM (Zz0t1)

251 Maybe the EMTs transported the guy face down in case he vomited, so he wouldn't choke on his own vomit like a 70s rock star
Posted by: DB - you know my name at January 18, 2023 09:04 AM (geLO

You can't really dust for vomit.

Posted by: Nigel Tufnel at January 18, 2023 09:07 AM (4I/2K)

252
No. You lay them on their side "lateral recumbent" for that.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 18, 2023 08:55 AM

The position in which George Floyd was restrained? I'm seeing rock and hard place.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 18, 2023 09:07 AM (enJYY)

253 You are mistaken. Well kinda.

The demons were originally extra-terrestrial. But they live in the ground now. Remember the curse in Genesis.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at January 18, 2023 09:08 AM (TXFi7)

254 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 18, 2023 09:05 AM (Zz0t1)

Well, it was directed by M. Shama.. (I don't know how to spell his name).

Posted by: dantesed at January 18, 2023 09:08 AM (88xKn)

255 Just give the guy a beer. I've read that they do that. Some famous alchy - perhaps it was the founder of AA.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

Commonly heard from Dr CAT to an alcoholic patient:

I am going to get you discharged quickly so you can get home and drink before you go into withdrawals.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 18, 2023 09:08 AM (8GeFp)

256
The demons were originally extra-terrestrial. But they live in the ground now. Remember the curse in Genesis.
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at January 18, 2023 09:08 AM (TXFi7)

C.H.U.D.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 18, 2023 09:08 AM (Zz0t1)

257 The demons were originally extra-terrestrial. But they live in the ground now. Remember the curse in Genesis.

Can you explain that more?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 18, 2023 09:08 AM (lc5cP)

258 The position in which George Floyd was restrained? I'm seeing rock and hard place.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

Well, without the knee on the neck.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 18, 2023 09:09 AM (8GeFp)

259
Well, it was directed by M. Shama.. (I don't know how to spell his name).
Posted by: dantesed at January 18, 2023 09:08 AM (88xKn)

M. Suge Night.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 18, 2023 09:09 AM (Zz0t1)

260 250 Retardo would be happy with his own SS, and we're not talking Secret Service. Leibstandarte Joseph Biden.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 18, 2023 09:09 AM (lz5hY)

261 So, the SS needs a loyalty test after each regime change?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 18, 2023 09:10 AM (8GeFp)

262 There’s that psychopath Muldoon, tryin’ to get us other psychopaths to start with the fish puns.

Bless his sole.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 18, 2023 09:10 AM (m4xMr)

263 The demons were originally extra-terrestrial. But they live in the ground now. Remember the curse in Genesis.
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at January 18, 2023 09:08 AM (TXFi7)
___

They also walk amongst us.

Posted by: SMH at January 18, 2023 09:10 AM (SF4EO)

264 There is a small part of a guy in "Brideshead Revisited." He quit drinking. He became such a bore that his wife or girlfriend left him.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at January 18, 2023 09:10 AM (TXFi7)

265 "The Engagement is OFF!"

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at January 18, 2023 09:10 AM (TXFi7)

266 So, the SS needs a loyalty test after each regime change?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 18, 2023 09:10 AM (8GeFp)

Can't do that. Remember the shitstorm Trump caused by asking for Comey's loyalty?

Oh wait.....Trump......Never mind.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 18, 2023 09:10 AM (Zz0t1)

267 Strange film with Gibson and Phoenix.
Posted by: dantesed at January 18, 2023 09:05 AM (88xKn)

I thought it sucked.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 18, 2023 09:05 AM (Zz0t1)

It was one of those that was all empty space in the movie. He's bad for that.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 18, 2023 09:11 AM (CsVWE)

268 I've found discerning XX chromosome holders appreciate the use of the word accoutrement.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 18, 2023 09:01 AM (a3Q+t)
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Martha: I know what chromosomes are, baby, I love 'em!

George: Martha eats them -- for breakfast -- she sprinkles them on her cereal.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 18, 2023 09:04 AM (XlE1Z)

Gee, Mr. Wilson. Does she sprinkle them on her good ol' cookies too?

Posted by: Dennis Mitchell at January 18, 2023 09:11 AM (4I/2K)

269 The position in which George Floyd was restrained? I'm seeing rock and hard place.
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Mmm, its in the Minneapolis PD SOP, as it is in every PD SOP. Evidently, Chauvin was able to force Floyd to ingest his stash and kill himself.

Posted by: Puddinhead at January 18, 2023 09:11 AM (sVfvf)

270 There’s that psychopath Muldoon, tryin’ to get us other psychopaths to start with the fish puns.

Bless his sole.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 18, 2023 09:10 AM (m4xMr)
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He does it just for the halibut.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 18, 2023 09:11 AM (XlE1Z)

271
Well, without the knee on the neck.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 18, 2023 09:09 AM

Yet, from another camera angle the knee is clearly on the shoulder. Perspective is a helluva ~~drug~~ thing.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 18, 2023 09:11 AM (enJYY)

272

All right Colon, I'm sick and tired of you waking up AFTER I'm out of the shower! From now on, I want you up and ready for business before I get in the shower, so we can complete our daily transaction do our paperwork get in the shower and put done to the deal. Got it?

Posted by: 29 and Counting at January 18, 2023 09:12 AM (exJVb)

273 Well, it was directed by M. Shama.. (I don't know how to spell his name).
Posted by: dantesed

M. Night Shama llamadingdong

Posted by: JT at January 18, 2023 09:12 AM (T4tVD)

274 Retardo would be happy with his own SS, and we're not talking Secret Service. Leibstandarte Joseph Biden.
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Our Oath Is Incontinence

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 18, 2023 09:12 AM (Vwz3I)

275

I can't see anything. It'll be fine, just fine

Posted by: John Fetterman at January 18, 2023 09:12 AM (vwCZJ)

276 Gen 3:14

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at January 18, 2023 09:12 AM (TXFi7)

277 What Every Christian Should Know About Angels and Demons

https://tinyurl.com/88r556t3

Posted by: SMH at January 18, 2023 09:12 AM (SF4EO)

278 Check out the giant river otters of the Amazon. Jaguars don't mess with them.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

I have one I need to "end".
It has not decimated a pond of fish. (1 out of 10)
It has reverse decimated the pond of fish. (9 out of 10) We sat at the in-law's kitchen table and watched it cone from the woods, across 65 yds of open are and disappear into the woods where the small pond is.

Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at January 18, 2023 09:12 AM (HeaXC)

279 This is a good day to watch The Big Short in case anyone missed it.

Posted by: Ziba at January 18, 2023 09:13 AM (4h9M3)

280 The polar bear eating the villagers is a win-win for the Davos/climate change crowd. Polar bears get fed and the dead villagers carbon footprint is erased

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 18, 2023 09:13 AM (dHzaG)

281 There’s that psychopath Muldoon, tryin’ to get us other psychopaths to start with the fish puns.

Bless his sole.
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He does it just for the halibut.
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It has no plaice at the HQ!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 18, 2023 09:13 AM (Vwz3I)

282 A a thank you to JJ and good morning Horde

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 18, 2023 09:14 AM (dHzaG)

283 Uh oh! The Dr. was salmoned and now we'll get more fish puns.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2023 09:14 AM (D+F6R)

284 What Every Christian Should Know About Angels and Demons

https://tinyurl.com/88r556t3
Posted by: SMH at January 18, 2023 09:12 AM (SF4EO)

Buy my book! See the movie!

Posted by: Dan Brown at January 18, 2023 09:14 AM (4I/2K)

285 Let's scale back the fish puns, shall we?

Posted by: dantesed at January 18, 2023 09:15 AM (88xKn)

286 Here is a poster of Joe Biden. I am going to shoot at it, you jump in front to block the bullets.

*BANG*

You shot me! You shot me with a real bullet!

Loyalty test passed! You can get up. Get up! Oh... NEXT!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 18, 2023 09:16 AM (8GeFp)

287 I just speak trout to power.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 18, 2023 09:16 AM (m4xMr)

288 Maybe we should focus on Crustacean puns for a change?

Posted by: Puddinhead at January 18, 2023 09:16 AM (sVfvf)

289 I was lied to in the 80's by my teachers about "evolution".
They explicitly claimed that monkeys were the only other creatures on earth besides humans that used "tools".
It was a lie and a joke. But they were deadly serious.
Birds use fucking tools. Many animals do.
Posted by: ... at January 18, 2023 08:55 AM (iCWt+)

What I don't understand is if everything is "evolving" then why hasn't a certain animal sprouted a wing where they didn't have one or lungs instead of gills on this one or a thumb here and there on that one...

And why must "eco systems" remain "unchanged" by outside influence if all creatures either evolve or die out. Something's missing!

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 18, 2023 09:16 AM (YypaB)

290 Getting here late and it might have been discussed above, but has anyone explained why the attorneys were digging through the boxes next to the corvette in order to discover the classified and illegally possessed documents?

Posted by: The NFL suddenly doesn't mind prayers at January 18, 2023 09:16 AM (O01nq)

291 Uh oh! The Dr. was salmoned and now we'll get more fish puns.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Fen dropping a fish pun! Golf clap!
Well done! Which is the same way I prefer my salmon.

Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at January 18, 2023 09:17 AM (HeaXC)

292 JJS, thanks for your usual brilliant morning report!

I will say that the article/link "Young, Christian, and Eager to Escape" is very long, but very thoughtful and well worth the time to read it all the way through and then to actually THINK ABOUT IT!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at January 18, 2023 09:18 AM (hOUT3)

293 Gee who would have thought that Chasten Butt would be a condescending , snarky asshole. I'm shocked, shocked.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 18, 2023 09:18 AM (dHzaG)

294
Fen dropping a fish pun! Golf clap!
Well done! Which is the same way I prefer my salmon.
Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at January 18, 2023 09:17 AM (HeaXC)

He who smelt it, delta.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 18, 2023 09:18 AM (Zz0t1)

295 Naw, fish puns amuse me. Crustacean puns just make me crabby.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 18, 2023 09:19 AM (m4xMr)

296 What Every Christian Should Know About Angels and Demons

https://tinyurl.com/88r556t3
Posted by: SMH at January 18, 2023 09:12 AM (SF4EO)

Buy my book! See the movie!
Posted by: Dan Brown

At least you weren't Left Behind!

Posted by: Tim LaHaye at January 18, 2023 09:19 AM (HeaXC)

297 Also I sort of like that it's now being unashamedly admitted out in the open that the law only matters if the state is against you at that moment.

Reminds me of somewhere I saw on TV during my childhood but I cant put my finger on it.

Posted by: The NFL suddenly doesn't mind prayers at January 18, 2023 09:20 AM (O01nq)

298 stop with the fish puns- you're giving me a haddock

Posted by: DB - you know my name at January 18, 2023 09:20 AM (geLO8)

299
Perspective is another reason why the (D)'s never want to release the J6 video recordings inside the Capital. Why they want to control information. Why they think there should only be one perspective on any issue, strictly controlled by the state.

Maybe it was my years behind the camera, with an array of perspective changing lens, that make me a little more sensitive to viewing any image and being able to immediately come to some conclusion.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 18, 2023 09:20 AM (enJYY)

300 Naw, fish puns amuse me. Crustacean puns just make me crabby.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

We are going to have to bring you out of your shell.

Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at January 18, 2023 09:20 AM (HeaXC)

301 >> and because Biden’s legal team had been cooperative, according to The Wall Street Journal.

SO was Trump's -- and he still got raided.
Huh, wonder why?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 18, 2023 09:20 AM (mqu1M)

302 Meanwhile, many Boomers and Gen-X types abdicated their job to raise their kids.
Posted by: Crom Laughs at January 18, 2023 08:27 AM (N+wj4)

And got bitched at by Second Wave feminists for undermining the Sisterhood by not "having it all".

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at January 18, 2023 09:21 AM (wE246)

303 >> Naw, fish puns amuse me. Crustacean puns just make me crabby.

Shell we stop then?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 18, 2023 09:21 AM (mqu1M)

304 Let’s scale back the fish puns, shall we?

Sometimes you’ve got to peel back the grunion.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 18, 2023 09:21 AM (m4xMr)

305 I will not be a prawn in this struggle!

Posted by: DB - you know my name at January 18, 2023 09:22 AM (geLO8)

306 >>stop with the fish puns- you're giving me a haddock

Walleye know it gets a bit roughy around here. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at January 18, 2023 09:23 AM (mqu1M)

307 CBD will be along soon with the art thread- eel put a stop to these puns

Posted by: DB - you know my name at January 18, 2023 09:23 AM (geLO8)

308 I was just thinking recently.... there's a gigantic gap between single cell organisms and multiple cell organisms. You don't see anything that's a coherent organism with only a handful of cells, like fifty to a hundred. It's either one, or far far more than one.

I'm sure there's plenty of explanations why, but it seems like a fascinating phenomenon that might, if figured out, shed light on the origin of life.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 18, 2023 09:23 AM (9UlRk)

309 The 25th is a red herring: it doesn't remove Biden, and if he chooses to fight it then you're stuck with a legal mess and reliance on a GOP House to go along.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 18, 2023 09:23 AM (wmDcS)

310 What I don't understand is if everything is "evolving" then why hasn't a certain animal sprouted a wing where they didn't have one or lungs instead of gills on this one or a thumb here and there on that one...
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I'm completely fine with evolution except for the part where we're just supposed to skip over the part where Magic Lightning From the Sky touched the clay and formed life from nothing, and it was good.

How is that not religion? And it's just hand waved away like it's no big deal, when it's the only thing that matters. The process of evolution is supposed to cover it somehow, but evolution is a minor nothing in the big picture.

Posted by: The NFL suddenly doesn't mind prayers at January 18, 2023 09:23 AM (O01nq)

311 Mollusk puns, on the other hand…well, let’s just say I’m a sucker for octopus puns.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 18, 2023 09:24 AM (m4xMr)

312 L.A. judge declares porn actor Ron Jeremy mentally incompetent to stand trial on rape and sexual assault charges.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 18, 2023 08:08 AM (Vwz3I)

He was such a nice Jewish boy who got in with the wrong crowd.

Posted by: Molly Goldberg at January 18, 2023 09:25 AM (Zvtjl)

313 >>but has anyone explained why the attorneys were digging through the boxes next to the corvette in order to discover the classified and illegally possessed documents?

Not that I've seen -- it may have started with cleaning at the Penn Biden Center, maybe an office move?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 18, 2023 09:25 AM (mqu1M)

314 WUWT has a photoshopped image of Greta getting arrested but instead of Greta the police are hauling off a Cabbage Patch doll.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 18, 2023 09:25 AM (Y5qcH)

315 What Every Christian Should Know About Angels and Demons
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I have no problem stating outright that a lot of what we're seeing right now is demonic and demonic possession.

They/them = my name is Legion

Posted by: The NFL suddenly doesn't mind prayers at January 18, 2023 09:25 AM (O01nq)

316
He was such a nice Jewish boy who got in with the wrong crowd.
Posted by: Molly Goldberg at January 18, 2023 09:25 AM (Zvtjl)

He actually has a masters degree, I believe. It just wasn't getting him laid, so he found an alternative. Having a 12"er will do that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 18, 2023 09:26 AM (Zz0t1)

317 Are you ready, kids?
Aye, aye, Captain!
I can't hear you!
Aye, aye, Captain!
Oh!

Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
SpongeBob SquarePants!
Absorbent and yellow and porous is he
SpongeBob SquarePants!
If nautical nonsense be something you wish
SpongeBob SquarePants!
Then drop on the deck and flop like a fish!
SpongeBob SquarePants!

Posted by: Painty the Pirate at January 18, 2023 09:26 AM (4I/2K)

318 Crustacean puns just make me crabby.

I was visiting a museum in the Cincy area with my grandsons. As we left the museum and walked through the parking lot I noted to them the number of Japanese visitors. "So remind me to back up carefully, we don't need any Crustaceans."

One grandson was almost rolling on the ground in laughter. The others didn't get it.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 18, 2023 09:26 AM (enJYY)

319 If see otters had hands they would take over the world.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at January 18, 2023 09:27 AM (flINI)

320 >>I have no problem stating outright that a lot of what we're seeing right now is demonic and demonic possession.

Hard to argue that - there is so much evil in a lot of current political movements IYKWIMAITYD.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 18, 2023 09:27 AM (mqu1M)

321 L.A. judge declares porn actor Ron Jeremy mentally incompetent to stand trial on rape and sexual assault charges.

So did he really rape someone or is this a casting couch thing?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 18, 2023 09:27 AM (lc5cP)

322 I have no problem stating outright that a lot of what we're seeing right now is demonic and demonic possession.

They/them = my name is Legion
Posted by: The NFL suddenly doesn't mind prayers at January 18, 2023 09:25 AM (O01nq)

Humans on their own are far, far more diabolical than any demon could even dream of.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 18, 2023 09:27 AM (9UlRk)

323 "Though an orthodox Catholic, a Gen Z reader says she would plug in to "Though an orthodox Catholic, a Gen Z reader says she would plug in to Robert Nozick's 'Experience Machine.'" (hat-tip to Michael the Texan - jjs)
Young, Christian, and Eager to Escape(hat-tip to Michael the Texan - jjs)
Young, Christian, and Eager to Escape

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I don't need Robert Nozick's 'Experience Machine.' I've got Xbox.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2023 at January 18, 2023 09:28 AM (FVME7)

324 and because Biden’s legal team had been cooperative, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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That's all any criminal needs to stop being harassed by the Man. Cooperative attorneys. Who knew?

Posted by: ... at January 18, 2023 09:28 AM (snnkV)

325
So did he really rape someone or is this a casting couch thing?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 18, 2023 09:27 AM (lc5cP)

Basically every woman he's ever worked with had sex with him whether they wanted to or not.

It was the drugged out, incoherent 82 year old woman that broke the camel's back.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 18, 2023 09:28 AM (Zz0t1)

326

They keep telling me that I'm a senator and I'm in DC. I don't know what that means

Posted by: John Fetterman at January 18, 2023 09:29 AM (vwCZJ)

327 How a Chemist, an Engineer, and a Geologist Destroyed Darwin’s Warm Soup Theory

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Darwin was the Soup Nazi?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2023 at January 18, 2023 09:29 AM (FVME7)

328 How a Chemist, an Engineer, and a Geologist Destroyed Darwin’s Warm Soup Theory

Dipping a sleeping man's hand in warm soup DOESN'T make him piss his pants?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 18, 2023 09:29 AM (Zz0t1)

329
So did he really rape someone or is this a casting couch thing?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 18, 2023 09:27 AM

He would just walk up to women and put his finger in their cooter. That was years ago. So he probably did worse. I don't buy mentally incompetent thing, though.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 18, 2023 09:30 AM (enJYY)

330 >>One grandson was almost rolling on the ground in laughter. The others didn't get it.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 18, 2023 09:30 AM (mqu1M)

331 Said above by JJ or in the comments: 25th A doesn't work. We end up with Kamala and she'd be the nominee with mo primary.

The people in charge don't want that. They wanted it originally and that's why she was chosen. But she bombed.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 18, 2023 09:30 AM (NW9xb)

332 It was the drugged out, incoherent 82 year old woman that broke the camel's back.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 18, 2023 09:28 AM (Zz0t1)

I don't remember that happening but if it did thanks Ron!

hic...

Posted by: Hillary, 82 years old and incoherent at January 18, 2023 09:30 AM (YypaB)

333 Joe Biden IS THE principal “power that be” and I ain’t buying the dementia act.

Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at January 18, 2023 09:31 AM (9X60i)

334 Noodus gratia artis

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 18, 2023 09:31 AM (m4xMr)

335 >WUWT has a photoshopped image of Greta getting arrested but instead of Greta the police are hauling off a Cabbage Patch doll.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe

she does have a weird face- she could be a Peanuts character

Posted by: DB - you know my name at January 18, 2023 09:31 AM (geLO8)

336 Hard to argue that - there is so much evil in a lot of current political movements IYKWIMAITYD.
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I'll post the link tomorrow, but it's 100+ years old. There's a video of Norman Dodd being interviewed in the 80s about his congressional investigation of the 50s, and he had discovered the exact same perversions we're watching right now back in the early 1900s. The Carnagies started taking over the government to achieve their purposes of implementing communism in the United States. It's not a conspiracy theory. It was known in the 50s. The interview is outstanding.

And Joe Biden's favorite sexual interest is what their favorite was back then, too. Almost like it's all connected.

Posted by: The NFL suddenly doesn't mind prayers at January 18, 2023 09:31 AM (O01nq)

337 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 18, 2023 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

338 Dipping a sleeping man's hand in warm soup DOESN'T make him piss his pants?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 18, 2023 09:29 AM (Zz0t1)
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It was a long voyage! I had to do something to entertain myself!

Posted by: C. Darwin at January 18, 2023 09:32 AM (XlE1Z)

339 But to Eugen Schwab, that was just the cost of doing business with the Third Reich. You want to make an omelet, you gotta break some eggs, right?"
Klaus Schwab's Father Ran "National Socialist Model Company," Exploited Nazi Slave Labor

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Yeah, right, like he could afford eggs.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2023 at January 18, 2023 09:32 AM (FVME7)

340 327 How a Chemist, an Engineer, and a Geologist Destroyed Darwin’s Warm Soup Theory

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Darwin was the Soup Nazi?
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Well, after a certain amount of time goes by and nothing happens maybe there is another ingredient necessary to make the soup sentient?

Posted by: Puddinhead at January 18, 2023 09:32 AM (sVfvf)

341 Because Biden's legal team was so cooperative it knew exactly where to look. Voila! they said.

Posted by: Ziba at January 18, 2023 09:34 AM (4h9M3)

342 247. That began almost immediately after 1/6 & was even mentioned during the "investigation." On 12/28/22, everyone &/or everything worldwide reported Biden doesn't trust (some) Secret Service.

WashExaminer, "In his book, The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden's White House, Chris Whipple writes of Biden's "discomfort" with Secret Service agents who are or were "MAGA sympathizers." Biden also doubts complaints regarding one of his dogs biting. "Whipple's book, scheduled for wider release on Jan 17, dishes on other behind-the-scenes details about Biden's administration."

Newsweek: In part, "Biden is reportedly concerned that "white ex-cops from the South" serving as Secret Service agents are secretly "MAGA sympathizers."

Theater to come on stronger & faster? The progressives aren't pleased with FJB's progress. Sept. the White House announced J. Podesta to Serve as Senior Advisor to the President for Clean Energy Innovation & Implementation; Ali Zaidi to Succeed Gina McCarthy as Assistant to the President & National Climate Advisor.

IMO, CAP is also calling the shots, pushing the LGBTQA++ issues.

Posted by: Lola at January 18, 2023 09:36 AM (p39Z2)

343 caused by asking for Comey's loyalty?

Oh wait.....Trump......Never mind.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

Wasn't there an actual SS agent - female I think- that said she couldn't/wouldn't take a bullet for Trump?

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 18, 2023 09:37 AM (NW9xb)

344 The 25th is a red herring: it doesn't remove Biden, and if he chooses to fight it then you're stuck with a legal mess and reliance on a GOP House to go along.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 18, 2023 09:23 AM (wmDcS)

Way to sneak in that fish reference!

Posted by: SSBN 656(G) at January 18, 2023 09:38 AM (5AVMW)

345 Humans on their own are far, far more diabolical than any demon could even dream of.
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I'd argue against that (we're rebellious but not that bright), but working together as a team we can really accomplish a lot.

Posted by: The NFL suddenly doesn't mind prayers at January 18, 2023 09:38 AM (O01nq)

346 The classified docs in Biden's possession are a Godsend to the donkeys. Because now they get to use the justification of "mishandling classified information" to get rid of both Trump and Biden.

The donkeys are not about to give up on imprisoning Donald Trump. And the classified docs angle remains their #1 pathway to that end. What Biden has done is to give them a reason to appear "even-handed" because now they can go after him as well as Trump for the same thing. The excuse now exists to get rid of Biden, the excuse they have been desperately casting about for.

Of course, Biden will simply be allowed to resign. Trump will still be prosecuted. And then Kamala 2.0 will pardon him, and the J6 protesters for good measure, so she can head into 2024 as "Stateswoman, Healer, and Uniter of a Nation."

Biden forced out but without being charged; Trump convicted, pardoned, and humiliated, with the wind taken out of his presidential run. And Kamala 2.0 fully rebranded and "positioned for success."

It's perfect. This must really have the donkeys believing in God again.

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Posted by: www.Payathome7.com at January 18, 2023 03:19 PM (NDpqG)

348 Re: Thaxton:

That article was not even remotely a reflection of the truth surrounding Thaxton and his work.

The truth is that origin of life research is still in it's infancy. There have been some advances, such as Miller Yuri, but we really don't know how it happened, and probably won't ever really KNOW, you know?

That "we don't know" is being insinuated to mean "God did it" is simply the "God of the Gaps" fallacy.

The truth is that there is still a lot of very real debate on origin of life, and that, indeed, WE DON'T KNOW. That people like Thaxton tend to draw assumptions from that is irrelevant. WE DON'T KNOW doesn't "prove" God. Nor does it even indicate God.

Provide any proof whatsoever that it was divine magic, then let's talk. But shooting "holes" in what every scientist will admit is very preliminary and speculative research doesn't "prove God". No matter how much theists want to dunk on the reality that we simply just don't know.

Yet.

Posted by: Goober at January 18, 2023 03:21 PM (Hgvgt)

349 I also hate that the article brought in Darwin, who did very little work at all on origin of life research. His research was in evolution, which is NOT origin of life research, but rather the way that life, once it was already here, diversified like we see today. Evolution does not speak in any way about origin of life. Nor does it attempt to. it's a very common misconception.

But dragging Darwin into it, when Darwin did very little on this particular area of research, is a pretty blatant and dishonest attempt to draw evolution into question.

At this point, evolution is not up for debate. It happens. It's as close to proven as anything can be. If God is eventually determined to be responsible for the origin of life, we already know that he used evolution to diversify it.

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